NBC's HDTV Olympics Coverage Draws Criticism for Day-Delay Broadcast and Sony's SD Commercials

SUNDAY, AUGUST 15,  2004

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Here we are at Olympics time and NBC has put their HDTV foot forward, but some say not their best foot. HDTV has been relegated to kind of second class status by being delayed a day. But it has been made available on satellite systems, which I am personally grateful for since neither OTA or cable reach me here in the countryside. Some say this second class status only shows contempt for HDTV and its users while others are more appreciative of the economic circumstances which prevent one of the largest corporations in the world from delivering to you the Olympics on time. Well, likely next time they will. As an NBC spokesperson said to us Friday, "This is a step in the right direction."

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I finally found the time to watch the whole opening ceremony in HD, so now I ask: what the hell did Sony have in mind? 
I had to keep switching channels to get the hell away from that. Unbelievable!

_Jack

Editors Note: Sony seems to be the only sponsor lined up for the digital HD broadcast of the Olympics and repeats the commercial over and over again, which has elicited comments like those above and below.

I thought it was HD. After seeing it again (and again and again and again) it's obvious that it's not. I think the primary reason is that I tend to tune out commercials.

_WR

Sony is the exclusive sponsor for the NBC HD Olympic programming.

If I were a Sony executive watching the Opening Ceremony on my Sony LCD... I would have been on the phone after the first airing of "the spot' asking my people why it looked so bad.

After the second airing, I would have been asking my people if there was another spot.

After the third airing I would have asked my people where they were going to be working on Monday!!

Seriously, Sony will be the laughing stock of the advertising community if they continue with "the spot" for the rest of the games.

Ad Math: 19days X 24 hours X 8 times per hour (estimate) = NUMBER OF IMPRESSIONS... several hundred!!

I am quite surprised that they have not shown some quality spots, such as the MITS HD spots that ran on the HD Exclusive US Open Golf on CBS a few years ago. Those were stunning. Done in good taste. And certainly not an expensive undertaking.

OOOPS... I forgot... It was the Sony Chief who said "Why would you need to record more than one hour on a Sony Beta?" :-)

That's priceless!!


Don, W4WJ
 

Editor's Note: When it comes to giving NBC a dressing down about their handling of the HDTV Olympics Robert Wade Browning from Texas says it all....

There is no excuse for NBC to have failed to put out a series of comprehensive statements, far enough in advance, explaining their planned HD coverage of the Olympics, so that the public would not be confused about it all.  Furthermore, NBC's pathetic public whining about the whole thing not being in HD because "it all came up at the last minute", or whatever, is just absurd, as if they didn't know the Olympics was being held until they read it in the paper a few weeks ago.  This behavior is not the sign of a competent organization.

Nor is it competent for NBC to eliminate the usual HD-when-possible simulcast of their analog feed to their affiliates during the Olympics, leaving HD viewers with the choice of watching the "earliest" broadcast of a given Olympic event only in SD or skipping it, perhaps entirely, in order catch an HD version of something on the day-delay-HD feed.

Since we know from the 2002 Olympics (when HDNet was able to carry the NBC-HD highlights on a day-delay) that NBC can farm-out a day-delay version in HD to other outlets, it also makes no sense for NBC to require the satellite and cable distributors (DirecTV, Dish/Echostar, Voom, Time-Warner, etc.) to blackout market areas where the NBC affiliate does not broadcast an HD signal.

In other words, while I am sure we all are glad to get the Olympics in HD at all, NBC has really screwed this up.

And what is wrong with Sony missing the opportunity to show entertaining and eye-catching commercials in HD instead of in SD?  "We've got salsa"?  Endlessly running the same boring commercial, portraying HD viewers as couch potatoes, is a major miscalculation.  It's not as if they were too broke to do it better.

