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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
After all that hype, Lifetime‘s Liz & Dick drew 3.5 million total viewers last night. The TV movie about the tempestuous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is the fourth-most-watched original movie premiere on ad-supported cable this year, drawing 3 million fewer viewers than the 6.5 million who watched Steel Magnolias on the network in October. Almost universally panned, Liz & Dick starred Lindsay Lohan as Taylor and Grant Bowler as Burton. It averaged 1.3 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic and 1.3 million adults 25-54. Lifetime’s Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial In Italy original movie attracted 2.8 million total viewers in February 2011, down from the 5.4 million who tuned in for the network’s The Craigslist Killer in January 2011. Lohan tried to put a good face on Liz & Dick last night while interacting with fans on Twitter. “2 get 2 feel like 1 of the most amazing women in the world was a thrill all around & wearing the jewels wasn’t bad!” she posted.
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It wasn’t as bad as all the reviews said. Grant Bowler did a great job as Richard Burton and it did what he could with the weak writing. Lindsay was ibviously miscast but she wasn’t awful.
*obviously
“few artifacts of popular culture invite more condescension than the made-for-television movie” (NY Times). 3.5 million people agreed it was a disaster of a movie, but they still watched!
I’d like to know how many of those 3.5 million viewers switched to another channel after ten or 15 minutes. I watched the entire two hours and three minutes, but it was one of the most boring TV movies I’ve ever seen.
Those 3.5 million are those who stick to the end. It probably would have more but most gave up after quarter or two. Still these are some respectable numbers. Give the girl a TV show. Preferably about party girl who tries to behave her best but always fails miserably.
Somebody on the National Enquirer once told me that there were three things that would always sell out a press run if it went on the cover: Liz Taylor, Tatum O’Neal, and cancer. Lifetime did cancer to death years ago, and now Liz. Tatum? Oh Taaaaaatuuuuum?
We loved it! The costumes and hair were great and spot on, the fake European backdrops were amazing – you’d never know the whole film was shot in LA – and the acting was fine for a trashy movie made for lifetime. LOVED seeing Theresa Russell again, she looked fantastic and now I wantto go watch Black Widow and Ken Russell’s Whore again!
“Fake European backdrops were amazing”? I’ve seen better backdrops in high school musicals.
Comedy of the year!
I couldn’t stop laughing.
1. Lindsay looked older then the lady playing her mother
2. She sounded like Weezy Jefferson
3. What was up with that from the grave couples counseling?
I watched the whole thing out of curiousity. I thought the makeup and costumes were very well done and that Bower did a very good job as Burton. Acting-wise he carried the movie. Lindsay seemed to read through most her lines like someone whose never acted before. Sad really, she had a lot of promise once. Most of the time she just said the lines and you never felt like she “felt” them inside. She also didn’t make any effort to sound like Taylor, instead sounding like a Southern CA Valley Girl, which was really distracting. The story was a meandering collection of scenes, with no arc or story to it. But then, perhaps that’s what Liz and Dick’s life was really like. Not everyone has an arc in real life.
At least we 3.5 million that watched it, didn’t have to buy a ticket to see if.
That’s 1.4 million more viewers then watched “Game Change”, which as you all know sucked as bad and beat “Hatfield & McCoys” for best mini series EMMY.
I couldn’t watch the whole thing but when she was in the older mode of Liz with the helmet of black hair and ginormous sun glasses I had to look away. Her head looked enormous. She looked like a kid playing “old lady” in the Jr. High Talent show. Since she was cast they made a big deal of being her “comeback”. Did anyone really think a LIfetime Movie would do that for her. This is the network that brought us “Mother May I Sleep With Danger” after all. Ego is the only thing that can kill talent, she’s very very close to killing everything. I’m sure Whitney HOuston didn’t know for every bit of dope she smoked she was killing her talent. Whitney had more fame and more talent than Lohan, but she died face down in scalding hot water in a rented bathtub because she didn’t believe she had a problem. Talent has an expiration date if you are an addict.
We have a new camp classic on our hands. I’m hoping they’ll be a John Waters commentary on the DVD.
