ITV Scheduling and Wild Wild West

[SavageHedgehog]

Why does Wild Wild West seem to be on at least one of the ITV channels at least once every weekend? It was genuinely quite unpopular wasn't it? Do you think there's someone at ITV whose a big Wild Wild West fan whose trying to convince the world they were wrong? If so I think it's working. Go Will! Beat that mechanical spider!

[biggytitbo]

ITV 3 shows the back to the future films roughly 200 times a month and have done for years.

[non capisco]

There was a point a couple of years ago when Film Four would have had you believe that 'Lucky Number Slevin' was the only film that had ever been made. Never off air it was. Seemed to be appropriate to whatever 'season' they'd come up with. 'Films beginning with L season' might as well have been one of them. If you loved 'Lucky Number Slevin' so much, Film Four, why didn't you marry it?!!

Still haven't seen it, mind.

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ITV 3 shows the back to the future films roughly 200 times a month and have done for years.

My elder brother hates those films, but I hilariously pretend that he loves them.  Every time I spot that one of them is on I make a point of texting him and telling him not to miss it.

[Dead kate moss]

Was going to post something on this subject. There are basically 20-40 films that are always on, somewhere. All the Will Smith ones, King Kong, Godzilla, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Jurassic Parks...

It is notable that most of these movies were successful at the cinema,, but Wild Wild West definitely wasn't.

It's annoying, there are plenty of films they never show, but the world has subtly changed so that we have hundreds of channels with the same handful of movies to ever watch on them.

Oh and fucking You've Got Mail has been on so often lately I've perfected my Meg Ryan impersonation.

[biggytitbo]

I bet Back to the Future holds the world record for been shown most times in one calender year though.

[Dead kate moss]

I had a theory that perhaps these movies are so cheap to show because they are so full of product placement the movie right's owners make enough money from that anytime it's shown to give them away, or even pay for them to be shown. Though that can't be the case with Wild Wild West..? Or King Kong I suppose.

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I bet Back to the Future holds the world record for been shown most times in one calender year though.

It seems that way, but with two sequels it seems to be on more often than it is.  I'd say probably the trilogy as a whole, yes.

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And Terminator 2 always seems to be on.

[Dead kate moss]

Repeat offender Mummy Returns on as we speak.

[buntyman]

There are quite a lot of critically panned films that get a lot of airings on the ITV channels. It must be cheaper to show them or something as The Fast and the Furious, Pearl Harbour and Under Siege are always on.

[SavageHedgehog]

Those are all quite popular among your actual public though, or at least were[nb]Pearl Harbour less so maybe, but it was popular with Affleck and Hartnett's tennybopper fanbase[/nb]; Wild Wild West, not so much.

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The theme tune to the fucking Archers keeps getting repeated on Radio 4.  I always turn the radio off during the tune so I can't tell you if it's the same exact episode always on.

[Subtle Mocking]

Quadrophenia is pretty much the only film that ITV4 seem to show. Who watches that channel anyway?

[shiftwork2]

...ITV4... Who watches that channel anyway?

SHUT IT



WE'RE THE SWEENEY SON, AND WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY TROUSERS

[idunnosomename]

Steptoe and Son Ride Again seemed to be always on Sky Movies.

Sky Movies seems great but when you have it it never seems to have any films on it you want to watch. You think when something's on at the cinema "oh I might watch that when it comes on Sky Movies" but it doesn't, except for Box Office. It's just Steptoe and Son Ride Again.

[Serge]

When I first had Film Four, it seemed like 'Phone Booth' was on every night.

[Cohaagen]

Can't say I've noticed Wild Wild West that much, but I am continually taunted by the interminable, ubiquitous presence of the fucking rotten I, Robot on Film Four, E4 and More 4. Every goddamn week, sometimes multiple showings. If you include the +1s I bet there have been weeks when it's almost reached double figures.

[thecuriousorange]

American Pie 2 has been on an awful lot recently.

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Not that many films left to list before we're saying that "all films are constantly on television"!!!

[Hank_Kingsley]

I can't turn on the TV without seeing Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' nowadays!

[The Roofdog]

No it's only been on once, it's just so fucking long that it's still on.

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That Shoah seems to be on all day when it is.

[The Roofdog]

It shoah does.

[Hank_Kingsley]

Whenever I had mates sleeping over as a teenager[nb]Not in a gay way, mind.[/nb]there always seemed to be a screening of anthology horror film 'Asylum' on BBC 1. It was either that, or a generic late night 'erotic thriller' starring Shannon Tweed or someone with a distinct lack of eroticism and thrills.

[The Roofdog]

I always thought it was a good night if you got a Tweed. Better than having to make do with 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'.

[thecuriousorange]

Wait I know a good one! Twins!

[small_world]

I love Milla Jovovich, but the sheer amount of times The Fifth Element is on on Channel 5, is a joke.

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Wait I know a good one! Twins!

Oh yes with the old.... Danny Elfmen?

[El Unicornio, mang]

My elder brother hates those films

And you have allowed him to live?