ABC to Air "Freaky Friday" on May 26th  5/15/06

JAMIE LEE CURTIS AND LINDSAY LOHAN STAR IN THE HILARIOUS FAMILY COMEDY, "FREAKY FRIDAY," AIRING AS THE "ABC FRIDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK," MAY 26

Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween: Resurrection") and Lindsay Lohan ("Herbie Fully Loaded") star in the remake of the 1976 Disney classic, "Freaky Friday," airing in HDTV with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP as the "ABC Friday Movie of the Week," MAY 26 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Dr. Tess Coleman (Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lohan), are having some pretty typical mother-daughter problems, like being polar opposites in their ideas about music, clothes and hairstyles. But they develop a not-so-typical problem when, one fateful Thursday night, they go to a Chinese restaurant and eat two fortune cookies that cast a switching spell on them. When they wake up the next morning, their Friday turns fantastically freaky when they realize that they've somehow switched bodies!

"Freaky Friday" stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess Coleman, Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman, Mark Harmon (TV's "The West Wing," "Chasing Liberty") as Ryan, Harold Gould (TV's "Judging Amy") as Grandpa and Chad Michael Murray (TV's "One Trees Hill") as Jake.

The film, released in 2003, was written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. It was directed by Mark Waters.

"FREAKY FRIDAY" IN HDTV: The ABC Television Network's HDTV broadcast of "Freaky Friday" will air in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP.

A TV parental guideline will be posted closer to airdate.

Source: ABC Press Release