Re: [TV orNotTV] Hulu says g'day to Neighbours
I also want to think it was on Trio before it was rejiggered as Sleuth... or Cloo... or whatever the devil NBCU is calling it these days. ~D Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: Third time around in the States for Neighbours--it was tested in NY and LA in the late 80s (along with Desperate Women, an Americanization of original producer Grundy's Prisoner Cell Block H) and bombed. Oxygen back when Oprah and Gerry Laybourne were still involved tried about ten years ago briefly. Aussie soaps have had a hard time of it in the States--after the initial ratings spikes, Prisoner struck out once the episodes with Frankie Doyle, TV's first out lesbian, were aired, Home and Away barely lasted a year on the first incarnation of FX--excuse me, fX, and Norman Lear wanted to syndicate The Sullivans in the U.S. and got no takers--the series finally aired years later on the non-evangelical religious channel VISN (which, in many strange turns of events, is now the Hallmark Channel). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote: Today kicks off the streaming of the Australian soap on Hulu. Just in time, too, as the American judge on Channel Ten’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (Paula Abdul) will soon be dropping in on Ramsay Street. http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/hulu-acquires-exclusive-u-s-rights-to-australian-soap-neighbours-1201258585/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Hulu says g'day to Neighbours
I imagine that this isn't really costing Hulu a great deal since the programme's costs are already covered by Australia, and particularly the British sales. So even allowing for a subtle resetting of the storylines to let new viewers in, the market for the show is limited and even a very modest fee from Hulu makes sense. Because Hulu/Netflix/Amazon don't really have to worry about ratings, there's an interesting model here that could mean that some very niche overseas programming could be sold to on-demand services for very modest returns. A few extra dollars for a show that was never going to be sold to a network, and a few viewers for whom Hulu or whoever suddenly become essential. I know The Long Tail has been proved wrong in some cases, but there is some truth in it. I know it's going off-air soon, but it would have cemented by subscription to whichever streaming service in the UK had offered The Colbert Report, because nobody offers it here (OK - I can *buy* it on iTunes). Adam On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:03 PM, chia...@nc.rr.com wrote: I also want to think it was on Trio before it was rejiggered as Sleuth... or Cloo... or whatever the devil NBCU is calling it these days. ~D Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: Third time around in the States for Neighbours--it was tested in NY and LA in the late 80s (along with Desperate Women, an Americanization of original producer Grundy's Prisoner Cell Block H) and bombed. Oxygen back when Oprah and Gerry Laybourne were still involved tried about ten years ago briefly. Aussie soaps have had a hard time of it in the States--after the initial ratings spikes, Prisoner struck out once the episodes with Frankie Doyle, TV's first out lesbian, were aired, Home and Away barely lasted a year on the first incarnation of FX--excuse me, fX, and Norman Lear wanted to syndicate The Sullivans in the U.S. and got no takers--the series finally aired years later on the non-evangelical religious channel VISN (which, in many strange turns of events, is now the Hallmark Channel). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote: Today kicks off the streaming of the Australian soap on Hulu. Just in time, too, as the American judge on Channel Ten’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (Paula Abdul) will soon be dropping in on Ramsay Street. http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/hulu-acquires-exclusive-u-s-rights-to-australian-soap-neighbours-1201258585/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email
[TV orNotTV] Hulu says g'day to Neighbours
Today kicks off the streaming of the Australian soap on Hulu. Just in time, too, as the American judge on Channel Ten's So You Think You Can Dance (Paula Abdul) will soon be dropping in on Ramsay Street. http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/hulu-acquires-exclusive-u-s-rights-to-a ustralian-soap-neighbours-1201258585/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Hulu says g'day to Neighbours
Third time around in the States for Neighbours--it was tested in NY and LA in the late 80s (along with Desperate Women, an Americanization of original producer Grundy's Prisoner Cell Block H) and bombed. Oxygen back when Oprah and Gerry Laybourne were still involved tried about ten years ago briefly. Aussie soaps have had a hard time of it in the States--after the initial ratings spikes, Prisoner struck out once the episodes with Frankie Doyle, TV's first out lesbian, were aired, Home and Away barely lasted a year on the first incarnation of FX--excuse me, fX, and Norman Lear wanted to syndicate The Sullivans in the U.S. and got no takers--the series finally aired years later on the non-evangelical religious channel VISN (which, in many strange turns of events, is now the Hallmark Channel). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote: Today kicks off the streaming of the Australian soap on Hulu. Just in time, too, as the American judge on Channel Ten’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (Paula Abdul) will soon be dropping in on Ramsay Street. http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/hulu-acquires-exclusive-u-s-rights-to-australian-soap-neighbours-1201258585/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
