Glee: The Complete First Season to be Released on DVD & Blue-ray
Filed under Glee TV Show News by Rob on 21-05-2010
Get ready, Gleeks! Fox has just announced that on September 14, they will release Glee: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD, featuring all 22 one-hour episodes of the show’s freshman season. The box set, Blu-ray and DVD, is fully loaded with exclusive bonus materials and extended episodes, a sing-along karaoke, a behind-the-scenes look at “The Power of Madonna” episode, Glee Makeovers, never-before-seen “Sue’s Corners” and a dance tutorial titled “Staying in Step with Glee.”
Glee: The Complete First Season will be available in a four-disc Blu-ray set for $69.99 U.S/$89.99 Canada and seven-disc DVD set for $59.98 U.S./$69.98 Canada. In addition, Gleeks who purchased Glee: Volume One: Road To Sectionals (the 1st 13 episodes) last winter can receive a special $10.00 “Gleebate” by simply completing a Mail-in Certificate and submitting it with proof of purchase for both titles. Visit www.gleebatedvd.com after June 1, 2010 for complete details.
Ryan Murphy talks about the exciting DVD release:
“The show started out as a comedy musical about the underdog in all of us and has blossomed, largely due to the incredible support and passion from the fans that have embraced the show,” says Murphy. “When we developed the Blu-ray and DVD, we wanted to give those fans something special because they’ve been so great to us. There’s everything from a sing-along karaoke, to a behind-the-scenes look at our Madonna episode, to a dance lesson from our amazing choreographers. There’s even some all new Sue’s Corners which have never been seen before. It’s our ‘thank you’ to the Gleeks.”
Now I’ll get into the bonus features, aka ‘Extras’. The first is called Welcome to McKinley! and it features the hilarious Principal Figgins. With the help of McKinley’s AV club, Figgins has created a welcome video for 8th graders that are about to start school at McKinley High. Iqbal Theba, the actor who plays Figgins, has perfect comedic timing and I promise that the entire video (which is a little over 5 mins long) will crack you up.
Next is a Glee Music Video. It features the Glee cast’s version of Somebody to Love and is edited together very well. It uses a lot of promo footage that was shot when the show was new (bits of which might look familiar from early Glee promos) and adds in some scenes from the first few episodes. Then they creatively edit in some of the song lyrics and the result is a video that perfectly capture’s the feeling of Glee‘s early days. I LOVE it. :)