LITTLE ROCK — Q. When will Friday Night Lights return to NBC?
A: The series, whose fifth and final season just finished on DirecTV, will air that final season on NBC beginning April 15. The final season is also due for release on DVD on April 5 - before the NBC telecasts.
Q. I was wondering if you know where the Wipeout series takes place.
A: It is done in Canyon Country, an area near Santa Clarita, Calif.
Q. Are there any DVDs of Columbo, which was one of my favorite TV detective programs?
A. Yes. You can find the entire NBC run of the series starring Peter Falk on DVD in season-by-season packages. In addition, TV movies made later for ABC are being gradually released; the most recent set is “Columbo: Mystery Movie Collection 1991-1993.”
Q. The Canadian TV show Corner Gas is now off the air but I read somewhere that Brent Butt from the show had developed a show for his wife, Nancy Robertson, who was also in Corner Gas. Can you buy DVDs of the new show? Is it carried anywhere in the United States?
A. The show you are looking for is called Hiccups. Robertson plays a children’s book author and Butt is her “lifecoach.” A 13-episode first season has aired in Canada, with a second season planned. I have not seen it listed for U.S. TV, but the first season is for sale on DVD on Amazon’s Canadian operation,
amazon.ca
. Another Corner Gas player, Fred Ewanuick, also went on to a new Canadian series, Dan for Mayor, and the first season of that is on DVD via
amazon.ca
.
Q. Whatever happened to the very talented comedian Crista Flanagan after Mad TV went off the air? I thought for sure that we would see a lot more of her.
A. She has had work outside the Fox sketch-comedy series. She had a recurring role on Mad Men as Lois Sadler, famous for running a riding mower over the foot of a visiting executive. She was also on the short-lived Kelsey Grammer comedy Hank (which included another Mad Men player, Melinda McGraw) and appeared in the movie Vampires Suck.
Q. I recently picked up reruns of Twin Peaks on the Chiller and Sleuth channels, and the theme song blew my mind. Is there is a CD of that music?
A. Angelo Badalamenti’s theme for the peculiar ABC drama proved quite memorable. It is included on a CD soundtrack of the show’s first season; that appears to be out of print but I have seen copies for sale, including on Amazon.com. There is also a soundtrack for the second season, which is even harder to get, and one for the prequel movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which is easily available. You may also want to look for Badalamenti’s Music for Film & Television CD, which includes his Twin Peaks theme, along with compositions for Blue Velvet, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive (like Twin Peaks, all are collaborations with director David Lynch); Inside the Actors Studio; and other productions.
Twin Peaks is available in its entirety on DVD.
Q. What happened to Deal or No Deal? I loved that show.
A. From what I can find, for now it is a done Deal. Successful internationally, the U.S. version - hosted by Howie Mandel - proved a relatively short-lived phenomenon.
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