User: TV Shows On DVD
Date posted: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:11:18 GMT
***** TV SHOWS ON DVD ROUNDUP *****
"...and now we return to our program. Thank you for standing by."
Hi, everybody! This is David Lambert, here with two weeks' worth of TV-DVD/BD news. What follows is a list of the 30(!) TV-on-DVD and TV-on-Blu-ray titles which have been announced since I posted the site's last news stories. This is pretty much everything I would have posted news about at the TVShowsOnDVD site if it were still up, just in a condensed format. Our thanks to lo...ngtime readers Wesley Mead and John Cerone for pointing out several of these items. Attached is an image with package covers for most of these titles, so check 'em out. And we'll try to be back at this time next week, with another Roundup of items announced between this post and the time of my next one...so look for it!
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NOW AVAILABLE (5/18):
* Divorce - The Complete 2nd Season (HBO)
$19.98 SRP DVD/MOD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D31RY3X/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----Picking up with the surprisingly unceremonious occasion of signing their divorce papers, Season 2 finds Frances and Robert each dealing with the aftermath of their drawn-out separation, and learning to rebuild their lives. While Frances throws herself into her gallery full-time, Robert moves ahead with his house-flipping venture, and each take steps to get back in the dating game. Along the way, Frances and Robert try to maintain normalcy and set boundaries for their kids, juggling their obligations to friends, family, new love-interests and each other, with mixed success.
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COMING ON 6/5:
* Living Single - The Complete 5th Season (Warner Archive)
$24.99 SRP DVD/MOD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D57L8CS/tvshowsondvd0d-20
http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3821628-10811526…
-----In the final season of the series, Overton and Synclaire enjoy their honeymoon and start their lives together. Though Kyle and Max go their separate ways after Kyle accepts a job in London, and Max begins to date, they might eventually reunite. Plus, an old flame returns to court Khadijah and Regine finds love as these very different women finally say goodbye to Living Single.
* Ducktales - Destination Adventure! (Disney)
$9.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07BYWG7RV/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----An ancient tomb in Toth-ra, the mountain peak of Mt. Neverrest, a vacation island for Greek gods… global expeditions await! Thanks to Huey. Dewey, Louie and Webby, gazillionaire Scrooge McDuck is back in action, leading the way to death-defying adventures stretching all the way from Duckburg to legendary destinations around the world. Let the greatest family adventures begin!
* Teen Titans Go! - The Complete 1st Season (Warner)
$18.94 SRP (already on Blu-ray; now on DVD for the first time as a complete season set)
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07BZC8LJ7/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----These five super hero teens have more than just super powers — they have super-sized chores to do and they’re super unsupervised! Saving the world might seem like a pretty big deal, but after fighting evil all day in Jump City, the last thing these teens want to do is fight over the remote back home at Titans Tower or have to clean up after a marathon pizza party. So get ready for comedic mayhem punctuated by pranks as the teens totally annoy each other, with a splash of crime fighting. Unless there’s something good on TV.
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COMING ON 6/11:
* Deadly Games - The TV Series (VEI)
$29.99 SRP DVD
https://www.visualentertainment.tv/…/deadly-games-tv-series…
-----A short-lived hour-long action show about a video game coming to life. Most notable for the involvement of Leonard Nimoy as an executive producer and Christopher Lloyd as the series' Big Bad, "Jackal." Recently-divorced physicist Gus Lloyd decides to take his mind off things by creating a video game in his spare time. In it, he is hero "The Cold-Steel Kid" - a commando-type vigilante hero. Along with Love Interest "The Girl" (based off his ex-wife Lauren), he fights the forces of the evil Jackal, who are all based off people from Gus's life who have upset him. Somehow, Gus's latest experiment causes the characters from the game to come to life, and they're planning on carrying out the schemes from the game. Now Gus, along with his best friend Peter and the reluctant Lauren (since "her" character is important to the game), have to find and stop his characters before they can carry out their missions.
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COMING ON 6/12:
* Step by Step - The Complete 1st Season (Warner Archive)
$29.99 SRP DVD/MOD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D55J8P9/tvshowsondvd0d-20
http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3821628-10811526…
-----Suzanne Somers and Patrick Duffy star as two mismatched single parents who fall in love, marry and move in together with all their kids. Now, they hope it's only a matter of time until they all come to love their new life. Until then, the they will have to take each day Step By Step.
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COMING ON 6/19:
* Perfect Strangers - The Complete 4th Season (Warner Archive)
$29.99 SRP DVD/MOD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D4ZPSN8/tvshowsondvd0d-20
http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3821628-10811526…
-----In spite of almost overwhelming odds, two distant cousins, Balki (BRONSON PINCHOT) and Larry (MARK LINN-BAKER), have become best friends and are beginning to succeed in work and life. The ever-practical Larry gives Balki a lesson in economic reality after Balki is tempted to buy a lottery ticket. But when the winning numbers are announced, Larry is shocked.
