Magnum PI season 5: The big streaming conundrum
So what are we looking to focus on here? Well, that’s rather simple: The show’s strange streaming situation, and how we hope it will keep charging forward despite not having all episodes easily available.
As so many of you know, the first four seasons of the Jay Hernandez – Perdita Weeks drama aired on CBS prior to its cancellation there. The fifth season is streaming on Peacock, but the prior seasons don’t have a streaming home.
What’s the reason for that? It’s complicated, and it goes something like this — CBS still has a lot of control over the first four seasons of the show, and so a deal would have to be worked out for Peacock to acquire them. What’s even more bizarre as that these seasons aren’t on Paramount+, which houses a lot of other CBS programming. Not even the writers have a clear answer as to why those seasons aren’t streaming there.
Do we hope that there is a resolution to all of this? Sure, with the best solution being NBCUniversal finding a way to license the earlier seasons for Peacock. Of course, it’s not our money and these things are super-complicated.
Can you watch the first four seasons online?
Sure, but you would need to purchase them individually or per season on a place like Amazon. Not everyone may want to do that since it can be a little more costly, but it is a good option out there for people who got on board for season 5 and haven’t seen the earlier episodes — or, people who love the show and know that they will want to watch time and time again.
We’ll absolutely let you know if all of this ever changes; for now, the ambiguity continues.
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