20th Century Fox Home Entertainment came out with starter sets for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 24, The Pretender, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show yesterday-- 2 to 4 hour collections of episodes from the first season, priced to move at $9.99.
Fox has been incredibly aggressive in adopting the DVD model as a revenue source, and it's been hugely popular and profitable (according to Adams Media Research, revenue from three seasons of "24" on DVD had
generated $72.1 million and six seasons of "Buffy" on DVD totaled
$123.3 million in revenue by the end of 2004) and even led to the revival of Family Guy and Firefly. I look forward to seeing if this continues the trend.
DVD starter kits
Posted Mar 23rd 2005 2:34PM by Glenn Hauman
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD, 24
Tags: Buffy+The+Vampire+Slayer, BuffyTheVampireSlayer, The+Mary+Tyler+Moore+Show, The+Pretender, TheMaryTylerMooreShow, ThePretender
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6-16-2005 @ 4:13PM
Belgand said...
The Firefly movie, Serenity, while a great and wonderful thing also means that the show is totally and utterly dead. One of the conditions for the film (as it is being done by a different studio) is that the show cannot come back. Quite frankly this really sucks, but makes sense as neither side wants to end up helping the other. The losers, as always, are the fans.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:13PM
Roger Rees said...
Wait...Firefly got renewed???
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6-16-2005 @ 4:13PM
Michael Pinckney said...
There making a movie.
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