At times it feels like if a news story breaks on Friday, Lifetime is there on Monday with an original movie at the ready. The speed of this brand that’s been around since 1984 isn’t just surprising to fans and reporters in the TV space.
“We surprise ourselves sometimes,” senior vice president of scripted programming Tia Maggini told TheWrap.
One of those surprising turnarounds happened around “Murdaugh Murders: The Movie,” a two-part project that makes history on Saturday for being the 500th original movie to air on the network.
According to Maggini, the team at Lifetime had been following the story of the Murdaugh family murders from the beginning. Though the “crazy” story captured their attention, the team was hesitant to move forward “legally” until the had a more definite idea of who committed the murders. But once Alex Murdaugh was arrested, the team went to work “towards the top of this year.
“We surprise ourselves sometimes,” senior vice president of scripted programming Tia Maggini told TheWrap.
One of those surprising turnarounds happened around “Murdaugh Murders: The Movie,” a two-part project that makes history on Saturday for being the 500th original movie to air on the network.
According to Maggini, the team at Lifetime had been following the story of the Murdaugh family murders from the beginning. Though the “crazy” story captured their attention, the team was hesitant to move forward “legally” until the had a more definite idea of who committed the murders. But once Alex Murdaugh was arrested, the team went to work “towards the top of this year.
- 10/14/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
If you've been tuning into Lifetime's latest Ripped From The Headlines True Crime slate, you know that they've been putting forward some powerful films.
From Sarah Drew's How She Caught a Serial Killer to Luke Macfarlane's chilling and scandalous Amish Stud: The Eli Weaver Story and Meagan Good's Buying Back My Daughter, there hasn't been a shortage of strong performances and storytelling when capturing these real accounts.
But the most highly anticipated of the slate yet is the two-part Murdaugh Murders movie event starring the incomparable Bill Pullman.
We can say with certainty that it's the most powerful of the slate yet and a movie event that everyone will be talking about.
It's why we were truly fortunate enough to speak with accomplished veteran director Greg Beeman about Murdaugh Murders: The Movie and collaborating with Bill Pullman.
When taking on this project, Beeman shared that they...
From Sarah Drew's How She Caught a Serial Killer to Luke Macfarlane's chilling and scandalous Amish Stud: The Eli Weaver Story and Meagan Good's Buying Back My Daughter, there hasn't been a shortage of strong performances and storytelling when capturing these real accounts.
But the most highly anticipated of the slate yet is the two-part Murdaugh Murders movie event starring the incomparable Bill Pullman.
We can say with certainty that it's the most powerful of the slate yet and a movie event that everyone will be talking about.
It's why we were truly fortunate enough to speak with accomplished veteran director Greg Beeman about Murdaugh Murders: The Movie and collaborating with Bill Pullman.
When taking on this project, Beeman shared that they...
- 10/13/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
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