Exclusive: Lifetime has set airdates for its Winter 2021 slate of five films, including its 400th original movie. The theme of the bundle is Ripped from the Headlines, a catch-all for the true crime films that will air every Saturday night beginning Feb. 13 through March 13.
Kicking off the quintet of movies will be Death Saved My Life on February 13, starring Meagan Good. That will be followed by Lifetime’s 400th original movie premiere, The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother’s Hunt for Justice starring Kim Delaney on February 20.
Judd Nelson, Joely Fisher and Stefanie Scott star in Girl in the Basement the week following on February 27. Diane Neal leads Circle of Deception on March 6, and Stephanie March leads A House On Fire on March 13. Both films were inspired by works from New York Time’s best-selling crime writer Ann Rule.
As part of Lifetime’s Broader Focus initiative supporting the...
Kicking off the quintet of movies will be Death Saved My Life on February 13, starring Meagan Good. That will be followed by Lifetime’s 400th original movie premiere, The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother’s Hunt for Justice starring Kim Delaney on February 20.
Judd Nelson, Joely Fisher and Stefanie Scott star in Girl in the Basement the week following on February 27. Diane Neal leads Circle of Deception on March 6, and Stephanie March leads A House On Fire on March 13. Both films were inspired by works from New York Time’s best-selling crime writer Ann Rule.
As part of Lifetime’s Broader Focus initiative supporting the...
- 1/12/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Lifetime has signed a deal with Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo Productions to produce two original movies for the network’s “Ripped From the Headlines” slate, the company announced Wednesday.
Both projects will premiere on the network in 2021. Ripa and Consuelos will serve as executive producers alongside Albert Bianchini.
“Kelly and Mark have been important voices in popular culture for the past twenty years and we are so incredibly pleased to have them become a part of the Lifetime family,” Paul Buccieri, group president, A+E Networks said. “We look forward to seeing their creative vision brought to life through these projects.”
The films will join a slate of original films which include 2020’s “Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story,” “Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer,” “Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story,” “Neighbor in the Window” and “You Can’t Take My Daughter.”
“I am beyond thrilled to welcome...
Both projects will premiere on the network in 2021. Ripa and Consuelos will serve as executive producers alongside Albert Bianchini.
“Kelly and Mark have been important voices in popular culture for the past twenty years and we are so incredibly pleased to have them become a part of the Lifetime family,” Paul Buccieri, group president, A+E Networks said. “We look forward to seeing their creative vision brought to life through these projects.”
The films will join a slate of original films which include 2020’s “Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story,” “Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer,” “Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story,” “Neighbor in the Window” and “You Can’t Take My Daughter.”
“I am beyond thrilled to welcome...
- 9/9/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have signed a deal with Lifetime to produce two new movies for the network’s Ripped from the Headlines slate via their Milojo Productions banner.
Ripa, Consuelos, and Albert Bianchini will serve as executive producers for the untitled projects which are set to debut in 2021. Michael Halpern is Director of Development for Milojo.
“Kelly and Mark have been important voices in popular culture for the past twenty years and we are so incredibly pleased to have them become a part of the Lifetime family,” said Paul Buccieri, Group President, A+E Networks. “We look forward to seeing their creative vision brought to life through these projects.”
The network’s 2020 Ripped from the Headlines slate has been a ratings boon for Lifetime. Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer, Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story, Neighbor in the Window,...
Ripa, Consuelos, and Albert Bianchini will serve as executive producers for the untitled projects which are set to debut in 2021. Michael Halpern is Director of Development for Milojo.
“Kelly and Mark have been important voices in popular culture for the past twenty years and we are so incredibly pleased to have them become a part of the Lifetime family,” said Paul Buccieri, Group President, A+E Networks. “We look forward to seeing their creative vision brought to life through these projects.”
The network’s 2020 Ripped from the Headlines slate has been a ratings boon for Lifetime. Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer, Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story, Neighbor in the Window,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Orange Is the New Black star Danielle Brooks will play gospel music icon Mahalia Jackson in a biopic on Lifetime.
