Briefs for April 28-29, 2020

TCM's monthly spotlight on New York in the 1970s had to take a Thursday off two weeks back because of the rescheduling for the TCM Festival at Home. That night's movies is rescheduled for tonight, looking at blacks in New York in the 70s. It's another chance to see Shaft, at 8:00 PM, which seems a bit surprising considering the sex and violence in the movie. There's also Black Caesar overnight at 3:30 AM.

The Saturday night spotlight on Peter Bogdanovich changed to include a couple of movies he had introduced at the festival, along with him talking to Ben Mankiewicz about Casablanca and other things in the wraparounds. The two movies originally scheduled to run that night never got rescheduled as far as I know. The other thing, which didn't need rescheduling, was a podcast series of interviews Bogdanovich did with Ben Mankiewicz, caled The Plot Thickens: I'm Still Peter Bogdanovich. The first episode of that premieres today. If you do the streaming thing, there are several ways to listen. Thankfully, for those of us who would prefer to download MP3s and listen that way without signing up for an account anywhere have an RSS feed. Of course, I've currently got 300+ hours of unlistened-to audio sitting in my playlist, so who knows when I'll get around to this one?

There doesn't seem to be much of note to mention on FXM in the next day or two, as I missed the return of Trouble Man yesterday, although that one is going to be on again on Saturday. Murder Inc. is going to be on at 6:00 AM, but by the time most of you read this, that will already have aired. That's followed at 7:45 by The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which returned to the FXM lineup a few months back and which I'm not certain whether I mentioned at that time.