NEW YORK, April 30 (UPI) -- Sony Corp. downsized American TV hits such as "Charlie's Angels," "T.J. Hooker" and "Starsky and Hutch" and the resulting "minisodes" soon will be on MySpace.
The very brief trips down television's memory lane -- between three-and-a-half and five minutes each -- are what Sony Pictures Television says will be a new business of refitting old shows for current audiences, The New York Times said Monday.
Sony said it plans to introduce in June an Internet-based service called the Minisode Network, initially offering the mini-shows on MySpace. The company may consider developing a separate Internet channel later.
The visual fodder isn't clips but extremely tightly edited episodes of shows from Sony's television library -- with the entire story, beginning to end, told in fewer than six minutes.
"We've been looking for a legitimate way to make money from our library," said Steve Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television. "Something that could bring new life to shows that have been on the shelf for awhile."
Of the boiled-down version of William Shatner chasing bad guys as T.J. Hooker, as well as other shows that era, Mosko called the shorts "really campy and fun."
