I’ve been waiting years for the second series of People Like Us to be released on dvd, and I’d pretty much given up. One of the reasons was that there was no sign of it appearing in the UK, so an Australian release seemed to be completely out of the question … yet, it has just turned up , and as far as I can tell is only an Australian release. I was quite surprised when the first series got a region 4 release, the show had long been off the radar and I’d already mail ordered it from the UK a year or two earlier. It must have sold well here (and perhaps I wasn’t the only one emailing Hopscotch Entertainment asking for series 2). The rise to fame of David “Dr Who” Tennant may have helped too since he appears in one episode as a struggling actor.

I think the second series is better than the first (which was also very good), highly recommended.

On the topic of DVDs, I notice that Harvery Birdman Attorney at Law has finally been given a R4 release (at least the first two volumes). There is one more volume to come. There are plenty of episodes that to my knowledge have not been shown on SBS (at least not at any reasonable hour).

I can’t have a DVD thread without having a whinge about the classic ABC dramas Phoenix and Janus still not being available. It’s crazy that two of the best Australian shows ever are unavailable when such a huge range of TV shows have been released on dvd.