Back in early May we
reported that our industry sources had pinned down a possible date for the DVD release of
I Love Lucy - The Complete Series, looking at mid-September, but highly likely to change. CBS/Paramount did indeed move that date, possibly because
it's already quite busy with TV-DVD releases. This morning the studio officially announced the new release date our sources had more recently sent us:
October 23rd.
This is, of course, everything previously released plus POSSIBLY the long-lost
I Love Lucy Movie, which will either be on this set or released separately (or, hopefully, both) since it's been
repeated as recently as March that Gregg Oppenheimer himself is working on prepping that for DVD. No official word from the studio on that, though, as all they've given us this morning is the release date and this interesting-looking package art, which pretty much speaks for itself in how it's designed:
