Jennifer Love Hewitt uploaded a new video today for her fans – check it out below!

The Client List Season 1 Episode 2 Promo/Preview “Turn the Page”.

Billboards, movie theater ads and the cover of the preview screener sent to critics are all confirming it.

And so is the star herself: This isn’t the Jennifer Love Hewitt that television viewers are used to.

A racier image of the former “Ghost Whisperer” and “Party of Five” star is the big selling point of “The Client List,” a series spinoff of the 2010 cable movie that earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Premiering Sunday, April 8, the Lifetime show casts the actress — also one of its executive producers — in the new role of Riley Parks, a Texas wife and mother who finds work as a day spa masseuse, then is left by her husband.

Many of her co-workers “provide other services,” as the network puts it, to customers … but Riley maintains, “I don’t give extras.” However, as her financial situation gets more dire, and the temptation of added profit increases, her internal moral battle grows. Loretta Devine (“Waiting to Exhale”) plays the spa’s pragmatic owner, with Cybill Shepherd and Colin Egglesfield (“Something Borrowed”) as Riley’s mother and brother-in-law.

“I’ve gotten so many text messages from friends, either standing beneath a billboard in L.A. or on a street in New York, standing next to me [on a 'Client List' poster] with their thumbs up,’ Hewitt muses of the attention to her newest venture. “It’s been quite fun, and it’s nice to know that we’re all working really hard on something the network is promoting.”

Hewitt recalls that while making the initial movie, “We all joked about the fact that it could be a really interesting series. When you’re filming something, you honestly have no idea how the audience will take it. Then after the movie did so well, it definitely was in the back of my mind: ‘I wonder if there is more of this story to tell.’ We could tell more of the ins and outs of the everyday life of someone who finds herself in this situation, and what that means for her and her family.”

Thus was born the character Riley, but Hewitt believes the series is “enough like the movie that I think people who loved that will be satisfied. At the same time, it’s very different. We have enough time to break down where this woman is, emotionally and psychologically, in the process. Since she’s a single mom, you’ll learn what her marriage was and is, and what the chances are for it to be again.”

Even before its debut, “The Client List” had sparked controversy. The group Licensed Massage Therapists is opposing the telecast of the series, claiming it’s “a huge step backward” in how the profession is depicted. “I feel badly that they feel offended,” Hewitt tells Zap2it, “but I respect that people need to say what they need to say.

“I’m not saying every massage parlor in the world gives ‘happy endings,’ nor do I know which ones do, but it is a part of our society. And even if it wasn’t, it’s just a part of our story. It’s entertainment.”

Also a recurring guest star on TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland” as Wendie Malick’s daughter, Hewitt is happy to have a major voice on the production side of “The Client List” as well.

“It’s something that I’m sort of used to,” she notes, “but I think that with every new project comes new problems and new excitement. Everything is so different, this comes with its own learning curve, but it’s great. I care about every single second and what the audience thinks. And if we find ourselves with a hit show on our hands, it’ll be that much sweeter.”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt said she is excited for fans to see the television series adaptation of her hit Lifetime movie, “The Client List,” and that the new show contains “a lot of sexy.”

“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.

Jennifer Love Hewitt joined The Fan Morning Show Friday to give us the inside scoop on her new TV series.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has uploaded 3 new videos through Twitter today! Check them out below.

Jennifer Love Hewitt just tweeted a new video to her fans – watch it below!