On this line the competition check knows the season's headlines (Advent's
doors, The Naughty List, the approved premieres) as data, and readFilmChecks
comes over unchanged from main.
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Approved by Paul on 5 November 2026: Drive-In only, at most two a week across
it, none when nothing is worthwhile, nothing booked. Seeds come from
franchise collections, event studios (Amicus, Toho, Cannon, Full Moon, AIP,
Ealing, Aardman...), and directors and leading performers with three or more
read films; a seed touching an existing event's films is left out. A bill
needs a coherent theme: one shared genre, one audience (adult horror late,
family on a Saturday, the rest a Friday double), the best films (in story
order for a franchise) clearing a 6.4 average rating. Low-budget cult films
stay eligible for The Late Show. On the box, once a day: missing evidence
read for candidates (bounded), the strongest bills verified film by film
(item, IMDb ID, playable copy), films booked within four weeks or shown on
the Drive-In in the last four left out, evenings free of events, committed
bookings and competing headlines. Every idea shown is kept as history;
dismissed themes stay dismissed unless their films change.
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Pairs: twenty cards, ten pairs of Orbit's own channel logos; arrows move, OK
turns a card, a match stays up, a miss turns back after a moment; the
fewest moves is kept. Patience: classic one-card-draw, with a pointer over
the stock, turned card, home piles and columns; OK picks up and puts down,
up and down in a column choose how deep, Back puts a card back, Menu sends a
card home; games won are counted. The honeycomb now holds all six games.
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A paddle, a ball and a wall of bricks for the remote (Paul's approved list):
hold left or right to move, OK to launch, Back to pause. Where the ball meets
the paddle sets its angle; two-hit bricks; four Orbit layouts that cycle,
each wall a little faster; three balls; best score kept on the box. The
arcade's honeycomb now holds Snake and OrbitHive over Block Drop and Brick
Break.
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A falling-blocks puzzle for the remote (from the game list Paul approved on 2
November 2026): left and right move, up turns, down drops a row, OK drops
all the way, Back pauses. Seven shapes from a shuffled bag, a landing guide,
the next shape shown, rows clear for 100/300/500/800 times the level, the
level rises every ten rows and quickens gravity. Orbit's own colours; best
score kept on the box. In the arcade's honeycomb beside Snake and OrbitHive.
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Paul, 5 November 2026: two Ring X rejections (UFC 332, The Arena) taught
'fewer Action titles for Ring X', a broad conclusion from the one genre they
shared. Lessons now come from what decisions specifically share: a named
editorial concept (MMA, boxing, professional wrestling, made-for-TV
romance...) from two, or a genre that isn't one of the channel's own from
three; a channel's defining genres never make a lesson, and a concept beats
a genre for the same decisions. Every lesson is a proposal until confirmed
on the Chair (confirm, dismiss, or stop using it); only confirmed lessons
apply, and only while learning is on.
Also a read-only check of the proposed Ring X correction (wrestling first,
MMA events out); the channel's brief is unchanged.
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The pop-up keeps its suggestion (or an ask's two channels) up front and puts
every other channel in an 'Other channels' drop-down: scored fits first,
then the rest of the title's kind with why each is outside its usual brief.
Never the wrong kind, a children's channel for an adult rating, animation
for live action, or Premiere.
Learning (ChairLearning.kt): the decisions the Chair keeps become lessons
when two or more go the same way: a redirect (you keep putting a genre on
another channel) or a hold-back (you keep dropping a genre for a channel),
each explained by its own decisions. Shown always; used only while your
Learning switch on the Chair is on (off by default). Off undoes every
effect at once. Nothing is booked, placed or approved by it.
