Well...I'm finally getting back into this show. And I finally realized how much I miss this show. I used to watch this every Sunday night. So after watching a new episode last night of the show...I was like. I should go buy the seasons. Then I check Best Buy and I find Season One and that's it. I also noticed it was released in 2003. It's 2007 now. So I'm like
What about the other seasons? And I found this
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Malcolm in the Middle - Season 2 (plus Other Shows) Hamstrung by Music Clearances
Posted by David Lambert
11/30/2003
After the quick post-broadcast release of the first season of Malcolm In The Middle, Fox Home Entertainment looked forward to releasing The Complete Second Season on DVD as well. In fact, plans were originally made to have that set in consumer hands before 2003 was over.
So why the delay? The answer is given by Randy Salas, DVD Columnist and Entertainment Wire Editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In his new article today, "Facing The Music: Legal Hurdles Can Keep TV Shows From Coming Out On DVD", Salas explains that music rights costs can affect more recent shows than WKRP In Cincinnati or Beverly Hill 90210:
'Malcolm' in a muddle
Even current shows can be problematic. Last year, Fox released a three-disc set of the first season of "Malcolm in the Middle," a show that debuted in 2000. The set sold well enough to merit a second-season release, but higher costs to clear the music have so far scuttled the project, (Fox Senior V.P. Peter) Staddon said.
The article discusses how only the most recent TV series took into account the idea of clearing music for DVD and other home video uses at the same time as clearing it for broadcast, and that anything previous to a few years ago (the start of DVD's mass-market era) can run into this kind of trouble. "When they were creating these shows, they didn't pay for stuff they weren't going to use," TVShowsOnDVD owner Gord Lacey is quoted as saying. "Now it's coming back to bite them."
To learn more about this issue, which can possibly affect anyone's favorite shows (including how much you pay for them), we encourage you to read Randy Salas' excellent article in its entirety (free registration may be required).
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Right when I was getting excited to buy all the seasons I had to read this. I'm very very very very very mad and depressed now. Why would they release one season and end it there? Like...are they that in debt? Xena and Hercules and Futurama and Full House and Charmed and other shows got all thier seasons out on DVD why not this? There is no excuse....
Now I don't think I'm going to bother with this. I might just buy it since it's 20 bucks and all but seriously....They need to release the rest. What season are they on now? 4? 5? maybe 6? I really don't know. I kind of forgot about the show since 2003ish. I think it's a lot of Bull that they don't release more TV shows. Like Power Rangers? That show would be a hit on DVD. I plan on buying Seasons 1 through 8. I love those seasons. But yet we haven't seen them! According to what I've read from that article....they don't have enough money. Like I remember reading that Xena and Hercules came close to not releasing the last seasons because of sales issues but thankfully they came out.
Let's all protest now!! We want our shows out on DVD. I also saw a Petiton for Season 2 of MOTM somewhere over the internet, but it probably won't do much. Well if we are very lucky they'll think about releasing S2 and everything else after that on DVD.