do movies actully rate anymore or are they seen as cheapish filler?
i remember when i was a kid you had movies on seemingly most nights around 8:30 along with the 6:30 saturday family movie (generally disney) and over the day on the weekend there were older movies - i think i saw every shirly temple movie on tv during saturdays, along with, of course the late Bill Collins who introduced me to Citizen kane.
now it seems there is not much on FTA
Not so long ago, TV was the only way to see a movie you hadn’t seen before or that you’d seen but wanted to watch again (bar a return to the theatres for a special presentation etc). Then home theatre systems with VCRs etc made it easier, then it was DVDs, Blu-Ray and now streaming. There’s so many ways to view content now that a film from eons ago isn’t going to create waves.
Also, the window for pop culture is so much shorter than it used to be.
oh for sure - i remember when the FTA premier of a big movie was a huge deal. now it’s just another distribution channel (and probably for many not the preferred one due to movies being interrupted by adverts and cut for classification purposes)
As we see, some movies still rate, while others barely draw viewers.
However, what is evident, is that movies still make up a significant % of (particularly Seven and Nine) weekly programming output, with weekends saturated with them across the board.
Yank all them away, would be interesting to see… Content supply agreements are very costly for networks though and is often why we see them on main channels in prime time (i.e.) tonight and multiple encores, to maximise value.
The “good old days” when all three commercial stations would air the big blockbuster movies on Sunday nights at 8.30pm. Ten made the bold decision to stop airing the movies and air Rove on Sunday nights. Unheard of back then. Now, no one airs movies on the main channels on Sunday nights.
I wonder if Ten will air movies again on Sundays after their reality shows at 9pm? To spread their American dramas across the week?
It was NCIS and criminally intent or SVU. Rove moved to Sunday’s later on.
Yep, NCIS and CI, 2004 (or 2005?)
oopsy me. You’re right there.
Thanks for clarifying it.
As seen in this promo from 2005 (the coincidence here of it also introducing a movie): https://youtu.be/M2OaGcpnZ7s
Modern “WB” opening logo cover-up on Seven’s network premiere copy of “Hard to Kill” (1990)
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Interesting programming move by Seven, putting on “The Sound of Music” on 7flix in prime time tomorrow night (gave the channel it’s highest ever share earlier this year), in an attempt to mitigate a ratings thumping from Nine’s national main channel Ashes?
They already gave up on main channel against it, airing AGT re-run, although they’ve moved one to 7flix late night.
7mate network premiere of “Prometheus” (first run was on 10 in 2014) this Sunday, technically ‘Alien 5’
“Alien: Covenant” (technically ‘Alien 6’) FTA premiere on 7mate Sunday week.
Both from their Fox output.
FTA premiere. From Nine’s long running Roadshow output.
FTA premiere. From Seven’s Fox output.
Anyone see any promos for Blade Runner 2049? Apparently was airing on the weekend?
Didn’t see any promo made. And yes, had it’s FTA premiere at 8:50pm on Saturday night (aired for over 3 hours). It was also edited from MA to M.
It rated, making the Top 20 multi-channels, also helping 9Go! to nearly 6%.
I saw the promo once, on 9Gem on early Saturday evening.
9GO! will have the FTA premiere of 2017 movie Baby Driver this Saturday at 9.10pm. It’s distributed by Sony.
Watched it at a mate’s place on Foxtel, great movie, underrated.
This aired at the very end of Nine’s copy of “Ransom” (1996) on 9Gem the other night
First ran on Seven in late 90s, then Nine nabbed re-run rights in early 2000s (wonder if @Zampakid has any caps?) It was contrary to the norm, as Seven had a long running output with Disney, but these situations did occur from time to time in this era.
This copy was also rather poor, even though reasonable 16:9 picture quality, the audio was echoed and muffled a bit. There was also Nine’s former long running ad break ‘bumpers’ present (the original poster shot of Mel Gibson with his head leaning on elevated arms into his fist, in front of many TV screens showing his kidnapped son and a chilling piano theme).
The simple reason for that is that they can go back to the source material - in the case of The X Files, that was 35mm film. The same can’t really be said for traditional cel animation, unless the original cels/drawings remain available and can be scanned in a higher quality.
This article gives a good insight into the process of remastering The X Files.
