Canadian TV-on-DVD Roundup (August 14, 2009)
I will still include industrials like Highlander: The Series, Inspector Gadget and Just For Laughs. Highlander and Gadget were co-productions, while Just For Laughs is a Montreal-based festival with tendrils in Chicago. I hate including them, but I do include as much proper CanCon as I can. I’m even wondering whether Fear Itself qualifies for the DVD Roundups.
Little Mosque on the Prairie’s second season on DVD September 15, 2009 through Paradox Entertainment Group/E1 Entertainment. I guess Morningstar Entertainment lost DVD rights for the show. E1 is a better label, anyway. The set includes a Dan Redican commentary track, among other random extras.
Fraggle Rock’s final season, as well as A Merry Fraggle Holiday (i.e., a Christmas compilation), coming out November 3, 2009 through Lionsgate. The complete series is being reissued the same day, in proper bookcase format.
Lionsgate is now working directly with The Jim Henson Company. HIT Entertainment has been freezed out of the picture, and I couldn’t be happier. Fraggle Rock was treated shabbily by HIT Entertainment at the end, while the Lionsgate/Henson arrangement takes the fans’ complaints into account – better packaging, a stand-alone fourth season set, cheaper prices. How can you not like that?
I think the Lionsgate/Henson arrangement is going to bear fruit. Is a Dog City DVD set on the horizon? Such a thing looks far more likely than it did a year ago. Make it happen, JHC.
Gord Lacey reviews Total Drama Island’s season set. This is a review of the American DVD set, obnoxious Cartoon Network logo adorning the box art.
Lacey quite likes the show, which I’m surprised by. Then again, Total Drama Island/Action is one of Cartoon Network’s juggernauts, as well as being omnipresent on Teletoon. If Fresh TV doesn’t subsume CN within a few years, I’ll be surprised.
Reviewersblog.com “reviews” of Blood Ties: “The Complete Season One.” As for the blog, it’s blatant content scraping from Amazon.com, just so you know.
I’m quite surprised this release is selling well, as it currently ranks #1,055 in Amazon.com Movies & TV sales. It’s not a blockbuster ranking, but the set’s been out for a month and a half. People are buying Blood Ties.
Highlander: The Series‘ first-season Blu-ray set pushed back to September 22, 2009…possibly. The only place to buy it right now is LegendaryHeroes.com. Hell, buy a sword for yourself while you’re at it. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! MOO! and stimulate your need for crap.
Oh, I almost forgot, Flashpoint’s first season on Canadian DVD and Blu-ray October 13, 2009 through Phase 4 Films. That isn’t important, is it?
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Even though this show and its fans were mistreated and abused by lifetime it continues to gain fans through word of mouth. It was a great show that was canceled before it’s time. It gave a new twist to the usual tried and true whiny vampires, Henry had learned to live with what he was and embraced it.
This show does well because the chemistry between the leads is fantastic. The show was funny, camp, and dramatic when it had to be. Early on in the show we here in the states heard that when it premiered in Canada that women audibly gasped when they first saw Henry, that’s good enough for me. lol. If I hadn’t seen it before that would have certainly piqued my curiosity.
The actors were so good at what they were doing with the characters they made us believe they were indeed who they were acting to be. The nicest surprise was Kyle Schmid, he was only 22 when he started filming, yet he made us all believe he was a 450 year-old vampire, he was that good!
I don’t recall any other show that I’ve EVER watched that I got so addicted to that I would have gone to the trouble of writing postcards, letters, call the network,etc. just to try to save it.
If you don’t buy but one DVD this year, buy this one. You’ll find it’s well worth your money.
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