Just a few days ago we brought you news on the Australian release of The Cleveland Show Season 1. Now thanks to TVShowsOnDVD.com we are able bring a whole lot of new info to the table.

The Cleveland Show – The Complete 1st Season will be a 4-disc set to retail for $39.98 in the United States and $49.98 in Canada.

TVShowsOnDVD.com gives us a disc-by-disc breakdown of the contents:

Disc 1:
Pilot
Da Daggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance
Episode commentary featuring Seth MacFarlane
The One About Friends
Birth of a Salesman
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Kirker Butler & Steve Robertson
Cleveland Jr.’s Cherry Bomb
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Mike Mayfield & Kevin Michael Richardson
Ladies Night
Special Features:
Deleted Scenes

Disc 2:
A Brown Thanksgiving
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Matt Engstrom, Craig Robinson & Kim Whitley
From Bed to Worse
A Cleveland Brown Christmas
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Jonathan Green, Gabe Miller & Corey Holcolm
Field of Streams
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Aaron Lee & Ian Graham
Love Rollercoaster
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Ron Rubio & Kevin Michael Richardson
Our Gang
Special Features:
Deleted Scenes

Disc 3:
Buried Pleasure
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Jonathan Goldblatt & Ian Graham
The Curious Case of Cleveland Jr. Working at The Stool
Once Upon a Tyne in New York
Episode commentary featuring Rich Appel, Mike Henry, Mike Mayfield & Kevin Michael Richardson
The Brown Knight
Gone with the Wind
Brotherly Love
Special Features:
Deleted Scenes

Disc 4:
Brown History Month
Cleveland’s Angels
You’re the Best Man, Cleveland Brown!
Special Features:
Meet Cleveland
Get Your Hump on Music Video
The Making of ‘Get Your Hump On’ with Earth Wind and Fire
Table Read with Kanye West
Deleted Scenes

The Cleveland Show – The Complete 1st Season is due for release on the 28th of September, the same day as Family Guy’s “Partial Terms Of Endearment” DVD is launched.

Haven’t picked up your copy of the US release of Family Guy Volume 8 yet? One of our more seasoned staffers Buckimion today fills us in on the set’s highs and lows.

Pick up your copy and help Freakin’ Sweet News in the process by using this link.

The episodes
“FOX-y Lady” starts off so LOADED with added scenes that I thought it was setting the tone for the rest of the DVDs. Alas, things quickly go back to normal. Sure, the sharp eyed will notice some changes/additions but they become scarcer in the newer episodes as if there is significantly less wasted material.

Something that even Mr. Magoo can’t miss is a certain addition to “Family Goy” – 250lbs of dynamite with a three-inch fuse anyone? Too bad it looks like a bad overlay from a 1970s H-B cartoon.

The commentaries
People have already noted that not all of the episodes have commentaries in this set, namely “Stew-Roids”, “Conrad”, “Quagmire’s Baby” and “Dog Gone”. Seth IS around for a significantly higher percentage though over the last set, 8 or 9 of the episodes although he does tend to limit his talking a bit, even doing two of the commentaries from the sound engineer’s booth. (The first one to avoid Patrick Meighan’s cold.)

“Road to The Multiverse” does have two different commentaries although does not make up for the lack of animatic commentaries. (See below)

Danny Smith tends to carry the weight of the commentaries and is quite fascinating. He mentions a proposal to do a scene of the opening theme to a very early 70′s show called Lidsville that I remember quite fondly about a kid (originally played by Butch Patrick of The Munsters) that falls into a magician’s hat into a world of living hats. The show was produced by Sid and Marty Krofft as a follow-up to their successful HR Pufnstuf show. Apparently the reference was too outre for even the writers of Family Guy to handle.

Another bit of trivia is that “Spies Reminiscent of Us” was originally to be “Road to ’85″ before “Multiverse” was given the distinction of being the season 8 Road episode.

Extras
Deleted Scenes: Usual bag, some you wonder why they were cut instead of something else, some there is no question.

My favorite: a stoned  Tricia Takanawa from “420″.
Notorious by it’s absence: The ’80s Bullies universe cut from “Multiverse”. Although to be fair, the commentary mentions that the footage they got back from Korea was severely flawed so that may be excusable.

