Lifetime Announces Record-Breaking Finale of Army Wives

NEW YORK, August 29: The season finale of Lifetime
Television’s Army Wives on Sunday,
August 26, was the network’s most-watched original series telecast in history, attracting
4.1 million people aged 2 and older.

The season finale garnered a season-high 3.4 household
rating and also ranked as the number-one program in ad-supported cable in
Sunday prime time for the thirteenth straight week among women 25 to 54 and the
seventh consecutive week among women aged 18 to 49. Online, Army Wives traffic on LifetimeTV.com broke a record on Monday,
August 27, soaring 135 percent over the previous high set on June 3, the day
after the drama premiered. Army Wives returns for a second season in the spring of 2008.

Army Wives is now
Lifetime's highest-rated original scripted drama series ever among U.S.
households, women 18 to 34, women 18 to 49, women 25 to 54, women 18 and older,
and people aged 2 and older. The 13-episode series is also basic cable’s
number-one drama among women aged 18 to 34, as well as the number-one freshman
drama of the year among women 18 to 49 and women 24 to 54. Throughout the
season, it averaged 3.7 million people aged 2 and older, a 3.1 household
rating, 580,000 women 18 to 34 (2.1 rating), 1.4 million women 18 to 49 (2.5
rating), and 1.4 million women 25 to 54 (2.7 rating).

Filmed on location in Charleston, South Carolina, and
produced by ABC Studios, Army Wives
stars Emmy Award winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue), Sally Pressman (Shark), Brigid Brannagh (Over There), Brian McNamara (The O.C.), Sterling K. Brown (Starved), Wendy Davis (Commander in Chief), Drew Fuller (Charmed) and Catherine Bell (JAG). Mark Gordon (Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds) and The Mark Gordon Company's president of production, Deborah Spera
(Criminal Minds), serve as
executive producers. Jeff Melvoin (Alias) serves as executive producer and show runner. Katherine Fugate (The
Prince & Me) created the series and is
also executive producer and writer. The series is based on the book Under
the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives
by Tanya Biank, who serves as a consultant.

Susanne Daniels, the president of entertainment at Lifetime
Networks, commented: “Thanks to Mark Gordon and Deb Spera, a talented
production team, amazing writers and a remarkable cast, Army Wives captured the hearts and imaginations of viewers
across the country. It is incredibly gratifying when a critically acclaimed
show is also a successful show, and we are grateful to the four million loyal
viewers who tuned in every Sunday to make this series a huge hit for Lifetime.”