The very strange case of Bosch season 5
Oops. Amazon Prime streams Bosch new season before ripping it off its platform.
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It’s a mystery worthy of only Titus Welliver…..
Bosch season 5 premiered for a few days at Amazon Prime Video before being ripped off screens.
The series was promoted by Amazon Prime Video locally as debuting on April 19 but did not surface until a few days later, according to TV Tonight readers.
But just as mysteriously it was soon ripped from the platform in what can only be described as a major stuff-up. The reason appears to be due to SBS having local premiere rights.
SBS has since confirmed it will be screening the series “soon,” possibly via SBS on Demand.
Creator Michael Connelly also tweeted to confused fans….
Streaming on Prime Video in October there. SBS has the rights to air it first.
— Michael Connelly (@Connellybooks) April 30, 2019
Amazon Prime’s Australian representatives today told TV Tonight, “We wanted to provide you an update that Bosch season 5 will be available on Prime Video in Australia on 18 October 2019, and not 19 April as was previously shared. We apologise for this error and any confusion that this may have caused. Bosch season 5 is available in New Zealand now.”
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For such a good and popular program, why did SBS put it on so damned late at night last season?
How many episodes does ‘Project Blue Book’ have to air? Seems a logical replacement.
Slightly off-topic on top of jumping the gun, but speaking of streaming TV series & SBS: does ‘The Name of the Rose’ have a soft release window yet?
Next week / Sept or Oct.
Thank you for an update from your side. And thanks for posting my tweet interaction above with Michael Connelly ;P
SBS is replaying Seasons 3 & 4 each Thursday in May starting late tonight, in 5 episode blocks, so maybe Season 5 will air after, in June.
One can hope! They have played blocks of earlier seasons in the lead up to the new one in the past on free to air. They indicated to me at the time of season 4 that the contract required the six month delay. Let’s hope the terms have changed with streaming.
Love Bosch, glad to hear it will screen on SBS. I would’ve paid to watch it on Prime, but can’t justify another streaming service for a few more months.
Watched the first 2 episodes and then the next night it was gone.
SBS has supported this series from the get go….glad they won out….
Happy to hear that SBS still has first run rights otherwise I’d have to buy my diehard Bosch loving grandparents a subscription to Prime.
Strange indeed, I would suggest Amazon Prime showing Bosch would have little effect on the SBS’s viewing figures.
On the basis of the earlier information I paid a year subscription for Prime. I was trying to show Amazon that Australians are prepared to pay for streaming. Bosch is my only reason for this account. There is probably considerably more profit in selling to SBS than in the number of new Prime accounts that Bosch TV would attract.