New TV on DVD Releases for the Week of July 7 2009

Here is a list of the new TV DVD Releases for the week of July 7 2009 (for movie releases head over to Daemon’s Movies):

Coco Chanel

Synopsis: “Coco Chanel” is the rags-to-riches tale charting the rise of one of the most influential fashion icons of the 20th century. From her humble childhood in a French orphanage, through her early days as a young dressmaker’s assistant, to her passionate and tragic love with a dashing Englishman, and ultimately to her success as a pioneering icon, “Coco Chanel” is the story of a glamorous woman who was hard to love and harder to ignore.

Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, and Barbora Bobulova

Recommendations: To this day, this is one of the best original Lifetime movies that I saw. Barbora Bobulova is just wonderful as the young Coco. You can read my review of Coco Chanel here.

Buy it: COCO CHANEL on Amazon

Kath & Kim (Season 1)

Synopsis: The American adaptation of the Australian hit comedy series, “Kath & Kim” stars Molly Shannon (NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”) and Selma Blair (“Hellboy 2″) as the hilarious and iconoclastic mother-daughter duo.
“Kath & Kim” takes place in Florida and focuses on Kath (Shannon), a cheerful, foxy, forty-something and her self-absorbed daughter, Kim (Blair), who have the love/hate, push/pull dysfunctional relationship that only a mother and daughter could share.
Kath has finally found love in the form of a sandwich shop owner named Phil Knight, played by John Michael Higgins (“Best in Show”). Kim is a self-absorbed princess newly separated from her husband of six weeks, Craig (Mikey Day, MTV’s “Short Circuitz”). Kim decides to move back home, putting a damper on Kath’s new romance.
Michael Nader (“King of Queens”) is executive producer and writer of the series. Original series creators and stars Gina Riley and Jane Turner serve as executive producers of the new series along with Rick McKenna and Nader. The series is a production from Reveille for Universal Media Studios.

Cast: Selma Blair, Molly Shannon, John Michael Higgins, Mikey Day

Recommendations: This sounds like it should have been funny, but unfortunately I never got into it.

Buy it: KATH & KIM on Amazon

Third Watch (The Complete Second Season)

Synopsis: Third Watch followed the exploits of a group of police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct and Fire Station 55 whose shifts fell between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m, the “third watch.”

Cast: Jason Wiles, Tia Texada, Coby Bell, Skipp Sudduth, Anthony Ruivivar, Eddie Cibrian, Bobby Cannavale, Molly Price, Kim Raver, Michael Beach, Amy Carlson, Nia Long, Cara Buono, Josh Stewart, Bonnie Dennison, Chris Bauer

Recommendations: I never actually watched Third Watch, so I think it’s up to you to decide whether this sounds like something you might enjoy watching.

Buy it: THIRD WATCH on Amazon