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Jude The Obscure · 03-09-2009, 01:22 AM

and that is at 2:30 am eastern! Good thing I don't depend on them

As much as we have bitched about TV Land, they were never that disrespectful to I Love Lucy. This is just further proof, you want your faves,you have to buy them on DVD and not depend on programmers to give you what you want.

Coffeecup · 03-10-2009, 02:10 PM

Yeah I know. I didn't care for switch from tvland to Hallmark for I only have one digital cable box and the rest of my set don't pick up hallmark. Well as least I have seen the shows a million times , so if I missed the series for a while it's really not a tragedy.

Benno123 · 03-10-2009, 07:13 PM

I just have this feeling that with Hallmark cutting it back to one showing it is just a matter of time before the network just cuts the show from its schedule. Once it is cut, I think it will be a long time before ILL appears on cable. Of course, the show is still available on DVD and the local stations, but that time to get use to TV without Lucy is coming sooner than later

Jude The Obscure · 03-10-2009, 10:54 PM

No local Lucy in my market....I think it will just drive the casual fan to possibly investigate getting the DVDs. Hardcore fans, like most of us here, already have the DVDs. I'm craving more Lucy product, so Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show getting eventual DVD releases, will fit quite nicely.

Benno123 · 03-11-2009, 08:35 PM

Right, I didn't mean to say that Lucy would never be on TV again. I guess I should have said that the show will not be as readily available as it is (or was) on cable. But I do think that this will lead to people moving towards the DVDs. And of course, the release of Here's Lucy (and hopefully The Lucy Show) will be great. In fact, as much as I love I Love Lucy, I'm looking forward to a new series of her's that I have seen very little of.

Jude The Obscure · 03-11-2009, 09:57 PM

These episodes will be like brand new......I haven't seen most HL episodes since the early '80s and Lucy Show, i have most taped from N@N, but the tapes are in a deterioating state, so I don't play them. The Lucy Specials will be awesome since I have not seen about 90% of them.

MOWERDAN · 03-12-2009, 12:47 PM

Okay Hallmark, splain...

I can't believe Lucy's ratings in general would suddenly drop just in the past few years after 50 years on the air. I think it's due to alot of people not getting the Hallmark Channel. We recently swithed to Time Warner, otherwise we'd never get Hallmark at all. Lucy just kinda got lost in the channel switch I guess (I hope). New or casual viewers just moved on.

I'm glad I have all the seasons on DVD to watch.

Jude The Obscure · 03-12-2009, 02:38 PM

Hallmark has a history of putting shows on and expecting instant results and then yanking them off...it's happen to the Facts of Life, Family Ties, and more recently Cheers (putting it back on in the middle of the night is not a sign of faith).

Jude The Obscure · 04-12-2009, 10:53 AM

after putting Lucy back on a week or so ago.....WHAM! they are pulling her again. HALLMARK BLOWS A BIG ONE!!!!! I refuse to believe that Lucy is that low rated. it is time for another network to pick up Lucy and give her the decent showcase the show deserves.

gidgetgrape · 04-12-2009, 03:47 PM

Hallmark really pushed Lucy to the curb when they acquired The Golden Girls. I live in an area where we hardly ever get classic tv programs on our local stations. This year for the first time ever our NBC affiliate is showing I Love Lucy. Thank goodness for the DVDs though! I'll never forget all the trouble I went through taping I Love Lucy on Nick at Nite.

Mr. Television · 04-12-2009, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Jude The Obscure

after putting Lucy back on a week or so ago.....WHAM! they are pulling her again. HALLMARK BLOWS A BIG ONE!!!!! I refuse to believe that Lucy is that low rated. it is time for another network to pick up Lucy and give her the decent showcase the show deserves.

It's hard to believe. Lucy has lasted for over 60 years on tv but today's reality obsessed viewers could care less about classic tv. It's sick.

