The true story of The Good Father: Michele MacNeill Murder
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The true story of The Good Father: Michele MacNeill Murder

Lifetime’s latest true crime movie adaptation, The Good Father is about the April 11, 2007 murder of Michele MacNeill. 50-year-old Michele had gotten some plastic surgery, and had no idea that her doctor husband Martin MacNeill was plotting to use her medications to kill her. He almost got away with it as the coroner originally…

TERROR IN THE WOODS Is ‘Suzerain’ based on Slender Man stabbing of Payton Leutner?
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TERROR IN THE WOODS Is ‘Suzerain’ based on Slender Man stabbing of Payton Leutner?

Lifetime’s Sunday night movie Terror in the Woods deals with a pair of preteen girls stabbing their friend in the woods in the name of an imaginary or paranormal legend called “Suzerain.” The parallels between this story and the 2014 Slender Man stabbing of Payton Leutner are too similar to be a coincidence. (Interestingly enough…

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THE GIRL IN THE BATHTUB Mysterious death of Julia Law

Tonight’s Lifetime Movie The Girl in the Bathtub is based on the disturbing and mysterious demise of Julia Law, who was found dead in her boyfriend and boss A. Charles Peruto Jr.’s condo. The attorney was cleared in her death after a grand jury found “no evidence of criminal activity” on his part after an…

BELIEVE ME: THE ABDUCTION OF LISA MCVEY How she escaped from serial killer Bobby Joe Long
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BELIEVE ME: THE ABDUCTION OF LISA MCVEY How she escaped from serial killer Bobby Joe Long

Tonight’s Sunday Lifetime movie Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey is based on the harrowing true crime tale of a teenager forced to fight for her life when she was kidnapped on her regular bicycle route home. When Lisa McVey returned home from escaping from serial killer Bobby Lee Long, her abusive family didn’t…

CONRAD & MICHELLE: IF WORDS COULD KILL True Story of teenage text message suicide case
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CONRAD & MICHELLE: IF WORDS COULD KILL True Story of teenage text message suicide case

Tonight’s Lifetime movie Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill stars Bella Thorne as Michelle Carter, a teenage girl who encouraged her depressed boyfriend Conrad Roy to take his own life via frighteningly coercive text messages. Last year, Michelle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in Conrad’s death. Although the text messages…

JonBenet Ramsey photo
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VIDEO Who Killed JonBenet? Lifetime movie trailer

Lifetime announced last month that it would be marking the 20th anniversary of the 1996 death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey with a Lifetime movie titled Who Killed JonBenet? and the network has just released the first official preview trailer: “I was Little Miss Colorado,” JonBenet (played by actress Payton Lepinski) can be heard saying in…

PHOTOS Tori Spelling and James Franco in Lifetime’s Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? remake
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PHOTOS Tori Spelling and James Franco in Lifetime’s Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? remake

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the cult classic 1996 movie Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? The original starred Tori Spelling as high schooler Laurel, who gets into a relationship with a boy named Kevin (played by Ivan Sergei) that starts off great before turning bad — really bad. In December, Lifetime announced…

Mother Daughter Experiment cast pick their Lifetime movie titles and actresses
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Mother Daughter Experiment cast pick their Lifetime movie titles and actresses

In a fun video extra, the ladies of The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition reveal what the Lifetime movie based on their lives would be titled as well as which actresses would play them. Before we get to the clip, how about I share a list of the cast members followed by a list of the…

What true story is the LMN movie House of Darkness based on?

What true story is the LMN movie House of Darkness based on?

Tonight, the Lifetime Movie Network takes a stab at the made-for-TV horror movie genre with House of Darkness. Billed as being “inspired by true events,” House of Darkness tells the story of a young couple and their daughter who leave their big city San Francisco life behind and relocate to a rural California farmhouse in…

The true story that inspired the Lifetime movie Ungodly Acts

The true story that inspired the Lifetime movie Ungodly Acts

Tonight is the premiere of the Lifetime movie Ungodly Acts, which looks to be a scandalicious concoction of love, betrayal, religion, and murder. Here is the description from Lifetime: When the body of Melissa Cooper, the wife of religious cult leader Adam Cooper, is found hanging from a swing set, her death is initially ruled as…

Is the Lifetime movie Fatal Memories based on a true story? Is it a remake of the 1992 movie?
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Is the Lifetime movie Fatal Memories based on a true story? Is it a remake of the 1992 movie?

