

The tradition we've established of never announcing the titles in advance seems to work for the show, even though everything I've always been taught in TV is you tell people repeatedly what you are going to show. I liked seeing how many people were assuming you would show holiday-themed movies, theorizing about showing entries in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise or something, only to be totally surprised. They're pretty loose about what they'll allow us to do. But last year at Christmas, we wanted to show four Phantasm movies, and they let us show four Phantasm movies. And sometimes it's a really big compromise, so that's a long answer to what you're asking me.

But we always run into problems of, "Well, we can't license that." Streaming is a crowded field and it's hard to get exactly what we want.Ī lot of times it's a compromise. Basically, it's what I want to do and what my director wants to do, and what the producer wants to do.

Joe Bob Briggs: How we choose the titles is one of the most complicated things to explain. : Whether it be for your weekly series or these various holiday events, how do you decide which movies you're showing?
