The channel provides six programming strands: Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, and Personal Development.
It is also available in Hong Kong on now TV, in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform, where it launched in December 2007, and in Romania on Digi TV digital cable television, where it launched on 31 December 2010.
Since then, it has also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008, where it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem, Telia Digital-TV and FastTV.
[2] On 14 September 2021, BBC Lifestyle HD launched on Malaysian satellite TV service Astro.
[3] BBC Lifestyle launched in the Philippines via Cignal on 1 October 2023, replacing National Geographic.