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Handing a procedural win to NBC Universal in the case over “Project Runway,” a federal judge on Tuesday rejected Lifetime’s attempt to move the dispute out of state court. NBC Universal had sued to keep “Project Runway’s” production company, Weinstein Co., from moving the show to the Lifetime cable channel...
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Lifetime’s original film “Flirting With Forty,” starring Heather Locklear, drew 4 million viewers in its premiere Saturday night. The film, in which Ms. Locklear plays an older divorced mother who begins dating a much younger man, ranks among Lifetime’s most-viewed movies of the year. “The Memory Keeper...
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Lifetime filed a new lawsuit in federal court as it seeks to unfreeze “Project Runway,” a series it acquired but is now enjoined from airing by a state court order. "This is the next step in our dispute with NBCU over the rights to ‘Project Runway,’” the cable channel said in a statement. “ We filed...
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Lifetime has ordered a full season of original comedy “Rita Rocks.” With the announcement, seven more episodes will be produced to bring the series’ first-season order to 20. The comedy, which stars Nicole Sullivan as an overworked wife and mother, airs Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. on the cable network and...
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Emmy nominee Joan Allen has signed on to star in the title role of Lifetime biopic “Georgia O’Keefe.” The movie focus on the celebrated painter’s 20-year love affair with photographer Alfred Steiglitz, to be played by Emmy winner Jeremy Irons. Allen also will executive produce. Bob Balaban, Emmy-nominated...
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Lifetime is trying to make a federal case out of “Project Runway.” Shortly before a judge was set to try to create an expedited schedule for NBC Universal’s lawsuit against the Weinstein Co. for moving “Project Runway” from Bravo to Lifetime, Lifetime asked that the case be moved to federal court, NBC...
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The Weinstein Co. and Lifetime will not be able to promote, market or exhibit “Project Runaway” until further notice after a judge granted NBC Universal’s request for an injunction against the studio. NBC Universal sued the Weinstein Co. after it reached a deal to move the hit show to Lifetime from NBC...
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Kathy Griffin, who just won a second Emmy for Bravo's “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,” was reported to be mulling a move to Lifetime in Friday’s New York Post, which cited a “well-placed source." A spokesman for Lifetime told TVWeek.com there was no truth to the rumor. Taking things a...
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“Project Runway” is leaving Bravo with a runway show that includes more whimpers than big bangs from the five designers who showed collections Friday in what has become the coda to New York City’s Fashion Week in Bryant Park. Over its five years on Bravo, the runway taping has turned into a must-be-there...
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Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong is moving the company’s public relations, public affairs and most of its research department from its headquarters in New York to Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. Management has asked affected staffers to make the move west where appropriate. About 20 people are affected. Among...
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Knock. Knock. Knock. “I regret to inform you that your husband (name, rank, Social Security number) is dead.” That’s what first drew me to the world of “Army Wives”: the realization that the women depicted live under the daily fear that they’ll get a knock on the door from one of the “suited ones” or...
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Lifetime will play tribute to Estelle Getty with a “Golden Girls” marathon on July 25 from 12-5 p.m. Getty, who played Sophia Petrillo on the comedy series, died today at her home in Los Angeles. She was 84. The 10 episodes airing on Lifetime will be Sophia-centric and will start with the longrunning...