Fans of the Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd series moonlight got a surprise this week when series creator Glenn Caron revealed that all five seasons of the show will be coming to streaming for the first time soon. The 1980s series has not appeared on any streaming platform, despite fans’ hopes that moonlight was supposed to arrive on some platform and now it looks like the work to make that happen has begun according to Caron’s recent Twitter post.
moonlight is a comedy drama series that debuted on ABC in 1985, and saw Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, in one of the greatest early roles, playing a pair of private detectives. In addition to making Willis the star and giving Shepherd’s career a much-needed boost, moonlight is also one of the first successful entries in the comedy-drama genre on TV. The series ran for five seasons and ended in 1989 after 67 episodes.
While home media has been released from moonlightThe series never made it to streaming, but that’s about to change. In his Twitter post, Caron said: “CAT’s OUTTA THE BAG. I can’t keep it under my hat any longer — the case to get all 5 seasons of “Moonlightstarring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd ready for streaming has begun. It is an ambitious project. Lots of moving parts. And it can take quite a while. But I wanted you to be the first to hear about it.’
Moonlighting has become entangled in music rights issues.
Fans of moonlight have wondered why the series hasn’t appeared online before, and Caron recently explained that there are rights issues preventing the series from being released on a streaming platform. Like anything now, when music is involved in a TV show or movie, everyone wants a little more money out of streaming rights, and that was something that wasn’t even a thing back then. moonlight first hit screens. Caron told EW:
“When we made Moonlighting, there was normally no pop music in television shows. It was really just us and Miami Vice at the time. So when deals were made for the music, nobody anticipated streaming. To run the show [on streaming], the owner of the shows, the Walt Disney Company, has to go back and make deals on all that music — and they’ve been resisting that for six or seven years. With all the attention Bruce has been getting, hopefully a good thing that can come out of it is that we can start the conversation with Disney about releasing the streaming rights again. It’s hard for me to understand why we can’t find a way to make it work. Peacock is streaming now Miami ViceSo clearly someone came up with it.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time Disney has had to spend some time getting music rights to put an older series online, as they had similar issues with the many songs on it. the muppet show, which led to some episodes being added later and others being omitted entirely. As Caron says, it’s not a quick process, which means moonlightIts arrival on streaming is not imminent but is certainly now on the horizon.