FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW TERM. NEW CHALLENGES.
NEW SEASON ON DVD.
THE WEST WING: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON
COMES TO DVD ON APRIL 5, 2005
The Emmy-Award Winning Fourth Season will be Available on a
Six-disc Collector's Set Loaded with Never-Before-Seen Special Features Including
Deleted Scenes, Special Featurettes, Episode Commentary and More
BURBANK, CA (March 9, 2005) - Follow President Josiah Bartlet from re-election into his second term when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases
The West Wing: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD on
April 5, 2005. The six-disc collector's set includes all 22 episodes of the series' fourth season, which garnered 15 Emmy nominations and two wins for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. The DVD set will be available for $59.98 SRP.
Season Four of
The West Wing brings new faces, new demands and many changes to the Bartlet White House. After White House Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) decides to run for Congress in California, Will Bailey, played by Joshua Malina (
Sports Night), steps in, and Lily Tomlin joins the cast as the president's new secretary, Debbie Fiderer. The end of the fourth season also marks the departure of the show's creator and writer, Aaron Sorkin and series director, Thomas Schlamme, both of whom went on to win Emmys for this season.
Special bonus features in the DVD set include:
- Behind Every Good Man...is the First Lady, a featurette exploring the role of the First Lady, and more specifically Abigail Bartlet (Stockard Channing) in the West Wing.
- The Letter of the Word, a featurette examining the crucial role of the writers behind the President's speeches.
- Deleted scenes
- Easter Egg
- Episode commentaries on "Commencement," "Game On" and the season finale "Twenty-Five" by Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, Allison Janney and others.
- Special Thank You - wrap party video montage
"Under Aaron Sorkin's leadership and Thomas Schlamme's direction,
The West Wing has become one of the most critically-acclaimed and honored shows in television's history," commented Christine Martinez, Vice President, Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing, Warner Home Video. "Having won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series four years in a row, it is clear that
The West Wing is a brilliantly produced show. The release of
The West Wing: The Complete Fourth Season honors the show's outstanding writing, directing and ensemble acting that has drawn such loyal viewers."
The West Wing premiered in the fall of 1999 and follows the challenges and responsibilities of U.S. President Josiah Bartlet and his White House staff. The ensemble cast also includes Stockard Channing as First Lady Abigail Bartlet, Dulé Hill as President Bartlet's aide Charlie Young, Allison Janney as Press Secretary C.J. Cregg, Janel Moloney as Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff Donna Moss, Richard Schiff as White House Director of Communications Toby Ziegler, John Spencer as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry and Bradley Whitford as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman.
With operations in 89 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
