Reba McEntire's The Hammer

PREMIERES SATURDAY, JAN. 7, 8/7c, LIFETIME

- lleane Rudolph

THE FIRST TIME we see Reba McEntire employ her considerable powers of persuasion as no-nonsense judge Kim Wheeler in a new Lifetime movie, she's dressing down a deputy pointing a gun at her after she was clocked going over 100 mph on a rural highway. The second time, she's using her gavel to clean the clock of an angry perp as he rushes the bench. And so southcentral Nevada's new traveling circuit judge earns the nickname "The Hammer."