Having a host ads a touch of class.
It affords an opportunity to give some insight, hear
an anecdote and set you up for enjoying the picture.

I like it. It helps set TCM apart from other
movie channels and makes you, the viewer, feel
like you are party of the family. Or gang that watches
these films.

Sure there are times that I know Osborne is just reading
stuff and does not really know much about the film at hand.
And yes I know that he comes in once a month and knocks off fifty intros
in one day.

To me it would be less if they did not have it. I think they only
have them for prime time, right? I like when I record
some obscure Noir or horror and then get to see what teaser talk
they come up with for it.