TV NEWS ON OCTOBER 20

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2012/10/digital-digest-perry-mason-moving.html Welcome to Digital Digest! It's another slow fall news week, of course, but we're here with all of your news, and reviews of Fantasy Island - The Complete Third Season and Happiness Is... Peanuts - Go Snoopy Go! Let's get started! DIGITAL NEWS It seems like it was only yesterday that CBS released Perry Mason - Season 7, Volume 2 (well really it was four days ago), and we're just a little over a month away from the beginning of the eighth season with Perry Mason - Season 8, Volume 1. You'd think that would be all of the upcoming releases, but that is incorrect, because yet another release is on the way for January 15 with Perry Mason - Season 8, Volume 2! This will only leave the two releases for season nine unreleased, and it is probably a safe bet to say that we'll see those sometime in 2012. I Love Lucy is something that seems to be "said and done" on DVD, but about two weeks ago, we found out that wasn't exactly the case as CBS re-released most of the seasons (with the remaining ones coming next month, although technically Target is offering every season right now as a Target exclusive) in new packaging. For the most part, these re-releases come in packages with new "cartoon" artwork, a standard Viva case, and the disc artwork is replaced with the CBS "series logo on a gray background" standard... in other words, they are more like the other releases that CBS has out there. But it is worth noting one release in particular, and that is I Love Lucy - The Complete First Season. When CBS released this set, TV on DVD was just beginning, so this ended up being a rather large set, but the big problem was that the episodes had not been remastered as the episodes were for the remaining seasons. These issues were rectified with I Love Lucy - The Complete Series, but there wasn't any way of getting just the "better" season one release by itself... but now, with this re-release, we can happily report that all issues have been fixed to match the other releases. Last week, VEI supposedly released Cagney & Lacey - The Complete Series on DVD... but we have to put emphasis on supposedly. While we don't exactly know what is going on, it appears that there is some sort of delay keeping it out of the hands of fans for now. We can't find any website actually shipping the set (US or Canada), and a post on the official series blog seems to indicate uncertainty even from the series producer as to when fans will actually be able to order the limited edition release. We don't doubt that this set is on the way... after all, it is really pretty rare for a VEI release to actually show up on the anticipated release date... but we don't think it is available just yet, and we'll let you know when it actually is available.