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DVD Review: The Best of Star Trek – The Next Generation
With the new Star Trek film currently in theaters, I suppose it makes sense that CBS/Paramount would take the opportunity to release a small compilation of episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series, created by Gene Rodenberry, ran in first run syndication from the week of September 28, 1987 to the week of [...]
DVD Review: The Best of Star Trek – The Original Series
In the last few years, I have become an avid Star Trek fan. Star Trek originally ran for three seasons and eighty episodes, each of which I’ve seen at least twice. It is perhaps unfair to compare my personal Star Trek collection to that of an average consumer, because I have been given review copies [...]
DVD Review: Boston Legal: Season Five
Created by David E. Kelley, Boston Legal was a spin-off of the long-running series The Practice, Boston Legal followed the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. A solid top twenty show in the Nielsen ratings, Boston Legal has the distinction of drawing [...]
Blu-ray Review: Star Trek, The Original Series – Season One
As any Star Trek fan is undoubtedly aware, the original series has been released in countless DVD formats. From its late 1990s single disc, two-episodes-per-disc DVD release, to its more recent HD presentation, the Enterprise and her crew have never found the definitive home-entertainment release. Until now. Blu-ray was meant for Star Trek. The series’ [...]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Eleventh Season
If Dallas didn’t completely “jump the shark” after the tenth season, “it was all a dream” fiasco, the producers made sure they finished the job during the eleventh year. After ten years on the series, Victoria Principal, who played the popular character of Pam Ewing and had appeared in almost every episode of the series, [...]
DVD Review: Rhoda, Season One – 35th Anniversary Edition
A spinoff of the very popular The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda ran for five seasons from 1974-1978. Valerie Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern, the funky, flamboyantly fashioned best friend of Mary Richards who leaves Minneapolis and returns home to New York City. Rhoda had begun her television life as Mary Richards’ slightly overweight, self deprecating [...]
DVD Review: The Paper Chase – Season One
The Paper Chase began as novel, written in 1970 by Harvard Law School graduate John Jay Osborn, Jr. and was later turned into a faithful movie in 1973 starring John Houseman (Ghost Story), Timothy Bottoms (Invaders from Mars), and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman). Houseman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of contract law [...]
DVD Review: Star Wars, The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
The 2008 television series, The Clone Wars is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, during the same time period as the previous 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series. Star Wars creator George Lucas says “there will be at least 100 episodes produced of the series, regardless of whether the ratings are good or bad. [...]
Blu-ray Review: South Park – The Complete Twelfth Season
South Park makes its debut on Blu-ray in its twelfth season. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone continue to use the series to push the envelope of good taste and continue their longstanding tradition of skewering American culture and politics. As always, South Park isn’t for the faint of heart; crass and potentially offensive, [...]
DVD Review: Night Court – The Complete Second Season
Night Court aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. Though the series was moved around a lot on NBC’s schedule, Night Court was a solid favorite with viewers, remaining in the top thirty of the Neilsen ratings during its first six seasons on the air. Night Court creator Reinhold Weege, had previously been [...]
DVD Review: Blossom – Seasons 1 &2
Created by Don Reo (My Wife and Kids), Blossom ran on NBC from 1991 to 1995. The half hour sitcom starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers. As the series began, Blossom’s mother had recently left the family, leaving the rest of them to try and [...]
Blu-ray Review: Dexter – The Complete First Season
As a fan of Blu-ray, I was thrilled when learned that Showtime was releasing Dexter in the high-definition format. For those of you not familiar with the series, the show is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by James Manos, Jr. (The Soprano’s, The Shield). The series [...]
DVD Review: Studio One Anthology
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about a lot of different boxed sets that might be the perfect gift for someone on your list this holiday season. Over the past three weeks, I have been completely engrossed in the six DVD, approximately 982 minute, Studio One Anthology put out by Koch Vision [...]
DVD Review: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Best of Season 3
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a letter to the Smothers Brothers When The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered on CBS in February of 1967, the show was just a slightly “hipper” version of other [...]
DVD Review: Supernatural – The Complete Third Season
Created by Eric Kripke, Supernatural centers on Dean and Sam Winchester (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, respectively); the two brothers travel around the country in a black 1967 Chevy Impala, investigating paranormal events and other unexplained happenings, many of them based on myths, American urban legends, as well as classic supernatural characters such as vampires, [...]
DVD Review: Pushing Daisies – The Complete First Season
Described by producers as a “forensic fairy tale,” Pushing Daises centers on a pie maker named Ned, who has the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. The problem is, another touch renders that person or thing dead again permanently. Further, if something is revived for more than one minute, [...]
Ragged Road’s Online Premiere
More than 750 people auditioned for the premiere season of the Ragged Road web series, but only five were chosen to take the ride of a lifetime. The group will travel over 5,000 miles around the country meeting music industry innovators as they make their own path towards achieving their goals.
Fancast to Have Exclusive Preview of Unedited Season 2 Premiere of Californication
Fancast will have an exclusive preview of the unedited second premiere of Californication for 48 hours prior to its Showtime airdate on Sunday September 28th. The premiere will be available on Fancast.com from 9/26 – 9/28. Today, I had the opportunity to watch the season premiere of Chuck, that I missed last night.
DVD Review: Chuck – The Complete First Season
Created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, Chuck centers around a computer whiz named Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi). In the pilot episode, we learn that Chuck is socially awkward and feels more comfortable interacting with computers than most other people. He works as a computer expert at his local Buy More with his best friend, [...]
DVD Review: CSI: Miami – The Sixth Season
CSI: Miami has always been my CSI of choice. Whether it’s the sunny Miami locale, or watching Lieutenant Horatio Cane (David Caruso), go off the rails a bit more than some of the criminals he’s charged with having to catch week after week, I’ve been hooked on the series for years. I’ve read many complaints [...]
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