Big Love - Big Plans For Big Love? Tentative Date, Cost, Extras!

Think having three wives is a dream come true? Meet Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a modern-day Utah polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives, seven children, and a mounting avalanche of debt and demands. The owner of a growing chain of home improvement stores, Bill struggles to balance the financial and emotional needs of Barb, Nicki and Margene (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin), who live in separate, adjacent houses and take turns sharing their husband each night. While managing the household finances together and routinely sharing "family home nights," they try to keep simmering jealousies in check and their arrangement a secret - polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church.

Adding to Bill's woes are a series of crises affecting his parents (Bruce Dern and Grace Zabriskie), who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah, and his ruthless father-in-law, Roman (Harry Dean Stanton), the powerful head of the polygamist commune where his parents live. Bold, funny and wholly original, Big Love explores the evolving institution of marriage through a typical atypical family.

We've known for months that HBO's Big Love - which lists Tom Hanks among the show's Executive Producers - is coming to DVD this year. Now we have word from our friends inside the home video industry that HBO tentatively plans to announce the first season for an October 17th street date. You'll get all 12 hour-long episodes on a 5-DVD set, along with these extras:

• 3 Audio Commentary Tracks
• "Big Love: A Balancing Act On Ice" featurette

Cost is planned to be $99.99 SRP, we're told. Bear in mind, please, that this info comes to TVShowsOnDVD from trusted sources, but is not official info provided by the studio. Stay tuned for HBO's full announcement in the not-too-distant future, and we'll confirm those details (and bring you cover art) at that time!