Free FOX shows coming to iTunes
Michael Gay September 21st, 2007
As a way to hook you, kind of like a drug dealer, FOX is giving away the season premiere episodes of a number of their shows for free on iTunes. According to the LA Times, shows include “Prison Break,” “Bones,” “American Dad” and “K-Ville.” FOX hopes that by giving away the first show, you will want to pay $0.99 for each additional show or at least watch them free on TV. It will be interesting to see which offerings consumers like the most, since CBS, ABC and NBC all have made similar big shifts in online offerings this season.
6 Comments Add your own
1. theTVaddict | September 21st, 2007 at 8:38 am
Considering NBC is currently they fourth place network, you’d think they would come to their senses and get back into bed with Apple. Kudos to FOX for embracing iTunes. It will be nice to be able to watch their pilots while I’m on an airplane this weekend.
2. Mike G | September 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am
I think Fox was looking for a way to cancel new shows even faster than they do now. Before the on-air premiere? Genius!
3. tdc | September 21st, 2007 at 10:04 am
OT-
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4. Charles | September 21st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
It looks like lots of those shows are also avaliable for streaming at the FOX On Demand page, too.
After what, a year or two? of video on iTunes, having season premieres for free on iTunes seems to be the rule, not the exception. Which is fine by me!
5. discreet_chaos | September 22nd, 2007 at 2:11 am
Personally, I’ll say that there’s not a lot of shows that I’d pay to watch and throughout all of these announcements, I do have to wonder why all of these alternate sources are being trumpeted over the network websites. I guess there’s a lot of people who may be willing to pay a premium to watch television on their walkmans, but as for myself, it looks like this season is shaping-up better than the last for me to catch episodes or programs that I’ve missed on the network websites.
Now, if we could just get the shows/networks to have more than one sponsor, so that every episode of every Fox show doesn’t have commercials for “Good Luck Chuck” in every break.
6. discreet_chaos | September 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 am
For example: Last year, I’d watch Kiefer over the air and “Heroes” online and this past Wednesday, I watched “Kid Nation” on television and I just watched Kelsey Grammer’s show on the Fox site.
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