Millie: My job is programming the movies on Turner Classic Movies. I have to think up themes for every day, like an entire day of movies by a certain director or all movies about elevators or whatever. In addition, I also helped create (and program) "TCM Underground," which is a late night cult movie show we air on Friday nights.Tell me about a typical workday in the life of you.
In the mornings, I usually answer emails. I'm basically the go-to person in Programming for schedules, nerdy movie info, etc., so people are always asking me for stuff. Then I might have a couple meetings, talk to some cult movie weirdos on the phone, whatever. Usually the afternoon is when I work on the schedule: come up with ideas, movies to play, movies for our VOD, and so on. Then I make sure everything we scheduled isn't a giant thematic disaster and is timed out properly. Some days I'll watch a movie to see how many times someone says "asshole." On occasion I'll get a call from an 85-year-old woman in Canada asking me why her TV doesn't work. A lot of letters from prison run by my desk too. People on lockdown love TCM, apparently.
