I am very excited about this. I hope it includes the blooper reel.

Donna Troy | August 18, 11:37 CET

Seeing as the Bones and How I Met Your Mother DVD announcements are of very similar nature, I've merged your two blog entries to save some space on the front page.

Simon | August 18, 12:09 CET

While it's great to see these announced, I can't help but be disappointed in Bones being DVD18, especially after all the problems that there has been with them.

GaveUp | August 18, 12:49 CET

Trying not to be hurt that AH never did any Buffy commentaries...

gingeriffic | August 18, 17:00 CET

I haven't had a lot of trouble with DVD18 (though I understand the failure rate at manufacturing is 2x that of DVD9, and somehow [mathematically?] that seems appropriate ;)), but I still don't like them as the entire disc is one big shiny pile of waiting-to-be-scratched-ness.

ETA - for those what don't know, as Mal might say, DVD18 is dual-sided & dual-layer, DVD9 is single-sided & dual-layer.

zeitgeist | August 18, 17:24 CET

Unfortunately I don't see any mention of a gag reel in the extras for Bones.I also agree about the flipper disks.What's up with that? Universal is known for doing that with their T.V. shows and it causes major complaints from DVD consumers.This is the first time I've seen FOX do it though.I wonder if FOX is just getting cheap.Between this and what FOX has been doing with their movie releases the last year or so in region 1,they are really dropping down in the consumer affairs department.

ETA

The Bones DVDs are DVD-14's,not DVD-18's

http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/dvd-14.cfm



[ edited by Buffyfantic on 2006-08-18 15:41 ]

Buffyfantic | August 18, 17:30 CET

A D.B. show without a gag reel? Why, that's like Angel without a season 6! Don't do it to us, Fox !!!

AncientMagicks | August 18, 18:08 CET

gingeriffic, you shouldn't be. I would have loved it if people like Sarah Michelle Gellar or Alyson Hannigan had done audio commentaries, but unfortunately as two of the biggest stars on Buffy they worked extremely long hours and would have had to fit in recording sessions around everything else.

Because How I Met Your Mother is a short comedy series, the cast don't have to work as many hours so it's probably less stressful for Alyson, and she isn't in every scene anyway, so it would be easier for her to fit in recording commentaries.

If you notice, towards the end of the Buffy and Angel DVD releases, the number of audio commentaries began to expand as people were becoming more aware of them and we did eventually get some actors doing them, but of the main Buffy castmembers, I believe Nicholas Brendan was the only one to do a commentary, and I don't think it's a coincidence that he was able to do it because of his reduced screen time in season seven. In the Angel season five boxset, several castmembers do commentaries but they probably would have recorded them after the last episode and could find time to fit them in.

Unfortunately, it's just something we have to put up with, and be grateful when actors are able to do commentaries, although personally I enjoy those Joss does the most and the writer's ones are usually very good. I bet if the whole DVD concept was at the stage it is now, when Buffy first came out, we would have seen quicker releases and more special features.

Razor | August 18, 18:53 CET

James Marsters and Seth Green did commentaries too. Out of the guest cast, D.B. Woodside, Tom Lenk, and Danny Strong.

eddy | August 18, 19:53 CET

Whedon commentaries were the best, with the writers a close second. Director and other crew commentaries were hit or miss. Actor commentaries were good to average, depending.

For non-Buffyverse DVDs the actor commentaries are often the weakest. The actors say things like 'Oh this is the day we had lasagna for lunch'. Lord of the Rings comes to mind...

wouldestous | August 18, 20:12 CET

According to the article ... the episodes are on the DVD in the order in which they aired ... which means they are out of shooting order. This is dissapointing. I don't want to have to skip around in order to see the proper character developement. Grrr Arghhhhh

resa | August 18, 20:49 CET

I forgot they aired Bones out of order. That's a bit annoying that they didn't fix the mistake with the DVD release.

Simon | August 18, 20:52 CET

I wonder if maybe the gaga reel might be hidden? Some of it was shown at ComicCon.

I agree with dry commentaries, though if you ever watch the DVD ones of Wrong Turn or Bring it ON with Eliza, she will have you cracking up the WHOLE time. Her Tru Calling Commentaries are also very good.

Donna Troy | August 18, 21:50 CET

well was it aired out of production order or story order? Cause sometimes the writers are OK with the difference. I.E. Alias' PHASE ONE was filmed after DOUBLE AGENT but aired before.

eddy | August 18, 22:13 CET

Story order.

Donna Troy | August 18, 23:10 CET

Bones release date has been moved back to November 28.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6302

Buffyfantic | August 19, 03:56 CET

The HIMYM DVDs aren't widescreen?!

That sucks.

TwisTz | August 19, 08:23 CET