Jennifer Morrison in The Murder of Princess Diana courtesy Lifetime Entertainment
I would have added "worst TV-movie ever" to the above teaser, but I've been around long enough to remember that sick moment of time when all three major networks made colliding Amy Fisher TV-movies.TV is currently steeped in Princess Diana memorabilia again, with news and entertainment specials pegged to the 10-year anniversary of her shocking death on Aug. 31 in 2007. Some aim high, some aim low, and I’m not going to pretend to be engaged in most of this posthumous star-gazing. But you’d think Lifetime, with its female-friendly skew, would go the respectful route.Instead, the channel has commissioned one of the most depressingly irresponsible and numbingly dull TV-movies since the genre was invented. Even worse, Lifetime is shoving it down its viewers’ throats. The icky and silly The Death of Princess Diana premieres Saturday night, when it’s easy to ignore, but will be repeated Sunday in advance of its prime-time lineup (including the first-season finale of the...
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