Fans of ABC Studios hit series have plenty to celebrate, with a number of new titles that have just been released or are due for release over the next 2 months under the TV 4 Me on DVD brand.

This month saw the release of the Seven Network’s hit dramas ‘Desperate Housewives’ Season 5, ‘Lost’ Season 5 and ‘Brothers and Sisters’ Season 3.

November will see the release of Seven’s medical duo ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 5 and ‘Private Practice’ Season 2; and the final season of the short lived dramedy ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ Season 2.

You can also expect to see the release of FOX8’s popular teen dramas ‘Greek’ Chapter 2 and ‘Kyle XY’ Season 3 in November.

Finally, December is all about comedy, with the release of ‘Scrubs’ Season 8, ‘Scrubs’ Seasons 1-8, ‘Home Improvement’ Season 8 and the season premieres of ‘Smantha Who?’ Season 1 and teen drama ‘The Secret Live of an American Teenager’ Season 1.

Hit the links below for more details about each set.

21 October 2009

• ‘Desperate Housewives’ The Complete Fifth Season
• ‘Brothers and Sisters’ The Complete Third Season
• ‘Lost’ The Complete Fifth Season

4 November 2009

• ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ The Complete Fifth Season
• ‘Private Practice’ The Complete Second Season
• ‘Greek’ Chapter 2
• ‘Kyle XY’ The Complete Third Season
• ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ The Complete Second Season

2 December 2009

• ‘Scrubs’ The Complete Eighth Season
• ‘Scrubs’ Mega-Set 1-8
• ‘Home Improvement’ The Complete Eighth Season
• ‘Samantha Who?’ The Complete First Season
• ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ The Complete First Season

'Kyle XY' The Complete Third Season

Who is Kyle XY? A Seattle family takes in an amnesiac teen, whom they eventually learn has mysterious powers and psychic abilities, the result of a secret human cloning experiment conducted years earlier.

Breakout star Matt Dallas reprises his role as Kyle, the phenomenal young man with an enigmatic past. As the show continues, and Kyle learns where he came from, larger mysteries unfold concurrently with many of the standard teenage troubles.

It’s a twisting, turning drama that will have you hooked from the very first episode!

The 3-disc set is rated M and retails for RRP $39.95 — out November 4.

Bonus Features

• Audio commentaries
• Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary
• The Science of Kyle XY

'7 is Heaven' will be the new name for daytime programming on digital channel '72'. While bizarre, not entirely unbelievable from the network with "Mr. TV Man" as their main mascot.

The Seven Network have finally put their money where their mouth is, and have announced their multi-channelling plans for the Freeview platform.

The network will launch with three distinct channels from November, including their current SD digital channel ‘7′, a re-launched ’7 HD’ and an all new ‘7 Extra’.

While speaking at the “Get ready for digital TV” forum in Sydney this morning, Seven’s CEO David Leckie said “the current economic crisis has put a lot of things into perspective. Our multi-channelling plans will address these issues.”

First up is the new HD channel. The network will continue using the ‘Seven HD’ moniker for channel ‘70′, which will be dedicate to all Australian content.

It will screen new first run lifestyle programs, time-shifted news and re-runs of Australian drama including ‘City Homicide’, ‘Packed to the Rafters’, ‘All Saints’, ‘Home and Away’ and older series like ‘Last Man Standing’, “HeadLand” and ‘A Country Practice’.

The channel will also show a simulcast of Seven’s regular channel ‘7′ in HD for select content, i.e., movies and other “must-see TV.”

Seven will re-launch ‘The Great Outdoors’, which has been MIA for some time now. Naomi Robson (‘Today Tonight’) and Charlie Delaney (‘Hi:5′, ‘Battle of the Choirs’) will be joining the travel show as globe trotting presenters.

‘Out of the Red’, is a new first run lifestyle program that will screen on the new 7HD. It will feature ‘Sunrise’ hosts, Mel and Kochie, as they help people bogged down by the current economic crisis. The new series will see the duo help families with their debts and give them tips for getting”out of the red”.

The network announced that they have several other new lifestyle programs in development which will be announced at a later date.

“Lifestyle programs are much more cost effective for us to produce in this current economic climate. The smaller budgets mean we can experiment with various concepts and ideas without breaking the bank” said Leckie. “We’ll offset our new lifestyle programming on the new 7HD with our large back-catalogue of great Aussie drama,” he added.

The network’s plans for their second standard definition channel, ‘7 Extra’ (‘72′), is a little more interesting.

In a bold move for the commercial broadcaster, the new channel will outsource its programming blocks to various content producers.

Deals have been struck with Walt Disney, Bloomberg Television, the Australian Christian Channel and various community television stations from around the country.

“By outsourcing the programming to different content providers, we’ll be able to create a diverse programming line up,” Leckie added. ”We’ve established a new shared advertising revenue scheme with the content producers, which will see lower up front costs for content.”

Each programming block will be themed depending on the content producer. The four banner names will be: ‘7 is Finance’, ‘7 is Heaven’, ‘7 is Adventure’ and ‘7 is Community’.

‘7 is Finance’ will run during the morning programming block (6 am to 11 am) and will feature non-stop finance reports from Bloomberg Television.

“Keeping people up to date with the markets is just another way we’ll be helping people during these troubled times,” said Leckie.

‘7 is Heaven’ will run during the daytime programming block (11 am to 5 pm) and will feature a schedule developed by the Australian Christian Channel. The ACC have several new programs in development including a new music program produced in conjunction with the Hillsong Church. It will be hosted by ‘Australian Idol’ winner and renowned Hillsong member Guy Sebastian.

