Basically if you had TNT, TBS, Showtime, Spike, or some other cable channel that mostly played a lot of movies to fill time, if whenever you switched to one of those stations and a certain movie was seemingly ALWAYS on?
For me TNT in the late 90s was the “Tremors Station” since literally me and my dad would go to his auto mechanic every Sunday for a summer in the late 90s to try to fix his broken down truck, and in the lobby of the waiting area was a TV that was always on TNT and ALWAYS playing Tremors (or rarely, Tremors 2) at some point at around 10 - 11 am. So I’ve seen the movie Tremors about a dozen times solely from those TNT experiences.
When I was a kid (in the early '80s), the Canadian movie channel Superchannel would periodically have a free preview weekend. There are some movies that are indelibly linked with those free previews for me:
And one more: An American Werewolf in London. I looked forward to the free previews on Superchannel, but American Werewolf seemed to be the only thing on.
Many posters are talking in the past tense. IMHO, it’s only gotten worse.
Harry Potter and the Whatever
Air Force One
Twister (it seems to have faded away, then returned in 2025)
Lately I’ve noticed a lot of the bad movies that used to be on SyFy have moved down a step to Comet. They actually had a Sharknado afternoon a couple of Saturdays ago.
I don’t know, it may just be me, but I’ve noticed there’s been a bunch of disaster, apocalyptic type movies on lately.
I’m watching Greenland right now.