Wednesday, March 01, 2006
A&E and CNN Tributes to Don Knotts; Nick@Nite Has a Record February; Warner Home Video 'TV Favorites' DVD Update
Meanwhile, Ron Howard and Andy Griffith will be on CNN's Larry King Live tonight at 9 p.m. (repeats at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. if you miss it). It will be a CNN exclusive. Andy Griffith and Ron Howard say goodbye to Don Knotts in their first interview together since his death. The entire hour will be devoted to him, so you might want to keep this one for your archives.
For February 2006, Nick@Nite scored its highest-rated and most-watched February in the network's 20-year history among its target audience of Adults 18-49. Bolstered by the network's roster of modern hit sitcoms such as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Roseanne, the network finished the month with double-digit gains in rating and delivery over last year, and was the Number One network in all of basic cable among A18-49, W18-49, A18-34, W18-34 and
W25-54 in total programming day. For full details on this click here.
Today Warner Home Video officially announced the third wave of the "TV Favorites" DVD series. Wave 1 was back in September 2005, Wave 2 was released Tuesday and Wave 3 will be on June 27, as we have said many times before. Wave 3 will consist of sitcoms Step by Step and the episodes YOU helped choose for Alice. TVShowsonDVD.com officially announced the sets for June 27 today. For the Alice cover art and details (we already knew the episodes, since YOU helped choose them), click here. For Step by Step's episode info and details click here. David Lambert brings up a good question in that latter article. He wonders what happened to Perfect Strangers? If you all recall, YOU helped WHV pick the episodes for that set, too. I was told a few weeks back that the set will not be out for this Wave, unfortunately. Then later YOU helped them pick episodes for Full House. After Perfect Strangers was "pushed back," they decided to go with Full House on June 27. And now recently, they decided against that, too. So, for Wave 3 on June 27 we will only get Alice and Step by Step. So when can we expect the TV Favorites for Perfect Strangers, Full House and the already pushed back Family Matters? WHV tells me, "...research and analysis was done. Unfortunately, neither Full House nor Perfect Strangers will be released this year as a TV Favorites release due to financial constraints." I'm sure that also means no for Family Matters, too. I don't think we will see any more TV Favorites for the remainder of the year. But I hope we get those in early 2007, since we all helped choose the episodes.
Let's hope we get season sets soon then for Perfect Strangers and Family Matters. As for Full House, the fans should not worry because they told me some good news for fans of that show: "Please do remember, though, that we are continuing to release full season sets of Full House. Season 3 is set to release in early April of this year and Season 4 will follow in the 3rd quarter."
If we have any further updates on WHV, we will let you know ASAP. We just had to hold back the news on June 27 as there was a lot of "flux." But now it is all known.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Tuesday, June 24
none scheduled
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of June 23)
Tuesday, June 24
- Tiffany Haddish (The Last O.G./The Carmichael Show) - Catch Tiffany on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Alan Tudyk (Suburgatory) - Alan appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Jay Pharoah (White Famous/Champaign ILL) - Jay is a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Frankie Grande (Henry Danger/Danger Force) - Frankie stops by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth/No Activity/The League) - Jason appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Jason Ritter (Another Period/The Class) and Joel Kim Booster (Loot/Shrill) - Jason and Joel are guests on a repeat of After Midnight at 12:37am on CBS.
- Matty Matheson (The Bear) - Matty chats with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT.
- Brandy Norwood (Zoe Ever After/The Game/Moesha/Thea) - Brandy and Monica talk about The Boy is Mine Tour on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
- Allison Williams (Girls) - Allison talks about M3GAN 2.0 on NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
- Niecy Nash-Betts (Reno 911!/Getting On/The Soul Man/Do Not Disturb) - Niecy guest co-hosts NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
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03/11 - Frasier (2023) - Season Two
04/01 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Third Season
05/13 - The Drew Carey Show - The Complete Series* (missing 4 episodes and some music has been replaced or altered)
06/06 - Shoresy - Season 2
06/17 - Looney Tunes - Collector's Vault - Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
07/08 - Bewitched - The Complete Series - 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Blu-ray)
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