ElCid
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I've had two problems with the new Now Playing Newsletter:
1. I received the September edition but did not receive the October edition. Clearly, TCM had my email address, and there was no problem receiving NP on my end. It seems like there must have been some problem on TCM's end when it didn't send me the October NP. Please correct this problem.
2. Please send NP before the first of the month so that we can review it and plan our viewing before the month starts. Yes, I've seen the advice to go online to see the schedule before the 1st. That doesn't work because I want to highlight a hard copy of the schedule to remind me about upcoming movies. (Please don't tell me about the email reminders. I've tried them, and they don't work very well. I've sometimes received reminders months after the movie was shown.)
Why does TCM want to make it difficult for its loyal viewers to watch TCM?
I really loved the old Now Playing and subscribed for years. (I would have paid more for it.) I'm now trying to work with the new electronic version, but it's really not working very well.
All of your complaints and comments have been made before, but without any response from TCM.
I signed up again for the NPG and also clicked on the October schedule on that site. It is actually the monthly site from tcm.com. My problem is that it is 21 pages long and that would mean about 252 pieces of paper over a year.
TCM needs to make the printable version utilizing less paper.
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I've had two problems with the new Now Playing Newsletter:
1. I received the September edition but did not receive the October edition. Clearly, TCM had my email address, and there was no problem receiving NP on my end. It seems like there must have been some problem on TCM's end when it didn't send me the October NP. Please correct this problem.
2. Please send NP before the first of the month so that we can review it and plan our viewing before the month starts. Yes, I've seen the advice to go online to see the schedule before the 1st. That doesn't work because I want to highlight a hard copy of the schedule to remind me about upcoming movies. (Please don't tell me about the email reminders. I've tried them, and they don't work very well. I've sometimes received reminders months after the movie was shown.)
Why does TCM want to make it difficult for its loyal viewers to watch TCM?
I really loved the old Now Playing and subscribed for years. (I would have paid more for it.) I'm now trying to work with the new electronic version, but it's really not working very well.
These have all been suggested or commented upon in the past and ignored.
I went to tcm.com and subscribed again to NPG. Clicked on the October one on the sign-up site. When I clicked on programming, it brought up the standard monthly schedule at tcm.com.
The October schedule takes 21 pages to print. That's roughly 252 pages per year. The printable version of the monthly schedule should be much smaller.
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Hello everyone
I know this has been mentioned in another thread somewhere, but has everyone seen this announcement?
http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/156499-the-now-playing-newsletter/
If not, have a look, and maybe it will clear up some of your questions.
Thank you!
Please see my comments at http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/156499-the-now-playing-newsletter/
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Thank you all for posting and reaching out regarding issues related to getting the newsletter. There are a few reasons why you may be experiencing issues receiving the Now Playing newsletter:
- Please double check that your newsletter did not arrive in your spam or junk folder. If it has, you can add it to your safe sender list to ensure it doesn't happen next month: nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com
- If you don't see it in your Spam folder, double check that nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com is on your safe sender list as your email provider may not be letting us come through.
If spam and other filters have been looked at, and you have double-checked your email address is on file with us, you may have opted out of receiving a TCM email in the past (either by unsubscribing or contacting TCM to take you off the list). If that is the case, please know that we are actively working to update our system to allow you to be added back to our list to receive the newsletter. In the meantime, you can access the past issue here.
If you have not done so yet, please email our Viewer Relations (via Contact Us on TCM.com) and let us know your email address so we can alert our data team to ensure we get you on the list to receive (if you have already sent in to us, we do have it on file).
We will also be posting the latest link to view the Now Playing Newsletter on our social channels so that you'll be able to see all the great things happening at TCM throughout the month. Be sure and check out TCM on FB and Twitter on the first and fifteenth of the month to see the latest Newsletter.
We thank you so much for your patience during this transition!
I went to TCM.com and clicked on contact us at bottom of home page. There are two ways to contact TCM. One is to click on the contact us "icon" (with a microphone) and that brings up the generic contact page. I have used it many times in past few months to raise this issue with no response. Incidentally, as recently as three weeks ago, if you selected one of the topics with Now Playing in it or you mentioned Now Playing in your comments, you got an automated response on how to subscribe to the paper no longer available version or how to sign up for the email. No response as to why not working.
There is also the How do I contact TCM topic under the list of Most Popular Topics under the Knowledge Base "icon" with a stack of papers. That brings up TCM Viewer Relations and requires a paper letter to them in Atlanta. Done that, no response. You can also call them and leave a message that may or may not be answered. Mine never were.
Thanks for your help and maybe this new "email contact" will work, but contacting TCM is difficult, if not impossible.
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Thank you all for posting and reaching out regarding issues related to getting the newsletter. There are a few reasons why you may be experiencing issues receiving the Now Playing newsletter:
- Please double check that your newsletter did not arrive in your spam or junk folder. If it has, you can add it to your safe sender list to ensure it doesn't happen next month: nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com
- If you don't see it in your Spam folder, double check that nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com is on your safe sender list as your email provider may not be letting us come through.
