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[BillBrasky]

The Simpsons Season 11- October 7th

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Simpsons-Season-11/10079

[BillBrasky]

Sarah Silverman Program, Season 2, Volume 1- October 14th

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9060/sarahsilvermans2v1frontmw0.jpg

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5674/sarahsilvermans2v1backcw4.jpg

What's the reason for splitting it up like this? Kind of dumb.

[BillBrasky]

Saturday Night Live- Season 4
December 2nd

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Saturday-Night-Live-Season-4-Rumor/10108

[Aaron1933]

What's the reason for splitting it up like this? Kind of dumb.

Come on. You know the reason.

[BillBrasky]

Well, the second half of the second season hasn't aired yet, I know, but they've split up Reno 911!'s seasons a bunch of times and haven't resorted to "Vol. 1" and "Vol. 2" on the DVDs. The only show they've ever done that before with has been "Crank Yankers".

I guess the first season was only 6 episodes, so it's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure it's mostly a promotional thing so they can get the DVD out in time for the October premiere of the new episodes.

[Aaron1933]

Well, the second half of the second season hasn't aired yet, I know, but they've split up Reno 911!'s seasons a bunch of times and haven't resorted to "Vol. 1" and "Vol. 2" on the DVDs. The only show they've ever done that before with has been "Crank Yankers".

I guess the first season was only 6 episodes, so it's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure it's mostly a promotional thing so they can get the DVD out in time for the October premiere of the new episodes.

Yeah, but it's mainly because they can do it. The same people who were going to buy it in the first place will buy this, and the people who would just casually buy it won't care or know the difference. Why wait and release them all together when they can literally get people to pay twice the amount they would have?

[mike]

Not upcoming but...
http://deepdiscount-content.vcommerce.com/products/fullsize/464/34772464.jpg

There is a buy one-get one free deal (http://www.deepdiscount.com/DVD---Criterion-Buy-1-Get-1-Free_stcVVcatId476505VVviewcat.htm?promoCode=B1G1C RITE0807) for Criterion DVDs at DeepDiscountDVDs now

[Aaron1933]

Not upcoming but...
http://deepdiscount-content.vcommerce.com/products/fullsize/464/34772464.jpg

There is a buy one-get one free deal (http://www.deepdiscount.com/DVD---Criterion-Buy-1-Get-1-Free_stcVVcatId476505VVviewcat.htm?promoCode=B1G1C RITE0807) for Criterion DVDs at DeepDiscountDVDs now

Holy shit, thanks man. I was just looking to buy Stranger Than Paradise but didn't want to pay $35 for it. I mean, if I buy it there I'll still technically be paying $35 for it, but I can trick myself into thinking I'm not.

[BillBrasky]

The Simpsons Season 11- October 7th

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Simpsons-Season-11/10079


Supposed artwork for the Season 11 set:

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/productimages/MEDIUM/SIMPSONS11.jpg

[mike]

Weird, I just saw Stranger Than Paradise on TV yesterday. I highly recommend Fishing with John (http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=5747787)!

[BillBrasky]

Here's something that will probably be of interest to the British comedy fans out there:

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Alfresco
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating:
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Release Date: August 26, 2008
Run Time: 315 minutes

Hilarious British sketch series that launched some of today’s top stars.
In the tradition of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Saturday Night Live, Alfresco brought hilariously inventive comedy to British TV in the 1980s. It also introduced an entire troupe of bright young talents -- Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, and others -- who went on to stardom.

Wild and wacky, Alfresco serves up social satire and delightfully off-the-wall sketches that seem as fresh and funny today as when they originally aired. The laughs fly hard and fast, and no sacred cows escape the skewer when these versatile comic actors lampoon bureaucrats, Jesus freaks, self-righteous counterculturists, and even their own show. Now, for the first time, American audiences can enjoy every episode of this British comedy landmark.

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE the three-episode pilot series, the story of the alternative comedy boom in 1980s Britain, and cast biographies and filmographies.

[BillBrasky]

Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Reno 911!: Miami – The Movie (More Busted Than Ever Unrated Cut) on 23rd September 2008 priced at $19.98 SRP. When Miami’s “real” police force is quarantined, the misfits of the Reno Sheriffs Department, in town for a cop convention, become the only hope for the citizens of South Beach. But with access to high-speed patrol cars, lethal firearms and a killer attack chopper, Lt. Dangle and his bumbling crew may just destroy Miami before the criminals can even get started.

