TV NEWS ON JUNE 9

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2012/06/digital-digest-release-dates-for-two.html Welcome to Digital Digest, your weekly place for all things digital about your favorite sitcoms! This week, in addition to our regular features, we have double reviews, with our reviews of Pretty Little Liars - The Complete Second Season, and we take a look back at a classic Screen Gems suspense series with Ghost Story (a.k.a. Circle of Fear) - The Complete Series. Let's get going! DIGITAL NEWS The 2011-2012 broadcast television season has somewhat come and gone (although the summer season consisting mostly of reality series is here), and of course, we are getting prepared for the onslaught of releases of the series which aired during the season on DVD, most of which will come in August or September. This week, we got a few dates for some of those releases. Sony hasn't had a whole lot to offer recently in regards to TV-on-DVD, but they are indeed keeping a steady pace with Community. And they'll be releasing Community - The Complete Third Season on August 14. The set has a nice collection of special features (making it, ironically, the sitcom which gets the best special feature treatment on DVD these days), which you can read more about here, including (once again) commentaries for each and every episode! We continue with releases from Warner. Their releases begin on August 21 with Mike & Molly - The Complete Second Season. Unfortunately, it appears that this release will only be available on DVD, unlike season 1, which also had a Blu-ray release. On August 28, Warner will have Two and a Half Men - The Complete Ninth Season, which is the first season without Charlie (although you will get to see Kathy Bates playing his ghost in one episode!). This, too, will only be released on DVD, but that is expected, as this series has not been on Blu-ray at all so far. Next, on September 4, Warner will be releasing the premiere season of one of the breakout hits of the past season, with 2 Broke Girls - The Complete First Season (DVD/Blu-ray), which will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray. Finally, everything comes to an end with a "big bang," both figuratively and literally, on September 11, with The Big Bang Theory - The Complete Fifth Season (DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo). The Blu-ray/DVD Combo is new for the series; previously, it has been available on DVD and Blu-ray, but this new Blu-ray/DVD Combo follows in the tradition of much more prominent releases which include the DVD and Blu-ray in the same set. Oh, and as a bonus, there is even an UltraViolet Digital Download in the Combo pack, which will allow you to download the episodes to your favorite devices! Everything is covered all around with this "big bang." In 2005, Universal released Kojak - Season One, and we heard absolutely nothing about it for another six years, when Shout! took over the rights to release it late last year... and they've been on a steady pace since then! In fact, their pace has been so steady that the series will be complete on DVD on September 11, with the release of Kojak - Season Five! It is really nice to see the series come to completion as fast as it has, particularly considering that Shout! has not only been steadily releasing the seasons, but even managed to release the pilot and every post-series film on DVD in their collection of Kojak - The Complete Movie Collection. Sadly, there is no news on any of the other crime dramas which Shout! has licensed (such as Policewoman or Police Story, which were licensed from Sony), but hopefully we will hear something on those in due time. A release date has also been set for Shout! Factory's release of the series Get a Life. On September 18, Get a Life - The Complete Series finally makes it to DVD. The set will come at a $59.97 MSRP. Sony released the ABC series which only lasted one episode (on air) Emily's Reasons Why Not - The Complete Series last month as a MOD title, but there is a bit of question as to whether or not it really is the complete series. The set contains six episodes of the series, with the one that actually aired on ABC, and five additional unaired episodes... but it seems that there were actually six unaired episodes. It has been reported that a seventh episode, "Why Not to Look in Bridal Magazines," did, in fact, air in some countries... but this episode is not included in the set. So, is this set actually missing an episode? Assuming that the episode was in fact produced and did in fact air in other countries (we have no way of verifying that from the US, obviously, where only one episode aired), it is... but hopefully we'll find out something more definitive about this in the near future. Finally, Hulu has made a new addition to their Hulu+ service this week, which means that you won't be able to access it unless you subscribe to the premium service, but you can now watch the first season of Here's Lucy on the service now if you are a subscriber. It is too bad Hulu no longer offers all programs for free, but at the very least, this is an opportunity to view the first season of the series (and hopefully more are on the way) if you pay the monthly fee. UPCOMING WEEK PREVIEW Tuesday (June 12) brings a trio of new series (although two of them have already been cancelled) from ABC's midseason schedule to DVD, with GCB - The Complete First Season, Missing - The Complete First Season, and Scandal - The Complete First Season. We'll have reviews of all of these over the next few weeks in Digital Digest. Additionally, HBO lowers the curtain one last time on the series Entourage, with Entourage - The Complete Eighth and Final Season (DVD/Blu-ray). We'll have a review of this set soon as well.