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Honestly.
How many times MUST we put up with About a Boy, please Channel TEN?
It’s been scheduled AGAIN for 8:30pm Sunday January 18!
Could somebody from TEN Programming go down to the local video shop and move on to the letter “B” in the catalogue please?
Summer or no summer, Nicholas Hoult (Skins) or no Nicholas Hoult, this is banal. We’re really starting the year off well at some networks.
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I must admit to actually watching this for the first time this airing, but that was mainly because I’d caught half the movie in Italian on January 1st when I was over there, so I wanted to see what I’d missed! I don’t have a people meter, though, so I didn’t contribute to the ratings
Woah! Channel Ten needs to f***ing calm the f**k down. I think they’ve really got their money’s worth with About a Boy, maybe they should try playing a few other classics like School of Rock or Mean Girls. Oh thats right, they already play them every f***ing second…
Whats wrong with the Back to the Future trilogy? I love them.
…But yes, Ten needs to add some more movies to their playlist, or at least make sure its set to random.
Groundhog Day…………………….
Message to Blockbuster:..I have located your lost dvd of About a Boy, please contact Channel TEN
@ Gaius Baltar
No, I wasn’t confused because I don’t even have pay TV. :-/
Run Lola Run was definitely on Channel 10. I remember it was quite late, but it was the first time I watched it all the way through.
Off-topic. Pet hate.
“I am a huge fan of this film, and would of known”
Please. It’s ‘would have.’ FFS.
Again?!?!?!?! good lord!!!!
yes gaius don’t get your panties in a twist, i was not trying to be nasty so why are you? i was simply trying to state the truth. and i didn’t spend good money on it cos i don’t think it was that great a film, i have hundreds of dvds which i have paid for, and now i own everything i think is worth my money except new stuff as it comes out. but there are other films that come on tv that i wouldn’t mind having but not enough to spend money, $1 for a blank dvd is a lot less than $15 especially when the number of movies starts to add up. and it is perfectly legal so i feel no guilt at all, some downloading is illegal but recording off tv is not so why should i not utilise the equipment i spent good money on.
And on topic, yes this movie is woefully paltry and overplayed. I’m pretty sure someone said this movie’s been played 5 times in the past 3 years, there’s no way its that low, its on at least once every 3 months. And yes it is terrible. And for once I seem to agree with Knoxoverstreet, Coming to America and Kindergarten Cop are great films to be repeated, I haven’t seen either of them on in quite a while.
Quit being mean Gaius. RLR isn’t even that good a film, as far as German films go Goodbye Lenin! is superior in every aspect. No need to be so spiteful
@bindi
You must think you are smart eh? Not only because you reckon I should be wiping egg off my face right about now because I was supposedly wrong about channel 10 and whether they aired a German Film which has subtitles but also, you “recorded it and burnt it to dvd”.
Why? The dvd with proper dvd art can be bought for about $15 or so at jbhifi.
@ gaius baltar- run lola run most definately was shown on 10, i recorded it and burnt it to dvd and i just got out the dvd and checked and there is a 10 watermark.
I could so easily sit here and bitch about this….but the liklihood is that I will probably watch it…yet again…along with many others lol.
Its not even a good movie…….
dammit! I was looking forward to Mean Girls =(
Oh finally I can watch this movie! I’ve always been meaning to, but I missed it the last 112 times. Thanks Ten!
I like About A Boy too. It’d be nice to watch something else, but hey – it must rate okay for them to put it on so often.
What makes it worse about Practical Magic being repeated so often is that it is such a **** movie!!! I want the 2 hours of my life back when I saw it the one and only time.
Damn. I wish they’d show Groundhog Day.
Some movies can stand numerous repeats because they are that good..Coming To America & Kindergarten Cop come to mind.
Remember too the Lethal Weapon movies another example of a good repeatable movie
Ten must realise it has a fairly small movie catalogue. So why did it discontinue the output deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia etc.) and let it go to Nine a few years ago? (Which also explains why movies like Spiderman, Men in Black and TV series like Just Shoot Me are now shown on Nine) Ten now has output deals with Paramount and 20th Century Fox but we won’t get to see “new” movies (those made in 2004 and afterwards) until later this year at the earliest.
