Will Hallmark Channel be airring any different sitcoms in 2021? What will there Schedule be in January 2021?

Wow,Thanks! Has I Love Lucy and the middle lost rights on Hallmark? Or are they on a Hiatus?

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Endless movie crap on afternoons, but Frasier is buried in the middle of the night. Typical terrible scheduling from the Hallmark executives. This would be a much better schedule with the shows they have. The constant overload of their inferior movie crap is bad enough when it takes over everything during the Christmas season. The roster of syndicated shows they have deserves much better treatment.

5-7AM The Brady Bunch
7-9AM Reba
9-11AM Home and Family
11AM-2PM Happy Days
2-4PM I Love Lucy- Include the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour in the rotation.
4-7PM Frasier
7-11PM Movies
11PM-2AM The Golden Girls
2-5AM Cheers

I haven't watched their movies, but I've heard they're mostly the same plots recycled with different actors.

I think Hallmark Channel should bring back Home Improvement and Last Man Standing.

Reba will be coming on Monday, January 4, replacing I Love Lucy:

https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2020/12/reba-coming-to-hallmark-channel-hbo-max.html

I think I tried watching I Love Lucy on that network once and there wasn't one second that wasn't inundated with flashing ads all over the screen. It was literally unwatchable.

I think I tried watching I Love Lucy on that network once and there wasn't one second that wasn't inundated with flashing ads all over the screen. It was literally unwatchable.

That, and they edit out a ton of program for all their ads--which goes way back to their Odyssey Network days. The credit crunches go way back to that, too.

5-7 Brady Bunch
7-8 Happy Days
8-9 Laverne and Shirley
9-11 Home and Family
11-12 Waltons
12-1 Lhop
1-2 Dr Quinn
2-4 I love Lucy
4-6 Frasier
6-7 Cheers
7-11 Movies
11-2 Waltons
2-5 LHOP

So, Decades has I Love Lucy still, but Decades is an over the air digitnet. Maybe ViacomCBS will run it on TV Land for the traditional cable market, and have a Pluto TV channel for free streaming, but the episode selection limited to what is available on CBS All Access.

Hulu and CBS All Access have I Love Lucy, but several episodes are missing.

Checking Decades' schedule on Dec. 30th, it will air "Lucy Does the Tango" from Season 6, episode 20. One example of Decades airing an episode, but that episode missing from Hulu/CBS All Access selection. I wonder if Weigel has paid some extra rights for the full series for its Decades channel, whereby CBS then limits its CBS All Access lineup offering of that classic show. It's too bad then that Decades is like this premium hard to get type of digitnet for many viewers, even though it has landed on the subchannel of many Fox owned stations but without cable carriage still.

Not sure if Hallmark had rights for the full series or felt the series was worth it. It has it's own original movies that all this classic TV is just morning filler for them.

That tango episode is probably a perfect example of music rights, and having to negotiate rights for streaming--it's just as big a problem there as it was for DVDs a decade ago.

IMO CBS is too cheap to buy those rights, so any music rights issues, those episodes are skipped.

As far as Decades/MeTV showing them, the rights for TV syndication were probably either purchased years ago, or were included in the original contracts.

Notice I use the word "probably" a lot--all just guesses on my part.

That, and they edit out a ton of program for all their ads--which goes way back to their Odyssey Network days. The credit crunches go way back to that, too.


I remember back when Hallmark was Odyssey Network they played My three sons and many other classic shows

That tango episode is probably a perfect example of music rights, and having to negotiate rights for streaming--it's just as big a problem there as it was for DVDs a decade ago.

IMO CBS is too cheap to buy those rights, so any music rights issues, those episodes are skipped.

As far as Decades/MeTV showing them, the rights for TV syndication were probably either purchased years ago, or were included in the original contracts.

Notice I use the word "probably" a lot--all just guesses on my part.

As for I Love Lucy, there are episodes where there really isn't any music. Just Ricky singing a lyric to something for a few seconds if any. Even in the tango episode, I'm not sure if that music is really one where rights were needed.

A good example is Season 1, episode 1. Just viewed it on Decades as my DVR recorded it recently. (Decades recently finished Season 6 and is back on Season 1). The very first episode stripped from CBS All Access/Hulu. No music in it, but not in the CBS streaming catalog.

If Weigel is paying for the series perhaps exclusivity premium that Hallmark dropped it, I'd rather Weigel move I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore and maybe Laverne & Shirley to it's other network, StartTV. It's anyways a women focused network, albeit dramas, but has better coverage than Decades, since Weigel has decided to expand Start TV's coverage at Decades' expense.

As for I Love Lucy, there are episodes where there really isn't any music. Just Ricky singing a lyric to something for a few seconds if any. Even in the tango episode, I'm not sure if that music is really one where rights were needed.

A good example is Season 1, episode 1. Just viewed it on Decades as my DVR recorded it recently. (Decades recently finished Season 6 and is back on Season 1). The very first episode stripped from CBS All Access/Hulu. No music in it, but not in the CBS streaming catalog.

If Weigel is paying for the series perhaps exclusivity premium that Hallmark dropped it, I'd rather Weigel move I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore and maybe Laverne & Shirley to it's other network, StartTV. It's anyways a women focused network, albeit dramas, but has better coverage than Decades, since Weigel has decided to expand Start TV's coverage at Decades' expense.

It would definitely be great if Start TV started showing sitcoms especially female oriented ones since that seems to be who they target. It would be great if they got the Facts of Life back once Antenna’s contract is up and put it on Start instead of Me.