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So you're curling up on the armchair to watch your favorite show — but the schedule has been changed and yet another airing of the network's most popular (or just favored by execs) show is airing in its place. Your blood boils, but there's nothing you can do — it's the network's pet program. This is Adored by the Network in a nutshell. An over-promoted, over-aired program that either dominates the entire schedule or gets promoted over every other show on the network or some combination of the two. Whenever networks stumble upon a massive hit show, this show usually gets the most attention and most promotion. Marathons are run, special programming events occur often surrounding the show, and the show is given multiple airings daily. This usually comes at the expense of all the other shows on the channel, particularly the shows on the verge of being canceled. At the very least, they will just be ignored. At the very worst, they can be canceled or re-tooled to make it more in line with the adored show. And at very, very, worst — it could signal the first signs of Network Decay, as the network may add more shows similar to the network darling to the lineup. Despite the network's fixation on this show, it doesn't fit the nature of being the Creator's Pet because, well, if it's a hit, then many people like it. It may be a critical darling that's loved by all. You yourself may like the show. But you also like other shows on the channel and the overbearing presence of the program just may be too much. This may lead to even the people who genuinely enjoy the show may getting sick of it. Enough of this can ironically result in the show being considered Screwed by the Network, as it can lead to the show's downfall and cancellation. As of The New '10s, the trope has exploded across all networks, due to the changing landscape of television due to the meteoric rise of streaming services. Ratings for live viewing have fallen dramatically, particularly for networks aimed towards children and young people. Most of a network's day schedule usually consists of one or two shows that are dependable for ratings and ad revenue, with premieres airing erratically. Adored By The Network has now become the de facto standard for much of television. Before you add an example, keep in mind this isn't Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. Also, the simple act of airing the show a lot of times doesn't alone qualify it for this trope. The network has to go above and beyond to prop this show up constantly. See also Marathon Running (where whole marathons can be dedicated to a single show), Cash-Cow Franchise, Hollywood Hype Machine (when this happens to actors), Creator's Pet (when this happens to characters and the fans are annoyed), Repeating Ad (when this happens to commercials), Wolverine Publicity, and Network Decay. Network to the Rescue is a sure sign of this. Contrast Screwed by the Network; also sometimes the result of this trope. See also Network Red-Headed Stepchild, Renewed Before Premiere. |
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Australian TV network "ten" developed a great fondness for Terminator 2. Before that, it was Ghostbusters (1984), and it used to play The Devil Wears Prada once a month at least. | |
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Ever since The Hub got its hands on Good Boy!, they would show it once a week like clockwork. | |
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Doctor Zhivago and Citizen Kane have been getting this treatment for years. This is understandable given their popularity and acclaim. Why the comparatively-obscure The Wind and the Lion gets nearly as much air time is anyone's guess. | |
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Die Hard: The films (especially the original) get this nearly every year. Heck, even Spike aired the original couple years back with a 24-hour marathon! | |
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Digimon was this for the ailing Fox Kids around the time of Digimon Adventure; the love sort of petered off by the end of Digimon Adventure 02. It was picked up by the network in order to compete with Pokémon: The Series on Kids' WB! and capitalize on the anime boom. Some Saturday mornings, Digimon would air three times. It supplanted Power Rangers (circa Power Rangers Lost Galaxy) as the most popular show on the block and booted the show from its long-time schedule spots (9am EST Saturdays and 4pm EST weekdays). This still rankles long time Power Rangers fans, as it would retroactively prove to be a foreshadowing for that series sinking even lower under Disney... | |
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FX adores the original The Day The Earth Stood Still. Have a day off from school or work? Chances are Vantage Point is playing this morning on FX. Iron Man has started to become a staple movie on FX. Practically every movie based on Marvel Comics are FX staples. |
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Rayman 2: The Great Escape, originally released on PC and Nintendo 64, then ported to the PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, iOS and Nintendo 3DS. And that's without counting the Game Boy Color game as well as the Game Boy Advance version of Rayman 3 (which is in fact a 2D Rayman 2 game with Dark Lums and other Rayman 3 elements hastily slapped in.) | |
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Whenever it is Christmas, there will be many showings of Love Actually each week. In the past, it would also be frequently shown outside of the festive period. | |
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Speaking of baseball, due to its then-extensive coverage of MLB's October postseason, there was a stretch of time starting around the turn of the millennium in which Fox had to delay the season premiere of many of its shows until after the end of the World Series to accommodate its coverage. This meant that fans of The Simpsons and The X-Files, for example, had to wait until November to see new episodes. Starting in 2005, the network returned to launching its major shows in September — but the Series still prevented The Simpsons' annual Halloween Episode from airing until after the holiday had come and gone. To rub salt in the wounds of American Simpsons fans disinterested in baseball, some countries even had a Short Run in Peru by airing the Treehouse of Horror a few weeks before the American airing, such as when "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" first aired on Canada's Citytv on October 18, 2020. Since 2006, almost the entire postseason is now cable-only: as of 2014, when MLB's current TV contract was signed, the Fox Sports 1 channel splits the Division Series and League Championship Series with TBS (alternating between the American League and National League each year), with the only postseason games still broadcast on "Big Fox" being the World Series and the opening game of whichever LCS Fox Sports 1 is covering. Note that even Canada isn't immune to this, given that the rightsholder to first-run Simpsons episodes there is Citytv, owned by Rogers Communications, which also owns both MLB's Toronto Blue Jays and Sportsnet, itself an example of this trope as Sportsnet is the sole rightsholder to all Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts in Canada and Sportsnet considers anything related to the Toronto Blue Jays the highest priority for them. If the Toronto Blue Jays were to make the World Series while Fox's World Series contract is active, then per simsub rules, Treehouse of Horror would also be pre-empted by the World Series on Citytv using the Fox feed, albeit with Canadian commercials, while Sportsnet would use its own broadcast. |
