House

By UncaScroogeMcD With Prohibition on the way out, the final 12 episodes featured in The Untouchables Season 3: Volume 2 (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$39.98 SRP) finds Eliot Ness focusing on gambling, prostitution, and narcotics in that big-shouldered city, Chicago.

By UncaScroogeMcD There are bonus features hosted by Leonard Maltin that explore the history of the show, the wardrobe and a tribute to Guy Williams. Getting the complete Zorro collection at once is a relief after the previous Disney Treasures only contained a fraction of “Elfego Baca” and “Swamp Fox” epis...

By UncaScroogeMcD By its 3rd season, Spin City (Shout! Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$39.99 SRP) was a well-oiled machine, with the entire cast on equal footing with star Michael J. Fox (particularly the dynamic between Alan Ruck and Michael Boatman). The 4-disc set contains all 26 episodes, but sadly no bonus fea...

By willwilkins MTV - 8:00 PM: It isn’t every day where you see one animated show building a two episode arc around the making fun of another animated show. Repeat or not that’s one reason to recommend the CARTOON WARS episodes of SOUTH PARK. NBC - 8:00 PM: THE BIGGEST LOSER goes to Washington, D.C. and the conte...

By UncaScroogeMcD The Guardian: The First Season is where America first fell for the sly Simon Baker (The Mentalist). He’s a party hard lawyer who gets nailed on drug use. He’s stuck with the burden of 1,500 hours of community service. How is he going to do that and be a fat cat lawyer? It’s hard. He gets stuck doing p...

By willwilkins Welcome to another edition of TV or Not TV where I never cease to be amazed by FOX. MONDAY TUESDAY AMC - 8:00 PM: MICHAEL MYERS once again escapes from the hospital and whakiness ensues in HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

By UncaScroogeMcD Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, The Eleventh Hour (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$34.95) was a show that only made it to 18 episodes, and wouldn’t have been able to make the journey to DVD if it weren’t for Warners’ on-demand service through WBShop.com. The 6-disc set contains all 18 episodes o...

By UncaScroogeMcD “No. Not really,” Tad replied. “I’m more of a Porky’s, Animal House kinda guy.” PAUL & REC How long did it take you from the audition to being told you’d be on the show, until you got on the soundstage? How annoying is the buzzer system on the show?

By UncaScroogeMcD Trumbo: Ring received the Oscar for “MASH” after he had become “un-blacklisted,” so there is really no comparison with “The Brave One” and “Roman Holiday.” Mike Wilson and Carl Foreman also received Oscars posthumously, in their case for “Bridge Over the River Kwai.”

By UncaScroogeMcD In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away a two (2) copies of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: SEASON 4 on DVD. In conjunction with Walt Disney Home Video, we’re giving away a three (3) copies of JONAS: ROCKIN’ THE HOUSE VOLUME 1 on DVD.

By willwilkins FOX - 8:00 PM: House is in the nuthouse as the show returns. I fully expect several sardonic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest remarks. NBC - 8:00 PM: Mercy is either the title of a new medical drama on NBC or it is what you will be crying after having to endure another new medical drama. Not sure whi...

By UncaScroogeMcD CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Complete Ninth Season is a transitional time for the Las Vegas crew. William Peterson’s steps back from the show. Who can replace the man from Man Hunter? Why it’s Laurence Fishburne. He looks right for the role, but it’s hard not to imagine him during a con...

By willwilkins FOX - 8:00 PM: It’s two hours of 24 tonight with a full on assault on the White House. It’s bad enough when they asked us to believe… well, just about everything from all of the seasons past, but really… the White House? Shame on you 24. Shame…. on…. you! FRIDAY

By UncaScroogeMcD The doctor is back with a bunch of bizarre, incredibly rare maladies and the increasingly tedious grumpy manner in the fourth season of House (Universal, Not Rated, DVD-$59.98 SRP). The best thing about the fourth season is probably the addition of Kal Penn to the cast, as yet another new ho...