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Summary: What's up with adding a laugh track????
Review: My wife and I loved this show and watched it during its first run on network TV. Cancelling it went a long way in creating my current negative attitude about the network execs.My biggest complaint about this DVD collection is the added laugh track. Shows how stupid they think the public is...they have to tell us when something is funny. It really distracts from the show.
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Summary: Fantastic series; DVDs not quite the same quality
Review: Like many others, I missed SPORTS NIGHT on ABC and only discovered it on Comedy Central. Also like others, I wore out a few tapes recording and re-recording episodes in the hopes of collecting all of them. The complete set on DVD is a great, great buy, a peerless addition to any quality-TV lover's collection. The show itself is absolutely fantastic; every episode is not only consistently funny but also moving - and occasionally goose-bump-inducing - at times. However, I have a few problems with the DVDs themselves that many others (below) seem to have had... - stuffing too many episodes on each disc in this "dual-layer" format does indeed cause occasional skipping, and initially my high-end DVD player (a Denon) wouldn't even read them. (A free tune-up by the Denon people has solved the problem for the most part.) - no extras. As someone below pointed out, it was quite a long time between the end of the series and the release of these discs - it would have been a nice gift to fans (who are going to be the ones buying this, after all) to have some bonus material - outtakes/deleted scenes are the easy ones, but commentary by the busy Sorkin - the best possible bonus - was probably too much to hope for. Still, the show, and having the complete set, is so great that those two issues can't dampen a 5-star rating.
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Summary: Hard to stop watching!
Review: I remembered liking this show when it first came out & being aggravated when it was cancelled. I was very pleased to see it was to be released on DVD & even more pleased when my husband ordered it. We have been watching it nonstop since it arrived! We have been finding it tempting to pull an all-nighter to watch all six DVDs. Since the show was only 30 minutes the time just blows by and with all the commerical breaks deleted it shows you just how well written the episodes are. The cast of this show were an excellent team and I love the way they play off of each other. We were also surprised at the number of bit parts characters we recognized. The only flaw to this set is the laugh track; although I will compliment the way they left the track out of episodes that clearly were too serious for a laugh track. (I think that was probably done in the original broadcast.) Sports Night is even better than I remembered. A great combo of comedy and drama (with some slapstick thrown in). I highly recommend this set and for this price you just can't beat it.
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Summary: Don't let the name put you off...
Review: I started watching Sports Night during it's initial run on ABC only because a friend forced me to sit down and watch an episode. The name had realy put me off, not being a sports fan. But the sports network is just the setting for the story and I was instantly hooked by the snappy dialogue and well written characters. With this set I was able to catch a couple episodes that had managed to elude me on ABC or Comedy Central, plus the whole series plays so much better when you watch them in sequence. Now if we could just do something about that distracting laugh track...
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Summary: Dumb, Recycled, and Obnoxious
Review: I can't believe so many people like this series! All of the characters are the same, and a good majority of the conversations revolve around one character saying some exclamatory sentence, then another character stating something in disbelief, and the first character then repeats him/herself. This isn't just one character, its all of them. And its not just one show, but once again, all of them! And why does everybody have to be sarcastic & have the traditional "Tough Guy" chip-on-their-shoulder? Everybody! Why?! I think its obvious as to why it was cancelled after, like, one season.
I know that very few agree with me, but rent this first, there's a good chance you'll laugh a couple of times, but nothing to justify buying it. Its not for everybody (obviously).
Its pretty obvious that Aaron Sorkin is unoriginal, as I've even seen an episode of "The West Wing" with one of the same character dialogs. Right down to the repeating of one character's lines throughout the conversation. Why doesn't this guy just write commercials. They make GOOD use of repetition.
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Summary: First-rate television
Review: I was lucky enough to catch Sports Night during its run on Comedy Central--and foolish enough to miss it during its initial run on ABC. This is television at its finest: funny, compelling, inventive and, like everything Aaron Sorkin pens, whip-smart. Sports Night ranks among the Top 10 TV shows...ever.
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Summary: Excellent DVD Set
Review: SportsNight was one of the quality shows on TV that was cancelled much too soon. This DVD set includes every show, including the pilot of the two-year series. The show's creater and main writer, Aaron Sorkin, also created and writes NBC's "The West Wing." The shows have several similarities, including great dialouge-driven scripts. The characters of SportsNight are memorable and the scripts leave the viewer wanting more of the series.
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Summary: or, you don't know what you had til it's gone...
Review: When I first saw Sports Night offered on DVD, I was reminded of the frustration of trying to find the day and timeslot in which this show was going to be on in any particular week (due to the scheduling madness of ABC management). It was worth the chase. Now it's on my shelf, screw the network, and I watch it often and whenever I want. It is one of the 10 best series television has offered yet. and we're out.....
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Summary: One of the best TV series ever
Review: This was one of the best shows to air on TV. It's a real shame that ABC opted to cancel Sports Night after only two seasons. The DVDs are a treat, but I still wish the show were on television!
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Summary: Great show, bad discs
Review: I would argue to my dying breath that this was the most intelligently written half-hour show that has been on television since M*A*S*H. If you loved it before, you will fall in love with it all over again when you realize just how much you missed it. Having said that, the peple that brought it to DVD should be publicly flogged. The laugh track is annoying (I don't need to be reminded that this is a funny show), but the worst part is that the disks skip repeatedly. I'm not sure why they skip, but I suspect it is as a result of pushing too many episodes onto each disk. At first I thought it was my player, but after trying it on three different players of three brands that were each less than a year old I am forced to conclude it is a product flaw. The show never compromised its integrity by "dumbing down" to the general public, so why did the producers of the box set compromise the quality to hit a price point?
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