Sports Night
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An SE of Sports Night may be in the works.
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Confirmed, with commentaries, deleted scenes and more w/ TWO bonus discsFletch F. Fletch wrote:An SE of Sports Night may be in the works.
Unless Ed finally gets released, this is the TV on DVD set of the year
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Oh man domino, I might start to actually like you with all this talk of Sports Night and Ed love. Shave my poodle.domino harvey wrote:Confirmed, with commentaries, deleted scenes and more w/ TWO bonus discsFletch F. Fletch wrote:An SE of Sports Night may be in the works.
Unless Ed finally gets released, this is the TV on DVD set of the year
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Finalized Sports Night specs:
10th Anniversary Special Features:
*The Show: An in-depth look back at Sports Night with creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, directors Thomas Schlamme and Robert Berlinger, cast members Felicity Huffman, Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, and Robert Guillaume, Emmy(r) award-winning editor Janet Ashikaga, Emmy(r) award-winning director of photography Peter Smokler, producer John Amodeo, and set designer Thomas Azzari. Includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes home movies shot by John Amodeo.
*Face Off: ESPN's SportsCenter vs. CSC's Sports Night - Sports Night's real-life ESPN counterparts discuss what the series got right and wrong.
*A Conversation with Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme
*Inside The Locker Room - A look at the innovations of Sports Night with Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, Robert Berlinger, Janet Ashikaga, Peter Smokler, John Amodeo, and Thomas Azzari.
*Season Gag Reels
*8 Episode Commentaries including creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme, director Robert Berlinger, editor Janet Ashikaga, and cast members Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, Sabrina Lloyd, Greg Baker, Kayla Blake, Timothy Davis-Reed, and Ron Ostrow.
*Original Promos
*36-Page Booklet including an introduction by creator Aaron Sorkin
No deleted scenes but everything else looks like this'll be another Shout labor of love
10th Anniversary Special Features:
*The Show: An in-depth look back at Sports Night with creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, directors Thomas Schlamme and Robert Berlinger, cast members Felicity Huffman, Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, and Robert Guillaume, Emmy(r) award-winning editor Janet Ashikaga, Emmy(r) award-winning director of photography Peter Smokler, producer John Amodeo, and set designer Thomas Azzari. Includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes home movies shot by John Amodeo.
*Face Off: ESPN's SportsCenter vs. CSC's Sports Night - Sports Night's real-life ESPN counterparts discuss what the series got right and wrong.
*A Conversation with Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme
*Inside The Locker Room - A look at the innovations of Sports Night with Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, Robert Berlinger, Janet Ashikaga, Peter Smokler, John Amodeo, and Thomas Azzari.
*Season Gag Reels
*8 Episode Commentaries including creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme, director Robert Berlinger, editor Janet Ashikaga, and cast members Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, Sabrina Lloyd, Greg Baker, Kayla Blake, Timothy Davis-Reed, and Ron Ostrow.
*Original Promos
*36-Page Booklet including an introduction by creator Aaron Sorkin
No deleted scenes but everything else looks like this'll be another Shout labor of love
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If the price stays where it is until the November sale on DD, this is a must-buy at $32.21.domino harvey wrote:Finalized Sports Night specs
Eh, fuck it, I just sucked it up and pre-ordered it. Damn you, Domino. I really love Sports Night, and I was almost successful in conveniently ignoring this release until November. Almost.
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I just got the new Sports Night discs in the mail. The episode divisions are exactly the same as on the old set (Meaning "Celebrities" appears separate from the rest of that storyline, which still bugs me). Haven't had a chance to check the transfers yet. One neat bonus that I hadn't seen mentioned in inside the booklet, they've reprinted the production's floorplan of the entire studio. Kinda interesting for fans
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That's a tough one. The first half of the first season has so many great things like Jeremy's hunting speech, the Mt. Everest climb (maybe my favorite episode), Thespis, and the Mary Pat Shelby episode-- I don't know about you guys, but it still kills me every time when Jeremy goes "son of a bitch" and races out of the room. But while the second half of the season contains one of the best arcs with the Rebecca courtship, it also drags with the Gordon storyline, which while interesting, still probably goes on at least one episode too many.