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There was a period in 2012 where Starz seemed to run Friends with Benefits every day. In 2013, it became The Amazing Spider-Man; in 2014, its sequel. In Starz' defense, they don't seem to have as many licensing deals with movie studios as HBO does. |
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Starz also gave this treatment to Inside Out after its premiere on February 26, 2016. They aired it every single day for two weeks in a row, a feat which no new-to-the-channel Disney or Pixar movie was able to accomplish beforehand.note For example, the aforementioned Toy Story 3 seemed to air twice every four or five days, and Monsters University played once a week during its premiere. Like the Lion King example on the Disney page, they often aired the movie twice in a row, which happened the day it premiered. But after a month or so, its exposure began to taper off, so Inside Out only aired once every four days, and only during the early morning or prime time. They reversed this in September of 2016, when the movie started to air on every weekend possible (with the first airing in a while playing the same day Disney on Ice Presents Follow Your Heart - which heavily features the main characters of Inside Out - made its world premiere). It took until December 23rd for Starz Kids to bring it back into daily rotation. | |
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ITV 2 airs The Mummy (1999) and/or most of its sequels every other month. Among its other favourites are Wild Wild West, Catwoman (2004), and both Incredible Hulk films. They are also well-known for constantly showing Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, to the point where even Edgar Wright himself is aware of it. On weekends, their movie selection mainly consists of the Back to the Future trilogy, the Jurassic Park films and Kindergarten Cop. Whenever it is Christmas, there will be many showings of Love Actually each week. In the past, it would also be frequently shown outside of the festive period. |
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As of June 2015, the LAFF network has been devoted to airing The Love Bug and its sequels on a frequent basis. As of October 2016, Laff's go-to movies include the Chris Elliott comedy Cabin Boy and the forgotten Holy Man starring Eddie Murphy. As of July 2019, Laff's obsession appears to be the obscure indie romcoms Love's Kitchen, A Date with Miss Fortune and For the Love of George, most likely due to them being very inexpensive to air. The 80s Mark Harmon vehicle Summer School pops up almost every other weekend. And since Warner Bros. started licensing some of their movie titles to the network, every weekend Laff airs the first Police Academy movie and/or Blazing Saddles. |
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It was almost impossible to turn on HBO in the early 1980s and not see Scavenger Hunt or The Black Hole. | |
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Atlus and their Shin Megami Tensei series, but especially Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5. Persona 4 was a Breakthrough Hit (so much that Atlus USA finally stopped dolling it up with the Shin Megami Tensei brand after Persona 4: Arena). Persona 5 was an even bigger Breakthrough Hit, becoming Atlus' highest-selling title ever. All three got anime adaptations, and more merchandise than the rest of the franchise combined. To put it into perspective, when the series celebrated its 20th anniversary, the first three Persona games (1, Innocent Sin, and Eternal Punishment) were essentially footnotes. When Atlus had a panel at the 2014 anime con, it was literally just Persona 3 and Persona 4 - their other IPs didn't even get so much of a nod. This has caused somewhat of a Broken Base - people who like the first two games, people who wish Atlus would stop treating them like Canon Discontinuity, and people who like them but are getting fatigued at the constant milking. |
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Starz Kids also adores Astro Boy. | |
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Until about 2002 it was shocking if a week went by without them airing the 1986 bomb Stewardess School. | |
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Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive love to constantly update Grand Theft Auto V (especially with its Online Multiplayer Counterpart), to the point it's received Updated Re Release(s) twice as the seventh and eighth generations of consoles reached the end of their lifecycles. News of a sequel wouldn't drop until late 2023, and in the meantime they've only released one other game. | |
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Ted Turner adored The Shawshank Redemption. He owned the rights at one point, so after its poor showing at the box office, his networks aired it weekly, single-handedly making it Vindicated by Cable. | |
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Encore Family seems to really love the 1969 movie My Side of the Mountain. | |
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ITV 4 once had a thing for the Rocky series. | |
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The Shrek films, specifically the first two, are played to death on Turner networks, particularly on Cartoon Network and Atlanta station WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV). The latter in particular airs the first two movies on what seems like almost every weekend. Ditto for fellow DreamWorks film Shark Tale, as it pops up on CN and Peachtree TV quite often. |
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When they got the rights to Wakko's Wish, they would usually run it every other weekend. This died down around the time they got the rights to the series it was based on. | |
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Italian television channel Italia 1 is very, very fond of Dragon Ball. They aired the three series (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT) continuously since 1998: after GT's ending, they start over again with the first episode of Dragon Ball, then Z, then GT... As of July 2012, we're reaching the end of the sixth rerun of Z (if this number doesn't impress you, be wary that Italia 1 is a general-purpose channel, not an anime-only, and they air one episode per day... This means that for almost twelve years there wasn't a day without Dragon Ball!). | |
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The Encore networks (particularly Encore Family) were devoted to the original nine-film run of The Pink Panther series in 2013. | |
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Encore Kids and Family went through a phase in 2016 where they would run Thomas and the Magic Railroad every month. | |
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HBO Zone really seems to like The Dark Knight Rises since they can't go through an entire week without showing it at least three times. | |
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Unforgiven. | |
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Kids Station also has a fondness for Anpanman, airing at least three episodes a day and holding special events based on the show at least once a month. | |
