Genre: Sci-Fi
Released: Jan. 31, 2012
Distributor: Paramount
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Next Level
Featuring a bigger and better USS Enterprise, this series is set 78 years
afer the original series - in the 24th century. Instead of Captain Kirk, a less
volatile and more mature Captain Jean Luc Picard heads the crew of various
humans and alien creatures in their adventures in the final frontier. More info




Genre:
Drama Released: January 24,
2012 Distributor: Paramount
Mannix: Season 6Joe
Mannix is a Los Angeles-based detective who ends up taking a lot of punishment.
When the show starts, he works for a large L.A. detective agency, Intertect. But
beginning in season two, he sets out on his own and becomes a private
investigator, assisted by loyal secretary Peggy Fair, the widow of a police
officer. In the course of solving crimes, he can be expected to be shot, beaten,
knocked unconscious, driven off the road or similarly injured. More info
Genre:
Drama/Sci-Fi Released: January 17,
2012 Distributor: Warner/BBC
Merlin: Season 3This
action-packed fantasy-drama revisits the saga of King Arthur and his wizard,
Merlin, by focusing on the two characters when they were ambitious young men
struggling to understand their destinies. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: January 17,
2012 Distributor: BBC Warner
Waking the Dead: Season
6Leading his team of police investigators, Det. Peter Boyd, helps
bring unsolved cases to a close using modern technology that was not available
during the original investigation. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: January 10,
2012 Distributor: HBO Studios
Boardwalk Empire: Season
1Political boss Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi) runs Atlantic
City at the dawn of Prohibition in this drama inspired by Nelson Johnson's
non-fiction book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of
Atlantic City. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: January 10,
2012 Distributor: Paramount
Hawaii Five-O: Season
12Detective Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord) heads up Hawaii Five-O, a
special division of the state police tasked with bringing down organized crime
on the islands. The Five-O team works with local police from time to time on
individual cases. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: January 10,
2012 Distributor: BBC Warner
Primeval: Volume
ThreeEvolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter makes a startling discovery:
Strange, unexplained "anomalies" have ripped multiple holes in the fabric of
time and space, allowing dangerous creatures from the distant past to lumber
onto the streets of modern Britain. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: January 3,
2012 Distributor: Sony
Justified: Season
2Deputy Raylan Givens has his own, Wild West-style methods of
upholding justice, putting him at odds with the criminals he hunts and with his
bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: December 27,
2011 Distributor: Showtime
The Borgias: Season 1The
Borgias, led by patriarch Rodrigo, are a family of outsiders from Spain who try
to take over control of Renaissance-era Italy. Through the use of bribery,
extortion and torture, Rodrigo rises up the ranks to become pope. More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: December 27,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Archer: Season 2 There's
not a whole lot of intelligence in the office of the ISIS, an international spy
agency where the employees' best efforts are geared toward undermining and
betraying one another. More info
Genre:
Reality Released: December 27,
2011 Distributor: MTV
Jersey Shore: Season 4
It's a lot of hair gel, suntan lotion and skimpy clothing in this
reality series. After a first season spent in the beach town of Seaside Heights,
N.J., the party moved to Miami Beach for season two before friendships and
flames were rekindled back at the Jersey shore house.
Genre:
Comedy Released: December 20,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Futurama: Volume 6
Accidentally frozen, pizza-deliverer Fry wakes up 1,000 years in the
future. He is taken in by his sole descendant, an elderly and addled scientist
who owns a small cargo delivery service. More info
Genre:
Reality Released: December 20,
2011 Distributor: A&E Entertainment
The Franchise: Season 1
Tim "The Freak" Lincecum and Brian Wilson (the pitcher, not the Beach
Boy) helped lead the San Francisco Giants to the team's first World Series title
in more than 50 years in 2010 -- the team's first title since making the move
from New York to the Bay Area in 1958.
