Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment will be putting smiles on the faces of the fans of outcast
Sheriff Walt Longmire on Mar. 3 with the DVD release of Longmire: The Complete Third
Season.
The brains over at
A&E are batting at least 0-for-2 with the stellar programming decisions that
they’ve made during the past year. First
they picked a very public and very political fight with the cast of Duck
Dynasty, their top-rated program.
That was a PR disaster and got people to thinking why on earth is that
particular show on A&E in the first place.
It’s the money of course
… advertising. They ate crow and the
Robertson clan flew even higher!
So with that little
tantrum behind the management, they turned their glaze on another popular
series, Longmire, the series that sprung from the pages of mystery
writer Craig Johnson novels.
Starring Robert Taylor as
the iconic lawman, who is joined by Lou Diamond Philips, Cassidy Freeman and
Bailey Chase, the series maintained exceptionally strong cable rating and a very
loyal audience. You would think that
A&E would be all smiles, but they abruptly cancelled the series because the
show’s audience didn’t “fit” a certain desired profile.
That bit of hubris has
not only cost A&E a very popular series, but Netflix is now the one that is
all smiles with the announcement that Longmire has a new home. Orange is the New Black, House
of Cards and Longmire … do you see a trend here?
As to Longmire:
The Complete Third Season, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be
delivering all ten episodes as a double-disc DVD presentation. Bonus features include a newly prepared
production featurette titled “The Ghost in the Storm.”
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