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Endless repeats of Golden Girls, Designing Women and The Nanny, not to mention 15-year-old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. And of course who could live without more Will & Grace and Frasier? I mean, these two haven't been shoved down our throats nearly enough by other channels in the last few years.
And contrary to popular opinion, most of us don't particularly enjoy the over-the-top "women in peril" flicks, where women are kidnapped and held in mountain refuges, or stalked by split-personality asylum escapees who think we're their long-lost high-school sweetheart. However, so many of us have been lied to, cheated on, manipulated, abused (physically and emotionally), sexually harassed and stalked by garden variety losers, that yeah, we DO relate movies with storylines that reflect that. As long as they're realistic. Too many on Lifetime are not. While most of us have been cheated on, not many of us have been cheated on by a devastatingly handsome pilot who has three other wives in Paris, Miami and Maui, whom we somehow get together with and create devilish plots to bring him down.
Lifetime now has three separate channels, most of which have become a waste of space. Lifetime Movie Network--which seemed like a good idea at the time--repeats the same movies over and over in a loop all week. Fall asleep watching one and there's a good chance it will be on again when you wake up. Lifetime Real Women... ugh. What a load of unwatchable rubbish. "Girlfriend" game shows, "style" shows and big favorites such as Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan and Laverne and Shirley. Not to mention MORE repeats of Any Day Now (let it go, already!) and Intimate Portrait.
If Lifetime wants to be more relevant to women, forget redesigning the logo and tagline. Try listening more to what we actually want to see, instead of simply buying the cheapest, often most excruciatingly dated programs you can find and repeating them incessantly, figuring that as long as there's a woman somewhere in the show, we'll want to watch it five times a day.
