Editing The Weather Channel (section)

===Movies===
In a move that caused controversy with many longtime viewers, the Weather Channel began airing weather-related movies on Friday nights on October 30, 2009. The first feature to be broadcast by the channel was the 2000 film ''[[The Perfect Storm (film)|The Perfect Storm]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/10/the-weather-channel-to-begin-s.php|title=October 21, 2009 It's Always Fair Weather... on The Weather Channel|magazine=[[TVWeek]]|access-date=September 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023180448/https://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/10/the-weather-channel-to-begin-s.php|archive-date=October 23, 2009}}</ref>

After December 2009, these weekly movies were discontinued for the time being in favor of running ''[[Weather Center (2009)|Weather Center]]'', which already aired throughout primetime during the rest of the work week. Despite the controversy, the Friday night film block resumed on March 26, 2010, under the title "Flick and a Forecast," co-hosted by the Weather Channel meteorologist Jen Carfagno and MSNBC contributor [[Touré (journalist)|Touré]], with the documentary ''[[Into Thin Air|Into Thin Air: Deaths on Everest]]''. During the broadcasts, the Lower Display Line that normally appears on TWC shows to provide local weather information (with breakaways during forecast and most long-form programs only for commercial breaks) was removed, appearing only a few times each hour during the film as a substitute for the standard "Local on the 8s" segments, with a translucent TWC logo bug appearing at other times during the film when the LDL was not on-screen.

While the films shown within the "Flick and a Forecast" block were weather-related in some form, some films featured (such as ''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'' and ''[[Deep Blue Sea (1999 film)|Deep Blue Sea]]'') had only a minimal tie to weather. On May 31, 2010, ''NewsBlues'' reported the Weather Channel's decision to cancel the movie block, due in part to viewer criticism of movies being shown on what is intended as a news and information channel, as well as a snafu that occurred during an April 2010 tornado outbreak that led to a scheduled movie being aired instead of wall-to-wall severe weather coverage. The "Flick and a Forecast" presentations were then replaced by an additional hour of ''Weather Center'' and a two-hour block of long-form original programs.