As far as I can tell, S2 has never been released in a separate set. Fame S1, released by Sony in 2005, has been discontinued. Fox released a set combining S1 and S2 on Sept. 15, but that's the only one. That's according to Amazon.com and Wikipedia.
Most all of the examples being mentioned are people going from being recurring actors to regulars, mostly as a matter of contract terms or necessity to fill a gap. My intent with the original post was to think of a guest star who had such an impact in a guest role that the producers were...
That reminds me of the awful CGI the Sopranos used to superimpose archive clips of Nancy Marchand's head on a body double after the actress had died. It was creepy.
I got to thinking about this while going through the thread on actors/characters who vanished without trace from a TV series. This is the opposite. Let's talk about actors who appeared in a series initially as a one-shot guest appearance but were so memorable, they were eventually added as a key...
That practice has pretty much disappeared. Most times now, the writers at least try to resolve a character's departure with a spoken line in passing. But Boston Legal was notorious for having characters disappear with no explanation. I recall that in the second season, two new characters were...
She also filmed a few scenes for the pilot of "Firefly" before Joss Whedon decided he didn't like her and replaced her with Morena Baccarin, reshooting that character's scenes.
I do specifically remember that Shandling himself blocked further season-set releases of Larry Sanders. That's not to say that S1 sold well enough for Sony to want to continue. It may not have. But Shandling did say publicly that he had no interest in releasing season sets after S1.
The inconsistencies and continuity problems take up a pretty big section in the article about the show at wikipedia.org. Also: In most episodes, Eden wears her revealing "Jeannie" costume. Censors allowed her to be depicted living in a house with an unmarried man (it was made plain that she...
Back to "The Body," from BtVS: If I had to pick just one episode as the most memorable of any I've ever seen, that one is it. I'll never, ever forget that one. That one cut to the bone.
We want our favorite TV shows on DVD. And we want them with sparkling new transfers from the original masters no matter how much it costs. And we want the original music no matter how much clearance rights cost. And we want commentaries and documentaries and other special features. And put it in...
The issue is not with artists or songwriters but with the holder of the publishing rights, who may not be the artist or the songwriter. The most famous case was when Michael Jackson owned the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and McCartney had to pay Jackson for the right to even perform his songs on...
The.Best.Ever Artie (Rip Torn), The Larry Sanders Show (You'll have to forgive Hank. His heart's in the right place but he keeps his brain in a box at home.)