The movie, Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story, is the first in a four-film deal with the Good Morning America anchor. Roberts previously executive produced the cabler's movie Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, and produced and hosted a documentary special about the real-life case.
The Mahalia Jackson Story will trace Jackson's life and career as she became arguably the best known gospel singer in the mid-20th century and a civil rights activist who sang at the 1963 March on ...
The movie, Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story, is the first in a four-film deal with the Good Morning America anchor. Roberts previously executive produced the cabler's movie Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, and produced and hosted a documentary special about the real-life case.
The Mahalia Jackson Story will trace Jackson's life and career as she became arguably the best known gospel singer in the mid-20th century and a civil rights activist who sang at the 1963 March on ...
This story about Niecy Nash and “Stolen by My Mother” first appeared in the Limited Series & Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
The character that Niecy Nash plays in the Lifetime movie “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story” was never on the set of the film, and couldn’t have been there if she wanted to — she’s serving an 18-year prison sentence for kidnapping an infant from a Florida hospital and raising the girl as her own daughter for almost 19 years.
In the film from director Jeffrey Byrd, Nash plays Gloria Williams, who slipped into the hospital disguised as a nurse, walked out with 8-hour-old Kamiyah Mobley — whom she renamed Alexis — and took the baby home. There, family and friends assumed the child belonged to Williams, who’d hidden her recent miscarriage and was desperate to give her abusive boyfriend the baby he wanted.
“It’s...
The character that Niecy Nash plays in the Lifetime movie “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story” was never on the set of the film, and couldn’t have been there if she wanted to — she’s serving an 18-year prison sentence for kidnapping an infant from a Florida hospital and raising the girl as her own daughter for almost 19 years.
In the film from director Jeffrey Byrd, Nash plays Gloria Williams, who slipped into the hospital disguised as a nurse, walked out with 8-hour-old Kamiyah Mobley — whom she renamed Alexis — and took the baby home. There, family and friends assumed the child belonged to Williams, who’d hidden her recent miscarriage and was desperate to give her abusive boyfriend the baby he wanted.
“It’s...
- 6/26/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
A year ago, Niecy Nash was nominated for an Emmy for her role in Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us,” a dramatization of the lives of the five wrongfully imprisoned Black and Latino men known as the “Central Park Five.” That the story continues to feel timely and relevant more than a year after the series’ release, and nearly two decades after the men were acquitted, comes as no surprise to Nash.
“We shine a light on things and you’re forced in a way to sit and pay attention,” Nash said at TheWrap’s virtual screening of her latest project, the Lifetime original movie “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.”
Although “When They See Us” wasn’t a new story, “we brought it to light in such a way that made people sit up and pay attention,” she said. “That was a year ago and look at where we are now.
“We shine a light on things and you’re forced in a way to sit and pay attention,” Nash said at TheWrap’s virtual screening of her latest project, the Lifetime original movie “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.”
Although “When They See Us” wasn’t a new story, “we brought it to light in such a way that made people sit up and pay attention,” she said. “That was a year ago and look at where we are now.
- 6/24/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
In the summer of 1998, a woman named Gloria Williams walked into a Florida hospital posing as a nurse and took away a newborn baby girl, Kamiyah Mobley, the daughter of 16-year-old Shanara Mobley. With no clues, the police were baffled—until 2017, when a tip led them to discover that Williams had renamed the child Alexis and, apparently an otherwise kind and conscientious mother, raised her alongside two other children of her own.
It’s a story that beggars belief and one that certainly intrigued When They See Us star Niecy Nash, who won an Emmy for Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five drama and who plays Gloria in Lifetime’s Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.
“I was familiar — just a little bit — with what happened,” Nash said at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event. “I may have seen a documentary, or an interview, and I was captivated.
It’s a story that beggars belief and one that certainly intrigued When They See Us star Niecy Nash, who won an Emmy for Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five drama and who plays Gloria in Lifetime’s Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.
“I was familiar — just a little bit — with what happened,” Nash said at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event. “I may have seen a documentary, or an interview, and I was captivated.
