Over the weekend, reddit users posting on the subreddit /r/cordcutters were surprised to find that some of Sling TV's most recent channel additions—A&E, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network (LMN), and WE TV—were not entirely available. Shows like Criminal Minds on A&E, Kept Woman on Lifetime, and Intervention on LMN were throwing up a “Restricted Content” notice, sometimes for eight- and ten-hour blocks.

The new channels are not part of Sling TV's basic, $20-per-month package, but require users to pay an extra $5 per month for the Lifestyle Extra package.

“Due to rights restrictions, this content can not be streamed on Sling TV,” the notice tells Sling TV users.

Dish Network confirmed to TechHive that series on select channels are restricted due to programming rights. The rights to Criminal Minds, for instance, belong to CBS; A&E only syndicates it and can't reproduce the show in a streaming format.

"When possible, these channels will offer other programming in place of the restricted content," a spokesperson for Sling TV said. As of this writing, A&E's Criminal Minds has been replaced by the show Bates Motel, but LMN was still showing restricted content notices.

While Sling TV can't force networks like CBS to embrace streaming, some Sling TV users have expressed unhappiness that they weren't told of the restrictions before they bought the Lifestyle Extra package. Although it's unlikely anyone is subscribing to Sling TV expressly to binge-watch Intervention or Kept Woman (editor's note: says you, Megan!), one reddit user felt that Sling TV “should have withheld adding A&E/Lifetime until they had all the rights cleared. Jumping the gun makes them look bad.” Another wrote, “It's like a sports blackout, but for a mediocre TV program instead.”