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Ally McBeal: The Complete Series and Season One now on DVD

October 16, 2009 By
AllyMcBeal

I didn't realize how nostalgic I would get about Ally McBeal until Fox Home Entertainment sent me screeners with a sneak peek of The Complete Series, released on DVD October 6th. Ally McBeal: The Complete Series is an incredible THIRTY ONE discs plus you get the "Best of Ally McBeal" soundtrack by Vonda Shepard. Fox also released just the first season of the show on DVD. I received Disc One to review, which is these four episodes from Season One: “Pilot” “Compromising Positions” “The Kiss” “The Affair”. The cast of this show is like the Who's Who of TV Actors- Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Gil Bellows, Portia de Rossi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu, and Dyan Cannon. Plus the series was packed with special guest stars like Christina Ricci, Robert Downey Jr., Hayden Panettiere,  Jesse L. Martin, Taye Diggs, and Jon Bon Jovi.  Combine all of that talent with the writing of David E. Kelley and you have a TV series that was … [Read more...]

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New TV on DVD Box Sets-Samantha Who? and Scrubs

September 7, 2009 By
Samantha Who

I am WAY late on posting this, so please make my sponsor happy and promise you'll check out these DVD box sets, okay? SAMANTHA WHO?: THE COMPLETE SECOND AND FINAL SEASON & SCRUBS: THE EIGHTH SEASON were released on August 25th, and after watching most of both of them for this review, I can confidently say that yes, they are worth buying. The second season of Samantha find Sam continuing to struggle with remembering her past, and of course, falling in and out of love. Christina Applegate is absolutely delightful as always, with Jean Smart as her sassy Mom Regina, Kevin Dunn as her adoring but clueless Dad Howard, Jennifer Esposito as Sam's party-girl (in her former life) friend Andrea, Melissa McCarthy as Sam's best friend Dena, Tim Russ as her building doorman and comic partner Frank, and Barry Watson as her on-again, off-again boyfriend Todd. It was absolutely criminal that Samantha Who? was cancelled. The first season aired right after Dancing with the Stars, received high … [Read more...]

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How Much TV Should Your Kids Watch?

September 3, 2009 By

In the middle sidebar you'll see a widget that has a video you can click.  I get the widget and video content from Jungle Ad Network and earn a share based on impressions, not per click, just so you know.  The current video has parenting experts and parents talking about how much TV their children DO watch, and how much they "SHOULD" watch. The video includes information from the American Academy of Pediatricians, who recommend NO TV for children under two. I'm not a child psychologist, and I certainly can't say what's right for anyone else's children, but in thinking back to our own family's experiences with TV watching,  I realized that the AAP would probably shake their head in dismay at our willingness to turn on the TV for our kids. All three of my children were very interested in TV before they were even one year old. In fact, as I was thinking back while writing this post, I realized just how young each of them were, and how I have a very specific memory for each of … [Read more...]

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