Fans of A&E’s thriller drama series Those Who Kill starring Chloe Sevigny were shocked when the show was pulled by the network earlier this month after only two episodes. At the time the Hollywood Reporter stated the network still believes in the show “and has faith that it can find an audience.” Apparently they believe that audience is on another network as it was announced earlier today that Those Who Kill will be moving to LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) starting this Sunday! (LMN and A&E are both owned by A+E Networks.)
The show’s Facebook page made the following announcement just a few hours ago:
You don’t have to be afraid of the dark anymore. Those Who Kill is moving to LMN TV. Tune in this Sunday at 8/7c to re-live episodes 1 and 2. New episodes will premiere Sundays at 10/9c.
The series premiered o 1.4 million viewers, which is a decent number for an original cable drama, but it owed a lot to the fact that it followed an episode of Bates Motel, which had 3.07 million. The second episode of Those Who Kill lost nearly half of the premiere’s audience with a meager 830,000 viewers, prompting A&E to yank it from the schedule and rethink the marketing.
A&E moving Those Who Kill to LMN has some wondering if that will also be the fate of the new reality series Breaking Boston, which was pulled by the network after only one episode, which had a paltry 311,000 viewers. That show hasn’t garnered the same show of support from the network, so it’s possible that it will not be back at all. But then again, it is executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, whose A&E series Wahlburgers has been a big success for the network, so maybe that will win Breaking Boston a second shot — perhaps on LMN or even Lifetime, another network under the A+E umbrella that seems like a suitable home for a show about blue-collar women struggling to make it.
