New Holiday DVD Shopping Guides Are Up -- Please Shop. Please. Pretty Please...

I know, it's not even Thanksgiving yet, so talking about holiday shopping may seem premature. But if you want to buy the perfect TV-on-DVD gift for someone, you can save a lot on shipping by ordering early. So shop soon -- and, because we're launching these nifty shopping guides today, please, PLEASE shop here...

Some of you may have been around this site long enough to have ordered from our Holiday Shopping Guide last year. It's back -- and this year, thanks to a lot of great, exhaustive work by TVWW contributor Diane Werts, it's better, and a lot bigger, than ever. If you can't find a DVD boxed set or individual release on this list that will thrill someone you know, that person must HATE television.

Selections range from single discs (my personal favorite: The Point) to massive complete sets, such as the new The Sopranos: The Complete Series. You can access the list at any time by clicking on the Holiday Shopping Guide banner, just above BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS. Or, for now, by clicking HERE.

Starting today, there's a second list to peruse, too, and this one taps into Diane's expertise as the author of Christmas on Television. TVWW's Guide to Christmas Shows on DVD is another list of recommended gift possibilities -- but this list is devoted specifically to TV shows on DVDs that are ABOUT the holidays. These range from brand new offerings (A Colbert Christmas) to really vintage ones (A Shari Lewis Christmas). Again -- if you can't find the perfect gift on this list, you're shopping for a Scrooge. And even then, you'd have LOTS of choices.

Sample that list by clicking on the banner just beneath BIANCULLI'S BLOG on the home page -- or, for now, by clicking HERE.

Also in the Christmas spirit, Diane will be posting a full list of holiday specials and holiday-themed TV shows as they appear on TV this season. So watch for that, and keep checking her main-page blog, FOR BETTER OR WERTS -- and buy her book, which I reviewed glowingly long before she ever came aboard this website. Click HERE to buy her Christmas on Television.

Sorry for the hard-sell approach, but there are two reasons we're throwing so much space and effort into these special pages and offerings. One is because DVD sets of TV shows are among the best inventions of the decade -- and yes, they've pretty much all come out in this decade. Another is because holiday television is one of Diane's pet passions, and she's the recognized national expert on the subject.

And the third, which we've always been upfront about here, is that every purchase made that originates from this website results in a small kickback for TV WORTH WATCHING. Small, but, if enough of you buy a DVD or two by clicking on one of the "Buy Now" buttons here, not insignificant.

So while shopping for a friend or loved one, you're buying a gift for us as well -- one that doesn't cost you anything, but which helps us stay alive. Really. That's the dream, anyway.

Enjoy! And thanks, Diane and Rich and Eric, for teaming up to make this year's holiday guides a reality. Now I can start shopping for gifts for YOU....