#up network

[thefemininecritique]

The UP network gets meta...ish. Emily's alone in diving into 2019's A Christmas Movie Christmas, a movie all about Christmas movies. And also, romance. Pretty Little Liar refugees are a'plenty! Have a listen!

[thefemininecritique]

Holiday hijinks are so much more fun when you have someone to suffer with. On this very special episode, Emily is joined by Christine to tackle Marvista Entertainment's Girlfriends of Christmas Past, streamable now on Hulu. It starts Jenna from Pretty Little Liars which leads to a whole lot of discussion about where our favorite liars are now. Also, Jenna is in this movie that hates women and it's terrible and the ladies have a LOT to say. Join the discussion on Facebook!

[thefemininecritique]

FINALLY, a holiday romance made specifically to piss Emily off. This one comes via the Up Network and tells the story of a busy career woman with a horrible slug of a husband who loses her memory and is then mentally and emotionally abused by everyone who is supposed to care about her. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

[whovianfloozy]

You know what's sucking the hours out of my day?  Not Tumblr. Not the laundry and cleaning I should be doing. Not... life. Oh no.

It's those damn fucking cheesy heart warming tear jerking Christmas movies on Up and Hallmark.

[iamnathannah]

Gilmore Girls repeats are moving to UP, and you probably shouldn’t watch them

Yes, it’s taken forever, but ABC Family is removing Gilmore Girls repeats in September after confining them to the mornings post-700 Club, where few can watch them. The good news is, they’re still going to be on TV, thanks to the UP Network.

But the bad news? Oyy, the bad news is that the UP Network has a heritage as a religious network. They started out as the Gospel Music Channel and began to secularize their programming as it became clear the audience for gospel music really doesn’t watch distant cable TV packages.

Still, they still have religious backing in their company, and this is going to mean that episodes of Gilmore Girls are likely, unless I’m completely wrong going to see severe editing only known so far to early viewers of Nickelodeon in the UK, who had to deal with the show being cut to remove ‘offensive content’ to appeal to ‘teenagers’.

That ‘offensive content’ meant that The Big One, where Paris has her breakdown after admitting losing her virginity to Jamie, didn’t air in the UK for a long time. They made cuts that were so terrible to episodes, UK fans of the show outright recommended at the time you Bittorrent or Kazaa episodes of the show from the US and avoid Nick at all costs, nearly imperiling the fanbase of the show in England. It was the last straw that led to Nick UK rightfully losing the rights to a network which didn’t care a whit about content.

I don’t get UP now, because apparently Charter thinks the Liquidation Channel is a better choice for their viewers, but UP is a Puritan network that chopped Judging Amy episodes to pieces for content and extra commercials.

Yes...Judging Amy. 

They finally brought back 7th Heaven after months of removal due to Stephen Collins being a complete pedophile lech. Unless the management of the channel has extremely changed over the last few months and they aren’t cutting for content anymore, I recommend just not bothering watching Gilmore Girls on UP at all if they dare to cut for content, especially entire episodes. The DVD’s are at a reasonable price, and the show streams on Netflix, so if you don’t want a show cut to pieces and filled with eHarmony commercials, you have a great way to watch the show.

Hopefully in two months when the show starts on UP all these fears are wrong and WBTV is able to specify it airs on UP uncut or else and I’ll just be able to say ‘I panicked, my bad.’ I predict that it’s likely I’m right though. 

It does hurt as a longtime fan to say to avoid the show on television, but if a version of the show carried on TV fails to respect how AS-P wanted the show to be presented (and does she know it well; just try to watch one of her written eps of Roseanne in full on any television network. The syndicator of that show is garbage and chopped it up in all forms of media; syndication, DVD AND streaming, including a botched “HD” version! They managed to make it look worse than 3am reruns of Coach), then I can’t respect the broadcaster.