Anyone else viewed this network? I stumbled upon it, following a link on TWoP’s situation comedy board. I’ve got cable, but not the higher end digital kind; it’s part of the basic package, apparently.
This is what TVLand used to be; they also show retro commercials, which is pretty neat. They do show paid programming from approximately 1 AM until 10 AM, but after that, the programming is a wide variety of old and older shows. laughs I watched Laredo and then Wagon Train yesterday morning, then It Takes a Thief with Robert Wagner (and guest starring Susan St. James!) later in the afternoon.
For anyone who appreciates and enjoys watching retro tv shows (and commercials :)), check it out, if you can. In the DC area, it’s channel 205 on comcast cable, btw.
Oh, yeah, I love RTN. I love some of their old doctor and cop shows, but I wish they’d show Medical Center with Chad Everett. I have no idea what the deal is with their “retromercials”, but the quality is pretty bad.
They do seem to be following Nick at Nite’s original model, which is to get the old syndicated shows that aren’t being shown anywhere anymore; the rights to these tend to be dirt cheap. Their major competitors wouldn’t be other stations, it’d be from Netflix, which also has some of these shows available through their Instant Viewing service, at least for the shows I like.
Oh, I agree MsRobyn, the quality of the retromercials is bad and I don’t understand why either. I’ve only watched the retro shows, btw, none of their original programming although I am considering catching the talk show on Monday night at 11 pm. It’s going to be on gay couple adoptions. Hmmmm… the show is based in Little Rock, as is the network, come to think of it; it might be an interesting show. Apparently, it’s a call in talk show. And Arkansas was the state that passed the prop. against gay (and really any unmarried) couple adopting.
It doesn’t seem to be an actual “cable” network a la TV Land or Nickolodeon, but rather is a network broadcast over the air on a digital subchannel. There’s an affiliate in Phoenix, but apparently none in Tucson, and Comcast doesn’t seem to carry it locally.
We were watching it for a while, when the local station first got it. They had Mission Impossible and Get Smart, which was all we watched. Watching Get Smart was fun, but they were showing them in order, and we must have come in in the middle. The last season wasn’t as good, and after that, some other show came on, so we stopped watching.
We can actually get two versions, Detroit and Toledo, and they have different schedules.
In some places it’s more than a digital subchannel, it’s an actual, by-golly OTA station. In St. Louis and southern Illinois, it appears to be a leftover station from the old PAX network (reorganized as Ion)
I was so excited when they carried Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew as I loved them growing up. While they hadn’t necessarily aged well, it was great seeing them again, and picking up on all the guest stars that I did not know about as a kid (Lorne Greene, a vampire?!).