What Are The Chances of These TV Shows Coming To DVD?

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Men Behaving Badly

You could also visit the TV on DVD website linked in Dave's sig. They probably have the latest news known for each show.

Well, Malcolm's essentially correct in that if I knew anything, I would have mentioned it at TVShowsOnDVD.

I had originally bypassed this thread because yesterday was a hectic day for me (today still is too, but I have a minute).

But sure, I'm game to share my opinions:

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...I think NBC owns the DVD rights to this, but would have to get Will Smith and Quincy Jones to sign off on it. I don't know if the latter is a problem or not. I think that this is much more likely to see the light of day under the new "NBC Universal" powerhouse.

Grounded For Life, That 70s Show...are all owned by Carsey-Werner, who hasn't put a single one of their shows onto DVD other than some Columbia House (subscription-only and expensive) releases of The Cosby Show. Personally I'd like to see those, but I think it's more likely we'll first see retail releases of The Cosby Show along with A Different World, Roseanne, Third Rock From The Sun, and Grace Under Fire. That is, whenever this studio gets around to doing DVDs at all.


Are You Afraid of the Dark?...I think Nickelodeon and distributer Paramount are concentrating on the newer cartoons, sorry.

Brimstone...seem to recall the name, but I never watched it and don't recall a thing about it.

Mad TV...my opinion is that the clearance rights to get this out on DVD would be too much, and that Fox would never do it. On the other hand, that was my exact opinion about In Living Color, and that's in-the-works! So what the hell do I know?

Alf...I think that the rights holders to this - whoever they may be - are seriously missing the boat on this item. I think it would sell nicely, if done right. If the rights holders read this and aren't a big studio themselves (or affiliated with one), I bet that Anchor Bay or Rhino would welcome a call from them! :wink:

Pirate Islands, Sightings...never heard of these, sorry.


I DO get an ego boost from being a "pundit" on these matters, but remember please that's it just one man's opinion, and that any actual *facts* I have are shared as I get them. Thanks,

Dave,
Whats the word on Greatest American Hero?

Its one of my most wanted TV shows next to Seinfeld.

Thanks buddy!

Matt

Jim,
Greatest American Hero was on for about 2 years (est) in the 80's. A rough description of the show follows:

A schoolteacher gets a superhero suit giving him powers from an alien rae, telling him to fight crime. He loses the instruction book however. He teams up with his lawyer girlfriend and a bitter FBI agent and the three of them get the bad guys.

It was produced by Stephen J Cannell.

Dave's back on-line for the first time since mid-Friday, but I have to run food shopping right now. I'll see if I can answer those in-depth questions a bit later.

What about "Everybody Loves Raymond"?

No word that I've heard.

Ditto.

I don't know the Top 20 any more than you guys do. Gord might be able to query that, but any registered member who signs on sees a top ten list, and that's all I have access to.

Unless you just start poking around individual shows and happen to notice the ones that are at #'s 11, 12, 13, etc. then there's no easy way to know the "top twenty" (or 50, or 100, etc.).

As for the status of the Top 10:
[*]Roswell - Feb 2004[*]Firefly - 12/9/03[*]Charmed - No word (all current rumors have been squashed)[*]Seinfeld - In the planning stages[*]JAG - Paramount collected info from polls here at HTF as well as the TVShowsOnDVD voting this past spring, so we know it's on their minds.[*]Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Nothing has been announced yet.[*]MacGyver - No word here yet, either.[*]La Femme Nikita - Season 1 is out, and S2 is being considered.[*]Beverly Hills, 90210 - No word[*]Gilmore Girls - No word


Let's ease off on questions toward me about this stuff, please. Real news will be posted at TVShowsOnDVD, and rumors I'll leave for the Digital Bits rumor mill section, and for Ain't It Cool News.