The highlight of this new edition is “The Lost Version” of the film, considered to be the true vision of how the creators/producers believe the movie should have been seen by audiences – a “mockumentary-style” 68-minute version that offers completely all-new footage from Lt. Jim Dangle and his team’s exploits in Miami. The disc also includes the unrated cut of the film that was previously released on DVD (83mins), a Digital Copy of the Unrated Cut and additional extras.

Features include:
1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
English DD5.1 Surround
French and Spanish Dolby Surround
English, French and Spanish subtitles
Digital Copy – Reno 911!: Miami-The Movie Unrated Edition
Intro to “The Lost Version” by Lt. Jim Dangle, Deputy Travis Junior & Deputy Trudy Wiegel
Reno 911!: Miami – “The Lost Version” (68 minutes)
Audio commentary by writer/director Robert Ben Garant and writers Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver
Extended Scenes with optional commentary
Blooper Reel
Public Service Announcements
Talking During the Movie
Cell Phone
Etiquette
Join The Reno Sheriff’s Department
Theatrical Trailer
Easter Egg - Clemmy and Kimball in Hotel Room

[yumitree]

thanks, fox. first they release the unrated dvd and the theatrical cut (with extra material not included on the unrated disc) and now they're putting this out. it's like they were taking notes on anchor bay's re-re-re-releases of evil dead.

[Jixby Phillips]

F*ck those fox faggots

I've had it!

[Jixby Phillips]

(ps, I bought my copy of Reno 911 the movie used for like 5 bucks so what am I complaining about)

[Fentmore]

And is the Reno movie that popular to begin with? I like Reno the show but the movie (save for glints of brilliance) was pretty bland and not all that funny.

[uncomfortable]

The only director's cuts that run shorter than the theatrical: Reno 911 Miami and the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple.

Take that for what it's worth.

[darrylduffy]

The Big Lebowski 10th Anniversary DVD 9/9

http://www.biglebowskidvd.com/

[Fentmore]

They just released a special edition Lebowski set last year, can it be worth it to revisit it? As Yumitree said before, this (also) sounds like Evil Dead territory.

[yumitree]

this edition isn't really all that much better than the last special edition. it's must more fluff crap loaded onto the original fluff pieces. wait for the 15th anniversary edition.

[mike]

Just you wait until the Blueray reissues really take off.

[Fentmore]

Just listened to The Treatment with guest Alex Gibney about The Hunter S. Thompson documentary and it was really fascinating when he spoke of his Taxi to the Dark Side (won the documentary oscar last year) concerning torture and its effectiveness, history, and how its been used recently.

That comes out 9/30. After that interview I really want to see Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (also by him).

[mcpiranhas]

Stephen Chow's CJ7 comes out this Tuesday, which is extra great news since it had such a tiny theatrical run.

[mike]

The Wire - Season 5 comes out on August 12.

[mike]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419MIR1qpaL._SS500_.jpg

September 16th.

Don't know what's on the second disc. Extra fag bashing?

[BillBrasky]

News about a possible "Andy Barker, P.I." DVD set:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Andy-Barker-PI-DVDs-Planned/10358

[mike]

NewsRadio - Complete 12 DVD set (http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/NewsRadio-The-Complete-Series/10351), $42!

October 28.

[mcpiranhas]

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B001ANE3AO/sr=8-4/qid=1219589219/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=130&s=dvd&qid=1219589219&sr=8-4"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Hkq2HNIqL._SL500_AA240_.jpg"></a>
The long-delayed weirdo animated take on Dante's Inferno is finally coming out on DVD this Tuesday. I haven't heard a word about its quality, or a word about it at all, but it does feature the voices of Matts Besser and Walsh, Andrew Daly, Tony Hale, Dana Snyder, Scott Adsit, and a lot more... not to mention James Cromwell as Virgil!

[yumitree]

the upcoming "best of" dr. katz dvd (apparently called "the katz files") looks like it's actually "the biggest names who were on" dr. katz dvd.
tvshowsondvd has early cover art (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dr-Katz-Professional-Therapist-The-Best-Of/10425), which features jon stewart, sarah silverman, ray romano, conan o'brien, dennis leary, janeane garofalo, dave chappelle, and dave attell. there's no word on what else is on the dvd.

[dogsdonttelljokes]

Heckler (http://www.amazon.com/Heckler-Jamie-Kennedy/dp/B0017600EW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220245640&sr=8-1) - September 9th.

