CABLE RATINGS: Amanda Knox Does OK But No Match For Craigslist Killer

COMMENTS (7)

• I think many people tuned out as the movie was sold as a ripped from the headlines drama when it really was a comedy. The girl in the lead was hilarious, bugging her eyes out, furrowing her brow and those crying jags were comic gold. Its pilot season Hollywood, cast her in sitcom and you have the surprise hit of the season.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 5:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• In comparison to all of the news and 48 Hours (and the like) coverage of this case, the movies pales in comparison. And Hayden Panettiere was less than stellar…when she goes coy and becomes the seductress and beds her boyfriend for the first time, I switched channels.

  Comment by Shelley — Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 6:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Unwatchable.

  Comment by Smith — Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 6:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• Does anyone know what the real, physical production budget is for a cable TV film like this these days? Would it be in the hundreds of thousands? Low millions?

  Comment by A spouse — Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 7:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Amanda Knox did fine, Craigslist Killer has inflated ratings because it came out over New Year’s weekend when there was nothing else to watch.

  Comment by Jennifer — Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 8:49am PST  Reply to this post

• That’s sad I think the actiong in Amanda Knox was much better then in Craiglist Killer!

  Comment by Jenny — Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 11:12am PST  Reply to this post

• Fact: Hayden Panettiere is Z level actor. Fact: The Lifetime movie on the Knox case is a smarmy mess. The immorality and greed associated with Lifetime’s decision to (1) create a movie purported to be based on fact which is really based on misinformation and outright fiction, (2)inserting this trumped up story in the middle of the appeals process with the possibility that it could negatively influence the jury in the case of two innocent young people who are fighting for their lives, and (3) presenting two “National Enquirer” type journalists (Barbie Nadeau & Nick Pisa), who have contributed hugely to the myths, lies and general crap that has been disseminated in this case, as being “experts” and giving them considerably more air time than the one true expert, Steve Moore, the FBI agent who knows the REAL facts of this case, is the true outrage.

  The prime issue here is not whether Lifetime had the right to make and show this movie; their First Amendment Rights are a given. The question is the ethical responsibility of the management decision to show the movie at this time, i.e. greed vs morality. A secondary issue here is why more authentic journalists and TV hosts, etc. have not stood up and asked Lifetime the hard questions instead of allowing Hayden Panettiere and Marcia Gay Harden to appear on their networks and tout the movie with no rebuttal whatsoever.

  Comment by joancj — Friday February 25, 2011 @ 10:36am PST  Reply to this post