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For a few years, The Breakfast Club was shown on the channel every weekend. There was even a joke about it on an episode of How I Met Your Mother. Ever since Labor Day weekend of 2018, Paramount Network will show The Breakfast Club not only every weekend and as a No-Hoper Repeat during holidays, but to fill time during the late-night hours of the day that they cannot fill with more reruns of COPS or Bar Rescue. Battleship and to a lesser extent Unstoppable are also given the same treatment. |
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Iron Man has started to become a staple movie on FX. Practically every movie based on Marvel Comics are FX staples. |
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EarthBound (1994) is especially notable. After performing below expectations in its original 1995 release (due in large part to a...misguided marketing campaign), Nintendo's international branches had treated it like the company's red-headed stepchild for many years. While the series has always had representation in Super Smash Bros., neither of the other games would see an English release until 2015 when MOTHER—whose English localization had been finished since 1991—finally made it onto the WiiU's Virtual Console under the name EarthBound Beginnings. EarthBound (1994) itself had only made a Virtual Console appearance two years prior. Mother 3 is still a no-show. | |
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Captain Marvel: The Carol Danvers incarnation of Captain Marvel. Because Marvel have historically lacked prominent superheroines whose film rights they owned, the 2010s saw Carol Danvers adopt the Captain Marvel moniker and receive a huge push as their flagship female character. She has since never been without a solo series, was put on more than a few teams, and usually was an important figure in their events. This is probably due in part to the massive appeal Carol (and her merch) have outside of traditional monthly comics sales, with many people owning t-shirts, jackets, water bottles, and other official paraphenalia bearing her logo. The company loves her and continue to market her as their main female character at the expense of most other, more well-established characters like Invisible Woman and Storm (although these are usually chalked up to Marvel giving more and more exposure to The Avengers at the expense of the FF and the X-Men as the decade went on, due to the aforementioned lack of movie rights). It's also possible that this is due to rights concerns with DC, as both companies have used the Captain Marvel name, but copyright law dictates that there can only be one comic called Captain Marvel; meaning if Marvel doesn't put one out, DC might and Marvel wouldn't be able to use the name as a comic title anymore (and unlike with DC's Captain Marvel, there's no easy alternative name). |
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Come 2020, and the same situation seems to still stand for its sequel. Spies in Disguise, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu are also becoming frequent showings. This is likely due in part to an increasing dearth of new-release family movies heading to HBO, with Warner Bros. Animation and the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios being the only reliable providers*while most Universal movies make their cable premieres on HBO, Dreamworks Animation titles are licensed to Hulu and Peacock while Illumination Entertainment films are licensed to Netflix. | |
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Since at least the fall of 2014, Viacom cable channel programmers have been suffering from an Elf obsession, telecasting the film frequently across CMT, MTV, and VH1, even when the holiday season is over. (CMT even played it in September!) And now even Nickelodeon is airing the film when it's not Christmas as of March 2019! |
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Tales of Phantasia for the Super Famicom has gotten four remakes: first for the PlayStation, second for the Game Boy Advance, third for the PlayStation Portable, and fourth again for the PlayStation Portable with updated battle graphics as part of Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X. Unfortunately, only the Game Boy Advance version, widely considered the weakest version, was the only one that had seen an official English version until the since-removed iOS version, which isn't thought of too fondly, either. | |
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Ever since the fall of 2020, they'll take any weekend they can to air The Godfather trilogy. | |
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By contrast, the Christmas programming for 2013 consisted entirely of the Home Alone movies, White Christmas, and Jack Frost (1998). | |
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Whichever network(s) currently holds rerun rights to James Bond films goes crazy running them as often as possible before the tide changes. In The '90s, TBS and TNT cornered the market on marathon runs of Bond movies (to the point that there was a joke about it in American Beauty), followed by AMC for a little while at the Turn of the Millennium. After that, the status of "James Bond Network" rotated between Spike, the Encore movie networks (at least three times, the main channel showed a different one every night in prime time for a month, while sister channels Action, Suspense, etc. got in on the fun by sprinkling the films throughout their schedules), and G4. As of 2016, they're being batted between MGM HD, BBC America, and, to a smaller extent, ION Television. Note that this package generally covers the first 20 films plus the unofficial entry Never Say Never Again, so even if networks have to split them up, they aren't just rerunning 3-4 films over and over. Daniel Craig-era Bond movies seem to have been handed over to USA Network after it decided to retire its longstanding status as The Mummy Network! In the UK, ITV had them from 1975 through 2012, when they were acquired by the premium channel Sky Movies. They then took Adored by the Network to its obvious conclusion in October 2012 by turning one of its channels into Sky Movies 007, dedicated exclusively to airing the films (and other documentaries/behind the scenes features) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise and the release of Skyfall. The channel was temporarily taken down in November 2012 to make way for its annual all-Christmas movies channel but came back off and on throughout 2013. ITV has since got the rights back. |
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TNA on Challenge in the UK certainly seemed to be this at one point- they couldn't stop talking about it over the end credits of every programme (usually re-runs of game shows, some of which might not necessarily share the same audience as that TNA wrestling would appeal to). After the company was bought by Anthem Sports and Entertainment, the company's programming has become a mainstay on "Live TV" streaming services targeting cord-cutters (that is, people who want to stop paying for cable), such as Pluto TV, Fubo, and YouTube TV. All of these services have dedicated TNA channels, and in some cases they're the only wrestling content available on the basic tier (or even at all). This makes sense from a business standpoint for both the streaming services and TNA. The apps, who want to air wrestling as part of an "all-in-one" entertainment package, get a large library of programming and name recognition that's leagues cheaper than other companies who have exclusivity deals with certain networks and companies (such as the WWE's deals with Fox and Comcast and AEW's deal with Warner). TNA, meanwhile, gets a wider reach: in a lot of countries their programming is either on higher-tier cable package or doesn't air at all, meaning that these deals are a good way to get the company's programming in places where it doesn't air. |
