The Stooges are back on AMC

[therealjm12]

I would have to advise anyone that wants to buy a Three Stooges collection on DVD to be very careful. I just received the latest collection as a gift. I would never had bought it. This was an "official" release. It came in a real fancy tin and looked very impressive. That's why the gift giver gave it to me knowing I am a Stooge fan. What a bunch of crud. Just three public domain shorts that we have all seen 100's of times (Disorder in the Court etc. two with Shemp) some out takes and those awful cartoons from the early 60's.
I have seen other collections that under careful inspection were not what they appeared to be -just rip offs. Even if they are released by the "official" owners of the rights they can be of very poor quality and substance.

 

[FRR]

AMC has really gone downhill this past year. Running movies that everyone else has run and now this Three Stooges thing. Who cares? Can't they find a movie or two to run that they haven't run 16 times before?

 

[MarcB]

Every other channel is doing the same thing, running movies that have been on a bajillion other times. What's worse is apparently they're giving out multiple licenses for some movies just like with tv shows.

I saw the movie Jingle All the Way the last Sunday in November on TBS.

It was on during ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas a few times.

The week before Christmas is was on my local FOX station on Saturday and their sister CW station on Sunday.

Then on New Years Day it had it's Hallmark Channel Premiere.

 

[adam95]

Something else to get on AMC's case about -- infomercials! Don't know if this is something for the new year or if they've been doing it for the past few weeks. If this isn't the first week for it, they haven't been running them long. They're running 3 hours of paid programming every morning 6-9 Eastern. AMC is almost like the movie version of TV Land -- even their infomercials air at the same time! At least AMC's original programming is better -- much, much better.

 

[MarcB]

Something else to get on AMC's case about -- infomercials! Don't know if this is something for the new year or if they've been doing it for the past few weeks. If this isn't the first week for it, they haven't been running them long. They're running 3 hours of paid programming every morning 6-9 Eastern. AMC is almost like the movie version of TV Land -- even their infomercials air at the same time! At least AMC's original programming is better -- much, much better.

Holy Infomercials, Batman! It probably just started. The last week of December 2008 is when TVLAND began running infomercials. I hardly every pay attention to AMC anyway since they're all the way up on Channel 64.

 

[Madmansam]

AMC + Informercials

The Infomercials started on that day, January 4.

 

[azumanga]

And the actual value of cable gets lower and lower, while our bills get higher and higher.

 

[DToTheJ]

Why should I pay for AMC? Wait.....I don't.

Actually, you do -- as part of the cable bill for the tier it's in.

I think what landtuna meant to say is that he isn't a cable subscriber.

 

[landtuna]

Yup. No cable. No satellite. I'm "back to the future" on OTA.

 

[Madmansam]

Yup. No cable. No satellite. I'm "back to the future" on OTA.

Don't forget your Futuristic Digital Converter Box! This isn't your Dad's OTR! ;D

 

[kenrayc]

Yup. No cable. No satellite. I'm "back to the future" on OTA.

Don't forget your Futuristic Digital Converter Box! This isn't your Dad's OTR! ;D

I actually recall my grandmothers TV had to have a UHF converter back in the 60s, Her TV was a Admiral 1953 model, UHF Strips were put in on the VHF dial originally for 2 stations(KMJ 24 and KJEO 47) but in 1963 KFRE CBS 12 swiched to UHF 30 making Fresno a all UHF market and KAIL 53, KICU 43, KVVT 27 were on the air also.