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With its list of May 2024 releases, Amazon Prime Video is giving us the kindest gift of all: cougar Anne Hathaway.

May 2 sees the premiere of The Idea of You, a romantic-comedy that features Hathaway as a 40-year-old mom finding romance with a 24-year-old boy band singer (Nicholas Galitzine). Having saved the medium of film forever, Prime Video is celebrating with some big time library titles this month as well. American Fiction and BlacKkKlansman arrive on May 14 and will be followed by Creed and Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story on May 16.

For its TV offerings, Prime is leading off with Outer Range season 2 on May 16. This James Brolin sci-fi Western will continue the mysteries of the strange happenings on Thanos’ ranch. Reality TV fans will be able to enjoy the Daniel Tosh-hosted competition series The Goat on May 9.

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This fall, Lifetime will take an uncharacteristic trip into horror lit with Big Driver, an adaptation of Stephen King’s same-named short story from his 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars. Maria Bello stars in the grim and brutal pic, about an author who is brutally raped and assaulted by a truck driver, only to survive and return seeking vengeance.

The project is an unusual one for Lifetime, though the network has been branching out in recent years with increasingly dramatic original series like Witches of East End and The Lottery. Big Driver is also, like many of Lifetime’s programs, a tale of female empowerment led by a particularly steely protagonist.

Now, the suitably dark first trailer for the movie, which also stars Olympia Dukakis, Joan Gett, Ann Dowd and Will Harris, has arrived online. Check it out below, along with the official synopsis for the adaptation.

From a story by Stephen King,...

We're closing in on the October 18th premiere date of Lifetime's upcoming "Big Driver" adaptation, and on tap today we have the film's official poster art to share plus over a dozen new stills. Check 'em out, and look for more soon!

About "Big Driver" on Lifetime:

From a story by Stephen King, "Big Driver" marks the first collaboration between Lifetime and King. This dark story of a young novelist hell-bent on revenge after falling victim to a brutal crime stars Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello (A History of Violence).

Bello's co-stars include Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Steel Magnolias), Grammy nominee Joan Jett, film and television veteran Ann Dowd ("The Leftovers"), and Will Harris ("NCIS").

In "Big Driver" Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer, faces a long drive home following a book-signing engagement. But while driving on a lonely stretch of New England road,...

From the looks of this effective new teaser trailer for its upcoming "Big Driver" film adaptation, Lifetime really seems to be trying to change its image and appeal to the horror crowd. Will it work? We'll find out October 18th.

About "Big Driver" on Lifetime:

From a story by Stephen King, "Big Driver" marks the first collaboration between Lifetime and King. This dark story of a young novelist hell-bent on revenge after falling victim to a brutal crime stars Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello (A History of Violence).

Bello' co-stars include Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Steel Magnolias), Grammy nominee Joan Jett, film and television veteran Ann Dowd ("The Leftovers"), and Will Harris ("NCIS").

In "Big Driver" Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer, faces a long drive home following a book-signing engagement. But while driving on a lonely stretch of New England road, her tire blows out,...

A couple of months ago we learned that Lifetime was adapting Stephen King's "Big Driver" short story from his Full Dark, No Stars collection, and now the network has released some stills and revealed the film's premiere date.

About "Big Driver" on Lifetime:

From a story by Stephen King, "Big Driver" marks the first collaboration between Lifetime and King. This dark story of a young novelist hell-bent on revenge after falling victim to a brutal crime stars Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello (A History of Violence).

Bello' co-stars include Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Steel Magnolias), Grammy nominee Joan Jett, film and television veteran Ann Dowd ("The Leftovers"), and Will Harris ("NCIS").

In "Big Driver" Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer, faces a long drive home following a book-signing engagement. But while driving on a lonely stretch of New England road, her tire blows out,...

