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Category: Parenting

■ 05 February 2009 | 9:56 AM

Lifetime Movie Network

Due to financial hardship my family has cut back to basic cable. That means no more TCM for me.

I figured I would give the Lifetime channel a try. I taped a few movies that sounded okay. Not great. Just okay. Well…

After watching about 8 of them I have realized one thing. Police are stupid. Love can be dangerous. And you really need to be in a coma to enjoy the Lifetime channel.

I think I’ll try SCI-FI next. Any other suggestions?

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How comfortable is your computer chair?

Submitted by Dead Head on Tue, 02/10/2009 at 8:55 am.

Netflix is the best deal in town. In addition to unlimited DVDs sent to your house (actually, somewhat limited by efficiency of the postal service), there are over 12,000 titles available to watch immediately on your desktop. (including old seasons of TV shows, etc.) If your kid has an Xbox, you can watch them on you television (or there’s a $99 box that downloads them for your set). 8 bucks a month – and the number of movies will only rise. I really believe this is the future of television programming.

I once scheduled a full day of ...

Submitted by debmarkham on Thu, 02/05/2009 at 6:30 pm.

... Law and Order. I toggled between TNT and Bravo and Wavy.

I love Lifetime!

Submitted by unexpected.life on Thu, 02/05/2009 at 12:46 pm.

Thankyou very much. Some of the true stories they have on there are great. And the bonus? They play Will and Grace every weekday night except Thursday from 11pm to 12am. I love Will and Grace!