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24 Season 7 and Other Announced Releases

• Feb 23, 2009 04:36 PM ET
• by The DVD Team
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24 - Season 7

New releases announced today, February 23:

24 - Season 7 (DVD and Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out May 19

Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series (Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out July 28

Gunsmoke - The 3rd Season, Volume 2 will be coming out May 26

House of Payne - Volume 4 will be coming out June 16

The Mod Squad - The 2nd Season, Volume 2 will be coming out May 26

Reaper - Season 2 will be coming out June 2

Sister, Sister - The 2nd Season will be coming out May 19

TV Sets: Action Packed and TV Sets: Forever Funny will be coming out May 26

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Colbert and Other Announced Releases

• Aug 11, 2008 09:00 PM ET
• by The DVD Team

Stephen Colbert by Martin Crook/Comedy Central

New releases announced today, August 11:Cannon - Season 1, Volume 2 will be coming out December 2 The Colbert Report - A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All will be coming out November 25 Gunsmoke - The 3rd Season, Volume 1 will be coming out December 9 Jake and the Fatman - Season 1, Volume 2 will be coming out December 2 Perry Mason - The 3rd Season, Volume 2 will be coming out December 2 Rawhide - The 3rd Season, Volume 2 will be coming out December 9 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more

JAG and Other Announced Releases

• Feb 5, 2008 10:01 PM ET
• by The DVD Team

JAG - The Complete 6th Season courtesy CBS DVD and Paramount Home

New releases announced today, February 5:The Cosby Show - Season 7 and The Cosby Show - Season 8 will be coming out April 8 Drawn Together - Season 3 will be coming out May 13 Exes & Oh's - The Complete 1st Season will be coming out May 20 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - The Complete 4th Season will be coming out May 20 Gunsmoke - The 2nd Season, Volume 2 will be coming out May 27 Holocaust: The Mini-Series will be coming out May 27 JAG - The Complete 6th Season will be coming out May 20 Rawhide - The 3rd Season, Volume 1 will be coming out May 27 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more

Why do none of the major ...

• Sep 21, 2007 04:00 AM ET
• by Matt Roush

Question: Why do none of the major networks show new programming on Saturday night anymore? I grew up with TV, and there have been a lot of good shows airing on Saturday nights (i.e., Gunsmoke, Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, District, Hack, to name a few). Do the major networks think that no one is home on Saturday evening to watch TV? A lot of us "baby boomers" are done running around and partying on Saturday nights and would really appreciate something other than repeats to watch. Is there any hope for us? Answer: There's no such thing as a simple question. Saturdays are a dead zone for the networks, and I can't see that changing in the foreseeable future. In fact, I worry that Fridays will be the next to go. The notion of there being a "captive audience" for network TV is obsolete; even in recent years, when the networks were still programming original series on Saturdays (CBS, the most traditional network, was the last holdout), there was a sense that most at-home viewers ... read more

NBC: Parsing the Peacock's Moves

• May 14, 2007 03:53 PM ET
• by Matt Roush

Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights by Paul Drinkwater/NBC Photo

First, the good news (that we've been cheering since late last week): NBC's Hail Mary reprieve to the low-rated but critically worshipped Friday Night Lights is something to celebrate. True, the move to Fridays is a bit worrisome. Those with long memories will recall the fast fade of a similarly themed high-school football drama, Against the Grain (starring a then-unknown Ben Affleck), which aired on Fridays in 1993. Its failure was largely attributed to being scheduled on a night when much of the target audience was actually attending high-school football games. (But that was before the age of DVRs, downloads, online streaming, etc.) One upside: expectations on Fridays are significantly lower. And with a summer in which (let's hope) Emmy nominations and a presumed DVD release can help promote the show and stimulate more buzz, maybe this underdog will do OK in the long run.Next, the strangest news in all of NBC's fall announcements, the first in a week-long wave of network upfront p... read more

Help! Many years ago there ...

• Mar 23, 2006 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

James Garner, Maverick

Question: Help! Many years ago there was a TV program called Maverick, which was about two brothers, Bret and Bart. One was played by James Garner and the other by...? It's driving us nuts. Please try to help. I can see his face, but not his name. Thanks.Answer: Don't get too down about it, Irwin. The late Jack Kelly, often called "the other Maverick" while the series was on the air, seemed destined to play second banana to one star or another throughout his entertainment career. But to his credit, he had as good an attitude about it as anyone in the business. Kelly started off his career at the age of 2 weeks, modeling for an Ivory Soap ad. But his early acting years were spent in the shadow of older sister Nancy, who won Tony for the play The Bad Seed and an Oscar nomination for the movie read more

In the mid-1960s, I think, ...

• Feb 16, 2006 03:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

Question: In the mid-1960s, I think, Dennis Weaver starred in a show where he had an adopted Korean son, lived on a ranch and drove a convertible Mustang. What was the name of it? Thanks.

Answer: That would be the short-lived comedy-drama Kentucky Jones, which ran on NBC for a year beginning in September 1964. Weaver, coming off his nine-year stint as Chester Goode on the classic Gunsmoke, starred as veterinarian Kenneth Yarborough "Kentucky" Jones (he signed his name "K.Y."), who lived on a ranch in Southern Cal.

And the 9-year-old boy of whom you speak, Dwight Eisenhower "Ike" Wong (played by Ricky Der — apparently nifty nicknames were plentiful on this show), was Chinese, not Korean. Kentucky's wife had arranged to adopt the lad and then promptly died, leaving the widower vet to raise him alone.

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I've been watching Bonanza ...

• Oct 27, 2005 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

You've got male: the men of The Ponderosa

Question: I've been watching Bonanza reruns and was wondering why it was eventually canceled. My dad says it was because Dan Blocker died. Is that true? Thanks for your help and keep up the good work!

Answer: Aw, heck — t'ain't nothin, but thanks for the kind words, Tim.

It's true that when Blocker died at 43 from surgical complications, many felt the heart and soul of the show went with him. But the show also dropped in the ratings after NBC moved it from its longtime Sunday-night berth to Tuesday night. The truth is that Bonanza most likely perished because its time had simply passed. Next to Gunsmoke, it was the longest-running Western on TV (from September 1959 to January 1973) and for much of that time it turned in phenomenal ratings. From 1964 to 1967, it was No. 1 and it only began to slip out read more