NBC, which used to be the Sarnoff network, a network which has spent a fortune for the rights to carry the Olympics, is clearly demonstrating that it hasn't a clue how to best utilize those rights.  NBC has had years to plan a total HD version, plan its simulcast, clear the waivers with affiliates to make sure everyone can get the HD version one way or another, and publicize all this to maximize viewership.  They didn't do it.  Where is their leadership? Heads should roll.

Robert

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Please excuse the delay in getting your guide to you today. This gives me the opportunity, however, to let you know that our long drawn out effort to build for you a grid guide is nearly complete. In a few day's time we will launch the first iteration of this guide, which is complete with a two week forward lookup of programs. You have asked and asked for a guide that is customizable to showing just those channels you can receive and with all of the colorful illustrations you have come to expect from HDTV Magazine. I will be sending out more information to you on this grid guide and how it will be accessed. We want to thank Shane Sturgeon for his untiring work in developing this new premium guide.

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Ghost Ship

R Time: 90  
The crew of a salvage boat thinks their ship has finally come in after they claim an abandoned ocean liner in international waters--until they discover it's a floating house of horrors! On board the empty vessel, the salvagers discover a treasure trove of gold, but strange visions begin to plague them, and when their own boat is mysteriously destroyed, they find themselves stranded on the open sea with the bloodthirsty spirits of a bygone era. Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies (TV's E.R.), Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington and Isaiah Washington star. Directed by Steve Beck.

10:00PM ET/9:00 C
John Grisham's The Rainmaker

PG13 Time: 135  
Rookie lawyer Matt Damon battles a big insurance company for his dying client, a leukemia victim denied benefits. It's a fiery courtroom crackler from renowned director Francis Ford Coppola and best-selling legal eagle John Grisham. With Mickey Rourke.

12:15AM ET/11:15 C
American Wedding

TVMA Time: 103  
He's sexually assaulted an apple pie, had a major erotic failure broadcast on the Internet, and even accidentally glued his hand to his private area. So walking down the aisle should be nothing for pastry-loving pariah Jason Biggs in this hysterical third film in the American Pie series, right? Not if Stifler (Seann William Scott) has anything to do with it! After proposing to band-camp bimbo Michelle, hapless Jim (Biggs) enlists help from his family and friends to prepare for the big day. Naturally, the twisted Stifler creates non-stop problems--including a stripper-strewn bachelor party--that leave Kevin, Finch and Jim's dad trying to keep the disaster to a minimum. Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Eddie Kaye Thomas co-star. Directed by Jesse Dylan; screenplay by Adam Herz.

3:50AM ET/2:50 C
Tied Up

R Time: 93  
Former cop Matt (Lundgren) returns home after his cop brother turns up murdered in this dark suspense shocker. Searching for clues to the unsolved case, Matt begins an investigation that forces him to head down the same sordid path that his kinky brother did--into a demented underworld of sadomasochism, rough sex...and murder. Also with Danielle Brett, Sandi Ross.

 

7:00AM ET/6:00 C
The Mighty Ducks

PG Time: 103
A former ice-hockey ace turned arrogant lawyer must coach a clumsy team of misfits in this comedy. When high and mighty lawyer Gordon Bombay is arrested on DUI charges, he's forced into a community service project--coaching ice-hockey to a team of sloppy, unskilled kids who lose annually to their crosstown rivals, The Hawks. Although initially apathetic, the competition-driven Gordon warms up to his players and with new equipment, new recruits and a new name--The Ducks--the ragtag team may have their first shot to settle an old score. Starring Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer and Joshua Jackson. Screenplay by Steven Brill and directed by Stephen Herek.

9:00AM ET/8:00 C
Anaconda

PG13 Time: 89
Welcome to the Amazon, where every creature is a link in the food chain, and even a human is just a potential meal! A group of filmmakers journeys deep into the jungle in search of a legendary Indian tribe...but instead happens upon a ravenous, 40-foot snake. One by one, they become breakfast, lunch and dinner...until only two are left in a desperate fight to the death! Also with Eric Stoltz and Kari Wuhrer.