Rob Lowe is heading back to Lifetime. Again. The former “Parks and Recreation” star, who previously starred in Lifetime's ripped-from-the-headlines offerings “Drew Peterson: Untouchable” and “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” is once again teaming with the network for “Beautiful and Twisted,” about convicted murderer Narcy Novack, who was found guilty of killing her husband, Fountainebleau Miami Beach hotel heir Ben Novack Jr. See video: Rob Lowe Flashes Ellen DeGeneres His Tattoo The cast also includes “Murphy Brown” alum Candice Bergen and Paz Vega (“Sex and Lucia”). Lowe will play the ill-fated hotel heir, while Vega will play Narcy. Bergen will play Ben Novack's mother Bernice.

Rob Lowe is heading to Lifetime, but his character’s lifetime is literally going to be cut short.

The network announced Monday that Lowe will star in its latest based-on-a-true-story movie, Beautiful and Twisted. Set in the ritzy world of Miami excess, the film from Sony Picture Televisionwill feature Lowe as Ben Novack Jr., a millionaire heir to the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel fortune. When he’s found brutally murdered, police work their way through the tangle of intrigue surrounding his marriage to Narcy (Spanish actress Paz Vega), whom they identify as a prime suspect. Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown) will portray Ben’s mother,...

There's already one film on its way based on a story from the Stephen King collection Full Dark, No Stars, and now joining A Good Marriage is Big Driver on Lifetime, which will star Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett(!), and Will Harris.

From the Press Release:

From best-selling author and master of suspense Stephen King, comes the Lifetime Original Movie Big Driver, starring Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello (pictured; A History of Violence), Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Sex & Violence, Steel Magnolias), Grammy nominee Joan Jett, and Will Harris (Sky High).

Set to premiere this fall, Big Driver was first published as a novella within King’s critically-acclaimed collection Full Dark, No Stars and tells the story of a young novelist hell-bent on revenge after the core of her psyche is broken following a brutal crime. The film marks Lifetime’s first collaboration with America’s foremost horror authority and begins production in Halifax,...

Maria Bello (Prime Suspect, Touch) is getting behind the wheel of Big Driver, a Lifetime movie based on Stephen King’s horror novella, TVLine has learned.

Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, rock icon Joan Jett and NCIS guest star Will Harris have also been cast in the project, which marks the first collaboration between King and Lifetime.

Big Driver, which was featured in King’s collection Full Dark, No Stars, centers on Bello’s Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer who faces a long drive home following a book signing engagement. While driving on a lonely stretch of New England road,...

Top of the Morning, former New York Times reporter Brian Stelter’s gossip-y, inside view documentation about the ratings wars between Good Morning America and the Today show, is in early development to become a Lifetime movie, EW has confirmed. Which means it’s time to dream cast it.

The book — read EW’s original review — centers around the time when Ann Curry was let go from Today, so expect plenty of backstage explosions, as well as on-air passive aggressive comments, from whomever is chosen to portray Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Al Roker and all the rest. The story also get into booking wars,...

You would think that one of the more sensational murder trials of recent years would yield an equally salacious TV movie. In the case of "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," you would be wrong.

In its rush to get the movie on the air -- "Dirty Little Secret" was filming while Arias was still standing trial for the 2008 murder of Travis Alexander -- Lifetime chose to tell a by-the-numbers tale of passion gone wrong rather than the potentially compelling (if lurid) courtroom story that played out on news channels for weeks earlier this year.

Honestly, I thought I'd be doing a "X most outrageous things in the Jodi Arias movie" sort of post here, but "Dirty Little Secret" is no "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" in terms of camp factor. Instead, it's just a riff on "Fatal Attraction" with a less menacing murderess.

Tania Raymonde ("Lost") actually underplays her role as Arias a little bit,...

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Two years ago, Chloe Sevigny was cast as infamous alleged murderess Lizzie Borden for a HBO mini-series, but we're still waiting for that to come to fruition. In the meantime, Lifetime is doing its own version of the story, and they've cast Christina Ricci in the title role. Lizzie was accused (and eventually acquitted) of killing her parents with an axe while they were sleeping one night in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.

After the highly-publicized trial, Lizzie went on to have a relationship with actress Nance O’ Neill, and she is often referred to as a lesbian. Love letters she'd written to a female friend were found after her death, and she also was known to have "women's gatherings" at her home. Plus historians like to point out she did not "enjoy the company of men." All signs point to lez.