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COMING ON 7/3:
* Striking Out - Series 2 (RLJ/Acorn)
$39.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07BXB4SM6/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Behind-the-scenes featurette, Cast panel discussion at the Television Critics Association event
-----As the hit Irish legal drama returns, solicitor Tara Rafferty (Amy Huberman, The Clinic) is embattled but not beaten. She has built a new life for herself after leaving her cheating fiancé, Eric (Rory Keenan, War & Peace), and the high-powered law firm where they both worked. But with one of her employees betraying her and another in jail, she struggles to keep her fledgling practice afloat. Convinced that her former boss—Eric’s scheming father—is behind it all, Tara decides to strike back. To pay the bills, Tara takes on clients whose legal problems range from deportation, to divorce from a bigamist, to a lawsuit against a convent. As she frequently faces off against Eric and her former colleagues in court, Tara’s mentor, Vincent (Neil Morrissey, Line of Duty), leads a high-level corruption inquiry that could endanger them both.
* Delicious - Series 2 (RLJ/Acorn)
$34.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07BX51QMP/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Behind-the-scenes, Photo gallery.
-----It’s been almost a year since the sudden death of philandering chef Leo Vincent (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Jack Taylor), but his presence at the Penrose Hotel is more palpable than ever. His ex-wife, Gina (Dawn French, French & Saunders), and widow, Sam (Emilia Fox, Silent Witness), have turned the failing hotel he left behind into a profitable enterprise. Gina does the cooking while Sam manages the business, but they continue to have professional and personal disagreements. With an ongoing police investigation into the hotel, an unexpected guest, and a handsome new hire, Gina and Sam’s partnership may be a recipe for disaster. And while Leo ruminates on life from beyond the grave, his secrets come back to haunt his family.
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COMING ON 7/10:
* Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In - The Complete 5th Season (Time-Life)
$39.95 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D31PGNZ/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----The ’60s gave us “in-crowds,” “be-ins” and “love-ins,” and starting in 1968, the happening place for free-form comedy was ROWAN & MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN, broadcast from beautiful downtown Burbank. Straight man Dan Rowan and wisecracking co-host Dick Martin led a gaggle of goofballs through a rapid-fire assault of one-liners, skits, bits and non sequiturs that left viewers in hysterics and disbelief. Anything and anyone in the public eye was a target. Political correctness? Forget it!
* Endeavour - Season 5 (PBS)
$39.99 SRP DVD; $49.99 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B07CXH4YSM
-----As 1968 dawns, Endeavour's recent promotion leads him to reluctantly mentor new recruit Fancy, while Thursday is beginning to think about life after the police. But in Oxford, crime never sleeps, and the team continues to be challenged by intriguing cases of murder, greed, and deception. When 1968 comes to a close, will things at Cowley Police Station ever be the same again? UK Edition.
* Keeping Faith - Series 1 (RLJ/Acorn)
$49.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07CBZSDZB/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Behind the scenes, Character Introductions
-----Award-winning actress Eve Myles (Torchwood, Broadchurch) stars in this BBC thriller as Faith Howells, a fun-loving lawyer with a happy marriage and three children, enjoying an extended maternity leave from the law firm she founded with her husband, Evan (Bradley Freegard, Doctors). Then one day, Evan leaves for work but never arrives. Faith scrambles to handle the clients Evan left behind, all while trying to find out what happened to her husband. As the days go by with no sign of him, Faith becomes the police’s prime suspect, and her search for the truth leads her to the criminal underbelly of her quiet Welsh town. When long-buried family secrets come to light, Faith wonders if she ever really knew her husband at all. Filmed on location along the stunning Welsh coast, this suspense-filled mystery also stars Mark Lewis Jones (Master and Commander), Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch), Eiry Thomas (The Indian Doctor), and Aneirin Hughes (Hinterland).
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COMING ON 7/17:
* Sneaky Pete - Season 1 (Sony)
$38.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07CLYMTDP/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----Fresh out of prison, charming con man Marius Josipovic finds himself in the worst jam of his life, involving his feckless brother, a large sum of money and enemies who want him dead. Fortunately, Marius has all the information he needs to successfully impersonate his ex-cellmate, Pete, and he sets out to gladden the hearts and lighten the wallets of a family that Pete hasn’t seen in 20 years.
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COMING ON 7/31:
* Counterpart - The Complete 1st Season (Lionsgate)
$34.99 SRP DVD; $39.99 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B07CBLSDLY
-----Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross . . . where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate, and lost love, posing the eternal question, "What if our lives could have been different?”
