Punky brewster season 4 question - Page 2

Tory · 04-23-2007, 02:33 PM

http://www.shoutfactory.com/community/210/thread.aspx

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We're actually not planning on releasing the remainder of Punky Brewster via single discs. We're releasing the previous box sets as singles, for those that didn't want the initial box sets.

this was posted by B Ward who is Producer/Manager, DVD & Home Video at Shout Factory and the go to guy there.

Tony Zannikos · 04-23-2007, 03:01 PM

Well,I guess that means we wont be seeing season 4 this summer.

MatthewA · 04-23-2007, 05:00 PM

Whom do they think are going to buy the single disc releases? The majority of people who want this show have probably already bought seasons 1-3, and if they were waiting, they would spend less money buying the season sets ($9.99 each for 4 discs a season versus an MSRP of $34.95, which can be had online for as low as $20.95).

The fans want season 4. We do not want single-disc reissues of stuff we already have.

Between this and the recent revelation that the Ozzie and Harriet DVD set is made up of the same syndicated tapes the Disney Channel aired in the 1980s, I'm really starting to lose patience with Shout! Factory.

Scott_J · 04-23-2007, 11:32 PM

Who are they marketing the single-disc releases to? The same people who buy "best ofs" of shows like The Simpsons, Married ... With Children, The Brady Bunch, The Andy Griffith Show, etc., instead of the season sets. People who just want a few episodes of the show for nostalgia purposes, or whatever, instead of complete seasons.

Does that include most of the people on HTF or similar forums? No. Does that include the average Best Buy or Wal-Mart shopper who sees a $5-10 single disc of Punky near a $30 season set and buys the former? Certainly. That is who Shout! is expecting to buy the new releases.

Am I happy to see them going this route instead of completing the seasons? No, but I can understand them doing it, from a financial standpoint? Absolutely - get the sales of the casual viewers/impulse buyers who don't want to plunk down $30 for a season-one set.

MatthewA · 06-13-2007, 02:50 AM

Sorry to bump such an old thread, but Shout responded:

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The first season is being broken out into volumes, for those parents and fans that have no desire to purchase season sets.

There are no immediate plans for the fourth season's release, but it's constantly on our radar and we've never stopped discussing it. That's a good sign. The truth is, when we released the first two seasons, we were SLAMMED with emails and phonecalls requesting that we secure the rights to the final two seasons. Once we did, and released Season 3, we were stunned by how few sets it actually sold. This, in no way, has anything to do with our not releasing Season 4, but we're not moving it to the top of our list, as a result either.

I do believe you'll see Punky Brewster: Season 4 released sooner than later.

Brian

Well considering having to go thru Universal (the original licensing deal was made before GE bought Universal), no advertising, no difference in cover photo between seasons despite Punky's S3 hairstyle change, minimal extras on S3, and Heaven knows where they got the masters (season 1 had picture glitches, season 2 had distorted sound, and season 3 seemed to have overdone DVNR rendering wide shots rather soft and removing detail), there is a glimmer of hope.

Just be glad Fox doesn't own it. Fox apparently is apathetic to the existence of any pre-1990 TV programming that doesn't have Alan Alda in it.

Tony Zannikos · 06-13-2007, 06:57 AM

Thanks for updating us Matt,Im hoping we will see it by end of year. I just hope, they dont use the new best ofs sales , as an excuse to not release season 4.I know I certainly wont be buying them since I have the whole 3 seasons.Seriously , when they decide to release season 4, they better get 1 of the cast members for an interview.If they dont I bet this will sell even less than season3 .Lets not forget , many consider this the worst season of the show.Ill get it for completions sake, and that I hardly remember anything in this season.

MatthewA · 06-13-2007, 01:25 PM

If it does sell poorly, what are they going to do, not release the non-existent season 5? Repossess our copies of it? If they want it to break even, try buying TV ad space on children's TV networks like Nickelodeon and Noggin, or anything nostalgia-oriented like TV Land. People can't buy what they don't know exists. The people who make TV show DVDs are going to have to start taking more chances with these things. It's been less than five years since we started seeing shows get DVD released (and I never expected Punky to be one of them), and they've already become ossified in their thinking.

IMO I thought season 4 was about on par with season 3 in terms of quality, but I'm glad the show ended before it could see a long protracted decline like other series.

John*P · 06-15-2007, 03:02 AM

I'm not sure I buy the whole "sales of Season 3 have nothing to do with why we haven't released Season 4" talk from Shout! If sales had met their expectations, we'd probably be getting Season 4 released on DVD next month instead of the lame single-disc volumes. Also, since Shout! has been releasing one Punky DVD set each year for the past 3 years, I'm worried that these single-disc volumes may be the only Punky DVDs they release this year... (I hope they prove me wrong) Well, at least the post from Shout! has a somewhat optimistic tone, and I'm now expecting Season 4 to be released eventually...

I agree that Season 4 is on par with Season 3 quality-wise.

Tony Zannikos · 07-12-2007, 11:25 AM

Well, it seems those best of punky volume 1 -6 were cancelled on amazon.com, it says no longer available.I cant say im suprised, because the majority of punky fans have the 3 seasons released.Now they need to release season 4 already !!!!!!!!

Tory · 07-12-2007, 11:37 AM

If they could release season 4, there would probably be some holdouts for the first 3 seasons finally getting all seasons in one swoop for the assurance of two complete series. Perhaps they could collect them all in a collectible Punky Brewster Bust.