Dear IFC,
What the fuck happened here?
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I’m trying to catch up on old episodes of the Henry Rollins Show that you are airing at 4 in the afternoon and there are some obviously different things going on here.
1. Where the hell did those commercial breaks come from? I remember watching this show not too long ago and I could watch 20 straight minutes of Henry Rollins with a few movie trailers and updates on what’s coming up on IFC left for after the show. Now I’m stuck watching advertisements for Subway, Old Navy, Wii, Guitar Hero and so on every 5 minutes.
2. Why is this show being censored? Are you censoring the movies you play too?
3. Please take off the fucking advertisements in the upper right hand corner of the screen. I’m trying to watch Henry’s interview with the Stooges and that poor guy on the right gets, literally, no face time because you keep playing an ad for “10 videos that rocked the world” or whatever that lame countdown is, and when you take that away, you fill the spot with a turkey bearing Henry Rollins face. It’s weird.
You know, I dealt with the Target sponsored film fest that you would air, I dealt with the trailers for movies that only get aired in shoddy Uptown theaters and I have no interest in ever seeing, but this is ridiculous. Really. You’re the Independent Film Channel. Why the over abundance of corporate sponsorship?
ErnieBot.
PS-Please disregard this letter. Turns out I was watching the FUSE network. My apologies.