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Lifetime’s ‘Secret Lives Of Wives’ Pilot Not Going Forward

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Lifetime, The Secret Lives of Wives
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Lifetime has passed on hourlong pilot The Secret Lives Of Wives starring Kim Raver and Salli Richardson. Inspired by the book by Iris Krasnow, Secret Lives Of Wives explores the unvarnished truth behind the marriages of four different women — Michelle (Raver), Reed (Richardson), Keaton (Amber Clayton) and Jessie (Lauren Bittner). The pilot was written by Jill Gordon and produced by Lin Pictures in association with Warner Horizon Television. Lifetime seems to be cleaning house before it picks up its next new scripted series. Just yesterday, the network cancelled dramedy Drop Dead Diva after four seasons. The hourlong pilots that have been completed and are in contention for a series order are the Renee Zellweger-produced Cinnamon Girl as well as Witches Of East End. Lifetime also has pilot HR, which is still casting, and movie/backdoor pilot Stalkers, which premieres in the spring. Lifetime’s other movie/backdoor pilot, An Amish Murder, which aired earlier this month, will not be going to series. Secret Lives was one of two hourlong pilots with similar themes and titles ordered this past summer, along with NBC’s The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, whose fate has not been determined.

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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
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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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Burgess Jenkins & Joshua Henry Join ‘Army Wives’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 7:17am PSTTags: Army Wives, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Two of Lifetime‘s new Army Wives are getting husbands. Burgess Jenkins and Joshua Henry are set to recur on the upcoming seventh … Read More »

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Lifetime’s ‘Dance Moms’ Season Debut Hits Series High, ‘Double Divas’ Previewed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 2, 2013 @ 12:32pm PSTTags: Dance Moms, Double Divas, Lifetime, TV Ratings
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2013 got off to a solid start for Lifetime. The network’s docusoap Dance Moms opened its third season last night with a series-best 2.8 million total viewers tuning in for the 90-minute season premiere. That … Read More »

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2012 Basic Cable Ratings: USA Tops Again, History, TBS & Lifetime Up, MTV & Nick At Nite Fall

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 3:57pm PSTTags: History, Lifetime, TBS, TV Ratings, USA Network

The year isn’t quite over, but unless there is a major last-minute shift, the top rankings of Cable 2012 look a lot like Cable 2011. USA Network is the No. 1 cable network and tops among adults 18-49 in primetime for the seventh year running according to data from Nielsen (see the full viewership and demo lists after the jump). The other top rankings pretty much stayed the same as last year with the exception of History Channel, which moved up to fourth place, and TNT, last year’s No. 4, moving to fifth. Scoring its best year ever, History hit cable record ratings late this spring with its Hatfields & McCoys miniseries.

With original series like Burn Notice, White Collar and Suits, USA held a good lead over other networks, though it didn’t have a break-out hit this year USA did decline 10% in total viewership and 13% in the 18-49 demographic compared with last year. Coverage of the Presidential election helped push Fox News Channel to a 10% gain in total viewership, a 6% rise in 18-49,  and a 1% bump in the 25-54 demo.

Related: Fox News Tops 2012 Cable News Network Ratings Read More »

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Nina Colman Sells NBC, Lifetime Projects Produced By Ben Silverman & Teri Weinberg

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Big Deals TV, Lifetime, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Writer Nina Colman (Dr. Dolittle 3) has set up three projects at three different networks. She has teamed with producers Ben Silverman of Electus and Teri Weinberg of Yellow Brick Road for a comedy at NBC and a drama at Lifetime. The projects reunite Silverman and Weinberg, who worked together at Reveille and NBC.

