Benched A&E Drama Series ‘Those Who Kill’ To Air On Sibling LMN

March 25, 2014 9:36pm

Good news and bad news for fans of A&E‘s new drama series Those Who Kill, which was pulled two weeks ago after two low-rated airings. The good news: The series is coming back on the air staring this coming Sunday. The bad news: It will air on A&E sibling LMN TV (aka Lifetime Movie Network), not exactly a vote of confidence to the show by A+E Networks brass who kept the announcement of the series’ relaunch super low-key with a post on Those Who Kill‘s Facebook page. LMN, part Lifetime Entertainment Services, airs a mix of female-skewing TV and theatrical movies. It only began airing original series last fall with a handful of offerings in the nonscripted investigative/crime space. This will be LMN’s first scripted series. In what looks like a burn-off run, new episodes of Those Who Kill will air at 10 PM Sundays. The first original episode this Sunday will be preceded from 8-10 PM by rebroadcasts of the show’s first two hours that already premiered on A&E.

The A&E debut of Those Who Kill starring Chloe Sevigny drew a soft 1.4 million viewers, down from the series debuts of A&E’s Bates Motel (3 million) and Longmire (4.1 million) and holding onto less than half of its Bates Motel lead-in. The freshman’s audience dropped to 830,000 in the second episode. In adults 18-49, it drew a 0.5 rating for Episode 1 and a 0.3 for Episode 2. Despite the low ratings, A&E’s decision to pull the series drew strong reaction from fans, who rallied behind the show. At the time of Those Who Kill‘s suspension A&E indicated that it was looking to relaunch the show, which it is now doing but on a much lower-profile network. Said one of the first viewers to comment on the news on Facebook, “What the eff is LMN?”