TV NEWS JUNE 1

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Welcome to Digital Digest! This week, we've got reviews of Wilfred - The Complete Original Series (the Australian version of the FX series) and Pretty Little Liars - The Complete Third Season. Let's get rolling! 

DIGITAL NEWS 

"Well, good Lord!" TVShowsOnDVD.com delivered what may be one of the biggest sitcom surprises on DVD in a long time this week as they discovered pre-order listings for both of the first two seasons of Mama's Family on Amazon.com. Of course, several years ago, Warner Home Video brought us Mama's Family - The Complete First Season (which turned out to be a rather disappointing release with syndicated versions episodes). As for the pre-order listings for the first two seasons they have since been removed... but TVShowsOnDVD.com did a little bit of further investigation and found that, in fact, Time-Life is not only going to release the first two seasons, but actually the entire series! And it gets better... the episodes will be uncut versions of the series (not seen since the original run of the series) along with plenty of special features. There is no date set or any details given for this set yet, but this is one that we'll be watching VERY closely. 

That isn't all that Time-Life has planned, though! TVShowsOnDVD.com reports that they've got a little bit more of the series that Mama's Family was a spinoff of, with a release of The Carol Burnett Show - Christmas with Carol. The release will come October 1, and will feature two full episodes of the series, along with sketches from 1967 and 1968 Christmas episodes of the series. We'll have more on this once we know more. 

Amazon.com has been testing out some new pilots lately, as they want to get into the game of airing their own original series for Prime members. They presented some of their own original pilots, and viewers had the opportunity to choose which one they wanted to see made into a series... and now we have the results! The winners are Alpha House, Betas, Annebots, Creative Galaxy, and Tumbleaf. While the last three are children's series, the first two are comedies. Alpha House is a comedy series that comes from Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau, and is a political series about four U.S. Senators (one of them played by John Goodman) living together in one house. Betas follows four friends and their attempt to strike it rich with a new mobile social networking app.