{"id":44689,"date":"2025-03-30T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44689"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:59:57","slug":"whats-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/30\/whats-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/30\/whats-on-tv\/whatsontv\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?fit=1280%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"whatsontv\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44691\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?resize=300%2C68&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?resize=1024%2C230&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/whatsontv.jpg?resize=768%2C173&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>While I sketch, I usually have the television tuned to programs I can halfway ignore. <em>TubiTV<\/em> seems to be the streaming channel that keeps giving in that regard. While it does show a lot of blockbusters and critically acclaimed movies for the entire family, it can always be counted on for drek from the drive-ins and other cinematic atrocities that critics can not possibly defend.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I said before, these sub-classics are perfect for me because I am free to doodle and still have the background noise of some malodorous melodrama.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Girls in Prison (1956)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/54415365651\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54415365651_b7b1c3fe0f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Girls in Prison (1956)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Tubi is starting to figure me out as far as recommendations and offered up <em>Girls in Prison<\/em> from 1956. It starts out with a loopy musical number and proceeds to the gray bar hotel where a bunch of inmates talk tough and plot against one another. It is in black and white so I referred to it as <em>Gray is the New Gray<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reform School Girl (1957)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/54414663371\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54414663371_c6cca574c9_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reform School Girl (1957)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Once a program finishes, Tubi automatically serves up another show in a similar vein so once <em>Girls in Prison<\/em> finished, I was treated to <em>Reform School Girl<\/em> from 1957. Thematically it was out of order because you would think that <em>Prison<\/em> would follow <em>Reform School<\/em>, but I was okay with it as I continued to scribble in my sketchbook. This one had bigger stars such as <em>Edd &#8220;Kookie&#8221; Byrnes<\/em> as a car thief and <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\"><em>Jack Kruschen<\/em> after his stint in <em>War of the Worlds<\/em> but before his Oscar winning performance in <em>The Apartment<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I watched a chunk of <em>Reform School Girl<\/em> and will have to return to it. The nice thing about <em>Tubi<\/em> is that if you register and sign in to the channel, it provides the ability of picking up where you left off. Of course, the channel now knows the viewer connected to my email has a taste for garbage. I imagine that I may prove useless to their advertisers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, well.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I sketch, I usually have the television tuned to programs I can halfway ignore. TubiTV seems to be the streaming channel that keeps giving in that regard. While it does show a lot of blockbusters and critically acclaimed movies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/30\/whats-on-tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3456,5084],"tags":[458,43,5941,185,4098,828,5069,480],"class_list":["post-44689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","category-whats-on-tv","tag-exploitation","tag-humor","tag-prison","tag-roku","tag-streaming","tag-trash","tag-tubi","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bCN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39663,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/11\/mister-c-on-tubitv\/","url_meta":{"origin":44689,"position":0},"title":"Mister C on TubiTV","author":"Joe","date":"December 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This special from 1967 is available on my hands down favorite streaming channel -- TubiTV","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weird World of the Roku&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weird World of the Roku","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/weird-world-of-the-roku\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Mister C on TubiTV","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52558141233_e8c6842d2e_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52558141233_e8c6842d2e_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52558141233_e8c6842d2e_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44047,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/11\/05\/is-it-over-yet\/","url_meta":{"origin":44689,"position":1},"title":"Is it over yet?","author":"Joe","date":"November 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"14 years ago when I purchased my first Roku box, the whole concept of streaming video was in its infancy and it was great! 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Sadly, the notion of streaming caught\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weird World of the Roku&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weird World of the Roku","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/weird-world-of-the-roku\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/REV-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?fit=1152%2C864&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/REV-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?fit=1152%2C864&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/REV-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?fit=1152%2C864&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/REV-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?fit=1152%2C864&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/REV-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?fit=1152%2C864&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20940,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/04\/pluto-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":44689,"position":2},"title":"Pluto TV","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A post-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, pre-Trog Joan Crawford in an episode of forgotten television series Route 66. 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