QUEER AS FOLK SOUNDTRACK LICENSING LICENSE
QUEER AS FOLK SOUNDTRACK LICENSING TV

When DVDs came in studios had to go back to the original owners of each song and purchase the licenses again & it was so expense it was would have made a major dent in the profitability of DVDs.

QUEER AS FOLK SOUNDTRACK LICENSING TV

Most successful TV shows would just be rerun in syndication for a number of years after their original airing. The original licensing for music never anticipated a demand for tv shows to become available on home media (prior to DVD it was generally only movies that were released on VHS for home use). This was very common when TV on DVD became a huge thing in the early 00s & studios began releasing their catalogues on DVD.

QUEER AS FOLK SOUNDTRACK LICENSING LICENSE

When the show was released on DVD, the cost to license the music for DVD use was deemed too expensive and replacement songs were found. R70 & R73 Yup the licensing for the show's music was only purchased for the televised version of the show. Ted, Emmett, Debbie, Vic, the really dykey one whose name I forget (not the blonde one, I didn't like her acting). It was the secondary characters that actually made the show e.g. R56 While I don't think characters should be perfect, one thing against QAF is out of the three leads (Brian, Justin, Michael) none of them are particularly likeable. In the beginning, the sex scenes were 'shock value' to garner the show attention and get people talking, but after the first season it felt less daring and more 'obligatorily.' I do think the show is much better in the later seasons in terms of writing, but still goes for those big soap storylines: 'Brian's cancer,' 'Babylon 5 is destroyed' etc. It had it's moments but it became overly 'soap opera' very quickly. I would watch it in my room with the volume turned down as low as I could so my parents wouldn't hear. The US QAF was my guilty pleasure when it was on the air. Robert Gant was significantly better on the show and had good chemistry with Hal Sparks. R58 Yeah the cast has alluded not like Chris Potter over the years.

Queer as folk soundtrack licensing