This past summer it was
announced that Gaiam Americas (distributor of the
Living With Ed TV-DVDs) had signed a deal to take over retail distribution of DVD and Blu-ray titles from Discovery Communications. Discovery's cable networks include The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, The Military Channel and others; home video releases from shows in their library had up until now been distributed via either Genius Products (which has since
left the distribution industry) and Image Entertainment. Now everything is consolidated into one place, and it seems that the first titles from the Gaiam/Discovery pact are being prepared for release!
Among them is the Discovery Channel's reality series
Dirty Jobs, starring Mike Rowe. Now his latest collection of episodes has been hired for release on DVD! While Gaiam hasn't formally announced the title just yet, a
new Amazon listing shows that
Dirty Jobs - Collection 5 will be released on
January 26th. The listing is taking pre-orders at this time, and shows a $19.98 SRP (but you can lock in your copy at a discount). At this time, though, there is no further info found at Amazon's listing.
We've sent a request to Gaiam for additional details about
Dirty Jobs - Collection 5 (and other upcoming Discovery Communications titles) on DVD, but did not receive an immediate reply. Stay tuned, though, and we'll update you with more info and cover art, just as soon as we can!
