This week the First Annual TV on DVD Awards were given out (sponsored by Video Store Magazine, and with DVD Talk as a member of the judging panel), the winners include: I Love Lucy: The Complete Second Season for Best 1950s Series, Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 for Best 1960s Series, Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series for Best 1970s Series, The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season One for Best 1980s Series, The Simpson's Season 4 for Best 1990s Series and Best Animated Series, 24 Season Two for Best 2000s Series, The Office for Best British TV Release, The World at War for Best Made-for-TV Documentary, The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection for Best Compilation, Shogun for Best Miniseries or TV Movie and 24 Season Two: "Exposed Part One & Part Two" featurette for Best Special Feature and The Dick Van Dyke Show got an award for Best of Show. We'd also like to give a special 'Shout! Out' for Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series which surprisingly didn't win an award, but in our minds is the best TV on DVD release so far this year!

A good mix of DVDs announced this week, including one of the best comedies of the summer, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle on 1/4 and which will be released in both rated and unrated editions, The Commish - Season 1 on 11/16 - a treat for Michael Chiklis fans while they endure the long wait for the next season of The Shield, Sister Helen on 11/30 - a brilliant documentary which won the Sundance Directing Award, Open Water on 12/28 - the real life story of two divers stranded in shark infested waters, Twilight Zone: Season 1 on 12/28 - over 900 mins of pure genius television, The Intended on 12/28 - a unique and stylized epic rom IFC Films and Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring , Catwoman on 1/18 - Halle Berry in a cat suit, probably not reason enough to shell out $12 to see this disaster in theaters, but a DVD rental... that's another story and The Notebook on 2/8 - the best adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book yet. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

More great clips this week including a number of clips for Arrested Development: cast and creators give an overview of the show, Jason Bateman discusses his role in the show, Portia De Rossi discusses her character on the show, Deleted scene from the episode Top Banana Deleted Scene from the episode Visiting Ours. From Buena Vista come clips of Where the Red Fern Grows, The Hole, A Wrinkle in Time and Hero. From Universal clips for Van Helsing and Dawn of the Dead. Finally from Tartan Video comes a clip for The Hillside Strangler.
 

This week we have a very special giveaway for the hilarious SCTV Vol. 2 [Review] - the classic comedy TV show with John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas . The SCTV Vol. 2 DVD features: Nine 90-minute episodes from the fourth season, Commentaries by Dave Thomas, Dick Blasucci, writer John McAndrew, Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara, SCTV Remembers, Pt. 2, Behind-The-Scenes featurettes and much more! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of SCTV Vol. 2 we're giving away this week.
 

With literally thousands of DVD Reviews (over 9K reviews!) in the DVD Talk Review Database it's easy to miss some of the notable reviews written by our staff. Some notable reviews you may have missed: The Shawshank Redemption: SE - spotted on most top 10 lists, Frank Darabont's modern classic film finally gets a true SE release, Taxi: S1 - the last of the great '70s sitcoms finally makes a stop on DVD, Friday the 13th Box Set - eight 'Jason' films together with an interesting array of special features, , Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski's gentle horror comedy is simply one of the best Halloween movies ever, The Ren and Stimpy Show Uncut - one of the strangest animated series of all time comes to a 'director approved' DVD, Tanner '88 - a biting live action political satire from the legendary paring of filmmaker Robert Altman and cartoonist Garry Trudeau, Philadelphia: SE - landmark performances from Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington make this film one worth revisiting and The China Syndrome: SE - a genuinely chilling and intense thriller. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

An ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted celebrates a trio of captures! Chief among them -- with 129 WEEKS on the lamb -- is the naughty-teens-conjure-the-devil classick Night of the Demons!!! Followed close behind by the undersung creature features Sssssss and Orca.
 

This week's notable DVDs starts off with one of the best films you've probably never seen: The Return [Review] - Andrei Zvyagintsev brilliant debut film is simply astounding and definitely one of the best films of the year, Ed Wood:SE [Review] - one of the most delayed special editions finally comes to DVD and it's one of Tim Burton's best, Greg the Bunny [Review] - an extremely funny but canceled TV show that mixes stuffed animals with Seth Green, Sarah Silverman and Eugene Levy with great result, Arrested Development: S1 [Review] - as good as you've heard, this show resurrects the sitcom and morphs it into something remarkable, SCTV 2 [Review] - a great set for fans of the eccentric sketch comedy show, Van Helsing [Review] - it's big, bad, way too long and a complete mess but somehow we're still drawn to this trainwreck of a movie, Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection - Warner Bros. brings together the work of one of the most interesting American Directors into a must own collection. Read our Complete List of Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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