“Road to the Multiverse” featurette: Not bad, primarily focuses on the Disney and Robot Chicken segments. Nice to get to see Greg Colton finally. Extremely puzzled as to why a certain feline/human fusion doll is digitally blocked in this.

Family Guy Karaoke: Done on the cheap, lifting the segments straight from the episodes with what look to be the same subtitles my DVD player puts out. Should have properly been called a “Sing-a-long” instead of karaoke.

They could have done a little throwback to the classic sing-a-long cartoons and made a cute little introduction here for the bouncing ball, but no. Still, for those that just want to line up a bunch of musical numbers and fire away, this works satisfactorily.

Sadly missed: Animatics and their commentaries. Frankly, I loved getting to peek at these very early drafts. It’s mentioned that the animatic for Shawshank Redemption alone was in the neighborhood of episode-length.

The Box Set Itself
Early buyers in the US and possibly elsewhere can get their hands on the “Ye Olde” edition while they last which includes a mini-script of “Road to the Multiverse”, a cute little keepsake of the final version of the episode with Seth’s printed signature on the cover and many character sketches inside. I assume later editions will dispense with the script although the rest of the DVD materials will remain.

Those that have access to Target Department stores will also receive a bonus DVD of the question & answer segment at Palyfest. (Which I have yet to watch.)

The DVDs are contained in the same narrow-format case as the last set instead of individual DVD cases. The inner and outer artwork doesn’t quite interact with each other as last year but still complement each other.

Today, June 15, sees the release of Family Guy Volume 8 in the US.

The 3 disc set features 15 uncensored episodes, deleted scenes, a Road To The Multiverse featurette and a 28 track Family Guy Karaoke.

In addition, Target have a special edition pack which includes a bonus disc highlighting the “Seth MacFarlane & Friends” panel discussion from PaleyFest 2010.

The cover for the first season release of The Cleveland Show has appeared on Amazon.com. Although there is still no set release date known, the price is currently set at $34.99.

Unlike both Family Guy and American Dad, it appears The Cleveland Show will be sold in full season box sets.

The set will be released in the UK on September 27th, 2010. US fans should expect a summer release.

Today we exclusively bring you the front and back cover of June 15th’s Volume 8 DVD. For full details on the release, read our previous news post here.

Click here for the high resolution front and back cover.

Just over a fortnight ago we reported the release date for the region 1 Family Guy Volume 8 DVD.

Now, the always resourceful folks at TvShowsOnDVD have released the first Image of the accompanying box art.

Tell us what you think!

Just a couple of days after we initially told you about the US release of American Dad Volume 5, the ever resourceful TvShowsOnDVD have gotten their hands on the box art. Grab the box set on June 15th in the US, and a day before, June 14th, in the UK.

We think it’s pretty awesome, how about you? No date is currently available for the Australian release.

Thanks to Ahhgoobras for the tip.

The 5th volume DVD release of American Dad has been confirmed for the US and Canada on June 15th, the same day Family Guy volume 8 is released. Containing 14 episodes, the 3-disc set will pick up where the previous volume left off; beginning with “Phantom of the Telethon”, it will span the rest of season 4, finishing with “Stan’s Night Out”. It will unfortunately not contain a single episode from the 5th season, which began airing last September and is currently on hiatus.

Special features include deleted scenes and an on-screen drinking game, along with the mandatory commentary tracks (none of which, unfortunately, feature Seth MacFarlane). TvShowsOnDVD lists a price of $39.98 in the US, which is $54.98 in Canadian dollars.

