The apparently random TV shows to DVD selection process
Someone explain to me why Roseanne is getting its second season on DVD already, when there’s no plans at all for Ed to be released on DVD. Are there really people who miss the vintage comedy stylings of Roseanne Barr that badly?
And where the heck are my Max Headroom DVDs?
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I’m sure Roseanne’s success in first run and syndication is why she’s getting the treatment, while Ed has no syndication proof and it’s first run ratings weren’t great. A Roseanne DVD package would be a lot cheaper to do than an Ed one considering there’s 11 less hours worth of encoding.
No Max Headroom DVDs just makes no sense, though. Must be a rights issue of some sort.
Comment by Jonah — October 7, 2005 @ 19:12
Well, Ed was syndicated on TBS, but I hear ya.
Comment by Beau — October 8, 2005 @ 13:03
It could be that Max Headroom is just too scary for some of those TV execs to release. I mean, we ARE Twenty Minutes into the future now, aren’t we? Think about all the tech on the show, 500 Channel TV options … the only thing missing is an all-powerful Censor, but a lot of the other stuff has in a way come to pass in one way or the other. Wasn’t the series set in the year 2005 or something? I read a novelization when I was a wee-fred that seemed to indicate something like that. Man, I KNOW that show lives in my psyche somewhere.
But Jonah’s right, it’s probably a rights issue.
Or maybe it’s simply because ABC is now Disney*.
*aka, the living corporate embodiment of the anti-christ.
Comment by f. chong rutherford — October 8, 2005 @ 14:18
Ed will never be out on DVD, alas.
Comment by Morts — October 10, 2005 @ 4:30