Editing Switching Channels (section)

{{short description|1988 film by Ted Kotcheff}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Switching Channels
| image          = Switching Channels.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Ted Kotcheff]]
| producer       = [[Martin Ransohoff]]
| writer         = [[Jonathan Reynolds (writer)|Jonathan Reynolds]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[The Front Page]]'' (play)|[[Ben Hecht]]<br/>[[Charles MacArthur]]}}
| starring       = {{Plain list|
* [[Kathleen Turner]]
* [[Burt Reynolds]]
* [[Christopher Reeve]]
* [[Ned Beatty]]
* [[Henry Gibson]]
}}
| music          = [[Michel Legrand]]
| cinematography = [[François Protat]]
| editing        = [[Thom Noble]]
| distributor    = [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1988|3|4}}
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $15 million<ref name="spy">{{cite magazine|magazine=Spy|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_KJly6nVC7qkC|title=The Unstoppables|date=November 1988|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_KJly6nVC7qkC/page/n93 92]}}</ref>
| gross          = $9,129,999
}}
'''''Switching Channels''''' is a 1988 American [[comedy film]] that is a cable television newsroom-based retelling of newspaper-based 1928 play ''[[The Front Page]]'', the 1931 film [[The Front Page (1931 film)|of the same name]], and the 1940 film ''[[His Girl Friday]]''.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/movies/film-turner-in-switching-channels.html|title=Film: Turner in 'Switching Channels'|first=Vincent|last=Canby|authorlink=Vincent Canby|date=March 4, 1988}}</ref> It stars [[Kathleen Turner]] as Christy Colleran, [[Burt Reynolds]] as John L. Sullivan IV, [[Christopher Reeve]] as Blaine Bingham, [[Ned Beatty]] as Roy Ridnitz, [[Henry Gibson]] as Ike Roscoe, and [[George Newbern]] as Sigenthaler. The film was notorious for its harsh infighting between Reynolds and Turner during filming. The film was a box office failure and received mixed reviews from critics.

It is available on DVD in [[DVD region code|Regions]] 2 and 4. It is also available as a burn-on-demand DVD-R in Region 1.