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The Weather Channel to air movies

Samurai8472

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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/20/the-weather-channel-will-begin-broadcasting-feature-films/

New Movie Series “The Weather Channel Presents…” Launches October 30 with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in The Perfect Storm
ATLANTA (October 20, 2009) – For the first time in its 27-year history, The Weather Channel® (TWC) will add movies to its programming schedule with “The Weather Channel Presents…” This new movie series launches Friday, October 30, with the TWC premiere of The Perfect Storm, starring George Clooney, which coincides with the anniversary of the ferocious “perfect storm” of 1991, on which the movie was based.
Following The Perfect Storm on Oct. 30, TWC will air feature films every Friday night in November. Weather plays a central role to the story, plot or overall theme in each of the movies selected.
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Any bets on Twister being rerun to death? along with any Roland Emmerich movie or just "The Day After Tomorrow"
 
Oh, good. Now when the tornado rips through our town, we can all console ourselves with the knowledge that the special effects were way better than they were on Twister, playing not ten minutes prior when I really could have used some kind of weather map to see what was coming our way. /facepalm

J.
 
Jay O'Lantern said:
Oh, good. Now when the tornado rips through our town, we can all console ourselves with the knowledge that the special effects were way better than they were on Twister, playing not ten minutes prior when I really could have used some kind of weather map to see what was coming our way. /facepalm

J.
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Yeah, I have to agree. This is stupidity in action. The Weather Channel serves a purpose, and that is to provide weather information to those who, like, need to know what's going on. It's bad enough that you invariably have to wait till they finish telling you the weather on the other side of the country before they get to your area, or what the pollen count is in some corner of the globe (the Canadian version is pretty bad for this), but now you're having movies that will interrupt this news for hours at a time. (I assume there'll be a scroll or something, but still.)

I can only assume this is an indication that the Weather Channel is starting to give up on the assumption everyone gets their weather from the Internet now. But as my parents keep saying, not everyone has (or wants) the Internet.

When Syfy started airing wrestling, I thought it was just stupid. This goes beyond stupid -- this is actually potentially dangerous.

Alex
 
Well, MTV used to play music video.

Someday, now, we'll be looking back to when The Weather Channel actually broadcast weather reports...
 
I'm still holding out hope that they'll green light my new series ideas: Most Beautiful Days in Weather History and When Weather Was Perfect.

I'm also a fan of their It Will Definitely Happen Tomorrow series.

Corporate media...
 
Mysterion said:
Well, MTV used to play music video.

Someday, now, we'll be looking back to when The Weather Channel actually broadcast weather reports...
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And the Sci-Fi Channel actually showed Sci-Fi.

20+ years from now: "you know what'd really be good, a weather channel that only showed weather reports, we'll be rich!"

Oh, good. Now when the tornado rips through our town, we can all console ourselves with the knowledge that the special effects were way better than they were on Twister, playing not ten minutes prior when I really could have used some kind of weather map to see what was coming our way. /facepalm

J.
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"Killer storms tearing across America, hundreds dead, flooding at biblical levels! The government set to issue special instructions for those in the path of destruction. More at the break, now stay tuned for "Day After Tomorrow".
 
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What next? The Food Network airing sports? or scifi with Ethan Phillips.

A massive asteroid is headed our way! many will be killed but watch Armageddon to see what to do! oh and it's 70 degrees in Miami.
 
this does seem odd, I bet they screw it up and have the weather scroll across the bottom of the movie
 
Still not as bad as the History Channel showing Planet of the Apes (1968). I realize that everything up to the present is a part of history, so any movie technically qualifies. But you'd think they'd show a film portraying historical events.
 
Considering with all the other ways you can get weather info, my guess is that ratings are not what they used to be on the weather channel.
 
With all the format drift going on, in a few years we're going to have 500 cable channels, all exactly alike. :(
 
Can't believe everyone missed this odd choice for one of their movies:

* Deep Blue Sea – Premieres Friday, Nov. 20, at 8 p.m. ET


A group of medical researchers finds themselves stranded aboard a remote marine laboratory working with genetically enhanced Mako sharks. With a tropical storm swirling around the now-sinking lab, the mutant sharks strike back at those who used them as lab rats. This action thriller stars Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J.
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Someone joked that they'll show 'Back to the Future' next year because in one scene there's some lightning. :guffaw:
 
I live in the Florida hurricane zone.

God forbid I should get the weather radar (Comcast in their infinite wisdom chooses to load our cable with sports and shopping channels rather than have a 24-hour-a-day weather radar display) in the most volitile weather area of the US....
 
I approve of this idea and/or suggestion.

OdoWanKenobi said:
Maybe they'll run Groundhog Day, as well.
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What, again? ;)

They should make their own movies too: "Hurricane: The Michael Fish Story", or "Attack of the Killer Sunny Spells", or "Cloud Cover 2: This Time It's Variable". :D
 
I'm waiting for the lawsuit when someone flips the channel mid movie and takes one of the fake newcast some of these movies have as the real thing.

"Holy shit Ma' the poles are shifting...get the kids and the dog, we a better get in the root cellar!"
 
TheGallifreyanSith said:
I'm waiting for the lawsuit when someone flips the channel mid movie and takes one of the fake newcast some of these movies have as the real thing.

"Holy shit Ma' the poles are shifting...get the kids and the dog, we a better get in the root cellar!"
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"Ma! there's this Dorothy girl she got sucked into a tornado!"

Anyone else think "2012" will be a big deal when it airs on tv?
 
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