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Worth a look holds the Premiere proposals as well as the picks now, and ran
off the bottom with no way down. Each column scrolls on its own, following
the focus; the footer line stays in view.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (then Orbit Sci-Fi) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(then Orbit Action) are approved Premiere debuts, both keeping Premiere
eligibility; Mayday is not a theatrical premiere (Apple Original Film,
Apple TV, 4 September 2026) and goes to regular Orbit Action. Called films
are never proposed again and count towards that week's three. Only films
over the bar are proposed, so a week can show fewer than three. Nothing is
booked or listed: the approved debuts wait for the booking workflow.
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The box's fuller collections read found TMDB franchise sets ('Godzilla
Collection') beside curated ones that share the word (The Criterion
Collection, The New Year Collection); those link nothing.
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Evidence reader covers the last 12 months' films. The Chair weighs Orbit
Premiere candidates and shows at most three a week, view-only, apart from
its picks. No debut slots, windows or list changes on this line. Scoring
matches main (horror-comedy refinement included).
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Paul, 5 November 2026, on Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant: context over category.
Horror with comedy (or body horror, gross-out, splatter) now goes to After
Dark, free of its era, and counts less on Orbit Horror and Sci-Fi. Four of
392 titles move (Buzzkill, Deathgasm 2, Bunker Heights, Mum, I'm Alien
Pregnant); the five regression samples hold or improve. Kotlin matches the
new Python reference on all 392 titles.
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Paul's refined policy, 5 November 2026. Premiere is a curated premium film
channel. Recency, a major studio, an event-film description, trending lists
and viewer ratings are weighed into one priority; none is required. Format
(TV movie, documentary, under 75 minutes) and Orbit status (aired or booked:
no duplicate first run) are the only hard limits. Streaming originals are
weighed down by evidence (a streamer studio, a streaming list within weeks
of release), not excluded. Unread films are queued for the evidence reader,
which now reads the last 12 months' films (read only). At most three
proposals a week, apart from the picks. After the configurable window a
film joins its genre home, stays on Premiere if premium with no home, or is
held for review; never a forced home. ORBIT PREMIERE is its own What's On
label, apart from FIRST ON ORBIT. Booking from the Chair stays off
(PREMIERE_BOOKING_ACTIVE) until Paul approves.
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Release profile (recent, major theatrical studio, high-profile, not a
streaming original or TV film), kept apart from Orbit status (aired,
scheduled, never scheduled). Examples only; the first-on-Orbit premiere
code on main is superseded and won't ship until the corrected policy is
approved.
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Paul's policy, 5 November 2026. The Director's Chair makes two
recommendations: a genre home (Premiere is never one) and, for a film
never booked on Orbit that suits an event debut, a first run on Orbit
Premiere. 'Premiere, then <home>' puts it on Premiere's list with a debut
as a fixed slot on the first Friday or Saturday at 20:00 after Premiere's
committed plan (clear of Advent's doors), branded FIRST ON ORBIT. Four weeks
after the debut it leaves Premiere's list for its home's, for that
channel's future schedule. Nothing already booked changes.
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Paul, 5 November 2026: a family-friendly or mainstream-rated horror-comedy
(Family genre, children's ratings, PG-13/12A/15) keeps its usual channels;
an unknown rating isn't held against it. 'Gore' joins After Dark's themes.
No placements change on the current 392 titles beyond Deathgasm 2 scoring
higher; samples hold; Kotlin matches the Python reference.
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Pressing a pick opens its pop-up: place it on the suggested channel, change
to another channel the scoring allows (three at most, each with its reason),
or drop it. An ask offers its two channels or Drop. Placing adds the title
to that channel's own list as an accepted choice, so it joins at the next
top-up; nothing is booked and committed bookings never change. Every
decision is recorded, and decided titles make way for the next. A placed
film's playable copy is found when the pool is read.
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Scores every mode in one pass with cached text vectors, keeps the report
on the box and refreshes it in the background each hour, and changes mode
when a chip is selected rather than focused. The library's collections are
curated lists (Trending, IMDB Top 250, streamers), so only '... Collection'
sets link franchises; broadcaster lists (BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, BritBox)
count as verified British origin.
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