Shout Factory Working on a Complete-Series "WKRP in Cincinnati"

huh?

 

Yes. I will.

 

Shout! just charged my CC, I guess things are underway...

Once again fingers crossed these will be the non-syndicated episodes with at least 80% of the music included.

 

So perfect is the enemy of good then? You actually believe that there is a chance that Pink Floyd will be on it? And if it's not, the entire series is worthless... wow. Just wow on so many levels.

 

Really looking forward to hearing your report.
Off the top of my head, missing content ( " hold me closer Tiny Dancer " in a Russian accent ) is at the top of my list.

 

I'll keep ya posted.

 

A post (from a moderator) on Shout! Factory's WKRP product page today says there will be an announcement regarding the music next week.

 

I will too.

 

It kinda worries me that they're charging cards (and presumably shipping) before the music announcement gets made.

 

Precisely why I didn't order from them. Well, that and the lower price.

 

Indeed. But I just had to preorder... Shout! Informed me that it won't ship until after 09/23.

 

That of course makes me wonder why it would be cut for syndication, but not cut for home video sales ? It likely will remain cut for the DVD too, and for me, that's definitely a deal breaker.
My money > my choice how I spend it, and I'm definitely not dropping $107. on something that isn't going to make me happy.
Especially when I just saved $95. on The Sopranos Complete Blu ray set, and have been watching all day since it's arrival, as happy as a fat kid locked in a candy shop overnight.
I've made it this far in life without owning WKRP, I believe I'll be okay for however long I have left.

 

I enjoyed a few episodes of the show, but the WHOLE series? Not sure if I'm that much of a fan. I know I mentioned something earlier about the musical content, but if I buy a series box, need to be a serious FAN of the show.

 

Three separate contracts, I believe: one for first-run network; one for syndication; one for home video. It's possible to get a deal for all three at one low, low price, but it takes a lot of negotiating to do. At least this is more common nowadays, because it's understood that shows will have a long life as downloads, streaming, DVD, Blu-ray, satellite, broadcast, whatever.

Note also that different people own the recording vs. owning the publishing, and it's always possible one will be open to negotiation and the other will ask for some absurdly high price. Or there's a contract where the artist has to approve the use of their songs, and they just nix the whole deal. Stranger things have happened. As one example, Jimi Hendrix' estate will not approve the use of any of his songs in any motion pictures or TV shows that have scenes involving drugs. Howard Stern has mentioned many times that he wanted to use "Purple Haze" for a scene in his movie where the college Howard was blitzed out of his mind on acid or pot or something, but the Hendrix estate totally killed that idea. Money was not the problem; context was the problem.

 

And yet Jimi's cover of All Along The Watchtower is used during a scene of procuring drugs in the 1991 film Rush.

 

Stern's movie was in 1994, so it's very possible they clamped down by then. There's also the possibility that people would just lie and say, "oh, no, we're going to use this song during a picnic, and there's no drugs at all," and then they just do what they want.

 

Jimi's cover of All Along The Watchtower is used in a drug-related scene in the (admittedly terrible) movie Land Of The Lost from 2009.

 

Well, no kidding. What's your point? I could go into many TV show threads and post the same thing, but I don't.

 

Do you buy everything because it's complete? Wish I had those resources. Sorry if I bothered your day......

 

Similarly, Peter Gabriel almost nixed the use of "In Your Eyes" in Say Anything because he got his movie requests mixed up and thought it was going to be used over a drug scene in the dire Belusi biomovie Wired.

 

What does this have to do with resources? I buy complete sets of shows I like. Shows where I "enjoyed a few episodes" I wouldn't even buy one season, even if I could print money. My point was why you would bother to go into a thread about a complete-series box and post that you don't like the show enough to buy it. So what?

 

Who died and left you boss? Others voiced their opinions and you pick mine? I never said I did not like the show, I watched it in the original run. Did you?

 

I think Planbee is saying why bother chiming in on a show that you don't care much about? There is nothing in his statement that expresses authority over you. It was a reasonable comment based on what you had said.

 

Thank you.