The Men Who Built America - Season 2: Frontiersmen (Lionsgate)
$19.98 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D51Y78V/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, this epic docuseries intersperses historical re-enactments and interviews with leading historical experts to tell the exciting true stories of such pioneers as Daniel Boone, Lewis & Clark, William Tecumseh Sherman, Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, and others.
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COMING ON 8/7:
* No Offence - Series 1 (RLJ/Acorn)
$49.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07C5K7QC1/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Deleted Scenes, Meet the Cast and Crew
-----From legendary writer Paul Abbott (Shameless [UK], State of Play) comes an “exhilarating, ballsy, and…filthily funny” (The Independent, UK) police comedy-drama with fierce female characters and a shrewd, irreverent take on crime. Charismatic DI Vivienne Deering (Joanna Scanlan, Notes on a Scandal) leads an ace but unorthodox squad that tackles Manchester’s most gruesome and off-the-wall crimes, including drug dealers, neo-Nazis, and black-market organ sellers. When strong-willed DC Dinah Kowalska (Elaine Cassidy, Acceptable Risk) connects a body at the morgue to a group of murdered girls with Down’s syndrome, Viv and her team begin the hunt for a serial killer. What they uncover could leave even the most seasoned officers reeling.
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COMING ON 8/14:
* SEAL Team: Season 1 (CBS/Paramount)
$49.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D515634/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Season 1 Debriefing, Corporal Canine: Meet Dita, Tour of Duty: A Look at the Sets, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Gag Reel
-----It takes a special breed of warrior to become a Navy SEAL. In the thrilling first season of SEAL Team, discover the intense, high-stakes world of these dedicated global guardians who live and die on the front lines of America’s war on terror. Starring David Boreanaz, this gritty, authentic military drama takes you behind the scenes of the private and professional lives of heroes and their families with an exciting mix of emotional realism and explosive action.
* NCIS: New Orleans: The 4th Season (CBS/Paramount)
$49.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D577RY9/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Behind the Scenes featurettes, Deleted scenes
-----THIS CITY NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO THEY. A Nuclear Terror Threat. An Elusive Serial Killer. A Mystifying Supernatural Murder. These are just a few of the pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat cases facing the elite NCIS team in the fourth season of NCIS: New Orleans. But no matter the risks, the heroic agents, led by Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride (Scott Bakula), remain at the top of their game...from the action-packed season premiere to the explosive finale!
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COMING ON 8/21:
* NCIS - The 15th Season (CBS/Paramount)
$55.98 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D515635/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Audio Commentaries, Featurettes
-----The Best Never Rest. Confronting cold cases, running secretive stings, and chasing down kidnappers are all part of the job for the unsung heroes of the Major Case Response team in the suspense-packed Season 15 of NCIS. As the team continues to search the jungles of Paraguay for Special Agents Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Timothy McGee (Sean Murray), the cases keep coming in this 24-episode, 6-disc set. Co-stars Pauley Perette, Emily Wickersham, David McCallum, Brian Dietzen, Rocky Carroll, Duane Henry, and Wilmer Valderramaare joined by Maria Bello as Special Agent and forensic psychologist Jacqueline Stone to solve suspicious suicides, run protection details and face the crimes and the criminals that threaten our country.
* Blue Bloods: The 8th Season (CBS/Paramount)
$55.98 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07D58Y2G6/tvshowsondvd0d-20
EXTRAS: Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel
-----LOVE AND LOYALTY. The Reagan family follows every lead to the end in the eighth thrilling season of Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg. The heat is on as Frank (Selleck) clashes with the new mayor of New York City and defends the NYPD from a series of public scandals. Oldest Son Danny (Wahlberg) is forced to cut a deal with his imprisoned archenemy while his brother Jamie (Will Estes) works to protect the city’s defenseless victims. At the same time, their D.A. sister Erin (Bridget Moynahan) reopens a number of old cases and faces off with her ex-husband. Guest starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ernie Hudson, Mimi Rogers and Lorraine Bracco, this collection includes all 22 episodes and special features. Even when facing the city’s worst, this family always has each other’s backs.
* Ash vs. Evil Dead: The Complete 3rd Season (Lionsgate)
$34.98 SRP DVD; $39.97 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B07D5186CP
-----Legendary horror icon Bruce Campbell (the EVIL DEAD franchise) stars in the “truly insane, awe-inspiring and gruesome” (Merrill Barr, FORBES) third and final season of ASH VS. EVIL DEAD! Ash, having gone from urban legend to hometown hero, discovers that he has a daughter. When Kelly witnesses a massacre with Ruby’s fingerprints all over it, she returns to warn Ash and Pablo.