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Blizzard Entertainment was seen to suffer from this as well, as they worked on various Warcraft games and expansions for almost a decade straight before StarCraft II and Diablo III were announced. (The one StarCraft product in the making, Ghost, became Vapor Ware.) Lately, they've completely flipped this trope on the head, and seem to be just gushing new games — Reaper of Souls, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm all within a year of each other. In the late '90s, this seemed to be the reverse case for Blizzard, with all their efforts directed towards Starcraft + Expansions, and Diablo 2 + Expansions. Other than an upgraded re-release of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness that allowed you to play on Battle.net, Warcraft wasn't getting much love until Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos was finally released. |
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TNT and USA are both very bad about going through phases where they'll show the same movie over and over and over again, whether it's The Dark Knight on TNT or National Treasure on USA - if either of them shows the movie once, you know you'll be seeing it again within the week. | |
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Black Clover became Crunchyroll's favorite when the anime was released, and the site is pushing hard for it to become the next Naruto, famou0sly calling it "the next king of Shonen". But hey, at least on Crunchyroll you can choose what to see. | |
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During the Christmas season in 2012, the network showed the original Miracle on 34th Street more than any other holiday movie. In second place was the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol and third was White Christmas. | |
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Freeform milked Harry Potter marathons even more frequently than Spike did with Star Wars. In almost every season of the year, there is a Harry Potter marathon. They would often take it to the max whenever another Harry Potter film was being released to theaters. In 2018, the title of The Harry Potter Network shifted to USA Network and some of its sister networks within NBCUniversal as part of a new rights deal. | |
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Ever since they got the rights to the Look Who's Talking trilogy in December of 2015, Starz Kids will air at least one film from the series a day, with the second one being the most frequently shown. It got to the point where they aired nothing but the entire series of films for 48 hours during New Year's. | |
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Kids WB's adoration for all things Pokémon even spilled into their promotional attempts for other shows in their lineup. During a Batman Beyond-themed Y2K event, viewers were encouraged to send in their predictions of the future to be read on the air. One of the more notable entries: "In the future, Pokémon will be on every channel all day long." The dreams of someone truly obsessed with the series, or an early example of epic trolling? | |
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They used to like airing Monster House nearly every month before moving on to The Nightmare Before Christmas. Planet 51 was another victim of this trope. | |
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FX will alternate between showing animated movies and those of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or sometimes both) every single weekend, to the point where these two types of movies will occasionally show up on weekdays, usually during the summer months. | |
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Farsight Studios, the creators of The Pinball Arcade, seem to adore the games from Williams Electronics, and three designers in particular: Pat Lawlor, Steve Ritchie, and Barry Oursler. Somewhat justified in all three cases, as they are widely considered the top pinball designers of the modern era. For Lawlor, he's the co-leader with Ritchie for the most representation in The Pinball Arcade with nine games total. For starters, he has one game in the core pack download from his days at Stern (Ripley's Believe It or Not!), then three games from his time at Williams in Season 1 (FunHouse (1990), Twilight Zone, and No Good Gofers). Season 2 adds another Williams game from him (Whirlwind) and Season 3 is Lawlor free, but Season 4 more than makes up for it with four games from him (They are, in release order, Earthshaker!, The Addams Family, Red & Ted's Road Show, and Safe Cracker). As of July 2015, the only game Lawlor made at Williams that isn't in The Pinball Arcade is Banzai Run, and Word of God indicates that we may see it in the future. For Ritchie, the first three DLC seasons had two games each from him. Season 1 has Black Knight and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2 had Firepower and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Season 3 had Black Knight 2000 and High Speed. A game from Ritchie was nowhere to be found in Season 4 (likely due to Lawlor overload), but Season 5 makes up for it with three of the first four games coming from him, including The Getaway: High Speed II, F-14 Tomcat and No Fear: Dangerous Sports. For Oursler, there's at least one game from him in each DLC season. Season 1 had Gorgar, Season 2 had Pin Bot, Season 3 had WHO dunnit (1995) and Junk Yard, and Season 4 had Bram Stoker's Dracula,Cyclone and Jack*Bot. A recent leak indicated that Hurricane will be added during Season 5. For those counting, yes, Season 4 had 7/10 games from Oursler and Lawlor combined. The other three games were Phantom Of The Opera (from Joe Kaminkow), Starship Troopers (also from Kaminkow), and Xenon (from Greg Kmiec). John Trudeau currently has three games (Victory, Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot), with one more (Judge Dredd) hinted at for a December 2015 release and another (TX-Sector) semi-confirmed through a leak. On a lesser note, The Pinball Arcade has four games from Jon Norris (Tee'd Off, Cue Ball Wizard, Lights... Camera... Action!, and High Roller Casino), five games from Dennis Nordman (Elvira and the Party Monsters , Dr. Dude, The Party Zone, White Water, and Scared Stiff) and three each from Joe Kaminkow ( the aforementioned Phantom of the Opera and Starship Troopers, plus Space Shuttle from Season 2), Mark Ritchie (Taxi, Diner and Fish Tales), and John Popadiuk (Theater Of Magic, Tales of the Arabian Nights-both of which are in the core pack- and Cirqus Voltaire). |
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This was actually lampshaded on the Series 16 premiere of Top Gear (UK) in January 2011: | |
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The Blue Lagoon has gained infamy in Brazil, due to constantly being broadcast on the country's biggest network for several years, to the point of Memetic Mutation. | |
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Is today the day before a major holiday? Then chances are that TV Guide Network has an airing of The Mirror Has Two Faces planned. | |
