Airing at 12PM Effective May 24

[Pavan]

NEW YORK -- Lifetime has purchased the rerun rights to NBC Enterprises' family drama "Providence" and will begin stripping it starting Tuesday, May 10 every weeknight at 8. It will also air at 1 PM starting May 24, replacing "Unsolved Mysteries."
"Providence," which engineered a solid four-year run (1999-2002) on NBC Fridays at 8, began its rerun life on the Fox Family Channel twice a week in September 2000.

But in Family Channel reruns the series was never able to come close to duplicating its success on NBC, falling victim to the rule that most serialized dramas do not score with audiences when they go into repeats.

Lifetime, however, is desperate for an 8 p.m. show, having tried everything in recent months from reruns of the "Golden Girls" or "The Nanny" reruns to made-for-TV movies. None of these programs have caught fire in the ratings, with the result that Lifetime's 9 p.m. movies have suffered from low-rated, or incompatible, lead-ins.

Lifetime had to experiment last year when "Unsolved Mysteries," the network's 8 o'clock bellwether throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, finally lost too many viewers to hold down the slot.

[Brent88]

[Zero]

Hm... Looks like that's it. I don't understand Lifetimes vision. They don't want to lose viewers, yet they keep on showing the SAME DAMN EPISODES of EVERY SHOW. Golden Girls is shown at 2 different times during the week last time I checked. That means one set of rerurns at one time, and a different set at another. Same thing for the Nany, Designing Women, and whatever else they show. They did the SAME with UM. Worse, they ripped episodes apart and shmashed them together in a way that people end up seeing the same segments multiple times in a month. Then they put it at a bad time. Even the loyal viewers on this message board complained all too much about not being able to watch the show at a time when it was convenient for them. I did it once but I rememberd that's what VCR's are for. Unfortunately for UM, most of their views refuse to do that.

I honestly do not know what to think about the future of UM. Hopefully another channel more deserving of the show will get it. Lifetime is too, how should I say it, wimpy, for a show like UM. Lifetime has turned into a drama movie, family programming, lighthearted commedy channel. While UM is about, well what it's about. Hm... Maybe I'll order some episodes off you guys!

[Brent88]

Originally posted by Zero
Hm... Looks like that's it. I don't understand Lifetimes vision. They don't want to lose viewers, yet they keep on showing the SAME DAMN EPISODES of EVERY SHOW. Golden Girls is shown at 2 different times during the week last time I checked. That means one set of rerurns at one time, and a different set at another. Same thing for the Nany, Designing Women, and whatever else they show. They did the SAME with UM. Worse, they ripped episodes apart and shmashed them together in a way that people end up seeing the same segments multiple times in a month. Then they put it at a bad time. Even the loyal viewers on this message board complained all too much about not being able to watch the show at a time when it was convenient for them. I did it once but I rememberd that's what VCR's are for. Unfortunately for UM, most of their views refuse to do that.

I honestly do not know what to think about the future of UM. Hopefully another channel more deserving of the show will get it. Lifetime is too, how should I say it, wimpy, for a show like UM. Lifetime has turned into a drama movie, family programming, lighthearted commedy channel. While UM is about, well what it's about. Hm... Maybe I'll order some episodes off you guys!

I couldn't agree more. The way Lifetime has treated it sucked. I will admit, I had quit watching the show because every episode was on within a month or two of each other.

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Originally posted by Zero
Hm... Looks like that's it. I don't understand Lifetimes vision. They don't want to lose viewers, yet they keep on showing the SAME DAMN EPISODES of EVERY SHOW. Golden Girls is shown at 2 different times during the week last time I checked. That means one set of rerurns at one time, and a different set at another. Same thing for the Nany, Designing Women, and whatever else they show. They did the SAME with UM. Worse, they ripped episodes apart and shmashed them together in a way that people end up seeing the same segments multiple times in a month. Then they put it at a bad time. Even the loyal viewers on this message board complained all too much about not being able to watch the show at a time when it was convenient for them. I did it once but I rememberd that's what VCR's are for. Unfortunately for UM, most of their views refuse to do that.

