Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. announced a deal that will allow four shows Warner produced for ABC television to be shown on ABC's Internet broadband media player.
The driver of the deal were the consumers who want to be able to watch serials, especially if they miss them on their regular night.
Jana Winograde, ABC Entertainment's executive vice president of business affairs, said, "They have come to expect it with serialized shows ... that if they miss their favorite show that they can find it on abc.com."
The Warner-produced shows are "Men in Trees" and "Notes from the Underbelly" and new shows "Big Shots" and "Pushing Daisies,"
Terms of the agreement reveal in the second year Warner will gain rights to stream the shows to any web outlet they want. They will also be able to sell downloads digitally and also DVD box sets of the shows.
Similar to how ABC sells their in-house produced shows, the episodes of the Warner-produced shows will be available on abc.com the day after they are broadcast. ABC keeps them available online up to four weeks.
All the episodes are ad-supported and can be viewed free.
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