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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:38:27 +0000

Thanks Robert!

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By: JS

JS — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:21:25 +0000

It looks like Dexter for next week…

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8b95ac51de67e1962166b5ad3624fe5e

By: AO

AO — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:02:51 +0000

@ BIG DADDY,

Oh yeah! Several months ago the Borders bookstore in my area was trying to reduce it’s inventory of DVD’s by having a huge sale. By the end of the sale they had many titles marked down 50% off, at which point almost all of them were STILL more expensive then what Amazon charges for the same titles.

I understand that some people want to purchase something and have it immediately, but I can wait a few days to buy a show from Amazon for $19.99 or $24.99 rather than the MSRP of $49.99, $59.99 or even $69.99.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:02:29 +0000

The first season of one of my all time favourites, Thirtysomething, was released yesterday on DVD, for the first time ever. I wonder how it will do in the next couple of weeks. It has a nice package, with three slim plastic DVD sets and a booklets with critical articles and an episode guide.

By: BIG DADDY

BIG DADDY — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:01:18 +0000

I think it’s comical that some places like best buy try to sell box sets for $35-$60 while places like amazon/target have them for $15-$25.

By: Joshua K.

Joshua K. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:47:59 +0000

@Izkid I read that HBO is ready to start filming season 3 of Conchords. They’re just waiting for the boys to write the songs. Can’t recall where I read it…

By: Izkid

Izkid — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:43:17 +0000

Please renew Flight of the Conchords HBO!

By: officegurl

officegurl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:03:40 +0000

I’d go even farther than Guybrush.

I haven’t started watching True Blood yet, but I was gonna say: as successful as Alan Ball is, why isn’t he a household name at this point? True Blood, Six Feet Under, American Beauty, without a serious misstep in between. What does a guy have to do in this business for demi-god status?

By: Guybrush

Guybrush — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Well, in a way, it’s not that unexpected.
People can watch 24, Dollhouse, Family Guy etc. for free all year long (and if you count the repeats…all year long with double servings).

True Blood is on HBO. Not everyone can afford HBO (though, it seems that everyone who can, is watching True Blood right now :p), so the only solution to watch a higly-hyped and amazingly marketed series is through your DVD/BluRay player.

Add to that the fact the True Blood is a genuinely great show, the Vampire-hype and the desire to own the episodes (so you can drool over Sookie or Jason – depending on what you prefer :p) and it makes perfect sense that True Blood is doing so good.

Nonetheless, this is a stunning performance for a TV show whose premier attracted roughly 1,5 million people.

Again though, with True Blood being the raw gem that it is, it’s understandable.

Alan Ball deserves a huge applause (and I’m betting all my money that HBO is REALLY loving him right about now)

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:03:33 +0000

Mark,you’d have to buy the data from Videoscan or ask someone who knows at the appropriate division of Warner Bros. The-numbers.com also might have more info than it makes available, but if they do you’d need to be a subscriber to see it.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:00:56 +0000

Where can I find out how much 90210 dvd sales made??

By: officegurl

officegurl — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:28:05 +0000

Mad Men Season 2 peeks back onto the list, that’s kinda impressive. And I’m anything but a MacFarlane-ite, but it must be admitted, that magnificent bastard sells a lot of DVDs.

But it’s clearly the summer doldrums. You only have to sell 29,000 units to make the list this week.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:27:52 +0000

Just Tuned In:

Heroes – Season One..1,597,185…$61,849,386….8/28/2007
Heroes – Season Two….881,964…$22,007,198….8/26/2008

These are the year list data, but likely are close to the complete sales.

By: CHI

CHI — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:27:18 +0000

True Blood definitely gets a boost from all of the people who don’t have HBO. Most of the other shows aren’t on a premium cable channel. Then you have people who didn’t have HBO in season 1 who bought the DVD set to play catch up for season 2. With 24 you have die hards that love watching the show exclusively on DVD to make their viewing more intense.

By: SleeperActiveCompass

SleeperActiveCompass — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:09:55 +0000

Dollhouse mentioned! Engage battle shields now!

