Lifetime Announces Olympics Counterprogramming

Lifetime Television is presenting its own “TV Movie Gold” for viewers who are looking to escape the Summer Olympic Games.

From Aug. 13-30, the women’s network will air Lifetime Original Movies such as We Were the Mulvaneys, Video Voyeur and Killer Instinct.

Lifetime will also present the network premieres of Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story, The Colony, Georgia, Water’s Edge, Deliberate Intent, Sharing the Secret and Overboard.

And Lifetime Original Movie Miracle Run, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Aidan Quinn, debuts Monday, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m. (EST/PST).