“We were recently pleased to see Not Another Teen Movie playing on a basic cable channel recently, because we rather like that film: it’s easily the best of the genre-parody genre, because it’s knowing, not just randomly gross, and TV – split up by adverts, the swears cut out – always feels like the place where it’s most fun to watch these films. You know – you’re flicking channels and you find it midway through; you don’t really need to invest in it, just enjoy the jokes when you look up from your laptop or whatever. The point we’re making? That we’re looking forward to catching Fired Up – a cheerleader comedy starring Not Another Teen Movie’s antagonist Eric Christian Olsen – when it hits basic cable.”

Other films especially well suited for the basic cable, half-of-my-attention treatment include some of the Happy Madison output and pretty much every film produced in the 80s.