Category: Lifetime Movies
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 reality-highly addictive shark jumpathontastic 1990s drama Melrose Place! Keep reading to check out The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story cast photo with a guide to let you know who's who!
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. Find out how Hannah is doing today and get her not-so-favorable reaction to the Lifetime movie! (Includes the full NBC News special one year after the kidnapping featuring an interview with Hannah.)
You would be hard-pressed to come up with anything that is more widespread and destructive in the United States today than heroin addiction. In June, 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 as a suburban high school dancer who suffers a knee injury that requires that she take prescription painkillers. As is often the case, her use of painkillers soon turns to addiction, and heroin presents itself as a cheap alternative. Keep reading for more info about the movie (including photos), as well as some rather startling facts about heroin use in the US.
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. Keep reading for all the details, including who will be playing the role of Audrina!
Kylie Jenner admits the truth; Beyoncé has us wondering whether she's lying; a heroic mother risks her life to save her children (in two different scenarios!); and reality TV is about to get an even deeper suntan: Check out these and other noteworthy stories from the past week.
Lifetime has released details and photos from their next original movie project titled Double Daddy, and of course it looks deliciously irresistible! Keep reading for the full plot synopsis and lots of photos that will have you penciling in another Saturday night date with Lifetime on June 6.
Lifetime scored HUGE ratings Saturday night for their original movie Cleveland Abduction and follow-up documentary Beyond the Headlines: Cleveland Abduction as more than 3 million tuned in for the movie and 2.9 million stayed glued to their TVs for the doc. Lifetime will air another heart-wrenching film about kidnapping this Saturday with the world television premiere of Stockholm, Pennsylvania about the life of a young woman struggling to deal with reality after being released from her abductor. So, is Stockholm, Pennsylvania based on a true story like Cleveland Abduction? Keep reading to find out!
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 illness, and actress Kelli Garner (The Aviator, Pan Am) will take on the role of Norma Jeane Mortenson, aka Marilyn Monroe. Keep reading for more info on the miniseries and see the first official photos of the cast, including Emily Watson as Marilyn Monroe's childhood guardian Grace McKee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe DiMaggio.
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 May 2, about the harrowing kidnapping of three young women by Ariel Castro. Keep reading for more details about the movie including the first photos of Taryn as Michelle Knight!
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 Ben Novack, Jr., who was slain in a hotel room in 2009, was dead or not.