Men in Black used to get played heaps back when Channel 10 had the rights to it. Then it went to Channel 7 and I think they only screened it once.
@Sillygostly
Er, wrong, Ten has never shown Run Lola Run. I am a huge fan of this film, and would of known if they had of aired it or not, sbs has shown it at some point, I know it was on Showtime a while ago(and not world movies) when it first premiered on pay-tv, thats what you might of gotten you confused.
By the way, world movies is showing in a couple of weeks.
Other than Nine airing Life is Beautiful a few years back(Italian film), which they showed with proper subtitles etc, only the abc and sbs would screen foreign language films, like Run Lola Run, Amelie etc.
This reminds me of the mid 90s, when ten put The mighty ducks movie on almost every month.
Do you have list of the 20 most repeated movies on TV ?
P.S. Love the idea of special symbol denoting number of times show repeated or maybe big XYZ if movie repeated twice inside 2 months.
@ Gaius Baltar
No, I am fairly certain I saw Run Lola Run on Ten in a late night slot (which surprised me too).
It’s like 10 feel obligated to show popular movies and theatrical ones. They bought a few and then didn’t buy many more. It must be really cheap to show the same ones over and over again.
There are plenty of quality movies out there. If they want to go cheap, why not show some TV movies? I’m sure they’re cheaper to show and although a lot of people bag on them, there are a lot of great ones out there.
TV guides show repeat with an R, maybe they should show that it’s a repeat and the number of times it has been shown, so R would mean first repeat, R5 shows fifth showing, and About A Boy would get R100.
Hundreds of new movies get released each year, and yet TV channels seem to constantly repeat the same twelve movies over and over.
How about they play the Top 100 Movies, as voted by whoever they like, one after the other for the next five years, and when they’re done start with someone else’s list.
I’d like to see some of the older movies that you see on network television at midnight or later. Movies like Dirty Harry, Ninja Turtles, Karate Kid etc which haven’t been on in ages.
It seems like stations only like to play fairly recent movie releases in prime time these days which is disappointing.
Yeah it’s getting beyond a joke…. which is what it was early in ‘08 (after Mean Girls, About a Boy were already repeated an x amount of times). I know what i would program, but it wouldn’t be geared towards a female…. let alone a young audience (80’s action / martial arts movies such as Bloodsport and Kickboxer FTW!).
I miss Channel 9’s rotation of the Lethal Weapon movies, in recent years we tend to see the fourth get played at least once a year. There was a time when all four would get an airing at some stage during the year. I was a little too young, but i do recall when they used to do a Nightmare on Elm Street horror movie marathon every so often on a Saturday night.
Ten screened Die Hard 2 a few sunday’s ago, the third airs this sunday night according to the tv guide (9 used to have the rights). Makes me wonder if 7 still have the rights to the first – i assume they do, as Ten didn’t start off by airing it.
I tend to run my own ‘network’ via my tv series and movie dvd collection. I have plenty of movies and tv series to wade my way through. I shouldn’t whinge too much, usually if any of the networks decide to air a movie i havn’t seen in awhile…. it gets me motivated to pull out the dvd and watch it instead. I eliminate the constant commercial breaks that way!
When are they going to show Mean Girls again???
@Sillygostly
Run Lola Run, is a German film, and 10 wouldn’t show it, if anyone did show it, it would be SBS.
surprised that kindergarten cop hasnt been on for a while. they used to show it 3-4 times a year.
David, this really does warrant a new section on the website- repeat movie screening. That way the networks can be named and shamed for repeating a movie in the space of a few months. Just list movies, when they were played and then keep adding to it everytime they repeat the movie. At the end of the year you can award the network with the most repeats! And of course, a special award for the movie that was repeated the most….
I noticed Channel 9 played Practical Magic last week, which they played three months earlier. With such an onslaught of repeat movies you have to wonder if they get a new programmer in every other week!
i think some of the worst are charlies angels, love actually, briget jones, miss congeneality, national lampoons and the harry potter marathons, but the absolute worst this year was practical magic: played last summer, cup weekend and last week.
