Nobody puts Jennifer Grey in a Dirty Dancing remake (sorry, it was low-hanging fruit). Although she was offered a role in ABC’s upcoming television movie, she respectfully declined.
When first reported earlier this year, NBC’s development deal with Dolly Parton was said to be for “uplifting” TV movies “the whole family” could enjoy. The first project they announced, an adaptation of “Coat of Many Colors,” seemed to fit that description. Like much of Parton’s earlier music, it’s an…
Mimicking the success of NBC's live Sound of Music (and that network's subsequent plans for a live Peter Pan), Fox is planning their own bastardization of quality work from the musical theater canon by bringing a three-hour Grease Live to the small screen.
Last November, we asked the very important question — is Jewel playing June Carter Cash or not? It seemed the fate of the Lifetime biopic might be in peril, but we were wrong — it's alive and well and here's Jewel line dancing as proof.
Lifetime is developing the TV movie Pregnancy Pact, which is inspired by the 17 Massachusetts teens accused of conspiring to get pregnant. The film won't be directly about the pregnant teens, since they've denied the pact ever existed. [Variety]
Irena Sendler is someone whose story really should be told: the woman saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust.
Love the Onion: "Empowered man murders controlling wife in Lifetime For Men original movie." [Onion]