Jude The Obscure · 04-12-2009, 07:22 PM

Well, Hallmark doesn't have the excuse of relying on reality programming. It is the last bastion (widespread at least) of family oriented programming on cable. There should be enough room on its schedule to include Lucy, GG, LHOP, etc if it would just stop all this block programming of 3-4 episodes in a row daily! At least we also know 7th Heaven has failed to make a ratings dent in primetime for Hallmark, it too has been yanked. I was just getting used to seeing GG in the afternoon when now, it is moved to primetime. Hallmark is just throwing logic out the window and scheduling shows haphazardly in hopes that something will stick.

Benno123 · 04-13-2009, 06:21 PM

If Hallmark would just leave their schedule alone people will find the shows, and an audience will build. You cannot build an audience by switching times every week.

I still think that ILL will soon be reduced to local airings and people who have the VHS/DVD releases. That's ok, the show deserves better than what Hallmark is treating it and I don't mind if it doesn't air on a national cable channel for awhile until the contract expires. Perhaps something like American Life will pick the series up.

Jude The Obscure · 04-13-2009, 10:39 PM

It needs to go back to widespread local syndication, perhaps as a barter show, where the show is free for stations to air as long they air the national commericials that come with the program!

TeeVeeCloset · 04-13-2009, 11:10 PM

Dare I say it needs to be colorized and offered again in first run syndication, the colorization on the bonus disc boxset (Lucy Goes To Scotland) is frightening good, or at least they need to offer a colorized set on dvd as well, so they can make us buy the entire series all over again.....lol.......they need to colorize '"Dick Van Dyke" show as well, it was a advanced married 60's show and should have been shot in color in the first place....I can understand purists saying lucy is a 50's style B&W show, but "dick van dyke" feels like a color show, why not color them both and offer both classic 50's and 60's couples together in a one hour block?

as for the hallmark channel, its a greeting card company and magazine, its a crap channel and expects instant ratings spikes, just like all the other crap cable channels like abc family (the hogan family lasted a week) ion (broadcast), and all viacom owned channels. I predicted hallmark would treat lucy like this over a year ago when it was announced they aquired her, what fustrates me most about these announcements is they are made a year in advance and then the series lasts a month at best on the air...why bother to even announce it?, just wait, air it and take it off and maybe no one will notice!

03-09-2009, 01:22 AM	#1
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	Hallmark cuts Lucy to one showing a day and that is at 2:30 am eastern! Good thing I don't depend on them As much as we have bitched about TV Land, they were never that disrespectful to I Love Lucy. This is just further proof, you want your faves,you have to buy them on DVD and not depend on programmers to give you what you want.

04-13-2009, 11:10 PM	#15
TeeVeeCloset Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 1,873	Dare I say it needs to be colorized and offered again in first run syndication, the colorization on the bonus disc boxset (Lucy Goes To Scotland) is frightening good, or at least they need to offer a colorized set on dvd as well, so they can make us buy the entire series all over again.....lol.......they need to colorize '"Dick Van Dyke" show as well, it was a advanced married 60's show and should have been shot in color in the first place....I can understand purists saying lucy is a 50's style B&W show, but "dick van dyke" feels like a color show, why not color them both and offer both classic 50's and 60's couples together in a one hour block? as for the hallmark channel, its a greeting card company and magazine, its a crap channel and expects instant ratings spikes, just like all the other crap cable channels like abc family (the hogan family lasted a week) ion (broadcast), and all viacom owned channels. I predicted hallmark would treat lucy like this over a year ago when it was announced they aquired her, what fustrates me most about these announcements is they are made a year in advance and then the series lasts a month at best on the air...why bother to even announce it?, just wait, air it and take it off and maybe no one will notice!
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03-10-2009, 02:10 PM	#2
Coffeecup coffeecup. Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 17, 2003 Location: snoozeville Posts: 3,183	Yeah I know. I didn't care for switch from tvland to Hallmark for I only have one digital cable box and the rest of my set don't pick up hallmark. Well as least I have seen the shows a million times , so if I missed the series for a while it's really not a tragedy.