Of all the shows and films there are. Why not some classic reruns of 80s and 90s sitcoms or tv shows?? Make sunday night (Non ratings) a 111 hits night for free to air. That movie is depressing and more so since its been on like 5 times in 3 years
All these repeatative movies shown on Ten are just one thing that I can’t stand and bare to watch.. Seriously please stop showing them, we are so desperate to watch something new and exciting instead of Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, About A Boy, Love Actually, Mean Girls etc etc..
I have lost faith in 10 once they repeat all these movies twice or thrice in one year… It’s not only killing me softly but rather killing a slow and horrible state of boredom.. I can formally instead of Single Parents Alone Together (from the movie) we could form a group and have the chant “Stupid People At Ten”
The sad thing is, the people with the ratings devices actually continue to watch it….every single bloody year…
“or that Steve Martin movie where he has the big nose…”
Whoa Roxanne is a classic and rarely aired these days. But gotta agree with About A Boy ugh! The ending of that movie is nauseating.
“What? No Happy Gilmore / Billy Madison double?”
This cracked me up. I forgot about the HG/BM double they have every few months. Like The Back To the Furture trilogy every summer, and Terminator 1 & 2. I think they lost the rights to one of the Terminators to Seven.
Why dont they show a best of Rove, or something, to help bring in the new season. They have years of Channel Ten footage of this show since 2000 when it moved networks. Maybe a Neighbours tribute could work like they do in the UK with Neighbours Revisited and one off specials.
Skip the “B”, and try C, D, E?
Oh lordy lordy lordy…
Ten have the rights to some pretty good movies, including The Godfather trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, Lost in Translation, Apocalypse Now Redux, Run Lola Run among others that I can’t quite remember because they’ve only ever played them once (and/or in the ungodliest of timeslots).
Another movie which Ten seems to repeat a lot is Rat Race on Ten HD. They’ve played it at least 3-4 times in the last year alone. I’ve watched it once, and it was mildly amusing, but the constant repeat airings have put me off watching it a second time.
Oh, and let’s not forget The 40 Year Old Virgin, which Ten has added to their (tiny) movie rotation pool.
To be fair its the first time this year!
What? No Happy Gilmore / Billy Madison double?
SOunds like Channel 10 is trialling their version of Showtime – repeating the movies all the time. The only thing is that Showtime actually has a variety of movies and they show them in other slots other than 8.30 Friday
At least we havent seen City Slickers, Cliffhanger or Housesitter for a while – or that Steve Martin movie where he has the big nose…
As much as i would like TEN to put new and different movies on… i really really enjoy the ones they play 20 times a year. I watch them every time they’re on – Clueless, Mean Girls, About a boy, liar liar… etc. Cool movies… seriously
I for one cannot wait for this (and other movies Ten got through universal) to lapse and perhaps Ten will be forced to find something else to show. Surely Seven now has first refusal on all Universal Movies
I don’t mind old movies but I wish they would show some imagination when choosing what to showcase, remember back in the 90’s when movies were on in Prime Time 5 nights a week and yet they were only ever screened once a year! There’s like a tonne more movies nowadays and less slots to show em in yet they get repeated ad nauseum.
LOL, and to think that 10’s owners got angry when potential shareholders were reluctant to invest in channel 10….
And dont forget – How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days!!
What do you expect, Monkeys run the Programming down at Channel 10!
Bring on the trainwreck Free2Air version of FreeView! there will no point of a Guide on it if the F2A continue chop & changing no one will know what the hell is gonna be on!
Oh Great!! Does that mean Love Actually and School of Rock will be on in the next few weeks? There must be one person who hasn’t seen them the previous four billion times they were on last year.
So, I’m guessing Love Actually will be on the following week?
Do you have an exact number for the times they have shown this movie?
Points for tellin’ it like it is.
No, please don’t move to letter ‘B’. I’ve already seen Back to the Future.
Sorry David, I was trying to think of clever reply but kept laughing as I guess someone high up in Ten has fixation on this film.
just like Miss Congeniality on another network.
Would have Sunday noght good chance to trial something new or double up on unaired eps of 08 stock
Ch10 buy some new movies!
amen to that!