The TV Zone

E-mails arrive all the time from readers asking why their favorite sitcom/drama/TV movie doesn’t seem to be available on DVD. And I usually steer them toward the comprehensive website TV Shows on DVD, run for six years now by Gord Lacey, who’s become a great friend and source for me since founding it as a hobby (since turned into a career). Gord and site news director Dave Lambert are incredibly well-connected and consistently deliver informed scoop about tube properties heading to home video shelves.

Dave launched his new DVD Guy blog last week with a bang, explaining why we’re not seeing “The Bionic Woman” with Lindsay Wagner on DVD in conjunction with NBC’s new remake, or “The Six Million Dollar Man,” either. I emailed Dave, saying it sounded like the legal wrangles holding up the ’60s fave “Batman” [right], and apparently so did the rest of the universe. So now he’s posted another column explaining “Batman” and some other TV DVD no-shows.

Both his and Gord’s blog should get a wider readership now that the site has been acquired by TV Guide, whose editors were wise enough to keep Gord and Dave in place running things so expertly. Their URLs are definitely worth bookmarking.