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Take that, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret. Vh1's CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story pulled in 4.5 million viewers Monday night, making it both the highest-rated original cable movie of this year and Vh1's highest-rated movie of all time. It just goes to show you: If you combine the intoxicating power of nostalgia with the charisma of Lil' Mama, all things truly are possible.

It’s no longer shocking when established film directors turn to TV — after all, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, and David Fincher have all done it recently to great acclaim.

Still, you may be surprised to learn that Lifetime’s upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic was directed by none other than Mary Harron — a filmmaker best known for her wicked work on controversial cult favorites like I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho. Thanks in part to Harron’s pedigree, the movie also managed to attract an unusually accomplished cast, including Oscar winner Martin Landau (as Anna Nicole’s wealthy husband J.

The Lifetime movie "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret"  drew fairly killer ratings for the network on Sunday, pulling in 201. million total viewers -- a 55 percent jump over Lifetime's average for original movies so far this year, though down from last year's much hyped "Liz & Dick" biopic, which starred Lindsay Lohan as screen legend Elizabeth Taylor and drew 3.5 million total viewers with its premiere. Ratings: 'Devious Maids' Gets So-So Start at Lifetime In the 18-49 demographic most important to viewers, "Dirty Little Secret" drew 1.2 million viewers. The biopic, which...

On a big night for cable premieres and finales on Sunday (June 23), one show rose well above the rest of the competition. Which is fitting, since it was about a guy walking on a tightrope.

Discovery Channel's "Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda," which followed Nik Wallenda's walk across a tightrope above the Grand Canyon, drew 10.7 million viewers from 9:10 to 10:20 p.m. Et Sunday. During Wallenda's 23-minute walk, which began at 9:38 p.m. Et, viewership spiked to almost 13 million. It also helped new series "Naked and Afraid" launch to an audience of 4.2 million people.

The special was far the most-watched program on TV Sunday night, beating everything on the broadcast networks and a host of other cable premieres and finales. Other ratings highlights from the night:

- The Season 6 finale of "Mad Men" drew 2.7 million viewers, even last year's season ender. For the season the show...

Lifetime announced today that the Saturday night premiere of its highly-anticapted original film Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret — based on the sensational murder trial that held the country in it’s thrall for months — averaged 3.1 million total viewers. Only the network’s equally juicy January premiere Prosecuting Casey Anthony bested Dirty Little Secret‘s ratings. If you missed your chance to see the film, which examined what happened between convicted killer Arias and her victim, Travis Alexander, before their brief affair turned murderous, you have plenty of chances to catch it in reruns. Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret will re-air June 25 at 12 am Et, [...]

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A slew of new originals kicked off Saturday night on Lifetime with the premiere of Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.  With the exception of Prosecuting Casey Anthony, the two-hour telepic topped all of the network's Lifetime Original Movie franchise entries this year. Jodi Arias averaged 3.1 million viewers in its inaugural airing, with 1.3 million of them adults 25-54 and 1.2 million of them adults 18-49. With women, the movie averaged 927,000 in the 25-54 demo and 870,000 18-49-ers. Lifetime's latest original, Devious Maids, kicked off with relatively

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Lifetime has made a biographical TV movie to hold us over as we wait for a new jury to be selected so that Jodi’s trial can continue. The murder case has been so highly publicized and poured over, could a dramatization of the whole thing even be worth it? See how the critics felt!

Lifetime sure isn’t wasting any time. Though usually the network holds off a little bit on making their melodrama, “based on a true story” TV movies (like their Scott Peterson film), they didn’t even wait until Jodi Arias’ trail officially ended before making a movie based on her story, called Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret. The movie, which depicts everything leading up to the night Jodi stabbed her boyfriend Travis Alexander nearly 30 times, slit his throat, and shot him in the head, premiered on June 22 and surprisingly, it wasn’t half-bad!

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You would think that one of the more sensational murder trials of recent years would yield an equally salacious TV movie. In the case of "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," you would be wrong.

