HBO Moves Up The Premiere of ‘Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’

After the deaths of mother and daughter Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher last week, HBO has announced that they are moving up the premiere date of Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. The documentary, which follows the relationship between the two, will now air this coming Saturday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m., according to a press release from HBO.

This is the second time something of Fisher’s has been on the network since she died, as HBO re-aired Wishful Drinking on New Year’s Day.

Bright Lights has already received acclaim from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival and The New York Film Festival.

According to the press release, the documentary will focus on the close relationship between Fisher and Reynolds as the two lived in the same compound in Beverly Hills. The documentary will have both home video shots and scenes with both Fisher and Reynolds.

The trailer, which was released this morning, can be viewed below.

Fisher memorably gave the introduction for her mother’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where viewers were able to see the close bond between the two of them during Reynolds’ speech.

Since the two women died a day apart, there will be a joint funeral that takes place on Friday.

Bright Lights airs Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. on HBO.

Lauren Fitz: Lauren is a graduating senior at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, who is majoring in multiplatform journalism and is minoring in popular culture. She has been a member of the mxdwn Television team since February 2016 and was promoted to editor in October 2016. In addition to being part of the mxdwn team, she is a columnist and general entertainment reporter for her college's student-run paper, The BG News. In her free time, Lauren likes to read, watch TV and meet up with friends over coffee, where she will inevitably end up talking about TV. You can reach out to Lauren by email: lauren@mxdwn.com.
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