Army Wives is an American television drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007. The show had the largest series premiere in Lifetime's 23-year history, and the largest viewership in the 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm time slot
since December for Lifetime. The show is based on the non-fiction book originally titled Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives by Tanya Biank. The second season premiered on Lifetime in the United States on Sunday, June 8, 2008, and had 19 episodes. The series began airing in Ireland on Monday, October 15, 2007, on TG4 (in English) and in New Zealand on Thursday, June 19, 2008, on TV2. The series began airing in Australia on December 1, 2008, on Channel Ten. The series also airs in the United Kingdom on Living (UK TV channel), and on the South African network M-Net. The second season ended on M-Net on Monday, January 5, 2009. Season three will air in June 2009 on Lifetime on Sundays at 10 pm ET/PT. Lifetime announced in February 2009 that it ordered a fourth season of Army Wives. On March 14, 2008, Walt Disney Studios Home