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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The New "Buffy" Is Set To Premiere In 2027
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 22:28:28 -0700
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On 9/5/25 7:04 PM, Your Name wrote:

> On 2025-09-06 00:11:52 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:
>> On 9/5/25 2:36 PM, Alan Smithee wrote:
>>
>>> This is the moment fans have been waiting for! Sarah Michelle Gellar 
>>> is officially back as Buffy Summers in the new HBO/Hulu series.
>>
>> OK, so this confuses me - Will it be on Hulu? Or on HBO Max?...
>>
>> I'm guessing it's produced by HBO for Hulu, but this makes that as 
>> clear as mud.
> 
> It gets worse. Hulu is owned by Disney while HBO is owned by Warner 
> Brothers.  :-)
> 
> BUT the show will play on Hulu.

Yeah, so why didn't they just say "HBO-produced series for Hulu". Then 
it would have been clear what they were saying.

>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The series is expected to premiere sometime in 2027
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093635405280
>>
>> And that is absolutely ridiculous.
>>
>> A TV series like this should not need over *a year and a half* to 
>> reach air.
>>
>> This "new model of TV production" is absolutely killing television. I 
>> can tell you it's gone a long way towards killing my interest in TV 
>> series in general.
> 
> They haven't actually written any scripts for yet. They only got the 
> pilot order earlier this year.

Still shouldn't take anywhere near that long.

Old TV model:

- Pilot episode filmed some time in early Spring (March-ish?)
- Networks go through pilots soon after (April-ish?)
- Fall lineup announced in May
- scripts written in June(-July?)
- filming of episodes starts late summer (c.August)
- TV show premieres in Sept. or at latest in October

Again, there is *no excuse* for *a year and a half* to get episodes 
released.

They are killing television with this bullshit.

Streaming has failed. Utterly.