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A Lifetime Movie Made for Adult Swim “Mother, May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist?” Will Be Premiering This Sunday

January 3, 2018

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The trope of overly maudlin melodramas on Lifetime is getting the Adult Swim treatment by way of the waitress and Artemis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia playing a combative mother and daughter.

We love how it’s being billed as an “Lifetime movie made for Adult Swim”, which perhaps means that Lifetime is getting a better sense of humor about itself?

See for yourself in this promo and preview clip.

Mother, May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist? premieres Sun. Jan. 7th at midnight on Adult Swim.

Lifetime Orders Euthanasia Dramedy ‘Mary Kills People’

October 14, 2016

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Lifetime Orders Euthanasia Dramedy ‘Mary Kills People’

Like Weeds, but replace marijuana with mercy killing?

Of the recent series orders, a dramedy focused on underground euthanasia for profit, Mary Kills People, stands out. Also, this might be a nice bridge for Lifetime between the melodrama that it’s well known for and the comedy arena that they’ve been trying to enter in for a few years now.

It’s set to premiere next year and, if the timing is right, will probably pair nicely with that Bill Hader hitman comedy on HBO.

‘Beaches’ Movie Remake Starring Idina Menzel Greenlighted By Lifetime

July 28, 2016

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‘Beaches’ Movie Remake Starring Idina Menzel Greenlighted By Lifetime

This could be both a very nice tribute to the late Garry Marshall and something nice at Lifetime that isn’t “unauthorized”.

Lifetime TV to Air Catastrophe and Develop Dramedy from Wilfred’s Jason Gann

April 20, 2016

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(via Deadline)

Lifetime, along with half of cable TV, continuing its foray int comedy.

Having dipped its toe into the comedic waters with Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever and the Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell faux-Lifetime style drama A Deadly Adoption, Lifetime is now bringing in more programming that’s atypical from what their brand has been for years.

First off, they’ll be the first network to air Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe on linear U.S. television (Catastrophe is currently only available in the States on Amazon). That will happen sometime early next year.

Secondly, Wilfred co-creator and star Jason Gann is developing a new dramedy currently called Breeders that explores the high school nature of becoming a suburban mom.

Both developments seem to, as far as we can tell right now, bode well for Lifetime.

“A Deadly Adoption” with Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell Premieres Tonight on Lifetime

June 20, 2015

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Feeling tempted? Watch Will Ferrell star in A #DeadlyAdoption tonight at 8/7c. pic.twitter.com/05czAddici

At one time, we all thought that A Deadly Adoption might have been nixed even though it reportedly was already in the can.

Luckily, that was all a ruse and the premiere of A Deadly Adoption with Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell playing up all the Lifetime TV movie tropes is happening tonight on Lifetime at 8PM.

With both this and Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever on their resume, we’re curious to see how else Lifetime will expand and redefine their brand in the coming months.

Here’s a Full Trailer For The Will Ferrell-Kristen Wiig “A Deadly Adoption” Movie

June 15, 2015

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If you were wondering how much of a send-up/tribute the Lifetime-esque movie A Deadly Adoption with Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig would be of Lifetime, you’ll enjoy the full trailer that definitely shows all the Lifetime movie tropes and then some.

It premieres this Sat. Jun. 20th at 8PM on Lifetime.

Looks Like That Will Ferrell/Kristen Wiig Lifetime Movie “A Deadly Adoption” Is Happening After All

June 3, 2015

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Unless Ferrell and Wiig are doing a sort of long game prank, the overwrought Lifetime style movie will be coming this month.

Earlier this year, it was announced that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig would be doing a sort of send-up of Lifetime movies on Lifetime, then it was supposedly scrapped as the news was supposedly leaked.

A billboard that was reportedly spotted says otherwise.

The date June 20th, the Lifetime logo, and Ferrell and Wiig’s face show that this movie might indeed be happening.

We’ll all have to wait almost three weeks from now to see if that’s true, but, at this point, we wouldn’t be surprised if this is still just a bit.

Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Will Be in an Intentionally Campy Lifetime Movie “A Deadly Adoption” UPDATED: This Apparently Isn’t Happening

April 2, 2015

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Though the news broke on Apr. 1st, this apparently isn’t a prank.

UPDATE: (via Deadline): This movie was still apparently not a prank, but it wasn’t supposed to be leaked either and now Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig have reportedly scrapped the whole thing.

In order to commemorate Lifetime’s 25 years on television, they’re poking fun at themselves by having Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez make a hammed up version of their already maudlin TV movies that they’ve become famous for.

The movie is going to be called A Deadly Adoption and will star Ferrell and Kristen Wiig where the two try to adopt an unborn child of a mother that they’re giving shelter to. As an added bonus, Spoils of Babylon writer Andrew Steele penned the script for the TV movie, which sounds pretty perfect to us.

So, it would seem that along with the Grumpy Cat movie last year, Lifetime is willing to have more fun these days.

Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever with The Voice of Aubrey Plaza Is What Might Break the Internet

November 30, 2014

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Tonight at 8PM on Lifetime, the melding of the Internet’s love of Grumpy Cat and Aubrey Plaza will be complete as that is when Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever will make its world wide premiere.

For weeks, Aubrey has been saying how insanely meta this movie is and how both the director and Lifetime basically let her say whatever she wanted since they’re not syncing it with Grumpy Cat’s lips at all.

We can all say how true that statement really is, in addition to see whether this will outdo Kim Kardashian’s butt in attempting to break the Internet, tonight at 8PM.

Also, Plaza encourages you all to live tweet the experience right along with her.

I WILL BE LIVE TWEETING THIS MOVIE TONIGHT. PLEASE JOIN ME. OR DONT. NO ONE CARES. #grumpycatmovie #grumpynightmare pic.twitter.com/MWiSs0JnMC

— Aubrey Plaza (@evilhag) November 29, 2014

Aubrey Plaza Makes a Convincing Pitch For Us to All Watch Lifetime’s Grumpy Cat Christmas Movie

November 12, 2014

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Rather than a trailer or quotes pulled from favorable reviews from critics, Lifetime should have their marketing campaign lead by Aubrey Plaza’s explanation of Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

She can’t believe what went down with her voicing one of the most famous cats on the Internet, notes that this movie is historic, and uses the word “insane” more than once when describing working on it.

Those are pretty good selling points as far as we’re concerned. If you’re so inclined to now watch Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, it premieres on Lifetime on Nov. 29th at 8PM.

Well, If Aubrey Plaza Is Going to Voice Grumpy Cat, You May Have Sold Us on Your Christmas Movie, Lifetime

September 18, 2014

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(via TV Guide)

Lifetime is indeed making Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever set to premiere on Nov. 29th at 8PM. While the idea may seemed crowdsourced by the whole of the Internet, getting Aubrey Plaza to voice the Grumpy Cat seems more than perfect casting and definitely one thing this TV movie needed.

So, Lifetime will undoubtedly have a boost in their younger demos that night as well as a whole new set of fan made .gifs that will be on every one’s social media feeds.