New life for old series on NBC sites

By Alex Woodson

Feb 20, 2008, ET

NEW YORK -- NBC Universal said Tuesday that it will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including "The A-Team" and "Kojak," on its Web sites.

Beginning this month, the shows will be available on NBC.com and on network-owned niche sites SciFi.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com.

The NBC.com additions are "A-Team," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Miami Vice," "Buck Rogers," "Emergency," "Night Gallery" and the original "Battlestar Galactica." "Galactica" and "Buck" also will be available on SciFi.com, along with "Tek War" and "Night Gallery"; "Hitchcock," "Swamp Thing," "Tremors," "Crow" and "Night Gallery" will be featured on ChillerTV.com; and SleuthChannel.com will present the Telly Savalas starrer "Kojak," "Miami Vice," "A-Team," "Night Gallery" and "Simon & Simon."

The content also will be available on Hulu, the online video joint venture that NBC Uni launched with News Corp. last year. Through Hulu, the shows will be syndicated to Yahoo, News Corp.'s MySpace, MSN, Comcast, Time Warner's AOL and other Web destinations.

New life for old series on NBC sites

By Alex Woodson

Feb 20, 2008, ET