THE 4400 {3rd. Season} (DVD Review) - 13/5/07

Well with the BBC shoving Dr. Who back a week for Eurovision (Nice to see the contempt is still held there for Sci Fi by the BBC - They nearly bumped it back a couple of weeks earlier because of football as well) I decided to plow straight into Season 3 of "The 4400" which has only taken ten months to appear on Region 1 DVD from the USA. The 4-disc set comprises all of the 12 episodes from this current season and wasn't it a lame and lack-lustre affair! Turning from the original ideas from the first 2 seasons we lose a cast member to a contract dispute so they get killed off, we get all the sub-par X-Files type conspiracy drivel and apart from a good episode with "Blink" it's all pretty ropey and samey. All the major plot points could have been stuck into a two hour TV film inside of being strung out with all the red herrings. Really need the Producers/Writers to buck up their ideas in Season 4 or I can see this falling by the wayside in "cancellation" mode.

SPECIAL FEATURES: 5 Audio Commentaries on selected episodes, 4 dull Featurettes, a really uninspiring Gag Reel and a PDF DVD-ROM feature of the first draft of Episode "Being Tom Baldwin".

Special Features Not Rated or Close Captioned. Widescreen Format Enhanced for 16:9 TVs. Dolby Digital: English 5.1. Surround/English Stereo Surround/Spanish Mono. Subtitles: English/Spanish/ Brazilian Portuguese. CBS/PARAMOUNT 2006/2007. NTSC Colour. Runtime: 9 Hrs. 20 Mins. Rating: US Not Rated/Can 14A. CC. Region 1 (USA). 12271/11111008009/ISBN # 1415730040.