{"id":28735,"date":"2021-02-19T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=28735"},"modified":"2021-02-19T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:00:33","slug":"first-time-producer-deborah-norville-finds-moviemaking-really-appealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/02\/19\/first-time-producer-deborah-norville-finds-moviemaking-really-appealing\/","title":{"rendered":"First-time producer Deborah Norville finds moviemaking 'really appealing'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Deborah Norville<\/p><\/div>\n

Now you can add movie mogul to Deborah Norville\u2019s list of credits. The former Chicago TV news anchor and longtime host of \u201cInside Edition\u201d<\/a> is executive producer of the latest true-crime film on the Lifetime network.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Long\u00a0Island\u00a0Serial Killer: A Mother\u2019s Hunt for Justice,\u201d<\/a> the 400th movie in Lifetime's \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d series, premieres at 7 p.m. Saturday. (Here is the link to the trailer.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Kim Delaney<\/p><\/div>\n

The film stars Kim Delaney as Mari Gilbert, a fiercely\u00a0<\/em>determined mother who pushes police to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who worked as an escort. The search eventually leads to the discovery of many more young women buried in shallow graves at a New York state beach.<\/p>\n

Norville, who first became interested in the case when she reported on it for \u201cInside Edition,\u201d said it inspired her to transform the real-life story into a Lifetime drama.<\/p>\n

As a journalist, Norville has been executive producer of several long-form documentaries, but this is the first time she has served as executive producer of a feature film. It was shot in Canada with full COVID-19 safety protocols in place throughout production.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to do more of these,\u201d Norville told me Thursday. \u201cThe combination of being faithful to the facts of the case yet having the luxury to add a bit of creative license is really appealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago fans still have fond memories of Norville\u2019s five-year run as news anchor and reporter at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5. In 1986, her promotion to NBC News in New York prompted an outpouring of tributes, including an official city proclamation from then-Mayor Harold Washington.<\/p>\n

After high-profile positions at three networks, Norville became anchor of \u201cInside Edition\u201d in 1995. In Chicago the syndicated magazine show airs at 3 p.m. weekdays on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/p>\n

Thursday's comment of the day:<\/a> Terry Socol:<\/strong> Hope that Mark Giangreco returns soon. He is the main reason that I have tuned in to Channel 7 all these years even after Ron Magers, Kathy Brock and Jerry Taft all retired. In his absence I have started checking out other channels for sports. Not sure why Channel 7 never references the anchors when they are off like when Alan Krashesky was out for two months or Karen Jordan took several weekends off. The sports is pretty much the same on any channel, but Mark Giangreco makes it worth tuning in to Channel 7.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now you can add movie mogul to Deborah Norville\u2019s list of credits. The former Chicago TV news anchor and longtime host of \u201cInside Edition\u201d is executive producer of the latest true-crime film on the Lifetime network. \u201cThe Long\u00a0Island\u00a0Serial Killer: A Mother\u2019s Hunt for Justice,\u201d the 400th movie in Lifetime's \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d series, premieres... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28735"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28744,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735\/revisions\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}