“It’s been really awesome. I’m super excited for Sunday,” Hewitt told OnTheRedCarpet.com at the premiere of “The Client List.” “I’m a little nervous but I’m excited and I just can’t wait for people to see it and I just hope they love it as much as we do… There’s a lot of sexy in this show, that’s for sure. There is a little something for everyone.”

In the “Client List” film, which aired on the cable network in 2010, Hewitt played a struggling Texas housewife who turns into a prostitute after she starts working at a massage parlor that secretly operates as a brothel and caters to powerful businessmen. The show earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

The 33-year-old actress is hoping that the positive reception for the TV movie continues with the series and spoke highly of the Lifetime network for their encouragement.

“They’re really jumping into very unapologetic, provocative television with this show,” Hewitt said of the network. “I think they’re ready, I think I’m ready and hopefully, America’s ready.”

One of the positive things for Hewitt about the role was that she got to return to her Texas roots and use her real Southern accent.

“I’m from Texas, so I get to use my real accent again, finally, which is really nice,” Hewitt said. “I’m sort of playing an homage to my mom, who is a very feisty, wonderful, single Texas mom. So my part is dedicated to her and it’s great.”

Speaking of her mom, her feisty on-screen mother is portrayed by TV veteran Cybill Shepherd (“Moonlighting,” “Cybill”), who sung her co-star’s praises.

“Jennifer and I are both from Texas. Jennifer has the best essence of a Texas woman,” Shepherd told OnTheRedCarpet.com. “She has incredible strength, she also has incredible beauty and she’s very smart and she’s going to really do what she has to do and do it smart. Her character is a lot like that and my character is a whole lot like that too. I love her and it’s like a key relationship. We’re partners – mother-daughter partners.”

Lifetime announced in August that a new series based on its movie was in the works and sees Hewitt playing a single mother who helps run the business, adding that she would also serve as an executive producer. The actress told OnTheRedCarpet.com that she will also get to direct the season finale.

Hewitt made her directorial debut in 2009, when she helmed several episodes of her previous series, the drama “Ghost Whisperer.”

Hewitt told OnTheRedCarpet.com that she found her role in “the Client Life” movie to be empowering because her character becomes the family’s breadwinner.

Hewitt rose to fame playing Sarah Reeves on the family drama series “Party of Five” in the 1990s. She later starred in a spin-off, “Time of Your Life” and also appeared in movies such as “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and a sequel, Can’t Hardly Wait” and “Heartbreakers.” She played main character Melinda Gordon “Ghost Whisperer,” which ran on CBS between 2005 and 2010.

During an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this week, the actress joked that she would be willing to go on a date with the newly-single “The Voice” judge and Maroon Five front Man Adam Levine, who split up with model Anne Vyalitsyna.

“The Client List” premieres on Lifetime on Sunday, April 8 at 10 p.m. ET.

The new series is about a Texas housewife who begins working at a day spa after her husband deserts her and leaves her in deep financial trouble.

Hewitt’s character Riley Parks realizes that the spa gives much more than massages, but must partner with the parlor’s owner.

While helping to run the business she struggles to discreetly balance two lives.

Hewitt says what means the most to her is the character Riley Parks and how she becomes an empowered woman.

Not only was Hewitt on camera for this series, she also was the executive producer.

The series will premiere on April 8, and Lifetime said it has ordered 10 episodes of the Client List.

The series will be different from the movie version in two central ways, Hewitt shared. Firstly, her character will now have red hair, news which pleased co-host Sharon Osbourne. Sam will also be taking on more of a business role in the prostitution operation to support her family.

Fear not though, despite Hewitt’s partial transition to madam-hood, she’ll still be wearing plenty of lingerie, and stay “hands-on” in the parlor’s activities. That’s her pun, not ours. ‘The Client List’ will premiere on Lifetime sometime in 2012.

On “The Emmy Show” – Victoria’s daughter, Emmy (Jennifer Love Hewitt), visits and Victoria enlists Elka and her fake Irish accent to convince Emmy not to publish a tell-all book about her childhood.

Meanwhile, Melanie and Joy meet a secret admirer who bids for one of their hearts.

In the drama, Betty plays Caroline, a World War II widow, who lost her husband when his plane was shot down over the Pacific and he is reported MIA. Caroline has never had any final notification that her husband is dead, so each Valentine’s Day, she returns to Union Station — the last place she saw him — to salute his memory on what is also their wedding anniversary.

“People ask me, ‘What would you like to do that you haven’t done, and in my mind it’s always a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie,” Betty tells ET.

This particular film was of interest to her because of the lost-love angle. Betty was married to Allen Ludden from 1963 until his death in 1981, and she has never remarried. So she understands her character.

“If you’ve had a big love in your life like I had with my beloved Allen Ludden … Oh, he’s right here,” she says, indicating her heart.

Jennifer plays Susan, a TV reporter reluctantly assigned to do a human interest story on Caroline, but things change and she gets into the assignment, trying to discover what really happened to the downed Navy pilot and possibly making a love connection of her own with Caroline’s grandson.

“She ultimately helps Betty get her final goodbye and complete her love story,” the former “Ghost Whisperer” star tells ET.

The two women hit it off instantly, according to Betty, who says, “We were old friends the minute we were introduced. We’ve been teasing each other a lot, but she’s a joy to work with.”

And Jennifer comments, “Betty White, Valentine’s Day, love story … you don’t really need anything else. For me she’s always been the IT girl. I grew up watching ‘The Golden Girls’ with my grandmother and we loved that show.”

The 241st Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, “The Lost Valentine,” airs Sunday, Jan. 30 at 9 p.m. on CBS.