Until the day either Shout! Factory or StarVista/TimeLife clears all the copyrighted music and licences the DVD rights to all these shows I mentioned on top, these shows will remain locked up deep in the vaults of their respetcive studios.
I remember how much of a pain in the a.. it was to get an official release for MTVs Daria. When MTV had produced the show they had used pop music in lots of episodes, but only acquired the rights for broadcasting the show with these songs, not for home media releases. Back in those days home media releases of TV shows weren't as big as they were today, when almost every new show gets a DVD release, so MTV simply didn't bother. What made the relase possible in the end was that a lot of people wanted it, and MTV knew that (through online petitions for example). So MTV negotiated with the copyright owners of the music they used (mostly as background music), and when they couldn't they used completely different background music.
I can imagine that more shows have this problem and because the fanbase is quite small, they won't be released because it is simply too expensive to create entirely new music or pay the license fees to the copyright owners.
Look at Cold Case, Murphy Brown, Head of the Class, Drew Carey Show, Bernie Mac Show, Chicago Hope, New York Undercover, Clueless, American Dreams, Ed, & Malcolm in the Middle, they're all suffering from this curse, too. 😔
So it doesn't count. I'm trying to convince all these people to upload the super obscure E! specials & countdown shows from the 2000s on YouTube & Dailymotion
These are the following CHUM Media shows that are getting harder & harder to find full episodes of , especially online (P.S. I have seen all of these shows in its original runs):
Listed Uncovered SexTV Good Sex Guide Ooh La La Spotlight Star! Daily InFashion QT: Queer Television Star Treatment Tip of Our Tongue Nosedive HeatMeter ABC's of Rock CHUM Media promos CHUM Media viewer advisories
& many others. If you guys still have recorded VHS tapes of those obscure & rare CHUM Media show, promos, & viewer advisories, please upload them to either YouTube, Dailymotion, or Vimeo as soon as possible, so Canadian viewers will be able to relive their 2000s memories.,
Last Edit: Jan 28, 2017 11:32:39 GMT by disneyswan90
Boogies Diner is a very obscure-beyond-belief Canadian sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises (which was folded into 20th Television in 1998, after its parent company acquired Intentional Family Entertainment, which was the owner of MTM) which aired on WIC-owned stations across Canada (including CHCH Hamilton), on RTL2 in Germany, and on first-run syndication in the United States
The show, which also marked the acting debut of future X-Men star James Marsden, follows the account of 8 teens who work at the titular diner/mall hangout, which also features a music store and a clothing store.
Only the first 7-minutes of the show's prom episode as well as a 2 minute scene from the show and a promo for the show from November 1994 are the only remnants of the show's existence. All the full episodes have not been turned up anywhere online.
If anybody has the full episodes recorded from VHS tape, please upload them to YouTube or Dailymotion as soon as possible!
I found out that all of E!'s documentary specials outside of THS & their countdown poll specials from the 2000s are very hard to find online, especially full versions, & every time a YouTuber tries to upload said specials, the videos and their account gets deleted for copyright, as they're really strict when it comes to copyright law.
The only remnants of those specials' existence is its TVGuide.com page.
Does anybody still have VHS copies of those rare specials, so you can upload them to Dailymotion or Vimeo?