Wednesday, December 11, 2024

TCM Chief Programmer Charles Labesh, Who Was Just Rehired After David Zaslav Purge, Tweets Thanks for Public Support

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Charles Labesh is the chief programmer for Turner Classic Movies. He’s posted a thank you for all the support he got from the public when he was temporarily fired last week in the David Zaslav purge. Around 70 TCM staff including all the main execs were let go. It became such a scandal that Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson had to intervene. They spoke to Zaslav, owner of Warner Discovery, and got him to reinstate Labesh. The three directors will now be involved with TCM as well.

Labesh wrote: “The support for TCM, and for me, has been wonderful. I just want to say that it’s always taken a true team to make it work. There are too many people to name so I won’t, but the talent and dedication has always been across the network. I know how lucky I’ve been to work with them”

One more TCM note: Apparently part of the cuts to the channel was eliminating the hosts’ outros when the movies are done. The popular feature will vanish over the next few days, but since the uproar will return in the fall.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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