Genre:
Drama Released: December 20,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
One Tree Hill: The Complete Eighth
Season Set in the affluent suburb of Tree Hill, NC, this
teen-oriented WB dramedy was the story of two half-brothers united only by a
common name. More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: December 13,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Family Guy: Volume 9 The
weekly half-hour cartoon series Family Guy shamelessly -- and hilariously --
exploited the nothing sacred, anything goes TV animation field fostered by such
earlier trailblazers as The Simpsons and South Park. Watch exclusive video
Genre:
Drama Released: December 13,
2011 Distributor: ABC Studios
Switched at Birth: Volume One
Bay Kennish is a teenager who grew up in a wealthy family with two
parents and a brother. Fellow teen Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an
early age, was raised by a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. More info
Genre:
Comdey Released: December 13,
2011 Distributor: Shout! Factory
Spin City: The Complete Sixth
Season New York Mayor Randall Winston needs help running the city.
So, for much of the series, he counts on Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty to help him.
More info
Genre:
Drama Released: December 6,
2011 Distributor: HBO Studios
Big Love: The Complete Fifth Season
Bill Henrickson seems like a typical suburban husband and father,
except for the fact that he has three wives, nine kids and three homes to
maintain. More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: December 6,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
The Simpsons: Season 14
This long-running animated comedy focuses on the eponymous family in
the town of Springfield in an unnamed U.S. state. The head of the Simpson
family, Homer, is not a typical family man. More info
Genre:
Family Released: December 6,
2011 Distributor: Nickelodeon
Spongebob Squarepants: Season 7
The world's most popular invertebrate TV-cartoon star, SpongeBob
SquarePants was the brainchild of Stephen Hillenburg, who graduated CalArts with
two degrees: one in Marine Biology, and the other in Animation.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 29,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
Smallville: Season 10
Superficially, the much-anticipated weekly adventure fantasy series
Smallville resembled the many cartoon and live-action adaptations of DC's old
Superboy comic books. More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: November 29,
2011 Distributor: TV Land
Hot in Cleveland: Season 2
Three L.A. women Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick)
move to Ohio after their Paris-bound plane makes an emergency landing in
Cleveland, where they meet the elderly caretaker (Betty White) of the house they
decide to rent. More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: November 29,
2011 Distributor: Universal Studios
30 Rock: Season 5 Tina
Fey assumes the leading role of Liz Lemon, head writer of the ficitional
comedy-ensemble series "The Girlie Show." Liz was placed in the none-too-skilled
hands of novice network executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). More info
Genre:
Comedy Released: November 22,
2011 Distributor: BBC Warner
The Office: Special Edition
Insufferable middle-management type David Brent is the center of this
mockumentary-style comedy set at a nondescript paper company in a nondescript
office park in England. More info
Genre:
Drama Released: November 22,
2011 Distributor: Paramount
Perry Mason: Season Six, Vol. 2
One of TV's most successful and best-loved dramatic series--not to
mention one of the few black-and-white, hour-long series to flourish in
syndication well into the 21st century--Perry Mason was the brainchild of
lawyer-novelist Erle Stanley Gardner, who introduced the character of defense
attorney Perry Mason in 1933.
Genre:
Reality Released: November 22,
2011 Distributor: CBS Home Ent.
Survivor Season VIEight
men and eight women are marooned. They must and together to find food, water and
shelter -- and build a world for themselves. Yet every week they vote to expel
one person. The last one left wins $1 million.
Genre:
SciFy Released: November 22,
2011 Distributor: Entertainment One
Being Human: Season
1"Being Human," based on a BBC series of the same name, features
three 20-something roommates who each try to keep a secret from the rest of the
world -- one is a ghost, another is a vampire and the third is a werewolf. The
three roomies try to help one another navigate the complexities of living double
lives.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 15,
2011 Distributor: Image Entertainment
Crime Story: The Complete Series
In 1960s Chicago, Lt. Mike Torello and the members of his Major Crime
Unit carry on a near-epic battle against organized crime figures such as Ray
Luca.
