Review: Reba Season 5 and 6 on DVD

There are very few shows out there that I love and enjoy in todays world. They just don't make them like they used to so when I find one that I really like, I stick to it and watch every episode. My favorite shows include Smallville, 7th Heaven, Ghost Whisperer and Reba. I was very disappointed to find that last year in March of 2007, the CW decided they wanted to cancel the show as it was not meeting the demographics that they wanted, whatever that may be. They never led on to why exactly the show was getting axed, but it was very sudden. While season six of the show wasn't the best of them, it still had some of it's luster and hilariousness.

Just recently I had the opportunity to get Reba seasons 1-4 on amazon.com and what a deal it was, all four season for $54.99. I love watching the show and always get a laugh out of it so when I went to try to find the last two seasons, I couldn't find them. I didn't understand why Fox hadn't released the last two as it had been almost a year since it had been canceled. So I started looking around on how to find the last two seasons since I thought maybe Amazon.com didn't have those, only to find out that Fox was not going to release them due to poor sales on the first four.

So here is my vent, why even release the first four if you aren't even going to complete the collection? What is the point of only having the first four seasons of a show, only to be cut off because the company won't release it for those of us that want it. Additionally, I didn't even know that you could buy Reba's TV show on DVD so maybe if they had marketed the product better then the sales would have increased. I don't get why a company would do this to it's fan base since us, the viewers, were the ones that kept the show on for the six seasons it had.

This isn't the only show where certain seasons weren't released after a few were brought onto the market. After some careful research I found that it's common among the production company to cut off making the rest of the collection if they see that sales do not meet or exceed what they expected. They see it as a risk of loosing money since stock on the older DVD's are just sitting in companies back rooms, they don't see any reason to release the last few seasons because obviously (to them) if people didn't want the first few, why would they want the rest?

It's simple, the cost of buying a season on DVD is expensive (unless you find it on sale like I did). While the Reba DVD's only had three discs, there are some that have six and the more discs in a collection the higher the cost of the season. Some seasons even go up to $50 and I've even seen Ghost Whisperer at $75, thus this is why the general public won't buy it. Why buy something that expensive when you can still watch it on TV for free?

Unfortunately, for those of us who want the last two seasons, we either need to bombard Fox with lots of letters and writings, or you could go the simpler route and sign the on-line petition that is at Ipetitions.com. Hopefully Fox will be kind enough to release the last two seasons for those of us loyal fans patiently waiting.