Talk:There's... Johnny!

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I have concerns with both sections of this edit. On the statement that Hulu picked up the rights, that seems redundant detail; by saying that they released it, it can be presumed that they had the right to do so. While we can go into details about when they announced the acquisition in the body text, for the summary in the lead, saying they released it seems sufficient.

And switching that they have released an entire season to having released the entire series shows the presumption of something we do not have stated in the article: that there will be no second season. While I do not find news of a second season, I also do not find sources indicating that there will not be, and at least one point Reiser expressed a hope that Hulu would fund further episodes. Barring such an announcement, we cannot say for certain that they released the entire series. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:01, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Nat. It's worth clarifying that Hulu only acquired the streaming rights to the series. They did not outright purchase the series from NBCUniversal which explains why it was released as a Hulu exclusive and not a Hulu original. Hulu never picked up the series in the same way that say Netflix has "rescued" a show like Lucifer and subsequently ordered another season. Hulu did something similar with The Mindy Project. Rather, There's...Johnny! was already competely filmed, edited, and ready for air by the time Hulu merely picked up the rights to stream it on their service for a set period of time. Notice during the end credits that the copyright does not belong to Hulu, as it does with all other series they own and have ability to renew, but rather it is still credited to Seeso and NBCUniversal. In this case, I do not find the text to include extraneous detail but rather clarifies the unique situation the series was/is in between Seeso/NBCUniversal/Hulu. – BoogerD (talk) 17:19, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I can't recall any other TV article where they thought it was lead-worthy to note that the broadcaster did not have ownership, and in the vast tradition of television, the networks owning many of the copyrights to the fiction shows they broadcast is a recent and not complete development. The end credits of the final season of The Mindy Project do not show that Hulu owns the copyright, despite that being a "Hulu Original" by then; the copyright is owned by Open 4 Business LLC, which is an NBCUniversal company, and the Hulu credit is just a "distributed by" one. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:27, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]