FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 A 24-hour movie channel just added on my cable line-up a few months ago. Showing great stuff they are. Alotta fare shown on TCM like the molly maguires and Bridge on the River Kwai. The other nite good neighbor sam and last nite Bob Wise's TDTESS. Their picture quality looks better than TCM's...and no artsy silent turn of the last century french stuff either. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Are the films in widescreen w/out commercials? (just curious)........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 What's the name of the station and what cable company?? (TCM has shown Good Neighbor Sam, but only I think once in the last few years, OK with me, don't care for that film at all, great cast though) Would really like to know about the station. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Well, I'm not going to mention the name of my cable provider but the network (or station) is called *MOVIES!* To Hibi's question their fare seems to be 4:3 full screen with commercials...not that many though. http://moviestvnetwork.com/where-to-watch.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Saturday nite on movies! Ship of Fools, a very funny movie in places but ya gotta put up with the baloney with George Segal and Jessica Walter as disenchanted newlyweds. Some of my favorites parts are Lee Marvin calling Michael Dunn a sawed-off intellectual and that latin flamenco babe giving cheapskate Marvin a bum steer to Vivien Leigh's cabin who promptly whacks big Lee Marvin silly. It's funny as hell watching Vivien batter Marvin with that shoe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 That's not Jessica Walter -- it's Elizabeth Ashley. Ship of Fools is great soap opera, a very enjoyable, moving film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Oh yeah, you're right...Elizabeth Ashley. Always get those two confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 This seems to be an over the air broadcast "antenna" channel. It is not in all cities or on all cable companies. Look for your state and city in this list: http://moviestvnetwork.com/where-to-watch.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc1 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 It seems MOVIES, fills the same need as THIS, Antenna TV, or COZI. it something an over the air network can put on the new bands opened up by digital TV. I haven't watch a film on MOVIES yet, but they seem to show older films than THIS, (which I have watched a lot of.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 THIS and Antenna tv have long gotten sucky...although I will watch Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie on the latter this fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Well, I'm not going to mention the name of my cable provider but the network (or station) is called MOVIES! To Hibi's question their fare seems to be 4:3 full screen *with commercials...* Well, so much for that channel. Here's someone who can't be bothered to read subtitles, but he doesn't mind commercials in the middle of the movie. Takes all types, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I recently discovered that "The Burns and Allen Show" is on Antenna. It's crazy hilarious, I laugh and laugh. I think Luis Bunuel would have enjoyed it! No contemporary show makes me laugh like that. I also like watching "The Jack Benny Program." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I've been watching Burns and Allen and Jack Benny for over a year on Antenna Tv. Last night You Bet Your Life was on the JLTV station, Jack, Dinah Shore and the Goldbergs are also shown on that station. Sunday Night Noir night is great on ME-TV. A lot of fun to watch these shows when I want to take a break from TCM, or have seen the film being shown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I now have access to MOVIES, THIS, Antenna TV, and COZI. All of these stations have older movies or TV shows and I'm more interested in them than what other stations have other than sports and reality food contest type programming (Chopped, Top Chef). (and TCM of course!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Agreed, but I throw PBS into that mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Some great laughs are the crazy ads for the TV shows on ME-Tv. Best one is for Perry Mason. the quesrion is will Hamilton Berger ever win a case? You then have a woman yelling I don't know, I don't know! Very cute, very dopey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Yes, PBS; They are showing the nature program about birds where tiny cameras are attached to them while they migrate thousand of miles. So far I have seen the one for North America and Europe. This is the best filming of birds I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I think the American Masters series is great and the music specials. Really enjoyed the Burt Bachrach one a few months ago. The Pioneers of TV series was teriffic. I still watch Charlie Rose, love him. If I'm up and in a mood for some laughs, depending on who's on his panel I watch Bill Maher on HBO. With all this I still watch TCM more than any other channel. Good thing with all this sitting, I still take 3 or 4 20 minute walks a day LOL Just came back from one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I don't get ME TV, but when I was in Chicago visiting my grandma it was on in the lobby of her Nursing Home. The guy on the couch seemed to be enjoy a western, (or sleeping I wasn't really sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Tonight on COZI, Run For Your Life, a series starring Ben Gazzara, with guest stars Fernando Lamas and Tippi Hedron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 I always liked Ben Gazzara a much underrated actor. In a remake of 7 days in May he would have been a great James Matoon Scott. Gazzara had great screen presence. A shame he is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I looked at your link, Fred, and it claims this channel is on WJBK-TV. Listing the channel number at 2.2 Don't understand that. WJBK is a local FOX affiliate. The 2.2 must have something to do with those who use an over-the-air digital antenna rather than a cable hook up. WJBK TV is just channel 2 on the cable services in my area. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Yes, the 2.2 is over the air, antenna. TVs have a channel search feature. My satellite (cable) service is received on Channel 3. Then I change sat channels with my sat tuner remote control. The sat tuner has an antenna input, and I set my antenna channels with my TV tuner. For example, my local NBC channel is 12.1, and my NBC-THIS TV channel is 12.2. My antenna goes into the back of my sat tuner, and I can switch from sat to antenna with one button on my sat tuner and one button on my TV tuner. However, many people have all their local channels coming in via their cable or sat system, for which they probably pay $1 or more extra per local channel. In those cases, the broadcast channels will be assigned different cable/sat numbers. This cable system for receiving local channels is good if the viewer lives outside of town or if the different TV stations have their transmission towers in different directions. That keeps people from having to aim their outdoor antenna in a different direction for each local channel. But all my local channels, 8 of them, all have towers on the same mountain/hill, so I never have to turn my antenna when I change local channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Dobbsy, are there any channels showing old Senor Wences routines? Now that would be a winner. I think I'll go visit Youtube right now to view one of his most surrealistic routines. The guy was a genius. All he needed as props was his hand, a scarf and trunk and some lipstick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 The voice of Senor Wences (uncredited) is heard in History Is Made at Night (1937), during Charles Boyer's hand puppet routine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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