Lifetime Expands True Crime Programming With Themed Monday Nights, Reveals 3 New Shows
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is expanding its unscripted slate with three new original series set to air on the newly dubbed Life & Crime Mondays.
The shows are #TextMeWhenYouGetHome; Meet Marry Murder and Phrogging: Hider in My House, along with UK import Sleeping with a Killer.Lifetime’s push in true crime unscripted series is not surprising.
The network already has a longstanding tradition with true crime-based original movies. Additionally, true crime docuseries attract largely female audiences that are at the core of Lifetime’s target demo.
That is the reason NBCU’s female-focused channel Oxygen has leaned so heavily into the genre with its original lineup.Life & Crime Mondays will kick off with #TextMeWhenYouGetHome and Sleeping with a Killer airing June 6th, at 9 p.m.
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