I honestly do not know what to think about the future of UM. Hopefully another channel more deserving of the show will get it. Lifetime is too, how should I say it, wimpy, for a show like UM. Lifetime has turned into a drama movie, family programming, lighthearted commedy channel. While UM is about, well what it's about. Hm... Maybe I'll order some episodes off you guys!

I'm definitely one of those viewers who complained about Lifetime's bizarre scheduling. However, I DO agree with you. Although I want UM to receive fair attention, I feel as if their decision is final and will refuse to reconsider no matter how many letters they may receive from viewers requesting that it remain. I knew it was coming sooner or later, which is exactly the reason why I now have over 9 tapes worth of episodes. I wish I had started recording the show a long time ago but hey.

They want to talk about low ratings, then they seriously need to ask themselves, "How many viewers actually watch Suddenly Susan at 8:00 in the morning?" It's hard to keep up with the shows because they're constantly changing the time slots and also, not forgetting to mention that they air certain shows about 100 times throughout the day.

[UMfan77]

I am very upset that Lifetime is taking Unsolved Mysteries off the air. Thank goodness I have 29 tapes full of episodes, I'll just have to watch those from now on. I hope that some other network picks up the show.

[crystaldawn]

Are you sure they are taking it off? I was just on the Lifetime website and it listed what UM cases they are showing through the end of June.

[Kane]

Originally posted by crystaldawn
Are you sure they are taking it off? I was just on the Lifetime website and it listed what UM cases they are showing through the end of June.

I checked out the Lifetime web site, and you were correct. It's not being excluded from the network's schedule altogether (or at least not yet). Starting on Monday, May 24, UM will be shown one hour earlier, at 12:00PM (Eastern Time), followed by Providence.

[Pavan]

Lifetime really likes to changed the schedule every second. Yes, it will be still airing now, but at 12 noon, like someone just said.

The latest changes, starting May 24:
11:30AM The Golden Girls (replaces Laverne & Shirley)
12:00PM Unsolved Mysteries (replaces Golden Girls/The Nanny)

[Brent88]

12pm is better for me anyway. I had two or three things I was trying to watch at 1pm(Family Matters, WGN News and Unsolved Mysteries), so I may just start watching again. Thanks Pav!!!

Some of these episodes I don't remember seeing...

May 24
Monday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Bad Dad - When Nancy Hyer decided to give a friend a ride home, she had no idea that she was walking into a nightmare; Taunting Bank Robber; Hansen Twin Murder. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

May 25
Tuesday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Freshwater Runs Still- The thirty-year hunt for convicted murderer Margo Freshwater is profiled; Penny for your thoughts; Sam Marino bones; The Dale. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

May 26
Wednesday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Missing Lisa - A 22-year-old South Carolina woman and her dog disappear without a trace and a few weeks later her live in boyfriend also disappears; Noble Brothers Run; Missing Cheek; Marie Hilley. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

May 27
Thursday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Donna on Fire - Police investigate whether the deaths of a Houston teller and her children in a fire are connected to an extortion note received at her bank just five weeks earlier; Cop Assault; Bentwaters UFO; Preppie Rape Trial. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

(Doesn't air May 28 or May 31 for Memorial Day)

