Spielberg and Scorsese got together to yell at David Zaslav about those TCM layoffs

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Some media genius David Zaslav is. *problem*

Spielberg and Scorsese got together to yell at David Zaslav about those TCM layoffs

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson threw a little directorial star power in support of their favorite TV network today, with IndieWire reporting that the big-name trio held an “emergency call” with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav over the fate of classic movies channel TCM. The network, which is one of the numerous channels lucky enough to toil under Zaslav’s cost-cutting eye, was hit with layoffs this week, including the termination of Genevieve McGillicuddy, whose duties included directing the annual TCM Film Festival—an event that Spielberg is an especially vocal participant in.

All three directors have been extremely effusive about TCM in the past, with Scorsese noting that it’s pretty much always on in the background when he’s editing his films. Spielberg, meanwhile, has lent tons of time and energy to the channel, appearing in numerous documentary shorts and stumping for it—really, the last place on regular TV where older movies are still in regular rotation—at every opportunity. And Anderson has been similarly enthusiastic as both a proponent, and, now, a defender, once referring to the channel as “holy ground.”

https://www.avclub.com/spielberg-and-sc ... 1850563822

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TCM did some good things in its time regarding print restoration, etc. Too bad to see it eaten by the media money machine.