Well there goes Lohans plans for own sitcom. Amazing but she did not deliver rating. Let’s face it. The reason why Lifetime hired her was probably because they saw how many people tuned to see how bad she will be on SNL and that episode got good ratings.
Lifetime hoped for record breaking records because everyone will tune in to see how bad Lohan will be there. And if Steel Magnolias were having 3 millions viewers more then obviously Lohan didn’t deliver. It won’t be every time like that. Lindsay thinks that she will always bring big records. She won’t. People will see it one time, will see that she looks awful and that’s it.
I watched the whole thing, and honestly, I thought the actors did about as good as they could with the awful writing. It was classic camp. I laughed a lot. Loved seeing the costumes, and it was entertaining as a highlight reel of their romance. I have a feeling it may be one of those movies that ends up like “Mommy Dearest,” an instant camp classic. People should lighten up on poor Lindsay.
I watched and twittered at the same time. There were a bunch of us. I find myself feeling badly for Lindsey, how does she even stand a chance those in her life are not exactly stable either. The movie, I didn’t care for the script or the makeup. Even the jewelry didn’t score with me. I love jewelry and will always be envious of Dame Elizabeth and all of her pretty sparklies. The actor portraying Richard Burton I felt was miscast. Dame Elizabeth used to Twitter, I could just imagine what she would have twittered about that movie….
so much for casting Lohan so people would tune in for the train wreck in progress, Lifetime. okay, i admit it, i tried to watch. too bad for the behind the scenes people who work so hard on these things.
I love that the Magnolias did better numbers because ya know it was well acted, directed and had a point? Cable seems to get that race isn’t as big a deal with tv watching if the quality is there how come networks don’t get it?
i like Lindsay. Sure, she gets in trouble, but Lindsay can act. We hope she gets her life together because she can, and the kid has talent.
But this performance was not it – and this was a big lost chance for her to prove she’s back in the game.
This performance felt like Lindsay Lohan playing Lindsay Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor — not Lindsay Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor – big difference – if that makes sense.
A project like this used to have actresses killing for the part and doing hard study and hard research to play such an icon as Liz and working their butts off to do it – Lindsay just didn’t deliver – performance seemed surface.
Worse, she gets this chance and shows up two hours late to the premiere — that’s out of bounds and disrespectful to the producers and Lifetime – and she even got the producer’s name wrong when she talked about him which really says something to a producer who gave her a chance, and shows how she has no respect for the people who hire her – not the message to send to the suits.
The world that she’s created and thinks she lives in and will last for herself is not a good one (it’s fake and won’t last and is only because of enablers), it obviously only involves her and no one else – which doesn’t play well in our collaborative medium.
Hope you get better Lindsay – but this wasn’t it, and in fact reinforced you are turning yourself into campus silliness.
Please do what many others have done and succeeded (and don’t go the path of those that don’t and crash and burn)and take this as a reality check — go back to being an actress and get away from being a “put upon” paparazzi child.
Lindsay please – you are too good – get it together.
You can – which is an extraordinary opportunity in this business.
She’s not a kid anymore.
My mom watched it and loved it. But then again, she loves every movie of the week.
Deliciously bad.
They should have cast Sam Ronson as Richard Burton, and treated the whole movie like the meta-biography camp-fest that it was meant to be. Instead, Lilo appeared out of her element and hastily delivered her lines as if she was reading them for the first time.
I am waiting for some drag queens to turn it into a stage play: “Diz and Lick: Bottoms Up!” I guarantee that would turn this drama into a comedy. I’d pay to see that.
Lindsay has been the target for many hungry hollywood wolves. She is an actress who has been surrounded by blood thirsty sharks as she tries to swim back to shore , it would be easier for her to throw in the towel on her life and career to make oodles of cash on the clown circuit, I admire her and appreciate the efforts by all who tried and made Liz and Dick. Great scripts and Great producers and directors are far more difficult to find than great actors. Putting all of them together, is what we call a Great Movie,and those of which Lindsay has been in, are the rarest , I expect she will find herself in one again and again , she has earned her title Movie Star.