Fall Television Shows on iTunes, including NBC

[gburbidge]

Hey All,

I waited too long? Does anyone know why the Chuck season pass is no longer available? I decided I really liked the pilot, so I was going to get a season pass but it's not up there anymore, now it's the single episodes.

I'd like to get passes to big shots and dirty sexy money too but neither of those shows have hit itunes. Oddly, Private Practice hasn't gone up there even though grey's anatomy does so well in the store. Anyways, anyone have any ideas what happened to the chuck season pass?

I'd prefer to hear from the people who comments tend towards different studios make different results, rather than that "nbc is trying to screw itunes with new material" type posts.

 

[jeejeebu]

The only thing I can think of is that maybe iTunes is waiting to see if there really will be a full season (in general, not just available to iTunes) to offer season passes? I checked several new shows and none of them have the season pass option.

 

[Peace]

I'm guessing NBC bought the rights from Warner Entertainment.Thus no more season pass.

Just like Journeyman.It's currently being shown on the SciFi Network so it's destined to be dropped by NBC and they don't care about that since NBC gets a lot more revenue from commercials through prime time networks than they do through SciFi channel..

This is ALL about commercial exposure and NBC's "I've got a big one" mentality .Plain and simple.

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It could also be because NBC has decided to air all episodes on NBC and Apple doesn't want to sell a season pass when they know they can't fulfill the obligation.

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[jeejeebu]

I'm guessing NBC bought the rights from Warner Entertainment.Thus no more season pass.

Not likely.

Plus, My Name is Earl has a season pass. I think it's most likely that iTunes is waiting to see which new shows actually get full season orders to offer season passes.

 

[Peace]

Not likely.

Plus, My Name is Earl has a season pass. I think it's most likely that iTunes is waiting to see which new shows actually get full season orders to offer season passes.

My Name Is Earl is a 20th Century Fox Production.It doesn't belong to NBC.

Warner Brothers produces Chuck. and has had close ties to Universal over the years.

 

[jeejeebu]

My Name Is Earl is a 20th Century Fox Production.It doesn't belong to NBC.

Warner Brothers produces Chuck. and has had close ties to Universal over the years.

Therefore Chuck does not belong to NBC either. No new shows have season passes available.

 

[artalliance]

Just like Journeyman.It's currently being shown on the SciFi Network so it's destined to be dropped by NBC and they don't care about that since NBC gets a lot more revenue from commercials through prime time networks than they do through SciFi channel..
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SciFi Network is owned by NBC/Universal, so NBC is using SciFi as a repeat platform for all their new SciFi-themed shows like Journeyman and Bionic Woman. They did the same thing last year with Heros.

 

[JeffDM]

It is a little bit the other way around. NBC had no intentions of pulling content before December but Apple came out and said "screw you!". Basically saying no content at all unless we come to an agreement, which they haven't...yet

The public statements were probably little more than sleazy negotiation tactics, the negotiations don't go your way, you complain to the public. And they both spoon feed the public so little information that the impression they give is probably the opposite of what's really going on.

NBC.com has the new full episode of Heroes. You can always just watch it there.

That's hardly the ideal thing for everyone. And you have to watch it on your computer on a stable high speed internet service. If you're poaching WiFi or even legitimately using a WiFi signal on the go that happens to be weak, you might not be able to do that, however, if you've downloaded it, you just play the file in your player or notebook without buffering problems, dropped or corrupted frames. The plans I've heard about is that after a week, NBC quits hosting it, so you have to keep up rather than allowing you to catch up. That's not good for NBC either because a person that's not allowed to catch up to the current episode may as not watch current episodes either.

 

[jeejeebu]

That's hardly the ideal thing for everyone. And you have to watch it on your computer on a stable high speed internet service. If you're poaching WiFi or even legitimately using a WiFi signal on the go that happens to be weak, you might not be able to do that, however, if you've downloaded it, you just play the file in your player or notebook without buffering problems, dropped or corrupted frames. The plans I've heard about is that after a week, NBC quits hosting it, so you have to keep up rather than allowing you to catch up. That's not good for NBC either because a person that's not allowed to catch up to the current episode may as not watch current episodes either.

NBC is actually going to launch a new download site for their shows. You have to download with ["limited"] commercials and I believe there is something about the download expiring after two days, so you can always have the "freshest" commercials. But it does allow offline viewing and I believe episodes will stay up for more than a week. They are supposed to launch sometime in October. And, of course, it's free.

Edit: Also, I believe they are planning on eventually having iPod formatted shows avaiable, but probably not right away.