In its rush to get the movie on the air -- "Dirty Little Secret" was filming while Arias was still standing trial for the 2008 murder of Travis Alexander -- Lifetime chose to tell a by-the-numbers tale of passion gone wrong rather than the potentially compelling (if lurid) courtroom story that played out on news channels for weeks earlier this year.

Honestly, I thought I'd be doing a "X most outrageous things in the Jodi Arias movie" sort of post here, but "Dirty Little Secret" is no "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" in terms of camp factor. Instead, it's just a riff on "Fatal Attraction" with a less menacing murderess.

Tania Raymonde ("Lost") actually underplays her role as Arias a little bit,...

There was once a time that weeks or months or even years would pass between an incident and the movie made about it. But in a modern TV world of instant gratification, apparently now a story can be put on film before its climax has even happened in real life.

On May 8, a jury in Maricopa County, Ariz., returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of first-degree murder in the case of 32-year-old Californian Jodi Arias, a high-school dropout who pursued photography while working at a restaurant and in sales at PrePaid Legal Services.

On Saturday, June 22, Lifetime airs "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," a TV movie inspired by the case, which was in production during the latter phases of the trial. Tania Raymonde ("Lost," "Death Valley") stars as Arias, with Jesse Lee Soffer ("The Mob Doctor") as the victim, Travis Alexander.

David Zayas ("Dexter") plays Detective Esteban Flores,...

She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, Fatal Attraction for Cable News.

Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. Edt, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned who last month was found guilty of killing her former lover, motivational speaker Travis Alexander. On June 4, 2008, Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head in what prosecutors said was jealous rage, and what Arias unpersuasively argued was self-defense, when, according to her,...

She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, Fatal Attraction for Cable News. Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. Edt, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned who last month was found guilty of killing her former lover, motivational speaker Travis Alexander. On June 4, 2008, Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head in what prosecutors said was jealous rage, and what Arias unpersuasively argued was self-defense, when, according to her,...

Lifetime is giving the Jodi Arias murder trial, which dominated headlines, the TV movie treatment. Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, directed by Jace Alexander (Law & Order, Rescue Me), centers on Arias — who was convicted of murdering ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008 by a jury earlier this year — and Alexander's romance. Leading up to the June 22 premiere, Lifetime released several previews from the TV movie, including a courtroom scene with Arias (Tania Raymonde) on the witness stand and Alexander (Jesse Lee Soffer) and Arias' tense breakup. "I had been following the trial well before I even

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Jesse Lee Soffer is reuniting with his "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" co-star Tania Raymonde in the cast of NBC's upcoming "Chicago Fire" spinoff "Chicago Pd."

Deadline reports that Soffer will be introduced on Season 2 of "Fire," before transitioning over to "Pd" which is expected to launch midseason on the network.

Soffer joins a cast that includes Raymonde ("Lost"), Jason Beghe, Jon Seda and Mykelti Williamson.

Melissa Sagemiller who was expected to bring the character of Detective Julia Willhite from "Fire" to "Pd" will not be continuing with the spinoff.

Soffer was a regular on last season's short-lived Fox drama "The Mob Doctor." He was also nominated for three Daytime Emmys for his work on "As the World Turns" and played Bobby Brady in "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "A Very Brady Sequel."

Lifetime's "Jodi Arias" movie airs Saturday.

If you’re wondering how Lifetime’s Jodi Arias biopic Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret can premiere mere weeks after the sensational months-long trial came to a close, the answer is surprisingly simple. The filmmakers say they always intended for the movie to focus on the doomed lovers at the trial’s bloodstained heart — Arias and her victim Travis Alexander — before their final, fatal encounter. “We didn’t set out to make a courtroom drama, because that’s not what fascinated us about this story,” says director Jace Alexander (Law & Order, Rescue Me), who is no relation to Travis Alexander. “The courtroom [...]

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If you have a taste for small screen sociopaths and the complex reasons behind their killings, Leah Pipes has two upcoming projects that will speak to your inner true crime detective.