10:30AM ET/9:30 C
Malibu's Most Wanted

PG13 Time: 86
Politician Bill Gluckman may be California's next governor. But the biggest threat to his campaign is his embarrassing son Brad, a.k.a. "B-Rad" (Jamie Kennedy), a wannabe white rapper who rhymes about thug life on the streets...of Malibu. To shake his son's rap aspirations, Gluckman's campaign manager hires two African-American actors to pose as gangsters who kidnap B-Rad and haul him through L.A.'s rough streets. But the theater-taught thespians aren't prepared for South Central, leaving B-Rad to showcase his rap skills among the i

12:00PM ET/11:00 C
Seabiscuit

PG13 Time: 140
It was the greatest underdog story every told--and it would grip the hearts of a nation at a time when it was needed the most. Written for the screen and directed by Gary Ross, this inspiring drama tells the story of a horse whom no one in their right mind would gamble on...and the three men who rode him to the top. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, the film chronicles the astonishing Depression-era story from the perspective of an undersized longshot thoroughbred who caught the eyes of three human underdogs: owner Charles Howard, trainer Tom Smith and jockey Red Pollard. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Oscar(R)-winner Chris Cooper (2002's Adaptation) star as the trio. Also with Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens and William H. Macy.

2:45PM ET/1:45 C
Dances With Wolves

PG13 Time: 181
Kevin Costner made his directorial debut with this 1990 Oscar(R)-winning Best Picture about a Civil War soldier who finds himself as a member of the Lakota Sioux Indian tribe. In this epic western, Costner stars as Lt. John Dunbar, a war hero who decides to take a post all alone in the outer reaches of the frontier wilderness. Slowly, he is accepted by the Sioux and made a member of the tribe opening up an entirely new world to him and awakening his once-dulled soul...until the Army arrives looking for answers. Mary McDonnell and Graham Greene co-star. Screenplay by Michael Blake, based on his novel. "Extraordinary" (Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guide).

6:00PM ET/5:00 C
Something The Lord Made

TVPG Time: 109
Two men--one a wealthy white chief surgeon, the other a poor black lab technician--achieve a monumental medical breakthrough that earned one accolades...and the other a painful lesson in racism and unequal opportunity. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies," Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab tech Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive team. But even as the two invent a new field of medicine--saving thousands of lives in the process--social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart. Mary Stuart Masterson, Gabrielle Union. With Charles Dutton, Kyra Sedgwick. Directed by Joseph Sargent; written by Peter Silverman and Todd Philips.

9:00PM ET/8:00 C
Six Feet Under 48: Grinding The Corn

TVMA Time: 54
Ruth and Bettina take a road trip to Mexico, leaving the men of Fisher & Diaz to some male bonding--and comic book crime fighting. David and Keith open up after closing their "open" relationship; Claire warms up to Jimmy after getting the cold shoulder from Edie and Anita; Billy resurfaces as a substitute art teacher; and Nate can't decide what he wants from Brenda, who turns to old friends to treat the pain.

11:30PM ET/10:30 C
Seabiscuit

PG13 Time: 140
It was the greatest underdog story every told--and it would grip the hearts of a nation at a time when it was needed the most. Written for the screen and directed by Gary Ross, this inspiring drama tells the story of a horse whom no one in their right mind would gamble on...and the three men who rode him to the top. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, the film chronicles the astonishing Depression-era story from the perspective of an undersized longshot thoroughbred who caught the eyes of three human underdogs: owner Charles Howard, trainer Tom Smith and jockey Red Pollard. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Oscar(R)-winner Chris Cooper (2002's Adaptation) star as the trio. Also with Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens and William H. Macy.

2:55AM ET/1:55 C
The Lost Boys

R Time: 97
"A hip, comic twist on classic vampire stories...timely, sardonic and shrewd" says The New York Times about this entertaining horror flick. When a mother and her two sons move to Santa Carla, California, teenage Michael hooks up with a gang of seedy bikers. But younger brother Sam thinks they're more than just rowdy punks. When Michael starts hankering for blood and fading out in mirrors, Sam realizes the town is crawling with vampires! With Jason Patric (Narc).