If spam and other filters have been looked at, and you have double-checked your email address is on file with us, you may have opted out of receiving a TCM email in the past (either by unsubscribing or contacting TCM to take you off the list). If that is the case, please know that we are actively working to update our system to allow you to be added back to our list to receive the newsletter. In the meantime, you can access the past issue here.
If you have not done so yet, please email our Viewer Relations (via Contact Us on TCM.com) and let us know your email address so we can alert our data team to ensure we get you on the list to receive (if you have already sent in to us, we do have it on file).
We will also be posting the latest link to view the Now Playing Newsletter on our social channels so that you'll be able to see all the great things happening at TCM throughout the month. Be sure and check out TCM on FB and Twitter on the first and fifteenth of the month to see the latest Newsletter.
We thank you so much for your patience during this transition!
Not sure what a "safe sender list" is. I enter emails into my Contacts list and that is supposed to let all emails from that "person" go to my inbox. Works fine for all others.
I have added the one above and we'll see what happens.
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i think this is the only film i have seen her in, but she was- clearly- a MARVELOUS actress.
her performance in BRIDES is possibly the finest performance in a Hammer film ever.
ps- the ON DEMAND listings seem to be different with cable companies and parts of the country. also, they will change the amount of selections and the selections at the drop of a hat, sometimes (it seems) listing a film before it is available (my system said BRIDES OF DRACULA was available last night, but I was not able to access it til this morning.)
I get my cable from Spectrum (Charter) and they told me that the networks determine what to offer ON DEMAND on their systems. There are times when TCM does not have anything On Demand on Spectrum.
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in response to TheCid's problem please check your "allowed contact"s list of allowed email senders. it should be:
nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com
i'd capitalize this but capitalizing would be a violation of rules regarding addresses.
anyway, please double check your list of allowed senders. when i did this, i found i didn't have the correct sender on my allowed list. when i entered the complete sender name in early Sept, i received the mid-month update on Sept 15, the Oct 1 Now Playing release, and this AM the Oct mid-month update.
just TCM.com will not do!
Thanks, but I have had this in my contacts (allowed senders) for weeks now. I just sent an email to this address asking why no NPG.
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Cid, you're so right about the quality of Lion, but it is based on the career of Huey Long, just like All the King's Men.
Forgot to mention that I also read the biography of Huey Long by T. Harry Williams, All the King's Men movie is based on Robert Penn Warren's book by the same title which is based on Long.
Not to mention my parents grew up and began working in Long's Louisiana. In fact, we had a distant cousin who was part of Long's administration.
While Lion may have been based on it, it was poorly done. Lion also does not reflect the career of Long, either before of after he was governor.
There were hundreds, maybe thousands, of Southern demagogues during the 20's through the 50's who could have been models for Lion, but the story in the movie is not close to Long.
Not defending Long, just saying this is not a reflection of him or what he accomplished and how he did it.
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Watched A Lion is in The Streets and it is no where near All the King's Men.
Maybe it is Cagney or maybe it is the music or the screenplay or the director, but to me it is more of a comedy than a drama. The accents are horrendous, especially Cagney's.
Comes closer to The Beverly Hillbillies. or maybe Green Acres.
Having read King's Men and seen the movie several times, no way would I have thought Lion is even based on a similar scenario.
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Day 45 and still no email NPG. Nice to be notified of board being down on 10/17, but still not explanation of what is going on with the email NPG.
There is still the problem that the current Month Schedule is headed as the Now Playing schedule and it is far too long to print every month.
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I've watched the Granger/O'Donnell Noir/Mystery movies and just don't like them. There is something about Granger and O'Donnell that just turns me off. My wife, who likes Noir and mystery movies, also doesn't find the pair appealing.
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Connoisseurs of camp will not want to miss Sunday morning's A Lion Is in the Streets, which is the backwoods cousin to All the King's Men. Folkses (as Jimmy Cagney says in the movie, cuz that's how us Suthun folkses talk), you don't want to miss the scene where Anne Francis as the swamp gal Flamingo tries to feed Barbara Hale to the alligators.
Favorite line of dialogue:
Flamingo (as she spies Barbara Hale): "Who all's that?"
Sunday, Oct 15, 12 PM ET.
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@Stephan55
Nice post with historical overview. I especially like your conclusion:
"So sit back, and have a glass of TCM wine, and relax.
Enjoy TCM for what it is, a channel that offers relatively "uncut and commercial free" programming, no more, or less."
Spot on.
At least I don't think I've heard them use the overused corporate phrase "these are exciting times". Or if they have, I filtered it out.
Good points. Of course, the issue is why hasn't TCM at least let people know what is happening?
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Thank God for recording. Appears some of most interesting movies of late are on in the wee hours of the morning. Of course, many are "different" and that makes being able to fast forward also an advantage.
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Day 41 and no NPG in my inbox or spam.
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I find the Val Lewton films uneven, never seeing a single one of them that I find completely satisfactory. But, boy, do they have their moments that make the viewing worthwhile.
