Warm up with Lifetime’s winter slate of hot stories featuring several of pop culture’s most iconic women: Salt-N-Pepa, Wendy Williams, and Whitney Houston.
The programming kicks off on January 23 at 8 pm ET/PT with “Salt-N-Pepa,” a three-hour Lifetime original movie about the groundbreaking hip-hop duo, starting with their days as students at Queensborough Community College and their first recording experiences.
The story details the duo’s unprecedented success as the first female rap group to go platinum, and features several of the duo’s hits, including “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “What a Man,” “Shoop,” and “Push It.”
The movie also explores Salt-N-Pepa’s impact on hip-hop culture, with their frank lyrics about men and sex that paved the way for future female rappers. The movie stars GG Townson as Cheryl “Salt” James and Laila Odom as Sandra “Pepa” Denton.
Following the movie, the Emmy® and NAACP award-winning Loni Love hosts a documentary, “Let’s Talk About Salt-N-Pepa,” featuring exclusive interviews with Salt and Pepa about what makes their partnership work, and their ongoing influence on the music world.
Next up, on January 30, “Wendy Williams: The Movie” airs as the first biopic about Wendy Williams, outspoken television host and self-proclaimed “Queen of all Media.”
