Anyone else watching UFC's Fight Night today at 11 in the morning until 3pm? And then, oh yay, Ultimate Knockouts for the rest of the day? I didn't think so.

I guess this is Spike's way of telling us it's time to clean the house.

Thankfully, Dead Like Me is on sci fi. But since I already have both seasons on DVD, I've got the episodes so memorized that it upsets the whole flow of the program every time an X-rated or R-rated convo has been changed to PG for daytime tv. At least it makes for good background noise while I'm sweeping, mopping, and dusting.

LOL! I was so looking forward to a day of UM -- I work when it's normally on, and when I clicked on the tv to see what episodes were on today, I :( . Ah well. The house DOES need some work...but I wanted to do it with UM in the background!

Man, I really wish SPIKE would come up with some kind of a consistent schedule. It seems like they are just deciding week by week when it is going to be on, and even then it might not be right. :mad:

I only watch SPIKE when they have Manswers marathons...

Seriously, TracyLynn you are killing me. I really feel you, too. Last week, I ended up with an unexpected day off and was treated to UM back to back to back on SPIKE. I never dared hope such a thing would happen to me! The randomness is stunning.

So I'm doubly sorry you're stuck with Ultimate Knockouts.

ps. I heart Dead Like Me, too. No SciFi, though. Sad.

Yeah I dont even watch anymore, They lose a viewer when they don't figure out their own schedule. It's very disrespectful to the viewer who they onyl care about when they buy ****.

I don't know about you guys, but I think it's great that Spike has these "Clean Your House" days.

I like a clean house.

:D :D :D :D

P.S. I'm just sayin'.... this thread was up ALL DAY and NO ONE threw out a Paul Pollis joke? :)

That explains it! I had my day planned out...home office in the a.m. and Tivo'd UM in the afternoon while I cleaned the house. I was wondering why when I turned on the DVR this afternoon there were no UM's from today. I thought maybe it was because they were airing repeats I'd already recorded.

When I checked the listings last night they said UM would be on today...oh well maybe tomorrow... :(

P.S. I'm just sayin'.... this thread was up ALL DAY and NO ONE threw out a Paul Pollis joke? :)

BWAH! Oh, Ricci. Sometimes your posts are simply ludicrous.

LOL. Nice. I know, I know. You only cleaned up the floor where the baby spilled. I've heard it all before. :)

I thought I'd throw this weird little tidbit into this thread, for no logical reason.

During the lost gold treasure segment today (adam's diggings), I noticed that one way Spike is using to shorten the segments, besides editing, is speeding up the footage.

They showed the native americans on horseback, walking their horses along after apparently killing everyone in sight. Then the editors sped up the footage until the horses were daintily tippy toe-ing along at a rapid, and unintentionally comic speed, among the dead bodies.

I thought I'd throw this weird little tidbit into this thread, for no logical reason.

During the lost gold treasure segment today (adam's diggings), I noticed that one way Spike is using to shorten the segments, besides editing, is speeding up the footage.

They showed the native americans on horseback, walking their horses along after apparently killing everyone in sight. Then the editors sped up the footage until the horses were daintily tippy toe-ing along at a rapid, and unintentionally comic speed, among the dead bodies.

It's called time compression. A lot of networks used to (or still) do it to shorten movies and TV shows to fit a rigid time slot with commercials. The Turner networks used to be the worst culprits. I remember years ago they would often have a little blurb before the start of a movie that would say "this film has been edited and compressed for time" or something along those lines.

Definitely falls into the category of things I wish I didn't know.

It's called time compression.

What a weird thing to do. I thought I'd been seeing it on the spike UM segments, but I don't half pay attention, so I wasn't positive. Then today, I knew for sure when I saw the cartoonish horses.

I think I'd be happier with fewer segments put into each episode, and just leave the segments at full, unedited length, rather than airing these hodgepodge, chopped up, speeded up, thingamabobbers they're showing us now. But I only get to watch this stuff, they don't take my editing advice. :(

hodgepodge, chopped up, speeded up, thingamabobbers they're showing us now.

:lol: too funny

Spike really ruined this show. Would have better just to have left it on lifetime or putting it another network just the way it use to be.

:lol: too funny

Spike really ruined this show. Would have better just to have left it on lifetime or putting it another network just the way it use to be.

Totally. We used to complain how Lifetime edited segments, didn't syndicate certain stories and tacked stories onto episodes they didn't belong in originally, but at least they kept Stack....and you knew what time the show was on. :eek:

Looks like today and tomorrow are more "clean your house" days sponsored by Spike TV.

So is that it for this run of UM eppies? My directv onscreen guide doesn't go any further than sunday night, so I can't see next week's schedule yet. I'm going to go look up the spike schedule online... (not that it will be reliable)

I hope they pull the show altogether and sell it to another station that actually gives a damn. What Spike did to this show is pathetic. I don't even want them to produce new episodes with new cases now. Dennis Farina is nowhere near as good as Stack. Farina seems to be hamming it up too much. They should've never redid the show. For the cases that have recent updates, they could have had someone else narrate the updates only and produced the update portions only. Or they could have just did what Lifetime did and show text on the screen for the updates. The music is f'ing terrible, the way they play with the editing and the pictures with the crappy sound effects is ridiculous. Do the producers have ADD? Do you notice that the average frame length is like 1 or 2 seconds now? What I do is tape the 4 hours and just fast forward through everything except the few cases I haven't seen yet and the new updates. If I want to see the segments I've seen before, I'll just pull out the UM volumes. Now the show is overdone just like AMW. Pathetic. This has to be the worst true crime show on TV now. I wonder why A&E or Tru TV didn't buy the show. At least they would have done it right.

The music is f'ing terrible, the way they play with the editing and the pictures with the crappy sound effects is ridiculous. Do the producers have ADD? Do you notice that the average frame length is like 1 or 2 seconds now?

I hear ya! I think one of the problems is that spike is targeting the MTV type audience and that's the group with ADD who wants to hear the rock music and see the screen frames change every second.

But you can't really call what they're playing in those clips "music" and I'm sure that the MTV crowd is not watching anyway, so spike is wasting their time and just annoying the UM fans.

Well, I do agree that the show's quality has diminished dramatically. However I have ADD and yet I can watch all the segments all the way through. I for one am not overly impressed by rock music and screen fragments changing every second.

I wonder why A&E or Tru TV didn't buy the show. At least they would have done it right.

Someone at this forum mentioned having asked TruTV about UM, and that TruTV asked if it was a show about ghosts and UFOs (or something to that effect).

As for A&E, I know that they were interested in buying the show in 2000 (as were several other cable channels), but lost out to Lifetime, which decided to renew its contract with the show.

I don't know for sure if A&E was among the cable networks approached about buying the show in 2007 (I suppose the only way to know for sure is if we asked the UM people). But if by some chance they were, it might have been a case of bad timing since the channel was already in the process of phasing out most of its true-crime programming.

Someone at this forum mentioned having asked TruTV about UM, and that TruTV asked if it was a show about ghosts and UFOs (or something to that effect).

Yes, that was me. The response was "isn't that the show about aliens?"