In the wake of the tragic deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher this week, HBO announced Friday morning that it has pushed up the debut of the mother-daughter documentary “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” to Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).
HBO describes the film, which had showings at several film festivals including Cannes and Telluride, as “an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricity.” It chronicles the complex relationship between the dynamic duo, who lived next door to each other in the same Beverly Hills compound.
The documentary, directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, features vintage family films and what is being dubbed “extensive vérité footage.”
HBO will also offer an encore presentation of Fisher’s hit memoir-based one-woman show “Wishful Drinking” on Sunday at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).
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Actress Debbie Reynolds poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills on May 21, 2013.
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A detail of the poster for Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain,” featuring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds posing for a portrait in New York.
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In this March 6, 1959, photo, actress Debbie Reynolds boards an airliner in New York en route to Spain, where she would film a new movie.
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Debbie Reynolds in 1960, wearing a black sweater top and a pearl necklace.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds photographed in 1959.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds appears at Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremonies in Los Angeles.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds shows $13,900 in U.S. bonds given to her by acting County Clerk W. G. Sharp. in 1953.
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Carrie, 3, gives mother Debbie Reynolds a hug after her afternoon nap in their West Los Angeles home.
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Debbie Reynolds in one of the storage rooms where clothes from 41 years in show business were kept in 1988.
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Debbie Reynolds’ star along the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
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Debbie Reynolds appears on the red carpet before the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on January 25, 2015.
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Debbie Reynolds placing her hand prints in the wet cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1965. (Bruce H. Cox / Los Angeles Times)
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Debbie Reynolds, who will receive the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award, is seen photographed at her Los Angeles home in 2012. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Carrie Fisher, right, presents her mother, Debbie Reynolds, with the Life Achievement Award at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2015.
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