Watch TV Shows on Lifetime

Over the course of its history, Lifetime has been traded around among a circle of corporate media-giant parents, but the cable channel's programming focus has stayed mostly consistent throughout. Originating in 1984 as a merger between the women-oriented Daytime and Cable Health networks, Lifetime was intended from the beginning to target female audiences. Although that goal is less explicit now, the channel's programming philosophy remains essentially the same.

In the mid-1980s, Lifetime attempted to capitalize on the talk show boom, airing talk and interviews shows hosted by Regis Philbin and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The channel also aired reruns of network comedy and drama series that had established female audiences.

Through the 90s, Lifetime left doubt about its target demographic, as the channel adopted the tag line "Television for Women." That branding continued until 2006, when the network dropped the tag line and worked to broaden its audience to include more men and young people.

Lifetime is now a subsidiary of A&E, and like A&E's other cable channels, Lifetime has incorporated reality shows such as "Dance Moms" into its schedule. The channel also still airs syndicated reruns and original dramatic series like "Devious Maids" and "Witches of East End." Lifetime original movies, famous for their women's-issues-related themes and melodrama, also continue to be a staple of the schedule.

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    Project Runway: Threads
    The Sisterhood
    The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns
    Seasons of Love
    Big Women: Big Love
    Kosher Soul
    Tallest Virgin in the World
    Preach
    Fashionably Late with Rachel Zoe
    Women of Honor with Special Guests First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden
    People's Sexiest Man Alive 2015: 30 Years of Sexy
    The Cheerleader Murders
    30 Something Grandma
    Little Weddings
    Knocked Up
    Mommy, I Didn't Do It
    The Pop Game
    Little Women: Atlanta: Monie Gets Married
    Military Makeover
    Little Women LA: Couples Retreat
    Date Night Live
    A Midsummer's Nightmare
    Growing Up Supermodel
    Mommy's Little Boy
    Sea Change
    Married at First Sight: Jamie and Doug Plus One
    Little Women: LA: Terra's Big House
    This Time Next Year
    Laurieann Gibson: Beyond the Spotlight
    Women on Patrol
    Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After
    Little Women LA Terra's Little Family
    One Tree Hill Reunion Special
    My Great Big Live Wedding With David Tutera
    Ms. T's Music Factory
    Hopelessly in Love: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes & Andre Risen
    Hopelessly in Love
    The Big Fat Wedding Walk
    The Proposers
    V.C. Andrews' Landry Family
    Leave It to Geege
    Five Guys a Week
    Meet Marry Murder
    The Week the Women Went
    Models of the Runway
    America's Psychic Challenge
    Whatever, You're Wrong!
    Vanished with Beth Holloway
    Brighton Beach
    24 Hour Catwalk
    Tim Gunn's Top 10
    An Officer and a Murderer
    Holiday Spin
    Catering Wars
    Gone But Not Forgotten
    Frisky Business
    Prison Wives Club
    American Beauty Star
    Glam Masters
    Gold Medal Families
    Cellmate Secrets
    Aly Raisman: Darkness to Light
    All Mixed Up
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    Little Talk Live: Aftershow
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