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The Inhumans: The Inhumans were heavily pushed by Marvel in the 2010s, receiving big promotional pushes and involvement in crossover events. This stems from Marvel not owning the film rights to the X-Men, thus Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter wanting to use the Inhumans in their place as the naturally superpowered minority allegory. Although their film was scheduled to be developed, increased awareness of the brand and more stories to draw on for adaptations and merchandise was required, as well as more popularity in general given how obscure they are, and so they were given more shots than would normally be warranted given just how poorly they sold (their sales were usually always under the usual Marvel/DC cancellation threshold). This subsided when the Inhumans' TV adaptation bombed, the film rights to the X-Men were reacquired and Marvel was eventually restructured to minimise Perlmutter's influence, which saw an almost instantaneous decrease in the Inhumans' promotion. Media outside of comics that began production after the return of the X-Men film rights noticeably lacks prominent Inhumans elements, with even their Breakout Character Kamala Khan, being introduced into the MCU with the Inhumans elements removed. The last episode of Ms. Marvel (2022) even reveals that she's a mutant. | |
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It's hard not to turn on the Japanese version of Animax and see a show that's not named Chibi Maruko-chan or GeGeGe no Kitarō. Whenever a show gets cancelled, they replace it with one of these shows. | |
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Spanish kids channel Boing loves Doraemon so much that broadcasts at least eight episodes every day, and it's very strange to put the channel and find that they are not broadcasting Doraemon (or, for a time, earlier seasons of Adventure Time). Sadly, the logic effect of this has been the disband of all the grown-up fans who came to the channel attracted by its broadcasting One Piece and Naruto Shippuden, which now belong to a past era of Boing. | |
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During the annual "13/31 Nights of Halloween", Freeform loves to play repeat airings of Hocus Pocus; for the 2019 edition, Freeform will air Hocus Pocus 36 times, with a repeat marathon on All Hallows' Eve. | |
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While they certainly haven't been slacking off on that other franchise they own and even launched a new IP, Bethesda Game Studios has become infamous for rereleasing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on every platform under the sun, sometimes multiple times, while simultaneously offering no information on the development of its sequel. To the point where it became a joke that every new game announcement from them would just turn out to be Skyrim again. And then the meme where everything turned out to just be Skyrim in disguise. | |
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There was one point where the channel had a fascination with The Day After Tomorrow. As of October 2015, the network will show the entire Back to the Future series every weekend, as well as on holidays and days when kids have school off. |
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The Escapist treated Zero Punctuation with an almost exclusive level of prestige and security after picking up creator Ben Croshaw in 2007, reliably keeping him and the show afloat for 16 years even following massive scandals with other creators, ranging from skimping out on paying creators like the Extra Credits team and abruptly laying off all their content creators except for Croshaw in 2017. Croshaw eventually resigned from The Escapist in 2023 (along with every other creator since added to the site, this time voluntarily) following the sudden firing of then editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, all regrouping on the newly-formed, employee-owned network Second Wind, with Zero Punctuation being relaunched as a Creator-Driven Successor, Fully Ramblomatic (a result of The Escapist owning the Zero Punctuation IP). This was done both as a show of solidarity, but also because of his increasing disillusionment with The Escapist, which included frustrations of having to carry the site following its earlier mass exodus. | |
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Spanish cable channel Canal Hollywood based its two or three first broadcasting years on Close Encounters of the Third Kind reruns. | |
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Batman: Despite Superman being the defining superhero, it's Batman who is the most pushed by DC, up to the point that the company is literally named after the comic that he debuted in. Any Bat-Event will usually be billed as the big event, and more often than not, the Bat-books (Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing, etc.) will outnumber the collective total of every other Justice Leaguer. This was especially noticeable during the New 52 reboot, when DC wanted to have 52 titles... and filled out 25% of the lineup with Bat-books, either starring Batman himself in a starring or supporting role, or showcasing several characters related to him, leaving other characters scrambling to be noticed in any way, shape, or form. This is also noticeable in terms of the creative teams — more often than not, DC will put popular and big-name writers on the Bat-books. | |
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It seems as if TBS can't go a month without showing Dumb and Dumber... | |
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King Kong (1976) | |
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UK channel ITV and its sister channel ITV2 are known for frequently showing the Despicable Me films. | |
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Runescape has the Squeal of Fortune note a simple wheel spin that gives prizes and Solomon's General Store note a store where you can buy cosmetic items and emotes. Most players hate them, but Jagex is in love with them (for obvious reasons) and updates them once or twice a week, giving each update huge amounts of fanfare. | |
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Final Fantasy IV is another example, it being ported or remade for PlayStation, WonderSwan Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Virtual Console, FOMA 903i / 703i and PlayStation Portable. | |
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IFC really loves the Hostel movies, The Shining, and the first Alien. | |
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Himitsu no Hanazono was re-run in 2016 and 2020. It is often featured on advertisements and promo images, because Germans Love David Hasselhoff. | |
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Red Dawn | |
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Mad Max popped up almost daily in the spring/summer of 2005. | |
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TBS and TNT were notorious up until the late-2000s for overplaying Road House (1989). | |
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On weekends, their movie selection mainly consists of the Back to the Future trilogy, the Jurassic Park films and Kindergarten Cop. | |
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Ever since 2015, Delta Airlines will have The Lion King (1994) as a featured movie for their Sky Kids library, usually when there's only one new kid's movie release to show. | |
