How To Watch Lifetime Channel 2024: Streaming, Satellite, and More (2024)

The Lifetime Channel loves to embrace the seasonal spirit. Cable, satellite, and streaming all offer ways to watch this channel designed to give you all the feels.

When holiday flicks aren’t dominating its schedule of shows, Lifetime Channel also offers plenty of other movies—many of the mysterious variety, featuring sinister plots and twisty storylines.

The Lifetime Channel also offers an array of drama-filled reality shows. In the words of one of the Dance Moms participants, “I don’t even like dancing, I’m just here because my mom said she would buy me tacos.”

Jump to:

• How to watch
• Best TV providers
• Stream Lifetime on demand

Philo is one of the cheapest live TV streaming services on the market, and it has the Lifetime channel, as well as Lifetime Movie Network (LMN). If lifestyle and entertainment channels are your jam, Philo is a really good value—the cherry on top is its unlimited cloud DVR.

Sling TV is also a great option for Lifetime streaming. Keep in mind that all of Sling TV’s plans have the Lifetime channel and you can add on the Lifestyle Extra package—which has LMN and three Hallmark channels—for just $6 a month. Since Sling TV is pretty cheap to begin with, that add-on won’t break the bank.

If you want a supersized channel lineup (including the Lifetime channel and LMN) and premium features, we recommend DIRECTV’s Ultimate Package. It will cost you a little extra, but it’s worth it. In addition to Lifetime, it has two Hallmark channels, plenty of channels for sports fans, and lots of kids’ content—including, count ’em, three Nickelodeon channels.

Finally, if Lifetime movies are all you want, on-demand streaming service Lifetime Movie Club is your best option. Your subscription allows you to watch it on a desktop or an iOS or Android mobile device.

Now that we’ve given you an overview of what’s out there, let’s dig a little deeper into our top picks for watching Lifetime Channel.

• Cheapest: Philo ($25.00/mo.)
• Best deals: Sling TV ($40.00–$55.00/mo.)
• Premium TV experience: DIRECTV ($69.99–$159.99/mo.)
• Streaming app: Lifetime Movie Club ($4.99/mo. or $49.99/yr.)

Philo is the cheapest option out there for livestreaming TV. For only $25 a month, you get 60+ cable channels, including the Lifetime channel and Hallmark Channel, which is often another fave with Lifetime viewers.

We absolutely love that most of the other channels included with your plan are popular favorites like OWN and Food Network.

What puts Philo over the top for most Lifetime lovers, in our opinion, is its unlimited cloud DVR. That means no bulky cable box and the ability to record everything you want from the Lifetime channel.

If you want the most Lifetime possible, pair Philo with Lifetime Movie Club, and you’ll have the vast majority of Lifetime movies and shows currently available online for less than $30 per month.

If there are cons with a Philo subscription it’s that it doesn’t carry local stations—so don’t expect to get your ABC, CBS, and NBC fix. It also doesn’t offer sports channels. If you’re looking for ESPN or sports channels, in general, to accompany Lifetime, this may not be the way to go.

The most you can spend a month on a Sling TV plan is $55 for its combo Orange + Blue plan. But if you want to get Lifetime, you can spend $40 for its Blue or Orange plan, which are $40 each, monthly. They both have Lifetime.

Many Lifetime fans also dig what the Hallmark Channel has to offer. If that’s true for you, grab your box of tissues and spend $6 a month on Sling TV’s Lifestyle Extra add-on option.

With the Sling TV packages, you can get anywhere from 32 to 46 channels. The Lifestyle Extra gets you nine channels, including Lifetime Movie Network, Hallmark Channel, and Hallmark Drama. That’s a combination guaranteed to provide hours worth of tears and fears.

Since prices are pretty low with Sling TV, the add-ons won’t make your wallet feel like it’s in a vice. Sports fans may dig the Sports Extra add-on option which gets you MLB Network, NHL Network, ESPNEWS, and the PAC-12 Network, to name a few.

Its $6 Comedy Extra is a fun add-on, and it includes some great additions like Logo and Paramount Network.

Bottom line: if anyone in your home has mixed feelings about Lifetime movies and shows, Sling TV is a moderately priced streaming option.

It has okay features that might work for you and enough channels and add-on options to give everyone a decent—and inexpensive—viewing experience.

DIRECTV is all about the premium TV experience. If you want a slew of popular channels on top of your Lifetime fix, including local TV stations and regional sports networks, then DIRECTV is for you.

Lifetime lovers, we recommend DIRECTV’s Choice package. Its 200+ channels gets you Lifetime, the Hallmark Channel, and a range of Lifestyle content—from Investigation Discovery (ID) to Freeform and FXX—for $84.99a month.

The package includes DIRECTV’s DVR, Genie, which offers 200 hours of cloud DVR storage. That’s plenty of room to build your ultimate Lifetime library for binge-watching. Unfortunately, use of the Genie requires a $15 per month Advanced Receiver Service Fee.

If you’re looking for a different package or provider, give our Best TV Packages guide a gander.

For the first three months of this plan, you also get Max (formerly HBO Max), CINEMAX, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, STARZ, and MGM+™ free.*

The two-year contracts are a downside of DIRECTV, although it’s recently introduced a two-year price guarantee along with it. No, it’s not the cheapest way to watch Lifetime, but we think DIRECTV has some real pluses, like huge channel counts and a great DVR.

*These premium channels renew automatically, at the prevailing rates, after 3 months unless you change or cancel.

**Out of market games only. Select international games excluded.

Streaming the Lifetime channel on demand is an affordable way to scratch your comfort TV itch.

The best way to stream this movie-filled channel is to go directly to Lifetime. The download is free, but to watch anything on the Lifetime channel via the app, you’ll need your TV provider login and password information.

If you want Lifetime movies on demand, you can stream plenty of them by subscribing to the Lifetime Movie Club for a very cheap $4.99/mo. or $49.99/yr.

Or, you can stream a decent amount of Lifetime movies, shows, and clips for free using the Lifetime app on your favorite device.

The Hulu + Live TV plan includes Lifetime among its 75+ channels for $76.99–$89.99/mo. Frankly, there are cheaper options to get Lifetime, but if you spend that much dough, you’ll get a heartier channel lineup.

If you’d rather spend $7.99–$17.99/mo. for one of Hulu’s on-demand streaming plans, you can add Lifetime Channel for an extra $6.99 a month.

Lifetime movies and shows are not included with the purchase of a Roku streaming device, unfortunately.

You have to download the Lifetime app or subscribe to Lifetime Movie Club and download the app to watch Lifetime on Roku.

Whether you pick Philo for affordable livestreaming and unlimited cloud DVR storage or Sling TV to get Lifetime and add on the Lifestyle Extra package for LMN and more, it’s easy to stream Lifetime content you crave.

If you’re cool to spend a little extra money for premium TV, DIRECTV’s Ultimate package offers a great channel lineup with Lifetime Channel and LMN.

Whatever your choice, sign up and start binge-watching today.