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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0826663109290
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Shout! Factory
Manufacturer: Shout! Factory
Number Of Items: 8
Publisher: Shout! Factory
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Running Time: 1200 minutes
Sales Rank: 1524
Studio: Shout! Factory
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With breakout and memorable performances by Josh Charles (In Treatment), Robert Guillaume (Benson), Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Peter Krause (Six Feet Under), Sabrina Lloyd (Sliders) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing), this was writer/producer Aaron Sorkin's (A Few Good Men , The American President) first television series. And it was director Thomas Schlamme's first collaboration with Sorkin. The pair, who would continue to click brilliantly with The West Wing and Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, may not have known it at the time, but with Sports Night they defined a new style and raised the bar for all television programs to follow.
Critically acclaimed when it debuted on ABC in 1998, Sports Nigh was an innovative half-hour program about a team of funny, smart and likeable people who put on a daily live sports cable newscast, much like ESPN's SportsCenter. They are a group of consummate professionals whose personal lives operate in apparent chaos, communicating every uncensored thought and feeling through a libretto of witty and honest chatter over the hum of the separate-but-integrated live show-within-the-show.
10th Anniversary Special Features:
*The Show: An in-depth look back at Sports Night with creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, directors Thomas Schlamme and Robert Berlinger, cast members Felicity Huffman, Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, and Robert Guillaume, Emmy(r) award-winning editor Janet Ashikaga, Emmy(r) award-winning director of photography Peter Smokler, producer John Amodeo, and set designer Thomas Azzari. Includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes home movies shot by John Amodeo.
*Face Off: ESPN's SportsCenter vs. CSC's Sports Night - Sports Night's real-life ESPN counterparts discuss what the series got right and wrong.
*A Conversation with Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme
*Inside The Locker Room - A look at the innovations of Sports Night with Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, Robert Berlinger, Janet Ashikaga, Peter Smokler, John Amodeo, and Thomas Azzari.
*Season Gag Reels
*8 Episode Commentaries including creator/writer Aaron Sorkin, director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme, director Robert Berlinger, editor Janet Ashikaga, and cast members Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Joshua Malina, Sabrina Lloyd, Greg Baker, Kayla Blake, Timothy Davis-Reed, and Ron Ostrow.
*Original Promos
*36-Page Booklet including an introduction by creator Aaron Sorkin
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Enjoying it!
We have been enjoying the series. The story lines are better than many on today.
Rating:  - Sports Night - 10th Anniversary
Loved the series (one of the half dozen out there evidently ... it was cancelled after two seasons), enjoyed very much the original DVD's, and also enjoying this 10th anniversary set.
Would have given it a higher rating if the commentaries were easier to access ... easy to get to on a DVD player, but not so easy when it's played on a computer.
Rating: - Sports Night ... True Quality!
It has been said that the series was based on the sports super team of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick during their Sports Center years and when the show premiered in the fall of 1998, I watched `Sports Night' every night of the two seasons that it originally aired, but when it was cancelled in the spring of 2000, I was very upset. There are few television programs that hold the quality that was produced through `Sports Night.' There was a constant level of goodness mixed with a high level of intelligence in every show. Some of my favorite episodes were `The Apology,' `The Hungry and the Hunted,' `The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee,' `Eli's Coming', `Napoleon's Battle Plan,' `Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks,' `Bells and a Siren,' `La Forza del Destino ,' and `Quo Vadimus.' I was given the gift of the original packaging of the series in 2002, but I am joyful that they have decided to update the collection this year. `Sports Night' is a true investment... enjoy every moment!
Rating: - Sports Night is not about sports
If you liked "West Wing," you'll like Sports Night (even if you don't like sports). The fatal mistake in the development of Sports Night was probably the title of the series. The best thing about it was also, for some people, probably a weakness: it's not a drama, not a comedy. It doesn't fit any customary category. A typical half-hour espisode is a drama that makes you laugh for 20 minutes because the people in the drama love to make one another laugh (and you laugh with them). And then, in the last 5-10 minutes, it will nail some truth about human beings in a way that will probably bring tears to your eyes. Quite a lot to draw from an insider look at the production of a television program (a program that happens to be about sports). If you never saw Sports Night, you're in for a very special experience.
Rating: - Sports Night
What has been said thusfar about Sport Night, its intelligence, its innovations and effects on the future of the sitcom are all true. It was an amazing show, one that stood so far out in the pack of shows in that season that you just knew that it was going to be cancelled. The story arc where Josh Charles' character was forced to apologize for remarks he made regarding drug use - brilliant. Just one of many examples that could be sited. Though I was sad to see this show go, in retrospect where would we be without Peter Krausse in Six Feet Under or the promising Dirty Sexy Money or Felicity Huffman's amazing Career. And I wonder if Sabrina Lloyd would have found the time for her work with Hal Hartley. What we are left with is an incredibly tight 2 season set with a beautiful singular vision and execution comparable in quality if not subject matter with Lynch's Twin Peaks. Just like that show, its end was inevitable and beautiful.
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