After watching the first episode of the third season of Heroes, I can state with confidence that I needn’t watch more. I can erase that viewing obligation from my schedule. I can also state that I do not need to watch Boston Legal this season. I am despairing enough from politics without any help from David E. Kelley. That leaves just two shows on my active viewing list, presuming they return: Reaper and The Middleman. Well, it leaves three if I include Samantha Who?, but I still need to watch all of the first season before I can watch the second (if it is renewed).
[Edit: I watched the second episode of this season's Boston Legal since someone recorded it for me, so I guess I'll stick with the show for now.]
I am excited about the first season of Lexx being released for the first time in the States in a complete box set (as far as I know), and the release of Quark, the science fiction sitcom created by Buck Henry, for the first time ever on DVD. They will comprise my October DVD purchase. (My September purchase was Space Ghost Coast to Coast Volumes 1-3 and The Brak Show Volumes 1-2.)
I am not at all happy about the DVD release of My Three Sons, which I was looking forward to buying. As mentioned on the back of the packaging, the program has been edited and the music changed. I’ll not launch a rant here at this time, but suffice it to say that I will never purchase a television show on DVD or any other format if it has been bastardized in any way. The customers who buy old television shows on DVD want to see those shows as they remember them. Period.
Thanks to Fox, I’ll never buy any television show on DVD ever again unless the entire series has been released. Fox decided not to release any seasons of The Bob Newhart Show or The Mary Tyler Moore Show after the first four. I don’t care what the rationale is, if one starts something, one ought to finish it. “Poor” sales are no excuse, because some customers decide to wait until the entire series is available as a set. They have been trained to have that expectation. Too often they purchase each volume as it is released only to discover that a “deluxe mega-set” of the complete series is released later, frequently at a lower price. Is this not an incentive for fans to wait?
On a happier note, I was very pleased to discover that The Tournament, the CBC television series mockumentary about a kids’ hockey team (and their parents) is available on DVD — the complete series in one set. Go Farqueson Funeral Home Warriors!