American Company Turner Might Buy Lazytown

[LazyPooky]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

viva la mexico

Before you two go into a battle or something you should read my previous post first. I did not hear that through a third person but directly from LTE (sorry if I was unclear about that).

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.. LazyTown is sold to the TBS company, an official announcement will come later, probably in the same business newspaper...

[Ana Muriel]

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And why need I to say the name? Eh? Don't believe me if you don't want, I don't care. But don't ask then :?

[Frances]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

Apparently that could be cool. What source did you hear that news from?

And Icelandic friend listened it on News and a friend from LTE told him it too.

A friend and a friend, hmmmm...
I'd think there would be a BIG official announcement in the major press??

[Ana Muriel]

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Apparently that could be cool. What source did you hear that news from?

And Icelandic friend listened it on News and a friend from LTE told him it too.

[Frances]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

I have news, apparently they did the deal, but Magnús still the head of LTE and the Studio still in Iceland.

And the financial difficulties they had been for a long time, they are solved.

Apparently that could be cool. What source did you hear that news from?

[Ana Muriel]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

Well, I am not happy either, but if for them is good... And maybe the US Market is opened again, who knows :?

But anyways, I prefer Disney. At first not, but now I saw good TV Series and Movies (which fit with LT) from Disney which I liked them

Well... I hope better news soon...

I hope someday they (Magnús and his Team) can buy the company and 100% of shares to Iceland again.

[Victoria]

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I'm not optimistic about this news.

Right now Turner owns CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, Turner Classic Movies. The exciting thing about this is that every one of these channels except for Boomerang has a HD feed.

The alarming thing? LazyTown doesn't seem to be a fit for any of these channels. Boomerang and Cartoon Network are the closest fits but LazyTown is a live action show and those channels are dedicated to animation. And I'm betting if they stick it on one of those two they'll pick Boomerang which is the only Turner network which doesn't have a HD feed, so we're back to square one.

So how about Blu-ray releases? I don't see that happening either. Warner has a poor track record on this and this is the type of show that doesn't normally get a BD release.

Online video sales? Unfortunately, Time Warner's track record is poor here as well. Just try searching on iTunes for popular Cartoon Network shows like Adventure Time - they're for sale, all right. But in standard definition only! ****ing fail. These are HD shows and I watch the Cartoon Network HD versions all the time. So why are you only offering to sell them to me in standard definition, Time Warner? **** you. You can take your crappy SD episodes and shove them up your ass. I'm not paying for stuff that's in worse quality than what I get for free from Cartoon Network HD. Are you guys out of your minds?

So I don't understand what Turner is doing buying up this franchise. They're probably going to end up putting the final nail in LazyTown's coffin. The best thing we could've hoped for was for Disney to buy them up, Hasbro to starting airing LazyTown on The Hub, or PBS to stick them onto their main national kids' programming block on all PBS stations. What we've got is a company that doesn't fit LazyTown at all buying them out of the blue and the series being stuck on some PBS cable spin-off that you can only get the HD feed for if you live in a select few cities with a very specific cable provider. 7 years after the show started and the prospects of getting it in a proper format still seem to be ages away and the chances of anything new being done with the franchise are slim.

[Buzz]

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I have news, apparently they did the deal, but Magnús still the head of LTE and the Studio still in Iceland.

And the financial difficulties they had been for a long time, they are solved.

good news so far...

[Ana Muriel]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

I have news, apparently they did the deal, but Magnús still the head of LTE and the Studio still in Iceland.

And the financial difficulties they had been for a long time, they are solved.

[Buzz]

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If they get bought up and Turner comes down on them like a sack full of nazi bricks from the east side of the Berlin wall well then that would be a terrible deal.

I think it's hard for a conservative country as the US to deal with short skirt girls dancing around

in case they would do new ep's I'm afraid that the short pink dress would be their first target

[boredjedi]

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It all boils down to creative control.

Let's hope for the best not like we have any say or control in the matter. If only LTE would have released the HD version on their download episode page instead of those slightly better than dvd quality ones they got on there now. I would have bought and downloaded all the copies in a flash but after viewing the free episode they let you download it just wasn't enough for me to take the hook. Maybe turner will remedy that situation.

Hell if Turner puts Viacom to shame I will be happy as well. :)

[Stingy]

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It all boils down to creative control.

If they get bought up and keep about the same creative control that they have now, I would see it as a fantastic deal.
If they get bought up and Turner comes down on them like a sack full of nazi bricks from the east side of the Berlin wall well then that would be a terrible deal.

The most likely, in my opinion, is that it will be pretty close to the former option. I don't have any beef with Turner at all. In fact, they own the majority of the TV that I watch anyway :)

Again, I don't want to back the idea 100% because there is a chance that it could be a disaster, but there is a much better chance that it will be good.

[boredjedi]

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Yes, 100%

And well, LTE has a crisis, they need to pay 2'5 USD, so it's understandable the company not worth more.

The one major mistake Magnus made was not to release lazytown on Blu ray imo. Instead of dumb schemes like VMD and that dumb VMD player.

[Ana Muriel]

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Wait a minute is this an entire buy up of lazytown lock stock and barrel?

I also find it rather hard to believe that LTE is only worth 20% under 12 million.

Yes, 100%

And well, LTE has a crisis, they need to pay 2'5 USD, so it's understandable the company not worth more.

[boredjedi]

Re: LazyTown in the US gone for good?

Wait a minute is this an entire buy up of lazytown lock stock and barrel?

has offered to buy up all shares of Lazytown.

I guess that answered my question.

I also find it rather hard to believe that LTE is only worth 20% under 12 million.