“Let’s expand the definition of weather”???
Clearly, these programming geniuses have never lived in the Midwest during tornado season.
What? No Wizard of Oz?
Sorry, I can’t remember.
What is the TV Trope for the degradation of TV Channels as they move away from their original purpose(like SciFi showing Wrestling)?
“Desperately Seeking Revenue”
I predict we will treated to that 90’s Helen Hunt movie about tornadoes at least three times a week.
Maybe the never ending rehashing of the Hurricane Katrina story is wearing thin. I wish they would find it in their hearts to show the weather radar once in a while - I KNOW the temperature, I would like to know if a rain or snowstorm is bearing down on my city. Now there’s even less chance.
I don’t know what the official one is, but mine is “All TV channels eventually become the same TV channel”.
The Perfect Storm? Hurricane? Smilla’s Sense of Snow? In the Heat of the Night? Singin’ in the Rain?
Good thing we don’t have cable. Though we own it, Wife will want to watch it every last time it’s on. 
*Stormy Monday, The Rains of Ranchipur *?
Less airtime for all of the hotties on the weather channel? :mad:
I’ve had it with these monkeyfighting tornadoes on this monday to friday channel!
When you’re wondering if they’re doing a live update or a movie, do you ask “Weather, or not?”
Also Rainman, Less than Zero, The Outsiders, A Mighty Wind, Farrenhiet 451, Snow White, …
And anything starring Lee Meriwether.
Two other movies they can play are Fargo and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
And Claude Rains.
A few weeks ago I wanted to check the local weather. I hadn’t watched the Weather Channel in a while but remembered that they had a “Local on the 8s” report, so I tuned it in, only to find that what used to be a fairly comprehensive report on local weather, including weather radar, had been reduced to nothing but a report of current conditions, a brief forecast for the next day, and a crawl at the bottom of the screen that included the airport status.
My point exactly. Just maddening. You’d thing something called The Weather Channel would actually provide information on weather, where one lives… I’m wondering if adding Al Roker in the Morning is sucking up all the WC money, so they’re laying off some of the employees, and with all that time to fill up they are reduced to showing movies. About the weather.
Will the Movie Channel start running weather reports?