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One of my favorite channels used to be AMCTV. A few years back, this channel was just an outstanding place to go to see old great movies. It still is, sometimes. However, for every "Shane" that is on, they play "Dr. Giggles" or "Harlem Nights". In fact, they play some of the most unclassic films you can imagine.

I was enjoying a sensory overload yesterday of some of my favorite films that were on back to back..."An Affair to Remember", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", the original "Scrooge" etc.

Then of course, there's gotta be some "Original AMCTV Programming", this in the form of "20: Entertainment Weekly's Holiday Movies". This was supposed to be about some of the most warmhearted holiday movies.

The show is hosted by the HILARIOUS French Stewart, the guy from "Third Rock from the Sun", but this time without the HILARIOUS squinting routine. Stewart is having--isn't this original--difficulties hanging his outdoor Christmas lights. He goes on and on about how terrible Christmas is, what a drag it is to be with family. Then he literally curses at the Christmas lights. What a warm idea.

The show goes on to showcase Christmas favorites. This includes Bob Clark's "A Christmas Story". Bob Clark got his name from directing such time-honored favorites such as "Porky's", "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" and "Rhinestone". How within the past few years "A Christmas Story" has become a warm holiday favorite escapes me. Does Darrin McGavin cursing about Christmas through 1/2 the movie and the once-funny but give me a break scene of the kid getting his tongue stuck to the flagpole just scream Merry Christmas? This was a mildly amusing film, seen once.

Then they roll out grumpy old Richard Donner, director of "Scrooged" with Bill Murray. Donner had on his holiday face, which basically meant he was not sneering. Donner mentioned that he liked the fantasy of movies, because people are terrible in real life.

Feeling jolly yet?

The whole show played like 'yeah, we know Christmas sucks, so let's just make fun of it'. Personally, I don't find the humor.

I am going to drop a note to AMCTV, let them know how I feel. I think they should keep playing old movies, classic ones like their name conveys, and leave the "original programs" to others who obviously can do it alot better. I can do without "Movies That Shook the World", French Stewart in anything, and those two obnoxious characters on "Sunday Morning Shootout".

Thoughts from my friends here?
 
I miss everything about the old AMC channel. Although Jon Stewart once referred to it as "The All 'Afffair to Remember Channel.'" It used to show many old Fox movies, which now can be seen on Foxmo. My favorite was "How Gay is our Fanfare."
 
Why I rarely watch AMC:

1. Unlike Turner Classic Movies, they don't show films in widescreen format, which makes me crazy. Even Fox Movie Channel is showing more films in their intended, widescreen format.

2. Commercials.

3. Maybe there are only two reasons why I rarely watch AMC...
 
Stay with us at TCM

AMC really sucks!
Lesto and I (Brent-Aucoin) work for TCM.
We are the best! (our network that is)
Hope you all can catch out network in your neck of the woods.
Forget about the old AMC. It is gone forever! It really was not all that great back when. The prints of the films they would air were horrible. Now they are insulting. You are not watching the whole movie. It is cut to fit the COMMERCIALS that they are showing. Not to mention the stupid hosts!
Welcome to TCM.
Go to TurnerClassicMovies.com , and let us know what you want to see!
Brent
 
If you want to see the movies as the way they were intened-rent or buy the DVD of the movie you want to see-NO COMMERCIALS!You can pause the show when you wish to get to the kitchen for "consessions" or to the bathroom.Also you can choose if you want to see the movie as widescreen or standard.I wish the movie dubbing studios would throw away the standard or 4x3 apeture-people are buying widescreen sets!!
 
TCM

I love Turner Classic Movies - it's one of the few cable channels I actually watch. They have respect for the movies they show.

I, for one, am excited by the proposal that we would be able to pick and choose what channels we want. No more shopping networks, religious TV, or cable news!
 
As I type this, "Dark Passage" is playing on TCM. I really like TCM and Fox Movie Channel (where I saw and taped "Myra Breckinridge").

AMC was cool when it was "American Movie Classics," but now it's "American Movie Channel...TV for movie people." Read: Lowest common denominator, or people who think "Lethal Weapon 3" is the peak of cinematic entertainment.
 
