Hey, cable television, how many times do I have to say this? Not all of us want movies on every damn channel in our lineup!
Now Travel Channel is doing it. At least according to my (admittedly not always accurate) FIOS listings, this Saturday brings an airing of "National Lampoon's Vacation" to the 8-10:00PM slot on the network.
If you want to stray from your roots and show guys stuffing themselves on 20-pound burgers or whatever, that's one thing. But movies? Come on, even if it IS related to "travel," you don't need to be airing movies. Everybody else does. In fact, everybody else airs this particular movie, and I'm pretty sure that when I first bitched about TV Land showing movies, I bitched about them airing this particular movie.
"Vacation" is a great movie--not so great in hacked-up-for-TV form, but still, it's a riot. But we don't need to watch it on Travel Channel. Even if it were appropriate, it sets a bad precedent. It won't be long till we get the crummy "Vacation" movies, then the Cedric the Entertainer road trip movies, and then, well, might as well start with the poker movies...
NO MOVIES. Show movies on movie channels. Travel Channel is not a movie channel.
Sounds simple to me.
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