Mrs. Blue Sky watches it all the time. As I pass through, I’ll ask, “Disease or emotional crisis?”
I remember a fake TV schedule in The Onion, where they had Lifetime showing a movie called “Oh, God, Please, No, Not Without My Daughter, Oh God No!”. Dead on the mark.
So you’re saying they’re trying to create more viewers for the Oxygen channel? 
<ducking and running like there’s no tomorrow>
I watch the Lifetime Movie Network sometimes.
Because it’s bad. Bad plots, bad dialogue, bad acting. And there are all those women who were hot in the 80’s who made Lifetime movies when they hit 13:59 minutes of fame.
Today we have Markie Post, Gerald McRaney and Sharon Lawrence in a dead daughter movie; Ellen Barken, Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio in a “blended family” movie - set in the 1950’s, so you know that’s going to be cringeworthy;Nancy McKeon in an amnesia movie AND in a Very Special Movie, Merdith Baxter and Swoosie Kurtz in a “husband having an affair” movie. Only he’s having an affair with the daughter of his wife’s best friend.
Lifetime movies make my eyes bleed and I am a woman.
That would be This Boy’s Life, which is actually a FANTASTIC movie. It’s a true story-based on the life of author Tobias Wolfe.
It IS cringeworthy-but you’re cringing more from imagining living his life, than from a bad movie.
It also stars a young Eliza Dushku for you Buffy fans, as well as Tobey Maguire as one of Wolfe’s friends.
But you’d want to rent it-because then it would be unedited.
I really don’t watch Lifetime anymore, not even for the Golden Girls or Designing Women. Occassionally, if I happen upon Unsolved Mysteries, I’ll watch that, but even then it’s rare.
A few weeks ago I was out at a bar with a couple of my (male, like me) friends. I mentioned that that day I had become the last person in the US to see The Breakfast Club. My buddy asked me what channel it was on, and I, without thinking because I had had one too many beers, admitted it was on WE. Bad idea for college-age males to admit to their friends they watched anything on WE.
I am tempted to watch “Mother May I Sleep With Danger?” because it’s got a cool title.
Yes, but it’s also got Tori Spelling.
I am a guy but not so insecure about my masculinity that I can say that I watch Lifetime (and WE for that matter). Let’s face it. We guys have to get in touch with our sensitive feminine side.
Plus, it just might come in very handy when you are trying to score with a babe and tell her that you watched the Meryl Streep Film Festival on WE.
Now that I’ve heard that Lifetime has good mainstream bondage, I will watch it all the more.
    
       
My ex would watch. I’d often feel like pulling out my hair.
The last thing I ever saw was a movie called “Wife. Mother. Murderer.”
I pray that we never get the Oxygen Network.
Hey. The Oxygen Network rocks. Last Saturday I had an Oxygen marathon. Several episodes of Bosom Buddies, followed by Psycho, Misery and Talk Sex with Sue.
I take that back, the last thing I actually saw was a commercial for an original movie. Scene shows a single mother lecturing her teenage daughter about being responsible and not having sex because of the risks (unwanted pregnancy).
Cut to mother in the bathroom, crying over her pregnancy test. Ha ha she’s PREGO. Cut to daughter, “MOM YOU HYPOCRITE!!!”
I didn’t know Lifetime showed comedies.
Okay, so I don’t really have the scoop on Oxygen Network, so I was out of line, there sorry.
I know a sizeable contingent of gay men who are addicted to the usual suspects: Designing Women; Golden Girls; and The Nanny.
I also know a sizeable contingent of gay men who’d gnaw their own heads off at the neck before watching Lifetime.
[Nanny Fran] Go figure. [/Nanny Fran]
Peace.
I smell a marketing void: a Drag Queen channel with nothing but Judy Garland; musicals; and melodramatic black-and-white ‘B’ movies. Oh wait, there’s AMC, nevermind.
My good ol’ boy, John Wayne-loving father loves watching Lifetime movies.
It’s simple:
The Lifetime Network is the let’s-go-shopping, boo-hoo-hoo poor little defenseless victim woman channel.
The Oxygen Network is the lesbian feminist empowerment rah-rah-rah let’s-talk-about-sex-just-to-show-how-darn-liberated-we-are channel.
I don’t watch Lifetime.
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.
Isn’t Oxygen owned by Oprah?
My girlfriend is addicted to the Lifetime Movie Network. I’ve watched the occasional episode of “Mad About You” on Lifetime, but other than that, it’s barely on my channel scan. Still, that puts it above CMT, BET, and Telemundo in my cable-watching esteem.
And yeah, [url="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,5957,00.html"Oprah owns Oxygen. Hence, the prominent “O” and the the constant showing/promotion of her show and magazine.
My dad’s a real man’s man, much like Magnolia’s dad. And he’s been known to watch a good bit of Lifetime during the day.