New releases announced today, March 31:
Corner Gas - Season 6 will be coming out June 9
Eureka - Season 3.0 will be coming out June 30
The Girls Next Door - Season 5 will be coming out June 23
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New releases announced today, August 8:Corner Gas - Season 5 will be coming out October 7 The Mickey Mouse Club - Presents Annette (The 1957 - 1958 Season): Walt Disney Treasures Limited Edition Tin will be coming out November 11 The Starlost - The Complete Series will be coming out October 21 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Question: Do the networks have some sort of love-hate relationship with one-camera comedies? I have found most of them hilarious, but the minute I get attached, they're gone. I adored Miss Guided, Aliens in America and even the one where Andy Richter was a private eye. Before that, I loved Undeclared, which lasted about a minute and a half. The only ones the networks seem to hold on to are 30 Rock and The Office, two of my favorites. Is there something I'm missing? Am I the only one who rolls on the floor laughing when these shows come on? Or do they not attract the target demographic? I love the CBS Monday night traditional comedies (with the possible exception of Two and a Half Men and the David Spade one), but what about the one-camera comedies? Are they the future or the past? I'd like to know because right now I find myself staying up past midnight to catch my new favorite, Corner Gas. I can't keep this up.
Answer: Seems to me the networks, and many critics, like single-camera
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As the threat of a Writers Guild strike continues to loom, network suits are considering perhaps using finished and already aired-elsewhere episodes of international hits and/or cable series to fill schedule gaps should the stop-action happen. According to Variety, non-U.S. programming such as the U.K.'s Footballers Wives and MI-5, CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie and CTV's Corner Gas could make their way to the Big 3 — and Warner Bros. is said to be shopping around The Closer — though execs maintain such acquisitions would be a last resort. "Right now," says NBC entertainment cochair Ben Silverman, "we're just hoping there's not a strike." Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Non-American Broadcasting Cooperative says, "Hey, whatever you do, don't send Black Donnellys our way."
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Fox Reality will make the first episode of My Bare Lady, in which U.S. adult-film stars vie to become legit stage actresses in London's West End, available for download at iTunes on Nov. 30, days before its on-air debut.... Starting today, The-N.com is hosting the Give Some, Get Some Giveaway, an online auction of items culled from Beyond the Break, Degrassi, Instant Star and South of Nowhere. Someone hide Angel Cohn's MasterCard, now.... WGN has picked up U.S. rights to Corner Gas, Canada's top-rated scripted TV series, about life in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. Look for an early-2007 premiere.
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