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Lifetime launches in Canada with new Project Runway
TORONTO -- The home of Project Runway and Jennifer Love Hewitt tear-jerkers begins broadcasting in Canada next month.
Shaw Media says it will add the female-skewing Lifetime to its specialty stable on Aug. 27, when the U.S. brand will take over Shaw's similar-themed channel Showcase Diva.
Lifetime's schedule will include the competition series Dance Moms, Hewitt's single mother drama The Client List, season 4 of the legal drama Drop Dead Diva, and the 10th season of Project Runway.
Also on deck is the docu-series The Houston Family Chronicles -- about the lives of the late Whitney Houston's family, including daughter Bobbi Kristina and mother Cissy Houston.
Movies on the way include the Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler biopic Liz & Dick, the June Carter Cash tale Ring of Fire starring Jewel, a rebooted Steel Magnolias with Queen Latifah, and a contemporary Blue Lagoon: The Awakening with Denise Richards.
Shaw Media says Lifetime will launch with a three-month free preview in nearly 10 million homes across the country.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 26, 2012 D2
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