Not sure why people think that TCM, or any channel, is supposed to appeal to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Because I’m SPECIAL, dammit!
The MAD magazine satire had the Bobby Van character introduce himself, “If there’s one thing the starving masses in Asia need, it’s a third-rate nightclub comic”.
Sports channels do. News channels do. Many niche channels do.
Totally doable. All they gotta do is email me. Cheapest programmer ever. Free.
TCM is the cereal aisle of cable channels. “You want Count Chocula all year? Tough! You’ll get it in October and like it.”
Tonight they killin’ me.
2001 Space Odyssey. 
Alphaville. Weird. French. Kinda fun. 
Logan’s Run. Good god. Can’t…even …
I caught about the last half of Alphaville. I may have to see the whole thing, someday.
Watch for the Ford Mustang.
I was hoping they’d also show Blade Runner but I guess they now don’t have rights to it.
And today, TCM showed 1979’s Roller Boogie. Ohhh-kay. Had no idea it was a classic.
Heh, we watched Godard’s Weekend last month, and when I told my sister to have the dvr record Alphaville she was very hesitant. I told her it’s not the same. I mostly like Godard, but Weekend was really something else.
They sometimes show really bad semi-old movies, like “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie” or a Canadian bomb called “Heavenly Bodies.” Len Maltin said of the latter, “The first Aerobics Musical, and with any luck, the last.”
Wasn’t that a scream!
Not really. I think the TCM host was being nice when he said, “It was supposed to be the next Saturday Night Fever, but that didn’t happen.”
Plenty of disco music that I haven’t heard in years though, so there’s that.
Linda Blair cannot skate.
Did she order soup in one scene? 
Agree that she could not skate. Plenty of others could, though, but I guess they didn’t have the star power.
“Linda, you’ve been cast as the lead in a roller skating movie. Have you ever roller skated? No? Well, you better learn on the double-quick.”
And it showed.
I never tried to watch “Saturday Night Fever” until a few years ago. I didn’t even last 15 minutes; it was terrible! Glad I didn’t pay money to watch that sludge.
It must’ve been a certain blip in music/movie culture that just went sideways.
I saw the first half yesterday, when I read your post. It gave me the courage to finish it and watch the second half-- thanks! It is indeed a very strange, very French film (with very beautiful women).
Makes you wonder what the Seductress Second Class would look like.