Way back in the day before there was cable the networks used to love having made for tv movies. Each network would usually show one every week. When they were not making movies like Mother May I Sleep With Danger which remains my all time favorite made for tv movie title, they would make movies based on current events. Kind of like Law & Order. It is also how you end up with three separate Amy Fisher made for tv movies on three different networks. Well, when cable came around, Lifetime seemed to have bought up every made for tv movie and for a long time played them all, but now, not so much. I miss all those movies. They should have a made for tv movie channel. They could also show all the old mini-series that used to also be a network staple. Anyway, Lifetime makes their own movies now and they are getting close to making one about the Casey Anthony trial. You know, because no one actually followed it at all and does not know what happened.
Don't plan on watching it.
ReplyDeleteI remember movies of the week too.
ReplyDeleteAh, those were the days.
I won't be watching this one.
No way in hell will I be watching.
ReplyDeleteWhat about that movie of the mother who killed the cheerleaders in order to clear competition for her daughter... What was it called?
Does anyone else see JHL in the title role?
ReplyDeleteopss! JLH
ReplyDeleteDaniD, I was going to say that!
ReplyDeleteAnd Rita, I think the movie you're referring to was actually called "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom". I believe Swoosie Kurtz played her!
@Rita - I can't think of the name but it's the one that took place in TX, right?
ReplyDeleteI watched the E! True Hollywood story on Casey Anthony this weekend. It was amazing to see how convinced her defense attorneys remain to be about her innocence.
I remember that one, Rita! I'm such a sucker for true crime stories. Now that I'm just sitting home on Friday nights, I can watch those Dateline: Real Life Mysteries all night long. Drives my boy crazy.
ReplyDelete@Maja - you are right!
ReplyDelete@Everyone: I can't believe you all still remember that movie as well! It was silly, but everyone I knew watched.
That movie was the beginning of all things little miss beauty queens and the likes. How crazy mothers did awful things so their daughters would get to live out their dreams.
Wonder what we'd think about it if we saw the movie again. Yawn? I know I've become desensitized to all that drama.
I hate that I know this but Lifetime DOES have a tv movie network. LMN- Lifetime Movie Network. Love that chanel watch it all the time.
ReplyDeleteThere is no point to a Casey Anthony movie becuase we will never know what really happend.
Those were the days for TV actors, trained writers, & directors, and union crews, too. Reality TV took away all those jobs.
ReplyDeleteMy all-time favorite made for TV movie: Sarah T., The Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill.
ReplyDeleteI'll be skipping this too, but I have such nostalgia for those made for tv movies. I grew up on those. Was it NBC that had the Monday night movie of the week? I remember being in middle school when all those Amy Fisher movies came out.
ReplyDeleteLifetime has definitely taken over the genre. They did that Amanda Knox movie a year or so ago with Hayden what's her face.
I loved Rich Man, Poor Man with Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte. It was great!!! Nick Nolte was gorgeous back then!!
ReplyDeleteSwoosie Kurtz was in that cheerleader-mom movie, but Holly Hunter played Wanda Holloway.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was going to say the same thing that timebob said...LMN. Duh!
Way back in the day I worked for Nassar Entertainment, which produced movies of the week for the networks and the themes were basically girl/young woman manipulated into a relationship with a dangerous man saved by mother/grandmother/strong female role model. The movies were pure trash and it was an amazing low paid, long hours and a great view of how Hollywood worked -
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see "The Last Convertible" ... "The Winds of War" and maybe "Shogun"
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ReplyDeleteThat's one of my favorites too! I'm been looking out for it for years. And the one where Eve Plumb plays a teen hooker.
For the old mini-series, we shouldn't forget Lace! "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"
Ok, completely on board with the made for TV movies... Speaking of which-- does anyone have any TV Christmas movies that I need to record? Since I'm recovering from surgery and can't work my full-time job I have a lot of time on my hands (I mean, um, when I'm not doing consulting work from home-- which my hubby thinks I do a lot more of than I actually do, lol). I am a complete sucker for all those sappy cutesy movies :)
ReplyDeleteI was just telling my sister they no longer make mini-series like the North and the South or the John Jakes Kent Family Chronicles with Andrew Stevens (which was on TV when I was tiny). Mostly I remember my Mom's friend thinking Andrew Stevens was "dreamy".
ReplyDeleteThose Lifetime movies were like AFTERSCHOOL SPECIALS for grown-ups.