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Heckler, a comedy-documentary that explores the increasingly critical world we live in, follows Jamie Kennedy as he investigates hecklers and the entertainers who endure them: Russell Peters, Lewis Black, Craig Ferguson, Paul Rodriguez, George Lucas, Rob Zombie, Bill Maher, Carrie Fisher, Jewel, Roseanne Barr, Nick Swardson, John Salley, Mike Ditka, Dave Attell, Lewis Black, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Eli Roth, Mike White, Henry Winkler, David Wain, Paul F. Tompkins, Greg Fitzsimmons, Larry Flynt, Tom Green, Judah Friedlander, Carrot Top, and more.

A fast-moving, "hilarious...claws-out look at the often brutal relationship between performers and their most vocal critics"

[Scammy Davis Boogah Jr.]

Oooh, featuring the comedy stylings of Criss Angel!!

[Shane]

and ditka! "This video offends me to the deepest of dishes."

[BillBrasky]

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/899/simpsonss11krustyboxgr0.jpg

Sort of a combination of a normal box and the "head" boxes from Seasons 6-10.
Why didn't they do this to begin with?

[mike]

Those eyes are freaking me out, maaan.


http://www.criterion.com/eclipse/

Criterion started a sub-label and no one told me.

[albino sunburn]

Out November 4th, from Amazon.com:

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/7886/512kj6qs3xlss500ex8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

"Home Movies is one of the first [adult swim] animated cult classics. With an alcoholic soccer coach for a father-figure and a woman who swears during parent/teacher conferences for an actual mother, eight-year-old Brendon Small (voiced and created by Brendon Small, now of Metalocalypse fame) chronicles his life as a jaded third-grader who happens to have the brain of a twenty-something-and who uses his video camera to cope with the trials of his oddly precocious life.
The Home Movies Limited Edition Megaset includes 12 DVDs containing every single episode, commentary track and other bonus features found in the four original DVD box sets, as well as the 52-song CD included in the Season Four set. This deluxe box also includes two Home Movies items available nowhere else:

Exclusive Home Movies Canvas Book Bag

Exclusive Home Movies Director's Clapboard"

[albino sunburn]

Out October 28th, from Amazon.com:

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"Mystery Science Theater 3000 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a specially packaged DVD set housed in a limited-edition tin box featuring 4 custom lobby cards and a figurine of Crow T. Robot! Features four of the show's most-requested episodes--First Spaceship on Venus (1960), Laserblast (1978), Werewolf (1996), and Future War (1997).
The Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 became a pop culture landmark in the '90s by poking fun at horrible movies of every genre and time period, and letting us listen in. They made the unwatchable essential viewing.

Bonus Features:
* "The Oral History of MST3K" feature in three parts.
* 2008 Comic-Con MST3K Reunion Panel, featuring Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett, J. Elvis Weinstein, Paul Chaplin and Bridget Jones-Nelson. Moderated by Patton Oswald.
* Original film trailers.
* "Variations On A Theme Song", featuring all six versions of the theme song.
* Limited-edition version comes in a tin box with 4 lobby cards and a figurine of Crow T. Robot, all exclusive to this set."

[uncomfortable]

The extras on that MST3K set seems skimpy, but apparently they were showing clips from the unreleased Green Slime KTMA episode during the Comicon panel, and that's some Holy Grailin' I need to get my hands on.

[Keith Whitener]

Would it kill them to include a Tom Servo key chain or something?

Who's Patton Oswald?

[Scammy Davis Boogah Jr.]

Redacted (or, in other words, never mind)

[derekthedrummer]

Aren't you just positive that Tom Servo will come in the next set? Then maybe a Gypsy, Cambot, some of those little computer chip puppy things...

[Jixby Phillips]

The extras on that MST3K set seems skimpy, but apparently they were showing clips from the unreleased Green Slime KTMA episode during the Comicon panel, and that's some Holy Grailin' I need to get my hands on.

Not at San Diego Comic-con, unfortunately.

[uncomfortable]

Not at San Diego Comic-con, unfortunately.
Sorry - I meant Dragoncon, not Comicon. I read reports incorretly.

[BillBrasky]

Duckman Seasons 1 and 2 are out next Tuesday, but tvshowsondvd now reports that Seasons 3 and 4 will be coming out January 4th. (http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Duckman-Seasons-3-and-4/10494) This will complete the whole series.

[BillBrasky]

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/82/saxondales12zn5.jpg

The BBC and Warner Home Video have announced that Saxondale - The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 will arrive on DVD January 13th. It will contain 14 episodes (370 minutes) on 3 discs, plus extras to include commentaries with star Steve Coogan and producer Ted Dowd, deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette called "On the Road," and more. Video will be anamorphic widescreen, audio English stereo and subtitles in English. Cost is $39.98 SRP.

