It is just poor planning for the delivering of the reboot of "Mad About You" that the series will only be available via a limited cable television service to which many people may not even have a chance to subscribe, to say nothing of the fact (but I shall) that it would cost an additional $100+ to subscribe to this Spectrum service, on top of whatever other utility bills a person may already have, including one's already-established cable TV service.
Also, the "Mad About You" reboot is, out of the gate, going to have an older demographic viewing it. So it really doesn't require any more impediments to further limit its viewership. Just ask the producers and entertainers who were involved in the miserable failure that was the "Murphy Brown" reboot, about how successful older viewers watching older actors may be. But that reboot at least had going for it that it aired on an over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV network, namely CBS.
So my advice to fans of "Mad About You" who would really wish to watch the reboot but can't or won't shelve out $100+ per month to do so, is to wait until episodes are available on a DVD set, assuming that happens, which would make sense for the older fans of the series, that it also be available in a 20th Century viewing format. Either that or link up with some viewer, perhaps via a Craigslist ad (which still exits for non-adult personals), who has a Spectrum subscription and trade with that person from your own video collection in exchange for the person recording (with a DVR device or software) the 12 episodes of Season 8 of "Mad About You." It is stil perfectly legal to record off-air with a DVR or VCR (if one still has one of those antiquated 20th Century video-recording devices) for personal use, so long as no profit is being obtained for video. That is why a fair trade of one video for another video is allowed, but paying for a DVR/VCR recording to another person is not.
Lastly, of course the logical question is why the original distributor of "Mad About You" would not wish to also air its reboot? And unless I am mistaken, "The Peacock Network" isn't exactly fighting off its viewers with sticks these days, so many years is it now removed from its heyday of "Must See" viewing, which involved such other bygone series' as "Cheers," "Seinfeld," "Frasier" and "Friends." And given the relative success of the "Will & Grace" reboot, one would think NBC might have at least considered taking a chance on another of its past successful series'. The fact NBC passed on a "Mad About You" reboot means probably it couldn't or wouldn't meet the exorbitant salary demands of Paul Reiser and/or Helen Hunt, and also possibly that NBC feared the viewer demographic would skew too old and too thin to warrant the investment. NBC may also have looked upon the failure of Reiser's eponymous 2011 NBC series as a barometer of how the fan base would be for even a "Mad About You" reboot.
It has been awhile since the original series was widely available in broadcast syndication. Still, if old fans were not willing to shelve out extra $$ to see older-but-proven episodes of a favorite TV series on a streaming platform (such as Hulu or Netflix), unlikely those fans would be willing to pay extra funds for an added cable TV bill either to see untried new episodes of that once-favorite series. So I guess it remains to be seen just how mad about "Mad About You" its old fans really are.
Also, the "Mad About You" reboot is, out of the gate, going to have an older demographic viewing it. So it really doesn't require any more impediments to further limit its viewership. Just ask the producers and entertainers who were involved in the miserable failure that was the "Murphy Brown" reboot, about how successful older viewers watching older actors may be. But that reboot at least had going for it that it aired on an over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV network, namely CBS.
So my advice to fans of "Mad About You" who would really wish to watch the reboot but can't or won't shelve out $100+ per month to do so, is to wait until episodes are available on a DVD set, assuming that happens, which would make sense for the older fans of the series, that it also be available in a 20th Century viewing format. Either that or link up with some viewer, perhaps via a Craigslist ad (which still exits for non-adult personals), who has a Spectrum subscription and trade with that person from your own video collection in exchange for the person recording (with a DVR device or software) the 12 episodes of Season 8 of "Mad About You." It is stil perfectly legal to record off-air with a DVR or VCR (if one still has one of those antiquated 20th Century video-recording devices) for personal use, so long as no profit is being obtained for video. That is why a fair trade of one video for another video is allowed, but paying for a DVR/VCR recording to another person is not.
Lastly, of course the logical question is why the original distributor of "Mad About You" would not wish to also air its reboot? And unless I am mistaken, "The Peacock Network" isn't exactly fighting off its viewers with sticks these days, so many years is it now removed from its heyday of "Must See" viewing, which involved such other bygone series' as "Cheers," "Seinfeld," "Frasier" and "Friends." And given the relative success of the "Will & Grace" reboot, one would think NBC might have at least considered taking a chance on another of its past successful series'. The fact NBC passed on a "Mad About You" reboot means probably it couldn't or wouldn't meet the exorbitant salary demands of Paul Reiser and/or Helen Hunt, and also possibly that NBC feared the viewer demographic would skew too old and too thin to warrant the investment. NBC may also have looked upon the failure of Reiser's eponymous 2011 NBC series as a barometer of how the fan base would be for even a "Mad About You" reboot.
It has been awhile since the original series was widely available in broadcast syndication. Still, if old fans were not willing to shelve out extra $$ to see older-but-proven episodes of a favorite TV series on a streaming platform (such as Hulu or Netflix), unlikely those fans would be willing to pay extra funds for an added cable TV bill either to see untried new episodes of that once-favorite series. So I guess it remains to be seen just how mad about "Mad About You" its old fans really are.
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