I'm not sure how many people here are subscribing to Joe Adalian's "Buffering" Newsletter from Vulture, but I find it a decent weekly read (https://nymag.com/newsletters/).
Anyway, I'd not seen this story mentioned in the group, so cutting and pasting: "It got lost a bit in the middle of the pandemic pandemonium, but Shout! last month also announced that it had acquired digital rights to the full 5,000-episode (!!!) library of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Dozens of episodes are now on Shout! Factory TV and Prime Video, along with many of the aforementioned platforms that will be streaming Burnett’s show [Pluto TV, Stirr, Twitch, YouTube, and Xumo]. These are the same episodes that have been airing on digital broadcaster Antenna TV for a few years now, and they’re mostly full-length. (Musical performances have mostly been cut, but Carson didn’t have nearly as much music on his NBC show.) They’re also called The Johnny Carson Show rather than The Tonight Show (probably because NBC owns the right to the name and is somehow worried folks will confuse Carson’s old show with the one now hosted by Jimmy Fallon). Right now, Prime Video has the largest collection of episodes (110 spread out over eight themed collections), but [Shout! Factory senior VP of programming and new business development Jeff] Peisch says his goal is to get as many as 600 episodes streaming at some point." This all comes after a piece talking about availability of the Carol Burnett Show on Amazon Prime. Adam -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGASUqcdPtjDHWuqpE64MXRsETQgMuKYx3%2BjCYwbOdfOYQ%40mail.gmail.com.