Genre: Sci
Fi Released: November 15,
2011 Distributor: BBC Warner
Neverwhere 15th Anniversary Edition
NeverWhere is a six-part BBC fantasy miniseries written by comic book
author Neil Gaiman. The story follows businessman Richard Mayhew, who gets
trapped in the dark underground world of London Below. More Info
Genre: Sci
Fi Released: November 15,
2011 Distributor: A&E Entertainment
Farscape: The Complete Series
American astronaut John Crichton finds himself thrown across the
universe when an experimental mission goes bad.
Genre: Sci
Fi Released: November 8,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
Doctor Who: Sixth Series - Part
2An eccentric yet compassionate extraterrestrial Time Lord zips
through time and space to solve problems and battle injustice across the
universe, traveling via the TARDIS, his old and occasionally unreliable
spaceship.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 8,
2011 Distributor: Universal Studios
Law & Order: The Complete
Series Filmed on location in New York, the drama showcases the
sometimes-complex process of determining guilt or innocence, while lives hang in
the balance. Often inspired by the latest headlines, the plots highlight legal,
ethical or personal dilemmas to which people can relate.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 8,
2011 Distributor: BBC Warner
Bedlam: Season 1 The
apartment block is strangely full of tenants, strange because it's the site of a
former mental asylum. It's no surprise, then, that ghosts lurk in the shadows,
haunting flatmates Kate, Ryan, Molly and anyone else who stumbles upon the
building's former residents.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 1,
2011 Distributor: Discovery Channel
Deadliest Catch Season 7
Before complaining about the market price of Alaska king crab, check
out this gripping documentary series, revealing the mortal perils and intense
discomfort that fishing crews face to catch the delicacy.
Genre:
Drama Released: November 1,
2011 Distributor: Showtime Ent.
Californication: The Fourth Season
David Duchovny returns to series television in this adult sitcom as
Hank Moody, an alcoholic, womanizing novelist struggling to help raise his
precocious teenaged daughter, Becca, while still yearning for his sophisticated
ex, Karen. More Info
Genre:
Family Released: November 1,
2011 Distributor: Nickelodeon
Victorious: Season One, Volume Two
Life is about to change in a big way for 16-year-old Tori Vega. After
years of living in her older sister's shadow, Tori has been invited to attend
Hollywood Arts, a high school with a focus on the performing arts.
Genre:
Comedy Released: October 25,
2011 Distributor: Cartoon Network
Robot Chicken: Season Five
Actor Seth Green ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Matthew Senreich
created the off-the-wall comedy hit, a series of pop-culture parodies using
stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls.
Genre:
Drama Released: October 18,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
V: The Complete Second Season
Earth has its first encounter with an extraterrestrial race. Calling
themselves the Visitors and promoting peace, they seem to be friendly, but their
congeniality may be a cover for a malevolent agenda.
Genre:
Reality Released: October 18,
2011 Distributor: A&E Home Video
Pawn Stars: The Complete Season
Three This series opens the doors to the only family-run pawnshop in
Las Vegas, where three generations of the Harrison family use their sharp-eyed
skills to assess what's real and what's fake.
Genre:
Drama Released: October 18,
2011 Distributor: Showtime Entertainment
The Real L Word: Season
TwoSometimes described as "Sex and the City meets Queer as Folk," the
comedy drama series teased its viewers as to what the "L" stood for in its
opening credits sequence, in which a long list of "possibles" rolled past the
screen: Laughter, Lattes, Luxurious, Lullaby, Libido, etc.
Genre:
Drama Released: October 11,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
Bones: The Complete Sixth Season
Inspired by the career of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy
Reichs, Emily Deschanel headed the series as Dr. Temperance Brennan, an
attractive forensic anthropologist (and part-time novelist) working for the
Jeffersonian Institution. More on 'Bones'.
Genre:
Comedy Released: October 11,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
Chuck: Complete Fourth
SeasonZachary Levi starred as computer geek and social misfit Chuck
Bartowski in this heady NBC combination of comedy, fantasy, espionage, teen
angst and wish fulfillment. More on 'Chuck'.