The first, Lifetime's Jodi Arias biopic features the 24-year-old as Katie, Travis Alexander's post-Jodi girlfriend. A gig she's following up with a starring role in The CW's hotly anticipated Vampire Diaries spin-off, The Originals. In the New Orleans-set series she plays Camille (but you should call her Cammy), the lone human in a seriously supernatural city. ETonline caught up with Pipes to talk about these projects and discover the unique reasons she was attracted to both.

ETonline: How closely were you following the Jodi Arias trial?

Leah Pipes: I was obsessed. I has CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for The Originals. I was following it so closely that it's kind of funny I ended up being...

If there's anyone left in America who doesn't know the highs and lows of the Jodi Arias murder trial, Lifetime's original movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret is a fine roadmap of key events. For everyone else, it's a rote rehash that focuses mostly on the relationship between Arias and her ex-boyfriend (and eventual victim), Travis Alexander, from their first meeting through the murder, trial and first round of sentencing (she is currently facing the death penalty after being found guilty). As the infamous lead, Tania Raymonde (Lost) does an exceptional job of naturally capturing Arias' peculiar, whispery, sing-

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New York -- She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, "Fatal Attraction for Cable News."

Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. Edt, "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned who last month was found guilty of killing her former lover, motivational speaker Travis Alexander. On June 4, 2008, Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head in what prosecutors said was jealous rage, and what Arias unpersuasively argued was self-defense, when, according to her, he attacked her.

But you know all that. "Dirty Little Secret" unearths no secrets, dirty or otherwise. Every sordid detail, it seems, has been trumpeted for years by the media, then recycled for months during Arias' trial in Phoenix that got blanket coverage on TV and in particular on cable's Hln,...

Phoenix — A made-for-television movie on Jodi Arias is scheduled to air this weekend.

"Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" is set to be shown Saturday on Lifetime, but the movie won't be about the trial.

Screenwriter Richard Blaney wrote the script with Gregory Small. Blaney told The Arizona Republic ( ) the project was in the works more than a year ago. He says they completed the script in December. http://bit.ly/19NmBq4

That was the same month that Arias' televised trial started in the brutal 2008 slaying of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a Mesa motivational speaker.

Small says they didn't anticipate the trial getting as much attention as it did.

A jury convicted Arias of first-degree murder in May but couldn't reach a decision on whether she should live or die.

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Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com...

Lifetime has released a new preview of Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, and the result is more bloody than dirty.

The movie about the photographer-turned-convicted murderer stars Tania Raymonde as the controversial Jodi Arias, who was charged with stabbing her lover Travis Alexander 29 times. The new clip shows a blood-splattered Arias disposing of evidence and reliving the murder in her mind. If you thought Lifetime would hold back on the violence, you were wrong.

Watch the new sneak peek for Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret below:

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret premieres June 22 on Lifetime.

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In the sneak peek for Lifetime's "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" (above), which tells the story of an aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her lover Travis Alexander, 28-year-old Arias (Tania Raymonde) is put through a grueling interrogation.

"You had the audacity to attend Travis' memorial. You sat there with the family of the man you stabbed 29 times, pretending to mourn. Were you crying while you were shooting him?" a lawyer asks while Arias cries.

Although those following the Arias trial have been both fascinated and terrified by the woman's behavior, Raymonde has made her best attempt to understand the person she's portraying.

"I always tried to rationalize that [Arias] loved [Travis Alexander] so passionately and so deeply that she did these things to him to please him because it pleased herself," the former "Lost" actress told CNN. "You don't want to judge the person that you're playing."

"Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" also stars Jesse Lee Soffer,...

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Two years ago, Chloe Sevigny was cast as infamous alleged murderess Lizzie Borden for a HBO mini-series, but we're still waiting for that to come to fruition. In the meantime, Lifetime is doing its own version of the story, and they've cast Christina Ricci in the title role. Lizzie was accused (and eventually acquitted) of killing her parents with an axe while they were sleeping one night in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.

