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Post by yanceycravat on Feb 26, 2023 1:44:48 GMT
My power went out last night at 10pm Pacific. I didn't have a chance to see Ben's Wrap-Up to THE WILD BUNCH. I just watched it on Watch TCM.
When Ben introduced the next movie, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, he said it would be the last night of TCM Underground! I was shocked.
I knew they let Millie De Chirico go but I had no idea they were dropping the franchise. Did any of you know it? Seems like a pretty big step to me.
Oddly enough when I saw Plan 9 was on the schedule I thought it was a throwback to the old days of TCM Underground. Turns out, as Ben said, it was the first film ever shown during the Franchise.
So there's your bit of TCM Trivia for the day. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE was the first and last film shown in the TCM Underground Franchise!
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Post by cineclassics on Feb 26, 2023 3:04:18 GMT
My power went out last night at 10pm Pacific. I didn't have a chance to see Ben's Wrap-Up to THE WILD BUNCH. I just watched it on Watch TCM.
When Ben introduced the next movie, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, he said it would be the last night of TCM Underground! I was shocked.
I knew they let Millie De Chirico go but I had no idea they were dropping the franchise. Did any of you know it? Seems like a pretty big step to me.
Oddly enough when I saw Plan 9 was on the schedule I thought it was a throwback to the old days of TCM Underground. Turns out, as Ben said, it was the first film ever shown during the Franchise.
So there's your bit of TCM Trivia for the day. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE was the first and last film shown in the TCM Underground Franchise!
They're downsizing to cut costs it seems. Just bizarre to me they're paying 5 hosts to do the same job Robert O. performed for years on his own. And how long have the hosts, excluding Ben, been at TCM? I feel like almost all of them have been hired within the last few years. Why would they hire so many new hosts, incurring additional salary costs when less and less folks are watching cable and by extension TCM? Poor business decisions it seems to me. |
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Post by lydecker on Mar 4, 2023 1:52:04 GMT
I have to say I won't miss TCM Underground. I always thought they simply branded a group of tacky/cheap (admittedly often fun) films to take up some time and save $$$. Speaking of hosts, they could lose Karger anytime, so far as I'm concerned. And, I wonder if any of these hosts are actually making that much money from TCM. Not sure about Alicia Malone but all of the rest of them have other gigs so TCM hosting is definitely a part-time job for Ben, Eddie and Jacqueline.
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Post by sinsation on Mar 4, 2023 9:09:13 GMT
I'm going to miss the horror & horrible films ! 
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Post by vannorden on Mar 26, 2023 23:12:52 GMT
I have to say I won't miss TCM Underground. I always thought they simply branded a group of tacky/cheap (admittedly often fun) films to take up some time and save $$$. Speaking of hosts, they could lose Karger anytime, so far as I'm concerned. And, I wonder if any of these hosts are actually making that much money from TCM. Not sure about Alicia Malone but all of the rest of them have other gigs so TCM hosting is definitely a part-time job for Ben, Eddie and Jacqueline. I won't miss it mainly because the programming was uninspiring and repetitious. Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) was once a favorite of mine from the Japanese New Wave — a real off-center take on the Oedipus Rex tragedy — but TCM Underground played it at least a half dozen times in the past few years. Now I will likely never watch the film again. As for the hosts, I have no idea how much they are making, but five seems excessive when the job only demands one or two. And I agree about Karger—an empty suit with scant film knowledge. |
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