TVShowsOnDVD.com has a big announcement that Shout!
Factory is going to bring all four seasons of WKRP in Cincinnati to DVD…no
release date has been announced yet, and the TSOD info is iffy on whether the sticky music clearances wicket will
be addressed by the Factory. It’s my
nature to be skeptical, so my attitude on this is wait-and-see…if they don’t
screw this up, I will definitely be interested in a purchase. (I have already alerted noted WKRP
scholar and mayonnaise enthusiast Stacia Kissick-Jones of this news.) Another TV-on-DVD item on my wishlist is this
Amazon.co.uk announcement of all four seasons of The Phil Silvers Show
being released to Region 2 DVD in September, because the individuals who could
make a Region 1 release come to pass have no clue as to the greatness of this
classic sitcom.
Ruth at Silver Screenings has announced a blogathon in tandem with The Rosebud Cinema that will get underway June 20-22: it’s the 1967 in Film ‘thon, and because you people do so well on the standardized tests you’ve already guessed that the essays contributed by participating bloggers will deal with movies released in that magical year. TDOY has RSVP’d—I’ll chat up Stanley Donen’s cult comedy Bedazzled, which stars the incomparable team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. (“Julie Andrews!”)
And over at Krell Laboratories (Science!), the renowned Dr. Vulnavia Morbius (she’s not a mad scientist, honest—I think she’s a pediatrician) will be sponsoring (with Anna at Bemused and Nonplussed) The John Ford Blogathon from July 7-13. Dr. Morbius contacted me via the Twitter Machine to ask if I would be interested—would I be interested!—in throwing in, and my response was an enthusiastic “(Expletive deleted) yeah!” I had so many choices to go with—The Grapes of Wrath and Doctor Bull were at the top of the list—but I finally settled on a lesser-known yet still first-rate Ford feature, The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). Plenty of movies and slots available on this (and for the 1967 in Film blogathon as well) so I urge you to sashay on over and sign up if you’re interested.
Chapter 3 of Gubmint
Agents vs. Phantom Legion tomorrow…and I hope to have a brand-new Doris
Day(s) up for Monday (the blogathons got in the way last week).
4 comments:
Thanks for the announcements; I don't usually have time to track them all down these days.
There should be a dedicated classic movie blogathon directory.
There should be a dedicated classic movie blogathon directory.
If you build it, they will come...
Thanks for the "1967 in Film" shout-out, as well as notice of the John Ford Blogathon! :)
Don't forget the Snoopathon at Movies, Silently and the MGM blogathon at Silver Scenes. @Ivan G. Shreves - all the classic movie blogathons are posted of the Classic Movie Hub under "events." I do my best to see every blogathon I here about gets put up there.
http://moviessilently.com/2014/03/22/announcement-snoopathon-a-classic-spy-blogathon/
http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/announcing-mgm-blogathon.html?showComment=1400087200688#c2940624272492525847
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/events/category/blogathons/
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