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Every Halloween, expect Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers to appear many, many times. | |
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TBS will show The Wizard of Oz every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes, they will show it TWICE during the same week. | |
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Several cable channels in the U.S. and U.K. (Encore, AMC, and Sky among them) have aired 24 hours of Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day. This actually makes sense considering what the film's about! | |
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Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon are adored by Hungama TV in India, airing both multiple times everyday. | |
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From December 22-27, 2019, the channel showed Trolls and The Secret Life of Pets, with Trolls occasionally getting a second airing, usually during the late night hours. | |
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It's also possible that this is due to rights concerns with DC, as both companies have used the Captain Marvel name, but copyright law dictates that there can only be one comic called Captain Marvel; meaning if Marvel doesn't put one out, DC might and Marvel wouldn't be able to use the name as a comic title anymore (and unlike with DC's Captain Marvel, there's no easy alternative name). | |
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If there is absolutely nothing for them to air at all in terms of actual events, Golf Channel will often fall back on Tin Cup or The Legend of Bagger Vance like clockwork. | |
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Before Disney Channel, Disney XD and ABC Family aired the movie, Starz and Encore's kid's channels seemed to be quite fond of Toy Story 3. Starz Kids also adores Astro Boy. Starz also gave this treatment to Inside Out after its premiere on February 26, 2016. They aired it every single day for two weeks in a row, a feat which no new-to-the-channel Disney or Pixar movie was able to accomplish beforehand.note For example, the aforementioned Toy Story 3 seemed to air twice every four or five days, and Monsters University played once a week during its premiere. Like the Lion King example on the Disney page, they often aired the movie twice in a row, which happened the day it premiered. But after a month or so, its exposure began to taper off, so Inside Out only aired once every four days, and only during the early morning or prime time. They reversed this in September of 2016, when the movie started to air on every weekend possible (with the first airing in a while playing the same day Disney on Ice Presents Follow Your Heart - which heavily features the main characters of Inside Out - made its world premiere). It took until December 23rd for Starz Kids to bring it back into daily rotation. Ever since December 2018, the channel has aired the An American Tail movies every other day, sometimes twice in the same day. |
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Regal Cinemas, an American movie theater chain, loved showing Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie every year as part of the Free Family Film Festival. It showed as part of the program for eight years in a row. This was likely because (up until 2012) the program paired G-rated movies with PG-rated ones, the fact Regal didn't show Disney movies as part of the program (as is standard procedure with free or cheap kids' summer movie programs of this type) and because G-rated movies were becoming rare at the time. | |
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Since the late 1990s, TBS has aired an annual 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story, Christmas Eve night to Christmas Day night. Granted, it's a beloved holiday classic that was Vindicated by Cable in the first place. It's also used to give most of their employees Christmas off. When that's all you're showing, all you need is a bare-bones staff to make sure the building doesn't burn down. Men in Black and its first sequel are also adored by TBS. It seems as if TBS can't go a month without showing Dumb and Dumber... ...and The Hangover, but nearly every channel has the rights to both. TBS will show The Wizard of Oz every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes, they will show it TWICE during the same week. |
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For years, Independence Day was Fox's go-to movie whenever a big event was happening on another network: Super Bowl, Oscars, etc. In fact, Independence Day airs often on every station that gets the rights to it, especially the Viacom channels (A&E, CMT, Spike, VH 1), E!, and AMC. Around 2009, TBS, TNT and WGN America played it constantly while MyNetworkTV ran it as a Sunday night movie and The CW on a Saturday afternoon. | |
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And starring in 2015, Life Is Strange has become this, and marked their admiration of episodic games. | |
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Understandably, Final Fantasy is a Cash-Cow Franchise for SE, and justly widely enjoyed. However, true to this effect, it has a habit of overshadowing other efforts that the company occasionally puts forth. The game Xenogears was hit particularly hard by this, when its budget and production schedule slashed in favor of the soon-to-be-released Final Fantasy VIII. | |
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God of War is adored by Sony Santa Monica. Naturally, since it was their Breakthrough Hit. However, this adoration comes at the expense of games entrusted to them from other Sony studios. Fat Princess, Twisted Metal, and Starhawk were all screwed because of this, and it took a fandom revolt to save Playstation All Stars Battle Royale from suffering the same fate. | |
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Magical Princess Minky Momo. In Japan, it was originally meant to have 50 episodes, but the Periphery Demographic led to extending them to 63. Arabic channel Space Toon re-ran Minky Momo in 2020 and 2021, and every day during February 2023. |
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Taiwanese kids' channel My Kids TV airs PriPara for three and a half hours each day. | |
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HBO Family seems to love playing The LEGO Movie, on most weekends and holidays. Before that, any of the latest Dreamworks Animation films. As of 2017, the cable rights to The Lego Movie belong to Time Warner's networks. Nowadays, you can expect one of the older DreamWorks films that aren't on the FX channels anymore, to be shown on here. Other popular choices right now include Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, and The Peanuts Movie Come 2020, and the same situation seems to still stand for its sequel. Spies in Disguise, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu are also becoming frequent showings. This is likely due in part to an increasing dearth of new-release family movies heading to HBO, with Warner Bros. Animation and the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios being the only reliable providers*while most Universal movies make their cable premieres on HBO, Dreamworks Animation titles are licensed to Hulu and Peacock while Illumination Entertainment films are licensed to Netflix. |
