League of Gentlemen series 3 DVD? (1 Viewer)

[James Reader]

http://www.bbcshop.com/bin/venda?ex=...t,5,,2,526,194

The release date is listed as 11/07/2003 which obviously isn't right... do you think they mean the 7th November?

Anyhow the supplements are revealed:

League of Gentlemen: Series 3 (DVD)

Written by: The League of Gentlemen (Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith)

Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

The locals from Royston Vasey return for the third series of The League of Gentlemen.

DVD Features include:
30-minute behind-the-scenes fature
15-minute video diary by Steve Pemberton
Deleted scenes & outtakes
Cast commentary and character biogs
Photogallery and special FX footage
An 'edit-your-own-end-sequence' package
Isolated music score and animated menus

 

[Brian Kidd]

Guess I'm gonna have to order this from the UK as WB has yet to even release Season 2 in the States. As far as I know they don't plan to, either. Dang it.

 

[James Reader]

Brian do you have the Christmas Special from the UK? Most highly recommended - especially if you are familiar with films like Dead of Night and the Original Tales From The Crypt movie. It's the best thing that they've done in my opinion.

http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000073802

lots of good supplements too.

The Live Stage Show is recommended too:
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000066124

 

[Rick P]

The release date is listed as 11/07/2003 which obviously isn't right...

UK dates are M/D/Y vs D/M/Y over here.. so it is right, and is 7 Nov 03

 

[James Reader]

NO!

I'm in the UK and UK dates are Day-Month-Year. So the UK BBC SHOP (which is where the link points to) is listing a date of 11th July, which is wrong.

They've changed it to 10/11/2003 now, which seems more likely - 10th November 2003.

 

[Brian Kidd]

James, they never aired the Christmas special over here, but I've heard good things about it. They aired Season 2 a year or so ago and are just now airing Season 3. So far, Season 3 is amazing! I love how they focus on a character at a time and tie things together. These guys are fantastic!!!

 

[Craig: Mclaren]

There up there with Monty Python in my opinion. Lets hope that planned movie gets made. I'll be buying this DVD set, its essential

 

[James Reader]

James, they never aired the Christmas special over here, but I've heard good things about it. They aired Season 2 a year or so ago and are just now airing Season 3. So far, Season 3 is amazing! I love how they focus on a character at a time and tie things together. These guys are fantastic!!!

If you like Season 3 then you'll love the Christmas Special. "Yule Never Leave!". If you are able to play PAL discs, I would recommend importing it now. It's only an hour, but there's another 2 hours or so of supplements on the disc.

Of course, it may endup as a "freebie" extra on the Season 2 release should the BBC decide to release Season 2 in America given their track record of better (and cheaper) R1 releases of BBC discs (Grrrr).

I've only seen Season 3 once (I deliberately didn't tape it as I knew I would be buying the DVD when it came out). While I wasn't that impressed I feel the League get respect from ensuring that they didn't fall into the "quick skit and catchphrase" trap the easily could do. Also I expect my appreciation of Season 3 will grow with repeated viewing. It's probably one of the most complex comedies ever.

 

[Brian Kidd]

James,

Actually, the BBC discs are fairly expensive over here. I know that THE YOUNG ONES retailed over here for around $50 and I'm pretty sure that I paid over $30 for the LEAGUE first series.

I may go ahead and get the discs from the UK. I just got a region-free player that does PAL to NTSC conversion.

 

[Dave Smith]

The Christmas special was aired over here, on BBC America, around either Christmas 2001 or last year (bad memory, sorry). I had it on my Tivo for ages.

I'm watching the third season now on BBCA and I'm really impressed. The show had kind of worn it's welcome out with me after two seasons (it seemeed to be getting kind of catchphrase-reliant) but this new season is quite different in tone and extremely well done.

 

[James Reader]

"Hello Dave. Is Dave there? I wanna talk to Dave."

Hi Dave. Glad you are at least getting the chance to watch the series, even if BBC America don't seem to be releasing it onto DVD over there.

(I just wanted to do my Papa Lazaru stuff! )

 

[Brian Kidd]

You're my wife now, Dave....

LOG never gets old for me. I was pleasantly surprised by the episode from last week. It centered on the guy with the neck brace who owns a bed and breakfast where his wife throws sex parties. A fairly minor character from S2, it was fun to see him get an entire episode to himself.

 

[Dave Smith]

This thread is making me nervous now

 

[Kai Zas]

Don't worry, just talk gibberish