Good one and yes parts of this is to boost attention to Paramount+
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CBS Brings Back ‘Saturday Night Movies’ To Air ‘Top Gun’ Ahead Of ‘Maverick’ Premiere
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Good one and yes parts of this is to boost attention to Paramount+
and they were still big into the 90s even when they were a few years old because people were too dumb to program the VCRs or too lazy to go blockbuster, the annual airing of The Wizard of Oz was a big deal like the Christmas specials (they were "Christmas", not "holiday" specials back then)
Saturday night filler--makes sense
The same thing applies to all the cable TV channels. Like when TNT airs Wedding Crashers every other weekend. A 90 minute movie filled with 90 minutes of commercials in a 3-hour block. Nobody turns on these movies to actually sit there and watch the movie. It's just for background noise when you're doing other stuff.
Better than the reality junk that is on most weekends. At least in the fall we'll have college football which I wish CBS would do more often, possibly with whatever conference they get a new deal with when the SEC goes to ESPN.
And I guess ABC is showing the 10 Commandments this weekend.
No, that was last Saturday.
A lot of the time is spent on either sports or repeats, which also makes sense. It's a freaking dead night for broadcast TV. There is zero reason to be investing significant resources there, so if you have something more-or-less "in house," throw it up and see what you can get. If it fails miserably, oh well, not a big investment. If it works, great.
I think you mean when the SEC goes entirely to ESPN, since the majority of the SEC action is already on ESPN and its own SEC Network.
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LOL! There are people who still haven't seen Top Gun? I agree with the previous posters; CBS need to have a primetime SEC game. Or, if they are indeed losing their contract with the SEC, a high profile game from another conference.
They are losing it in 3 years maybe sooner if ESPN buys them out.
2023 is the last season for SEC football kinda surprised ESPN hasn't bought the remaining years from CBS yet. I think it is good to have a movie night on network TV which is to promote the new Top Gun movie that comes out at the of May. CW TV stations along with MyNet TV stations air movies on weekend afternoon CW7 airs 3 movies on weekend afternoons WXSP airs one movie on Sat which is repeated on sister station WOTV.
Good film but I think I'll be just gaming and blasting Kiss FM or NGEN Radio. I can't endure the nonstop commercials.
It'd be interesting for someone who's a serious Top Gun fan to watch and report back on how it's been sliced and diced for airing on the network, and how many minutes per hour are filled with spots. For those with a Netflix account (221 million subscribers as of April, '22), Top Gun is available there to watch at any time, full-length and commercial free.
Never cared for Top Gun but your point is spot on. It’s interesting that even sitcom reruns suffer from this. A few years back I causally watched the Mothers Day episode of The Golden Girls on TV Land. To my disgust, the entire hilarious 1950’s Sophia sequence with Bea Arthur doing double duty as Sophia’s mother was cut out for no reason, yet remained entirely intact on Hulu.
Not to mention the sheer number of movies and TV shows where they have certain music and songs changed/edited over the years because of music rights. What a mess
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