The sequence depicting the walk through the sugar cane field in I Walked With A Zombie is a beautiful illustration of an appeal to a viewer's primal fears. The hypnotic camerawork combined with the sounds of the wind and the rustling of the sugar cane stalks as the heroine leads a woman under a spell to a voodoo ceremony ranks, for me, as an eerie masterpiece. We're in a strange foreign midnight world here where you feel that anything might happen.
My wife and I both enjoy fairly often re-watching I Walked With a Zombie. Have it on DVD.
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Moody and sexy, with sporadic moments of violence, Hawks' take on Chandler is one of my favourites, confusing screenplay aside. I get more of a kick out of this private eye thriller than I do talk fest Maltese Falcon, even though that film does have a once in a lifetime cast.
Bogie's Philip Marlowe is the closest he came to playing a James Bond-type magnet for the chicks. Man can't even wander into a book store without a beauty doffing her glasses and letting down her long hair for him. And where, oh where, do you find cab drivers like the one Marlowe has in this film? All that and Bacall, too.
I have heard about the confusing screenplay before, but never understood it. Every time I watch the movie, it makes sense to me. At least as much as any other Noir or mystery from the period.
Maybe it's just that I want it to make sense and therefore mentally fill in the blanks.
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Friday/Sat. 2:15 AM. The Tall Story (1960). Jane Fonda's debut movie. Haven't seen it in a while, but fairly good comedy if I remember correctly. Also features Anthony Perkins as the basketball player.
Maitlin gave it 2.5 stars so it can be too bad.
I recorded today's Nick Carter and Heddy Lamar movies, so I think I will go watch them.
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Time to change the thread title?
Oct 3rd is Western day, with a lot of Tim Holt ones to start. The one with Jane Greer stars Dick Powell.
I watched Station West yesterday. Had seen it many years before and a fairly good movie.
However, whenever Powell and Greer were speaking I mentally transferred them to a 1940-50's noir or mystery. It just seemed the dialogue, speech, mannerisms, etc. fit those genre's better.
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It appears there are three or four (maybe more) commenting (mostly complaining) about the new NPG email. This should tell somebody something.
I still say somebody at TCM should respond with a post.
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So Lorna and Larry --
You think that it's worthwhile upgrading my four Legacy DVDs to Blu-Ray? There is enough of a difference? (I have the Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, and Wolf Man Legacy DVDs, which include many movies in the series (though not A&C, but I'm not sure I need that one).
I assume the Blu-Ray DVDs are not exactly the same, movie-wise?
We got a Blu-Ray player several years ago. Only got a few Blu-Rays and do not believe it is worth the difference. Do have one 50's B&W SciFi movie in both versions. Absolutely cannot tell the difference.
And I have a friend who is big into latest video tech. He said Blu-Ray is not that much better than a quality DVD.
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Refer to my existing thread on the same topic.
http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/156175-day-and-no-now-playing-guide-email/
As for contacting TCM via email, good luck. I have even written to the CEO of TCM via USPS and never received a response.
Just added nowplaying@siteservices.tcm.com
to my contacts. Will see how that works.
Haven't added the mailchimp address yet, but I guess that may be required also.
I viewed the NPGvia the link in another post. The actual movie guide in which I am most interested is the same as the monthly schedule on the tcm website. I was hoping for a more printer friendly (less paper) version in the email.
Question is why isn't the information on the TCM site for signing up re: adding__________ to your email contacts?
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Yes. I hadnt seen Company She Keeps since TCM last ran it (on a Jane Greer SUTS day) I'd seen Tears when TCM premiered it, in its restored version. I hadnt seen it before.
TCM is running a Greer western tomw. Station West at 3pm. where she stars as some sort of gang leader. It looked interesting on her SUTS day, but I didnt have room to record it..
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT SCOTT THROWS IN THE OCEAN??? IT'S NOT THE GUN. STILL CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT. WHEN SHE LEAVES THE CAR THERE???? (in Too Late for Tears).
Time to change the thread title?
Oct 3rd is Western day, with a lot of Tim Holt ones to start. The one with Jane Greer stars Dick Powell.
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Well if someone wants to dig into this some more, get in touch with Mailchimp, with reference to the TCM NPG. They are the company serving the online NPG. TCM may have an iron-clad closed-mouth policy, but this is a different organization.
That is one alternative, but mailchimp is just the delivery mechanism. TCM is the company that decided to do the email NPG and selected the company to "deliver" it.
If there is a problem at mailchimp, TCM should be referring people to it. Instead they are referring you to the people in Palm Coast FL.
I googled mailchimp and from what I saw, it appears they are just the delivery system and they would probably say to contact TCM, if they responded at all.
I noticed that mailchimp is in Atlanta also, if that matters.
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Day ____ and NO Now Playing Guide email
in General Discussions
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BingFan
To add to other suggestions. Go to schedule on top line of this site, click on Month Schedule. This is the same one as in the email NPG. Scan through it and note which ones you wish to view for the month or just keep a week or so ahead.
I don't use a calendar, but I do keep a small notepad next to my TV viewing chair and use that for reminders of shows to watch/record. Actually keep other networks on the same pad.
The one advantage for me to the Month Schedule is that it provides descriptive information as was provided in the printed NPG without having to open and close multiple sections.
Not a good solution, but what we have.