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'''''Turner Classic Movies''''' (April 14, 1994-present) is a [[Long Runner|long-running]], commercial free cable-TV channel dedicated to airing classic movies, most of them from the Turner Entertainment and [[MGM]], [[United Artists]], RKO, [[Warner Bros]] and [[The Criterion Collection|Janus]] film libraries. TCM daily airs many familiar classics (mostly released before 1980 and often pre-1970), along with tons of foreign films and obscure rarities that would otherwise never be able to see the light of day--including stuff that nobody would think about, like trailers and even two-reel live-action comedies. The network shows no outside commercials, although between (never ''during'') films they will show old trailers of films or short commercials for the network's merchandise.

The network won [https://web.archive.org/web/20090608125014/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=59 a 2008 Peabody Award] for their dedication to broadcasting and restoring classic and foreign films.

TCM is one of the last film networks that have knowledgeable on-air personalities introduce a film before its airing. Film historian Robert Osborne, who has been with the channel since its beginning, is the most famous of the two — he does introductions and outros for the films that air prime time every day (and a new one each time a film is shown, too, as TCM's prime time schedule often features a loose theme). Film critic Ben Mankiewicz is the other. He presents a handful of films that air during the daytime and on the weekends (although his aren't new for every episode).

You can find its Web site [http://www.tcm.com/ here.]
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* [[Guest Host]]: In 2011 Robert Osborne took a five-month sabbatical following a surgical operation, leading TCM to employ a number of guest hosts in his absence.
** ''The Essentials'', a weekly presentation of a selected film which airs Saturday evenings, has featured a celebrity guest host (or cohost) since it debuted in 2001. Hosts have included Rob Reiner, Peter Bogdanovich, Sydney Pollack, Molly Haskell, Carrie Fisher, [[Rose McGowan]], Alec Baldwin, and (as of 2012) [[Drew Barrymore]].
** TCM also has an occasional "guest programmer" feature, in which a special guest (usually, though not always, a celebrity) chooses a lineup of films for a given night and pairs with Osborne to introduce them. 
* [[Letterbox]]: They sometimes show [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2xUyh9QRc an educational short] explaining to non-cinephiles how aspect ratios work and why letterboxing is a good idea.
* [[Marathon Running]]: They ''love'' this. Marathons of films by certain directors or from a specific time period or genre are particularly frequent, including an all-day [[Akira Kurosawa]] marathon on what would have been his 100th birthday in 2010.
** They also have an annual "31 Days of Oscar", showcasing [[Academy Award]]-winning films for a month leading up to that year's ceremony.
* [[Really Dead Montage]]: The channel airs a "TCM Remembers" tribute each December, showing the various film personalities (from both sides of the camera) who have died in the preceding year.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: ''Hoo, boy.'' During the three-minute or so spots for an upcoming movie they're going to air, they practically show you enough scenes that you could put together a decently accurate article about it on [[The Other Wiki]] without even seeing the movie itself.

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