Tentatively titled WTF, the NBC project, from Universal TV, is a dark comedy about four friends whose bad luck suddenly turns into a golden opportunity. The Lifetime drama Flesh And Blood is set in New York and centers on a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who infiltrates a very powerful New York family. Silverman and Weinberg executive produce both projects alongside Colman. Read More »

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Lifetime To Air Kate Middleton Pregnancy Special Next Week

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday December 7, 2012 @ 2:05pm PSTTags: Lifetime

Just days after Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William announced they’re expecting their first child, Lifetime today said it has picked up Secrets Of The Royal Nursery. The one-hour special will run on December … Read More »

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Lifetime Picks Up ‘Preachers’ Daughters’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday December 6, 2012 @ 11:51am PSTTags: Lifetime

Some Preachers’ Daughters are coming to Lifetime. The network announced today it has ordered eight one-hour episodes of the docu-soap about the teenage daughters of worried and watchful pastors. “By opening their homes and lives to … Read More »

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Developing Movie For Lifetime Inspired By Derfwad Manor Blog

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 2:58pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lifetime
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EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has put in development Mrs. G’s Bigger Love, an original movie project executive produced by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Written by Julie Golden, the film is based on an entry in Heather Gatticio’s blog … Read More »

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Lifetime Bringing ‘America’s Supernanny’ Back In 2013

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 10:37am PSTTags: Lifetime

America’s Supernanny is coming back for a second season on Lifetime, with a slightly revised name. Now known as America’s Supernanny: Family Lockdown, the reality series will return for eight episodes starting January 8, 2013.  Host Deborah … Read More »

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Lifetime To Do Chris Porco Movie With Matt Barr, Eric McCormack & Lolita Davidovich

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 30, 2012 @ 1:28pm PSTTags: Eric McCormack, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is turning another infamous real-life crime story into a TV movie with Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story. Matt Barr, Eric McCormack and Lolita Davidovich star in the project, inspired by the true story of Christopher Porco, who was convicted of killing his father and attempting to murder his mother. Written by Edithe Swensen and to be directed by Norma Bailey, Romeo Killer centers on beloved, handsome college student Chris Porco (Barr), who was every girl’s dream in the small town of Delmar, NY. Porco was accused of brutally murdering his father and disfiguring his mother, Joan (Davidovich), in a savage ax attack, a claim made all the more shocking when a local police detective (McCormack) believed the mother identified Chris as her attacker. Also cast in the movie is Emily Bett Rickards (Arrow), who plays Lauren Phillps, a young love interest of the accused killer who had maintained his innocence. The film is executive produced by Steve Solomos, Harvey Kahn, Michael Jaffe of Michael Jaffe Films and Ilene Kahn Power of Kahn-Powers Pictures. Read More »

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Lifetime’s ‘Liz & Dick’ Pulls In 3.5 Million Viewers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday November 26, 2012 @ 1:07pm PSTTags: Lifetime, Lindsay Lohan, Liz & Dick, TV Ratings

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 … Read More »

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Lifetime Orders Lingerie Shop Docu-Series ‘Double Divas’ And Sets January Debut

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 10:54am PSTTags: Double Divas, Lifetime

Lifetime will premiere Double Divas, a docu-series that goes behind the scenes of Atlanta’s LiviRae Lingerie, with back-to-back episodes on Thursday, January 10 at 10 PM after Project Runway All-Stars. The series follows the shop’s owners and best friends Molly … Read More »

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Julia Roberts To Produce Paranormal Investigation Drama For Lifetime

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 16, 2012 @ 12:59pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Julia Roberts, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: This past summer, Lifetime picked up Devious Maids, Marc Cherry’s follow-up to Desperate Housewives. Now the cable network has added to its development slate Paranormal Housewives, a light drama executive produced by Julia Roberts, her longtime collaborator Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas as well as Robyn Meisinger of Madhouse Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Miss Congeniality scribe Katie Ford, it is about an all-female group of paranormal investigators who call themselves The Paranormal Housewives. The show is inspired by the real Paranormal Housewives, a Southern California group of female professional paranormal investigators. It was launched in 2010 by Erin Potter and her friends Kirsten Thorne and Marsha Covert-Garcia in part as a response to their field being dominated by male investigators. Read More »