4:35AM ET/3:35 C
Dawg

R Time: 83
Denis Leary stars as a heartless womanizer who is told by beautiful attorney Elizabeth Hurley that his late grandmother has left him one million dollars...if he can make amends with twelve of his female conquests. Victoria Hochberg directed this amusing romantic comedy.
 

7:30AM ET/6:30 C
Ghoulies

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
PG13 1h 22m
When he unexpectedly inherits a house from his estranged father, Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) has no way of knowing that he and his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) have also inherited a half-dozen dimunitive little demons called Ghoulies that are charged with whipping up as much evil mischief as inhumanly possible. This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror classic launched a slew of sequels. Costarring Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance and Mariska Hargitay.

9:00AM ET/8:00 C
Flowers In The Attic

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
PG13 1h 32m
A family secret leads to the cruel imprisonment of four young siblings in this gothic drama based on the best-selling novel by V.C. Andrews and adapted by co-writer Wes Craven. Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams and Ben Granger star.

10:45AM ET/9:45 C
What's Cooking?

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
PG13 1h 50m
Gurinder Chadha ("Bhaji on the Beach," "Bend It Like Beckham") wrote and directed this multicultural ensemble drama that examines the crises unfolding in four ethnically diverse households, while sumptuous feasts are prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday. Dennis Haysbert, Alfre Woodard, Douglas Spain, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies and Joan Chen star.

2:30PM ET/1:30 C
The Inkwell

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
R 1h 53m
Set in the year 1976, in an all-black neighborhood in an otherwise all-white New England village, director Matty Rich's ("Straight Out of Brooklyn") sophomore effort is the story of a troubled teen's transformation over the course of one long, eventful summer. Larenz Tate, Joe Morton, Suzzanne Douglas, Glynn Turman, Vanessa Bell-Calloway, Adrienne Joi-Johnson, Morris Chestnut, Jada Pinkett and Duane Martin head the cast.

4:30PM ET/3:30 C
K-19: The Widowmaker

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
PG13 2h 19m
Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star in this gripping, fact-based action drama about the crew of a crippled Russian submarine - the communist country's first nuclear vessel, and one that's nearing a meltdown that could spark a worldwide conflagration at the height of the Cold War. Kathryn Bigelow ("Near Dark") directed this taut thriller costarring Peter Sarsgaard and Joss Ackland.

7:00PM ET/6:00 C
The Distinguished Gentleman

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
R 1h 53m
Eddie Murphy heads for Washington D.C. as a con man who fast-talks his way into a congressional seat but finds that representing the public isn't all about power, money and fame. Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell, Grant Shaud, Kevin McCarthy and Charles S. Dutton costar in this capitol comedy.

10:00PM ET/9:00 C
The Shallow End

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
47 m
A darkly satirical, imaginative vision of the afterlife is the setting for this comically offbeat new Showtime Original Series from creator Bryan Fuller ("Star Trek: Voyager"). Ellen Muth stars as Georgia "George" Lass, a disaffected teen surprised to find her spirit still exists after she's killed by a chunk of space station that hurtles to Earth. George soon begins her new job - as a "reaper," gathering souls under the watchful eye of her boss Rube (Mandy Patinkin). Rebecca Gayheart, Jasmine Guy and Cynthia Stevenson costar.

1:00AM ET/12:00 C
Blue Velvet

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
R 2h 1m
Now recognized as one of the pivotal films of the 1980s, David Lynch's disturbing, feverish nightmare presents a weird tableau of small-town America that might suggest a Norman Rockwell painting created during a bad acid trip. Kyle MacLachlan plays a college student whose persistent curiosity about some odd local developments introduces him into a dark, seedy world of violence, drug addiction and sexual perversion, and to a mysterious nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a personification of evil named Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).