Disc 1:
-Phantom of the Telethon
Commentary by Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Brent Woods, Chris Bennett and Jordan Blum
-Chimdale
Commentary by Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Keith Heisler, Pam Cooke, Jansen Yee and Brent Woods
-Stan Time
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Jonathan Fener, Joe Daniello, Wendy Schaal and Jordan Blum
-Family Affair
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Erik Durbin, Tim Parsons, Kevin Thresher
-Live and Let Fry
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Laura McCreary, Albert Calleros, Nahnatchka Khan and Jordan Blum
-Roy Rogers McFreely
Commentary by Mike Barker, Richard Appel, Brian Boyle, Bob Bowen and Jordan Blum

Disc 2:
-Jack’s Back
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Rodney Clouden, Kevin Thresher, Chris Robertson and Jordan Blum
-Bar Mitzvah Shuffle
Commentary by Mike Barker, Matt McKenna, Brent Woods, Chris Bennett, Matt Fusfeld and Jordan Blum
-Wife Insurance
Commentary by Mike Barker, Richard Appel, Erik Sommers, John Aoshima, Josue Cervantes and Matt Fusfeld
-The Delorean Story-An
Commentary by Mike Barker, Richard Appel, Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson, Joe Daniello, Schawn Murray, Shawn Ian Kerkoff and Jordan Blum
-Every Which Way But Loose
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Pam Cooke, Jansen Yee, Walter Murphy, Jonathan Fener and Matt Fusfeld
-The Wiener of Our Discontent
Commentary by Mike Barker, Laura McCreary, Tim Parsons, Jennifer Graves and Eli Dolleman

Disc 3:
-Daddy Queerest
Commentary by Matt Weitzman, Nahnatchka Khan, Albert Calleros and Jordan Blum
-Stan’s Night Out
Commentary by Bob Bowen Jim Feeley Ron Hughart John O’Day Kevin Thresher

Special Features:
-Deleted Scenes
-Power Hour Drinking Game
-Bar Mitzvah Shuffle Fact-Up Trivia

Expect artwork soon.

TVShowsonDVD.Com has confirmed the release date for Family Guy Volume 8‘s US release of June 15th 2010. Content information appears to match the previously reported information for the UK release with 15 episodes included from “FOX-y Lady” through “Dog Gone”, the usual selection of deleted scenes and commentaries and Family Guy Karaoke with sing-along versions of 28 popular Family Guy musical numbers. TVShowsonDVD.com quotes a list price of $49.98 in the USA, and CA$69.98 in Canada which is significantly higher than the norm and they question its accuracy. No artwork available yet but stay tuned.

Here is the breakdown of contents:

Disc 1
-FOX-y Lady
-Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
-420
-Stew-roids
-We Love You, Conrad

Disc 2
-Three Kings
-Peter’s Progress (season finale)
-Road to the Multiverse (season premiere)
-Family Goy
-Spies Reminiscent of Us
-Brian’s Got A Brand New Bag

Disc 3
-Hannah Banana
-Quagmire’s Baby
-Jerome Is The New Black
-Dog Gone

Special Features
Featurette: Road to the Multiverse
Deleted scenes
Family Guy Karaoke
-Gotta Give Up the Toad
-Left Foot, Right Foot
-Road to Rhode Island
-Hic-A-Doo-La
-You’ve Got A Lot to See
-My Fat Baby Loves to Eat
-You Do!
-You and I Are So Awfully Different
-Buy Me A Rainbow
-You Have AIDS
-The FCC Song
-When We Swing
-Shipoopi
-Noble Indian Chief
-(In God’s Eyes) Everybody’s Hot
-This Is One Fine Day to Be Nude
-Evil Monkey Song
-My Black Son
-Drunken Irish Dad
-Prom Night Dumpster Baby
-Sodomy
-Me & Jesus
-I Like Farts
-G-chord
-The Handi-quacks Theme Song
-The Pot Song
-The Friendship Song
-It’s A Wonderful Day for Pie

Thanks to reader jasonbres for the tip.

As part of the Cartoon Network Hall of Fame series, Johnny Bravo: Season One will be released this June in the US, with all thirteen episodes featuring commentary from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

The two disc DVD will be released June 15, and as well as containing the 13 episodes, will also feature a series documentary “Bringin’ up Bravo” and audio commentary with Van Partible (creator), Jeff Bennett (Bravo’s voice) and Seth MacFarlane who wrote and illustrated the series. Another special feature is “Seth MacFarlane Audio Track” – a temp track by Seth.

The season also features guest appearances from Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang, Farrah Fawcett, Adam West and Donny Osmond.