Roseanne Barr has different issues, but she too has a new reality series on Lifetime on Wednesdays called "Roseanne's Nuts," about daily life on her farm in Hawaii, growing macadamia nuts, raising chickens and fending off wild pigs.
"It was a series of lifetime choices.
"How to Look Good Naked," a new series on Lifetime, bears a title provocative not for its suggestion of sex but rather for its intimation of futility.
Honors also went to ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" for outstanding drama series, and Lifetime's "Prayers for Bobby," starring Sigourney Weaver and Ryan Kelley, above, for outstanding television movie or mini-series.
"The Protector," a new series on Lifetime that begins on Sunday, offers an even more chilling tableau of horror: a woman, late for work, trying to hurry two children through breakfast before they miss their school bus.
I wearily note, for the record, that both of the other Sunday-night series on Lifetime begin with dream sequences in which the lead characters — played by Lili Taylor in "State of Mind" and Marisa Coughlan in "Side Order of Life" — are humiliated in public.
As was widely reported, under the terms of a 1991 settlement with the City of Philadelphia, Mr. Ward and his father were to receive a lump-sum payment of $840,000, followed by a series of lifetime monthly payments starting at $1,000 and increasing over the years.
Or at least that is an assumption we might have held on to had Barack Obama and John McCain not begun appearing in promotional spots for Sunday's second-season debut of "Army Wives," the highest-rated series in Lifetime's history, calling for support of American military families.
Denton, whose books include "American Massacre" and "Faith and Betrayal," is a wonderful writer, and was fortunate to have had in the Frémonts two willing helpmates: they provided her not only with vivid prose of their own — Jessie in particular was a prolific correspondent and memoirist — but with enough drama for a multipart series on Lifetime Television.
