SECRETS & LIES with Ryan Phillippe Ordered to Series at ABC

ABC has picked up yet another drama following yesterday's initial announcements.

According to Deadline, the network has given a series order to Aaron Kaplan and Charles McDougall's SECRETS & LIES, starring Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis, and KaDee Strickland

SECRETS & LIES, based on the Australian series, follows a "family man who finds the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime murder suspect."

McDougall directed the pilot from ABC Studios, Hoodlum and Kapital Entertainment.

Phillipe began his career appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live. He came to fame in the late 1990s starring in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer,Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including 2001's Academy Award Best Picture nominee Gosford Park, 2005's Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash, and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers.

In 2007 he starred in Breach, a movie based on the true story of FBI operative Eric O'Neill, while in 2008 he headlined Kimberly Peirce's Iraq war film Stop-Loss. In 2010, he starred as Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang-Bang Club.