The Sticky & Sweet Tour premieres on EPIX
Madonna fans in the United States will finally have their chance to see the “Sticky & Sweet Tour” on television. With a press release issued a few hours ago, EPIX have announced that they will debut the Live in Buenos Aires concert special across all their platforms – television, video-on-demand and the internet.
EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom, Paramount Pictures, MGM. and Lionsgate. Conceived as a next-generation multiplatform premium entertainment channel, video-on-demand and online service launching with Verizon FiOS and other distribution partners in October 2009, accessing more than 15,000 motion pictures spanning the vast libraries of the partner studios.
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EPIX also expressly mentions that they will world premiere the Sticky & Sweet show on television, although they confirm that the broadcast was filmed in Buenos Aires’ River Plate Stadium, which is likely to be the one we saw already in a number of countries around the world.
So far, the concert premiere on SKY in the UK in an almost complete edit featuring the entire set list. A similar version aired on HBO Eastern Europe and a reduced one-hour version with highlights from the show did broadcast in some European countries. A longer version – with no additional song but a longer intro and the full “request song” moment was shown in South America by CityVibe.
A DVD from the tour is also expected from Warner Music later this year.
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