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The weekends they don't play Clint Eastwood movies, they've instead been playing Batman and Superman movies, with an inexplicable preference for Batman & Robin and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. | |
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Jeremiah Johnson | |
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Jaws | |
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There also existed a channel that played the film Rudy for 24 hours straight in some areas. | |
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As of 2017, the cable rights to The Lego Movie belong to Time Warner's networks. Nowadays, you can expect one of the older DreamWorks films that aren't on the FX channels anymore, to be shown on here. Other popular choices right now include Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, and The Peanuts Movie | |
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Rayman Origins seems to be heading the same route. It was initially released for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii, then was later ported to Steam, PlayStation Vita, and Nintendo 3DS. Then there's the iPhone/Android game Rayman Jungle Run, which is based on Origins. | |
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...and The Hangover, but nearly every channel has the rights to both. | |
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Sega also loves its Sakura Wars franchise, which started as a video game in 1996. It has since gone on to spawn five sequels, as well as video game spin-offs, OVAs, a TV series, an anime film, and several stage musicals. | |
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Suicide Squad: The Suicide Squad has been pushed to a degree far surpassing its sales totals. Prior to 2011, there had only been one ongoing Suicide Squad series that ran for a respectable 66 issues in the late 80s and early 90s, but it was given a huge push by the New 52. Counting New Suicide Squad, there have been five Suicide Squad ongoings since that period—each time the book falls below a threshold that most books would get cancelled at, it simply relaunches with a new creative team. It also has a noticeably outsized presence in events, most notably Justice League vs. Suicide Squad, which by its very name puts the team on level pegging with DC's traditional A-listers. This isn't even mentioning cross-media projects, such as the team getting a live-action film adaptation, multiple direct-to-video animated films, and a big-budget video game from the same studio as the Arkham games. This is despite the fact that it's never been an especially strong seller—for instance, its first post-New 52 series, a year after launch, sold only slightly more than Justice League International, which was cancelled that same month and has yet to return since. | |
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Ever since The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water, Paramount films aimed at families have been heavily promoted by US movie theater chain Regal Cinemas. Chances are if there's a film coming up by them, not only will they put the trailer on every family film, but they will also use it to advertise the Regal Crown Club card. Perhaps the most noteworthy example was Dora and the Lost City of Gold, which not only got the usual "trailer on every family-oriented movie" and Regal Crown Club treatment, but it was also the sponsor for that year's Stars of Hope program, had featurettes play in the Noovie preshow, was featured in their 2019 Regal Unlimited ad and even had the trailer play on several movies not aimed at families, most notably Hobbs & Shaw. | |
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It seems as though they're doing the same with Lawrence of Arabia. And Now, Voyager. | |
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Of their newer and more recent IPs, Splatoon has easily gotten a large amount of love from Nintendo, with holographic concerts featuring the Idol Singer groups from each game being held in Europe and Japan, regularly holding invitationals at E3 and livestreaming tournaments, and copious amounts of post-release support. | |
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Sonic X was absolutely beloved by 4Kids; even as their block changed identities, moved to different channels, and cycled through shows, Sonic X always had a spot on the lineup, despite having gone through its entire run dozens of times on Saturday morning television. Furthermore, as of July 1, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group's "KidsClick" syndicated block has picked the show up and given it slots on both the weekday and weekend lineups, despite it being fourteen years old. | |
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As well as Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II, which have been ported or remade for MSX2, WonderSwan Color, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, mobile phones, PlayStation Portable, Virtual Console, PlayStation Network and iOS. This is perhaps due to both games being are the most simple in the series. They include little to no plot, a few enemies (for a final fantasy game), a few classes (6 in FFInote Fighter, Thief, Black Belt, and the White, Red, and Black Magi, none in FFII) and the game mechanics in general are simple. In contrast, the more complex games hardly ever see the light, most likely since they are not as easy to make as I or II but not as popular as IV or VI. | |
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Shortly before the name change to Discovery Family, they aired My Little Pony: Equestria Girls on every major holiday, which isn't surprising since it's a channel half-owned by Hasbro. The tradition still continues to this day, to the point where as of November 2019, the movie will air every other weekend. The Equestria Girls films in general are adored by Discovery Family. Every weekend, the channel airs at least one of the movies. |
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In 2014, AMC replayed The Green Mile almost as frequently as the movies they played on the network 10 years ago. | |
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Speaking of Men in Black, every channel adores airing the movie itself, including the sequel to a lesser extent. | |
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They are also well-known for constantly showing Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, to the point where even Edgar Wright himself is aware of it. | |
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Showtime's networks love airing The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie more than any other animated film. This treatment has lasted since they got the rights to show the movie partway through the Turn of the Millennium. | |
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YouTube gave an unusual amount of attention to The Irate Gamer for a couple years, including naming him one of the first YouTube Partners, despite his status as a controversy magnet whose videos didn't get very good ratings. Internal reports suggest this was because they noted the popularity of The Angry Video Game Nerd, but found his Cluster F-Bomb style and Vulgar Humor to be too caustic for advertisers, and so decided to uplift a channel with a similar focus but considerably less swearing. | |
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As of July 2015, Discovery Family loves airing Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown. They will air it twice or more every week. During Christmas vacation of 2015, the movie aired once a day two weeks in a row! | |
