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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Selected programming for May 11-17, 2024
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 11:06:41 -0700
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On 5/11/24 10:53 AM, Robin Miller wrote:

> 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

If so, that's only one hour off Greenwich Mean Time, so I was close!!