Kim Delaney played the central character, Claudia Joy Holden, who as the wife of Col.
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With music by Bob Hilliard, Burt Bacharach, the Temptations, and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the series premiered Augon Lifetime.īased on Tanya Biank's memoir Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, this weekly cable drama detailed the lives of several military spouses (not all of them female, by the way) stationed at Fort Marshall.
Intercutting past and present, the series advances on a dual track, contrasting present-day progress with Alabama attitudes during the Civil Rights era. Vance), Mary Elizabeth attends the funeral, and their friendship begins anew, even though the two women followed divergent paths: Attorney Rene chose a career over a family, while Mary Elizabeth has several children from her beer-swilling hubby. With the death of Rene's civil-rights lawyer father, James (Courtney B. After Mary Elizabeth became pregnant at 19 by her childhood sweetheart Collier Sims (Chris Mulkey), she and Rene drifted apart.
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Alicia Silverstone-starrer HR will not move forward.This TV drama, Lifetime's first original dramatic series, explores the relationship of white Mary Elizabeth O'Brian (Annie Potts) and black Rene Jackson (Lorraine Toussaint) who grew up together as good friends in segregated Alabama of the early '60s - with Mae Middleton portraying Mary Elizabeth as a girl and Shari Dyon Perry in the role of the young Rene. Lifetime currently has one pilot in the mix - Nicholas Sparks‘ Deliverance Creek, which will air as a two-hour backdoor pilot. Those two will join Marc Cherry‘s Devious Maids and Witches of East End on the network’s scripted roster. Meanwhile, the network has already begun ramping up its originals, picking up two new drams to series: Marti Noxon‘s Un-Real and dystopian thriller The Lottery. The cabler will bow a two-hour retrospective - Army Wives: A Final Salute - on Sunday, March 16 at 9 p.m. PHOTOS: 17 TV Shows Brought Back From the DeadĬho, meanwhile, has already booked her next gig with a co-starring role in Fox’s Tina Fey comedy Cabott College.įor Lifetime, the decision to end Drop Dead Diva comes five months after the female-skewing cable network opted to cancel its longest-running drama, Army Wives, after seven seasons. The series has also picked up nominations for Prism Awards, NAACP Image Awards and was a contender for the Humanitas Prize. Last month, she was nominated for another GLAAD Award in the individual episodic category. In its fifth season, Drop Dead Diva averaged 1.99 million total viewers, down from season four’s 2.3 million and off considerably from season one’s 2.84 million average.ĭuring its run, the series has won multiple GLAAD Awards as well as the Gracie Award for Individual Achievement by a female rising star for Elliott. During that span, Berman created and ran Fox’s The Mob Doctor, which was canceled after one season in 2012-13. It went on to earn a 13-episode renewal for a sixth season. The series was reincarnated three months later when the studio and Lifetime came to terms on a new, cost-effective financial model for the soapy drama to continue. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, Drop Dead Diva was canceled after efforts to cut costs in its fifth season stalled.
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