Warner Brothers has announced that the first season of The Drew Carey Show will be released on DVD on April 24.
The first season of the show had 22 episodes, and the four disc set will also have some extras, including a gag reel and a featurette titled "Life Inside A Cubicle."
There was a time when this show was one of the best sitcoms on TV (at that particular time anyway). It was funny and clever and quite enjoyable. Then the show just seemed to...vanish? Really, it never seemed like it was officially canceled by ABC, it just sorta went off the schedule. Then some old episodes that were never show actually aired on ABC a year or two ago I believe. I'm not sure if there are still episodes of the show from the last season that were never shown, but I'm sure they'll show up on DVD in a couple of years (assuming that this first set sells well of course!).
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12-27-2006 @ 11:30AM
David004 said...
The show did end, but no one watched.
The last two seasons had Kate leave for a guy in NYC she doesn't really know and replaced with Blonde Kate (She was just like Kate, went to school with Drew and always loved Drew). The show was truely bad and ABC knew it so they ditched the show. During a summer they ran off the last two season (they had a contract) and the final episode was ok, but it should have been with Kate and not Blonde Kate. By that time the show hardly had any secondary charaters and the office became a different company. It was bad, but nothing will ever beat the first few crazy seasons. After Drew had two wives through they should have seen the ending was near.
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12-27-2006 @ 3:58PM
Jim Kosmicki said...
the first three years or so were some of the best comedy television, but once they tried to humanize Mimi, it went downhill fast. Letting Drew have a cross-dressing brother is good for a single show plot, but when he began to take over more and more of the storylines, it wasn't the Drew Carey show anymore.
as was mentioned, ABC was desperate to retain anything with ratings and signed a two year commitment to the show. A show that is already coasting does NOT do well under a pay or play two year commitment, and those last two years are really a blemish. Unfortunately, because they came at the end, they are what most people remember.
the first season was good, but the second and third are the best, so hopefully this will sell well enough to get those released too.
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12-27-2006 @ 6:20PM
Captainmicahp said...
I agree, the first couple of seasons were fantastic, I even watched them instead of the first two season of the west wing, they were both on wednesday night at the same time. my favorite episode was the one where the show was gunning for an emmy, and had a sick kid find a gun in Drews houes, it was fantastic. but it lost its way somehow. I think it was after drew carey really got into improv.
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12-27-2006 @ 6:36PM
gooby said...
The first few seasons were awesome and I can't wait for the show to be available on R2 (if ever). I'll definitely be getting at least the earlier seasons (yeah, the ones before they ran out of ideas).
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12-28-2006 @ 2:25PM
Tony B said...
The Drew Carey show was innovative and many of us cubicle-dwellers could relate to the situations he found himself in...at first. Unfortunately like many other shows (Roseanne and Happy Days come to mind) as the ratings level off or even slip, the writers decide to add wilder and crazier situations, hoping to lure the perceived wandering audience back to the trenches. As Drew entered into adventures with death, being committed, and also being kidnapped to the Great Wall of China it was obvious that he joined Fonzie in jumping the shark, Roseanne as she won the lottery and many other sitcoms as they collapse from a bright star to a white dwarf. Finally becoming a cartoon parody of themselves.
Hey..but what do I know...
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