Product Details

• Actors: Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney, Vicki Lewis
• Directors: Alan Myerson, Gregg Heschong, James Burrows, Judi Elterman, Lee Shallat Chemel
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005
• Run Time: 659 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000ZMH8S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,022 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "NewsRadio - The Complete First & Second Seasons" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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NEWSRADIO:FIRST & SECOND SEASONS - DVD Movie

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161 of 170 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterically funny and underrated., November 24, 2003

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Michael A. Brown "maniacmedia" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NewsRadio - The Complete First & Second Seasons (DVD)

NewsRadio was part of NBC's Must See TV on Thursdays, and Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and Sundays. Basically, if there was a hole in the schedule this workhorse was plugged in. Unfortunately, that also led to quite a bit of viewer frustration since it was hard to find the series at times.

This set brings together the first two seasons. It starts off with Dave (Dave Foley) being hired as the new Program Director for a New York all news radio station. First, he has to fire the old PD, and make nice with the reporter (Maura Tierney) who wanted the job.

Some of the early episodes only hint at what the characters would become. Jimmy James (Stephen Root) starts out far less wacky than the character became by the fifth season. Phil Hartman's Bill McNeil was brilliant out the blocks. Matthew (Andy Dick) was annoying right from the beginning. MIA from the pilot is Joe Garrelli (Joe Rogan) who joined in the second episode.

Overall, NewsRadio was a great show that never got the recognition it deserved from NBC. Fortunately, it gets a new lease on life thatnks to a very reasonably priced DVD set.

The release date has been changed. The creator of the show heard about the DVD set and called the company to make sure that he was able to add extras to the discs. Now, instead of a bare-banes compilation there will be commentary tracks, out-takes and other extras.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Update on the DVD release Part 1, May 16, 2004

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"uager" (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NewsRadio - The Complete First & Second Seasons (DVD)

According to something posted to the newsgroup

[Excerpted from the latest NewsRadio Newsletter message.]

I know you're all wanting an update on the forthcoming NewsRadio DVD release, and while I don't have a release date for you, I can tell you that 20 episode commentaries for the set have been completed with a mix and match of participants, including Paul Simms, Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Maura Tierney, Andy Dick, Vicki Lewis, Joe Rogan, Khandi Alexander, Josh Lieb, Brad Issacs, Joe Furey, Lew Morton, Brian Kelley, Julie Bean, Kent Zbornak, Tom Cherones, Brad Grey, and yes, former NBC President Warren Littlefield.

Kent Zbornak, one of NewsRadio's producers, had the job of coordinating it all, and the show's erstwhile script supervisor, Robert Spina, sat in on the sessions and took photos

Paul Simms has promised some additional musings on the recording of the commenataries, but right now he'll say, "In short? It was incredibly fun."

An anonymous member of the NewsRadio team adds, "It was a reunion and a revisiting in the purest sense. The commentary was funny and twisted, just like the show itself."

The NewsRadio Newsletter"

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars update. .sell sorta, October 23, 2004

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reddragon72 - See all my reviews

This review is from: NewsRadio - The Complete First & Second Seasons (DVD)

On October 18th Dave Foley was on The Screensavers on G4TechTV. He stated in the interview that they just got done with the final touches on the series release and should ship before the end of the year. He also mentioned that he doesn't have a whole lot to do with the release date, but mentioned it was coming. Man I just cannot wait to see this show again. I watch it everynight back to back, that's right an hours worth every night, when they showed reruns on one of the odd stations. Anyways I just thought I'd throw that out there. Oh and i check the show note and they didn't put it in there, but there was a little blurb about The kids in the Hall.