Classic TV dramas including ‘Touched by an Angel’, ‘Joan of Arcadia’ and ‘7th Heaven’ will run throughout the week, while Sunday’s will feature live sermons from around the country.

“All of our daytime programming will be aimed at spreading hope and optimism to our viewers,” said Leckie.

“But the ‘adventure’ really begins on ‘7 Extra’ during prime-time,” he announced.

‘7 is Adventure’ will run between 5 pm and 1 am. It’ll feature content from the network’s output deal with Disney/ABC Studios. It will screen all of Disney’s classic animations like ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘The Lion King’, as well as more mature content from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films. Titles will include film franchises ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’,'The Chronicles of Narnia’ and ‘Kill Bill’, as well as box office hits like ‘Pearl Harbour’ and ‘Gangs of New York’.

TV series from ABC Studios will join the ‘7 is Adventure’ block, with ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘Lost’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Brothers and Sister’, ‘Ugly Betty’, ’Scrubs’, ‘Commander in Chief’ and ‘Alias’ will all be getting a re-run on the new channel. ‘Night Stalker’, ‘Dirt’, ‘Kyle XY’ and ‘Greek’ will also make the move to free-to-air under the new ‘7 is Adventure’ block.

Disney channel movies and TV series like ‘High School Musical’, ‘Camp Rock’ and ‘Hannah Montana’ will air Saturday nights under the new ‘adventure’ banner.

From 1 am to 6 am, ‘7 is Community’ will screen, with original programming from Sydney’s TVS, Melbourne’s C31 and other community stations from around the country.

“We really want to embrace the community as a source of great entertainment,” said Leckie. “The new shared revenue scheme will really benefit independent content makers and allow them to create more ambitious programs.”

‘7 Extra’ will be broadcast on digital channel ‘72′.

“As the leaders in television, our mission is to bring viewers diverse and entertaining programs.”

“We believe that we’ve come up with a great strategy for our multi-channelling line up, which will provide both variety and quality,” Leckie concluded.

So after several long months, Seven’s digital TV plans have finally been unveiled and the all-Aussie channel and the outsourced programming channel are both pretty bold ideas for the network. It’s definitely the most comprehensive and unique plan we’ve seen from a free-to-air broadcaster so far.

Too bad we’ll have to wait until November.

Oh, and by the way…April fools!

The podcast returns with the first episode of 2009. We discuss all the new and returning series, including Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Sunday Night, Life On Mars, Bondi Vet, Guerilla Gardeners, So You Think You Can Dance, LOST, Kyle XY, Packed to the Rafters and Ugly Betty. We also delve into the issues surrounding Freeview and make our predictions for the 2009 television season.

The CW are hoping to cash in on some of that “Twilight” vampire craze.

With the current popularity of vampires, courtesy of  ”Twilight” and HBO’s True Blood, it’s no wonder The CW network have greenlit a new pilot based on the Vampire Diaries, a series of books published by Alloy Entertainment. The same company behind Gossip Girl and Privileged.

Vampire Diaries revolves around a young woman whose torn between two brothers, who happen to be vampires. One good and one evil.

The first book in the series was originally published in 1993, years before Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” series were even a blimp on the radar.

Kevin Williamson (“Scream” , ”I Know What You Did Last Summer”, Dawson’s Creek, Hidden Palms) will write and produce, along with Julie Plec, who’s coming off the recently cancelled Kyle XY.

The project will be housed by Warner Bros. TV under Alloy’s executive producers Les Morgenstein and Bob Levy .

Episode 15 brings us up to date with all the latest tv news, gossip and programming developments. We discuss the 90210 full season pick up, The Emmys, Prison Break series finale, NBC’s Kath & Kim, Australian Idol top 10, who is Kyle XY?, AFL Grand Finale coverage, television show recaps and a sort of new segment ‘Most Underrated Show of the Week’.

Kyle XY is currently airing on FOX8 at 7:30pm Thursdays.   So far we know Kyle XY is some sort of strange being with no memory at all, no belly button, no prevoius life.  We know people are following him, watching his every move, but so far, we don’t exactly know why.  Some possible theories on who is Kyle XY could be the following:

• Is an Alien from outerspace accidently released by the government but still being kept a close eye on.
• Is suffering from a serious case of amnesia after commiting a murder and doesn’t want to face his consequences.
• Is some sort of genetic clone with an adjustment made to his brain so he is now able to learn everything at an accelerated rate.
• Is something to do with the professor, maybe a creation of his workings.

The Trager family has taken him in with no where else to go and he is adjusting nicely, learning at a rapid rate.  Whatever it is the mystery is intriguing.  Kyle XY, the simple boy, who is extremely smart, yet has an extremely large heart will continue to capture the imagination of viewers.  The first season has 10 episodes.  Whether Foxtel will show the full 23 episode second season straight after the first is still yet to be decided.

If you have any Kyle XY theories we’d love to hear about them.  For those of you who have seen past the episodes currently airing on FOX8 please try not to spoil us.

It’s a new season of television! And boy is there a lot to talk about. In our first post-olympics podcast, we discuss Packed the Rafters, All Saints, Idol, Make Me a Supermodel, ABC Family, and plenty of Aussie Drama. The return of Cult Show of the Week and our new segment So You Think Concepts.  We wrap up by discussing the new season of Dancing with the Stars.

For those of you who are unaware Kyle XY makes its Australian television debut this week on Foxtel’s FOX8 channel. The show begins this Thursday the 28th of August at 7.35pm AEST.

The show begins with the pilot episode which aired back in June of 2006 in the USA on ABC Family. It centres around a teenager (Kyle) who wakes up one day with no recollection of who he is and how he got there, he is taken in by a family and with the help of them and new found friends he attempts to figure out exactly who he is.