"2010, I think. We don't know how long we've been off the air."
September 04
2009
No more Buffy seasons 2 and 3 on Hulu.
Season 3 is being removed on October 2, Season 2 on October 16.
Maratanos
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-DED- | September 04, 17:05 CET
@theonetruebix | September 04, 17:10 CET
Maratanos | September 04, 17:12 CET
Sunfire | September 04, 17:13 CET
[ edited by The One True b!X on 2009-09-05 02:30 ]
@theonetruebix | September 04, 17:30 CET
Bummer.
BrownCoat_Tabz | September 04, 17:36 CET
AngelDiva | September 04, 17:36 CET
would indicate to me that may think that they are being
over generous and (imo) that this is hurting some other
revenue stream such as DVD sales.
[ edited by JDL on 2009-09-05 03:21 ]
JDL | September 04, 17:41 CET
RavenU | September 04, 18:56 CET
I'm guessing they just think they can get more out of DVDs than from the online ads.
snakebyte | September 04, 19:08 CET
My sister will not be pleased. Neither will I, because she'll be borrowing my DVDs all the time now. Also, watching on Hulu was how I got into the series and if I'd only been able to see season 1, I doubt I'd have really come to love it the way I have. (Anecdotal evidence, whee!)
Rachelkachel | September 04, 19:08 CET
@theonetruebix | September 04, 19:08 CET
Really hope it has nothing to do with the current "oh anything that is vampire we must definitely define our ownership of!" trend, because of twinkly little Twilight (not the S8 villain, the tween flick).
Willowy | September 04, 19:26 CET
What I don't understand is why the seasons are being pulled in this nonsensically reversed timeline? Oh wait--is it so people will have more time to finish season 2 and want to see 3 enough to buy DVDs?
Maeve | September 04, 19:36 CET
I can also dig rotating seasons around. Take down 1-3, put up 4, wait a while, take down 4 and put up 5. Or, maybe they could just focus on getting the first seasons of more shows, and stick with that as an introductory thing, and keep it to a most recent 5 episodes if the show is still airing. Or... well, there's a lot of ways they could do it that would allow people to get introduced and hooked, and to see newly aired episodes without hurting DVD sales.
Space is unlikely to be the issue, but bandwidth sure is. Perhaps gradually advertisers will throw more money at web content when they realize the audience is growing so fast the providers can't serve it up fast enough AND they're likely to re-watch the shows with your ads, too! Bonus!
JadeGordon | September 04, 19:42 CET
So we're really going to see the lines of the Internet and television blur in the next couple of years. So it would be cool for services like Hulu not to cut off old content, so that it can really become tv on demand.
As for the cause, I'm guessing it's more likely issues with musical rights. Buffy was always had quite the soundtrack featuring some of the coolest bands of the day, some who may have more restricting Internet rights.
Matt_Fabb | September 04, 20:58 CET
It's that way for all shows-- Arrested Development is doing the same thing (their seasons are also being removed in reverse order. Weird). House periodically puts up and takes down episodes too. So I really don't think it's a "Buffy's being taken down!" thing. Other seasons will probably pop up eventually and they'll be taken down after a period of months too, and Fox will probably get some DVD sales from it.
Do you want to know something really funny/sad, though? Go to the Firefly show page and look at the order of the episodes.
Hulu has them in the wrong order too. Lol =/
dispatch | September 04, 21:29 CET
@theonetruebix | September 04, 21:35 CET
Yes there's nothing on the site that states why the episodes are going (though one could speculate). So I've tweaked the headline to avoid any potential misunderstanding.
Simon | September 04, 22:11 CET
gossi | September 04, 22:47 CET
@theonetruebix | September 04, 22:49 CET
It's probably just DVD related, then.
gossi | September 04, 22:51 CET
Simon | September 04, 23:57 CET
Saje | September 05, 00:23 CET
Jaymii | September 05, 04:37 CET
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caeli | September 05, 07:48 CET
@theonetruebix | September 05, 09:54 CET
edcsLover9 | September 05, 10:12 CET
I hate Hulu and Crackle and anything else that blocks off canada.
Lockescythe | September 05, 14:28 CET
jiggyfly | September 05, 15:12 CET
[ edited by guardian_owl on 2009-09-06 02:29 ]
guardian_owl | September 05, 17:30 CET
Seems like they're forgoing revenue, not making it. Then again... I don't have the numbers they're looking at. But I can say without Hulu, they're not making MORE money from me on that series.
azzers | September 06, 08:56 CET