Network, BBC, Screenbound, Renown, Fabulous Films and Simply Media thread

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Trollied: The Complete Series - Monday 24th April, 2023

https://networkonair.com/coming-soon...omplete-series

Quite the cheek making the 45 minute finale exclusive to a nearly £50 box set. Slightly baffling aiming a set at people who would pay that much for Trollied in 2023 but who have not picked up any of the DVD releases in the past 12 years...

[cutback73]

The website has been updated and 29 May looks like a "reboot" day with releases scheduled for:

The Equalizer reboot - S2
Magnum reboot - S3
Magnum reboot - S4
Saved by the Bell reboot (!) - S1

In addition, 2 movie releases are scheduled including Beethoven.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by cutback73

The website has been updated and 29 May looks like a "reboot" day with releases scheduled for:

The Equalizer reboot - S2
Magnum reboot - S3
Magnum reboot - S4
Saved by the Bell reboot (!) - S1

In addition, 2 movie releases are scheduled including Beethoven.

Thanks for sharing this release date information for these Fabulous Films DVD season sets Cutback. The Magnum, P.I. reboot was cancelled by CBS last year, but revived not long after, with a new season being made. The fifth season started a few weeks ago in the States on NBC (I'd read that they were making twenty new episodes, split into two seasons of ten episodes each. However, based on the show's EpGuides page, they're going past ten episodes in the fifth season).

The Equalizer revival/reboot I watched the first two episodes of, but couldn't watch any more (I always give a new series a chance by watching a handful of episodes, but I didn't like this revival/reboot at all).

You mentioning the Saved by the Bell reboot, reminded me of something I read late last year, that a Head of the Class reboot/revival was going into production.

On a completely separate note, if the elements are not lost, Fabulous Films (the UK branch), could you do complete series DVD releases of the short-lived Sarge and Amy Prentiss please.

[OceanBlue]

A couple of new DVD title additions to the Coming Soon section on Network's website recently, one of which is a re-release (titles and their release dates are subject to change):

The Adventures of Black Beauty: The Complete Series (Fiftieth Anniversary Special Edition) - Monday 15th May, 2023

https://networkonair.com/coming-soon...omplete-series

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Public Eye: The Collection (The Surviving Episodes Collection) - Monday 15th May, 2023

https://networkonair.com/coming-soon...the-collection

[Show spoiler]

[OceanBlue]

Network have got a new DVD sale/offer on at the moment, ending on Tuesday 16th May at 4 pm BST. 40% off on selected TV on DVD titles. Currently (I say "currently", as during the most recent Blu-ray sale/offer on Network's website they added some titles later on) there are forty titles in the sale/offer.

I meant to post about this sale/offer yesterday.

[OceanBlue]

The current Network offer/sale has been extended to a week tomorrow (Tuesday 16th May) at 4 pm BST. It's also been expanded, with an additional forty titles added (among the eighty titles in the offer/sale, there are three Blu-ray titles (Terrahawks: Volumes 1, 2 and 3).

[OceanBlue]

Last week's sad news about UK boutique label Network came as a complete surprise and shock to me (as I'm sure it has done with many others), although in hindsight there may have been some early warning signs following the sad passing of their founder Tim Beddows (I had got used to the slow trickle of new titles being added to the Coming Soon section on their website, but things had been rather quiet recently).

We have to be thankful for the sheer number of film and TV titles they have released over a long time. There were a lot of other TV series I would liked them to have released, but again, I have to be thankful for what they did release on DVD and Blu-ray (much more recently, the Danziger Brothers titles).

I hope that those who worked at Network are able to get work at other UK boutique labels, and that another UK boutique label picks up the licenses which Network had (the BBC, ITV and Studiocanal) and continue the fine work Network did over the years, so their legacy can continue.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Screenbound release The Haunted Strangler on the 10th of July

[OceanBlue]

Among the June/July offers/club specials section on Renown Pictures's website (added around the middle of this month) is a new DVD title, The Leather Boys (1964), directed by Sidney J. Furie, with the cast including Rita Tushingham and Dudley Sutton. Included as a bonus film is documentary (filmed by Talking Pictures TV) Rita Tushingham and the Leather Boys Back at the Ace Cafe.

Below is the Renown Pictures DVD website listing page link, followed by the front cover artwork:

https://renownfilms.co.uk/product/th...y-edition-dvd/

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[OceanBlue]

Later on last week, Renown Pictures updated their website with a new newsletter and Offers and Club Specials section for July and August - among the latter is a second DVD volume release of The Best of the Footage Detectives (fourteen editions in total) which is available now. Below is the Renown Pictures website listing page link, followed by the front cover artwork:

https://renownfilms.co.uk/product/th...3-dvd-box-set/

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Also noticed a DVD release (among the "July/August offers and club specials") which I think has been out for a while (hadn't spotted it until now), called Talking Pictures TV with...: Volume One (a three-disc boxset). Looks like a collection of interviews done with multiple actors. The special offer price on the boxset (of £15 with free UK postage) ends on Tuesday 15th August (or when stock runs out). Below is the Renown Pictures listing page link for the special offer, followed by artwork which includes the front cover artworK:

https://renownfilms.co.uk/product/ta...-deal-only-15/

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Renown Pictures' DVD boxset of the surviving episodes of Together is also among the "July/August offers and club specials" (£25 with free UK postage, ending on Tuesday 15th August (or when stock runs out).