Another topical bit swept aside by a non-stop news cycle. Basically, there were threats by the parent corporation to the good folk at TCM, home of the classic movies. The company first screw around with HBO MAX, making it MAX. then they started shelving movies. Then the focus on the unsexy source of steady income, TCM. They fired the executives in charge and started making noises about cut-backs. The one channel they don't have to create new content for and just exists to drawn in and make new movie fans was suddenly under fire. Some big-shot Hollywood directors stepped in to get the parent company to back off, so maybe things will be okay. For now. But it they try it again, I'll have this piece ready to go.
#TCM Party Poopers
Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav has been poking around Turner Movie Classics to see how he can screw them up or shorten their name. Now that Zaslav has begun firing long-time executives and laying off staff in the name of cutting expenses, we received a memo which goes a little deeper into the plans for TCM. They are cutting back everywhere on everything, based on the movie schedule for next month:
6 Brides for 6 Brothers
20 Seconds over Tokyo
The Rent-Controlled Apartment
2:45 to Yuma
It’s a Mad, Mad World
The Medium Sleep
41st Street
The Sixth Samurai
10 Angry Men
Some about Eve
The Second Man
The 300 Blows
7 ½
Littler Caesar
His Girl Thursday
Around the World in 73 Days
The 32 Steps
North or Northwest
Single Indemnity
The Adequate Years of our Lives
Miracle on 31st Street
Plan 8 from Outer Space
6 Brides for 6 Brothers
20 Seconds over Tokyo
The Rent-Controlled Apartment
2:45 to Yuma
It’s a Mad, Mad World
The Medium Sleep
41st Street
The Sixth Samurai
10 Angry Men
Some about Eve
The Second Man
The 300 Blows
7 ½
Littler Caesar
His Girl Thursday
Around the World in 73 Days
The 32 Steps
North or Northwest
Single Indemnity
The Adequate Years of our Lives
Miracle on 31st Street
Plan 8 from Outer Space
