For Better or Werts : TV Worth Watching

DVD ALERT: 'Ally McBeal' update

We reported last month that both Ally McBeal and It's Garry Shandling's Show were finally coming to DVD in complete series sets. We had an Oct. 20 release date for Shandling then, and now Ally has a firm street date, too -- Oct. 6.

While Shandling comes from the retro-heads at Shout Factory, Ally arrives from Fox Home Entertainment at a $130 Amazon price point for its 5 seasons totaling 112 episodes.

The full-series Ally box will pack in 32 discs featuring the original music -- often an expensive sticking point or controversial change for TV on DVD. And that's crucial, since songs were a key element of the Boston-lawyer-girl saga featuring on-screen punctuation from club balladeer Vonda Shepard.

Ally also offers tons of extras -- a retrospective featurette with cast/creator, behind-the-scenes TV specials, soundtrack CD, and even a crossover episode with another David E. Kelley series, The Practice ("Axe Murderer").

Fox will also release a 6-disc Season 1 set of Ally McBeal that same date, for just $26 from Amazon.

Shout's package for It's Garry Shandling's Show includes 62 episodes on 16 discs, plus featurettes, outtakes, commentaries and more, for Amazon's $120 pricetag.

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Nothing personal, but prove to us that you are a human being, and not an evil automated computer bent on posting spam on this website. Type the characters you see in the picture below.

Archer T-shirts & fan gear at the Fox Shop!

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

ARCHIVES

August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008