On Friday, beginning at 7 PM, the Cartoon Network is showing a 24-hour marathon of The Iron Giant. Now, it seems like a terrific enough movie (I’ve never seen it in its entirety only because every time I stumble upon it, it’s already about twenty to thirty minutes in), but isn’t airing it twelve times, back-to-back, in one day a little much?
Meanwhile, the Sci-Fi Channel will be showing Apollo 13, apparently under the assumption that anything set in space must be science fiction. (How they rationalize showing Jaws, however, I don’t know.)