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Lifetime schedules Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights for New Years' Eve

By April MacIntyre Dec 24, 2009, 7:23 GMT

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The infamous Lifetime film that introduced Eddie Cibrian to LeAnn Rimes professionally and wound up breaking up their marriages in real life is getting a Mulligan.

A marathon of Lifetime Television’s Top Movies of 2009 and Viewer’s Choice has selected Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights (starring Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian) to bring in 2010.

Lifetime Television will ring in the New Year with the Top Lifetime Original Movies of 2009.  Viewer’s selected their favorite Lifetime movie of the year and the winner, Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights, will air at midnight to ring in 2010. 

Below is the schedule for the evening.  

January 31, 2009: Viewer’s Choice

8:00 am:          Acceptance

10:00 am:        America

12:00 pm:        Personal Effects

2:00 pm:          Nora Roberts’ Midnight Bayou

4:00 pm:         Prayers For Bobby

6:00 pm:         Sorority Wars

8:00 pm:         Maneater

12:00 am:        Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights

Northern Lights synopsis:

In an attempt to start a new life and forget the recent traumatic death of his work partner, former Baltimore policeman Nate Burns (Eddie Cibrian) accepts the job of chief of police in the small, remote town of Lunacy, Alaska.  Nate is not looking for romance, but, the moment he meets Meg Galligan (Leann Rimes), an independent and feisty bush pilot with her own demons, he finds himself falling in love.  The town is rocked when the body of Meg’s father, a man whom Meg believed had abandoned her and her mother Charlene (Rosanna Arquette) 16 years ago, turns up in a mountain cave.  Nate quickly finds himself in the middle of a high-profile murder investigation and must use his big-city survival instincts to solve the mystery that threatens his new life and new love.