After the highly-publicized trial, Lizzie went on to have a relationship with actress Nance O’ Neill, and she is often referred to as a lesbian. Love letters she'd written to a female friend were found after her death, and she also was known to have "women's gatherings" at her home. Plus historians like to point out she did not "enjoy the company of men." All signs point to lez.

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Long before Amanda Knox, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias, there was another young American woman on a trial for murder that became a media spectacle. I’ve learned exclusively that Christina Ricci has been tapped to play Lizzie Borden in a Lifetime original movie about the woman tried and acquitted in the 1892 ax murders of her father and stepmother. Directed by Nick Gomez and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the movie tells the story of Fall River, Mass., resident Borden, who finds herself on trial for the brutal murder with a hatchet-type weapon of her father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and his second wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden, at their family home. She was acquitted at a trial, which drew national attention, though no one else was ever charged with the crime, which has remained unsolved. Despite being found guilty in the court of public opinion in her native town, at least in some circles,...

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret will have its world premiere on Saturday, June 22, at 8 Pm, Lifetime said today. The two-hour movie will be followed by an hourlong documentary, Jodi Arias: Beyond the Headlines, featuring key players in the juicy murder trial. The telepic stars Tania Raymonde as Arias, who was just found guilty of murdering her former boyfriend Travis Alexander, who was found dead in his shower in June 2008 with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. Jesse Lee Soffer plays Alexander in the movie, and Tony Plana and David Zayas co-star. The salacious case has been plastered across the tabloids and cable news shows for months; Hln even created a show devoted to the day-to-day happenings of the Phoenix-set trial. The movie was announced last month, with the ending needing to be written after the verdict was known. She was found guilty May 8 and...

Lifetime is reportedly considering Tania Raymonde for the role of Jodi Arias in "Dirty Little Secret: The Jodi Arias Story," according to TVLine.

The "Lost" alumna is said to be in final negotiations for the role, along with "The Mob Doctor's" Jesse Lee Soffer, who would play Travis Alexander, the ex-boyfriend Arias is accused of killing in 2008.

According to a casting breakdown, the producers were searching for someone "coquettish, head-turning, with a palpable sexy allure and well aware of the affect she has on men" for the role of Arias. The notice reportedly continues, "Jodi is a single-minded, head-strong, quick-tempered young woman. She is hell-bent on emotionally suffocating and controlling Travis Alexander, a handsome young Mormon and motivational speaker who soon falls prey."

Deadline reports that the end of the movie will be written after the conclusion of the Jodi Arias trial. The project is being directed by Jace Alexander...

Lost alumna Tania Raymonde is in final negotiations and Jesse Lee Soffer (The Mob Doctor) is set for the leads in Dirty Little Secret: The Jodi Arias Story, Lifetime‘s original movie about the tragic couple. Directed by Jace Alexander from a script by Richard Blaney and Gregory Small, Dirty Little Secret tells the story of 32-year-old photographer Arias (Raymonde), who is standing trial for the 2008 murder of her boyfriend Alexander (Soffer), accused of stabbing him 27 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head in his apartment. She has pleaded not guilty, contending that she killed Alexander in self-defense. After 2 1/2 months of testimony, the defense in the case rested yesterday. The trail has drawn national attention and given its own nightly series by Hln, Hln After Dark: The Jodi Arias Trial. According to the breakdown for Dirty Little Secrets, Arias is described as a single-minded, head-strong, quick-tempered...

Lost vet Tania Raymonde is nearing a deal to play accused murderer Jodi Arias in Lifetime’s original movie centered on the sensational (and ongoing) trial, TVLine has learned.

Additionally, Mob Doctor‘s Jesse Lee Soffer has been cast as Travis Alexander, the ex Arias stands accused of killing.

Arias faces a first-degree murder charge for Alexander’s 2008 killing at his home outside Phoenix. She claims self defense.

On Monday, the defense rested their case after nearly three months of testimony.

The Lifetime project, titled Dirty Little Secret: The Jodi Arias Story, is being exec produced by Joshua D. Maurer,...