DEXTER!! This just in…Showtime has a trailer of the new season of DEXTER. How will our favorite killer do with a newborn baby?? Should be interesting…check it out HERE.
WINNERS!! Thanks to all the people who entered the MAD MEN 2nd season DVD. This was definitely one of the most popular giveaways so, if you didn’t win, make sure to check back every Friday to see what I’m giving away next. The winners this time around are: Kari Gibson (Santa Ana), Jim Sholly (Indianapolis) and Ryan O’Connors (Westchester, NY).
Answers to the questions. 1) TRUE Betty did sleep with someone else (and, for you sticklers, a quickie in a bathroom is sex and ’sleeping together’ is sex. ‘nuf said) 2) 30 Rock and Hamm played a doctor. 3) A typewriter.
As for the next giveaway, just got word that Fox is graciously sending over the first season DVD of
Dollhouse. Joss Whedon’s new series starring the hotter-than-hot Eliza Dushku got off to a rough start but Fox wisely gave the show a second season, which will premiere this fall. So, this giveaway is an easy one. Send me and email at jim@progressivepulse.com and you’re entered. Period. Deadline is midnight EST on Wendesday July 29th and I’ll announce winners next Friday. Woo hoo! I love giving away free stuff!
- The cast of thirtysomething
thirtysomething. Can I just say that I got a little too excited when I opened my mail the other day and there was a copy of the first season of the ABC series thirtysomething??? This is one of those shows that I watched religiously when it was on the air and, thanks to the great folks at The Shout Factory, it’s finally coming to DVD. The reason for the delay? According to a LA Times article…
The long delay was mostly caused — as is often the case when it comes to DVDs — by complicated, expensive music rights clearances. Garson Foos, president of Shout! Factory, which will release “thirtysomething,” said the Emmy-winning drama also had a second hurdle to a digital afterlife: a lack of master copies that would allow the easy transfer to DVD.
Foos approached Herskovitz about how to get “thirtysomething” out of limbo more than a year ago, after Shout! Factory’s successful re-release of “My So-Called Life.” Now both obstacles have been overcome. “It doesn’t look like we’ll be cutting any music from the show,” Foos said. And high-definition master copies of the episodes have been created — meaning, according to Foos, “the visual quality is going to be incredible.”
“The answer was that somebody had to take the time to finally do it,” Herskovitz said.
“thirtysomething” ran from September 1987 through May 1991. It was a “Big Chill”-like serial examination of how Reagan-era class-consciousness, career striving and family values collided with post-hippie ethics, and was enacted through a group of educated, upper-middle class characters. The action, so to speak, revolved around two couples — Michael/Hope (played by Ken Olin/Mel Harris) and Elliot/Nancy (Timothy Busfield/Patricia Wettig) — and their friends, families and co-workers.
“What we thought of as esoteric, which meant specific and honest — specific to a group of people and honest about their lives — ended up having a universal appeal that we absolutely did not foresee,” Herskovitz said. “It became a life-changing experience.” (And a language-changing one: the Oxford English Dictionary added “thirtysomething” to its pages in 1993, crediting the show with spreading the word.)
Watch for a review closer to the release date in August and, hopefully, some interviews with the original cast! OMG!!
THE MIDDLEMAN: Another Shout Factory release on Tuesday is the complete series of the ABC Family series The Middleman. While the series may not have sparked enough viewers to warrant a second season, it’s still a worthy DVD for anyone that loves comic book-inspired adventures with superheroes, villains. In fact, the series is living on in a way with the release this month of “The Middleman – The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse” collector’s comic book edition by Viper Comics and ABC Family.
The set-up is twenty-two year old aspiring artist Wendy Watson (the spunky Natalie Morales) floats from temp job to temp job but finds her life taking an unexpected turn when she’s recruited by a top secret agency to fight comic book-esque criminals under the guide of her strait-laced (and kinda cute) boss THE MIDDLEMAN (played by Matt Keeslar).
The series is cute, fun and easy to take so perfect for your younger viewers and the older viewers who have never let go of that geeky comic book freak that still lurks inside. The DVD comes with all 12 episodes of the series, commentary by the cast and crew, alternate scenes, web featurettes, a gag reel and audition footage.
I even have a video clip from The Middleman right here!
The Middleman is released this coming Tuesday so make sure to pick up your copy anywhere DVDs are sold or at the Shout Factory website.
Until next time…keep watching!
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Photos courtesy of AMC and the Shout Factory.
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Jim Halterman spends his days interviewing the top tier of talent and creative forces in the television world and then, because he's that kind of guy, he brings it all to YOU! And, because we all like free stuff, check back often for giveaways!! 
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I think you need to have a Dexter giveaway!!!
The site looks GREAT! Congratulations on your new endeavor!
Thanks, Renee…I’m already working on the Dexter DVD giveaway so keep checking back.