The Death OF IFC

When they SHOW movies, that is! I wonder if there are now commercials during all of those Apatow, Three Stooges, M. Python series.

IFC's dead to me. I'm taking it off my programmed "favorite channels."

I mean, first they start with the commercials BETWEEN movies, more and more and then--WHAM! Thinking it might have been a daytime/TV movie glitch, I checked out "Pulp Fiction" last night. To my surprise, per the beginning disclaimers, it was not in correct aspect ratio. Next, I swear I saw another notice that some of the movie was cut to fit into the time slot?

I turned it off immediately and forever--unless IFC goes back to "commercial-free and uncut!"

Cable TV is more and more of a let down nowadays due to commercials.

There was a recent article in the NYT discussing the trend of people turning off their cable boxes for good: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/business/media/06rabbitears.html?_r= 1&src=me&ref=homepage.

Thanks so much for posting the article link. It was quite interesting and potentially helpful. I asked around a little and apparently old technology (i.e., authentic "rabbit ears" of yore) is really effectively replacing "new" for some former subscribers.

Still, IFC is now one less quasi-premium movie channel, and cable/dish providers should compensate customers.

Is IFC editing for time and content too?

They're editing everything evidently. Just saw a recently DVR'd episode of The Whitest Kids U' Know and they edited out a stick figure drawing with a black box throughout the sketch and in another sketch they bleeped out *beep*

I cannot believe wtf has happened. When I first saw commercial breaks on the network a week ago I was so high I couldn't tell for five minutes whether it was me screwing up or if indeed there were now commercials on IFC.

So...does anyone know particularly why they have decided to go from Uncut and Unedited to an almost obscenely regular family network? Both Turner Classic Movies and Sundance haven't resorted to this...was IFC taken over by some conglomerate or was this an inhouse decision to take this route? Regardless, if they continue in this direction I will never bother to watch ANYTHING they have on there including exclusive content.

*beep* you IFC. Get your act together.

So...does anyone know particularly why they have decided to go from Uncut and Unedited to an almost obscenely regular family network? Both Turner Classic Movies and Sundance haven't resorted to this...was IFC taken over by some conglomerate or was this an inhouse decision to take this route? Regardless, if they continue in this direction I will never bother to watch ANYTHING they have on there including exclusive content.

*beep* you IFC. Get your act together.

My sentiments exactly---about ANY channel that edits their content! Edited movies, TV shows, you name it! If I discover that it's been edited in any way, I usually will not watch it. I will just go watch something on Netflix or YouTube instead.

See, this is part of why TV as a whole is being replaced by the internet---because if the networks are going to screw with us, they leave us w/ no other choice but to try to find the content somewhere else if we can.

Stop with the extra commercials and editing now, TV! GIVE US OUR UNEDITED CONTENT, OR ELSE, YOU ARE DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE! And, might I add that the day TCM starts butchering crap and adding commercials (heaven forbid!) is the day I give up on TV altogether!

Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!

Why did they even create Cable/Satellite TV in the first place?


I don't think the early pioneers of TV ever invisioned paying for TV.

Is IFC editing for time and content too?
They're running commercials, but I don't think that they're editing for time or content.