4:45AM ET/3:45 C
The Inkwell

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
R 1h 53m
Set in the year 1976, in an all-black neighborhood in an otherwise all-white New England village, director Matty Rich's ("Straight Out of Brooklyn") sophomore effort is the story of a troubled teen's transformation over the course of one long, eventful summer. Larenz Tate, Joe Morton, Suzzanne Douglas, Glynn Turman, Vanessa Bell-Calloway, Adrienne Joi-Johnson, Morris Chestnut, Jada Pinkett and Duane Martin head the cast.
 

7:30AM ET/6:30 C
Muppet Treasure Island

Kermit the Frog is Captain Smollett, Miss Piggy is 'Benjimina' Gunn in this comic update on Robert Louis Stevenson.

1:30PM ET/12:30 C
Radio

A true story of a High School football coach who helps a mentally challenged man become a part of the community.

7:05PM ET/6:05 C
2 Fast 2 Furious

Sequel finds two undercover cops in Miami trying to bring down a drug lord.

9:00PM ET/8:00 C
Radio

A true story of a High School football coach who helps a mentally challenged man become a part of the community.

1:50AM ET/12:50 C
The Puppet Masters

A security agent (Donald Sutherland) discovers that aliens are taking over the bodies of Iowa inhabitants.

3:40AM ET/2:40 C
2 Fast 2 Furious

Sequel finds two undercover cops in Miami trying to bring down a drug lord.
 

6:45AM ET/5:45 C
Dancer, Texas-Pop.81

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
PG 1h 38m
Anyone who grew up in a small American town and yearned to escape will find much to enjoy in Texas-born writer-director Tim McCanlies's witty audience pleaser. Four 11-year-old friends make a vow to leave their tiny West Texas town of Dancer once they graduate high school. When the day finally arrives, the townsfolk watch and make bets on whether they will stick by their words. For his directorial debut, McCanlies was blessed with talented ensemble acting from his four leads (Breckin Meyer, Ethan Embry, Peter Facinelli and Eddie Mills).

8:30AM ET/7:30 C
The Curse Of The Pink Panther

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
PG 1h 51m
When the legendary Inspector Clouseau disappears, it's up to his equally bumbling New York colleague Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) to track the French detective down in this comedy from longtime "Pink Panther" director Blake Edwards. Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Capucine, Harvey Korman, Roger Moore and Denise Crosby costar in this broadly funny farce.

10:30AM ET/9:30 C
In The Army Now

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
PG 1h 33m
All he really wanted was the benefits, but enlisted man Pauly Shore is gonna get the chance to be all that he can be in this sidesplitting military comedy. Boot camp's a brouhaha and mess hall's a mess, but when duty calls Pauly to action in the Sahara, the stage is set for the emergence of one highly unlikely American hero. Esai Morales, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Ernie Hudson and Andy Dick costar.

12:05AM ET/11:05 C
Best Men

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 30m
This all-star comedy follow unlucky parolee Jesse Reilly (Luke Wilson), who plans to go straight from prison into the arms of his girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), whom he intends to marry. If only he hadn't allowed his buddy Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery) to stop off at the bank. It seems Billy is a famed Shakespeare-quoting robber known as "Hamlet," and soon Jesse is among those held hostage in the bank while his buddy squares off with his law-enforcing father (Fred Ward). Andy Dick and Dean Cain costar in this action farce.

1:35PM ET/12:35 C
Swimming With Sharks

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
R 1h 34m
Frank Whaley and Kevin Spacey star in this Hollywood satire about a low-level studio assistant whose abusive, obnoxious boss sets a new standard of underling abuse in a town known for rude behavior - until his long-suffering employee snaps and takes his tormenter hostage. Michelle Forbes and Benicio del Toro costar in this hilarious expose from writer/director George Huang.

