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On October 30, 2009, The Weather Channel, in a move deemed controversial by many longtime viewers, began airing weather related movies on Friday nights.

The first was The Perfect Storm, followed by March of the Penguins, Misery and Deep Blue Sea.

After December 2009, these weekly movies were discontinued for the time being in favor of running Weather Center, which already aired in the entire primetime slot during the rest of the work week.

Despite the controversy, the Friday night film block resumed on March 26, 2010 with Into Thin Air: Deaths on Everest under the title " Flick and a Forecast.

" The Weather Channel meteorologist Jen Carfagno and MSNBC contributor Touré co-hosted the film block every Friday night.

NewsBlues reported the cancellation of the movie block on May 31, 2010 ; the removal of the block was due in part to criticism of showing movies, especially since some of the films were not directly tied to weather, as well as a snafu that occurred during a tornado outbreak in April 2010 that led a scheduled movie to be aired instead of wall-to-wall severe weather coverage.

The " Flick and a Forecast " presentations have since been replaced by an additional hour of Weather Center and a two-hour block of long-form original programs.