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Long before Amanda Knox, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias, there was another young American woman on a trial for murder that became a media spectacle. I’ve learned exclusively that Christina Ricci has been tapped to play Lizzie Borden in a Lifetime original movie about the woman tried and acquitted in the 1892 ax murders of her father and stepmother. Directed by Nick Gomez and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the movie tells the story of Fall River, Mass., resident Borden, who finds herself on trial for the brutal murder with a hatchet-type weapon of her father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and his second wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden, at their family home. She was acquitted at a trial, which drew national attention, though no one else was ever charged with the crime, which has remained unsolved. Despite being found guilty in the court of public opinion in her native town, at least in some circles,...

The murder trial involving Jodi Arias isn’t over but that isn’t stopping Lifetime from developing a movie about the scandal.

Executive producers with previous credits that include Drew Peterson: Untouchable and The Craigslist Killer are working on the movie about the woman who claims she killed her boyfriend in self defense, reports TV Guide.

Arias is on trial for the shooting death of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. The Arizona-based trial that has received massive coverage from cable news outlets.

Mad Men alumna Cara Buono has lined up a guest stint on this season’s penultimate episode of The Good Wife, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Buono will play a woman who hires Lockhart Gardner after her husband dies on the job under questionable circumstances (and is being hustled to keep quiet).

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Since her well-received Mad Men run, Buono has guested on shows such as Castle, Hawaii Five-0 and A Gifted Man, and appeared in the well-watched Lifetime telepic Drew Peterson: Untouchable.

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Chances are, if the movie doesn't feature a dolphin with a prosthetic tail on the poster and it carries "inspired by true events" disclaimer, then it's going to be something about murder, mayhem or the decades-long search for the Zodiac killer. So by announcing that your movie is inspired by true events, what could have been an unsettling reveal instead becomes a waiting game: who is going to get killed, how long is it going to take, and why have you never read about it before? It may add a slight bit of tension, but it's at the cost of almost everything else. Such is the case with "Rubberneck," written, directed and starring Lena Dunham confederate Alex Karpovsky, which has an intriguing-enough true crime premise but ends up coming across like something you'd stumble upon on Lifetime one Sunday afternoon (but without all the laughs of, say, "Drew Peterson: Untouchable"). "Rubberneck" focuses on Paul Harris.

Someone is due for a blast from the past when Cara Buono serves up trouble — or at least Irish whiskey — on Castle.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Buono — who memorably played Mad Men‘s formidable Faye Miller aka she who should have been Don Draper’s second wife — will guest-star in a March episode of the ABC drama as Siobhan O’Doul, a(n obviously) beautiful bar owner who has found herself in too deep with the Staten Island Mafia.

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• CBS and TNT’s Dallas star Larry Hagman, the man at the center of “Who shot J.R.?”, passed away Nov. 23 at the age of 81. A statement from his family reveals he died due to complications from cancer.

• Come January, former NBC universal chief executive Jeff Zucker will be the new president of CNN Worldwide. “I am thrilled to join the distinguished team of journalists across the worldwide platforms of CNN,” Zucker says.

• An interview with CBS’s Two and a Half Men star Angus T. Jones came out this week in which the actor pleads viewers to stop watching his show, calling it “filth.” He since apologized, saying, “I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation...

After reading harsh reviews of her performance in "Liz & Dick," Lindsay Lohan is defending her acting skills and the Lifetime movie that everyone is still talking about.

"We all loved the movie," Lindsay's mom, Dina Lohan, told The Huffington Post in describing her own and her daughter's thoughts.

She signed her email with a happy face above the words "onwards and upwards."

Lindsay, who was left "devastated" after reading some of the vicious reviews that ran before the movie, decided to spare herself the pain and ignore the live debate on Twitter that erupted as the film debuted Sunday night, according to her mother.

"We don't read that," said Dina, regarding the negative tweets.