Genre:
Drama Released: October 11,
2011 Distributor: Paramount
Gunsmoke: Fifth Season, Vol.
1As of this writing, Gunsmoke holds the distinction not only of being
the longest-running TV western series, but also the longest-running dramatic
series in network television history.
Genre:
Comedy Released: October 4,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
The League: Season TwoA
group of avid fantasy football fans tries to balance their time in the league
with their real lives. It becomes a challenge, though, when the good-natured
competition gives way to a win-at-all-costs mentality.
Genre:
Drama Released: October 4,
2011 Distributor: Anchor Bay
The Walking Dead: The Complete
First SeasonRick, a lawman who wakes up from a coma to discover that
a cataclysmic event has transformed much - though not all - of humanity into
zombies. More on 'The Walking Dead'
Genre:
Drama Released: October 4, 2011
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Lie To Me: Season
Three Inspired by the scientific discoveries of real life body
language specialist and criminal investigator Dr. Paul Eikman, the police
detective series follows Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his special team of
experts.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 27,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
How I Met Your Mother: Season
Six Related entirely in flashback, from the vantage point of 2030. The
hero, Ted (his "old" voice provided by Bob Saget) was endeavoring to regale his
children with the stories of how he wooed and won his wife and their
mother.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 27,
2011 Distributor: HBO Studios
Hung Once athletic,
popular and on the way to success, Ray Drecker's life turns upside down: He's an
underpaid, unappreciated middle-age high-school teacher and basketball coach
whose wife of 20 years just left him.
Genre:
Drama Released: September 27,
2011 Distributor: Paramount
CSI Set in Las Vegas, the
weekly, 60-minute series focused on the activities of that city's Crime Scene
Investigations Bureau. Working the overnight shift, the principal characters
deployed state-of-the-art forensic technology to solve unsolvable crimes.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 27,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
The Cleveland ShowThis
Family Guy spinoff follows Cleveland Brown, who has moved from Quahog, R.I., to
Stoolbend, Va., where he becomes a family guy himself -- settling down with his
high-school flame. Video: Watch a clip
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 20,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Modern FamilyThis
mockumentary-style sitcom chronicles the unusual kinship of the extended
Pritchett clan. Related: More about the Emmy winning 'Modern Family'.
Genre:
Drama Released: September 20,
2011 Distributor: Disney
Castle Bored with his
success, celebrated mystery novelist Rick Castle teams with NYPD Detective Kate
Beckett to solve the case of a copycat killer who re-creates murder scenes from
Rick's novels. Unfortunately, he and Kate clash so violently that they seem
ready to murder each other.
Genre:
Drama Released: September 20,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
The Mentalist Patrick
Jane, adviser to the California Bureau of Investigation, is notorious for his
unusual methods -- not to mention his former career as a "psychic" -- but the
guy has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes through uncanny
powers of observation.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 13,
2011 Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Glee: The Complete Second
Season Optimistic teacher Will Schuester tries to inspire a group of
ragtag performers to restore McKinley High School's glee club to its former
glory.
Genre:
Drama Released: September 13,
2011 Distributor: Sony
Rescue Me: The Complete Sixth
SeasonNew York firefighter Tommy Gavin is a hot mess. He talks to his
cousin, Jimmy, who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and he's
seeing ghosts of other victims, too. Exclusive Video Clip: 'Rescue Me' the final season
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 13,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete
Fourth SeasonThe CBS "nerd-com," " The Big
Bang Theory" is about two brilliant physicists living together in a
technology-cluttered apartment and spending their free time with a circle of
fellow geeks from Cal Tech.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 6,
2011 Distributor: Universal Studios
The Office: Season 7 The
U.S. adaptation, set in Scranton, Pa., at a paper company is somewhat faster
paced than the British original. However, the characters essentially are the
same including Michael Scott, the worst boss ever, to everyman Jim.
