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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is expanding its programming slate this summer with two new caught-on-camera clip shows led by Outrageous Love with Nene Leakes. Leakes will appear in Outrageous Love, premiering on July 1st at 10 p.m. ET. The show will highlight the ups and downs of couples’ love lives with…

EXCLUSIVE: The untitled Lifetime “Terry McMillan Presents” film starring and executive produced by Garcelle Beauvais will be known officially as Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted By Love and will premiere on Saturday, August 17th at 8/7c. Joining Beauvais on the cast are Vaughn W. Hebron (The Game: Reb…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Love Hewitt (9-1-1) is starring in, directing and executive producing Lifetime’s The Holiday Junkie (wt). The film, inspired by Hewitt’s personal relationship with the holiday and the loss of her mother, is positioned as a tentpole of the network’s 2024 It’s a Wonderful Lifetime movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) is set to star in the new Lifetime movie The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story alongside Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica) premiering on Saturday, June 29. The upcoming psychological drama tells the true story of an unassuming housewife who…

Lifetime has set the premiere date and unveiled a trailer for The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, a two night documentary event that sheds new light on her life on the eve of the 30th anniversary of her tragic and untimely death. The two-part documentary will air June 1 and June 2 at 8 pm…

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: William Hutchinson, who appeared on the Lifetime series Marrying Millions as the suitor of a woman 40 years younger than him, pleaded guilty today to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at his Laguna Beach vacation home and was sentenced to 90 days of home confinement in Texas. The…