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Q&A: Producer Larry Thompson On ‘Liz & Dick’, Lindsay Lohan & Oprah

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 3:15pm PSTTags: Lifetime, Lindsay Lohan, Liz & Dick

Larry A. Thompson has managed a lot of talent and produced a lot of television over the years, but nothing he’s done before has attracted the kind of attention Liz & Dick has. Set to air November 25, the Lifetime TV movie about the stormy love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was in the spotlight from the moment Lindsay Lohan was cast as Taylor. Car crashes, filming delays, exhausted crew members and the constant glare of the media hampered the production. Liz & Dick covers the couple’s two marriages, two divorces and career ups and downs. Grant Bowler plays Burton in the film. Lloyd Kramer directs from a script by Temple Grandin scribe Christopher Monger. Thompson talked with me about the trials of making Liz & Dick, hiring Lohan, and his next project on Oprah Winfrey.

DEADLINE: With all the attention on Liz & Dick, this could not have been an easy film to make.
THOMPSON: It was a challenge to make this movie. I certainly was aware of the risk I was taking hiring Lindsay Lohan. I realize now making the right decision is easier than living with the right decision. But it was the right decision nonetheless. Because in our movie none of the reported madness seeps into the story except when the story asks for it. It was a complicated jigsaw puzzle under the best case scenarios and then when you are challenged by new factors, it keeps you on your toes. When you’re promoting a movie, you always have to watch what you say and when you are working with Lindsay Lohan, it gives that piece of advice new meaning.

DEADLINE: So why did you hire her?
THOMPSON: I think by having Lindsay in our movie she will bring a younger generation that might not even know who Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are. And I think because of their interest in Lindsay Lohan they are going to see a story on Lifetime that’s going to thrill them. I think all the naysayers who think that Lindsay Lohan is a train wreck are going to shocked to see how much of an actress she is. I’ve learned to divorce one’s talent from one’s personal behavior and I think the audience will start doing that too one they start watching the movie. Read More »

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Lifetime Orders ‘Teen Trouble’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 1:29pm PSTTags: Lifetime

Lifetime has picked up the adolescent intervention series Teen Trouble, the network announced today. Lifetime has ordered eight episodes of the unscripted one-hour show. Set to debut on December 28, Teen Trouble will chronicle efforts to … Read More »

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Mena Suvari & Henry Simmons Cast In Lifetime’s Movie/Backdoor Pilot ‘Stalkers’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 12, 2012 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: Lifetime, Stalkers
Nellie Andreeva

Mena Suvari and Henry Simmons have joined the cast of Lifetime’s two-hour original movie/backdoor pilot Stalkers (formerly Whisper Of Fear), toplined by … Read More »

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David Conrad To Star In Lifetime’s ‘Secret Lives of Wives’ Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 5:30pm PDTTags: Lifetime, The Secret Lives of Wives
Nellie Andreeva

The Ghost Whisperer co-star David Conrad is set for a male lead role in Lifetime‘s pilot The Secret Lives Of Wives. The project, inspired by the book by Iris Krasnow, explores the unvarnished truth behind the marriages of four different women — Michelle (Kim Raver), Reed (Salli Richardson), Keaton (Amber Clayton) and Jessie (Lauren Bittner). Conrad will play Michelle’s husband Wil, an erudite, handsome English lit professor who Michelle nursed through a serious illness 15 year earlier. Still head-over-heels in love, the two are about to renew their wedding vows — making it all the more shocking when Michelle learns that Wil has been leading a double life. Read More »

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Jennifer Love Hewitt To Produce Lifetime Drama Inspired By Her ‘I Shot Cupid’ Book

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 18, 2012 @ 11:36am PDTTags: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lifetime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Love Hewitt, star/executive producer of Lifetime‘s hit series The Client List, is developing another series for the cable network loosely inspired by her 2010 book The Day I Shot Cupid, in which she offers tips … Read More »

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