PREVIEW: ABC Family Tuesday Night Soaps SWITCHED AT BIRTH & JANE BY DESIGN

The Year of the Soap continues on ABC Family with new episodes of SWITCHED AT BIRTH and JANE BY DESIGN on Tuesday, January 17.

SWITCHED leads off the night at 8 p.m. ET/PT with “Self Portrait with a Bandaged Ear.”

After Emmett finds himself in some serious trouble, Melody (Marlee Matlin) can’t help but blame his relationship with Bay as the source and Regina accepts Angelo’s business proposal.

Bay is once again not in Melody’s good graces after Emmett gets into trouble and Melody blames his relationship with Bay on the situation. Daphne is overall frustrated with her basketball coach who won’t let her play, and her frustration extends to her relationship with Angelo who she finally confronts to discuss why he really left. Meanwhile, Kathryn and John learn some disheartening news about their lawyer that might ruin their entire case. And, Angelo makes Regina a business offer she can’t refuse.

Watch a preview below:



SWITCHED AT BIRTH stars Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.W. Moffett, Lea Thompson, Lucas Grabeel and Sean Berdy.

Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin guest stars as Melody Bledsoe, Gilles Marini as Angelo and Maiara Walsh as Simone.

JANE BY DESIGN follows at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The competition to be number one at school and on the job has Jane running in circles in “The Birkin.”

Jane is feeling on top of the world when Gray gifts her with the use of a real Birkin bag to commend her for a job well done. Jane thinks she finally has this job under control when Gray gives her the task of running the private trunk show at Gray’s house. But with India feeling the pains of jealousy of Gray’s new “favorite” stealing the preview party spotlight, she is determined to show Gray and the company what a failure Jane can really be.

Meanwhile, competition heats up between Jane and Lulu at school when they are told that they’re tied for first place in class.



JANE BY DESIGN is executive produced by Gavin Polone, April Blair and John Ziffren. The series stars Erica Dasher, David Rogers, Nicholas Roux, Rowly Dennis, India De Beaufort, Meagan Tandy, Matthew Atkinson, and featuring Andie MacDowell.

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