SitcomsOnline Digest: Price is Right and Jeopardy Primetime Specials in the Horizon; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Coming to DVD and Blu-ray

Saturday, November 23, 2019

SitcomsOnline Digest: Price is Right and Jeopardy Primetime Specials in the Horizon; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Coming to DVD and Blu-ray

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! We're almost into Thanksgiving week, and probably a slow few weeks of news as the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry take extended holiday vacations, but we're here nonetheless with lots of game show news and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

A pair of Price is Right primetime specials are coming next month. (TV Guide)
Also coming in primetime, but in January, is a primetime Jeopardy! run on ABC featuring the three highest earners of all time. (TVLine)
As we've been seeing every week, streaming media is where the big "boom" is in the classic TV market right now, and now Carsey-Werner (which at the moment has their series on multiple streaming services, including some free ones) is trying to get their library in the right place for the right price. (Deadline)
The hourglass may have been refilled with sand, as the executive producer of Days of Our Lives is saying that the show has been renewed for another season, but it still isn't confirmed by NBC or Sony. (Deadline)
We are just barely over halfway into fall, but ABC is already looking at next summer, with renewals of their game show lineup. (SitcomsOnline)

HOME MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

As the TV on DVD market has evolved, Mill Creek has gone from public domain to lesser known copyrighted series to recent hit sitcoms, and now, they've announced they'll be releasing Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - The Complete Series on DVD and Blu-ray on February 4.

WEEKLY PLANNER (NOVEMBER 23 - NOVEMBER 29)

Antenna TV has a weekend long marathon of every episode of Dennis the Menace starting Wednesday night.
Decades has a marathon of Greatest American Hero this weekend.
If the WKRP in Cincinnati episode "Turkey's Away" is part of your Thanksgiving tradition, make sure to catch it tomorrow night at 7:30 ET/PT on MeTV.
For those who get cable from Spectrum (the child of the merger between Charter and Time Warner Cable), the reboot/revival of Mad About You debuts on Wednesday.