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Lifetime’s ‘Drop Dead Diva’ Season 5 Premiere Set For June 23

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 2, 2013 @ 12:57pm PDTTags: Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime

Drop Dead Diva begins its fifth season with the first of 13 new episodes on Sunday, June 23 at 9 PM. The fifth-season opener is aptly titled “Back From The Dead” after the dramedy series was cancelled at the end of Season 4, but Lifetime and Sony Pictures TV made a deal to bring the show back. Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, Kate Levering. April Bowlby and Lex Medlin star. The season opener picks ups from last season’s cliffhanger finale with Jane (Elliott) frantically searching for her missing fiancé Owen (Medlin), who disappeared after witnessing her kiss Grayson (Hurst) moments before their wedding. While both Jane and Owen nurse their broken hearts, Jane’s friends and co-workers also are confronted with their own life dilemmas. Newcomer Justin Deely (90210) joins Drop Dead Diva as Jane’s new heavenly guide Paul. Josh Berman is creator and executive producer. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment and Robert J. Wilson are exec producers. Lifetime’s new drama Devious Maids will debut immediately following Drop Dead Diva at 10 PM.

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Lifetime’s ‘Drop Dead Diva’ Gets Resurrected With Fifth Season Order

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 2:46pm PSTTags: Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

Drop Dead Diva Returns Season 5EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: Drop Dead Diva lives! A month and a half after Lifetime cancelled the dramedy series, I’ve learned that the cable network has inked a deal with producer Sony … Read More »

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Lifetime’s ‘Drop Dead Diva’ Cancelled After Four Seasons

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 5:43pm PSTTags: Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

Drop Dead Diva Cancelled LifetimeEXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is closing the book on dramedy Drop Dead Diva after four seasons. I’ve learned that the cable network has opted not to order a fifth season of the show starring Brooke Elliott as a dead aspiring model trapped in the body of an intelligent, curvy lawyer. The decision comes three months after Season 4 of Drop Dead Diva wrapped its run on Lifetime. I hear the series producer Sony Pictures TV may shop it elsewhere.

Drop Dead Diva was one of two scripted series Nancy Dubuc inherited when she took over Lifetime in 2010, along with veteran drama Army Wives, which is undergoing casting and creative changes as it heads into a seventh season. There had been speculation that Lifetime brass felt Drop Dead Diva did not fit into the network’s shift toward edgier fare. The network tried to shake things up last season with the casting of Kim Kardashian in a recurring role. Ratings-wise, Drop Dead Diva has been a solid performer since its July 2009 premiere, which drew 2.8 million viewers. Its most recent season averaged consistently over 2 million viewers an episode in Live+Same Day. Read More »

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GLAAD Media Awards Honor Chaz Bono, Josh Hutcherson, ‘Modern Family’, ‘Drop Dead Diva’, ‘Hot In Cleveland’, ‘Beginners’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday April 21, 2012 @ 10:07pm PDTTags: Beginners, Chaz Bono, Drop Dead Diva, GLAAD Media Awards, Hot in Cleveland, Josh Hutcherson, Modern Family

GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation organization awarded its honors in Los Angeles tonight for most outstanding images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in the media. AP is reporting that the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media … Read More »

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Kim Kardashian To Recur On Lifetime Series ‘Drop Dead Diva’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 26, 2012 @ 4:02pm PSTTags: Drop Dead Diva, Kim Kardashian, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

Lifetime is certainly looking to make noise with some questionable casting choices. After pursuing Lindsay Lohan to portray Elizabeth Taylor in a movie, the network has cast another tabloid fixture, Kim Kardashian — this time on the series side. … Read More »

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Lifetime Renews ‘Drop Dead Diva’ For Fourth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 2:23pm PDTTags: Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime, Sony TV, TV Renewal
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Lifetime has picked up a fourth season of dramedy Drop Dead Diva with a 13-episode order. Along with Army Wives, the Sony TV-produced Diva has been a solid ratings performer for the network, most recently averaging 2.2 million viewers … Read More »

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‘The Killing’ Inches Up In Season 1 Finale; ‘Diva’ Dips Slightly In Viewers, Up In Demos

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: AMC, Cable Ratings, Drop Dead Diva, Drop Dead Diva Ratings, Lifetime, The Killing
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE, 1 PM: AMC’s The Killing closed out its freshman season with 2.3 million viewers tuning in for the finale last night. That was up from the two most recent episodes, which averaged 2 million and … Read More »

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Lifetime Renews ‘Army Wives’ And ‘Diva’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 1:59pm PDTTags: Against the Wall, Army Wives, Army Wives Ratings, Army Wives Season 5, Cable TV, Drop Dead Diva, Drop Dead Diva Ratings, Drop Dead Diva Season 3, Lifetime, Nancy Dubuc, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has renewed its flagship series, Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva. Army Wives has been picked up for a fifth season, while Drop Dead Diva has been renewed for a third season. Both series have received 13-episode orders … Read More »

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