It’s Saturday, and that means it’s time to pop out the red wine and popcorn and get ready for another cinedramatic treat from Lifetime! Tonight’s movie is Fatal Memories, starring Italia Ricci, Farhad Mann, Magda Apanowicz, and Shauna Johannesen. Fatal Memories is the story of two sisters dealing with the murder of their mother. One…

Is the Lifetime movie Lost Boy based on a true story?

Is the Lifetime movie Lost Boy based on a true story?

Tonight’s Lifetime movie Lost Boy is about a six-year-old boy who goes missing, then turns up eleven years later with very unexpected results. So is the movie based on a true story or is it fiction? Although Lifetime has built quite the stable of movies based on real-life kidnappings, like Cleveland Abduction and Kidnapped: The…

Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story cast photo
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Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story cast photo

The guilty pleasure factory known as Lifetime has a brand new addition to its popular “Unauthorized Story” movie franchise as they tackle one of the greatest guilty pleasures of all time, the highly addictive shark jumpathontastic 1990s drama Melrose Place! Earlier today the network released the first official cast photo for The Unauthorized Melrose Place…

Update on Hannah Anderson from Lifetime movie Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story
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Update on Hannah Anderson from Lifetime movie Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story

Tonight is the world premiere of the original Lifetime movie Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story based on the abduction of 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and the murder of her mother and brother in California in 2013 by family friend James “Jim” DiMaggion. We did a little research to try to answer the question many viewers are…

Lifetime movie Perfect High with Bella Thorne addresses suburban teen heroin addiction
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Lifetime movie Perfect High with Bella Thorne addresses suburban teen heroin addiction

You would be hard-pressed to come up with anything that is more widespread and destructive in the United States today than heroin addiction. On June 27, Lifetime will explore one of the most common ways people find themselves trying heroin for the first time. Perfect High is a Lifetime original movie starring Bella Thorne (above) as a…

Lifetime greenlights V.C. Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina movie, cast revealed
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Lifetime greenlights V.C. Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina movie, cast revealed

Lifetime and author V.C. Andrews are the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of cable TV movie combos, and today it was revealed the successful partnership will continue as Lifetime has officially given the greenlight to a movie adaptation of Andrews’ novel My Sweet Audrina. The My Sweet Audrina movie project has been rumored for more than…

Beyonce Met Gala 2015
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Starcasm Recap: May 4-May 10, 2015

  Lifetime movie Double Daddy features cheating teen who gets two girls pregnant–Even though Connor is doing everything he can do to be there for both of his teen moms, this high school drama takes social backstabbing to a whole new level. Beyoncé says she lost 65 pounds by going vegan–Beyonce said she immediately experienced…

Lifetime movie Double Daddy features cheating teen who gets two girls pregnant
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Lifetime movie Double Daddy features cheating teen who gets two girls pregnant

Lifetime has released details and photos from their next original movie project premiering June 6, and of course it is deliciously irresistible! The movie is called Double Daddy and it’s all about a teen boy caught cheating by getting another girl pregnant. But that’s just the beginning! From Lifetime: When 16 year-old Amanda (Mollee Gray,…

Is Lifetime’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania based on a true story?
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Is Lifetime’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania based on a true story?

Lifetime scored huge ratings Saturday night as more than three million viewers tuned in for their original movie Cleveland Abduction about the harrowing story of the kidnapping of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina “Gina” DeJesus by Ariel Castro. The follow-up documentary titled Beyond the Headlines: Cleveland Abduction held viewers’ attention as 2.9 million remained…

1ST PHOTOS Lifetime miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe starring Kelli Garner and Susan Sarandon
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1ST PHOTOS Lifetime miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe starring Kelli Garner and Susan Sarandon

Lifetime continues giving female entertainment icons the miniseries treatment, this time enlisting the help of of Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon for The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe set to air May 30 and 31st. Susan will play Marilyn’s mother Gladys Mortenson, who spent a great deal of time in an institution due to mental…

PHOTOS OITNB’s Taryn Manning as Michelle Knight in Lifetime’s Cleveland Abduction
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PHOTOS OITNB’s Taryn Manning as Michelle Knight in Lifetime’s Cleveland Abduction