If I were to remain on task, I would say True Blood is a phenomeon due to adults, like myself, who want to shove tween Twilight fans faces into asphalt.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:08:00 +0000

LG, you can scroll through and find that info on The-Numbers.com. It is some work,to track it down but better for you to do the hunting and pecking(since you want the info) than me

by memory it didn’t do NEARLY as well as season 1, but, still better than many show. And season 3 is relased in a week or so, so in a few weeks we’ll have data on that too.

By: LG

LG — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:55:16 +0000

Yo Robert, O Master of the Numbers. Do you by chance have numbers on DVD sales for Heroes season 2? Cause if it’s anywhere near season 1 numbers that may explain why it’s still on the air.

By: JS

JS — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:50:02 +0000

Amazon is reliable for DVD shows when the box sets are in the top 10 at amazon for more than a couple weeks. True Blood was high on that list for almost 2 months. And the second season is already climbing and it’s not even over yet! Maybe they’ll rush it out for X-Mas.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:13:39 +0000

Just Tuned in, you’re welcome to comb through the-numbers.com and draw your own conclusions or read previous entries here. A lot of last seasons DVDs will be coming out over the next few weeks so there will be more to compare. But, briefly True Blood is a big success rather than other shows sucking wind. True Blood is in the upper stratosphere of DVD sales now, compared to this year, last year, the year before or before the writers strike. It’s ahead of the last season of Sopranos in the stratosphere of LOST and approaching Heroes season one (that did about $61 million in 2007) which was a huge DVD success.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:52:15 +0000

Yep! Dollhouse is sure cleaning house (well the basement…)

By: JustTunedIn

JustTunedIn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:45:13 +0000

Are the sales low for the other shows? Or is it just that True Blood is eclipsing the others? True Blood aside, how are TV show dvd sales doing compared to last year (or the year before, considering last year had the writers strike).

By: tom

tom — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:40:52 +0000

Maybe the reason dvd tv sets are having slow sales is because you can watch any episode for free on the internet. Why Pay when its Free?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:55:38 +0000

No “Dollhouse” on the list again??
SHOCKING!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:31 +0000

I’m not sold on Amazon as being a good indicator of how well a show’s dvd sales are.

People get nuts over it, reporting as a victory the fact that their favorite show climbed from #9 to #5 on the Amazon ranking. But the numbers of the dvd sold on Amazon are so small compared to total DVD’s selling, that being #5 or #9 doesn’t make such a difference.

Last year I religiously checked Amazon everyday to see the difference btw the CDs sold there and their final position on Billboard. Sometimes it was big, but because the number of them sold through amazon was tiny.

By: r0ckmypants

r0ckmypants — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:51:52 +0000

If you look at Amazon’s bestsellers in Movie & TV, it’s dominated by TV shows (especially pre-orders). As of right now, the top 5 selling DVDs are:

1. House – Season 5
2. Dexter – Season 3
3. NCIS – Season 6
4. True Blood – Season 1
5. Smallville – Season 8

The second season of True Blood is already #25 and there isn’t even a release date yet.

Though to be fair, I don’t think Amazon is all that reliable in showing how well a DVD will fair overall. Dollhouse was in the top 100 for weeks (it peaked in the top 10) and when those numbers were factored into total first week sales, it was only about 60,000 units. And this week’s top-selling DVD (the film 17 Again) has only been in Amazon’s top 100 for 20 days – yet it still sold 680,000 units in its first week.

By: AO

AO — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:14:02 +0000

It looks like there just aren’t very many people buying TV shows on DVD at all right now (True Blood being the obvious exception). I wonder if the market will pick up as more shows are released in the next month or two, or if this is indicative of consumers simply being less interested/less able to afford TV shows than they were in the past.

I really haven’t paid any attention to the new 90210, so I don’t know what sort of expectations there were for it’s release, but to not even make the Top 30 can’t be making that studio happy.

Out of curiosity, I checked it’s current rank at Amazon and right now it’s “#433 in Movies & TV”.