Lifetime Movie Network
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| Lifetime Movie Network | |
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| Launched | June 29, 1998 |
| Owned by | Lifetime Entertainment Services |
| Slogan | My story is on... |
| Sister channel(s) | Lifetime Real Women, Lifetime |
| Website | http://www.lmn.tv/ |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| USDTV | Channel 99.11 |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 253 |
| Dish Network | Channel 109 |
| Cable | |
| Verizon FiOS | Channel 111 |
| Comcast | Channels Vary |
| Time Warner Cable | Channels Vary |
| Charter | Channels Vary |
| Cox Cable | Channels Vary |
| Bright House Networks | Channels Vary |
Lifetime Movie Network is a sister network to Lifetime which shows women-oriented movies exclusively, especially made for television movies. Some of its movies are Lifetime Originals first shown on Lifetime.
On 1 February 2006, Dish Network announced that Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network would once again be available on their service.[1]
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[edit] History
Lifetime Movie Network launched on June 29, 1998. The original format of the network were longer segments of movies with limited commercial interruptions, airing twice a day. As the network grew, more commercial breaks have been added. There are now different movies each day, some repeating into the next programming day.
[edit] Lifetime's formula for "original" films
Many Lifetime Original movies feature a woman as protagonist. Many of these made for television movies were part of a series that labeled them A Moment of Truth Movie. These movies can sometimes be alarmist, formulaic tales, such as Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life. Often the movies are fun, adventurous, thoughtful, creative, caring about people, loving, teasing, sensitive about subtleties and engaged in how to alleviate suffering in the world by portraying real events that have happened to real people, often still living such as Martha Stewart. [citation needed]
Lifetime characterizations tend to be colorful and varying from movie to movie depicting a wide variety of settings from urban to country and diversity of occupations. Lifetime Original Movies tend to feature the same story format, featuring the following character archetypes:
Good Girl: the innocent girl who becomes corrupted and usually the protagonist of the story.
Bad Molly: the "friend" who corrupts the Good Girl
Good Molly: the friend that tries to help the Good Girl
Bad Boy: the cool older guy in high school who has sex with the good girl, rapes her, gets her pregnant, stalks her, threatens her or a variation of the above.
Good Boy: the friend who tries to help the Good Girl but is ignored until the end of the movie when the heroine realizes he is the one for her.
Mean Man: the Antagonist
