It doesn't suprise me that the music industry wants huge amounts of money for the song rights in Ally McBeal. When is the music industry going to grow up?! Yes...the artist are entitled to royalties on their music and yes...the record companies are entitled to their cut, but hold back a TV series from release on DVD because of money....? Goes to figure, money drives the world. What the music companys are missing is that there are thousands of us Ally McBeal fans out here waiting for the release of this TV series in Region 1 format. Come on guys!! Let up a-bit and let us fans enjoy the TV series again.
September 8, 2008 |  | One of the best TV shows ever! |  |
Ally McBeal was my favorite TV show with exception of "I Love Lucy". However Lucy is still being played in reruns and has been for over fifty years.
I wish the studios and copyright people would realize the injustice of this delay on Ally release so I could purchase it and enjoy it again. Hey, not only would it make me happy and thousands of others but is would generate the greedy uppers their precious millions of dollars. Come on and get with the program and give us Ally McBeal back to laugh and cry with. Thanks for letting me get that out!
August 15, 2008 | | I really hope they release this on DVD | |
I would love to watch this show again on DVD. They were just freakin' funny. I especially love the 4th season when Ally's love interest Larry was played by none other than Ironman himself, Robert Downey Jr. That was the show's best season.
I loved all the characters in this show, Richard Fish and John Cage, Ally's roommate Renee, Ling and Nelle. The quirky cases, the unisex bathroom and heck even Mariah Carey's little cameo in Season 5 was hilarious. They were all great. So c'mon powers that be, release this on DVD already, please.
July 23, 2008 | | Music Licensing is the devil! | |
Music licensing issues are holding back the release of the DVD for the Ally McBeal series. The cost of implementing the episodes as is - with all the music intact - would be astronomical just because of the ridiculously expensive song rights they'd have to pay for. So, rather than service the fans, the network is trying to keep its costs down since I'm sure they've done a cost-profit analysis and found it wanting. Which is fine and practical for them, but very, very unpleasant for viewers. Sure, a couple episodes are available... but that only feeds the rage at not being able to watch the WHOLE season. There's this gut feeling that the network doesn't love its viewers much - or at all.
July 4, 2008| | | Will it ever be available...? | |
I guess only time will tell if the U.S. will ever see the glory that several other countries currently can. According to Wikipedia on 2/09/08, "Due to music rights issues, the first complete season of Ally McBeal has not been made available on DVD in the United States (only 6 random episodes can be found on the R1 edition, Ally McBeal - Ally on Sex and the Single Life)"
I know this doesn't really help matters, but at least there is a reason we haven't seen it around yet.
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