In
this news item yesterday, we filled you guys in on a DVD that Best Buy is giving away free (under certain conditions; see the other article for details). The disc comes courtesy of NBC-Universal, and is primarily used to show off six of NBC's hot new shows for the Fall 2004 broadcast lineup.
There's also a very interesting trailer on this disc, which goes over Universal's late 2004 TV-on-DVD lineup. The trailer starts with the familiar Universal logo, then shows screens saying "2004" and "Coming to DVD". It then launches into a number of TV series that we here at TVShowsOnDVD.com have already told you were on-the-way. Many of them, however, we didn't know precisely WHEN we would see them.
Well, the speculation ends for a number of these shows, as the studio clearly lists them in their "Coming to DVD 2004" trailer. And first up on the list? None other than the highly anticipated
Miami Vice!
Note that the entire trailer is letterboxed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that DVD releases of the shows it portrays will be widescreen: every show ought to be a full-screen item if Universal does things right. The trailer ends with the screen "Groundbreaking Shows", and then going over all of the logos from the series seen along the way. As you can see,
Miami Vice is included in those, which all flash by very quickly, before the trailer closes with the "Coming to DVD 2004" shot.
This is the only indication from the studio so far that we'll see the Season 1 set before the year ends. And don't forget, plans can always change. But things are looking up - now more than ever - for long-suffering
Vice fans. Stay tuned, and we'll be here to fill you in with updates.
In the meantime, be aware that several new Universal TV-on-DVD offerings that came out this week (
The Munsters and
Night Gallery among them) include a new TV-on-DVD brochure that also mentions the shows in this trailer, including
Vice. And they provide a URL to the studio's new website that promotes their current sets:
www.Great-TV-Shows.com; readers of ours will quickly notice that the title at the top of the window frame there bears a striking resemblance to the name of the website you're reading now. Oh, well...they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We consider ourselves flattered!