Although Lindsay and her family are putting their best face on, the most devastating news might be the ratings, which showed only 3.5 million viewers tuned in -- a number well below the viewership of Lifetime's other original movie premieres,...

The ratings are in -- and Lindsay Lohan's "Liz & Dick" did Not get the viewers it needed to become Lifetime's most watched TV movie of 2012 ... not even close. According to Lifetime, L&D drew 3.5 million viewers during its premiere last night -- solid, but not the earth-shattering numbers Lifetime was gunning for with all the buzz around the film.Lifetime's "Steel Magnolias" -- the most-watched TV movie this year -- attracted 6.5 million.The numbers...

Lifetime's exhaustively promoted, critically trashed "Liz & Dick" became 2012's fourth most-watched original premiere on Sunday (November 25).    Somehow, we suspect Lifetime had higher aspirations for what it called "the most talked about movie of the year."   Featuring a heavily hyped "comeback" performance by Lindsay Lohan, "Liz & Dick" drew 3.5 million total viewers for its premiere, including 1.3 million viewers among adults 18-49.    While those figures are 40+ percent higher than Lifetime's 2012 averages for original movies, they come in behind Lifetime's "Steel Magnolias," "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" and "Abducted: The Carlina White Story," among recent telefilms. [On...

"Liz & Dick" might have taken over social media during its November 25 premiere, but in terms of actual viewers the Lifetime movie failed to impress.

According to the network, 3.5 million viewers tuned in to see Lindsay Lohan play the late Elizabeth Taylor. Lifetime's "Steel Magnolias" averaged 6.5 million viewers in October. "Liz & Dick" clocks in as the fourth most-watched original movie premiere on an ad-supported cable network for 2012, behind "Steel Magnolias," "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" and "Abducted: The Carlina White Story."

Read Lifetime's description of the TV movie below and click through the slideshow to see how viewers reacted on Twitter.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance -- often called “the marriage of the century” -- was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day. Swarmed by paparazzi worldwide, their love affair was played out entirely in...

Twitter might have loved (to hate) Lifetime's Liz & Dick, but viewers weren't nearly as enamored. The Lindsay Lohan non-comeback vehicle averaged a disappointing 3.5 million viewers Sunday night, well below the ratings for some of the network's more recent telepic events. Last month, Lifetime's Steel Magnolias remake drew 6.5 million pairs of eyeballs, while the lower-profile Abducted: The Carlina White Story brought in 4.1 million viewers (on a Saturday night, when fewer viewers are home watching TV). And back in January, Rob Lowe's Drew Peterson: Untouchable attracted just under 6 million viewers.Liz & Dick also performed well below all three of the above movies among viewers under 50. Lifetime is correctly touting Liz & Dick as the fourth biggest first-run cable TV movie of the year (leaving out the monster numbers of Hatfields & McCoys on sister net History, as well as anything on Disney or HBO). Liz &...

Lifetime’s Lindsay Lohan-fronted Liz & Dick biopic on Sunday night played to a grand total of 3.5 million people — each of whom seemingly tweeted at least 10 times each about it.

In total audience as well as the 18-49 and 25-54 demos, the critically lambasted riff on the life of movie icon Elizabeth Taylor and sometime-husband Richard Burton ranks No. 4 amongst original TV-movies on ad-supported cable for 2012, trailing Lifetime’s own Steel Magnolias, Drew Peterson: Untouchable and Abducted: The Carlina White Story.

For reference sake, The Walking Dead at last count drew 9.2 million total viewers, while Disney Channel newbie Dog With a Blog chased 3.7 mil.

Who’s afraid of Liz & Dick’s ratings?

Lifetime’s critically trashed Elizabeth Taylor biopic starring Lindsay Lohan delivered 3.5 million viewers Sunday night.

The network points out Liz & Dick ranks as its fourth highest-rated original TV movie of 2012 — which is sort of a weak brag, considering all the advance hype. Liz & Dick delivered fewer viewers than Lifetime movies such as Steel Magnolias, Drew Peterson: Untouchable and Abducted: The Carlina White Story.

