Canadian TV-on-DVD Roundup (April 2, 2009)
In fact, TVShowsonDVD.com hasn’t been making with the truly interesting news as of late. Sure, The Dana Carvey Show and American Gladiators, we all want that. Was the world clamoring for more Brothers & Sisters and California Dreams, though? Sheesh, give me Automan and Manimal. I want to see Simon MacCorkindale fail to act, damn it!
The complete Zeroman series out on DVD June 2, 2009 via kaBOOM!/Peace Arch. I honestly never expected this to come out on DVD, although Teletoon shows frequently merit series sets. Then again, Zeroman isn’t exactly Delilah and Julius or Cybersix. Nothing could be Cybersix.
Zeroman isn’t the worst thing Leslie Nielsen’s ever done. Liocracy, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and 2001: A Space Travesty are all worse than Zeroman, although that’s damning Zeroman with faint praise. At this point, Leslie Nielsen should retire the deadpan humour he used to be so good at with Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
Ron MacLean and Don Cherry have recurring roles on Zeroman, as do Ryan Reynolds and Kevin McDonald. Did I mention Zeroman was shit? At least the show’s animation was surprisingly decent.
Corner Gas‘ sixth season set will come six weeks after the show’s series finale airs. The June 9, 2009 release will have the retrospective behind-the-scenes filler It’s Been a Gas and “footage of the final read-through,” at least according to CTV press bumf. Not a bad deal, especially since CTV is pimping Corner Gas‘ final episode out. It’s Canada’s greatest-ever mainstream comedy series. Canada will fall apart when Corner Gas ends, right? Won’t it?
Corner Gas II, also known as Little Mosque on the Prairie, will see its second and third season sets come out in the fall of 2009 through Morningstar Entertainment. The information comes from CBC Shop, so let’s just vouchsafe that the discs will come out. After all, if The Collector can come out on DVD…
In a related segue, The Collector‘s second season set comes out May 26, 2009 through Morningstar Entertainment. I’m rather surprised The Collector sold well enough to merit a second-season DVD set. It just goes to show you how people like certain Canadian programs, but CityTV aired The Collector. Murdoch Mysteries and Less Than Kind fans know CityTV is where Canadian shows go to die.
Acorn Media releases Murdoch Mysteries‘ first-season set on June 16, 2009. There are many hardcore Murdoch Mysteries fans out there, so I have a feeling this will sell well. Why is it that an American company can cherry-pick shows like this and gain a reputation for quality releases? If Acorn Media snaps up Less Than Kind, I’m going to lose my shit.
Blood Ties “Season 1″ out June 2, 2009, while “Season 2″ might come out September 2009. The reason I quote the seasons is that the show aired worldwide as a 22-episode season. Lifetime split Blood Ties in two seasons for U.S. consumption. Eagle Vision is releasing this since, you know, strong fanbase.
Yeah, another Canadian show’s home entertainment rights snapped up by an American company. If nothing else, Peter Mohan stands to make serious bank off the DVD releases. Vampires are trendy these days, so he might as well profit from the trend.
Critical Mass Entertainment and Anchor Bay Canada released another Hilarious House of Frightenstein DVD set on March 31, 2009. It’s an Igor-centric compilation, for those Fishka Rais fans. It’s hard to fault Anchor Bay for putting the Frightenstein comps out, since they come out with some regularity.
If Critical Mass gains DVD rights to Maniac Mansion, John Hemphill fans are going to have an epileptic seizure. Watch, I’ve now set in motion events that are going to culminate in Maniac Mansion season sets, at least in my mind. After all, I am Turner Edison. You think “Cameron Archer” is a real person? Bullshit!
