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It looks like Shout! Factory is coming through for Judd Apatow again. The company licensed Apatow's Freaks & Geeks, and according to Entertainment Weekly (June 25th issue), now they've gone and licensed his other show, Undeclared. The article doesn't mention a release date, but gives us an idea of the extras we can look forward to:

Apatow is armed with an arsenal of extras: "every deleted scene, blooper, audition," as well as uncut, improvised riffs from Loudon Wainwright III, who played not-so-gay divorcée Hal, and former Freak Jason Segal (Eric, the obsessive ex).

Hopefully they'll release the show in production order, since it makes more sense than the order in which it was aired. We'll post more information when it becomes available.

candygirl wrote:News from tvshowsondvd.com:

It looks like Shout! Factory is coming through for Judd Apatow again.

Hopefully they'll release the show in production order, since it makes more sense than the order in which it was aired. We'll post more information when it becomes available.

Looks good. We are clearing music now. Lots of the bands that weren't that big when we used them on the show became huge later so we need to figure out all the rights issues. We had songs from Outkast and Coldplay, so it gets complicated. Hoping to have it out next spring.

Wow, it's been the Summer of '03 since creator Judd Apatow first spoke about Undeclared coming to DVD, and then it was the Summer of '04 since we last heard anything very in-depth about the status of the project. Now we have a release date, set for deep in the center of the Summer of '05!

DVDPlanet.com has listed Undeclared - The Complete Series for release from The Shout! Factory (via distributor Sony Music) on July 5th. List price is $49.95 for a 4-disc set, but DVDPlanet will set you up right now for just $34.97 if you declare your purchase in advance.

This is great news; the last thing Judd said about this was about 3 weeks ago, and he commented that they were "finishing them up now". We're glad to see that a specific release date was set so fast, and that retailers are already being solicitated to carry it. We'll be back as soon as we can with more info from Shout! on this release. Stay tuned!

Just yesterday we posted news that DVDPlanet.com was showing a July 5th release date for Undeclared - The Complete Series. Now creator Judd Apatow is saying to hold off before marking that on your calendar in permanent ink.

Just a few hours ago Judd posted info saying that the date might move back about a month. He also talked a bit about the extras, and in a lot of detail about the music clearance situation. There's also a comment right at the beginning that answers the question, "will there be a special edition version similar to the one for Freaks & Geeks?" Here's a relay of exactly what Judd said:

I think the release date will move to mid August. There will only be one version of the DVD. it will be similar to the six disc set of Freaks and Geeks. We have an episode that starred Ted Nugent that we reshot which removed Ted. We will put both versions on there. There is an episode that never aired. The museum seminar is on there along with lots of dailies and deleted moments. We were able to clear 96 percent of the music, and the songs we couldn't get, about ten, were not important songs. So we did really well there. There were some people like Jay Z and Outkast that weren't huge when we used there music and now they wanted too much money or just said no. A drag, but a minor one. Our commentaries are really funny. SInce the show was not as serious as Freaks the commentaries are a little crazier. Fred Willard did a great one. Everyone did one. Loudon Wainwright, all the cast. We are excited to have it out there since it never aired in reruns.

Thanks goes to Brian Basquille for the very fast heads-up about this. We'll talk to Shout! Factory just as soon as we can and see what the release date will end up being for certain. Stay tuned!

Last week we posted news mentioning that online e-tailer DVDPlanet.com had listed a July release date for Undeclared - The Complete Series, but before the next day was out creator Judd Apatow was saying that "I think the release date will move to mid August."

Now DVDPlanet has updated the ship date at their pre-order listing to show a new August 16th street date for the 4-disc set.

Amazon.com, on the other hand, doesn't list a date at all. They are still showing their standard "this item is not yet available...sign up to be informed when it becomes available" message that they put on ANY title they get a lot of searches for by their users. However, at that placeholder for the DVD release listing, Amazon is now showing cover art for the release!