Brent.....

As unbelievable as it sounds, I DO have TCM! Unfortunately, it is channel 160, so you have to have Adelphia's digital channel box to get it, as our TVs only go up to 125 channel for cable.

The upside is that the living room TV with the DVR DOES have this setup, the others don't and I don't want to rent more boxes. However, I am going to go dig around I may have another floating around.
 
TCM is great! That's where I saw the original "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (totally different from the new movie with same title). AMC I got tired of a long time ago, primarily when they stopped showing the classics.

And as for the second topic kinda addressed kevinpreston3, I don't know where some of this humbug attitude comes from nowadays.
 
I used to see a lot of rare movies on amc and enjoyed it a lot but when they commercialized it, Well anyway WENN was the only amc created show that I liked. I live in a rural comunity and our cable has been so bad after several years of complaining, another cable company offwered to move in. Well our old company decided it was time to shape up. they installed new lines throughout town. Hooray. Well then the bill goes up. Then everybody is switching to digital and everything here looks like stop motion animation unless of course it stops altogether! Analog might get blurry at times but you could at least keep up with what was going on but now!
 
I h8 AMC!

Why? Too damn many commercials! The other night Dennis tuned in "To Kill a Mockingbird" which is a fine old movie. When I realized that it was on AMC, I shut the damned thing off! At the beginning, they show nice chunks of the movie with a few commercial breaks. As the plot thickens and you are drawn into the story, they torment you with a commercial break every five minutes or so.

I would much rather wait for a movie to be on TCM where I can watch the whole movie with no interruptions.

I would not mind SOME commercials, but there are too many on AMC.

You picked a good day to get me started on this as I just wrote an email to NBC News about how they should just call it NBC Nightly Commercials with news bits by Brian Williams. I am slightly more annoyed when the cable channels have so many commercials as we are PAYING for the privledge. Another channel thats gotten really bad is the Hilter channel, oops I mean History Channel, which breaks every 10 minutes for 5 minutes of commercials. I really enjoy some of thier shows but cannot stand all those breaks.

I really should listen to Lawrence/Maytagbear and just throw the effing TV off the Pali.
 
Oh, and

I saw the first few minutes of the aforementioned Christmas special and I thought it was crap too and shut it off.

TV is still a vast wasteland. I was whining to Martha that our crummy regular cable has about 75 channels of nothing to watch. Her and Mark have digital cable and she assured me that it too is 900 channels of nothing to watch. I am often tempted to ask our landlord to cut the cable and simply reduce our rent, but the gal in the mainhouse would lose her flickering blue babysitter and then she may actually have to RAISE her children. MEOW! May I have a dish of cream?

David
 
I gave up cable a couple of years ago. I found that my TV antenna gets all three (or four) major networks with better picture quality than I was getting over the landline. I couldn't see spending $50+ per month to watch the same commercials I could see for free. I never took the plunge into the "premium" selections like HBO, Showtime, etc, but since I was going back to college with a double load, I figured I didn't have time to watch all that stuff anyway.

I do miss the History Channel, the Comedy Channel, and maybe a couple others. But nothing I can't live without. I figure I'm saving at least $600/year by not doing cable or satellite. That money I can spend selectively on DVD's of movies I really want to see. Or not.

I find I keep the TV on for background noise and something to rest my eyes on from time to time when working on the computer (did this when I had cable, too). Once in a while something comes along that's worth watching seriously, but more often than not it's a throw away pastime.

Thank God for PBS.
 
Here's a shot of the centrally located (in my laundry closet!) TV broadcast distribution panel I built. It basically connects two rooftop antennas to a switch that allows one to select due west, due south, or combine output from antennas.

I thought I posted this already but since I can't find it I figure I must have mistakenly exited the website before the final posting...
 
cable/satellite

The thing I really enjoy on cable/satellite is that now there is much more room for "niche" programming that the major networks just don't have the time for. I really like watching shows like "Modern Marvels", "Extreme Engineering", "Biography". Watched a show the other night about how Saks 5th Avenue, Macy's, and Neiman Marcus come up with their holiday window decorations everyyear. Was quite interesting.
 

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