So we've reached that time of the year when, in most of the US and Canada, people move their clocks ahead one hour so that we have more of the daylight later in the day. This always causes havoc with TV schedules as everybody is used to programming for 24 hours, not 23 or 25.
Surprisingly enough, however, it seems as though both TCM and FXM (I didn't check the other movie channels) got their programming down pretty well this time around. TCM has Noir Alley as always starting at midnight between Saturday and Sunday, this time being The Night Holds Terror, running 86 minutes plus the usual longer intro and outro from Eddie Muller. For the repeat of Noir Alley a 10:00 AM, this is in a 1:45 time slot, but tonight it's in a two-hour slot. No mention of what short will fill out the time since there's clearly at least 15 minutes to fill. (And yes, the lack of listing the shorts on the new schedule is still irritating.) That two-hour slot ends right as the clocks are supposed to move forward in the Eastern Time Zone, so at 3:00 AM we get Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival, followed at 4:00 AM by Jeanne Eagels, since that of course starred Kim Novak.
Over on FXM, they're running Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at 12:30 AM, in a 2:11 time slot. The movie itself is 108 minutes, so I'm assuming 23 minutes of commercials plus whatever they get in by shrinking the credits. Since this takes us past the time change, next up at 3:41 AM is one of the FXM Presents featurettes they have about whatever programming they're trying to promote; I have to admit I'm not recording stuff that picks up these featurettes so I haven't seen one in years. Then, at 4:00 AM, the FXM Retro schedule begins, with Tony Rome. It's not the only movie that's on tomorrow morning's schedule that I blogged about some time back; there's also Conrack at 7:05 AM Sunday and The 300 Spartans at 11:10 AM.
Oddly enough, my DirecTV box guide has FXM Presents, but not the Kim Novak interview.
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