Producers are Hewitt and producing partner A.J. Rinella with Victoria Sanchez Mandryk co-producing and Manuel Freedman exec producing. Producers are eyeing a summer start.

Sanchez Mandryk has penned the script for “Wait Till Helen Comes,” based on the novel by Mary Downing Hahn, which centers on a 12-year-old girl who’s the eldest of three children in a blended family that moves from Baltimore into a house converted from a church in the Maryland countryside. The tormented ghost of a little girl comes to haunt the 12-year-old but forms an intimate though dangerous friendship with her seven-year-old stepsister.

She directed several segments of “The Ghost Whisperer.” She and A.J. Rinella have set up “Bad Taste in Men” at ABC and an untitled comedy at Fox, as well as a series adaptation of her TV film “The Client List” at Lifetime.

WME, which reps Hewitt, is packaging “Wait Till Helen Comes.”

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She and Beh will be in Chicago filming the coming-of-age indie flick Warren. Beh not only wrote the movie, but he’s also producing, directing and costarring in it. Hewitt is playing his ex-girlfriend.

And then she’ll be going behind the camera to make her feature film directorial debut with a big screen adaptation of children’s horror book, Wait Until Helen Comes. “I directed [Ghost Whisperer] a few times so this is new and exciting,” Hewitt told me earlier this week at TV Land’s party for Hot In Cleveland and new series Retired at 35.

She wants to shoot in the flick in Rhode Island. Casting hasn’t begun, but Hewitt said, “I would love Maria Bello to be in it. I would love her to play the mom in it.”

For now, Hewitt has Sunday’s Globes to worry about. She’s up for Best Actress in a Miniseries/TV Movie for her starring role as a suburban housewife-turned-call girl in Lifetime’s The Client List.

She’s already jotted down some notes for an acceptance speech—not because she thinks she’s a shoo-in to win. “I’m terrified to speak in public,” she confessed. “It’s bad, so I did write a few things down on a little piece of paper.”

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Last year, the former “Ghost Whisperer” star became an author with the relationship memoir “The Day I Shot Cupid,” and she made headlines again for having a new beau … actor-director Alex Beh. Hewitt’s next television project reaffirms her ties to love: She stars with Betty White in the “Hallmark Hall of Fame” drama “The Lost Valentine” Sunday, Jan. 30, on CBS.

“I definitely tend to gravitate toward things that have romance in them,” Hewitt confirms to Zap2it. “I had a lot of fun writing the book, and I really would like to write another one at some point, though I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do that. I learned some things from people who read the book, and I learned some things about myself on the book tour. I feel I have some things to say about that.”

However, Hewitt has nothing to say — not yet, at least — about Valentine’s Day 2011. “It’s one of my favorite holidays,” she allows, “but I don’t know what our plans are going to be.”

While she has come to terms with the end of “Ghost Whisperer,” Hewitt admits that took some time. Now a nominee for a Golden Globe Award for the Lifetime movie “The Client List,” she bought into rumors that ABC might pick up her weekly drama when CBS canceled it last spring after five seasons.

“For me, it was a total shock,” she says of realizing the series wouldn’t continue. “I thought our next season probably would be the last, just because the show had been on for a really long time. It’s hard to come up with new things that will keep people intrigued, but I never thought in a million years that was going to have been our last season.

“I was bummed for Melinda,” Hewitt adds about her spectre-seeing “Ghost Whisperer” character, “because I didn’t feel the series ended the way that she deserved for it to. We left the audience sort of hanging, and I hate that.

“When you’ve taken people on a journey for so long, the least you can do is give them a goodbye. For a show that was about unfinished business, we didn’t get to finish.”

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Sure we have to give props to flicks like “127 Hours,” “Inception,” “The Social Network,” “The Fighter,” “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” for their Golden Globe nominations, but as we were watching the nominations being announced this morning, MTV Newsroom Blog editor Kyle Anderson and I were delighted to find out one of the nominations went out to Jennifer Love Hewitt for her turn as a desperate mom turned masseuse turned prostitute turned whistle blower in the greatest film of 2010 (and a Lifetime Original!), “The Client List”

Hewitt’s character in “The Client List” doesn’t chop off her arm to save herself or kidnap people’s dreams, nor does she start up a controversial multi-billion dollar social network or struggle with self-identity while she trains for a high-profile ballet performance, but Hewitt’s Samantha Horton did had an overbearing mother (just like Natalie Portman did in “Black Swan”), a drug problem and the audacity to sell out the men she “massaged” in order to face a less harsh jail sentence — that’s some straight-up Mark Zuckerberg business right there, people!

