Lifetime’s Salt-N-Pepa biopic has found its leads. G.G. Townson and Laila Odom will be playing Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton, respectively. Additionally, the upcoming limited series will also star Cleveland Berto as music producer Hurby Azor, Jermel Howard as rapper Treach and Monique Paul as DJ Spinderella. This still-untitled authorized biopic follows the […]
Lifetime is heading back across the pond: The network has ordered Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal (working title), a follow-up movie to last year’s A Royal Romance, which starred Murray Fraser (Victoria) and Parisa Fitz-Henley (Midnight, Texas). The sequel — which will recast its two leads due to “availability” issues — “continues the love story […]
Murray Fraser (Victoria) and Parisa Fitz-Henley (Jessica Jones) are set to play Prince Harry and his fiance Meghan Markle in an upcoming Lifetime telemovie about their romance to air this Spring. Harry & Meghan: The Royal Love Story will start with the couple’s first date, which was set up by a mutual friend, and continue through […]
Lifetime has put a film chronicling the romance of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle into development, the cable network announced Sunday at the 2018 winter TCA press tour. Casting is currently underway. Harry & Meghan: The Royal Love Story is being described as the romantic tale of a beloved prince and his new fiancée. The […]
Christina Ricci and Judith Light have signed on to star in a Lifetime movie based on the work of Nellie Bly. Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, a groundbreaking 19th century journalist who sought to expose the mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum in New York. Ricci will star […]
Lifetime is banking on the beauty industry for their next competition series. American Beauty Star, hosted by supermodel Adriana Lima, brings celebrity stylists and salon professionals head-to-head to compete in a series of hair and makeup challenges over the course of 10 episodes. The series, which debuts Thursday night at 10:30 p.m. right after Project […]
Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome) and Ian Lake (Rookie Blue) have joined the cast of Lifetime’s euthanasia-themed drama series Mary Kills People as series regulars for the upcoming second season. Mary Kills People centers on Mary Harris (Caroline Dhavernas), a single mother who is an ER doctor by day — but by night, she and […]
Lifetime has ordered Jenji Kohan’s American Princess straight-to-series. Ten one-hour episodes have been ordered for the scripted show that centers on Amanda, a socialite who runs off with a Renaissance Faire after her wedding plans fall apart. The show is a co-production between A+E Studios and IM Global Television. American Princess is created, written and […]
Lifetime has greenlit “The Lost Wife of Robert Durst,” a film exploring what happened to Kathie Durst, the missing wife of infamous real estate mogul Robert Durst, whose story and suspected murder of three people including Kathie was popularized by the HBO documentary “The Jinx.” The film will star Katharine McPhee as Kathie and Daniel […]
Lifetime has announced the Married at First Sight’ fifth season and spinoff Married at First Sight: Second Chances will be returning to the network. Married at First Sight follows two single people who agree to legally marry a complete stranger. The show’s spinoff, Second Chances, will follow “season three viewer favorites, David Norton and Vanessa Nelson, as they get […]