{"id":98088,"date":"2025-08-21T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98088\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:44:07","slug":"lifetime-lays-off-unscripted-staff-in-programming-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98088\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime Lays Off Unscripted Staff in Programming Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLifetime<\/a> is cutting back its unscripted programming division, a decision that resulted in layoffs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAside from Brie Miranda Bryant, senior vp unscripted development and programming at the cable network, the rest of the small unscripted team was let go. The layoffs at the A+E Networks-owned channel include Nicole Vogel, vp programming and development. <\/p>\n

\n\tGoing forward, Lifetime will focus more on its original movie business \u2014 although the network still has a number of unscripted titles airing and set to premiere in the coming months. The highest-profile of those is The Chrisleys: Back to Reality<\/a>, a series following the reality TV family during and after the time when their parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were pardoned<\/a> by President Donald Trump for their 2022 convictions<\/a> on bank fraud and tax evasion charges. It premieres Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tLifetime also recently debuted A Sorority Mom\u2019s Guide to Rush and last week greenlit a second season of docuseries Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out. The network has also dealt with the loss of its flagship unscripted show, Married at First Sight, this year, after more than a decade and 200-plus episodes on Lifetime (it previously aired on other A+E Networks channels). The show\u2019s 18th season, which concluded in March, was its last on Lifetime. It\u2019s slated to relaunch on Peacock<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline first reported the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lifetime is cutting back its unscripted programming division, a decision that resulted in layoffs on Wednesday. Aside from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,66001,92],"class_list":["post-98088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-lifetime","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}