Title: TRIO -Pop Culture CANCELLED
Description: great cult tv network going belly up?
Piotr Penderecki - January 7, 2005 11:41 PM (GMT)
I've been reading in the trades that TRIO, a station available to Satellite and digitial cable subscribers has been dropped from Direct TV, and as a result will likely be cancelled. This is a shame. Last year they let Quentin Tarrantino program them for a week and they played some great stuff from his personal 35mm collection including one of the Klaus Kinski EDGAR WALLACE films. If you're living in the US, please write letters to Direct TV (who swallowed dish network) to beg them to keep TRIO on their service.
William S. Wilson - January 9, 2005 12:59 AM (GMT)
That is too bad to hear. I never had the TRIO channel but would always check out their schedule for interesting titles. I remember a brief discussion at the old Mobius board about the films Tarantino showed and it was an amazing (and excellent) variety. I'll send Direct TV a note about it because having eclectic channels is always a good thing.
Steve Erickson - January 9, 2005 11:59 PM (GMT)
Trio's programming is generally interesting, but I wish they weren't a commercial station. The Tarantino series would have been great on TCM or Sundance, where they wouldn't have chopped the films up with ads (and probably would've letterboxed them.) As it is, I found it useless.
Dean Harris - January 10, 2005 04:32 PM (GMT)
I've enjoyed TRIO very much. It is still part of NYC's digital cable package with Time Warner. The Brilliant but Cancelled series can be fun (though never again will I wax nostalgic for "Pink Lady and Jeff!") and there are some good music programs from time to time.
Dale Sherman - January 10, 2005 04:49 PM (GMT)
It was a bit bizarre to see the announcement on DirecTV January 1. I had watched something on TRIO the day before and then suddenly the channel was gone.
DirecTV's announcement on the channel stated that they had pulled TRIO until a time where NBC (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) "figures out what they wish to do with the channel." I too watched it many times, and was quite happy to get the first three seasons of "Laugh-In" in complete form off the channel. Regrettably, I was all set to tape the marathon showing of "Spaced" that they had planned for January 29 & 30. Looks like that won't happen now.
A shame that the channel is gone.