In the category of Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television, she’s up against Hayle Atwell for something called “Pillars of the Earth,” Claire Danes for those eyelash commercials (or maybe it was for “Temple Grandin”), Dame Judi Dench for “Return To Cranford” and Romola Garai for “Emma,” but of course our money is on Love to take home the coveted prize.

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“The Lost Valentine” premieres Sunday, January 30th (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS network.

Synopsis: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Betty White star in THE LOST VALENTINE, the 241st Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, to be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 30 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. In the drama, a TV reporter’s (Hewitt) own love life is impacted by her Valentine’s Day-themed assignment to profile a woman (White) whose love for her husband remains as strong as when she last saw him several months before he was declared MIA while serving during WWII. Sean Faris, right, stars as Lucas, Caroline’s protection grandson.

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You can see air times and get tickets at the official website of the festival!

“Cafe” will also be shown at The Philadelphia Film Festival! The film will screen on Saturday, October 16th at 7:30 PM at The Rave and on Thursday, October 21st at 5:00 PM at The Prince.

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Which was also pretty much the entire concept of The Client List. This instant-classic-schlock Lifetime movie — “inspired by a true story,” of course — had Hewitt playing Samantha, a former Texas homecoming queen, mother of three, married to a former local football hero, who falls into prostitution.

Samantha was shown to be a near-saint: a devoted wife and mom who never even got irritated by her mom, who constantly spouted folksy aphorisms such as, “I could eat a buttered monkey!” (Mom was played by Cybill Shepherd using her Last Picture Show drawl.)

But with hubby unemployed, Samantha, a “licensed massage therapist,” sought employment with The Kind Touch Health Spa, a strip mall joint that she was shocked to discover traded in sexual services. But with the gals running the place keeping up lines of peppery dialogue like, “Drinks and Viagra are on the house!” and “The little blue pills keep us in the black!,” it wasn’t long before Samantha was squirting whipped cream down a client’s spine and asking him what else she could do for him. Pretty soon, she was getting $1,000 tips, buying luxury items for her family, and snorting a little cocaine to please her customers and complete that gingerbread house (well, make that a snow-fueled gingerbread castle) for a school fund-raiser.

In the manner of all such Lifetime productions, The Client List managed to offer cheap thrills (see Samantha in an array of revealing costumes!) while offering moral uplift (see Samantha get arrested, atone for her sins, and reconcile with her husband!).

The Client List even offered the Lifetime version of a surprise ending. A group of local women — many of them wives of the “clients” — stormed Samantha’s house. After offering a preemptive apology, Samantha was amazed to discover that they’d arrived not to condemn her but to get some bedroom tips. (“What do you do that we don’t?”)

Even after her Samantha hauled out a banana for instruction time, executive producer Hewitt managed to sell every bit of this malarkey with her talent for communicating sincerity and charm.

Did I mention that Samantha’s employers gave her the nom du massage of “Brandy,” “’cause you look like you go down real smooth.” Oh, my goodness! Truly, The Client List was the little gift that kept on giving.

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Lifetime’s “The Client List,” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Cybill Shepherd, has earned the title of 2010’s “second most watched original movie premiere on cable,” TVByTheNumbers.com reports.

The program, which is based on a true story, attracted 3.9 million viewers when it debuted Monday, July 19.

Love Hewitt portrayed Samantha Horton, a former homecoming queen and physical therapist who takes a job at a massage studio where the staff are actually prostitutes servicing powerful and wealthy men.

So what’s the most watched original movie premiere on cable this year? Lifetime’s “Pregnancy Pact,” also based on a true story, which originally aired January 23.

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“My mom’s like, ‘I’m so proud. You’re pole dancing and you’re going to play a prostitute. Awesome!’” Hewitt, 31, tells Entertainment Tonight. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, what you always dreamed about, mama!’ But you know, it’s a great part.”

Hewitt plays Samantha Horton in the drama, premiering tonight at 9 p.m./ET on Lifetime, about a former homecoming queen who resorts to prostitution to support her family through the recession. Cybill Shepherd stars as Samantha’s mother, Cassie.

“Given where we are economically, it’s an interesting story… this is the most recession-proof business there is!” says Hewitt, who starred in CBS’ Ghost Whisper until it was canceled in May. “It’s really a movie about the human condition, and the heart, and where life can take you.”

“[Samantha] has no choice at the end of the day but to give everything that she can in order to take care of her family,” adds Hewitt. “She really thinks she’s doing the best thing possible for them, and it just gets out of hand. … It takes her on a rollercoaster ride.”

To prep for the role, which she calls “empowering,” Hewitt took pole dancing classes “because it really, really gets you in shape [and] it also really teaches you about your inner sexuality.”

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