[mcpiranhas]

Space Ghost Vol. 5, like 4 before it, is now available <a href="http://www.williamsstreet.com/cat/DVD-Space-Ghost-Coast-to-Coast---Volume-Five.html">exclusively online</a>. I hesitated to buy the last one in case a proper release hit stores (it has features but looks pretty ramshackle) but it looks like this is the official release pattern for the series now and I need me some Space Ghost.

<a href="http://www.williamsstreet.com/cat/DVD-Space-Ghost-Coast-to-Coast---Volume-Five.html"><img src="http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/SpaceGhostC2C_V5.jpg"></a>

[Famous Police Dog]

I can't find an episode list for this DVD anywhere, it's only reason I'm hesitating.

[jon]

Well, the press release says it includes "Mommentary," so even assuming that's the last episode on the DVD, the episode list should look something like:

Chambraigne
Snatch
Girl Hair
Sequel
Curling Flower Space
Table Read
Fire Ant
King Dead (!)
Kentucky Nightmare (!)
Justice Hole
Knifin' Around (!!)
Flipmode (!!!)
Sweet for Brak
Mommentary

There are only 7/8 more episodes after that, so they'll either also be included or released separately.

Exciting news.

[BillBrasky]

When you look at the description of it on the website, it looks like it contains everything through the Mommentary episodes, so I guess it's basically seasons 6 and 7 (http://epguides.com/SpaceGhostCoasttoCoast/).
After this, there's only one season of 7 episodes left to be released- don't know why they didn't just tack these onto this release and be done with it.

Edit: Haha, dammit. What jon said.

[mcpiranhas]

Maybe the last one is going to be jam-packed with extras. Lord knows Space Ghost has more original promotional material connected with it than anything I can think of, thanks to that long stretch where he was essentially Cartoon Network's mascot.

I'll also be interested to see if they try to handle Cartoon Planet DVDs. Weren't a lot of the episodes just reconstucted out of previously used bits? Did it even follow any sort of season pattern? (I looked this up before asking, I promise.)

[BillBrasky]

Pieced together from memory and using Wikipedia for help:

"Cartoon Planet" started off as a show that was targeted towards kids and aired on TBS. It was originally an hour long show, and in between the little Space Ghost/Zorak/Brak bits, they would show cartoons from the Turner library (Bugs Bunny, etc.) and even episodes of the original, serious "Space Ghost" cartoon.

When the show moved over to the Cartoon Network and (eventually) Adult Swim, it was reedited into 22 half-hour episodes (Wikipedia says 22, TV.com says 24). All the cartoons were edited out so that each episode was just a half hour of comedy bits and songs. So in a sense, there's really only one "season" of Cartoon Planet. Wikipedia says that "There are currently no plans for a DVD release of the series".

Oh yeah, and apparently the Volume 5 Space Ghost DVD contains everything except the last two episodes, "Dreams" (which features Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and "Live at the Fillmore". Not sure why these two episodes are ommitted, although on some of the previous DVD sets they had to leave certain episodes off because they couldn't get clearance from the celebrities involved to release them.

[yumitree]

i think we lost the step brothers thread, but here's some interesting news on the dvd release from the largoverse (http://largoverse.blogspot.com/2008/07/step-brothersness.html):
"We did an improvised musical commentary with Jon Brion playing piano with myself, Will and John singing the commentary,” McKay said. "And the point guard for the Clippers, Baron Davis, joined us at one point, and he also sang with us.”

[Jixby Phillips]

(Wikipedia says 22, TV.com says 24)

There's 22. Wikipedia lists 2 extra episodes that are actually Space Ghost Coast to Coast episodes. And not only that, the synopsis's for those episodes are inaccurate.


23. Season 1, Ep 23: Woody Allen's Fall Project

A series of spoofs of Woody Allen films.
Aired: 2/11/1998

#
24. Season 1, Ep 24: The Warren Show

A live action episode of this animated series.
Aired: 2/18/1998

Those are space ghost episodes.

Also, the DVD IS everything from Chambraigne to Mommentary, leaving the final season to be released on it's own (source: adultswim.com message board reviews)

[nadsat droog]

NewsRadio - Complete 12 DVD set (http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/NewsRadio-The-Complete-Series/10351), $42!

October 28.

