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EXCLUSIVE: Following the strong ratings performance of Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak on Reelz, the cable network is turning the special into a series franchise. Reelz has given an initial four-episode order to The Friends Speak, from Kinetic Content and Pyramid Productions. The series will debut with Jodi Arias: The…

Reelz announced its fall slate at TCA today, featuring a new true-crime series hosted by Geraldo Rivera, some Natalie Morales-hosted specials, and new series about mob killers and celebrity breakups. It also set premiere dates for those programs and others; read the details below. "Our new series and specials build on…

U.S. broadcaster Reelz is to air a documentary series about Charles Manson's family – funded by British distributor DRG. Manson's Bloodline is a four-part series that will tell the story of Charles Manson's grandson, Jason Freeman, and how he came to terms with his notorious grandfather's murder spree. It comes in…

Matthew Perry says he took the Ted Kennedy role in Reelz’s sequel to The Kennedys limited series, The Kennedys – After Camelot, because "it scared me,” calling it by far the most challenging role he has ever played. "As a man who has been forced to transform his life many times, I really admire the changes he made,"…

Reelz has slotted new entertainment-focused series from veteran celebrity reporters/hosts Nancy O’Dell and Deborah Norville for premiere in April. Nancy O’Dell Remembers debuts Monday, April 3. In the series, Entertainment Tonight and former Access Hollywood host O’Dell presents her first-hand accounts of monumental…

Brett Donahue has been cast as John F. Kennedy Jr. in The Kennedys: After Camelot, Reelz and Muse Entertainment's followup to The Kennedys 2011 miniseries. As the son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. was only three years old when his dad was assassinated. JFK Jr. grew…

Diana Hardcastle and Kristin Booth have signed on to Reelz’s The Kennedys: After Camelot, reprising their roles as Rose Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, respectively, from the original The Kennedys miniseries. The latest cast members join previously announced Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Matthew Perry as Ted…

Being Human alumna Kristen Hager has been cast opposite Matthew Perry and Katie Holmes in Reelz miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, the network’s follow-up to its 2011 mini The Kennedys. The four-hour project is set to air in spring 2017. Hager will play Joan Kennedy, the beautiful blond wife of Ted Kennedy…

Reelz has renewed Gangsters: America’s Most Evil for premiere in winter 2016/2017, and Collision Course and Autopsy: The Last Hours Of... for premiere in early 2017. In Gangsters: America’s Most Evil, the the sinister side of celebrity is put under the spotlight with profiles on the lethal beauties, outlaws and…

Nearly a year and a half after Katie Holmes was set to return as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in The Kennedys: After Camelot, the miniseries finally has its Ted Kennedy. Matthew Perry will star as the Massachusetts senator in Reelz’s follow-up to its 2011 mini The Kennedys. The four-hour project is set to air in spring…

“We’re darned proud of that,” Reelz CEO Stan Hubbard said of picking up the Miss USA pageant in July after NBC cancelled it for what Hubbard said were “reasons of political correctness.” Hubbard predicted Reelz would return to the pageant “but I don’t know when it will be.” As the only “family owned network left and…

To the surprise of no one, the Miss USA Pageant clocked its lowest-ever audience of under a million viewers Sunday in a cobbled-together, last-minute distribution deal on Reelz. On the bright side, the pageant got network play, which had been in question. For comparison’s sake, last year’s properly promoted pageant…