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Northern Exposure - why no repeats?

  • 06-07-2019 4:54pm
    #1
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,696 ✭✭✭✭


    I have often ranted about RTE not repeating Bachelor's Walk, but thats a different story.

    Got me thinking about an old favourite of mine from many moons back, Northern Exposure.

    Since I first seen it aired, and then re-watched maybe the 1st 2 seasons on DVD, I have never seen it on any channel, anywhere.

    Was it re-run and I missed it? If so, when?
    Recently?


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  • #2
    Dubwat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭Dubwat


    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/12/the-essential-tv-shows-you-cant-find-on-netflix-amazon-or-now-tv
    However, Northern Exposure is old-fashioned in one, very crucial way. If you want to watch it in 2018, you have to buy the DVDs. And even then, you have to be careful if you don’t want to end up with a version of the show whose immaculately selected soundtrack has been replaced by muzak mulch. And here lies the problem. One of the main characters Chris Stevens, a community DJ, usually bookended the show with a thematically appropriate song. And licencing those songs has proved prohibitively expensive. In the era of companies such as Netflix being willing to throw money at comparatively niche enterprises, it seems strange that no one has yet rescued Northern Exposure from box-set oblivion.


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