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Last verified 7 Aug 2026

3.7 4396 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5Here we go (stop) again

   Can't access anything because app says cable provider (DirecTV) doesn't allow access. Odd, because it did up until a few days ago, and nothing has changed on my end. None of the usual fixes work. Hopefully someone at TCM will read this and respond for the sake of all of us having the same problem again. Update: that problem went away through no apparent intervention by tcm or myself. Now a new problem: no updates to “watch tcm” catalog for almost a week. I got a generic “thanks, we're doing our best to deal with your problem” email from tech. I see they told another reviewer to look for a fix to the zoom problem in a future update. Since the last update was 11 months (and who knows how many iOS updates) ago, I expect that eventually all the other movies will expire and we will be left to choose between “Cleopatra Jones” and a perverted Roger Daltrey disaster. Having read some articles about David Zaslav, including ones ABOUT the GQ article he had taken down, I suspect he is behind this, and there will not be a fix for this or any other TCM app problem.

   Yngar10 · 7 Aug 2026

2. 1/5App doesn’t work on AppleTV and support unresponsive

   App for AppleTV no longer works and just opens to a blank black screen regardless of how many times I delete and reinstall the app, reboot the app, reboot my new and up to date (tvOS 17.2) AppleTV 4K with an active Xfinity cable subscription to TCM. I’ve reached out to TCM support and developers multiple times to report the problem and ask for assistance and I get the circular first tier “Are you logged in? Have you rebooted? Do you have a TCM subscription?” And other unhelpful questions that just repeat and clearly show they haven’t read or comprehend the issue or read the history of my problem and won’t take ownership of looking for or escalating a solution. The fact that the developer support link here goes to a customer service contact center and not actual technical support is clear that resolving app issues is not their goal. Supremely disappointing considering that the app is the only way I am able to access TCM as I have cut the cord and my Xfinity subscription is app based only so when channel apps like TCM’s don’t work, the $10 extra I pay for the package it is in is something I am now throwing away since I can no longer use it.

   selat · 7 Aug 2026

3. 5/5I LOVE IT!

   I watch TCM almost constantly and exclusively!!! I love the old movies, particularly the ones from the thirties, forties and fifties, many of which I am seeing for the first time!! Absolutely wonderful!! I also enjoy the shorts, travel logs, even the occasional old commercials (which are the ONLY commercials I'll watch). LOVE the background information (wish you added for EVERY movie)!! And getting to know & recognize the wonderful character actors plus getting to see the superstars as they grew in their craft. Really miss Robert Osborne but Ben Mankiewicz is getting better and better! Jury still out on Vasquez, but she is improving. My only complaint is that you run the monthly calendar & wine commercial ad nauseum. We don't need it that frequently!! Sorry to see the monthly magazine go. Otherwise...THANK YOU for a wonderful service, which provides so many enjoyable hours of clean entertainment without foul language & blatant sexual displays--amazing how Hollywood has forgotten that people can be entertained without being bombarded with the least desirable traits of mankind. Yes, the Golden Age will not be found again (at least until God does housecleaning again). For we who are disabled and have little opportunity for outside activities, thank you for bringing it back to us so that television is not solely a vehicle for trash and misinformation!!!

   Skate 13 · 7 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Best Channel Ever

   After being a film lover especially from an artistic stand point I've seen everything. I fell in love with mostly independent and foreign films after noticing how dark regular movies had become. Independent and foreign films soon followed. One day in February I watched TCM and it happened to be the month of Oscar Films. I absolutely fell in love. I've watched this channel exclusively since and the joy it brings into my life is unexplainable. I'm an old soul and stand for morals and love. These two things have been lost in films but not in classic films. I won't watch anything but TCM and I can't say enough about this channel. They give us a glimpse into history and what the world was like in my grandmother's time. These films are the best I've ever seen and the acting as well as the plots are absolutely the most rewarding I've ever seen. It's funny to realize how many films have been turned into remakes but they never do justice to the originals. They have impacted my life in such a positive way and I can thank TCM enough for giving us the opportunity to watch these great masterpieces!!

   HonestAnna · 7 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Redesigned app

   Not impressed. Unless you provide a schedule of upcoming movies that will add some coherence to the disarray of features you haven’t improved much of anything. Movies need to be listed chronologically or alphabetically. Not in the random fashion shown. Films feature only gives the movie just shown or now playing. What is that!? The settings is really no settings at all. There’s nothing to set. Now this doesn’t mean I’ll stop watching TCM, but this new mumbo jumbo arrangement is too much work to use. Requires too much searching. You have to provide a schedule and not just a bunch of movies to watch. A feature I’d like to see added is a anytime search of actors that will include their personal history and filmography without having to wait for a movie to be shown with that actor in it. If a movie with that actor isn’t in films or watch list or whatever, I have to use google. Rather have that feature right at my fingertips using tcm. Soooooooo. The long and short of it is to put back the “schedule”feature and I’ll try to dig through the rest. And good luck in your never ending search for a Robert Osborne replacement. And by the way, why do you believe a movie would be better if the person watching is a little tipsy from wine? I know you’re trying to sell wine here, but do you really think people are that dumb? Drinking a wine with three different grapes isn’t going to make me laugh any harder while watching a Marx brothers movie.

   NicknameUnavilable · 7 Aug 2026

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