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How many times MUST we put up with About a Boy, please Channel TEN?

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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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  1. 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

  2. @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.

  3. @ 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.

  9. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  14. @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.

  16. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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!

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