{"id":446657,"date":"2026-05-26T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446657\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:17:08","slug":"hacks-creators-pushing-warner-bros-for-a-physical-box-set-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446657\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacks creators pushing Warner Bros. for a physical box set release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hacks<\/a>\u00a0ends this week, wrapping up its funny and frequently heartfelt\/heartbreaking exploration of the struggles of trying to make something you\u2019re proud of in a world where you\u2019re allowed to own so little of it. As with any streaming show, the series will celebrate its series finale this Thursday by just sort of\u2026 continuing to hang out on HBO Max, at least until someone at Warner Bros. or its new owners decides it\u2019d be slightly cheaper to remove it or license it out elsewhere, at which point we all start having to annoyedly type things like \u201c\u2018Where can I watch Hacks?\u2019 No AI please for the love of god don\u2019t try to make a joke, computer\u201d into our increasingly ruined search bars.<\/p>\n

But not if creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky have anything to say about it. This is per a recent conversation the series showrunners had with\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, in which they revealed that they\u2019ve been pushing hard for the show to get the DVD box set treatment, so that it can\u2019t just vanish into the streaming abyss. \u201cIt\u2019s such an important time for people to invest in physical media,\u201d Aniello said. \u201cThings are coming down all the time and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, I love that movie, I want to see it.\u2019 You just can\u2019t, babe, it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d Aniello and her co-creators have a plan, though: \u201cWe\u2019re really hoping to make a\u00a0Hacks DVD box set, for one. We\u2019re trying to make that happen\u2026 Please go buy it, not because we make any money off of it. We just want to make sure the show stays in existence for as long as DVD players exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not unknown for shows that originate on streaming to eventually get physical releases: Netflix put most of its early original successes like Orange Is The New Black\u00a0and\u00a0House Of Cards\u00a0out on DVD, Disney has granted releases to big franchise performers like\u00a0WandaVision and\u00a0The Mandalorian, and Warner Bros. tossed the first season of\u00a0Peacemaker\u00a0on to home video. But it\u2019s treated as a rare boon usually reserved for only the highest of performers, and while Hacks\u00a0has been a critical darling (with nine Emmy wins and counting) it\u2019s not necessarily viewed as the kind of juggernaut that moves a lot of polycarbonate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Aniello and her fellow creators are passionate about this one, especially in light of the show\u2019s themes and the general messiness of \u201cownership\u201d in modern digital media. Saying she hopes to give fans of the series a package packed with extras, Aniello reflected that the current state of things \u201cDoes really put so much power of the distribution of art in the hands of algorithms and people\u2019s whims and certain executives not liking somebody\u2019s brother, so they take down their movie or show or whatever. It is really scary, the idea of censorship, especially as more and more companies are bought up by other companies.\u201d (Warner Bros. is, of course, in the process of being guzzled down by Paramount<\/a>.) \u201cAs we\u2019re talking about all these things, it has become only bleaker. So, I don\u2019t know where that leaves us. Power of community, I guess?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hacks\u00a0ends this week, wrapping up its funny and frequently heartfelt\/heartbreaking exploration of the struggles of trying to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-446657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}