Knots Is Streaming in the US at Last!

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I just noticed that the popular streaming service PlutoTV has added three channels similarly backed/branded by WB that fall into their "Home and Food" category: "Rustic Retreats by WB" (which features people buying homes in the mountains and other remote areas); "Ultimate Builds by WB" (following people who build difficult structures like aquariums, tree houses, racetracks, etc.) and "House Crashers by WB" (a channel rerunning the HGTV show of the same name). So apparently WB is getting into these streaming ventures with other "channels" popping up. Hopefully this means Pluto might have a working relationship with WB that may allow the "Primetime Soaps by WB" channel to begin airing on Pluto as well as Plex and Freevee.

Until recently Pluto had a channel (which has since disappeared) called "Pluto Soaps" which aired reruns of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful from the late 2010s (2018 up to the Covid shutdown), since those are CBS's two soaps. Maybe they ditched the soaps channel in anticipation of adding the WB's channel?
 
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Pluto in Australia is part of 10Play - the streaming offshoot of Channel 10 which is owned by CBS/Paramount. They have the CBS soaps on it. A deal with WB here seems unlikely, and even if they did one, the content is all FAST.
 

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Does anyone know for sure if Amazon (or other digital providers) are going to get the remainder of the series to put out to buy? The one season is pointless, especially on a long running serialized drama. Also, most of the Knots hardcore fans already have the season 1 DVDs. If they wanted to test a season, they should have started with season 3 or release seasons 1 through 3. As far as I'm concerned, they might as well just take season 1 down until the entire series is available to sell. I don't see a need to test sales either as it costs virtually nothing (as opposed to distributing on DVD or Blu-Ray) to make the Knots seasons available to buy/download.

By the way, all the original CBS broadcast dates listed by Amazon for season 1 are incorrect. They are off by one day.
 
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Does anyone know for sure if Amazon (or other digital providers) are going to get the remainder of the series to put out to buy? The one season is pointless, especially on a long running serialized drama. Also, most of the Knots hardcore fans already have the season 1 DVDs. If they wanted to test a season, they should have started with season 3 or release seasons 1 through 3. As far as I'm concerned, they might as well just take season 1 down until the entire series is available to sell. I don't see a need to test sales either as it costs virtually nothing (as opposed to distributing on DVD or Blu-Ray) to make the Knots seasons available to buy/download.

By the way, all the original CBS broadcast dates listed by Amazon for season 1 are incorrect. They are off by one day.
Looking at the WBD catalogue of shows available for streaming services on offer for purchase, only season 1 is available. Season 2 is listed but currently marked as not available (yet). So the problem (if it is a problem) is with WBD, not the individual services as they can't offer what hasn't been made available to them.

Whether this is a random decision WBD made without much thought or whether it's a case of giving Plex a limited window of exclusive streaming rights, we can only guess. It could even be a case of them wanting to have a period to monetize (almost) exclusively on advertising income from the Prime Time Soaps FAST channel, on top of income from Plex on-demand streaming.

Having said that, there must be some interest in purchasing season 1 because the price on Amazon has gone up from $17.99 to $19.99 and Amazon very much operates on a demand dictates price model.
 

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They don't expect the average person to watch those types of channels 24/7. They know the average channel-surfer has the attention span of a housefly. They're happy if that viewer stops flipping from channel to channel every once in a while to watch an episode or two.

This isn't 1985 (or even 2005) when TV executives sought to foster "channel loyalty" in viewers, trying to be everything for every viewer. in this splintered media landscape, they are content to get even a small sliver of the viewers' attention.
 
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