Lifetime makes room for cooking, clairvoyance
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lifetime is launching its first slate of original unscripted programming for daytime, green-lighting a cooking show as well as two weeklong special programs, one centered on weight loss and the other featuring medium/clairvoyant Lisa Williams making her network return.
"Mom's Cooking" has been given a 20-episode order, with 10 episodes to be shot in New York and 10 in Atlanta. The half-hour series, which will air Monday through Friday starting in December, features mothers teaching their daughters how to cook their favorite childhood recipe.
Five half-hour episodes have been ordered for the tentatively titled "Lisa Williams," premiering October 27, and the untitled "Fat Friends" project, debuting in January. Both will air over five consecutive weekdays.
"Williams" is a reformatted version of the Lifetime series "Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead." Each episode will feature Williams doing live one-on-one readings in a studio and in impromptu meetings with people she is drawn to on the street.
In the "Fat Friends" docu series, five friends in Southern California will attempt to lose weight together in the hopes of getting fit for one's wedding.
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