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Goldilocks · 10-14-2009, 11:14 AM

The Hallmark Channel has officially wigged out. They are showing 6 hours....yes, 6 hours of "I Love Lucy" every weekday. I mean, who the hell watches that much "I Love Lucy" in one sitting?!

They no longer air "Touched by An Angel" at 7:00 p.m., or a movie.

Who else is agitated about this?

LeeBlue · 10-14-2009, 05:15 PM

I agree -- I love Lucy but not that much!

There are so many terrific shows from the 60's, 70's and 80's that could be shown instead -- Hallmark needs to do better by its audience!

70s show watcher · 10-14-2009, 05:24 PM

i agree i love lucy as much as anyone here but 6 hours is way too much of that wacky redhead

TVFactFan · 10-14-2009, 08:01 PM

Hallmark always had a crappy selection of Tv shows

Jude The Obscure · 10-14-2009, 08:27 PM

Wow--let's not attack Lucy.....they were also just doing this with The Golden Girls. Les we forget they were just recently airing three back to back Touched by an Angels. Hallmark has always done this in the past year or so with its shows--it marathons them to death.

And FWIW, my mom enjoys it--so that's who enjoys it 6 hours at a time. Next?

DSfan · 10-14-2009, 10:44 PM

Not only are they overairing it but they go from airing it once a week at like 230 AM to airing 7 hours of it every single weekday. It's one of the strangest channels - they either over or underair all their shows at some point or another.

treky · 10-15-2009, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jude The Obscure

Wow--let's not attack Lucy.....they were also just doing this with The Golden Girls. Les we forget they were just recently airing three back to back Touched by an Angels. Hallmark has always done this in the past year or so with its shows--it marathons them to death.

And FWIW, my mom enjoys it--so that's who enjoys it 6 hours at a time. Next?

and my sister enjoys it too. And my mom enjoys "THE GOLDEN GIRLS".

Tubehead · 10-15-2009, 02:08 AM

their no such thing is too much lucy. just rember couple months ago it was one day at 2:30am in the moring. at lest we get decent hours. i do they that they might need to cut back a little bit.

JT · 10-15-2009, 09:25 AM

It doesn't matter who enjoys it. Six straight hours of ANYTHING every day is overkill, overkill, overkill, and there can be absolutely no denying that. Three episodes of Touched By an Angel is only *half* of that, so that's only half as bad. They're really just making things up as they go along, I think, which is starting to get a little out of hand. It was good at first because they wanted to see what was working (Golden Girls, Little House, Angel, now Lucy, apparently) and what was not working (Cheers!), but now it's like they're changing things around by the week based solely on the previous week's numbers.

They could just do something like with the shows they have (plus the returning Walker):

6am-8am: Paid Programming
8am-10am: The Golden Girls
10am-12pm: I Love Lucy
12pm-2pm: Murder She Wrote
2pm-4pm: Little House on the Prairie
4pm-6pm: I Love Lucy
6pm-8pm: Touched By an Angel
8pm-10pm: Movie
10pm-12am: The Golden Girls
12am-2am: Walker, Texas Ranger
2am-6am: Paid Programming

It's pretty simple. Everything gets a decent airing (besides Walker, which may or may not do well for them again) and everything gets to stay in the neat back-to-back blocks that most channels seem to enjoy so much.

clj2 · 10-15-2009, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by JT

It doesn't matter who enjoys it. Six straight hours of ANYTHING every day is overkill, overkill, overkill, and there can be absolutely no denying that. Three episodes of Touched By an Angel is only *half* of that, so that's only half as bad. They're really just making things up as they go along, I think, which is starting to get a little out of hand. It was good at first because they wanted to see what was working (Golden Girls, Little House, Angel, now Lucy, apparently) and what was not working (Cheers!), but now it's like they're changing things around by the week based solely on the previous week's numbers.

They could just do something like with the shows they have (plus the returning Walker):

6am-8am: Paid Programming
8am-10am: The Golden Girls
10am-12pm: I Love Lucy
12pm-2pm: Murder She Wrote
2pm-4pm: Little House on the Prairie
4pm-6pm: I Love Lucy
6pm-8pm: Touched By an Angel
8pm-10pm: Movie
10pm-12am: The Golden Girls
12am-2am: Walker, Texas Ranger
2am-6am: Paid Programming

It's pretty simple. Everything gets a decent airing (besides Walker, which may or may not do well for them again) and everything gets to stay in the neat back-to-back blocks that most channels seem to enjoy so much.

AMEN! I love to watch the show, but sorry, I'm not watching it for 5 hours every day. It's insane to air one show for 5 hours when there are at least 3 more shows that could air some. What I don't understand about them is when they add a show/bring it back they have to pull one so there's plenty of room to overkill. They make no sense.

70s show watcher · 10-15-2009, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by clj2

AMEN! I love to watch the show, but sorry, I'm not watching it for 5 hours every day. It's insane to air one show for 5 hours when there are at least 3 more shows that could air some. What I don't understand about them is when they add a show/bring it back they have to pull one so there's plenty of room to overkill. They make no sense.

your right you know i was think about it today even if any one of us watches one disc out of our dvd boxsets no matter what show it is the whole disc only runs 3 to 4 hours not 6

gidgetgrape · 10-15-2009, 10:51 PM

I use to like it when they showed old detective shows on Sundays like Diagnosis Murder, McMillan & Wife and Perry Mason.

JT · 10-15-2009, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

I use to like it when they showed old detective shows on Sundays like Diagnosis Murder, McMillan & Wife and Perry Mason.

Mystery Sunday, and it was fantastic. Columbo, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O, and some other random shows. They also did Rough and Ready Saturday, which had a ton of good westerns.

