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).
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
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Kathy A - Feb 01, 2005 7:48:30 am PST #8631 of 10001
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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.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 8:57:09 am PST #8638 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the practically music video - less MTV and VH1
Hey, now. They have a good six or so hours every morning.
Connie Neil - Feb 01, 2005 8:57:57 am PST #8639 of 10001
brillig
And then there is the practically music video - less MTV and VH1
Grrrr....
Not that there are many videos I want to see these days as popular music and I parted company a long time ago. I'm sure the expensive cable package has channels that show the '80s videos, but I only pay 23 bucks a month for cable and I'm keeping it that way.
DavidS - Feb 01, 2005 8:58:53 am PST #8640 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not that there are many videos I want to see these days as popular music and I parted company a long time ago. I'm sure the expensive cable package has channels that show the '80s videos, but I only pay 23 bucks a month for cable and I'm keeping it that way.
VH-1 Classic. ijs. All kinds of cool videos, neatly lumped by your preferred era and/or genre from Metal to Alternative.