What I've found is that TBS and TNT are stuck in showing the SAME '80s movie OVER AND OVER again!
Now that I've grown too chinzy for real cable, it REALLY sucks.
I have boxed sets of a lot of stuff.
I went through a big Kung Fu stint, and then David Carradine died, and I'd just ordered his autobiography, for SIX BUCKS, and overnight, it went up into three digits. I STILL got it for six bucks! Heheheheh.
Anyway,I don't hate all of the news shows, I just crave VARIETY.
In Phoenix, I LOVED it that I got TCM on basic cable.
No commercials and no cuts!
Anyway, we DO have Netflix and YouTube now.
That's a start.
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RobBase086-1
14 years ago
Yes TBS and TNT has that problem of showing the same movies from the 80's over and over again.
Yes it does suck about cable because everyone wants to do what everyone else is doing. If a executive programming director was to jump off of a bridge just to get ratings then you would see every network do the same thing to get the attention and ratings I hate to say it.
Well I lived up North for 7 1/2 years between Chicago and right over the border of Illinois in Wisconsin. 2 Years of the time was on active duty in the Navy due to 9/11. Well I would watch this one channel that showed in reruns the same TV shows that everyone else was showing on their network and channel. They would have this SvenGhoulie guy come on late Saturday nights but while I was on active duty he came on Saturday afternoons. He would show a variety of movies. The kind that no one else would show on TV anymore. I would sit and watch movies like Abbott and Costello, Boris Karloff movies, ZAPPED!, and any other genre of films. It was totally cool and they would even show Ghoulies too! I loved that channel. When I moved back to my home town in Central Illinois we did not have anything like that station at all. Milwaukee even carried this channel but it was the sister station to it though. I emailed that network and they said that they were not a major network that broadcasts all over the United States. I wished that they did though.
That is cool that you have boxed sets of a lot of things!
Kung Fu was a great show to watch and I remember as a kid in the 70's watching it on Sunday mornings or on the weekends. Then I watched Kung Fu The Legend Continues in the early 90's. That was a great show but they should have had Bruce Lee's son play David Carradine's son in the TV show because he did play in a reunion movie the son of David Carradine's character. That is cool that you got his autobiography at a good price. I am sure you were stoked about it.
Well I am not into the new shows I hate to say it. Like today I watched History Channel and some other channel. I no longer watch that much of the mainstream channels any longer because they do not show anything that I like to watch to be honest with you like they once did before.
When I was living in Kenosha, Wisconsin and I had TCM I loved it better than AMC! AMC in the late 90's went to altering their programming to bring more current movies that are more new than anything else and they stopped showing some of the classic movies that I loved to watch. TCM is great to watch! I will not forget this November in 2010 it will be 6 years ago TCM had a marathon for Thanksgiving of Abbott and Costello movies. I loved it and thought it was great to watch!
That is what I also love about TCM is there is no commercials in there at all until after the movie is done with.
Yes we do have Netflix and Youtube which is always good.
Yes it is always a start to somewhere more positive.
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MSStMarie
14 years ago
LOVED your post.
Will respond in more detail when I'm not so knackered. :)
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