Motherfu*king FOX, I’m extremely pissed that they gave up on the King of the Hill seasons after release 6 fu*king seasons. If you’ve released that many seasons on DVD it should be a law that you must continue. It looks like FOX has pretty much given up on NYPD: Blue as well after release 4 seasons on DVD, fu*kers. More seasons of St. Elsewhere is a MUST but if they don’t release the rest it won’t be a huge slap in the face like with some of there other TOD titles they have stopped releasing more seasons of.

Excuse the profane language but I get really upset (like many others) when they stop releasing seasons on DVD. It’s real depressing when you see a god awful show like Full House make it to the ‘Complete Series’ stage but yet a ton of high quality shows don’t get more than one season released on DVD.

A lot of great shows thankfully get released but there are still a lot of other great shows that need to start getting seasons released.

And this why I will not buy TV sets unless the whole series gets released.

I agree. I don't see how Full House of all shows can get the entire series released, but shows like American Dreams (yeah, I'm bitching about it again) or Everwood only get one season released.

And as much as I hate it in those examples, I think it's worse to go on and release six seasons (in KotH's case) or even EIGHT seasons (Cheers), and then just stop. It's practices like that that will permanently damange the TV-on-DVD industry.

even tho I'm not a Cheers fan (I strongly disagree with the person who trashed Seinfeld in comparison to it), I don't see why Paramount decided to finish Frasier but not continue Cheers along with it? You don't tease people with eight seasons only to decide "forget it" for the last 3 years.

I've only bought season 1. I'm holding out to see if there's a Complete Series box set. Same thing with Frasier.

You might be referring to me. If you were, I wasn’t trashing Seinfeld in anyway, when I said, “Cheers was great from the beginning ti’ll the end. Not even Seinfeld can make that claim” I just meant that Seinfeld had a shaky beginning & the end was less than stellar. Although I do find that the ‘series finale’ episode gets a bad-rap. It’s just that Seinfeld & Cheers are arguably two of the greatest sitcoms in the history of television & it’s sad that only Seinfeld got the excellent DVD treatment & Cheers hasn’t been as well promoted on DVD.

Again. How can you make blanket statements about a show that you haven't seen nateman. Granted you have been watching them on DVD, but the final season isn't out yet, so I don't see how that judgement can be held.

Sounds like someone appropriating the popular consensus of fans during its run.

Ill end the thread now....Cheers was a much better show than Seinfeld.

Game Over.

I’ve seen the series finale. Don’t worry I don’t say stuff that is ‘popular’; trust me just read a lot of my posts.

I’m just basing it on the final episode of Seinfeld though so in a way I still have to see the other episodes in season 9 in order to make my final opinion but I enjoyed the Cheers ‘Series Finale’ much more than Seinfeld’s. I might be a little bias because I’ve watched Cheers for a hell of a lot longer than Seinfeld.

Correct. However, I would have to think that Cheers sold more units than those shows you listed. Those shows you listed only got one season released, if I am not mistaken. We've had all but three seasons come out on Cheers. They were always released at the same time as Frasier and were marketed together. If Cheers was a poor performer, they would not have pumped out 8 seasons already. (I know you could argue that if they were good performers they would have put out the remaining seasons, but I still say the sets were better sellers than those you listed for comparison.)

I think the whole thing went in the crapper when they put out season 11 of Frasier out of sequence. They lost the momentum they had going and Cheers suffered.

I think I read a while back that the publishing rights to Cheers changed hands at some point which is why we are in limbo.

Bump up. As I've watched the series from S1 and am down to my last 3 shows of season 8, there really needs to be a petition to Paramount started on this. This is a big F-U to fans and those that bought all the released seasons thus far.

Lastly, one last very minor pet peeve. Has anyone else noticed how throughout the entire series, after the end of the opening credits song they use the same stock footage shot with the Volvo station wagon driving in front of Cheers? Jeez, couldn't they at least take a few more shots of passing traffic to give us the illusion it was a different date/time?

Can this be confirmed by anyone? It would be nice to at least know why there is a hold up.

They really need to release the remaining seasons on DVD. I am getting downright sick of watching the whole series up to the eighth season. Has anyone heard anything about the last three seasons being released? If not, someone needs to get a petition going...Paramount is acting kind of selfish.

I want this as much as anyone, but what does this even mean?

Well, obviously they are acting selfish (all businesses do), but I just really do not like it when they start too release the seasons, then just stop when they reach the half way mark.

if they were acting selfish, they would be releasing the seasons with crappy production values at high prices.

Releasing 8 seasons of a show, than not releasing the last 3, can always be dubbed as selfish. This is beside the point, in any event...

I agree that it seems silly to get so close to finishing the series and just stop. The sets might not be getting the sales they would like but they need to balance that against the good will they maintain by continuing the releases and the hesitancy to start buying new series that is created when situations like this arise. I think television networks have shot themselves in the foot in a similar fashion with the quick hook they give to so many series. Why bother watching something if it's likely to be gone in 3 episodes?

I can understand why Paramount would not want to release these final seasons, because they hardly made a profit on the 8th season. I am kind of puzzled, about why the sales for the Cheers DVDs are so low. It was one of the biggest shows back 15-20 years ago, yet they can not even sell enough DVDs to make a profit? I think if they advertised a little more, than maybe the sales would be higher.

It is a bunch of crap that they stopped Cheers and Taxi after getting past the half way point in each series.

The studios are really ruining the fun in collecting TV series on DVD:

If the series does well then they release a whole series collection with exclusive bonus material that they don't make available to collectors that bought the series as the seasons were released.

If the season by season collectors don't buy them as they are released then the studios just quit part way through the series.

Then sometimes they change the packaging type partway through the series.

This is just a frustrating hobby sometimes.

The studios need to understand that at $30 and up for a season set not everyone an afford to run out and buy every set on release day. Sometimes we need to wait until retailer offer incentives to buy more than one season at a time, such as $10 off when you buy 2 or the B1G1 sales'

Exactly. How is a studio being selfish by NOT releasing a product and thus NOT making money off of it? Aren't they being selfish when they release products for the main purpose to make money off of it?

Please advise me exactly which definition fits Paramount in your mind.

I mean, if you're going to say that because they want to make money on this show and not lose money buy releasing the sets they are fitting definition #1 or #2, then I'd still have to disagree. ALL businesses do that, right down to the mom and pop stores. Nobody wants to lose money, and that has nothing to do with being selfish...it has to do with business. Do I think there is a way around this? Sure...make fewer copies and charge a few bucks extra for the sets. The fans who want it will buy it, and that will settle that.

But if you mean #3...yeah, I can totally see that!

I think what mlb meant was that Paramount were "corporate douche-bags", at least that's my take on the situation after watching seasons 1-8 and hitting the brick wall.

Boo for bumping a thread with no recent news.