03-10-2009, 07:13 PM	#3
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	I just have this feeling that with Hallmark cutting it back to one showing it is just a matter of time before the network just cuts the show from its schedule. Once it is cut, I think it will be a long time before ILL appears on cable. Of course, the show is still available on DVD and the local stations, but that time to get use to TV without Lucy is coming sooner than later

03-10-2009, 10:54 PM	#4
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	No local Lucy in my market....I think it will just drive the casual fan to possibly investigate getting the DVDs. Hardcore fans, like most of us here, already have the DVDs. I'm craving more Lucy product, so Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show getting eventual DVD releases, will fit quite nicely.

03-11-2009, 08:35 PM	#5
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	Right, I didn't mean to say that Lucy would never be on TV again. I guess I should have said that the show will not be as readily available as it is (or was) on cable. But I do think that this will lead to people moving towards the DVDs. And of course, the release of Here's Lucy (and hopefully The Lucy Show) will be great. In fact, as much as I love I Love Lucy, I'm looking forward to a new series of her's that I have seen very little of.

03-11-2009, 09:57 PM	#6
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	These episodes will be like brand new......I haven't seen most HL episodes since the early '80s and Lucy Show, i have most taped from N@N, but the tapes are in a deterioating state, so I don't play them. The Lucy Specials will be awesome since I have not seen about 90% of them.

03-12-2009, 12:47 PM	#7
MOWERDAN Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 04, 2002 Location: NEW JERSEY Posts: 64	Okay Hallmark, splain... I can't believe Lucy's ratings in general would suddenly drop just in the past few years after 50 years on the air. I think it's due to alot of people not getting the Hallmark Channel. We recently swithed to Time Warner, otherwise we'd never get Hallmark at all. Lucy just kinda got lost in the channel switch I guess (I hope). New or casual viewers just moved on. I'm glad I have all the seasons on DVD to watch.

03-12-2009, 02:38 PM	#8
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	Hallmark has a history of putting shows on and expecting instant results and then yanking them off...it's happen to the Facts of Life, Family Ties, and more recently Cheers (putting it back on in the middle of the night is not a sign of faith).

04-12-2009, 10:53 AM	#9
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	after putting Lucy back on a week or so ago.....WHAM! they are pulling her again. HALLMARK BLOWS A BIG ONE!!!!! I refuse to believe that Lucy is that low rated. it is time for another network to pick up Lucy and give her the decent showcase the show deserves.

04-12-2009, 03:47 PM	#10
gidgetgrape Forever Gidget Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 20, 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 3,502	Hallmark really pushed Lucy to the curb when they acquired The Golden Girls. I live in an area where we hardly ever get classic tv programs on our local stations. This year for the first time ever our NBC affiliate is showing I Love Lucy. Thank goodness for the DVDs though! I'll never forget all the trouble I went through taping I Love Lucy on Nick at Nite.

04-12-2009, 07:22 PM	#12
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	Well, Hallmark doesn't have the excuse of relying on reality programming. It is the last bastion (widespread at least) of family oriented programming on cable. There should be enough room on its schedule to include Lucy, GG, LHOP, etc if it would just stop all this block programming of 3-4 episodes in a row daily! At least we also know 7th Heaven has failed to make a ratings dent in primetime for Hallmark, it too has been yanked. I was just getting used to seeing GG in the afternoon when now, it is moved to primetime. Hallmark is just throwing logic out the window and scheduling shows haphazardly in hopes that something will stick.

04-13-2009, 06:21 PM	#13
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	If Hallmark would just leave their schedule alone people will find the shows, and an audience will build. You cannot build an audience by switching times every week. I still think that ILL will soon be reduced to local airings and people who have the VHS/DVD releases. That's ok, the show deserves better than what Hallmark is treating it and I don't mind if it doesn't air on a national cable channel for awhile until the contract expires. Perhaps something like American Life will pick the series up.

04-13-2009, 10:39 PM	#14
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	It needs to go back to widespread local syndication, perhaps as a barter show, where the show is free for stations to air as long they air the national commericials that come with the program!