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The First Shōgun Is So Back (on an Official Streaming Site)
Seems like people might want to check it out.
Licensing decisions can be made for a number of reasons, but after more than a week of asking multiple employees at three major media companies why a 44-year-old show wasn’t streaming and getting no clear answer, I began to wonder: Did anyone at Paramount really care that they owned Shōgun? Audiences today can’t enjoy artistic and popular hits like Murphy Brown,Homicide: Life on the Street, or Thirtysomething without resorting to extralegal downloads or shelling out for exorbitantly pricey, out-of-print, or incomplete DVD sets. Paramount Global could certainly release that remastered version digitally on either Paramount+ or any VOD platform and bill it as “the award-winning original.” Doing so could showcase it to a new audience, lay the commentariat’s questions to rest, and jab at its streaming competitors at FX and Hulu with some counterprogramming.
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