Score one for the fans and one for the lowly music business who keeps good shit from flowing through. The State, MTV’s sketch comedy which featured the likes of Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon, Keri Kinney, and Ben Garant will finally be available either on DVD or iTunes later this year.
What was keeping it from being released all this time? The music used in the episodes, of course!
“They just rescored and we’re all doing ADR,” Garrant continued.
“The thing that was preventing it was the music clearances,” Lennon explained, “because at the time, MTV had a deal that anything with a video you could just use. No longer the deal.”
“All our sketches that were built around a Breeders or a Lenny Kravitz song, which was a lot of them,” said Garrant, “so we had to rescore everything, but finally, MTV put up the money to rescore it, and I guess it’s coming out.”
How generous of MTV! They’ll easily make all their money back on this one. Blah…gotta love legalities.