Genre:
Sci-Fi Released: September 6,
2011 Distributor: Warner Home Video
Fringe: The Complete Season
3 FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is assigned to the bureau's Fringe
Division, in which she investigates unusual crimes and occurrences. Assisting
Olivia in her investigations are once-institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter
Bishop and his estranged son, Peter.
Genre:
Comedy Released: September 6,
2011 Distributor: Sony
Community: The Complete Season 2
When a fast-talking lawyer ( Joel McHale) finds his degree has been revoked, he
is forced to go back to school. Hoping to score points with a pretty coed, he
invents a study group and invites her to join.
Genre:
Drama Released: August 30, 2011 Distributor:
Universal Studios
House, M.D. Season 7 At
fictional Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, prickly genius Dr. Gregory
House tackles health mysteries as would a medical Sherlock Holmes, all the while
playing mind games with hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy and with his best
friend James Wilson.
Genre: Drama
Released: August 23, 2011 Distributor:
Paramount
NCIS: Season 8 Combining
the best elements of JAG and CSI, the CBS crime series Navy NCIS focuses on an
elite, independent unit of the U.S. Navy, which, in its pursuit of
military-related criminal investigations, was answerable to no higher authority.
Genre: Drama
Released: August 16, 2011 Distributor:
Showtime
Dexter: Season 5 Dexter
Morgan is a Miami-based blood splatter expert who doesn't just solve murders; he
commits them too. In fact, he's a serial killer -- but he only murders the
guilty, so he feels justified with his lifestyle choices.
Genre:
Drama Released: August 9,
2011 Distributor: AMC
Breaking Bad: Season 4Bryan Cranston stars as high school chemistry
teacher Walter White, who at age 49 is told that he was suffering from terminal
lung cancer--even though he'd never smoked a cigarette in his life.
Genre:
Drama Released: July 26, 2011 Distributor:
ABC Family
Pretty Little Liars: Season
1 Four estranged friends are reunited because of mysterious messages
that suggest their missing friend is watching them and that someone knows their
deepest secrets. Based on the series of books by Sara Shepard.
Genre:
Drama Released: June 7, 2011 Distributor:
TNT
Hawthorne: Season
2Richmond Trinity Hospital's Chief Nursing Officer Christina
Hawthorne loves her job, despite the long days and nights she spends on the
hospital's front lines. She does everything possible to help her patients and
defend her staff, even if that means violating protocol. Video:
Watch 'No Excuses' clip
Genre: Drama
Released: June 7, 2011 Distributor:
Sony
The Big C: The Complete First
SeasonAcclaimed actress Laura Linney stars in this comedy-drama as
Minneapolis schoolteacher Cathy Jamison, whose reserved, structured way of life
is turned upside down after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Video: Watch 'Taking the Plunge' clip
Genre: Drama
Released: June 7, 2011 Distributor:
20th Century FOX
White Collar: Season
2The third time turns out to be the charm for criminal Neal Caffrey.
He has been eluding FBI Agent Peter Burke for years, a run that finally comes to
an end with his capture. In return for freedom, he'll help the Feds catch
long-sought criminals. Video: Roasting 'Burn Notice'
Genre:
Drama Released: May 31,
2011 Distributor: HBO
True Blood: The Complete Third
SeasonAnna Paquin is Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic
waitress who lives in a small Louisiana town that just happens to be cohabitated
by both humans and vampires.
Genre:
Comedy Released: May 24, 2011 Distributor:
Shout! Factory
Melissa & Joey: Season
1 When her sister ends up in prison and her brother-in-law disappears,
local politician Mel Burke steps in to take responsibility niece and nephew.
Realizing she's in over her head, Mel welcomes the help of Joe Longo, who moves
in as the "manny."
Genre:
Sci-Fi Released: May 17, 2011 Distributor:
Universal Studios
The Bionic Woman: Season
2 This series is based on the adventures of Jamie Sommers, who almost
dies while sky diving. She is rebuilt bionically, just like her former fiance,
Steve Austin (the six million dollar man himself). Jamie agrees to work for the
government and goes on dangerous missions.
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