Sabrina never quite went this dark. Melissa Joan Hart ( Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Melissa & Joey ) is coming back to Lifetime to play serial killer Judy Buenoano, aka “The Black Widow,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Hart will also executive produce the cable brand’s new true crime movie, Black Widow Killer: The Judy Buenoano Story , which is a working title. The movie is part of the channel’s winter “Ripped From the Headlines” slate. Black Widow Killer will also stars Chris Bauer ( True Blood, The Wire ) as Detective Chamberlain and Matthew Settle (G ossip Girl, Band of Brothers ) as Judy’s fiancé, John Gentry. The movie premieres on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2027, at 8 p.m. on Lifetime.

“Set in the 1970s and 1980s, Black Widow Killer: The Judy Buenoano Story is based on the true story of Judy Buenoano (Hart), a successful Florida salon owner and mother whose carefully cultivated image begins to crack after her latest fiancé, John Gentry (Settle), survives a car bombing,” the synopsis reads.…