The Futon Critic recently interviewed Rob Burnett and Jon Berkerman from The Knights of Prosperity, and the interview started with
The Futon's Brian Ford Sullivan, a good friend to our site, asking about the
Ed DVDs:
Brian Ford Sullivan: Before we start - I have to ask, who do I have to kidnap, blackmail and/or threaten to get "Ed" on DVD?
Rob Burnett: We're working on that. [Laughs.]
Jon Beckerman: Yeah, it's been sort of confusing especially since everything else that's ever been made for television seems to be on DVD now. But our understanding is that things got kind of tied up in between the different entities that were involved in producing the show. Because it was a joint production of Viacom Productions, which no longer exists, and NBC Productions and I guess Viacom kind of got absorbed back into Paramount and I don't know, it's just a whole maze of executives and confusion. But we've had a lot of requests for it come our way and so we just want copies for ourselves mostly. [Laughs.] We'd like that to happen.
RB: I think that the real reason is that the show is so good they fear that if they put it on DVD people would die of laughter. So it's really a precautionary measure.
Jon explained a lot of the problems associated with getting this show out; it's a co-production involving a company that got folded into a much larger company. Ouch!
