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So, I seem to remember that after every platinum edition DVD was released, the movie would appear on ABC or Disney Channel a few months later.

Isn't The Little Mermaid long over due for a television airing on either one of these channels????

It's certainly been airing here in the UK, mostly on Disney Cinemagic.

tsom, I LOVE your avatar!

It's been aired on the danish disney channel like 6 times in the last couple of months...

xxhplinkxx wrote:tsom, I LOVE your avatar!

Why, thank you. It's a wonderful movie. As a matter of fact, it's my second favorite.

I wonder why the movie hasn't aired in the U.S. & it's aired in other places? Hmm...

tsom wrote:

xxhplinkxx wrote:tsom, I LOVE your avatar!

Why, thank you. It's a wonderful movie. As a matter of fact, it's my second favorite.

I wonder why the movie hasn't aired in the U.S. & it's aired in other places? Hmm...

Maybe Disney Channel will wait a few months to air this to promote TLM III? Maybe they'll air the series at a time when people will actually watch it and then show TLM and TLM II? Just a thought.

tsom wrote:Isn't The Little Mermaid long over due for a television airing on either one of these channels????

Yeah, I'm sure many of us would like to see The Little Mermaid on broadcast television with the stupid network bug in the corner and advertising banners cropping up every ten minutes, along with awkwardly placed commercial breaks at the most inopportune times!



Ursula: Have we got a deal?

Ariel: If I become human, I'll never be with my father or sisters again.

Ursula: That's right...But - you'll have your man. Life's full of tough choices, innit? Oh - and there is one more thing. We haven't discussed the subject of payment. You can't get something for nothing, you know.

Ariel: But I don't have any -

Ursula: I'm not asking much. Just a token, really, a trifle. You'll never even miss it. What I want from you is...

(cut to commercial)



HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

Escapay

Escapay, that little thing there made me giggle. Do they really have stupid banners across the screen on the main US networks? That's a bit of a stupid idea...

Wonderlicious wrote:Escapay, that little thing there made me giggle.

Wondy wrote:Do they really have stupid banners across the screen on the main US networks?

Yes, unfortunately. It usually appears as soon as a show comes back from commercial break, and goes away after like 15 seconds. On occasion, I've seen it pop up moments before commercial breaks too. Unfortunately, the network bug stays there 24/7 (even on commercials, at least for my CBS affiliate!)

On Disney Channel, they have those stupid things pop up intermittently throughout the program.

E! has a continuous scrolling news ticker on the bottom of their programs, with a whole bunch of celebrity "news" and stuff.

What's worse, though, is the really animated ones on channels like FX, Spike, USA, TBS, etc. They've got this whole routine that goes on before the actual announcement comes up, and it frickin' takes up the whole bottom third of the screen.

Wondy wrote:That's a bit of a stupid idea...

ITA. But it's their way of doing additional advertising.

When I used to watch General Hospital semi-regularly, there would always be an ad for Oprah around the midpoint of the show, and a few online friends of mine noticed that disturbingly, they almost always seemed to match up to the characters on the screen. For example, if Sonny Corinthos (a mobster) was seen onscreen, and the Oprah episode dealt with mobsters, a banner could read "The Dangerous Lives of Mobsters, next on Oprah". Sometimes they were really hilarious, as one showed Jasper Jax and I think the banner said something about "Best Types of Birth Control".

Escapay

271286 wrote:It's been aired on the danish disney channel like 6 times in the last couple of months...

i wish disney channel here would air animated classics every once in a while

Escapay wrote:...
Ursula: I'm not asking much. Just a token, really, a trifle. You'll never even miss it. What I want from you is...

(cut to commercial)



HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

Escapay

Glad to see I'm not the only one who deems the Head On commercials sufficient reason to turn off the TV (and my most-watched network runs them more than any other ).

EDIT: Found this thread in searching. Just now realizing it's weeks old. Sorry to bump with an inane reply... I'm as bad as the Head On commercials.

-Aaron