The Drew Carey Present is now accessible to stream totally free — albeit with adverts — on Plex, marking a return for the sitcom.
Cleveland rocks! And so does Plex as a result of that streaming service is now providing The Drew Carey Present, marking the primary time that the long-running sitcom has ever been accessible on such a format totally free. So crack open a Buzz Beer and let’s get this binge-watch going!
Simply this month — 20 years after its ninth and ultimate season concluded — The Drew Carey Present lastly received a correct streaming launch totally free. When you’ll have to sit down by means of adverts, simply be pleased that it’s right here in probably the most extensively accessible approach because it aired on ABC.
So what took so lengthy? Like so many sequence, The Drew Carey Present, it comes right down to music rights. This was one thing Carey himself had beforehand mentioned, telling TV Insider the present was “not in syndication…because of music rights and stuff…We’re going to try to change that around and get it back out there.” Effectively, certain as a 5 o’clock world exists, that point has lastly come. It must be famous that Warner Bros. solely ever launched the primary season on DVD due to later music rights points. Followers of the present will do not forget that it was “Moon Over Parma” — carried out by Carey — that served because the present’s theme that season earlier than switching over to “Five o’Clock World” and later, most famously, “Cleveland Rocks” as carried out by The Presidents of the USA of America.
It’s straightforward to see why The Drew Carey Present would hit that music rights wall, because the present made nice use of it all through its run. Check out the official soundtrack and also you see an array of songs from the likes of Iggy Pop, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Edgar Winter Group, and Joe Walsh — who had a recurring position as guitarist Ed — and you may see see simply the floor of what they could have wanted to clear to maintain the present as intact because it could possibly be.
Different nice exhibits which have not too long ago labored by means of their music rights points and have discovered streaming properties embrace Murder: Life on the Streets — which will likely be headed to Peacock later this month — and Moonlighting, which hit Hulu earlier this yr.
Will you be doing a rewatch of The Drew Carey Present on Plex or are you too busy jamming with The Horndogs?