* Gotham - The Complete 4th Season (Warner)
$44.98 SRP DVD; $49.99 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B077698BCC
EXTRAS: The Best of DC TV’s Comic-Con Panels San Diego 2017, Solomon Grundy: Born on a Monday, The Sirens Take Gotham, Deleted Scenes
-----Horror fills the streets as season four of Gotham witnesses the emergence of the criminal landscape for which Gotham City is best known while Bruce Wayne begins the path to vigilantism, showing signs of the caped crusader to come. Gotham City Police Department Captain Jim Gordon and Detective Harvey Bullock remain at the forefront of the fight against the most depraved and unhinged villains from Penguin to The Riddler and numerous others in between. Detective Gordon also finds himself fighting personal demons like never before.
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COMING ON 8/28:
* Lucifer - The 3rd and Final Season (Warner)
$39.99 SRP DVD; also coming on Blu-ray Disc via the Warner Archive
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B0775Z8DHG/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----The story of the original fallen angel continues. As Season Two came to a close, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) took care of a little problem called Mom, aka Charlotte (Tricia Helfer). But now he’s facing an even greater challenge: finding out who kidnapped him, and why his angel wings are back. In addition, Tom Welling (Smallville) joins the cast as Marcus Pierce, an accomplished police lieutenant who is everything Lucifer is not: strategic, reserved and well-respected. But perhaps even more annoying are all the things they have in common. Both men are charming, charismatic and handsome as hell. So, when Pierce starts developing a connection with Chloe (Lauren German), Lucifer's devilish traits are inflamed.
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COMING ON 9/4:
* The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 3 (Kino Lorber)
Details TBA
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COMING ON 9/18:
* Supergirl: The Complete 3rd Season (Warner)
$49.99 SRP DVD; $54.97 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B077697MTC
EXTRAS: The Best of DC TV’s Comic-Con Panels San Diego 2017, Inside the Crossover: Crisis on Earth-X, She Will Reign! featurette, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes
-----In Season Three, Kara Danvers grapples with the sacrifices she’s made personally while saving National City as Supergirl. She even considers covering up her human identity altogether. Being human and vulnerable is hard. Maybe she’s better off embracing her alien DNA and only being the “Girl of Steel.” As Kara struggles with her path forward, she continues to work with Hank Henshaw and her sister, Alex, at the Department of Extranormal Operations to battle all threats to National City, including new villains Morgan Edge, and the “Worldkiller” known as Reign. Everything Kara’s ever known, and everyone she’s ever loved, will be tested in all 23 supercharged Supergirl adventures.
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COMING ON 9/25:
* Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Third Season (Warner)
NOTE: this is the official, finalized date; previously there was reason to believe in a date of 7/31, but Warner has announce 9/25 for this title
$29.98 SRP DVD; $39.99 SRP Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/…/…/ref=pe_37760_16557250_pe_prehead/…|B0776K4VGT
EXTRAS: The Best of DC TV’s Comic-Con Panels San Diego 2017, Inside the Crossover: Crisis on Earth-X, Post Production Theater, Gag Reel
-----After defeating the Legion of Doom, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow face a new threat created by their actions. By revisiting a moment in time that they had already participated in, they’ve essentially fractured the timeline and created anachronisms all across time! In Season Three, the Legends must find a way to return all the anachronisms to their original timelines...before the time stream falls apart.
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COMING ON 10/30:
* The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 4 (Kino Lorber)
Details TBA
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COMING ON 11/13:
* The Outer Limits - Season 2 (Kino Lorber)
Details TBA
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COMING ON 12/11:
* The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 5 (Kino Lorber)
Details TBA
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DATE NOT YET ANNOUNCED:
* S.W.A.T. - Season 1 (Sony)
$45.99 SRP DVD
http://www.amazon.com/…/o…/ASIN/B07C8ZPQGZ/tvshowsondvd0d-20
-----Inspired by the television series and the feature film, S.W.A.T. stars Shemar Moore as a locally born and raised S.W.A.T. sergeant newly tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles. Torn between loyalty to where he was raised and allegiance to his brothers in blue, former Marine Daniel ”Hondo” Harrelson has everything it takes to be an excellent leader and bridge the divide between his two worlds. Hondo’s elite unit includes David “Deacon” Kay, an experienced S.W.A.T. officer who always puts the team first, despite feeling overlooked for the lead job; Jim Street, a cocky but promising new member of the group; Christina “Chris” Alonso, a skilled officer and the team’s canine trainer; and Dominique Luca, an expert driver who gets them in and out of high risk situations. Overseeing the unit is Jessica Cortez, the captain of L.A. Metro who values her job above all else, including her off-the-books relations with Hondo. Hondo’s team enjoys an intense rivalry with another L.A.-based unit led by Mumford, an aggressive leader who likes to do things his way. With Hondo leading the charge, these dedicated men and women bravely put themselves at risk to protect their community and save lives.