The film chronicles Elizabeth Taylor’s romance with Richard Burton from 1961 to 1984 and received hostile reviews, with critics bashing the stunt casting of Lohan as the silver screen legend.

The intense coverage of Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime's movie "Liz & Dick" didn't translate to huge ratings.

The movie, which aired Sunday (Nov. 25), still pulled in a solid 3.5 million viewers. But it was only the fourth most-watched movie Lifetime has aired this year, behind its "Steel Magnolias" remake (6.5 million), "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" (5.8 million) and "Abducted: The Carlina White Story" (3.5 million).

The demographic numbers for "Liz & Dick" were also in the Ok-not-great range: The movie drew 1.3 million adults 25-54 and 1.3 million adults 18-49, with women making up the great majority of viewers in both demos.

Critics were, to say the least, not very kind to the movie or to Lohan and co-star Grant Bowler, who played Richard Burton. The movie was a trending topic on Twitter pretty much all of Sunday night, but the social-media snark didn't lead to bigger tune-in.

They say no publicity is bad publicity, and after many production problems and critical lashings, surely audiences turned up in droves to watch the trainwreck that was "Liz & Dick," right? Nope.Lifetime released the ratings for the Lindsay Lohan-as-Elizabeth Taylor flick, and they are not what the cable channel was hoping they'd be.The made-for-tv movie brought in 3.5 million viewers, making it only the fourth most-watched original movie of the year -- behind such offerings as a "Steel Magnolias" remake, "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," and "Abducted: The Carlina White Story." Ouch!Do you think Lindsay will still make a comeback, or is this really just more of the end? Let us know below! Read more...

Lindsay Lohan, you better bring it.

Lifetime's heavily hyped remake of "Steel Magnolias," starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott, drew 6.5 million viewers in its Sunday night premiere to become the third highest rated original telecast in Lifetime history. That sets the bar high for Lifetime's "Liz & Dick," starring Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor, which will premiere Nov. 25.

"Magnolias" fell just shy of matching the 6.6 million viewers who tuned in to Lifetime for 2006's "Life is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story." However, "Magnolias'" 3.2 million viewers in the 25-54 demo was Lifetime's best since 1995's "Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story," which remains the network's most-watched movie overall at over 7 million viewers.

Other recent Lifetime successes include "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," starring Rob Lowe, which attracted 5.8 million viewers in January.

Are you surprised by how well "Steel Magnolias" did? We kinda liked it, but what did you think?...

Lifetime has found its Anna Nicole Smith.

Agnes Bruckner will star as the late model and Playboy playmate in an upcoming biopic, the network confirmed to Access Hollywood on Thursday.

The TV movie, titled "The Anna Nicole Story," will be produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("Smash," "Drop Dead Diva"), along with Judith Verno ("Drew Peterson: Untouchable"), according to Deadline.

Bruckner, 27, got her start in soaps, playing Bridget Forrester on "The Bold and the Beautiful."

The actress has a lengthy TV resume, including roles on "Private Practice," "24" and "Alias."

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Miley Cyrus may not have as many legal problems as other certain former child stars, but now she's expected to play one of the most famous outlaws of all time. The erstwhile Hannah Montana is negotiating to play Bonnie Parker in a "Bonnie & Clyde" miniseries for Lifetime and History Channel.

The four-hour miniseries would air on both cable networks (which are both under the same overall A&E Networks umbrella) in an effort to attract a broad audience of both men and women. Although the project is still in early stages, executive producers Craig Zadon and Neil Meron are TV movie vets with credits including "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," The Beach Boys: An American Family" and Lifetime's upcoming "Steel Magnolias."

Lifetime has proven they can still lure in big audiences for TV movies, 5.8 million viewers tuned in to see Rob Lowe in "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" in January.

