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post #151 of 197
3/18/08 at 10:46am

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Any hope for Season 2 of Maude?
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post #152 of 197
3/18/08 at 11:56am

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More Maude would be nice. But being a Sony show who knows when or if we'll ever see another season of it or quite a few other of their unfinished shows.
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post #153 of 197
3/18/08 at 11:59am

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By my estimation it will come out sometime in 2011.
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post #154 of 197
3/18/08 at 12:02pm

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My Season 1 is still in the plastic. But not for long. Luckily I have All in the Family Season 6 still wrapped in plastic too. ...and Mary Hartman Mary Hartman...and seasons 4-6 Good Times, still wrapped in plastic. I'm in it for the long haul, but I will get totally impatient one day.
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post #155 of 197
3/18/08 at 12:16pm

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I think it is really a shame they stopped at Season 1. This was a great series and ground-breaking, and my favorite episodes were yet to come with the new house-keeper Mrs. Nagatuck from Ireland, who played one of the maids in Mary Poppins. I don't think Sony is going to continue the series, it's been a year now since the 1st season.

The studios are all talking about the yearly declining sales of dvd now for the last 2 years, all they have to do is release more content that people want. I know mastering and pressing costs money, but I can't believe this series didn't sell fairly well, sure it was no Star Trek but I am sure it was not on the bottom of the list either. Darn it anyway! I really want the entire series.
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post #156 of 197
3/18/08 at 3:15pm

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There could be a number of reasons why it hasn't come out. One is restructuring at SPHE, another is that Blu-Ray could have taken up resources that may have otherwise gone towards TV shows.
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post #157 of 197
3/18/08 at 3:21pm

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The fact that a second release hasn't come out doesn't mean much. It takes forever between AITF sets. And Maude is likely even less of a priority. Plus I doubt that it sold well. It's not a brand-new show, it's smart, funny & intelligent. Therefore it's dead in the water. How many wonderful, mature shows have come out and not sold well ? A lot of them.
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post #158 of 197
3/19/08 at 9:16pm

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Yet another stalled Sony show. Come on, Sony, get your asses in gear!
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post #159 of 197
3/19/08 at 9:23pm

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Originally Posted by Shawn_Sm
Yet another stalled Sony show. Come on, Sony, get your asses in gear!

I am wondering if it is stalled or that was it....because I read a story in Variety Daily magazine and they talked about the studios releasing tv dvd, and one quoted comment from Sony was that many of these shows only need the first season and that seems to make fans happy enough. I couldn't believe what I was reading, but then again, I could believe it.
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post #160 of 197
3/19/08 at 10:23pm

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You know one of the things that is difficult for a TV DVD collector is to decide which company is the most heinous and should be despised the most. Fox has always been and will continue to be at the top of my list but Sony, Warner and Universal take turns doing their best to compete with Fox for the title of worst company. Lately Sony has been doing a great job competing for the title.
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post #161 of 197
3/20/08 at 5:26am

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Yeah, Sony stinks. First they surprise us by bringing a season of Maude out and then that's probably it. Worse is the fact that they've gone deep into All in the Family and it too is stuck. Facts of Life shows no signs of life either.
And The Rookies is probably dead forever. Come on Sony-you defeated HD-DVD. Now show your happiness at your victory by continuing these shows!

Or are they going to make us go Blu Ray in order to continue these shows?
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post #162 of 197
3/20/08 at 7:09am

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Maybe Conrad Bain owes them money. They haven't done much with his other series.
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post #163 of 197
3/20/08 at 8:58am

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Shows Sony has stopped/abandoned:

Family
The Rookies
Police Woman
Here Come the Brides
SWAT
All in the Family
Maude
Mad About You (again)
I Dream of Jeannie
The Partridge Family

Also they announced one of my all-time favorite series, Bridget Loves Bernie, and then pulled it from release. I know it was written that some big shot left the company and that's why nothing has come out. But that was, what, 10 months ago? What kind of company stops dead in it's tracks for a year due to one person's departure?
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post #164 of 197
3/20/08 at 11:52am

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I'm starting to think they were only seriously interested in Seinfeld and King of Queens and put some token older shows out just to make it look the opposite.

Paramount isn't perfect but they seem to be respected just for getting stuff out at all.
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post #165 of 197
3/20/08 at 8:37pm

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Originally Posted by Hank Dearborn
Shows Sony has stopped/abandoned:

Family
The Rookies
Police Woman
Here Come the Brides
SWAT
All in the Family
Maude
Mad About You (again)
I Dream of Jeannie
The Partridge Family
You can add Charlie's Angels and The Jeffersons to that list.A lot of these shows should have been completed by now.I wonder if they would if they were owned by another studio.
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post #166 of 197
3/20/08 at 9:45pm

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Shows Sony has stopped/abandoned:


I Dream of Jeannie


Where did you hear this news? Seeing as there is just one more season to complete the series plus the movie coming out in 2010, I can't see them abandoning this w/one season left, hell Bewitched keeps coming at us.
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post #167 of 197
3/21/08 at 8:54am

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According to sales pamphlets that were included with the recent Barney Miller S2 release, IDOJ S5 is "coming soon," along with S3 of Just Shoot Me.
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post #168 of 197
3/23/08 at 11:53am

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Add Mary Hartman Mary Hartman to the list
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post #169 of 197
3/23/08 at 1:36pm

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Maude was the first show I ever bought where going in, I never thought there was a real chance of the second season coming out. It simply hasn't been in syndication enough for today's audience to buy it.
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post #170 of 197
3/23/08 at 3:59pm

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Originally Posted by Paul Miller
Maude was the first show I ever bought where going in, I never thought there was a real chance of the second season coming out. It simply hasn't been in syndication enough for today's audience to buy it.

