The Carol Burnett Show ran for an impressive 11 season on CBS from 1967-1978. During that time the show became a staple of American life, broadcasting 278 episodes, winning 25 Emmy Awards, and consistently ranking in the top 25 shows based on ratings for most of its run. It's been listed as one of the best TV shows of all time by both TV Guide and Time Magazine too. In other words, it's a classic. Time/Life has now paid tribute to the fondly remembered show with the release of The Carol Burnett Show - The Ultimate Collection on DVD. This massive 22-disc set includes not only 50 episodes, but four exclusive DVDs filled with bonus material and a nice 20-page book all in an nicely designed custom case. This is the set fans have been waiting for. Read more about this huge set in our DVDTalk exclusive review.

This week in theaters, Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, and Lizzy Caplan play three friends whose wild pre-wedding party doesn't go quite as planned in Bachelorette. Read reviews by Jamie S. Rich and Jason Bailey. A mediocre writer finds fame through plagiarism in the turgid drama The Words. And a divorcee finds herself in the arms of a much younger man in Hello, I Must Be Going. Also this week: Paul Dano stars in the intimate drama For Ellen, documentarians Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady profile a city in decay in Detropia, and the phone sex comedy For a Good Time, Call... goes into wider release. Be sure to catch our reviews of other recent theatrical films: Lawless, The Possession, Sleepwalk with Me, Hit and Run, Samsara, Rifftrax Live: Manos, the Hands of Fate, 2 Days in New York, ParaNorman, Cosmopolis, Robot & Frank, The Awakening, Compliance, Chicken with Plums, Side by Side, Searching for Sugar Man, The Bourne Legacy, The Campaign, Hope Springs, Celeste and Jesse Forever, and Red Hook Summer.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: 30 Rock: Season Six - a show content to keep doing what it does well, and that's quite good enough; The Closer: The Complete Seventh Season - This final season does a great job of wrapping up the series and it ends on a high note before becoming tired and stale; and Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Second Season - this second year pulls together forecefully into a strong, taut, well-crafted show. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Up All Night: Season One, Franklin & Bash: The Complete First Season, and The Story of the Costume Drama.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: High Time - Crooner Bing Crosby bounces back in a family comedy about a middle-aged millionaire who decides to get a college degree and ends up showing all those undergraduate 'kids' how to really have fun; Crime Does Not Pay - This six-disc set contains MGM's entire short subject series, that ran from 1935 to 1947; and Pursued - Robert Mitchum is an orphan in the old West with a life made violent and hostile by forces he doesn't understand in this key psychological western. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some pretty cool discs are being released this week. Check out these new titles: Parks and Recreation [DVD review, another DVD review] - With laughs a-plenty and an enjoyably timely political subtext running throughout, this show's fourth season is its best to date; The Navigator: Ultimate Edition [Blu-ray review] - an essential work for silent film aficionados brought to Blu-ray by Kino in an excellent transfer; and Lisztomania [DVD review] - a film the more adventurous movie-watcher should sample at least once. Other reviews of note include The Five-Year Engagement [Blu-ray review], The Office: Season Eight [Blu-ray review], and Having A Wild Weekend [DVD review]. Be sure to check out our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including a few discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD reviews include: Pocahontas: 2 Movie Collection - a creative, visionary, and beautiful film; Quadrophenia: The Criterion Collection - Based on The Who's classic rock-opera, this is a very well-made film that investigates the dark side of being a "joiner"; and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - an incomparable cinematic endeavor... it's a police drama, a travelogue, and an existential parable. Other recent reviews include: The Incredible Mr. Limpet; The Lucky One, and Breathless.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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