After eight years of speculation, Drew was convicted of murdering third-wife Kathleen Savio. Former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was found guilty on Sept. 6 of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and making it look like an accident. When Kathleen was found dead in a bathtub in 2004, her death was initially ruled an an accident — but it was reclassified when Drew's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, mysteriously disappeared in 2007. Stacy is still missing and is presumed dead. Though Drew is a suspect in the case, he has yet to be charged with the crime. Drew faces a max of 60 years in prison. Rob Lowe recently starred in a Lifetime movie about the murderer's life called Drew Peterson: Untouchable. HollywoodLifers, what's your reaction to Drew guilty verdict? [TMZ] Jennifer Kamm More Drew Peterson News Body Of Murder Suspect Drew Peterson's Fourth Wife May Have Been Discovered...

Usually a fish-out-of-water set-up spells comedy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth for the new miniseries Coma, which airs tonight and tomorrow on A&E. Based on Robin Cook’s 1977 medical thriller of the same name (which was adapted into a 1978 film starring Geneviève Bujold and Michael Douglas), Coma sees med student Susan Wheeler (Lauren Ambrose) relocate from New York to the South. Despite the reputation that everyone’s friendlier down South, Wheeler notices an alarmingly high coma rate in her new hospital and begins to suspect her colleagues might be involved.

Ambrose, 34, remembers Cook’s skin-crawling...

The Lifetime Movie Network has cast Rob Lowe to play the part of a Florida prosecutor in the new Lifetime original movie about the Casey Anthony case.

Lowe is no stranger to movies based on crime stories. The Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee recently had a similar gig for Lifetime, portraying accused wife murderer Drew Peterson in the movie "Drew Peterson: Untouchable."

In his latest role, Lowe will play the part of Jeff Ashton, the Orlando prosecutor who failed in his attempts to get a first-degree murder conviction against Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

On July 5, 2011, a jury of seven women and five men acquitted Anthony. The little girl's remains were found in December 2008 near the family home, some six months after she was last seen.

After Anthony's acquittal, Ashton authored a book about the case titled Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Lifetime movie is based on Ashton's book.

The Lifetime Movie Network has cast Rob Lowe to play the part of a Florida prosecutor in the new Lifetime original movie about the Casey Anthony case.

Lowe is no stranger to movies based on crime stories. The Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee recently had a similar gig for Lifetime, portraying accused wife murderer Drew Peterson in the movie "Drew Peterson: Untouchable."

In his latest role, Lowe will play the part of Jeff Ashton, the Orlando prosecutor who failed in his attempts to get a first-degree murder conviction against Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

On July 5, 2011, a jury of seven women and five men acquitted Anthony. The little girl's remains were found in December 2008 near the family home, some six months after she was last seen.

After Anthony's acquittal, Ashton authored a book about the case titled Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Lifetime movie is based on Ashton's book.

NBC and CBS have scheduled the remaining episodes of two axed comedies, Best Friends Forever and How to Be a Gentleman, respectively.

First up, the Eye Network’s short-lived Gentleman (which was pulled from rotation back in October) will air two new episodes back-to-back on Saturday May 26 beginning at 8/7c. Meanwhile, NBC has slotted the final two installments of the recently-shelved Bff for Friday, June 1 from 8-9 pm.

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Testifying to the fickleness of women's television networks, Lifetime seems to have chosen Rob Lowe as its new favorite star: He'll follow up his recent creepy turn in Drew Peterson: Untouchable with the similarly sordid crime docudrama Prosecuting Casey Anthony, starring as the attorney who mounted a seemingly convincing case against the accused murderer, yet failed to prove that she was not a somewhat attractive white girl. The film is based on the book of the same name by Jeff Ashton, whom Lowe will be playing—and while it probably would have been nice to actually win the ...

Rob Lowe is returning to Lifetime - this time to portray a lawyer in an upcoming TV movie about last summer's Casey Anthony trial. The Parks and Recreation star, 48, who previously played Drew Peterson in the Lifetime movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable has been cast as prosecutor Jeff Ashton. The movie, tentatively titled Prosecuting Casey Anthony, will be based on Ashton's book about the case, Improper Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony. In a case that captivated the country, Anthony, 26, was charged with and later acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee in 2008. "We're thrilled to have Rob returning to our network, after...

