Miami’s blowout of Notre Dame on “Saturday Night Football” gave ABC a Saturday victory in all but adults 18-34 and males 18-34 demos in prime time. The adults 18-34 and males 18-34 were earned by fellow Disney-owned network ESPN for its telecast of Alabama at Mississippi State. The game delivered a Nielsen total live audience […]
Lifetime will chronicle married couple Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner as parents in new spin-off series “Married at First Sight: Jamie and Doug Plus One.” The logline: It’s been three years since Jamie and Doug met for the very first time at the altar, on season one of “Married at First Sight.” Though their relationship […]
Lifetime has placed a straight-to-series order to drama “American Princess,” which centers on Amanda, an Upper East Side socialite whose storybook wedding plans are dramatically derailed when she discovers her fiancé is cheating on her, just hours before they are to be wed. Outraged, Amanda reacts violently to the indiscretions and runs away from her […]
Lifetime has issued a fourth season pick-up to “UnREAL,” which comes ahead of the dramedy’s third season premiere in early 2018. Debuting on June 1, 2015, “UnREAL” offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the chaos surrounding the production of a hit dating competition program.It stars Shiri Appleby, Constance Zimmer, Caitlin FitzGerald, Craig Bierko, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Josh […]
Lifetime has given a straight-to-series order to a psychological drama from Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble called “You.” Based on Caroline Kepnes’ best-selling novel of the same name, “You” is a 21st century love story that asks, “What would you do for love?” The logline: When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring […]
Lifetime has announced two new upcoming reality series. The first, “This Time Next Year,” is hosted by Cat Deeley and is based on the hit UK format by Twofour. It follows the emotional journeys of ordinary people as they embark on extraordinary missions to change their lives, over the course of one year. Each transformation […]
Lifetime has picked up six episodes of a dark comedy called “Mary Kills People” from Entertainment One and Cameron Pictures and Corus Entertainment. From Tara Armstrong, the series follows Mary Harris (Caroline Dhavernas, “Hannibal”), a single mother who is an ER doctor by day, but by night, she and her partner, a former plastic surgeon, […]
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Lifetime has opted against a fifth season of scripted drama “Devious Maids.” Debuting on June 23, 2013 and originally developed for ABC, “Devious Maids” centered on a close-knit group of maids who are working for some of the most powerful families of Beverly Hills, California. It was created by Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives”), produced by […]
NBC was Saturday prime time’s No. 1 network in all key measures like total viewers (3.14 million) and adults 18-49 (0.5 rating/2 share). Stuntman Luke Aikins successfully attempted a 25,000-ft. skydive from an airplane without a parachute on the special “Heaven Sent” but its ratings did not take high flight for Fox — it was […]
