# Guys, do you watch Lifetime? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853 "2003-12-13T23:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/41 "2003-12-16T06:18:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*I’ll admit to watching _Single in the City_ on WE, though. I wonder if the show truly represents dating in the Big Apple; every woman is a magazine editor, investment banker or model who has several boyfriends, yet complains about how hard it is to meet single men in Manhattan. They all also spend their summer weekends in the Hamptons. \*\* You mean, you **don’t** spend your summer weekends in the Hamptons? What, are you also going to tell me you **don’t** own your own penthouse suite in downtown Manhattan with its own built-in private Learjet? Or that you don’t play Polo for relaxation? My goodness, you must be _destitute!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/42 "2003-12-16T06:43:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*Yes, but it’s also got Tori Spelling. \*\* True, but I hear it has a canoe chase, so it can’t be _all_ bad. Actually, it probably can be all bad. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/43 "2003-12-16T14:30:07Z")
Now that _Unsolved Mysteries_ is on permanent hiatus, no. [sub]RIP Robert Stack[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/44 "2003-12-16T14:30:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*I don’t watch channels, I watch shows. If the show I want to watch is on Lifetime then I watch Lifetime. And I am not ashamed. \*\* Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/45 "2003-12-16T16:41:51Z")
I’m sure I must have Lifetime but I have no idea what channel it’s on. I’d watch it if it had something I like but I guess that hasn’t happened yet. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/46 "2003-12-16T17:10:34Z")
Just checked to see what was on Lifetime right now. Golden Girls. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/47 "2003-12-16T20:04:32Z")
> [@](#): > > So you’re saying they’re trying to create more viewers for the Oxygen channel? > \ Hey, now. The Oxygen channel has **Sunday Night Sex Talk** and **Talk Sex With Sue** , two versions of the same _fantastically_ great show. Don’t be dissin’ on the Oxygen channel (although I have no idea what else they show.) Anybody else seen the Lifetime movie with Delta Burke and Swoozy whatshername about the evil stepmother who killed their baby sister in the way back when? It’s utter crap, but every time it comes on I find myself locked in. It’s like my brains fall out of my ears or something. But I dig **Golden Girls**. Remember the one where they talk about when they lost their virginity? Comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/48 "2003-12-16T20:14:21Z")
“Picture it! Sicily. 1920…” And that Swoosie Kurtz/Delta Burke movie is called “A Promise for Caroline”. I must have seen it 12 times, in bits and pieces, because all my mother watches on the weekends is Lifetime and they show it about three times a month. Personally, I think Delta Burke did white trash South’ner so much better (and more entertainingly) in _Sordid Lives_… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/49 "2003-12-17T02:20:37Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zsofia \* > Hey, now. The Oxygen channel has **Sunday Night Sex Talk** and **Talk Sex With Sue** , two versions of the same fantastically great show. Don’t be dissin’ on the Oxygen channel_\* My point exactly. _Lifetime_ is geared toward frustrated housewives, **but** it turns its viewers into man-hating lesbians – which is the viewership that _Oxygen_ seems to be geared for. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/50 "2003-12-17T04:17:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gamaliel \* > \*\*True, but I hear it has a canoe chase, so it can’t be _all_ bad. > > Actually, it probably can be all bad. \*\* “Mother May I Sleep with Danger?” is very bad, so you have to watch it. Not as bad as the Tori Spelling where she plays the college girl who becomes a hooker, but still bad. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/51 "2003-12-17T04:39:07Z")
> [@](#): > > My point exactly. Lifetime is geared toward frustrated housewives, but it turns its viewers into man-hating lesbians – which is the viewership that Oxygen seems to be geared for. Ha, only if man-hating lesbians are all about getting their menfolk to take it up the ass. On second thought. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/52 "2003-12-17T04:50:28Z")
I’ve watched it from time to time. I enjoy Golden Girls. I enjoy a few other things it has. But I also don’t watch a channel, I watch shows. ESPN has lots of things I wouldn’t watch unless you paid me. Hallmark shows old eps of Mash, Nick shows Happy Days and such, sometimes comedy channels show good stuff. It’s about the show, not the channel. TBS shows this more than anything. I watch some movies there, baseball when it’s on, but some of the stuff they have on there is just totally not me. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853/53 "2003-12-17T06:54:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*“Picture it! Sicily. 1920…” Ah, they’re 1920s style Lifetime movies. Somebody had to say it. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-watch-lifetime/218853.md?page=2)