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Hey! It's today's TV on DVD releases!

First, a shout out to the pick of the week:

Aww yeah. "Stella" never really had much a fighting chance by virtue of the fact that it was simply too weird to live, but for those of us that like that style of comedy, it was just right. Paired with the much more conventional, and by that I mean successful, (yet still hilarious) "Reno 911", it gave displaced "The State" fans
six-eleventh of their favorite comedy troupe every Sunday night for 10 glorious weeks. Wow, that sounds pretty pathetic written out like that.

I never watched too much of "Black.White," but I did think that the cast members made to look white eerily resembled the Duracell family. Maybe I'm alone on that one, I don't know.

This right here is the "money" "Diagnosis: Murder" season, because ScottBaio left the show after season 2 (to do...something worthwhile, surely), so really, all you've got with no Baio is just a cranky Dick Van Dyke being a doctor and solving mysteries. Which is great, sure, but do you really need more than a couple seasons of that? OK, I'll admit I've never watched this show.

If you're of the female persuasion (READ: a girl), you already know and love "Grey's Anatomy." If you're a dude and you love "Grey's Anatomy," you're used to getting shoved in lockers. Anyway, this season made the show even more insanely popular, the biggest hospital drama since some thing that involves letters somehow. I dunno. "Grey's also has a Super Bowl cliffhanger episode involving a bomb in a guy's chest...I think. I might have fallen asleep; it was a long day.

"Las Vegas" is a great show if you love old men and hot babes.

It is more painful than you could ever know to not give my coveted John Madden Pick of the Week to season 2 of "The Office," since it was truly great, and expanded on every way of the merely OK season 1 (which, in its defense, was only six episodes. Not that the British "Office" didn't do awesome things in six episodes, but those Brits are wily and thus not comparable). However the repeats were on so much over the summer that this doesn't seem that, um, urgent, of a purchase. But who wouldn't want to relive theDundies every day of their lives?

"Roseanne" season 5 had "Scrubs" and "The 'Bu" star Sarah Chalke take over the role of Becky, and immediately people were suspicious given that she was way too attractive to be part of the Connor family.

Season 5 of "Smallvile" had James "Spike" Marsters as a
classic Superman villain, a huge character death, Lex and Lana romance and lots of Erica Durance, yet I still couldn't care all that much. Sad times.

"The Swan," or as beloved stand-up comedian Michael Gelbart calls it, "From 0s to 7s."