Shit, I knew I should have preordered this. It's up to $54 now. Oh what's this? Deep Discount has it for $44/free shipping. Nice.

[BillBrasky]

Also, the DVD IS everything from Chambraigne to Mommentary, leaving the final season to be released on it's own (source: adultswim.com message board reviews)

Yep, I got it in the mail today and that's accurate. There's also the complete, unedited raw interviews with Conan and Busta Rhymes on there.

[albino sunburn]

Lewis Black's Root of All Evil (featuring such AST favorites as Patton, PFT and Andy Daly) is out 9-30 on <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lewis-black-puts-pop-culture/story.aspx?guid={A46100DE-0CA9-4CC1-9628-2B53C99F4FBE}&dist=hppr/">DVD</a> . It's cool this came out so fast.

[BillBrasky]

Tropic Thunder- November 18th

[nadsat droog]

I received the NewsRadio complete series box set in the mail yesterday. I know I bought it for the content, but I have to say that the packaging is the most disappointing thing I've ever seen. The thing that holds the 12 discs is like a glorified CD spindle. And there's not even an insert, just the episode listings inside. Boo to that but yay because I have every episode of a show I love on DVD now.

[BillBrasky]

The latest Simpsons set (11th season) is pretty bad too. When you open up the package, it folds out into a nicely-designed cardboard deal like all the other DVD sets. However, instead of having the usual plastic receptacles for each disc, the discs are just crammed into cardboard sleeves within the package. So in order to get the discs out, you have to kind of pull the cardboard sleeve open with your fingers (not too much, lest you rip the box apart entirely) and pull the discs out that way. It seems like this is just asking for the discs to get damaged and dirty too. I think maybe I might just put each of the discs into its own plastic carrying case so they don't get all beat up. I've never seen a professional DVD set with no protection for the discs at all (outside of those promotional "giveaways" that are just a disc inside a sleeve).

[mike]

Got my Newsradio set today and that really was a sorry piece of packaging.

The MST3K 20th anniversary was a bit disappointing because I thought the Crow figurine would be bigger. Half the tin can was just molded plastic to keep it in place.

[BillBrasky]

Very cool news.

http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5256835

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Release Date: 1/13/2009
Categories: DVDs & DVD Box Sets
DVD $16.98 + S&H *
From the twisted genius behind Saturday Night Live’s early years... Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video is the wildly demented comedy from the mind of National Lampoon’s and Saturday Night Live’s notoriously funny writer/performer Michael O’Donoghue. And like most of O’Donoghue’s humor, it was years ahead of its time. Originally conceived in 1979 as a television special slotted for one of SNL’s hiatuses—with much of the SNL cast on board—it was summarily rejected by NBC as too outrageous for broadcast.

Track list
1 Feature Film Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
2 BONUS - Bill Murray’s eulogy for Michael O’Donoghue
3 BONUS - Mr. Mike’s Least-Loved Bedtime Tales: “The Enchanted Thermos”
4 BONUS - Mr. Mike’s Least-Loved Bedtime Tales: “The Little Train That Died”
5 BONUS - Mr. Mike’s Least-Loved Bedtime Tales: “Willy the Worm”
6 BONUS - Commentary from co-writer Mitch Glazer

[mcpiranhas]

Holy shit, that is fantastic. I was lucky enough to rent Mr. Mike's Mondo Video from a hole-in-the-wall VHS place many years ago, and it was truly hilarious and bizarre. I thought about keeping it but I was nervous about the $50 price tag on the back. Now I can finally watch Swimming Cats again.

[Jixby Phillips]

fucking amazing!

[nadsat droog]

I can't wait to own this:

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[BillBrasky]

The IT Crowd Season 1 (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Crowd-Season-1/11025) is (finally) coming out in R1, March 31st.

[TomHicks]

Some love for NewsRadio on Slate, tied to the release of the complete show on DVD:

http://www.slate.com/id/2204924

[yumitree]

this is pretty much the opposite of an upcoming dvd, but bci eclipse, who were slated to release andy barker p.i. on dvd has gone out of business.

[Chaza8]

this is pretty much the opposite of an upcoming dvd, but bci eclipse, who were slated to release andy barker p.i. on dvd has gone out of business.

boourns, thankfully I somehow have every episode anyway.

[mike]

http://origin.aintitcool.com/images2007/venture3.jpg

March 2009.

[Scammy Davis Boogah Jr.]

That's the single greatest DVD packaging I've ever seen.

Is the 'weathering' on the packaging on purpose? If so, it's even more brilliant.

2nd place: VB season two