Stay Tuned

Stay Tuned (1992) is an American fantasy comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Peter Hyams, the film takes the premise of TV addiction to its logical nightmare: a couch-bound salesman signs up for a satellite dish with 666 channels and gets sucked inside it. John Ritter and Pam Dawber star.

Roy Knable has spent years glued to the screen. One shady door-to-door pitch from a salesman named Spike later, Roy and his wife Helen are literally trapped inside Hellvision — a demonic TV network where losing the channel means dying. They have twenty-four hours to survive an endless relay of warped parody shows: twisted versions of familiar formats, game shows with real stakes, and a fully animated sequence created by Looney Tunes legend Chuck Jones.

Jeffrey Jones plays the infernal producer pulling the strings. The film runs on fast-cut absurdist energy and sharp jabs at 1990s television culture. Watch Stay Tuned (1992) online on iFILM.