Orange Is the New Black won’t be returning for a new season until June 12, but for those Pennsatuckaholics looking to get their small screen Taryn Manning fix, Lifetime has got you covered! Taryn will star as Michelle Knight in the network’s original movie Cleveland Abduction, premiering April 25 May 2*, about the harrowing kidnapping…

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The real Narcy Novack from Beautiful and Twisted claims she doesn’t know if her husband is dead or not

The real Narcy Novack from the original Lifetime movie Beautiful and Twisted starring Rob Lowe and Paz Vega said in a 2012 jailhouse interview that she didn’t have proof that her husband was dead. She complained of being demonized by the media, said she’s investigating corruption, and even mentioned that she didn’t even know if…

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VIDEO Lifetime’s Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever trailer

It was announced back in June that the same TV network that brought us Dance Moms and True Tori is would be bringing the millionaire internet sensation Grumpy Cat to the small screen in the form of the Lifetime movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. This weekend the network released the very first preview trailer in which we can all finally hear what Grumpy Cat’s voice (or at least her thoughts) sounds like!

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PHOTOS VIDEO Lifetime movie The Brittany Murphy Story preview trailer

Lifetime has just released the first preview trailer for its upcoming biopic The Brittany Murphy Story, which will attempt to shed some light on the tragic story of one of Hollywood’s brightest stars who wrestled with a number of personal demons before being found dead from cardiac arrest stemming from pneumonia and anemia in 2009 at the relatively young age of 32.

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PHOTO Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown from Lifetime movie, played by Yaya DaCosta and Arlen Escarpata

Last week we got our first look at actress Yaya DaCosta as Whitney Houston in the upcoming Lifetime movie biopic, and today the network shared the first photo of Bobby Brown, who will be played by actor Arlen Escarpeta!

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PHOTO First look at Yaya DaCosta as Whitney Houston in Lifetime movie

We have our first look at former America’s Next Top Model runner-up Yaya DaCosta as Whitney Houston in the Lifetime movie about the singer! In the photo, Yaya recreates the iconic photo used on the cover of the singer’s 1990 album Whitney. Keep reading for the photos and information about the film, which is directed by Whitney’s Waiting to Exhale co-star Angela Bassett and is set to debut some time in 2015.

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VIDEO PHOTOS Lifetime to premiere movie Expecting Amish July 19

As odd as it may seem, the Amish are just about the hottest commodity on television right now, and Lifetime looks to get in on the action with the movie Expecting Amish premiering July 19. The movie stars AJ Michalka as Hannah Yoder, an 18-year-old Amish girl heading to Hollywood with some friends for Rumspringa. While there, Hannah finds love (and apparently a little lust) with a DJ named Josh (played by Jesse McCartney), and as you may have surmised from the title, she gets pregnant. Keep reading to watch an extended preview video and see lots of photos from what looks to be a movie adaptation of the TLC series Breaking Amish: LA, only with much better acting!

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Lifetime movie ‘The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story’ cast photos

Earlier today A+E Networks announced the Labor Day premiere of the Lifetime original movie The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story, which tells the behind-the-scenes stories of one of the most popular Saturday morning television shows of all time. Keep reading for the full press release as well as photos of the new cast that will be portraying Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris), Dustin Diamond (Screech), Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (Kelly Kapowski), Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater), Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Sapano) and Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle).

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Lifetime announces The Red Tent miniseries based on Anita Diamant’s bestselling book

Lifetime continues it’s blockbuster original movie programming success by tackling another New York Times Bestseller, this time the Biblical-based novel The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Following on the heels of the network’s adaptation of V. C. Andrews’ gothic novel Flowers In the Attic (and the sequel, Petals On the Wind, premiering May 26) Lifetime has once again assembled a stellar award-winning cast for The Red Tent that includes Minnie Driver, Rebecca Ferguson, Morena Baccarin, Debra Winger, Iain Glen and Will Tudor. Keep reading for all the details — and an exclusive Minnie Driver photo!

The true story from Lifetime’s ‘The Pregnancy Pact:’ Inside Massachusetts’ Gloucester High

Lifetime‘s movie “Pregnancy Pact” premieres tonight with a storyline ripped right from the Gloucester, Massachusetts headlines. The storyline involves a gaggle (about 18) teenage girls making a pact to get pregnant in high school. Back in 2008 Gloucester High School in Massachusetts had a similar number of young girls (17) get knocked up, about 4…