EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has greenlit two new original ‘Ripped from the Headlines’ movies for 2025 including the Dascha Polanco-led (Orange is the New Black, Poker Face) thriller Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story and Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story starring Paige Hurd (Power Book II: Gho…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime’s Gloria Gaynor biopic has cast Tony Award winner Joaquina Kalukango (Broadway’s Paradise Square, TV’s Lawmen: Bass Reeves) in the leading role as the Queen of Disco. Kalukango and Gaynor serve as executive producers. Lance Gross (Tyler Perry's House of Payne) will also star as…

EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Lisa Velez, who rose to fame in the 80s hit group Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, is getting the biopic treatment at Lifetime. Velez will executive produce and star in Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story as her mother, and Jearnest Corchado (Sneaker Heads, Little Ameri…

EXCLUSIVE: Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars) and Mitchell Slaggert (The Sex Lives of College Girls) are set to lead the new Lifetime holiday film A Carpenter Christmas Romance from writer and executive producer Sarah Drew. Drew also penned A Cowboy Christmas Romance which made hearts race with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to A Very Merry Beauty Salon, a new original movie starring and executive produced by Tia Mowry, the final installment of Mowry’s three-picture deal with the network. RonReaco Lee, Donna Biscoe, Cocoa Brown and Ashli Auguillard also star. The movie…

The guardian for Wendy Williams has filed an amended lawsuit against A+E Networks and eOne over the Lifetime documentary reality project Where Is Wendy Williams? that aired in February, claiming that the TV personality was exploited in her participation and paid just $82,000 for the project. The…

All My Children is eying a return, this time as a holiday movie. Lifetime is in early development on Christmas In Pine Valley, an original movie followup to the long-running ABC daytime drama, a spokesperson confirmed to Deadline. According to sources, conversations are currently underway on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has set six new original films to premiere this fall as part of its “Ripped from the Headlines” movie slate starring Heather Locklear, Ana Ortiz, Lyndsy Fonseca, Jackie Cruz, Sheila E. and Karrueche Tran. The new movies will air on Saturdays at 8 p.m./7 c. These films join the…

EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs today that has seen cuts across Lifetime and History’s programming teams. Deadline understands that Amy Savitsky, SVP Unscripted Development and Programming at Lifetime, as well as VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez are out as part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has announced thriller movie Nightmare in the Desert starring newcomers Gia De Sauvage and Tristan J. Watson and Allen Williamson (Abduction). The film will premiere Sunday, September 15 at 8p/7c/ to kick off the network’s fall movie slate. Nightmare in the Desert, inspired by…

EXCLUSIVE: Courtney Thorne-Smith (Melrose Place, Ally McBeal) and Stella Gregg (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Trust Me) are set to lead the new Lifetime Original Movie He Slid Into Her DMs. Kane Parks also stars. Alicia Coppola (Jericho, Why Women Kill) will make her directorial debut with the project…

EXCLUSIVE: Taye Diggs (All American, The Best Man) and Meagan Good (Divorce in the Black, Harlem) star in and executive produce Lifetime’s newly acquired movie Terry McMillan Presents: Forever, premiering at 8 p.m. Saturday, August 24. Charles Murray (Outer Range, Luke Cage) directs and…