Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robin Miller Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Selected programming for May 11-17, 2024 Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:53:53 -0400 Lines: 103 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1D+1uIaUk3bz8UvCdqnVXwIFolwLZQBp8VUPw9Rvlf0pIdZQIe Cancel-Lock: sha1:k+OvaVdXP2FmINyBa3tS2HrC3jg= sha256:vQFzzosr7t456iOZzjlW+ncc7gUAzaHKN/DNwIoO+C8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5131 Ian J. Ball wrote: > On 5/11/24 10:27 AM, Robin Miller wrote: > >> Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 5/11/24 9:52 AM, Robin Miller wrote: >>>> Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>>> On 5/11/24 8:16 AM, Robin Miller wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>          Saturday, May 11 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>      Streaming: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Deadbolt     (movie)     (3:01 am, Tubi) >>>>>> >>>>>> Seeking a fresh start, a young woman finds her sanity on the brink >>>>>> due to unexplained disappearances and chilling nocturnal echoes in >>>>>> her new home. Stars Rebecca Liddiard, Jamie Spilchuk, Camille >>>>>> Stopps, Joey Belfiore and Bill MacDonald. 1h 23m. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zkBGvifsQ >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31170199/ >>>>>> >>>>>> https://tubitv.com/movies/100020360/deadbolt >>>>> >>>>> This actually came out last night - I know because I used the early >>>>> release to fix the cast listing order on IMDb last night... >>>>> >>>>> I will probably try to get to this at some point... >>>> >>>> Yes, I noticed the same thing with "Invasive," which was scheduled >>>> for release on Friday at 3 am but was available late Thursday night. >>>> I remember when I first started listing Tubi movies that there was a >>>> question as to whether they were released on the stated date or the >>>> day before. It looks like it's the latter. >>> >>> I have a theory that Tubi is actually releasing movies at midnight >>> *Greenwich Mean Time*. That's about 8 hours ahead of Pacific Time. It >>> would explain why movies released show up "the night before" in the >>> U.S.! >>> >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>>>>      Broadcast and cable: >>>>>> >>>>>> Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home      (movie; linear TV >>>>>> premiere)        (9 pm, Hallmark Mystery) >>>>>> >>>>>> A former Army surgeon moves back to her hometown and joins a >>>>>> practice of family doctors, but when she's drawn into solving the >>>>>> mysterious death of a patient, her quiet life becomes upended. >>>>>> Stars Amanda Schull and Brendan Penny. Premiered on May 2 on the >>>>>> Hallmark Movies Now streaming service. [The next premiere on >>>>>> Hallmark Mystery appears to be "Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for >>>>>> Murder" on Friday, June 7.] >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32150887/ >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.hallmarkmystery.com/family-practice-mysteries-coming-home >>>>> >>>>> Amanda Schull deserves better than this. >>>> >>>> BTW, Friday at 9 pm seems to be their time for showing their >>>> occasional (at least right now) premieres. >>> >>> For Hallmark Mystery? Yeah. >>> >>> On my end, I am somewhat disappointed that LMN/Lifetime have seem to >>> abandoned releasing "new" films on Friday nights (opting for >>> Wednesday nights instead, in the case of LMN)... >> >> Yes, the Friday night premieres on Lifetime have disappeared. But >> those appeared for a pretty short period of time. >> >> Does LMN have premieres on Wednesday? I don't check for that. This >> week they list a "new" movie, "My Acting Coach Nightmare," but it has >> previously appeared on Lifetime Channel. > > Yes, LMN's "Wednesday premieres" are actually just movies that have > premiered earlier on Lifetime proper, and are now coming to LMN for the > first time. > > Only LMN's Thursday "premiere movies" are truly "new" movies. > > Lifetime sort of does something similar - the Saturday night movie > premieres are their "big movies"; the Sunday night movies are actually > still "new" (to Lifetime) in most cases, but they are "lesser" movie > acquisitions, lately often from Tubi. > > I think it's deceptive that Lifetime/LMN frequently describes the acquired movies as "2024" when they were actually released a year or two earlier. BTW, I Googled "what time are Tubi movies released/added" and found a Reddit post stating that Tubi's server is updated at 8 pm ET, although there's no source listed for the info. --Robin