Turner Classic Movies seems to be playing an unintentional April Fool's Day joke on those of us who've set TiVos or VCRs to record today's Laurel and Hardy treasures. It's the old Phony Start Time trick.
This morning, they scheduled Beau Hunks to run 7:15 to 7:45 (all times Pacific), which would have been great except Beau Hunks is longer than that, a fact that someone there even knew. Their own schedule, shown above, says it's 37 minutes and while I haven't run a watch on it, I think the print they ran may have even been a minute or two longer than that. The film before ran a minute or so over so, allowing for the TCM openings and billboards, Beau Hunks actually aired from 7:17 to about 7:55. This means that a 7:15-7:45 recording, such as all our TiVos made, cut off the last 9 or 10 minutes.
The following film, The Bohemian Girl, was scheduled to start at 7:45 and run until 9:00. It actually started at 7:57. (At 7:56, an on-camera graphic still gave its start time as 7:45 and so does the TCM website.) The schedule says it's 68 minutes, and maybe the print they're showing as I write this is indeed that length…but a complete one would be 70 or 71, depending on which source one believes. Even if it's only 68, it will end at around 9:05. Your 7:45-9:00 recording will therefore consist of the last 10 or so minutes of Beau Hunks — followed by all of The Bohemian Girl except for the last 5-7 minutes.
Up after that is Them Thar Hills, which is supposed to start at 9 AM but will actually commence around 9:07 or 9:08. It's to be followed by Tit for Tat at 9:30. Both of these are in half-hour time slots but both are around 20 minutes each so this may fix the problem and allow Pick a Star, which is scheduled for 10 AM, to actually start at 10 AM. But it could actually start before.
This is frustrating because it's so simple. I mean, how difficult is it to not schedule a movie you know is 37 minutes in a half-hour time slot? TCM is usually so good about restoring and showing complete prints of great movies. Can't they at least let us know when they start and end? As Mr. Hardy would say when Mr. Laurel drops a brick on his head, "Oooow!"