Devious Maids

This TV drama, Lifetime's first original dramatic series, explores the relationship of white Mary Elizabeth O'Brian (Annie Potts) and black Rene Jackson (Lorraine Toussaint) who grew up together as good friends in segregated Alabama of the early '60s -- with Mae Middleton portraying Mary Elizabeth as a girl and Shari Dyon Perry in the role of the young Rene. After Mary Elizabeth became pregnant at 19 by her childhood sweetheart Collier Sims (Chris Mulkey), she and Rene drifted apart. With the death of Rene's civil-rights lawyer father, James (Courtney B. Vance), Mary Elizabeth attends the funeral, and their friendship begins anew, even though the two women followed divergent paths: Attorney Rene chose a career over a family, while Mary Elizabeth has several children from her beer-swilling hubby. Intercutting past and present, the series advances on a dual track, contrasting present-day progress with Alabama attitudes during the Civil Rights era. With music by Bob Hilliard, Burt Bacharach, the Temptations, and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the series premiered August 18, 1998 on Lifetime.

A vapid model who met an untimely death returns to the living in the body of a plus-size attorney.

Joely Fisher starred in this weekly, hour-long drama series as Zoe Busiek, a professional blackjack dealer. After her sister Sue was killed in a car chase, Zoe left Vegas, returning to her hometown to care for Sue's three children. Here she came face-to-face with a disreputable insurance company who refused to honor Sue's policy and provide for her kids. This experience led Zoe into a whole new career as a full-time insurance-fraud investigator, with all the adventure and mystery attending this job. Also starring Rae Dawn Chong and Chris Potter, Wild Card premiered August 2, 2003.

A Texas single mom (Jennifer Love Hewitt) works at a spa where sexual favors are offered on the side. Hewitt also starred in the 2010 Lifetime original movie on which the series is based.

A "Dance Moms" spin-off set in a Miami dance studio where students train for competitive dancing, while their overeager moms strive to get them a leg up on the competition.

The lives of two squads and their fierce, hardworking coaches, Lexington Kentucky's Dunbar High School coach Donna Martin and her daughter, Ole' Miss head coach, Ryan O'Connor. While veteran coach Donna pushes her team to new heights to return Dunbar to its former glory of reigning champs, Ryan is fighting to earn the respect of her peers, her collegiate team and her mother.