Lifetime Finds Success With True, Sensitive Stories That Become Watercooler Sensations
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor During the #MeToo movement in 2017, Brie Miranda Bryant and her team at A+E Networks were tasked with making an hour-long roundtable documentary special about the awareness campaign.
As senior VP of Lifetime original programming, Bryant was told to make sure that the doc “echoed after the hour was done.” “It was such a conundrum,” she says now. “I just thought… how?” So she called former Bunim-Murray Prods.
CEO Gil Goldschein and asked him to pitch her a doc he thought she would never buy. That pitch turned out to be “Surviving R.
Kelly.” The roundtable was canceled. “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired in January 2019, put Kelly’s victims on camera to detail the sexual abuse they claimed they endured at the hands of the singer.
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