Summer Will Be Scary: Lifetime Launches New Life & Crime Programming Night
Lifetime has a new slate of true crime just in time for the season. So many people leave windows wide open in the warmer weather.
Not likely anymore as Lifetime expands its unscripted slate with true crime content with three new original series – #TextMeWhenYouGetHome; Meet Marry Murder and Phrogging: Hider in My House, and UK import, Sleeping with a Killer – for Life & Crime Mondays.
These stories are ripped from the headlines, preyed upon women, and stranger danger galore. Even parasites are part of the scary lineup of content.
The true-crime night starts with #TextMeWhenYouGetHome and Sleeping with a Killer beginning June 6th with Phrogging: Hider in My House and Meet Marry Murder debuting later this summer.
True Crime tales on Life & Crime Mondays
“True crime has proven to be addictive, and people cannot get enough,” said Amy Winter, EVP, and Head of Programming, Lifetime and LMN, in a press statement to TV Shows Ace. “Our Ripped From the Headlines movies have really struck a chord with our audiences, and we are excited to expand our crime offerings with these new unscripted series joining the network. Lifetime is the perfect home for these cautionary, fascinating, and stranger-than-fiction programs.”
The lineup for Life & Crime
#TEXTMEWHENYOUGETHOME
Premieres June 6th at 9/8c
#TextMeWhenYouGetHome is about the 2021 death of Sarah Everard in the UK.
The hashtag sparked anger and a conversation around the lack of safety women feel while in public alone. In this gripping, true-crime docuseries, each episode follows the case of an innocent woman who was harmed or even murdered by someone on what was an otherwise average day in her life.
Lifetime says: “These stories are told through emotional interviews; accompanied by stylistic recreations, actual texts, phone records, and other digital breadcrumbs that authorities used to solve the case.”
The storytellers will unravel the whodunnit, with all suspects explored until the actual perpetrator is caught. Then, in several episodes, survivors of this horror will be revealed to tell their stories in their words.
SLEEPING WITH A KILLER
Premieres June 6th at 10/9c
Sleeping with a Killer features true stories laced with jealousy and unthinkable crimes. The docuseries focuses on ordinary people who have tragic endings at the hands of people they know and love. The 26-episode UK series (formerly known as Green Eyed Killers) is a powerful look at how it all happened.
PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE
This stranger-than-fiction true-crime thriller explores the phenomenon of phrogging – people secretly living inside someone else’s home.
These are first-hand accounts of survivors sharing the most twisted and heart-stopping stories. Along with interviews and key archive materials, cinematic recreations bring the clues and confrontations to life. This series proves that there can be monsters under the bed.
MEET MARRY MURDER
These gripping true stories of marriages gone wrong will share tales about unsuspecting partners dying at the hands of their awful spouses. Driven by various reasons, rage, jealousy, or greed, these spouses commit the most deplorable and common crimes. The series shows how craven a seemingly beloved spouse can be when money or lust rears its ugly head.
