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The Lifetime Original Movie “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le” drew an average of 2.3 million total viewers Saturday night and was cable’s top non-sports telecast in total viewers. According to Deadline, the film about R&B singer Michel’le and her abusive relationships with Dr. Dre and Suge Knight was the No. 1 program among adults […]

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Lifetime has released a teaser for its upcoming Michel’le biopic “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Me.” Due in October, “Surviving Compton” will feature “Lincoln Heights” star Rhyon Nicole Brown as the Los Angeles-born singer as she navigates through the volatile days of N.W.A’s rise after being signed to Eazy E’s Ruthless Records, becoming Dr. Dre’s […]

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Actress Rhyon Nicole Brown, best known for her role in the ABC Family series “Lincoln Heights,” has been cast as Michel’le in the upcoming Lifetime movie “The Michel’le Story,” reports Deadline. The film traces the life of the singer, who was discovered at a young age by N.W.A’s Eazy-E and became a platinum artist on […]

The love Oklahoma Thunder superstar Kevin Durant has for his mother Wanda Durant is no secret. But who knew that her incredible story of raising two boys would turn into a Queen Latifah produced television event that is now The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story? Wanda talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her struggles […]

Lifetime is aggressively trying to rebrand their network and appeal to millennials. Serena Williams and Janet Jackson have secured deals with the network to produce new TV and film projects.

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17-year-old Atlanta MC Miss Mulatto was crowned the season 1 winner of Lifetime’s “The Rap Game,” a competition show executive produced by Jermaine Dupri and Queen Latifah – which was cable’s #1 series on Friday’s at 10pm. Following her win, Miss Mulatto dropped a snippet of her new single “No More Talking,” a tease from […]

  Season four of Lifetime’s Little Women: LA follows the stories of five very feisty and hilarious little women from the city of angels. After a long career in television and film, Tonya Renee Banks joins the exciting cast and is bringing along some very interesting baggage in the form of an on again off again relationship. […]

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The mother of NBA star Kevin Durant will be the subject of an upcoming Lifetime original movie to be executive produced by Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s Flavor Unit. Cassandra Freeman (Inside Man, Single Ladies) will star in the biopic, tentatively titled “The Real MVP: The Wanda Pratt Story.” The film will follow her journey […]

It’s no secret that despite what critiques you may have had about Toni Braxton‘s biopic, she and the network are definitely breathing easy as its success. Bringing in more than 3.6 million viewers last week, the Toni’s life story set a record high for the network as well as open up a few old wounds, […]

  Toni Braxton‘s biopic Unbreak My Heart premieres on Lifetime this Sunday and the Grammy award singer talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about what fans will learn, how her silence about her bankruptcy actually helped other artists and much more. Why she didn’t like the song Unbreak My Heart at first: “It’s not that I didn’t […]

Chancellor Gary is one of the stars of Lifetime’s, Child Genius, a docu-series that follows the families of America’s brightest young minds competing for $100,000.  Gary shocked the judges in week one after remembering and reciting all 52 out of 52 shuffled cards after just one hour. He and his parents civil trial attorney Sekou and former Wall […]

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Lifetime has released the trailer for the biopic, Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart. As previously reported, the film stars Lex Scott Davis as the singer, Debbi Morgan as Braxton’s mother, Evelyn; Gavin Houston as Babyface, Cortney Scott Wright as Traci Braxton, Skye P. Marshall as Towanda Braxton, LaToya Franklyn as Trina Braxton and Tiffany Hines […]