Lifetime Networks is a diverse, multimedia company committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating for a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. Lifetime Television is the leader in women’s television and one of the top-rated basic cable television networks.

From a single cable channel, Lifetime Networks has now grown to three networks — Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women — and a thriving digital business including myLifetime.com, along with numerous award-winning public advocacy campaigns.

The reach of Lifetime — on-air, online and in communities — has been profound. Hundreds of nonprofit organizations report that Lifetime’s commitment to addressing issues and raising awareness of breast cancer, violence against women, race relations, school bullying and AIDS has fostered greater understanding and tolerance in their communities. Lifetime has also been credited by bipartisan members of Congress and administration officials with shaping public policy, using the vast power of the media to enact legislation to make video voyeurism a federal crime and putting more rapists in jail.

Lifetime Entertainment Services is a 50/50 joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

LIFETIME TELEVISION

Lifetime Television is a leader in women’s television and one of the top-rated basic cable television networks. Launched in 1984, Lifetime now serves 96 million households nationwide.

Far and away the most popular women's network, Lifetime has significantly increased its commitment to original programming, which has been rewarded by audiences and critics alike. Highlights include the smash hit “Army Wives,” the most watched series in the network’s 23-year history, which averaged nearly 4 million viewers in its first season.

The largest producer of original movies on all of television, Lifetime has produced 185 Lifetime Original Movies (LOMs) since 1990. Upcoming movies include "The Memory Keeper’s Daughter", starring Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol and Emily Watson. In addition to "The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale" (starring "American Idol" winner Fantasia in her own story), the second most watched original movie in the network's history, LOMs have included the miniseries “Human Trafficking,” starring Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award–winning actress Mira Sorvino, Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award–winning actor Donald Sutherland, and BAFTA Award®–winning actor Robert Carlyle; “The Mermaid Chair,” starring Kim Basinger; "Ambulance Girl," starring Academy Award®–winning actress Kathy Bates; the Emmy-nominated “Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy,” starring Sarah Chalke; "Dawn Anna," starring Academy Award® nominee Debra Winger; "Gracie's Choice," starring Emmy® Award nominee Anne Heche; "Plain Truth," starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Mariska Hargitay; "Odd Girl Out," starring Alexa Vega and Lisa Vidal; a quartet of adaptations of Nora Roberts' phenomenal best-sellers; and “Matters of Life & Dating,” starring Ricki Lake.

In January, “How to Look Good Naked,” hosted by Carson Kressley, premiered as the most successful reality series in network history. The network’s daytime and late-night schedule also features encores of popular broadcast series such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Reba,” "Will & Grace,” “Frasier” and “Still Standing.”

Lifetime Original Dramas

“Army Wives” — From The Mark Gordon Company and ABC Television Studio comes “Army Wives,” an ensemble drama series about the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women — and one man — living with their spouses and families on an active Army post, and the pressures and traditions of the military on those who are left behind while their partners serve their country. The series stars Kim Delaney (“NYPD Blue”), Sally Pressman (“Shark”), Brigid Brannagh (“Over There”), Brian McNamara (“The O.C.”), Sterling K. Brown (“Starved”), Wendy Davis (“Commander in Chief”), Drew Fuller (“Charmed”) and Catherine Bell (“JAG”).