Tomorrow is Father's Day here in the US, which is the earliest it can be. Unsurprisingly, TCM is running a day of movies in honor of the day, although as always there are a lot of the same titles since there aren't too many movies that are generally happy movies and about fathers who are mostly good influences. A couple of the films are decidedly less than happy, such as The Entertainer which kicks off the morning at 6:15 AM and East of Eden at 5:45 PM.
For fare that might be considered more traditional for Father's Day, you might want to try Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (8:00 AM)>; The Courtship of Eddie's Father (3:30 PM), or of course, Life With Father (9:45 PM). Silent Sunday Nights looks to continue the theme with Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (midnight) while the rest of the schedule doesn't look all that fatherly. Thankfully, TCM will not be showing Mildred Pierce on Father's Day. Also, it doesn't look as though FXM is doing anything for the day, not that I would have expected them to any more.
I noticed a quirk about YouTube TV's cloud DVR that's kind of annoying. No, it's not that programs expire from the DVR after nine months, although I've got enough of a backlog of movies on the DVR that stuff invariably does expire. This time, it's in how specifically the movies get captured to the DVR. Last December, there was a night of Monty Python films on TCM, of which I recorded a couple. I looked ahead on the TCM schedule to see a couple getting another airing in July, so I set out to watch one of them to do a post about. There were several copies of the movie available on the DVR, since it records every showing of it. (Once in a while, the algorithm confuses different programs with the same title; I thought the late 1960s musical Star! was going to be on TCM so I recorded only to find out that is was the Bette Davis movie The Star and that the DVR thought it was recording some short-form series called Star.) Well, every showing except the one on TCM, which is the one I would have particularly wanted to watch since it wouldn't be larded up with commercials. In addition to showings on channels like Sundance or BBC America, it even included the copy on YouTube's video on demand, although that one also has commercials. Worse, that particular copy won't let you fast forward through the commercials, although I don't think it has as many obnoxious logos as the ones on the commercial cable channels. The rare TCM showing of The Godfather a year or so ago had the same issue. What's annoying about this for me is how I wanted to watch the "uncut and commercial-free" version but YouTube TV didn't tell me that TCM's rights apparently didn't extend to recording the movie.
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