The second season found Sorkin throwing everything at the wall, setting up countless story arcs for later use that he never picked up again (Dana finding religion anyone?) and the first half of the second season is wildly uneven with ridiculously jarring narrative and tonal shifts from episode to episode. But the episodes focusing on the Casey/Dana dating plan and then later Dana wooing Macy's character-- which let's be honest, are probably on the whole the two worst arcs in the series-- still contain so many wonderful little moments that I'm willing to overlook the flaws. But I do think the mid-to-later part of the second season is where the series hit its stride. I easily would pick the arcs with Dan's personality descent and Jeremy's dating of the porn star over most anything else in the series. And ultimately, the second season has CUT MAN, which really pretty much trumps anything ever
A question to the Sports Night fanatics: Are you all resistant to the West Wing? Because I used to be back in the day out of resentment for Sorkin essentially choosing it over Sports Night, but you all are missing out if you don't give it a shot. All of the first four seasons are worth watching, and it really hits its peak in the third and fourth years and becomes an equal and perhaps even superior of Sports Night. But you have to live with the fact that the series essentially ends at the end of the fourth season, because Christ almighty, under no circumstances should you ever watch past the end of the Sorkin reign ever ever ever
The second season found Sorkin throwing everything at the wall, setting up countless story arcs for later use that he never picked up again (Dana finding religion anyone?) and the first half of the second season is wildly uneven with ridiculously jarring narrative and tonal shifts from episode to episode. But the episodes focusing on the Casey/Dana dating plan and then later Dana wooing Macy's character-- which let's be honest, are probably on the whole the two worst arcs in the series-- still contain so many wonderful little moments that I'm willing to overlook the flaws. But I do think the mid-to-later part of the second season is where the series hit its stride. I easily would pick the arcs with Dan's personality descent and Jeremy's dating of the porn star over most anything else in the series. And ultimately, the second season has CUT MAN, which really pretty much trumps anything ever
A question to the Sports Night fanatics: Are you all resistant to the West Wing? Because I used to be back in the day out of resentment for Sorkin essentially choosing it over Sports Night, but you all are missing out if you don't give it a shot. All of the first four seasons are worth watching, and it really hits its peak in the third and fourth years and becomes an equal and perhaps even superior of Sports Night. But you have to live with the fact that the series essentially ends at the end of the fourth season, because Christ almighty, under no circumstances should you ever watch past the end of the Sorkin reign ever ever ever
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The West Wing is actually a lot of fun from the perspective of a Sports Night fan, given how many narrative devices and story arcs are lifted directly from the earlier show. The character of Sam is remarkably similar in personality to that of Jeremy in Sports Night, and shares a handful of story arcs as well.
The working dynamics of Studio 60 in turn seem to pick up awfully close to where Sports Night left off, and those characters again share much with their predecessors. Sports Night remains a perennial favorite and the West Wing is almost intimidating in its level of quality, but Studio 60 is about as underrated a show as ever there was.
The working dynamics of Studio 60 in turn seem to pick up awfully close to where Sports Night left off, and those characters again share much with their predecessors. Sports Night remains a perennial favorite and the West Wing is almost intimidating in its level of quality, but Studio 60 is about as underrated a show as ever there was.
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Re: TV on DVD
I'm put off by that article, but as someone who only watched Sports Night for the first time about a year ago, the image of the WTC at the beginning always had me thinking, "Wow, most of these characters are theoretically dead."
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Re: TV on DVD
Actually, since they work the late show, these characters wouldn't have shown up to work til elevenish in the morning at the earliest, so worry not (and thanks for yet another inexplicably awful article, whoever's ruined the Onion)
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Re: TV on DVD
Eh, I loved it.