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Ever since December 2018, the channel has aired the An American Tail movies every other day, sometimes twice in the same day. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Kai was this for Nicktoons, with anywhere from three to six hours worth being shown on any given day in total. It got to the point where Nicktoons began airing the original Dragon Ball Z movies in an almost completely uncut format, with the only real edit being a Hitler scene in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn. All blood, violence, and profanity were kept, at a TV-Y7-FV rating no less. | |
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Ironically, once Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive released, they quickly took over as the company's main focus, to the point of eventually abandoning Team Fortress 2 itself to updates that consist solely of community-made content. Infamously, this led to the game being overrun by bots that would blatantly cheat and votekick any real humans that tried to join, rendering it completely unplayable unless you had a private server to play on. | |
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At one point, they were showing Demolition Man every three months. | |
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Pokémon: The Series for Kids' WB!. Sometimes they would show nothing but the show to promote a special or new movie, and they'd sometimes show it for three hours at a time. Cartoon Network and Disney XD don't do this nearly as often. Kids WB's adoration for all things Pokémon even spilled into their promotional attempts for other shows in their lineup. During a Batman Beyond-themed Y2K event, viewers were encouraged to send in their predictions of the future to be read on the air. One of the more notable entries: "In the future, Pokémon will be on every channel all day long." The dreams of someone truly obsessed with the series, or an early example of epic trolling? |
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When Sailor Moon was popular in Canada, YTV aired the show sixteen times in one week. It also helped that the show fulfilled Canadian content requirements since the show was dubbed there. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, from just the initial good reception of a special theatrical cut of the first 5 episodes in Japan, the series aired in more than 20 stations at first, and when its gargantuan success had been solidified Fuji Television who initially rejected the series, thinking it wouldn't be any special, had to beg for the series' broadcasting rights, airing on a prime time slot, getting great results in its rerun; after that, constant reruns became common. | |
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Super Fighter: A somewhat unusual example. Even though this Street Fighter II clone was created by the Taiwanese company C&E, it was the American video game company Super Fighter Team who have given it this treatment, even adopting the name of this game for their company. | |
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Back in the early to mid-'90s, TBS also used to show Clash of the Titans what seemed like every Saturday and Sunday. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is another favourite of RTE with frequent reairings. It is a guarantee that this film will be aired on that station sometime during any Christmas or Easter. | |
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Ditto for fellow DreamWorks film Shark Tale, as it pops up on CN and Peachtree TV quite often. | |
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There are also phases when TCM can't get enough of My Fair Lady. It played almost monthly in 2010, and again since October 2012 (with as many as two airings per month). | |
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ARMS has been shown a lot of love from Nintendo. Revealed during the Nintendo Switch Presentation in January 2017 and confirmed to be releasing only a few months after the Switch launched, Nintendo advertised the hell out of it, holding tournaments, an open beta, and even dedicating an entire Nintendo Direct to it. Most of this is likely due to the fact that Splatoon has released only a couple years prior, and Nintendo was eager to promote new IPs after Splatoon ended up being a Sleeper Hit. While ARMS didn't reach the same levels of success as Splatoon did, it nonetheless accumulated a dedicated community, and Nintendo continued to show interest in the game in the year afterwards, most notably by including Min Min as DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. | |
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Have a day off from school or work? Chances are Vantage Point is playing this morning on FX. | |
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History of the World: Part I | |
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American Airlines has kept Sing in their in-flight entertainment library for a longer time than any other film they have offered on their service. Usually, new movies on it will get removed two to three months after they are added, but Sing has stayed on the service for almost half a year. They also treated Inside Out, Ferdinand and Sherlock Gnomes in the same way. | |
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It was impossible to watch Fox Movie Channel in 2011 without running into some combination of The Return of Frank James, The Desert Fox and/or Royal Flash. | |
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Italia 1 also adores Hello! Sandybell. In 2018, it was marathoned for all of September, even taking up a timeslot that was originally meant to go to the re-broadcast of Georgie!. | |
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Italian channel K2 airs cartoon movies every Monday night, with reruns during Saturday lunchtime and Sunday morning. With a few exceptions, most of their movie airings are either Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, Monsters vs. Aliens, any Pokémon movie starting from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, the Lucky Luke films Daisy Town and Ballad of the Daltons, or a compilation of the various DVD-only shorts based on DreamWorks movies (plus the ones made for The Smurfs and Despicable Me, for some reason). | |
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Nowadays, it seems like the only things Ubisoft is willing to publish are games in the Assassin's Creed series and worse, they've come so frequently and so close together that several bugs rear their heads in later releases such as Unity and Syndicate. A similar case happened to the more Lighter and Softer Just Dance, which caused both of them to have an Archive Panic problem. | |
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The Canadian Bravo channel has a fixation with the Bourne movies. | |
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The Wikimedia Foundation seems to put most of its fundraising money towards Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, but that's justified, as hardly anyone knows of, say, Wikibooks. | |
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Leave Her to Heaven has also been getting a lot of airtime on the channel. Considering that it's one of TCM host Robert Osborne's favorite movies, that alone may be the reason for its overexposure. | |
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