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  1. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    This is probably true, but what's also true is that younger people have been less interested in Golden Age films with each passing generation. Unless I'm mistaken, it was a very small percentage even from the first generation of "rerun" viewers, the baby boomers. Of course that's really no...
  2. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    On Kodi at home, I have Classic Film and Modern Film playlists. The idea of combining them would break my brain. If that's how TCM is now, then that's how it is. But I didn't know it that way. I guess I'm old. Or just out of the loop.
  3. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    I remember it happening on special occasions but not as a standard. So it's standard to mix the 1930s-1990s every day, in effect like randomizing your entire music library on iTunes? If so the TCM I knew is already gone.
  4. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    I haven't had cable in over a decade so perhaps my information is a bit outdated or opinions have shifted. Here's a theoretical. Let's say there's an obscure movie from 1993. Most likely there's a decent chance it's available to stream, a small chance it can be found somewhere on cable and a...
  5. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    I've been thinking about the definition of "classic" since this fallout began, and have realized the distinction, for me, can be defined by upper/lower casing. A classic film can be whatever you feel is classic to you. But a Classic, as seen on TCM, should mean Golden/Silver age only. Leonard...
  6. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    He was a man of the era whose movies he introduced. The other hosts simply aren't.
  7. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    Oh, it's the money for sure. TCM isn't the MCU. It seemed likely there could be a problem to some degree, but Zaslav has such a negative public association in such a short time that any "goodwill" just seems like spin. Which I expect is the same here. There was the meeting with the TCM hosts...
  8. Traveling Matt

    Is TCM in trouble?

    I immediately thought his appearance at the film festival was suspect. Such an unusual move, from someone with his reputation, looked like he was trying to get in front of something. Same feeling here as he apparently called the meeting with Spielberg and Scorsese, not the other way around. My...
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