Tonight is the night that clocks are switched back in most of the US to go to "standard" time, which is a bit of an oxymoron since Daylight Savings Time is almost eight months of the year now. Unfortunately, it's getting a bit tougher for me to figure out exactly what channels are going to do with the extra hour. TCM's online schedule no longer lists shorts that aren't part of some programming block (eg. the Saturday matinee) at all, and having YouTube TV I notice that their online/onscreen guide isn't all that good.
As for TCM, I'll start off a bit early, because at 2:00 PM today is a movie that's really worth mentioning, I See a Dark Stranger. And then in prime time, there's a special feature on Bruce Lee, who is not the Star of the Month; more on that later in the month. Anyhow, Saturdays in November have double features of Bruce Lee leading into Noir Alley This week, that movie is a new to me movie called Abandoned, airing at midnight and then again at 10:00 AM.
The movie playing during the time change is The Killing Fields, which starts at 1:45 AM ET, and is listed on the TCM schedule and the programming guides as being in a 210-minute slot. Wikipedia lists the running time as 141 minutes and the TCM schedule as 134 minutes. In any case, that would fit into the standard 150-minute slot, with an hour left over for something like one of the versions of Some of the Best; there's one from 1944 for MGM's 20th anniversary and the more famous one from 1949 with almost all of MGM's stars at that banquet. That's run several times during the extra hour.
Who knows what a channel like FXM is doing? The "Retro" block nominaly runs from 3:00 AM to 3:00 PM, but in fact the first movie of the block can start any time from 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM. The only certainties in recent years have been that a movie will start at 6:00 AM, and the commercial block does begin at 3:00 PM. If the last movie of the evening runs past 3:00 AM, so be it. Tonight, the last commercial movie is one called Chaos Walking, which is listed as starting at 1:40 AM and running 3:10. In fact, what I think is happening is as follows. FXM is running the Bruce Willis film Armageddon back-to-back. The first one is at 8:30 PM, and put in a 185 minute slot, which would make sense since Wikipedia lists the movie as 151 minutes, would would allow for 34 minutes of commercials, which is actually a bit less than broadcast TV normally has. The second airing starts at 11:35 PM, which is 0335 UTC on Sunday, and should run another 185 minutes, to 0640 on Sunday. That would take it up to the second 1:40 AM. This would also be enough time for a 130-minute slot for Chaos Walking, listed by Wikipedia as a 109-minute film. Then, at 3:50 AM Sunday (0850 UTC) is Emperor of the North in the commercial-free Retro block.
I haven't fast-forwarded though any of the services on my Roku box to see how they handle the time change in terms of listings.
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