The Client List

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

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.

Based on Tanya Biank's memoir Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, this weekly cable drama detailed the lives of several military spouses (not all of them female, by the way) stationed at Fort Marshall. Kim Delaney played the central character, Claudia Joy Holden, who as the wife of Col. Michael Holden (Brian McNamara) was the newest arrival at Fort Marshall, where most of the personnel had either just returned from Iraq or were on the verge of being shipped out. The outgoing, level-headed Claudia quickly bonded with the other wives on the premises, including Denise Sherwood (Catherine Bell), an "Army brat" who'd been living on similar bases since childhood and was presently entrenched in a troubled relationship with her husband, Maj. Frank Sherwood (Terry Serpico); Roxy LeBlanc (Sally Pressman), a footloose ex-cocktail waitress who'd wed her PFC hubby Trevor LeBlanc (Drew Fuller) after a whirlwind five-day courtship; and Pamela Moran (Brigid Branagh), a former Boston cop who was hiring herself out as a surrogate mother so that she and her cash-poor Delta Force husband Chase Moran (Jeremy Moran) could claim extra benefits. There was also an "Army Husband", base psychiatrist Roland Burton (Sterling K. Brown), whose wife Joan (Wendy Davis), the base's first female African-American lieutenant colonel, was suffering from post-tramautic stress disorder after a grueling tour of duty in Afghanistan. Essentially Desperate Housewives in uniform, the series dwelt extensively on sex, intramural jealousies, and class consciousness (an Army wife's social status was, not surprisingly, determined by her spouse's military rank); and though there was surprisingly little editorializing about the War on Terror, a lot of screen space was devoted to the emotional travails arising from the then-ongoing conflict. Filmed on location in South Carolina by Grey's Anatomy producer Mark Gordon, Army Wives debuted June 3, 2007, on Lifetime.

A producer works to manipulate relationships on a dating show in order to film outrageous footage.

Maids try to realize their dreams while working for wealthy families in Beverly Hills.

In this prequel series, we uncover the dark secrets of the Foxworth family.