NewsRadio DVD release date announced

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From TVShowsOnDVD.com:

 

NewsRadio - The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons was originally supposed to be out in February 2004, over a year ago, but it was delayed from that to a 2005 release. The explanation for the delay was that the show's creator, Paul Simms, got in touch with the studio and requested they hold off, so he could work with them and add extras to this release.

 

Now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced what Amazon.com has posted for a few months: May 24th will be the release date for this long-awaited set! The exact list of extras hasn't been announced yet, but so far they're hinting about a Featurette, a Blooper Reel, Commentaries, Filmographies, Weblinks and Bonus Previews.

 

As you can see from the brand-new picture shown above, the box design did not change, nor did the menu screens we first showed you sixteen months ago. Cost is $39.95 SRP (Amazon is presently selling pre-orders for $29.96, though). It's still at 3 DVDs, running 660 mintues for every episode from the first two seasons, in their original network broadcast length. Here's the back-of-the-box description:

 

      Off the airwaves and into your living room, Emmy Award-winning NewsRadio arrives on DVD for the first time! Airing for five highly-rated season (1995-1999), this audience favorite is a hilarious take on office politics at New York City's WNYX station. Spotlighting a stellar comic cast, including Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live), Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall), and MTV's Andy Dick, NewsRadio is one of the most sharp-witted sitcoms ever, staffing its no-holds-barred station with a gallery of wildly memorable characters: on-air host Bill (Hartman), anchor Catherine (Khandi Alexander, C.S.I.), supervising producer Lisa (Maura Tierney, E.R.), and handyman Joe (Fear Factor's Joe Rogan).

 

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This and Episode 3 within a week of each other. Awesome.

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This past Monday saw the formal announcement - finally! - of the May 24, 2005 release of NewsRadio - The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons. At the bottom of that story, we posted a look at the back cover, but cautioned our readers that "the list of extras really can't be made out, and we're not sure if that's been updated to include all the new supplements which are supposed to be added."

 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment answered that issue yesterday afternoon by distributing a new picture of the back cover of the box. As you can see by looking at it below, there is no redesign; the layout remains the same. But the blue "Special Features" box has definitely changed. This time it's readable, and you can more easily make out the list of extras this set will contain:

 

Season Two Gag Reel

Commentaries on 20 episodes from the Cast and Creators

Featurette

Filmographies

Weblinks

 

That matches up exactly with the hints we had gotten, which were mentioned in the second paragraph of our last NewsRadio story. Worth waiting a year-and-a-quarter for? Well, commentaries on 20 episodes (out of the 29 included in the set) is a LOT!

 

 

From tvshowsondvd.com

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I'll believe it when it's on a shelf. Until then, Sony can blow.