It's hard to believe that it's already the end of April. Then again, my current pattern of writing posts well ahead of time leads to not paying quite so close attention to how far ahead I'm scheduled, or to writing up other administrative posts like this. So once again I'll mention with the full TCM May schedule out that I've seen several movies on it that are on my DVR and will require my juggling other movies around to do the posts in conjunction with the upcoming TCM airing. As always, check your local schedule.
I learned something disappointing about YouTube TV's "DVR" (technically the cloud library) recently. While it in theory adds every showing of a title you've added to the library, the "select a version" option only shows the most recent half-dozen showings. What this means is that when TCM shows something that's popular enough (and usually more recent) to be in rotation on one of the commercial channels, all those commercial channel airings are going to wind up in the six most recent showings, crowding out the TCM showing which there doesn't seem to be a way to access. No; I specifically added the TCM showing to my library precisely because it's less likely to be edited, and certainly not larded up with commercials and pop-ups. I don't know if the metadata encoded with the programs would allow for a chance to only record the TCM showing.
Apparently the TCM Film Festival starts today and runs through Sunday, April 3. Not that I'd had any plans of going since I can't really afford it and have my elderly father to look after anyway. I don't think TCM on-air really does all that much any more either in terms of being "live" from the festival between movies, but then I've been watching a lot less live TCM. Now, the FAST services, I have to admit I've been watching a lot of stuff live that way.
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