If you saw Reese Witherspoon’s Oscar-winning performance in “Walk The Line,” and thought her story needed a dose of muddy visuals and histrionic melodrama, Lifetime has fixed your needs completely with their new original movie.

In a move thankfully more fitting than Lindsay Lohan as Liz Taylor in their upcoming biopic, “Liz & Dick,” Lifetime has cast the singer Jewel in “The June Carter Story,” playing the titular country icon in a film about her life. Previously only seen in bit parts in Ang Lee’s “Ride With The Devil” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (which, ironically, poked fun at projects resembling, oh, this one),” Jewel will take center stage as the film chronicles June’s rise to fame alongside her husband Johnny Cash, before breaking out on her own for a solo career. Of course, June was a major force in saving Cash’s life during his well-chronicled substance abuse,...

Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has signed up to star in a new movie detailing the trial of Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was cleared of killing her young daughter in a headline-grabbing court case last year.

The West Wing star will play real-life prosecutor Jeff Ashton in an upcoming Lifetime TV film based on the attorney's best-selling book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony, which was released shortly after Anthony was acquitted last July.

Anthony was accused of drugging her two-year-old daughter Caylee and suffocating her with duct tape in 2008, but her lawyers claimed the youngster accidentally drowned.

Anthony was found not guilty of charges including first degree murder in her explosive trial, which hit headlines across the world, and she walked free due to time already served after being sentenced to four years in prison for lying to police.

Lowe previously starred in another Lifetime crime drama this year, taking on the role of a real-life accused killer in Drew Peterson: Untouchable.

Lifetime boss Rob Sharenow says, "We're thrilled to have Rob returning to our network, after his amazing star turn as Drew Peterson. He's one of those rare stars who can do it all, comedy, drama, heroes and villains. There are very few actors in the history of our business who have been able to have such success on such a broad range."...

Lifetime has tapped Rob Lowe for the tentatively and supremely creatively titled Prosecuting Casey Anthony, where he'll play prosecutor Jeff Ashton, who wrote the book that spawned the film. "The story will unfold from the prosecutor’s perspective in the controversial case," Deadline writes. Get ready to stash away that Parks and Rec sunniness, sir. Just like you did for Lifetime's Drew Peterson: Untouchable — sunniness quotient: zero.

On the heels of his acclaimed role in the hit Lifetime Original Movie, Drew Peterson: Untouchable, actor Rob Lowe will star in the new Lifetime Original Movie Prosecuting Casey Anthony (wt). From Lifetime Lowe will portray Jeff Ashton, the Florida prosecutor in last year.s controversial Caylee Anthony murder trial and author of the best-selling book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony, upon which the movie will be based. Prosecuting Casey Anthony will reveal Ashton.s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony.s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite what many thought to be overwhelming evidence of guilt. The movie will be seen from Ashton.s (Lowe) perspective and take...

Well, you had to know it was coming. The first Casey Anthony TV movie has been announced -- and unfortunately, it probably won't be the last. After a successful turn in Lifetime's "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," Rob Lowe has signed on to star in another, tentatively titled "Prosecuting Casey Anthony."

Lowe will play Jeff Ashton, Florida prosecutor in the Caylee Anthony murder trial and the author of the book "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony." According to a press release, the movie "reveal Ashton's inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony's mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite what many thought to be overwhelming evidence of guilt."

The film tells the story of the trial from Ashton's perspective, exploring the successes -- and the ultimate failure -- of the prosecution.

Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President, Programming, of Lifetime Networks, says,...

Parks and Recreation star Rob Lowe is taking on another kind of public service for his upcoming role in a Lifetime movie following the Caylee Anthony murder trial.

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In Prosecuting Casey Anthony, the Golden Globe nominee will portray Jeff Ashton, who prosecuted the Florida case, revealing his side of the story, going behind-the-scenes of the investigation.

Casey Anthony was acquitted of killing her daughter Caylee but Ashton, along with many others, remains convinced of Casey's guilt.

The Lifetime original movie will be based on Ashton's best-selling book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony.

