Talk:Turner Classic Movies

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Is my memory in error or wasn't Rob Reiner the original host of The Essentials? There may have even been a host between him and Bogdanovich. I've been unable to find corroborating evidence on the web, so I have not amended the article.

There is something wrong here with the chronology regarding colorization. The current text implies that, sometime after 1994, Orson Welles objected to colorizing his films. This is impossible, as Welles died in 1985 (as per Wikipedia entry on Welles). Comment by 68.80.103.230

• I have removed this bit, which just sounds like vandalism. The channel has a rather purist ethic anyway; I doubt they would ever show anything colorized.--Pharos 07:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Turner Classic Movies did in fact show colorized versions of some movies in the network's earliest days, but later began only showing the original versions. The complaint from Orson Welles came in the mid-80s, and was about supposed plans to colorize Citizen Kane (which Turner later claimed were made in jest). Turner was once a driving force for the colorization of black and white films but later stopped producing colorized titles because the cost of colorizing these films was far too high and audiences were unfavorable to the alteration of these titles. (Ibaranoff24 04:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC))

I updated the range of films TCM has aired throughout the range of years of release. I guess they just recently aired the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids about a week ago.

Actually, they had a Hayao Miyazaki special about a year ago and showed Spirited Away from 2001. They hold copyrights to all (MGM)? films up to 1984. They mention this from time to time, so I'll update what films they can show when I hear it again. Anyway the post 1984 films are aired with special permission. Umeboshi 01:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, I just read the article, rather than glancing over it, and noticed the mention of Spirited Away. When I hear again about what range of movies they have access to, I'll get back to you. Umeboshi 01:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TCM Underground

I've recently got around to creating an article thereon, but I'd welcome all of you to improve it seeing as it really deserves the attention (unless you're not a cult film fan/fanatic). DrWho42 13:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I think your article is a candidate for speedy deletion IAW WP:NOT. I'll provide explanation on that page's talk page. David Spalding ^Talk/_Contribs