Coming Up In March 2020 On Lifetime Africa

Brand New and Exclusive
LEAH REMINI:
SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
SEASON FINALE
On 2nd March, Monday at 21:55 CAT
In the season fnale of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Afermath the series gives a voice to victms of the Church of Scientology despite public atempts to discredit them. Each episode features stories from former members whose lives have been afected by the Church’s harmful practces, even well afer they lef the organisaton. Along with a team of former high-ranking Scientology insiders who understand the inner workings and policies of the organisaton, Leah gives the victms a chance to be heard.

Brand New Season
ESCAPING POLYGAMY
Starts 9th March, Mondays at 21:55 CAT Escaping Polygamy follows the work of three sisters who lef the “Kingston Clan”, a secretve polygamist group based in Salt Lake City, Utah, known as “The Order”. Each episode focuses on the dramatc work of three sisters as they help other young men, women and children to escape, preferring to face hell than spend another day inside.

Brand New Season
MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT AUSTRALIA S4
Starts 27th March, Fridays at 20:05 CAT Season 4 of Married at First Sight Australia is bigger than any series before it. This year the experiment is twice as long. Over the course of two months, the couples will be challenged in ways we’ve never seen before. In eight intense weeks, these relatonships are put through what most couples experience over the course of one year and the results are mind blowing!

Stories of Real Women
LIFETIME ORIGINAL MOVIES
Weekends starting 01 March at 19:20
THE SIMONE BILES STORY: COURAGE TO SOAR
Exclusive
1st March, Sunday at 19:20 CAT
Based on her book, The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar. The movie follows Simone Biles through the sacrifces and hard work that led her to win 19 Olympic and World Championship medals and ultmately cemented her stake as one of the greatest gymnasts of all tme. Afer a feld trip to a gymnastcs training centre when Simone was six years old, she caught the eye of a local coach who recognized that Simone had a remarkable gif for the sport. But pursuing her dream of becoming an elite gymnast also meant giving up high school football games, prom or startng college at UCLA. With her parents Ron and Nellie Biles and younger sister Adria supportng her every step of the way, Simone’s journey from foster care to the Olympic podium with all its triumphs and heartbreaks can serve as an inspiraton for every litle girl with a dream.

I AM SOMEBODY’S CHILD: THE REGINA LOUISE STORY
Exclusive
8th March, Sunday at 19:20 CAT
In the 1970’s, a judge rules that it is illegal for a young, unmarried, white social worker, Jeannie Kerr, to adopt her black, thirteen-year-old client, Regina Louise, who was rejected from multple foster homes. This is the shocking exposé of a “throwaway” child inside America’s adopton system, her resilient spirit in the face of overwhelming odds and her epic, years long quest to fnd the only person who made her feel loved.

TRAPPED: THE ALEX COOPER STORY
Brand New and Exclusive
15th March, Sunday at 19:20 CAT
Based on a harrowing true story, when 15-year-old Alex revealed she was gay to her devout Mormon parents, they feared so deeply for her soul that they took her from their Southern California home and placed her in a conversion therapy home against her will. Trapped for eight months with strangers, Alex faced horrible punishments and beatngs that were intended to “cure” her homosexuality. Afer realizing she would have to submit to their rules to survive, Alex was eventually allowed to atend school, where she became friends with a boy that was the president of the gay-straight alliance. He helped Alex get in touch with an atorney, who later helped orchestrate her escape.

ESCAPING THE MADHOUSE: THE NELLIE BLY STORY
Exclusive
22nd March, Sunday at 19:20 CAT
Inspired by a true story. On a mission to expose the deplorable conditons and mistreatment of patents at the notorious Women’s Lunatc Asylum, investgatve reporter Nellie Bly feigns mental illness to be insttutonalized to report from the inside. The movie delivers an intense and fctonalized account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning. Afer Nellie has undergone treatment, she is lef with no recollecton of how she came to the asylum or her real identty. Nellie’s unwillingness to submit to authority results in unspeakable torture at the hands of the head nurse, Matron Grady. When Nellie captures the atenton of Dr. Josiah who tries to help her, Grady’s barbaric tactcs only intensify, leading Nellie to queston if she does belong in the asylum afer all. Nellie Bly’s expose was the frst of its kind in America and inspired the global reformaton of mental health care.

I AM ELIZABETH SMART Exclusive 29th March, Sunday at 19:20 CAT This Lifetme flm chronicles the true story of the June 2002 abducton of 14-year-old Elizabeth Ann Smart. She was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by a religious fanatc Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell brought her to a hilly encampment where, alongside his twisted accomplice Wanda Barzee, he held Elizabeth captve. Over the course of her nine-month captvity, she was starved, drugged, raped and subjected to bizarre religious rituals untl she enabled her own rescue. Elizabeth herself serves as a producer and on-screen narrator to explore how she survived and confronts the truth and misconceptons about her captvity.

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