what film is most often shown on UK TV? i vote tremors — and i know bcz i watch it EVERY TIME (and so does my dad)
Woah, Cerebus! It's always good to see someone diving deep into this classic. Sounds like an intense, but worthwhile journey.…
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Eleven years later (couldn't hang on another 3), I just wanted to add "I agree".. it's damn funky
Thanks for the deep dive into all of this lunacy. I started reading Cerebus in high school, when it was…
It's been a heck of a ride revisiting Cerebus through your eyes and analysis. Thank you for taking the time…
I think this is more in the sense of "anyone else Sim chooses"
The self-contained Five Bar Gate issue and the issue where Cerebus and the Stooges stumble their way through 100% darkness…
Midnight Run seems to be on ITV or ITV2 whenever I am at my parents, my Dad and I must have watched the last hour of that film at least a dozen times no matter what time it is on and no matter what we actually have to do the next day
For a while I swear it was Family of Cops. I thought this was just a delusion I shared with a friend, until I worked on the Radio Times film desk – where they run a vast database which can indeed tell you every time a film has been shown, either terrestrial or satellite – and found Five really were showing Family of Cops every couple of months. Tremors and Midnight Run actually seem rather good choices for repeat runs.
i once emailed a letter to sight and sound saying “WHY IS CITIZEN KANE NEVER ON TV? SURTELY THAT IS WEIRD?” — the editor emailed me back to say “mark don’t be silly it’s on lots, i’ve spiked yr email to save you from looking a ninny” BUT I HAVE STILL NEVER SPOTTED IT
so there may be an element of subjectivity here
mark it appears on stateside tv but pretty much only on turner classics (sadly the case now for any movie pre-godfather w/ the exception of 60s bond/eastwood/mcqueen)(note this)(as that joke notes ‘shawshank redemption’ holds the title but there was a time believe it or not when the answer was very possibly yes really BEASTMASTER).
mark it appears on stateside tv but pretty much only on turner classics (sadly the case now for any movie pre-godfather w/ the exception of 60s bond/eastwood/mcqueen)(note – http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/death_of_miss_moneypenny)(as that joke notes ‘shawshank redemption’ holds the title but there was a time believe it or not when the answer was very possibly yes really/gloriously BEASTMASTER).
Tremors used to be shown almost daily on the Cable SCI-FI channel!
I have def. seen Citizen Kane on UK terrestrial telly, tho’ not for quite some time (but then how often do any B+W movies from the 1940s get shown on mainstream TV these days?)
Mostly during the daytime when we are all supposed to be AT WORK…Kane does tend to pop up round about Christmas on BBC2, usually at about ten in the morning.
Anyway, shurely the correct answer is Carry On Up The Khyber.
One film which NEVER gets shown on TV – Down Among The Z-Men starring all four original Goons which I saw once on Saturday morning BBC1 round about ’74-5 time and never again.
“but then how often do any B+W movies from the 1940s get shown on mainstream TV these days?)”
Plenty, actually, but normally, as noted by Marcello, in the pensioner-friendly lunchtime slot, or else at about 12:30am on BBC2. About three years ago they had a great week of Robert Mitchum films on BBC2. There was a Nick Ray season not that long ago, and they showed Fritz Lang’s big American films (including the Big Heat) on BBC2 in the after midnight slot in the last couple of months.
I’ve definitely seen Kane on TV, and I can prove it, because I’ve got it on tape (as well as The Magnificent Ambersons).