June 1
Tuesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Amber Swartz - Seven young girls disappear and authorities wonder if a serial killer is on the loose; Gordy's Ghost Pts 1 & 2; Motorcycle Mom. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 2
Wednesday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Bonnie Craig - Police try to uncover whether she was raped and killed by someone she knew or by someone hired by her vengeful mother; Dial's Escape; Zel's Odyssey. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 3
Thursday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Deadly Rx- A Florida pharmacist is found murdered in her kitchen and her boyfriend, who has disappeared, is the prime suspect; Bad Friday; Where's Jim?; Oklahoma City Rescuers; Dub's Last Chance. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 4
Friday
12:00 pm Featured Stories: Not Home for the Holidays- A young wife and mother vanished six days before Christmas; State Department Murder; Animal Therapist; Fatal Obsession. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 7
Monday
12:00 pm Featured stories: 16-year-old Natasha went to Nevada to visit her father, but then confided to a friend that she was raped, and three hours after she told a friend that she was afraid of the rapist, Natasha is found dead, and there is no official explanation for her death; after Kathy Page was found dead at the wheel of her car, authorities first believed it was an accident, but closer examination revealed that the accident was staged, and her husband Steve is the prime suspect; blob-like droplets of gelatinous goo fall on the town of Oakville, Washington; Melody, a good girl, got involved with the wrong guy and helped him break out of jail, and they haven't been heard from since. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 8
Tuesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Career criminal and extreme anti-abortion activist Clay Waagner escaped from prison on February 22, 2001 and has not been found, and it is only a matter of time until he continues his "mission" -- to kill doctors who perform abortions; Brian Jones was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the death of Erika Norman, and was subsequently found guilty in the death of Brook Baker and sentenced to life in prison; 20-year-old Joffre Ramos was beaten and left for dead at a party, and reputed gang leader Lui Quezada is wanted for attempted murder; Don Decker was terrorized by mysterious streams of water materializing from thin air and defying gravity, strange odors, and other phenomena. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 9
Wednesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: A family's life is torn apart when their home is bombarded by shots from a high-powered rifle, killing the young woman and her unborn baby -- who killed Jodie Bordeaux?; Reggie dePalma was a fireman and a community leader who was put on trial for sexual abuse, and disappeared when he left his trial to visit his mother in the hospital -- he has now been caught again and will serve a 21-year prison sentence; twins were born to a teenage mother, who claimed that that one baby died when she put the other up for adoption, but the twin who was adopted is now looking for the other, based on evidence that the other twin did not die at birth; Edward Harold Bell jumped bail and fled after being arrested for exposing himself to children and shooting to death Larry Dickens, the man who tried to stop him, but now there is an update on this story. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 10
Thursday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Dr. Emily Craig is a forensic anthropologist, and now she faces one of the most intriguing cases she has ever investigated; the ghost of Mary Green, the only woman to pilot the Ohio River, brought Mike and Myra together and they eventually married; Bob Arcieri preyed upon neighbors and business associates, including the beating of a woman he robbed, and was eventually charged with seven felony counts -- but his nephew says he drowned in the Colorado River while waiting for his trial; a black cat named Nova and a collie named Lady each became separated from their families, and undertook extraordinary journeys. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 11
Friday
12:00 pm Featured stories: After threatening her neighbor's dog, Malaika Griffin allegedly shot and killed a different neighbor and then fled in a car she stole at gunpoint from another neighbor -- and she hasn't been seen since; Robert Salazar was arrested in Baytown, Texas on March 2, 2001, for the murder of Sandra Orellana, and has been held over for trial; psychic George Anderson communicates with the dead; medical examples of the power of prayer are explored. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 14
Monday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Identical twins Karen and Kathy Mills have experienced "sympathetic pain" since childhood, and the most incredible incident occurred when Kathy was abducted, and Karen telepathically followed the entire ordeal; Sharon Kinne murdered her husband, her boyfriend's wife, and another man, and was sentenced to 13 years despite her claims of self-defense -- but she excaped in 1969; the question of whether some mothers have telepathic or psychic links to their children is explored; Joe Cole and Henry Rollins were returning home one night when they were ambushed and robbed, and when the robbers found only $50, things went wrong -- and Joe Cole was shot and killed. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 15
Tuesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Margie Jelovcic got mixed up with the wrong crowd when she met Randy Mark Yager, a member of a notorious motorcycle gang who's been a fugitive since 1997, along with Margie -- perhaps involuntarily; the Woods family began witnessing inexplicable occurrences in their home, and have come to recognize four separate ghosts who may be connected to murders in their neighborhood in 1935 and 1974; an unidentified speedboat raced across the water and crashed into a boat holding three women, one of whom was permanently disfigured; David Morehouse was hit by a stray machine gun bullet, which lodged in his helmet and knocked him out -- and now he has psychic powers. Starring: Robert Stack [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 16
Wednesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Marianne Malkey's son David was kidnapped by her ex-husband in 1974, and she has been searching for him ever since; on May 29, 1998, police officer Dale Claxton was killed by a hail of bullets, and shortly afterwards the suspects were spotted driving away in a stolen car in the midst of a gun battle with police -- and later one suspect's body was found in the desert dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; on April 16, 1992, 45-year-old Jay Durham was driving his motorcycle to work in Little Rock, Arkansas, when he was hit by a truck -- and he believes it was in cold blood. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 17
Thursday
12:00 pm Featured stories: A beautiful summer night turned into a nightmare when Colleen Nick realized that her six-year-old daughter hadn't returned from an evening chasing fireflies with her friends; Michelle Witherell died after falling from a third floor balcony, and Jeremy Witherell was charged with homicide, but now authorities are seeking a witness who saw her arguing with someone; Mary Clamser suffered from debilitating multiple sclerosis for years until she was struck by lightening and regained use of her legs; Students Against Drunk Driving activist Angela Maher was struck and killed by drunk driver Gloria Schulze, who failed to show up for her court date and is now wanted for manslaughter. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 18
Friday
12:00 pm Featured stories: The bodies of a young couple, 22-year-old college sweethearts Rachael Raver and Warren Fulton, were found shot to death in Virginia in 1988, and now, 12 years later, advances in forensic science have produced a major break in the case; while near death from terminal cancer, Candy has a vision of her sister Roxy urging her to stay alive, and her cancer goes into remission; Martha Moxley, of the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was murdered with a golf club belonging to a neighbor, and years later, Michael Skaakel was arrested and charged with her murder -- will he be tried as an adult, since the crime took place when both he and Martha were teenagers? [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 21
Monday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Two boys are found stabbed to death in their Texas home and their mother now sits on death row for the murder, although her throat was slashed in the attack, and some feel she was wrongfully convicted; Paul Raguse led a small gang of hoods in Queens that was finally indicted on racketeering and robbery charges, but Raguse eluded capture until he later turned himself in; a Northwest Airlines employee's body is found in her car trunk, and the only lead is her diary, which describes acts of hostility committed by her male co-workers. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 22
Tuesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: A year has passed since travel editor Claudia Kirschhoch disappeared in Jamaica, and her parents, who quit their jobs to find out what happened to her, have been frustrated by battles with the Jamaican authorities and very few answers; when Raymond Young vanished after allegedly scamming millions of dollars from the government, his family claimed he drowned in a scuba diving accident, but authorities disagree; Patty Stallings was accused of poisoning her five-month-old son, and sentenced to life in prison, but was his death really caused by a rare genetic illness? [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 23
Wednesday
12:00 pm Featured stories: Some mothers believe that their dead children are actually still with them, based on intensely personal and often frightening contact; while stationed in Seoul in the 1970s, Robert Wortman married a Korean woman and had a child named Stella, and after living in the U.S. for many years with her father, Stella is now searching for her mother, who stayed in Seoul; three truck drivers convince a young runaway to go home, and she now wants to find and thank them -- and so far, two of the three have been found; since an autistic man named Gordie ran away from his group home, he has left clues that he is still alive. [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

June 24
Thursday
12:00 pm [CC] [TV-PG NONE]

[#1 Stack Fan]

Thank GOD they are not taking UM off of the air.

I don't know what I would do without my daily fix of Robert Stack.

I have loved UM for years now, and I don't care how many times they replay an episode, I am there for the watching. Thanks for letting us know that it is not gone for good!!

Alisa--

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Well, that's good to know. However, you just never know with Lifetime, they can be unpredictable. I'm hoping that they'll at least continue airing it for the rest of this year.

[Big3sCompanyFan]

So are they taking UM off thte air in July or what?

[Kane]

Originally posted by Big3sCompanyFan
So are they taking UM off thte air in July or what?

It's too soon to know for sure. We have little choice but to wait and see.

[Brent88]

Originally posted by Big3sCompanyFan
So are they taking UM off thte air in July or what?

It's scheduled through Late June, HOWEVER, Lifetime has the tendency to make last-minute changes, so as of now it's on through Late June, but that COULD change in a heartbeat.