Tubehead · 10-16-2009, 12:44 AM

at lest it isn't 6 hhours of roseann.

i think theses shows wolud be GOOD FOR HALLMARK.:
MAJOR DAD
ALF
eMPTY NEST
FACTS OF LIFE
high way to heaven. itcoms on a christian statioon
promise land it wwas spin off of touch by an angel
GOMER PYLE
MAMM'S FAMILY

mayberry66guy · 10-16-2009, 09:16 AM

Loved Mystery Sundays--especially when it was a show not completed on DVD.

We would be less likely to complain if Hallmark was:
* airing a multiple-episode block of a rare gem that has never seen the light of DVD release--like Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny & The Professor, Mayberry RFD, to name a few.
* airing episodes of shows that never got completed on DVD--Bob Newhart Show, Green Acres, All in The Family, My Three Sons, etc.
* showing uncut versions of programs--like airing 5 uncut episodes of My Three sons (at roughly 25.5 minutes each) in a 3-hour block. The programs would not begin or end in a traditional half-hour block, but the network could get in all their commercial time and we could see every second of sage advice from Steve Douglas!

10-14-2009, 11:14 AM	#1
Goldilocks Member Forum Regular Join Date: Sep 08, 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 693	Hallmark Channel is trippin' The Hallmark Channel has officially wigged out. They are showing 6 hours....yes, 6 hours of "I Love Lucy" every weekday. I mean, who the hell watches that much "I Love Lucy" in one sitting?! They no longer air "Touched by An Angel" at 7:00 p.m., or a movie. Who else is agitated about this?

10-14-2009, 05:15 PM	#2
LeeBlue Member Forum Regular Join Date: Nov 16, 2006 Location: NYS Posts: 871	Hallmark Channel is trippin' I agree -- I love Lucy but not that much! There are so many terrific shows from the 60's, 70's and 80's that could be shown instead -- Hallmark needs to do better by its audience!

10-15-2009, 02:08 AM	#8
Tubehead Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 12, 2007 Location: chattanooga.tn Posts: 5,139	lucy their no such thing is too much lucy. just rember couple months ago it was one day at 2:30am in the moring. at lest we get decent hours. i do they that they might need to cut back a little bit.

10-15-2009, 09:25 AM	#9
JT Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Apr 29, 2001 Location: USA Posts: 7,219	It doesn't matter who enjoys it. Six straight hours of ANYTHING every day is overkill, overkill, overkill, and there can be absolutely no denying that. Three episodes of Touched By an Angel is only half of that, so that's only half as bad. They're really just making things up as they go along, I think, which is starting to get a little out of hand. It was good at first because they wanted to see what was working (Golden Girls, Little House, Angel, now Lucy, apparently) and what was not working (Cheers!), but now it's like they're changing things around by the week based solely on the previous week's numbers. They could just do something like with the shows they have (plus the returning Walker): 6am-8am: Paid Programming 8am-10am: The Golden Girls 10am-12pm: I Love Lucy 12pm-2pm: Murder She Wrote 2pm-4pm: Little House on the Prairie 4pm-6pm: I Love Lucy 6pm-8pm: Touched By an Angel 8pm-10pm: Movie 10pm-12am: The Golden Girls 12am-2am: Walker, Texas Ranger 2am-6am: Paid Programming It's pretty simple. Everything gets a decent airing (besides Walker, which may or may not do well for them again) and everything gets to stay in the neat back-to-back blocks that most channels seem to enjoy so much.
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10-14-2009, 05:24 PM	#3
70s show watcher Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 20, 2008 Location: between point place and studio 8 h Posts: 4,548	i agree i love lucy as much as anyone here but 6 hours is way too much of that wacky redhead

10-14-2009, 08:01 PM	#4
TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 98,946	Hallmark always had a crappy selection of Tv shows

10-14-2009, 08:27 PM	#5
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Wow--let's not attack Lucy.....they were also just doing this with The Golden Girls. Les we forget they were just recently airing three back to back Touched by an Angels. Hallmark has always done this in the past year or so with its shows--it marathons them to death. And FWIW, my mom enjoys it--so that's who enjoys it 6 hours at a time. Next?

10-14-2009, 10:44 PM	#6
DSfan Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 15, 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 1,204	Not only are they overairing it but they go from airing it once a week at like 230 AM to airing 7 hours of it every single weekday. It's one of the strangest channels - they either over or underair all their shows at some point or another.

10-15-2009, 10:51 PM	#12
gidgetgrape Forever Gidget Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 20, 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 3,503	I use to like it when they showed old detective shows on Sundays like Diagnosis Murder, McMillan & Wife and Perry Mason.

10-16-2009, 12:44 AM	#14
Tubehead Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 12, 2007 Location: chattanooga.tn Posts: 5,139	at lest it isn't 6 hhours of roseann. i think theses shows wolud be GOOD FOR HALLMARK.: MAJOR DAD ALF eMPTY NEST FACTS OF LIFE high way to heaven. itcoms on a christian statioon promise land it wwas spin off of touch by an angel GOMER PYLE MAMM'S FAMILY

10-16-2009, 09:16 AM	#15
mayberry66guy Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 03, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 29	Loved Mystery Sundays--especially when it was a show not completed on DVD. We would be less likely to complain if Hallmark was: * airing a multiple-episode block of a rare gem that has never seen the light of DVD release--like Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny & The Professor, Mayberry RFD, to name a few. * airing episodes of shows that never got completed on DVD--Bob Newhart Show, Green Acres, All in The Family, My Three Sons, etc. * showing uncut versions of programs--like airing 5 uncut episodes of My Three sons (at roughly 25.5 minutes each) in a 3-hour block. The programs would not begin or end in a traditional half-hour block, but the network could get in all their commercial time and we could see every second of sage advice from Steve Douglas!