3:15PM ET/2:15 C
Dancer, Texas-Pop.81

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
PG 1h 38m
Anyone who grew up in a small American town and yearned to escape will find much to enjoy in Texas-born writer-director Tim McCanlies's witty audience pleaser. Four 11-year-old friends make a vow to leave their tiny West Texas town of Dancer once they graduate high school. When the day finally arrives, the townsfolk watch and make bets on whether they will stick by their words. For his directorial debut, McCanlies was blessed with talented ensemble acting from his four leads (Breckin Meyer, Ethan Embry, Peter Facinelli and Eddie Mills).

4:55PM ET/3:55 C
In The Army Now

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
PG 1h 33m
All he really wanted was the benefits, but enlisted man Pauly Shore is gonna get the chance to be all that he can be in this sidesplitting military comedy. Boot camp's a brouhaha and mess hall's a mess, but when duty calls Pauly to action in the Sahara, the stage is set for the emergence of one highly unlikely American hero. Esai Morales, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Ernie Hudson and Andy Dick costar.

6:30PM ET/5:30 C
Best Men

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 30m
This all-star comedy follow unlucky parolee Jesse Reilly (Luke Wilson), who plans to go straight from prison into the arms of his girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), whom he intends to marry. If only he hadn't allowed his buddy Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery) to stop off at the bank. It seems Billy is a famed Shakespeare-quoting robber known as "Hamlet," and soon Jesse is among those held hostage in the bank while his buddy squares off with his law-enforcing father (Fred Ward). Andy Dick and Dean Cain costar in this action farce.

8:00PM ET/7:00 C
Possessed

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
TVMA - VL 1h 51m
Timothy Dalton stars in this true story of Father Bill Bowdern, a Jesuit priest struggling with World War II-induced post traumatic stress disorder when he's called upon to perform an exorcism on a tormented young boy (Jonathan Malen) in 1950s St. Louis. Despite the misgivings of his monsignor (Christopher Plummer) and his best friend (Henry Czerny), Father Bill proceeds with the controversial ceremony, one that could exorcise his own demons as well. Piper Laurie costars.

11:30PM ET/10:30 C
Gothic

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo
R 1h 28m
Director Ken Russell's fever dream of a hallucinogenic drama stars Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, who invites guests including the poet Percy Shelley (Julian Sands) and his future wife Mary (Natasha Richardson) to his mansion one night in 1816. On the evening's agenda: a philosophical discussion of fear and the ingestion of mind-altering drugs, leading to an evening of horror that will inspire Mary to write "Frankenstein." Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall and Dexter Fletcher costar.

1:00AM ET/12:00 C
China Moon

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo
R 1h 40m
Director John Bailey's atmospheric film noir revolves around Rachel (Madeleine Stowe), an unhappy Florida housewife, Rupert (Charles Dance), her abusive and soon-to-be-murdered husband, and Kyle (Ed Harris), the lonely, smitten homicide detective who's about to become overly involved with Rachel. Waiting in the wings: a rookie detective (Benicio Del Toro) who's taking it all in. With Pruitt Taylor Vince, Roger Aaron Brown and Patricia Healy.

2:40AM ET/1:40 C
Best Men

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 30m
This all-star comedy follow unlucky parolee Jesse Reilly (Luke Wilson), who plans to go straight from prison into the arms of his girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), whom he intends to marry. If only he hadn't allowed his buddy Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery) to stop off at the bank. It seems Billy is a famed Shakespeare-quoting robber known as "Hamlet," and soon Jesse is among those held hostage in the bank while his buddy squares off with his law-enforcing father (Fred Ward). Andy Dick and Dean Cain costar in this action farce.

4:10AM ET/3:10 C
The Curse Of The Pink Panther

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
PG 1h 51m
When the legendary Inspector Clouseau disappears, it's up to his equally bumbling New York colleague Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) to track the French detective down in this comedy from longtime "Pink Panther" director Blake Edwards. Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Capucine, Harvey Korman, Roger Moore and Denise Crosby costar in this broadly funny farce.

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