On Episode 133, Jason (@theTVaholic) is joined by Maureen Ryan (@moryan) of the Talking TV With Ryan & Ryan Podcast and TV Critic at the Huffington Post and Stephanie Weak (@angelsteph) of the TV Rewind Podcast (@tvrewind) to talk about a few renewal/cancelation news items and then discuss recent episodes of Cougar Town, New Girl, Parks & Recreation, Awake, and Game of Thrones.
Get to Know the Guest TV Podcasters (00:01:14)
Mo and Steph each talked a bit about how they got started writing and podcasting about TV and why they do so.
TV News (00:06:15)
We talked about the following five news stories:
- FOX Renews Fringe For ‘Exciting and Climactic' Fifth and Final Season
- NBC Pulls Best Friends Forever From Schedule
- Make It or Break It: Cancelled, No Season Four
- Girls Renewed And Veep Renewed For Season 2 By HBO
- ReelzChannel Orders Second Season Of Steven Seagal’s True Justice
Primetime (00:11:49)
We talked about the following five shows from the week of Monday, April 23rd thru Sunday, April 29th:
- Cougar Town – S.3 Ep.9, “Money Becomes King” (00:11:58)
- New Girl – S.1 Ep.22, “Tomatoes” (00:17:36)
- Parks & Recreation – S.4 Ep.20, “The Debate” (00:24:09)
- Awake – S.1 Ep.9, “Game Day” (00:34:46)
- Game of Thrones – S.2 Ep.5, “The Ghost of Harrenhal” (00:45:27)
TV on DVD Picks for Releases on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 (00:55:45)
Jason and Steph – Chuck: The Complete Fifth Season
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As for the Chuck Compete Series question, I thought I remember seeing news from TVShowsOnDVD.com that there were no current plans to release a complete series set. On WBShop.com, they are just selling bundles of the 5 existing sets.
Being someone who has already purchased the other four seasons on Blu-ray, I am thrilled that they are not doing this. I find these complete series box sets that contain exclusives not in the separate sets like a slap in the face to the loyal fans who purchased the original sets as they were released. I already spent enough on the original releases–and don’t want to pay a premium just for a few new special features and fancy packaging. I really liked the way that for the Friends box set, they let folks pay like $20 for the fancy wood case to house all the seasons, and for BSG they let people get the new, more compact complete series packaging for free just by sending in a proof of purchase. I wish they would do things like this more often for those early adopters.