Re: Leave it to beaver season 3?
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| If Shout (or any company) would acquire "Beaver" (or any abandoned series) thinking it would be profitable for them, why wouldn't Universal think it would be profitable in the first place? |
Acceptable profit margins?
That would be my guess anyway. It's likely that Universal has a harder-to-obtain acceptable bottom-line profit for its product vs. Shout Factory, which might not set its sights so high.
That's just a guess.
BTW, something interesting regarding "Commentary Tracks" for the LITB DVDs came out of the Eddie/Lumpy interview at
Shokus Internet Radio:
Frank Bank ("The Lump") said that he and Ken Osmond ("Eddie"), and possibly other cast members too, were approached about doing Audio Commentary Tracks for Seasons 1 and 2 of LITB by Universal.
Incredibly, Frank also mentioned "Season 3" in this "Commentary" regard, which is pretty hard to believe, since Universal pulled the plug on The Beav after S.2. Although I think Frank might have just misunderstood host Stu Shostak in that "S.3" regard, but I'm not sure. Since everybody insisted upon talking at the same time and stepping on each other's comments throughout much of that radio program, it was difficult to decipher some of what was being said.
But, according to Frank Bank, since Universal refused to pay them a dime for their efforts, Frank (and apparently all others involved too) took a pass and declined to do the audio tracks.
Such a LITB Commentary Track would have been extremely unusual for Universal though (based on the TV-DVDs I have by that company). Because Universal's track record with its "Classic TV" titles has been to release them pretty much bare-bones, sans any Commentaries at all. Isn't this correct? Has Universal put Commentaries on ANY of its TV-on-DVD products? I certainly have none with any extras at all.
Anyway, that remark about Frank and Ken being asked to do a DVD commentary was rather surprising indeed. And surely Frank knew what he was saying. I doubt he was having a severe mental cramp when he said it. Although Ken Osmond, sitting right beside him, didn't say a word. He was totally silent about it.
Then, too, it seemed that "Lumpy" outtalked Edward W. Haskell by quite a large margin in that Shokus radio program.
