Once and Again
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Season Two of Once And Again was released on DVD on August 23, 2005. Season One was reissued the same day. (Hopefully, Season Two will have the extras that the Season One set sorely lacks. No. The only extra on the Season Two set is commentary from Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz on one episode - "Food For Thought.") With my luck, Season One will be re-issued with a lot of extras. (No, it wasn't. Except for the same semi-flimsy Digipak that the Season Two set comes in, instead of the original issue's sturdy plastic cases, it's the same as the original 2002 issue.) Now, let's hold our breath for Season Three. (I may be blue in the face before those DVD's hit the stores, if I go that route, at the rate it's going.)

Sela Ward was interviewed by Newsweek recently, and she says a commentary track was recorded for the last episode, "Chance Of A Lifetime." TV Shows on DVD.com states the third season, which was scheduled to be released on January 10, 2006, has been delayed, and no new release date was given. Here's the package artwork anyway. Amazon is no longer taking pre-orders for it (my pre-order was cancelled), and has listed Season Three as unavailable. Shame on you, Touchstone/Buena Vista, for getting my (and many other persons') hopes up for weeks about this release, and dashing them in one fell swoop. But, Touchstone rushed the Season One set of Grey's Anatomy (a big nine episodes) to market in February, just in time for Valentine's Day. I guess they're going where their bread is buttered.

By the way, TV Shows on DVD has posted Buena Vista Home Entertainment's press release for the first season set of Grey's Anatomy, in which Buena Vista has a paragraph bragging about their DVD releases. (Scroll down the page; it's right above the artwork for the Anatomy DVD set.) BVHE actually has the colossal balls to include Once And Again in this incredibly onanistic bit of self-congratulation, while still stiffing O & A's fans (yours truly among the biggest) out of the Season Three DVD set. (They're also tooting their horn over their DVD releases, including O&A, in the press release for the DVD release of Season Five of The Golden Girls.) Am I pissed off at Buena Vista about this, or what? (And, getting more so each day.) For crying out loud, even outright crapola, such as Gastineau Girls, gets a DVD release. And, two of this past season's sci-fi failures, Threshold and Night Stalker, the latter from good ole' Buena Vista, will be soon available on DVD. In fact, the press release for the issue of Night Stalker touts Once And Again, just like the Grey's Anatomy and Golden Girls sets did. The much-hyped and now orphaned-by-ABC Commander-In-Chief will also see two DVD releases (again from our friends at good ole' Buena Vista) in June and September (moved up from October) 2006. Doubtless, I'll still be waiting for Season Three of O&A by the latter date.
TV Shows On DVD.com has posted that the season four set of Boy Meets World, which was supposed to have been released the same day as O&A's third season, has been scrapped because the season three set didn't sell as well as was expected. That does not bode well for my show; although there's no official word that season three has been scrapped, all indicators point to it. So, if you're a fan of this fabulous series, and haven't yet done so. please buy the Seasons One and Two DVD sets. That's Buena Vista's only gauge of what the fans want, and if the sets sell enough from this point forward, hopefully we'll see Season Three in the not-too-distant future.

Personal to John Lang, if he reads this page - To gauge just how pissed off I am about this, imagine if Warner Home Video decided not to release the last set of episodes for The Adventures Of Superman. Or, MGM sitting on the last four seasons of Green Acres. As mad as I'm sure you'd be about that, that's how angry I am with Disney/Buena Vista over their treatment of this series.

Come on, Touchstone/Disney/Buena Vista. Get off your self-indulgent mouse ears and complete the DVD releases of O and A. Us fans of the series want it all. Or, if you don't want to complete the DVD releases of the series, license it out to someone who will. What's keeping you from doing just that? It's just one more season! Nineteen episodes!! If CBS/Paramount TV can spend the money to enhance the visual effects for the original Star Trek, surely you can release one more season of O&A.

There is still an on-line petition in circulation, to try and request BVHE to release season three. Petitions are iffy in my opinion, but it's better than doing nothing. So, if you will, please sign it. Puhleeze. Even if you've never seen the show.

By the way, Happy Birthday to Sela Ward, who turned 53 on 7/11/09. Too bad that Season Three's DVD release, for which you did what is doubtless a great commentary track, is likely a dead issue, and we may never get to hear your insightful words. And, a Happy Belated Birthday to Billy Campbell, who turned 50 on 7/7/09.

Marilyn Manson's latest girlfriend is O&A star Evan Rachel Wood. (Guess he dumped Rose McGowan after she got the machine gun in place of her leg. ) But - does anyone care about Manson or what he does anymore? Update: - Manson has broken up with Wood. Maybe she does have some common sense. Then again, there are rumors of her dating Mickey Rourke (they do star in The Wrestler together, for which Rourke got a well-deserved Academy Award nomination). So much for common sense. Wood's latest film, Across the Universe plays on the Starz cable channels frequently. It is worse than awful; another flick based on Beatles songs, 1978's much-maligned Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was far better. Ms. Wood has done a movie in New York City with Larry David, titled Whatever Works, and it was directed by Woody Allen. There's no middle ground on this; either it will be great, or an unqualified disaster. Most reviews I've read haven't said it's a disaster, but they're not heaping much praise on it, either. I recently watched it on Starz; it's not a disaster, but Allen's done so much better (Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors). Maybe his best days, and films, are long behind him.

Season Three on DVD may not be a dead issue after all, if DVD rights are re-licensed. Turns out Buena Vista's license will be expiring soon. More here. (With my luck, Buena Vista will renew their license, still sit on season three (while releasing oodles of their crapola, like their newest junkfest Private Practice) and us fans of O and A will have gotten absolutely nowhere.
Buena Vista recently licensed some of its series to Lions' Gate. Including Boy Meets World and According To Jim. Still, not a peep about O and A.

NBC ran one episode of Zwick/Herskovitz' internet series quarterlife on Tuesday, February 26 at 10 p.m.; the series was supposed to begin the folowing Sunday at 9 p.m. NBC promoted this series as "From the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life". Not one mention of Once and Again!! Creeps. Well, what can you expect from the network that cancelled Star Trek? I plan on doing the same thing with what's left of the series that I did with the first aired episode - ignore it, as I have absolutely no interest in it. I guess lots of people felt the same way, as quarterlife premiered to some of the lowest ratings for any NBC show in 17 years. NBC yanked it after that one episode, and dumped all six shows on Bravo consecutively on Sunday, March 9. I wasn't watching, and couldn't care less if quarterlife gets buried forever.
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