It's been a while since I last updated but a load of stuff is going to be coming through soon.
I'm a fan of TV series. I'm such a fan that I regularly import them from America in order to see them as quickly as possible.
It's with some sadness then that I note that TV companies are really dragging their heels over some future releases.
Dig it...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BNI90Y/qid=1133518312/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-0363158-0334438?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance
This is a link to Battlestar Galactica 2.0, it has been released around the right time and it bears the price of your usual DVD set. HOWEVER, it is in fact only the first half of the series but you get to pay full price for it anyway. This little dalliance means that it's unlikely the whole series set will appear much before the summer and, as a result, we're unlikely to see it over here in the UK much before a year (particularly as it was co-produced by Sky and Sky have been dragging their feet about transmitting it... it only starts in Junuary).
But this isn't anywhere near as annoying as the second series of Deadwood which finished on TV in the US AND the UK a while ago but still has yet to even get a release date. It's worth bearing in mind here that the UK release of the first series only happened in July so I'm guessing it's another series that we won't be seeing till the summer.
Why they are doing this is not clear, especially seeing as you can now but pirated copies of the series on eBay for like £30 a go. The demand is SO HIGH that people are willing to pay full whack to a pirate in order to see the series now. While I'm not exactly an enemy of piracy, it's difficult to not see every one of those sales as a lost sale for HBO. Why? because they want to wait before releasing the DVDs. HBO refuse to satisfy customer demand so clearly the customers have found other ways of satisfying themselves.
They've only got themselves to blame.
Mercifully though Series 5 of The Shield is coming out around Xmas in the US so that will be winging it's way here soon enough. It's worth noting that series 5 has screened in its entirety here on Channel 5 but UK people would still have to wait for their DVDs.
Film companies have worked to reduce the time between a film disappearing from cinema screens and appearing on DVD and yet TV companies routinely wait up to a year before releasing the DVD box sets. It continues to be profoundly stupid.
