Just days after Lindsay Lohan’s arrest for an alleged car-pedestrian accident, the actress is back in the news—but this time for somebody else’s fascinating personal life: Elizabeth Taylor’s. The much-anticipated (a nervous anticipation, but anticipation nonetheless) Lifetime television movie Liz & Dick, about Taylor’s relationship …
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Lindsay to Play Liz on Lifetime — Who Should Be Next?
Now that the scandalous starlet has signed on to portray Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming television movie Liz & Dick, TIME picks other young actresses who should play Hollywood legends.
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Corporate Press Release Theater: Runway Pays Some Legal Bills
Looks like all that litigation was worth it for Lifetime. Though the return of Project Runway was delayed by the wrangling in the court as the cable network wrested the reality show from Bravo, last night’s season premiere was the highest rated ever, for Runway or any other Lifetime series, drawing over 4.2 million viewers. Excerpts from …
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Lifetime Serves Models for Breakfast
TV press tour is full of delicious ironies. Yesterday, for instance, I went to a BBC America panel for InBetweeners, a promising-looking awkward-teen comedy from a Flight of the Conchords writer. There, I saw BBC America chief Garth Ancier praise one of the show’s influences, Freaks and Geeks. Ancier, while programming head of NBC, …
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Project Runway and Lifetime: Can the Dress Fit?
Lifetime has released its first trailer for the upcoming season 6 of Project Runway (plus new companion series Models of the Runway):
On the one hand, it looks like, well, another season of Project Runway. But I’m still left wondering whether the show will seem mismatched in the context of Lifetime network.