Lifetime TV Army Wives

The Lifetime network has always been looking for a hit program. Luckily, it got such a program when its original drama ‘Army Wives’ premiered in June 2007. Since its premiere, which was the highest-rated series premiere in Lifetime’s twenty-three year history, the show has continued to become more and more successful.

Its second season just finished in November, and a third season is planned for next summer. The program, which concerns the lives of four women whose husbands are away in the army, features, among others, Kim Delaney (of ‘NYPD Blue’), Catherine Bell (of ‘Jag’) and Brian McNamara (of many television shows, including ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ and ‘Seinfeld’). The program, besides focusing on the titular ‘army wives’, also includes an ‘army husband’, whose wife is away in the army, so as to present both sides of the issue.

Such a program as ‘Army Wives’ is successful because of how it presents this side of the issue of the war and army activity. Rarely do we as Americans get a chance to appreciate the emotions and sensitivities that go along with having a wife or husband away in the army fighting in a violent war.

It is undoubtedly a harrowing experience, with each passing day adding to the anxieties of whether or not your loved one will be returning back home or not. Because of how ‘Army Wives’ allows for viewers to be able to see how these kinds of emotions play out, it is an important program for people to watch; this is probably mostly why the program has been so successful and popular since its debut.