Home Media Magazine - August 17, 2008 - (Page 14) TV DVD Edited by John Latchem www.homemediamagazine.com ARTS ALLIANCE SLATES ‘DONNA REED’ FOR HOLIDAY SHOPPERS By John Latchem nother classic American sitcom is finally heading to DVD. The Donna Reed Show: The Complete First Season streets Oct. 28 (prebook Sept. 23) as a $39.95 four-DVD set from Arts Alliance America. The set is timed not only for the holiday season, but also the 50th anniversary of the show, which debuted on ABC Sept. 24, 1958, and ran for eight seasons and 274 episodes. The first season includes 37 episodes. “Donna Reed is America’s first television sweetheart,” said Joe Amodei, president of Arts Alliance America. Reed previously was known for such movie roles as Mary Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life and as Alma Burke in From Here to Eternity. The latter earned her a best supporting actress Oscar. On her eponymous show, she played housewife Donna Stone, with Carl Betz as her husband, and A Shelley Fabares (“Coach”) and Paul Peterson as their children. “The show is a great example of wholesome programming, very different than what’s on TV today,” Amodei said. “It wasn’t all fluff. The family dealt with some tough issues.” Extras on the first season include a photo gallery of rare and never-beforeseen photos, and a digitally enhanced original TV spot. Amodei said future seasons will include more. “We want each season to be a collector’s item,” Amodei said. Mary Owen, Reed’s daughter, hopes baby boomers who grew up with the show will share the DVD with their children and grandchildren. “In the 1960s, before we lived with computers and cable TV with over 200 channels of mostly junk, the Stone family showed what love, respect and support for one another looked like,” Owen said. Fox Brings ‘24’ Out of ‘Exile’ With New Movie By John Latchem n preparation for the delayed debut of the seventh season of “24,” producers have prepared a new TV movie leading into the new storyline. The prequel movie is slated to air Nov. 23, then makes its way to DVD Nov. 25 (prebook Oct. 29) at $26.98 from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The 24: Exile DVD will include an extended edition of the movie with more than 10 minutes of unaired footage, plus behind-thescenes featurettes, cast and crew commentary, a recap of the sixth season and the first 16 minutes of the first episode of season seven, which premieres in January. I Filmed on location in South Africa, the movie finds anti-terrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) involved in an African uprising on the day of the inauguration of a new American president, played by Cherry Jones. Short prequels were produced for the DVD boxed sets of seasons three, four and five to tie into their respective subsequent seasons. The season-six boxed set did not include a prequel to season seven, but producers decided to make a feature-length “24” movie to whet fans’ appetites after the writers strike forced Fox to delay the airing of season seven for a year. 14 Home Media Magazine August 17–23, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.myspace.com/strandreleasing http://www.strandreleasing.com http://www.strandreleasing.com
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