Death to Apple!
Forget watching the Charlie Brown specials for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas on tv this year. Apple bought it all and is taking it away from network tv. Mlive reported:
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| F the copyright! |
A beloved Halloween classic won’t air on broadcast TV this year for the first time in decades.
And while CBS nor ABC will be airing “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” fans of the 1966 animated special will still be able to watch the 25-minute program for free on Apple TV+.
The streaming service acquired exclusive rights to all Peanuts programs earlier this month. That includes the beloved Halloween special, as well as other specials such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”
And while AppleTV+ usually requires a membership, the Halloween special will be available for free from Oct. 30 until Nov. 1 as a special treat. The special became available for members on Monday... Article
24 comments:
Maybe this is what Trump was referring to when he claimed Biden would cancel Christmas?
I doubt it will last more than a year or two.
Remember the 2015 Confederate flag knee jerk.
Every thing for sale with a Confederate flag was taken off the the internet.
By 2017, there were more sites selling Confederate flags than before.
That was funny.
This is only quick money for Apple.
Actually a smart business move on Apple's part.
The audience for those classics are getting smaller each year.
I think I saw where the original CBS "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (stop motion) models were sold at action
for about 250K a few days ago.
But yeah, phuck Apple . . . but not to worry . . . those classics will never go away.
No problem. I have them recorded on VHS from 1982
2020 is not finished with us yet, folks. Not even close.
That darned Tim Apple!
Millennial snowflakes. This just proves that we will never have anything good anymore.
“Bwaahahahaaaaaaaaa”
- Apple Share Holders
@3:56
Literally took me 10 seconds to find a bluray quality video of these on the web for free.
Only boomers pay for TV.
Vemeo trumps YouTube.
Always has.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Pig-pen, Peppermint Patty, Sally, Linus, the Great Pumpkin (and the rest of the gang) ain't going anywhere !
"No problem. I have them recorded on VHS from 1982"
I hear ya !
Thank God, I recorded the late 1980's version of a baby Kylie Minogue's cover of Little Eva's hit "Locomotion".
I have 3 kids (10,7, and 5). Have you ever tried to get a kid to watch those Charlie Brown specials? They don’t like them. My kids like the Shrek ones though. Only old folks will be upset about this.
@6:10
Im in my 30s and i didn't like them in the 80s and 90s. Same sih the Grinch. But I watched them with my mom because she had fond memories of them because she grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. I liked Ernest Saves Christmas.
6:10- My 8 yr old loves the Charlie Brown specials. And he listens to Johnny Cash. And he can whip your kids’ asses.
Anybody who cares about this already has them on dvd or Blu-ray.
My kids love them. We are so “old-fashioned” we even have some on DVD. And watch them in summer.
I'm fine with it.
I’m so old fashioned I watch them on a 1971 Curtis Mathes television with no remote. I still have rabbit ears. That’s what us boomers call antinners for you uppity young folks. And after I ate supper I siphoned gas out of my 69 Ford truck, just because I could and know how without getting it in my mouth. Bet all the little limp wrists around here never tried that, and if they did they had momma to have a glass of water for them when the gas came out their nose. Now that’ would be a sight to see. Quit knocking these shows. If you don’t like them, don’t watch them. But for some of us, they still bring memories of a better time in life.
Thank you 9:14 for finally explaining to us why you boomers are so retarded. Here i thought it was the atmospheric nuclear testing when it was your beloved passtime of siphoning gasoline that killed your precious few braincells!
I really hate the way streaming has gone exclusive. That goes against the whole point of cord-cutting that services like Hulu were promising. Get the content you want from anywhere without be tied to a particular company.
Now if you want to watch a variety of content you have to sign up for services from Disney, Netflix, HBO, Apple, Amazon, etc. and wind up paying $15 a month to each for one or two shows you want to watch.
How does gasoline affect someones brain if no contact is involved? If I were you short change I wouldn't be calling anyone else retarded.
@10:33
I hear you gramps. Just relax and get back to inhaling gasoline fumes while analyzing Q anon conspiracy theories.
I have no idea what Q anon is. As for the gramps remark, damn proud of it.
What a shmuck move to top off 2020 with Apple.
"Apple The Grinch That Stole Charlie Brown From Poor Families Who Can't Afford Your Boujee Products".
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I bought the Apple TV+ app for my Fire TV just to watch Long Way Up. The moment the last episode airs, I'm canceling. It is by far the worst service of them all. You pay $5/month and still have to pay for the movies and TV shows you want to see. There's almost nothing included!
Add to that the fact that Apple will probably censor out when Linus quotes the book of Luke in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Apple TV+ is the biggest rip off yet!
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