Lifetime Drew Peterson Biopic to Debut Jan. 21

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 8, 2011 7:25PM

Nine hours in a makeup chair and Rob Lowe is still too pretty to play Drew Peterson. (Photo via Lifetime.)

Pencil—nay, sharpie— 7p.m. Jan. 21 on your calendar. That's when Lifetime will air Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the made-for-television movie starring Rob Lowe as the former Bolingbrook policeman who has a unique kavorka with the ladies and isn't very good at keeping a wife.

We've been skeptical that Lowe can play a jagoff, especially after the first photos of him made up as Peterson surfaced. It also looks as though attempts from Peterson's attorneys to halt filming of the movie went for naught. Lifetime, for what it's worth, seems to have distilled the essence of the Peterson saga in its press release.

"Charming Chicago-area officer Drew Peterson (Lowe) seemed virtually 'untouchable' in more ways than one when it came to his womanizing ways, having been married three times before landing the eye and affection of Stacy Cales (Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory), a woman half his age. As Peterson’s relationship with Stacy blossoms, his relationship with third wife Kathleen Savio (Cara Buono, Mad Men) unravels in a bitter divorce -- until Kathleen is inexplicably found dead in an empty bathtub. Soon after making Stacy his fourth wife and having their first child, Peterson’s jealousy and controlling ways begin to strain their marriage. Suddenly Stacy disappears, leaving her two children, and Peterson’s older children behind. Peterson insists that Stacy left him for another man but in the wake of her disappearance, new questions are raised about Kathleen’s death and her case is re-opened, drawing national media attention to Peterson and the strange cases of Kathleen and Stacy. Peterson seems to bask in the media attention, professing his innocence and announcing his engagement to yet another younger woman. But when authorities take a closer look at the circumstances surrounding both cases, a different kind of spotlight is placed on him as more questions arise. Are Kathleen’s death and Stacy’s still-unknown whereabouts just a tragic coincidence? Or is there more there than meets the eye?"

On second thought, they get the gist.