A particular cinematic genre, characteristic of but not limited to the Lifetime Network, a/k/a "Television for Women who Conform to our Distorted Stereotype of our Target Demographic".
An extremely ominous phrase, "Lifetime Original Movie" heralds the advent of extreme tear-jerky melodrama, much gratuitous violence against (upper-middle-class white) women, and an unsubtle implication that men exist only to harm and exploit women.
The phrase can also refer to real-life versions of similar over-the-top pseudofeminist melodrama.
Whoa ... we are dealing with some heavy Lifetime Original Movie here.
An ultra-cheesymovie that is shown on the Hallmark Channel; They usually are about Christmas and almost always have bad acting, a forgetable plot, scenes that are meant to make the viewer cry and they always have a happy ending.
You know it's Christmas time when the Hallmark Channel starts broadcasting a Hallmark Channel Original Movie that is related to Christmas.
a cheesy, low budget, made-for-TV film created by and for The Disney Channel that is intended for people ages 12+ but isn't viewed by the intended audience because they're aware of how lame those movies are. The films are instead viewed by brainwashed 7 year olds.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)