Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released three TV shows on DVD on June 7, 2011: The Big C: Season One, Hawthorne: Season Two and Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season.
The Big C
The Golden Globe winning The Big C, which airs on Showtime, stars Laura Linney (The City of Your Final Destination) as a 42-year-old schoolteacher who has always played by the rules. But when she discovers she has cancer, she decides to start living it up, much to the confusion of her husband (Oliver Platt, Please Give) and teenage son (Gabriel Basso, upcoming Super 8). The show also stars Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) as an opinionated student and Idris Elba (The Losers) as an artist with whom Laura lives it up.
The Big C: Season One was priced at $39.99 on DVD and comes with a bunch of special features:
Complex Characters
A Sit-Down with Gabourey Sidibe
A Sit-Down with Laura Linney
deleted scenes
A Sit-Down with Reid Scott
A Sit-Down with Phyllis Somerville
A Sit-Down with John Benjamin Hickey
outtakes
A Sit-Down with Gabriel Basso
A Sit-Down with Oliver Platt
- Hawthorne season 2
Hawthorne: Season Two, starring Jada Pinkett Smith (Collateral) as a feisty director of nursing at a hospital, managing a family, her staff and difficult patients, was priced at $29.95 on DVD.
Here’s the special features list for Hawthorne:
A New Season
Fresh Faces
Advanced Medicine
“I Run This” Photo Shoot
Cast Photo Shoot
Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season was the only set that arrived on both DVD ($39.95) and Blu-ray ($49.95). The acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television series stars Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher-turned-meth maker whose life is filled with trouble, including a wife (Anna Gunn) who has filed for divorce, a DEA agent brother-in-law (Dean Norris) who’s out to bust him and a Mexican cartel that wants him dead.
Breaking Bad season 3
As well as the 13 episodes, the discs carry these special features:
commentary on “No Más” with Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Skip Macdonald, Dave Porter and Michael Slovis
The Opening of Season 3
The Hay Truck
The Cousins Visit Walt
Unused Footage
White Heat: Cranston on Fire
Pizza of Destiny: Cranston’s Greatest Shot
commentary on “Mas” with Vince Gilligan, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and Moira Walley-Beckett
commentary on “Sunset” with Vince Gilligan, Dean Norris, John Shiban, Kelley Dixon and Thomas Golubic
commentary on “One Minute” with Dean Norris, Michelle MacLaren, Thomas Schnauz, Dave Porter, Daniel Moncada and Luis Moncada
Tiger Trouble? Better Call Saul!
Wayfarer 515: We’re All Victims (A Message From Saul)
Saul Says: “Sue ‘Em Now”
Letters to Saul: Did I Murder an Old Man?
Another Satisfied Client of Saul Goodman: Badger
Three Satisfied Clients of Saul Goodman
Team S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
The Music of Breaking Bad
gag reel
commentary on “I See You” with Vince Gilligan, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and Gennifer Hutchison
commentary on “Kafkaesque” with Vince Gilligan, Betsy Brandt, George Mastras and Michael Slovis
commentary on “Fly” with Vince Gilligan, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Moira Walley-Beckett
Bryan Cranston Answers Fan Questions
Aaron Paul Answers Fan Questions
The Cast on Season 3
Silent But Deadly: The Brothers Moncada
commentary on “Half Measures” with Bryan Cranston, Adam Bernstein, Bill Powloski, Peter Gould, Jonathan Banks and Michael Slovis
commentary on “Full Measure” with Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks
Walt’s Aztek
Hit and Run
AMC News Visits the Breaking Bad Writer’s Room
The third season of Breaking Bad was already available for video-on-demand.
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