I'm trying to save these to my DVR and it hasn't been easy. CNN pulled the same crap two years ago when they ran the Sixties series...every week was more useless babbling about the plane that was never found. It went on for weeks. CNN was the Crash News Network, 24/7. Drove me nuts and pissed me off.
And then U-Verse upgraded my DVR and I ended up losing the whole series anyway. I snoozed...so I lose.
Got the whole Seventies series, though, when it was re-broadcast last year. It's excellent. So I was looking forward to seeing The Eighties this spring.
I was able to save the first episode, on March 31st. CNN ran GOP B.S. on April 7th and 14th, so no episodes appeared on Thursdays during those weeks.
Then, last week (on the 21st), I had to delete the recording from the DVR because it ended up being news coverage of Prince's death. At least this week, they did air another episode...the one that should have run last week (Episode 4). Next week, they will show the episode that should have been on this week.
I guess they will be airing mini-marathons on the weekend of May 7th and 8th, and finish up with three more episodes on the Thursdays after that (May 12th, 19th, and 26th). It's been a complete mess, and very frustrating.
They should just run them on Sunday nights and be done with it. The goddam news can wait an hour...their "breaking news" reports are often a royal pain in the ass.
🚋🚋 Just take that streetcar that's going uptown...
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DanielCraig007
9 years ago
So, they DID show the third (whatever its real number is) episode today ?
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FeloniousMunk
9 years ago
There's nothing scheduled to run this weekend. But the episode about technology is scheduled for airing on the 5th and 6th.
The Reagan episode is supposed to be re-broadcast on the weekend of the 7th and 8th. And the episode about Wall Street greed is scheduled for the 12th and 13th.
I have no idea what order they were originally meant to be shown in. I think the Reagan one was Episode Two.
Reagan was supposed to be seen on April 7th. I was out of town and my DVR never recorded it, because it was pre-empted by political nonsense. The same thing happened on the 14th. And the following week, the prince known as Prince went and died, so it has been a trifecta of Thursday postponements this month. Back to back to back. And there have been weekend ones, as well.
This current schedule is what U-Verse is now saying...of course, CNN may have other ideas and just scrap everything if there's another mass shooting, or if some rapper dies, or if Trump gets even more crazy, or if Hillary stubs her toe, or if Cruz trips over a crucifix and breaks his schnozz. And especially if a drone comes within twenty feet of a passenger plane.
So I have scheduled some of the episodes to be recorded two or three times. With CNN, you never know.
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