Have You Found Your Thrill in the Chiller Channel, Yet?
Have You Found Your Thrill in the Chiller Channel, Yet? by Roxanne McDonald
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As much of a TV fiend as I am, I didn’t come upon the Chiller until today. Turns out serendipity was on my side. Is it on yours? |
I thought I would have to admit embarrassment for not having found the Chiller Channel sooner, but evidently it is fairly new: in a January 12th article by Kevin Kelly at TV Squad, NBC and Universal had announced plans to launch the DIRECTV channel which would be for horror and SF movies and shows and classics.
The news included how such shows as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tales from the Crypt, and The Shining will be included in the thriller station lineup. Today, as I did my morning TV schedule, my eyes happened upon the one word show title that always catches my eye, “Hitchcock”. Then, right before two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (“Revenge” and “Premonition”—older and less played episodes, at that) were two listings for episodes of Tales from the Crypt—making for a morning line-up any television-obsessed, SF/Psychological Thriller-fixated person would be, well, thrilled to find.
I am not so embarrassed now, knowing the launch date for the Chiller channel is March 1st, 2007. In fact, I am THRILLED I found it on its day of glorious debut.
Congratulations Chiller, and may you not resort to replaying Enemy Mine four million times, regardless of how cultish or compelling a storyline and performances by Gosset, Jr. and Quaid…especially when there is so much Hitchcock, King, and that skeleton host to be had!
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