That does surprise me, that channels like Lifetime never ran this series. It was on TV land for a few times but they only ran the first season, and then they had a weekend of Maude where they ran a later season but that was it.
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post #171 of 197
3/23/08 at 4:38pm

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I'm guessing "Benson" can be added to the list, as well.
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post #172 of 197
3/23/08 at 7:16pm

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wouldn't it be easier to list the series that Sony finished....

Soap
and?
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post #173 of 197
3/23/08 at 7:49pm

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The studios are complaining that their revenue stream from dvd has gotten smaller every year, and that tv dvd is the one area of profit, I read it every week in Variety, Home Media Retailing, Video Business....so I just don't understand Sony's tv-dvd history.
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post #174 of 197
3/25/08 at 6:01pm

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Originally Posted by Corey3rd
wouldn't it be easier to list the series that Sony finished....

Soap
and?
sad. funny! but sad too.

I love how they skipped right over remaining seasons of aitf and put out a Archie Bunker's Place. What the hell was that? Certainly want that show...but later! AFter I've completed my aitf set.
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post #175 of 197
3/25/08 at 7:48pm

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Seeing this list of Sony-abandoned series really does show how badly they suck at the TV-on-DVD thing. Their "one and done" mentality steams me. You'd think a recent show like "Dharma and Greg" could get a complete release by now. They're a bunch of blooming idiots.
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post #176 of 197
3/25/08 at 8:50pm

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Dharma and Greg is a Fox property, and they're just as bad if not worse.

They did finish some pre-1990s shows: Sanford and Son, Good Times, What's Happening, Soap, and Starsky & Hutch; but to say they did a bang-up job on any of them is an overstatement. They did a lousy job with the final season of Soap.

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I love how they skipped right over remaining seasons of aitf and put out a Archie Bunker's Place. What the hell was that? Certainly want that show...but later! AFter I've completed my aitf set.

And I think it's odd how they put season 3 on hulu.com, skipping over season 2 and the one episode most people will want to see: Edith's Death. I agree they should have waited, and since they screwed up part 1 of the hour-long pilot (which is available uncut to watch at the Museum of Television and Radio). Hulu also has The Facts of Life...minisodes...all with George Clooney.

Sony must be the Japanese word for clueless.
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post #177 of 197
2/12/09 at 12:00pm

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I had to import the R4 Aus release of Dharma & Greg Season 2, and superb is it too!

Maude season 2 would go down well, come on Sony, you filmed extras about two years ago with both Barbeau and Bea for another season...
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post #178 of 197
2/12/09 at 2:51pm

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Love this show but I'm guessing the first season went the way of so many other intelligent, older sitcoms and didn't sell very well. I'm betting the show is dead in the water. That's bad enough but it's rarely even shown in syndication, either.
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post #179 of 197
2/12/09 at 4:44pm

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Originally Posted by Hank Dearborn
Shows Sony has stopped/abandoned:

Family
The Rookies
Police Woman
Here Come the Brides
SWAT
All in the Family
Maude
Mad About You (again)
I Dream of Jeannie
The Partridge Family

Also they announced one of my all-time favorite series, Bridget Loves Bernie, and then pulled it from release. I know it was written that some big shot left the company and that's why nothing has come out. But that was, what, 10 months ago? What kind of company stops dead in it's tracks for a year due to one person's departure?

You can add "One Day at a Time" to Sony's Hall of Shame.

I would also love to see more "Maude", but I think part of the problem with Sony and Fox and all the big studios is that they are huge bloated bureaucracies, which means that when they release a show on DVD, every part of that bureaucracy has to get involved. That equals big overhead costs that means that any DVD release has to see VERY WELL for them to make a profit. At this point, the best hope for seeing more Maude on DVD is to contact the smaller independent companies, like Shout Factory, and to ask them POLITELY to consider licensing the show from Sony. Smaller companies can produce DVDs for less money, so older series like Maude can sell less well than say a "Scrubs" and still turn a profit.
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post #180 of 197
2/12/09 at 6:24pm

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I'm surprised there's so much interest in this series. I was a little too conservative to enjoy it much, though I enjoy the All in the Family episodes she appears in where she's bugging Archie all the time, which is the series her character originated from I believe.

I suspect we probably won't see more of this series (How many seasons did it run for?), but I hope for the fans that it eventually is completely released.
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