My 'white whale', as I call it, is now in sight. The film will premiere on the Christmas 24 channel at 3pm GMT on Sunday 7th December.
After finally coming across it on my Virgin Media box's TV guide, I scheduled it to record. I did so feeling like I had scored a touchdown of my own.
The reason why I have had a Ahab-esque obsession with finding this particular movie is because my friend, Vicki, pointed the film out to me a few weeks before she passed away over the summer. I told Vick I hoped it would make it to the TVs on these shores so I could watch it.
It has been a goal of mine to have the film as the main event of this year's Diet of Christmas Films. It would be fitting for this year's post - which will be the eighteenth edition, by the way! - to close with me watching the movie set in Vick's home and with the Bills - her favourite team - being part of the plot.
I went to bed last night chuffed that I have the chance of doing that.
But.
A plot twist has appeared.
When I opened the Virgin Media app this morning, to delete the Monday Night Football game from last night because I've already watched it, a message popped up informing me that my cable box and app will no longer be compatible from the next time the app updates.
In the same message, my service provider offered me a free upgrade to a newer box. I had no choice but to take the free opportunity. I did so knowing a few things.
My current box will lose all of its content. That means everything I've recorded, or plan to record, will no longer be available to me.
That means, even if I do manage to snare the white whale, I might have a problem keeping it until Christmas Eve.
Or does it?
You'll find out what happens, or doesn't happen, in thirty days from now.
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