“Farscape” Coming Back to DVD
If you missed collecting “Farscape” on DVD during its initial release, we have good news for you. The long out-of-print series is coming back to DVD this November.
The set will be launched at a panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and is being picked up by A&E Home Video. The set will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show.
When a freak accident during an experimental space mission catapulted Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield, a cult classic was born with the epic, adventure-filled TV series Farscape. The award-winning fan favorite show, which ran from 1999-2003 on Sci Fi and was named by TV Guide as one of television’s best cult shows ever, is about to blast off again on DVD courtesy of a pact between A&E Home Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company.
Blasting off in November 2009, as the show marks its 10th Anniversary, the treasure of the newly re-packaged DVD line will feature a Farscape home entertainment first: THE COMPLETE SERIES MEGASET. Never before available in one package, A&E Home Entertainment brings together all four out-of-this-world seasons with countless hours of absorbing bonus programming featuring multiple commentaries, interviews with cast and crew, behind-the-scenes featurettes and much more! Single season collector’s sets will also be released, offering genre fans of all walks the opportunity to sample this superlative sci-fi classic.
To launch this eagerly-anticipated re-release, there will be a Farscape panel convening at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego. Executive producer Brian Henson, creator Rockne O’Bannon, and stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black (Officer Aeryn Sun) will be in attendance to discuss their favorite moments from the series and the DVD re-release.
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About time!
So frelling happy my mivonks have swelled.
“If you missed collecting “Farscape” on DVD during its initial release, we have good news for you.”
This gives the impression that this is the SECOND DVD release. Not so … you are forgetting about the STARBURST editions.
This will be the THIRD DVD release …. where is the BluRay
This is great news….and……I bet (no confirmation- just my journalistic gut) that with such big guns at CC this year to promote this DVD release (Henson, O’Bannon, Browder and Black) all together again - there may be more to this than just another DVD release. Perhaps, and just perhaps, they will either confirm or negate the Farscape movie rumors.
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So, you’re saying I could have waited another four months and not paid through the nose? I cannot even begin to tell you what frelling dren that news is. Hasmana!!!
This makes me giddy with joy.This is a show I would pay stupid amounts of money to own. However, it’s just in time for holiday gift giving…hmmmm…i smell a wishlist update on the horizon.
eep!
What ever happened to the Farscape Webseries that was announced a while back?
I am so glad that this is going to happen. I never liked the way that Farscape was released on DVD in the past. Now I can get season box sets, which is what I wanted. I never liked the single DVDs. Too many to buy, & after awhile I got too far behind. I prefer season sets.
Now maybe I’ll finally be able to see it all in order and will get to see parts I missed. And the Webseries may be on hold until they do this release in order to give the series some free publicity. There also may be some copyright issues we don’t know about as well.
The big question is: will it be less expensive than the earlier volume, season, and Starburst releases? Because if it’s three or four hundred dollars, I’m just going to continue my quest to get used copies of the Starburst editions on the cheap.
Where are the N*E*W episodes? That’s what I thought the headline meant. That new episodes were coming to DVD.
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This is great news. Hope they talk about the webisodes as well. I’ll be parting with my hard earnt cash to get this set.
that is sweet i am actually trying to buy the set now, i love this show, i remember seeing the first show the first time it ever aired, i fell in love with it right away. now hopefully though they will be able to minamize the dvds so it is not so damn expensive
I am so excited!!! I loved this series and was distraught when it was cancelled. It will definitely go on my Christmas list - my son who always called it “Firescape” will be happy to get it for me (once I make it clear that’s what I want). After all, last year he gave me the complete “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.”