- 6/20/2020
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense of how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's writers, actors, directors, executives and others are living and working in these challenging times
When first speaking to Niecy Nash, who recently starred in the Lifetime movie Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, for this column, the United States was one of many countries grappling with rising cases and deaths caused by Covid-19. Since that conversation, the country ...
When first speaking to Niecy Nash, who recently starred in the Lifetime movie Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, for this column, the United States was one of many countries grappling with rising cases and deaths caused by Covid-19. Since that conversation, the country ...
“Strong women are delicious,” proclaims Niecy Nash, who has had a busy year starring in TNT’s dark comedy “Claws,” the Netflix coming of age comedy “Never Have I Ever” and the recent Lifetime TV movie “Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.” Nash has become renowned for playing strong, non-nonsense women with flaws and imperfections and these characters, while all so different, are no exception, says the actress, adding that “if they are flawed in any way, it makes it even better to play.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Nash above.
SEEEmmys 2020 exclusive: A&e, History and Lifetime categories
In “Stolen By My Mother,” Nash plays Gloria Williams, who after a tragic miscarriage, drives from her home in South Carolina to Florida, walks into a Jacksonville hospital posing as a nurse and abducts newborn Kamiyah Mobley out of her mother’s arms. She raises the child as her own,...
SEEEmmys 2020 exclusive: A&e, History and Lifetime categories
In “Stolen By My Mother,” Nash plays Gloria Williams, who after a tragic miscarriage, drives from her home in South Carolina to Florida, walks into a Jacksonville hospital posing as a nurse and abducts newborn Kamiyah Mobley out of her mother’s arms. She raises the child as her own,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Jamie Lee Curtis will star in, direct and executive produce a movie for Lifetime that will tell the true story of a devout Christian mother who came to terms with her son being gay.
How We Sleep at Night: The Sara Cunningham Story is one of a number of original television movies for the A+E Networks brand, which also includes a third movie about Harry & Meghan, a holiday movie with Betty White, and another project with journalist Robin Roberts.
How We Sleep at Night is a passion project for the Halloween star, who optioned rights to Cunningham’s memoir last year. Sally Robinson will write the script and it will be distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
White joins with A Betty White Christmas, a holiday movie for the network’s It’s a Wonderful Lifetime slate. The Golden Girls star will play a sassy drill sergeant of a Christmas bootcamp.
How We Sleep at Night: The Sara Cunningham Story is one of a number of original television movies for the A+E Networks brand, which also includes a third movie about Harry & Meghan, a holiday movie with Betty White, and another project with journalist Robin Roberts.
How We Sleep at Night is a passion project for the Halloween star, who optioned rights to Cunningham’s memoir last year. Sally Robinson will write the script and it will be distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
White joins with A Betty White Christmas, a holiday movie for the network’s It’s a Wonderful Lifetime slate. The Golden Girls star will play a sassy drill sergeant of a Christmas bootcamp.
- 5/7/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Lifetime original movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel sang loud and proud on Saturday night, hitting a high note in viewership, netting a staggering 2.7 million total viewers in L+Sd, according to Nielsen. This marks the highest-rated original movie for Lifetime since 2016.
The TV movie, which included lauded performances by Aunjanue Ellis, Angela Birchett, Sheléa Frazier, Kierra Sheard and Raven Goodwin, was the strongest original movie for all television for 2020 across key demos including both broadcast and cable. To add to their winning night, The Clark Sisters was the best ad-supported cable original movie since 2018 in key demos. With the biopic, Lifetime has the boasting rights of having the top three original movies on ad-supported cable in 2020 in key demos, alongside with Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story and Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer.
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The TV movie, which included lauded performances by Aunjanue Ellis, Angela Birchett, Sheléa Frazier, Kierra Sheard and Raven Goodwin, was the strongest original movie for all television for 2020 across key demos including both broadcast and cable. To add to their winning night, The Clark Sisters was the best ad-supported cable original movie since 2018 in key demos. With the biopic, Lifetime has the boasting rights of having the top three original movies on ad-supported cable in 2020 in key demos, alongside with Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story and Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer.
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- 4/13/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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