Ooh! Amazing -- they'll also have Lemony Snicket costumes!
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
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§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 7:25:45 am PST #8628 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Feb 01, 2005 7:26:42 am PST #8629 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I'm so jealous that you guys have the opportunity to see those costumes!!!
Lyra Jane - Feb 01, 2005 7:32:38 am PST #8630 of 10001
Up with the sun
AMC is kind of bush league, but when you need to see a minor horror flick from the 70s about a hundred million times, they're the place to go.
'Zactly. They show '90's movies all the time, too -- "classic" seems to mean "whatever we can afford the rights to."
But last night, Scream 2 was about my speed, so I'm not complaining.
Kathy A - Feb 01, 2005 7:48:30 am PST #8631 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
It's funny--after seeing the complaint about AMC changing its format here, I was listening to the radio at home and heard the host complaining about other channels doing the same (Game Show Network hosting Extreme Dodgeball and Fear Factor instead of High Rollers and What's My Line; TVLand now showing MacGuyver instead of just the old black-and-white shows from the 50s and 60s).
Lyra Jane - Feb 01, 2005 7:52:16 am PST #8632 of 10001
Up with the sun
TVLand now showing MacGuyver instead of just the old black-and-white shows from the 50s and 60s).
What I think is weird is that Full House is on Nick at Night. I always thought that was Nickelodeon's block of programming for grown-ups, and Full House was pretty firmly aimed at children/pre-teens.
Calli - Feb 01, 2005 7:52:59 am PST #8633 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In the world of tv shows, "classic" means whatever I was watching as a kid to me. So, yeah, that includes old B&W I Love Lucy episodes, because they were in syndication at the time. But MacGuyver fits, too.
DebetEsse - Feb 01, 2005 8:06:37 am PST #8634 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I need to at least in theory reasonably be able to have kids to whom the show would be at all meaningful before fixtures of my childhood are on TVLand or Nick at Night.
(i.e.-I'm too young for MacGuyver to be "Classic tv", dammit)
Sue - Feb 01, 2005 8:48:28 am PST #8635 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Oh, and if you haven't been spoiled for Million Dollar Baby, don't read the Globe and Mail arts page, they give away a big plot point in a headline by stating what groups are protesting the movie.
Fred Pete - Feb 01, 2005 8:52:43 am PST #8636 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Game Show Network hosting Extreme Dodgeball
Hey! I like Extreme Dodgeball!
Don't mess with the sexy!
askye - Feb 01, 2005 8:56:16 am PST #8637 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
If we're talking about channels that have strayed from their origins I'd say A&E (Arts and Entertainment) has gone pretty far away from that, they are still heavy on the entertainment but pretty light on the arts.
And then there is the practically music video - less MTV and VH1.