What to Watch on Monday: Lifetime brings back ‘Prayers for Bobby’ for Pride Month
Prayers for Bobby (8 p.m., Lifetime) - Lifetime celebrates Pride Month with a 10-year anniversary airing of the 2010 GLAAD Award-winning movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Mary Griffith, a profoundly religious wife and mother who began to question her faith after the suicide of her gay son, Bobby (Ryan Kelley). Ultimately, with the posthumous acceptance of her son’s homosexuality, Mary drew on the strength and comfort from the gay community, particularly PFLAG, and became a staunch advocate for gay rights before passing away February of this year. Weaver earned an Emmy award, a Golden Globe award and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her emotionally wrenching lead role. The film received the Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. This is followed by “Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story,” based on the true story of a teenager sent by her Mormon parents to a gay conversion therapy home in Utah.
And She Could Be Next: Building the Movement (9 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - In this POV documentary, women of color transform politics from the ground up as they fight for a reflective democracy.
Cannonball (10 p.m., NBC) - WWE star Mike “The Miz” Mizanin hosts this new competition featuring people from across America facing off in an aquatic arena to compete in four rounds of physical challenges for a $10,000 cash prize.
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