Why must Hallmark colorize their shows?! ( sitcoms to be exact) Do they strongly favor colorized episodes of TV shows that were suppose to be in BW?!

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The attention span of the average viewer is more attracted to color than the old b&w.

Dynacs Digital Studios starting colorizing the B&W episodes of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie about 5 years ago, and they began to showing them in Canada. So Hallmark decided to start airing the first season of I Dream of Jeannie in color, and then the first two seasons of Bewitched in color.

It's obvious that Hallmark likes I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched in color. However, the quality of converting B&W to color is poor and sometimes they are not as detailed or accurate.

Consistencey, I believe that if a show is in both b&w & color, then the b&w should air colorized. Colorization gets a bad wrap, but I don't mind it at all. If colorization helps the show reach a broader audience, i'm all for it.

Many of those old shows would've been in color if the option was available back then. It's not like it was b&w to make an "artistic" statement. I for one watched the colorized episodes of Zorro on Disney Channel & thought they were terriffic! Disney channel would alternate between the b/w & colorized prints--that's one option other channels can consider.

Originally posted by BLT
Consistencey, I believe that if a show is in both b&w & color, then the b&w should air colorized. Colorization gets a bad wrap, but I don't mind it at all. If colorization helps the show reach a broader audience, i'm all for it.

Many of those old shows would've been in color if the option was available back then. It's not like it was b&w to make an "artistic" statement. I for one watched the colorized episodes of Zorro on Disney Channel & thought they were terriffic! Disney channel would alternate between the b/w & colorized prints--that's one option other channels can consider.

Yea, I think that if a series airied in color the last few seasons, they should try the color thing, and them maybe alternate bewteen them. Or maybe air a marathon of episode colorized and leave them in B&W in the regular rotation. One show I think should not have been colorized is ILL though. The element of B&W is what makes the show so great. I can't imagine it being in color because then Lucy's hair would like.....stick out and take away your attention since it was so firey red.....from the others or the apartment.