This past August 7th, Starz Home Entertainment (formerly Anchor Bay) released
Roseanne - The Complete 8th Season on DVD, and fans have been writing in to the studio asking about edits to the episodes. Rose Marie Zivkovich, speaking on behalf of Starz Home Entertainment (she's the Brand Manager for this title), has issued this statement for us to pass along:
The only edits that were made to the Roseanne Season 8 content were music related. There were certain music cues that needed to be replaced within the set due to unreasonably high licensing fees. This is a standard procedure for TV DVD box sets- and unfortunately, a necessary one in order to still release these box sets. All episodes are intact as originally aired, with the exception of various music cues replaced. The alternative to this would have been not releasing the episodes at all. We appreciate our devoted fans, and we are sorry that they are disappointed, but, we thought that this was a better solution then not releasing this season at all!
Unfortunately, Roseanne Season 9 will be the same way as well.
Our thanks to Rose Marie Zivkovich, and to the studio, for clearing this up.
Roseanne - The Complete 9th Season is scheduled for release on
October 16th.
