film at 11
[MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] 1. Used in conversation to
announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these
events are earth-shattering. "ITS
crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2.
Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional
information will be available at some future time,
without the implication of anything particularly
ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file
server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root
directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had
occurred but that the people working on it have no additional
information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way
suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more
quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the
fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which
will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be
patient.
The variant "MPEGs at 11" has recently been cited (MPEG is a
digital-video format.)