jrodor1 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 Would anyone else find it odd that before the airing of "Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion" played on July 21, 2004, Robert Osborne stated it was a "TCM premiere", yet this same film previously played on TCM on Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 7:00AM ET? Is it reasonable to conclude that the intro from back in Oct. 2003 was recycled ... repeated again ... July 2004? (It was previously thought that Robert Osborne always does new intros, but how could TCM staff assert that it was a TCM premiere when it wasn't?) Link to post Share on other sites
movieslover1000 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 No, there would be no recycled intro. Movies at 7 in the morning only open with the Sunny Side of Life song and the moving, bright day graphics. There is no intro in the mornings, only every primetime and afternoons on weekends. Link to post Share on other sites
jrodor1 Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 Jeepers, i suppose you're right about that -- there wouldn't have been a Robert Osborne intro for that previous airing. I wonder if Robert Osborne didn't know it aired before, or if the "TCM definition" of "TCM premiere" is somehow different than a common sense literal interpretation of "premiere"? Or maybe even ... it didn't air the previous time, even though it was on the schedule (e.g., maybe TCM interrupted their programming that day for a memorial marathon)? It's odd ... I'm pretty sure "Clarence" aired before, so I don't see why TCM would call it a 'premiere'. Link to post Share on other sites
classicsfan1119 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 Well, jeepers...maybe someone at TCM made a mistake. With all the things that TCM does to please it's viewers, is this tiny one all that important to harp about? Link to post Share on other sites
chrtbsh Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 it must have been an honest mistake - it's far from a TCM premiere, so I'm not sure how that happened, but we define a movie as a premiere if it's never been played on the network before Link to post Share on other sites
jhnrndglt Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I had never seen it on TCM before, though I remember it on the schedule. Maybe it was a "letterbox" premiere. Link to post Share on other sites
nickdimeo Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Because the movie is being aired in PRIMETIME with a proper Robert Osbourne intro it is considered a Premire. Link to post Share on other sites
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