odd
when this happens to a show, it just amazes me. why the **** would you sell all these different segmetns/rights/charactes to so many different studios? it is a nightmare later to even attempt to put them back together again, produce a DVD, or just replay them on t.v.
I have personally never understood this with companies. they sell the rights like crazy, and the whole production falls to pieces, because later, these companies can't settle on a financial outcome or disagree on distribution rights. i know its for money, when you realy get to the source, but this just seems in retrospect completely irresponsible of companies to disect their series/rights into different pieces, scattered all over the face of the earth. IMO its just sloppy mismanagement, and companies trying to make an extra buck for the time being, without looking into the future, and seeing the potential of having the show/movie/characters as a whole, and producing them as a "whole" and reaping the rewards later. by the time the legal fuss, and money is spent getting it all back together again, you've blown any money you've saved and harbored over the years, and in the long run the fans are the ones that suffer, waiting for companies to fight it out like school children.
oh well.