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16th Apr '13 10:17:45 AM igordebraga

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Movies from 1980 onward are rare, and usually shown to fit a theme block with the older movies (in particular the "31 Days of Oscar" promotion in February/early March, where any movie that had at least an Oscar nomination can qualify for an airing) or when there's a special guest programmer for the night, who discusses why they picked the movie before and after it airs. [[note]] (Not to mention, presenting such films will only become more fair over time, since 1980 is now over 30 years ago and TimeMarchesOn along with their cut-off date.)[[/note]] But for the most part, they show films largely (if not completely) abandoned by other movie networks: not just the obvious titles like ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', but lesser-known "programmers" and B-movies, silents, international classics, live-action Disney films from the 1950s-70s, cult titles for its TCM Underground block, vintage one-reel shorts and old promotional featurettes as interstitial programming, etc. Some titles they've shown fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory in North America otherwise (they aired ''OnlyYesterday'' as part of a StudioGhibli retrospective in 2006, for instance). The network has some original shows, but all of them are documentaries about classic films, from one about the history of early sci-fi films to a long interview with WoodyAllen about all of his films.\\

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Movies from 1980 onward remain rare, and usually shown to fit a theme block with the older movies (in particular the "31 Days of Oscar" promotion in February/early March, where any movie that had at least an Oscar nomination can qualify for an airing) or when there's a special guest programmer for the night, who discusses why they picked the movie before and after it airs. [[note]] (Not to mention, presenting such films will only become more fair over time, since 1980 is now over 30 years ago and TimeMarchesOn along with their cut-off date.)[[/note]] But for the most part, they show films largely (if not completely) abandoned by other movie networks: not just the obvious titles like ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', but lesser-known "programmers" and B-movies, silents, international classics, live-action Disney films from the 1950s-70s, cult titles for its TCM Underground block, vintage one-reel shorts and old promotional featurettes as interstitial programming, etc. Some titles they've shown fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory in North America otherwise (they aired ''OnlyYesterday'' as part of a StudioGhibli retrospective in 2006, for instance). The network has some original shows, but all of them are documentaries about classic films, from one about the history of early sci-fi films to a long interview with WoodyAllen about all of his films.\\

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* BBC America has begun to add American sci-fi programs to their lineup. It started with ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' repeats for seemingly no reason other than that Patrick Stewart is British (...but he plays a Frenchman!...), and then later with ''TheXFiles''[[note]]which does star British-raised American actress Gillian Anderson, but BBC America never mentioned Anderson's nationality in promos[[/note]] and the revived ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' (recently, ''The X Files'' and ''TNG'' have both been dramatically scaled back in repeats). Other than these three shows and the American version of ''KitchenNightmares'', BBC America nearly exclusively shows what it always has, British programming mostly ([[TheInbetweeners but]] [[PeepShow not]] [[{{Hex}} strictly]]) from TheBBC. The channel just basically shows "British Programming", and the only reasons it has the BBC name is that its owned by ''the'' BBC (revenues from the channel end up supporting the Corporation's domestic output) and the name "BBC" has the same kind of name recognition in America for "British Programming" as "{{NPR}}" does for "public radio". According to [[http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=144192 this article,]] BBC America's new president "would like to add more made-in-America series to the U.K.-heavy lineup". Take that as you will.

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* BBC America has begun to add American sci-fi programs to their lineup. It started with ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' repeats for seemingly no reason other than that Patrick Stewart is British (...but he plays a Frenchman!...), and then later with ''TheXFiles''[[note]]which does star British-raised American actress Gillian Anderson, but BBC America never mentioned Anderson's nationality in promos[[/note]] and the revived ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' (recently, ''The X Files'' and ''TNG'' have both been dramatically scaled back in repeats). Other than these three shows and the American version of ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', BBC America nearly exclusively shows what it always has, British programming mostly ([[TheInbetweeners but]] [[PeepShow not]] [[{{Hex}} strictly]]) from TheBBC. The channel just basically shows "British Programming", and the only reasons it has the BBC name is that its owned by ''the'' BBC (revenues from the channel end up supporting the Corporation's domestic output) and the name "BBC" has the same kind of name recognition in America for "British Programming" as "{{NPR}}" does for "public radio". According to [[http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=144192 this article,]] BBC America's new president "would like to add more made-in-America series to the U.K.-heavy lineup". Take that as you will.

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