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But will the DVD have any extras?


If any series was crying out for the four star DVD treatment it's this one. Ideally I'd like commentries, features and interviews with the cast. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll get any extras at all. I just watched the first series of Between The Lines - produced by the same people that did This Life - and it hasn't got a single extra. Not a thing! Same thing with Ultaviolet, and it'll probably happen again here. But I suppose we should be grateful it's coming out on DVD at all.

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I´ve been wondering about that myself. More than deleted scenes, and out-takes and even commentary, I´d dearly love to watch and listen to interviews with the cast. If they are being re-united for a one-off comeback episode, then surely this is to tie-in with its return, and therefore the cast would be available to do interviews for the DVD.
However as little has been heard about the ´comeback´ episode since that news story in July, I´m doubtful that not only will it be a bog-standard transfer from VHS (and no wide-screen :() but that there will be no 10 year anniversary programme made either. I wonder too if the first series will be just a re-issue of the original, deleted DVD edition, I presume so.
It´s better to be more negative, otherwise all your hopes are crushed so I hope I´m wrong!

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Can anyone get in touch with the BBC over this as they must have information on what will be on the discs, information that is released to retailers anyway. Contacting retailers might be another line of enquiry. I think it would all be in vain anyway as i'm in agreement with the last poster. The special won't happen.

I'm off to contact Amy Jenkins :-)

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Well the double boxset of both series has 7 discs

So unless that means that series 2 is spread over 5 discs Im just hoping that the 7th disc has some bonus features

But I dont think that BBC discs really come with a lot of features

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It's 8 discs, no extras.

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