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This announcement follows the critical praise Lowe received for his starring role in the Lifetime original Drew Peterson: Untouchable, which is this year's "No. 1 movie telecast across basic cable among all key demographics."...

Rob Lowe is quickly becoming Lifetime’s go-to guy for sordid crime trial docudramas. After his turn this past January as Drew Peterson in Drew Peterson: Untouchable, Lowe will next star in the network’s upcoming movie Prosecuting Casey Anthony as Jeff Ashton, the prosecutor in the Casey Anthony trial. The Casey Anthony trial dominated the news in 2011, when Anthony was acquitted in the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. The trial grabbed attention due to its gruesome nature and what many perceived to be overwhelming evidence against Anthony that came out in the trial. The film is based on...

Rob Lowe has been cast as prosecutor Jeff Ashton in the Lifetime movie about last year’s Caylee Anthony murder trial. Based on Ashton’s best-selling book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony, the story will unfold from the prosecutor’s perspective in the controversial case in which Caylee’s mother Casey was acquitted of murder despite what many believed was overwhelming evidence of guilt. The tentatively titled Prosecuting Casey Anthony will illustrate how Ashton built the case against Casey Anthony and why Ashton remains convinced of the mother’s guilt. Lowe previously starred in Lifetime’s Drew Peterson: Untouchable.

Rob Lowe and Lifetime are developing quite the relationship. Former "West Wing" star Lowe, who played the title role in Lifetime's "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," will also star in its upcoming film about the trial of Casey Anthony. Also read: Casey Anthony Comes Out of Hiding With Online Diary (Video) Lowe will play Jeff Ashton, the Florida prosecutor for Anthony's murder trial last year and author of "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony," upon which the movie will be based. The film will be presented from Ashton's perspective and "take viewers behind-the-scenes of both the investigation...

Rob Lowe is returning to Lifetime. After starring in Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the Parks and Recreation star is set for the new television movie centered on the Casey Anthony trial, tentatively titled Prosecuting Casey Anthony. Lowe will portray Jeff Ashton, the Florida prosecutor during the highly-televised trial and the author of the best-selling HarperCollins tell-all Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony, the novel upon which the telepic is based. Casey Anthony was acquitted of killing daughter Caylee last year. “We’re thrilled to have Rob returning to our network, after his amazing star turn as Drew Peterson. He’s one

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Roseanne Barr's new NBC pilot has cast Romy Rosemont and Mary Birdsong. Downwardly Mobile will star Barr as Rose, the owner of a mobile home park who acts as a surrogate mother to her residents. Rosemont - known for playing Finn's mother on Glee - will portray one of the residents, nursing home worker Sheila, according to Deadline. The actress recently made guest appearances on Fringe and CSI: Miami and also starred opposite Rob Lowe in Lifetime TV movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable. The Descendants star Birdsong has been cast as Kathie Lee, the "trailer (more)...

Exclusive: Young Australian actors Brenton Thwaites and Indiana Evans are following in the footsteps of Christopher Atkins & Brooke Shields and Brian Krause & Milla Jovovich as the leads of The Blue Lagoon, Lifetime’s contemporary remake of the 1980 romance/adventure movie starring Shields and Atkins. (Jovovich and Krause toplined the 1991 sequel.) In the story, which echoes the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and is based on the novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Thwaites and Evans will play Dane and Emma, a boy and a girl marooned on a tropical island where they grow up together, fall in love and discover sexuality. The Sony TV-distributed project has been in the works at Lifetime since 2004 with Heather Rutman and Matt Heller as writers. Filming is slated to begin this month in Puerto Rico. Neil Meron, Craig Zadan and Judith Verno are executive producing. Sony and Verno were also behind the recent...

American Idol Season 10 champ Scott McCreery will soon be whistling singing Dixie, playing himself on an upcoming episode of Hart of Dixie.

McCreery comes to the CW charmer to perform his single “The Trouble With Girls” during a “pivotal scene” between — gasp! — Zoe and George, Huffington Post reports.

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