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Catch up on your latest shows from ABC - Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and Private Practice

If you missed any episodes of your favorite series and are looking to catch up, the chance is coming up as the latest season DVDs are now available.

Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fourth Season Sizzling Secrets Edition

Season Four of the acclaimed ABC hit series is hotter, hipper and more exciting than ever. This multi-disc boxed set contains an array of exclusive bonus features including profiles of favorite characters, behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes and bloopers.

Temperatures are rising behind the closed doors of TV’s favorite guilty pleasure, where things are not always as they seem and the devil may just be wearing a blue dress. Primetime’s most desired women are back, joined by former friend and Wisteria Lane resident Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), who brings the simmering neighborhood to a boil. As Entertainment Weekly raves, “It’s time for you to move back to Wisteria Lane.”

BONUS FEATURES
• Getting Desperate - From Beginning To End - Go behind-the-scenes of “Desperate Housewives’” most elaborate and spectacular episode ever produced, “Something's Coming', with a rare behind-the scenes look at how the producers created deadly tornado that devastated Wisteria Lane.” Viewers will
see how an episode comes together every week - attending a casting session, see the girls get gussied up in wardrobe and makeup, hang out in the writers’ room and visit the set department, following a key “sweeps” episode from page to soundstage to screen.

• Couples Commentary – Get to know the real people behind the characters as onscreen couples Teri Hatcher and James Denton, Eva Longoria and Ricardo Chavira, Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant, and Marcia Cross and Kyle MacLachlan pair up to talk about favorite moments from Season Four.

• The Men of Wisteria Lane – Viewers know them as Carlos, Mike, Orson, Tom, Victor and Adam. The men reveal their own secrets, as they spend a night in one of Hollywood’s trendiest bowling establishments.

• Deleted Scenes

• Bloopers

Ugly Betty: The Complete Second Season

An entire season’s worth of fashionista rivalries and romance, confidences and betrayals, and grudges and alliances come in a to-die-for five-disc set decked out with 18 episodes of one of the most stylin’ shows on television. Ugly Betty: The Complete Second Season also comes tastefully accessorized with all the year’s musthave bonus features.

Sunny, sweet-tempered and terminally style challenged, Betty navigates the ego-infested, high fashion halls of Mode magazine for a second season that is even brighter and bolder than the first. Star America Ferrera’s (Real Women Have Curves) portrayal of the title role earned her a 2007 Emmy® Award and a 2007 Golden Globe® Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

BONUS FEATURES
• On Set with the Besties – Self-proclaimed “besties” (as in “best buds”) Marc and Amanda (Michael Urie and Becki Newton) lead fans on a tour through the fabulous Mode sets – complete with sweetly snide commentary. Go inside The Closet, stroll down The Tube, and visit the cafeteria (hopefully it’ll be Taco Tuesday!). But wait - what are they doing in Betty’s house?! -more

• Wilhelmina Slater: Love To Hate Her – Conniving, backstabbing, two-faced – Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams ) is the fashion world’s most irresistible villainess! Born to play Mode’s divinely evil creative director, Williams talks about the perks and perils of being Willie, and the cast and guest stars weigh in on her wicked ways.

• BETTY BLOOPS – Everybody’s favorite feature—only this time, the actors explain exactly what went wrong (it wasn’t their fault!) before clips of hilariously messed-up moments!

• Deleted Scenes

Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Fourth Season – Expanded

Meredith Grey and her colleagues take on their residencies in a season full of challenges, celebrations and complications of the heart. The exciting multi-disc set include all 16 episodes of the Emmy® Award winning drama’s acclaimed fourth season plus extended episodes, deleted scenes, bloopers and more
exclusive bonus features. Just in time for fans to catch up with their favorite characters before the premiere of the highly anticipated Season Five.

Love, lies, and family ties are revealed on one of television’s most talked about shows. Inject a generous dose of new, wide-eyed interns and it’s the prescription for TV’s most compelling drama. The show has earned two Emmy® Awards plus 22 additional Emmy® nominations, two Golden Globes® and seven more nominations, and a Grammy nomination. “Grey’s Anatomy” is produced by ABC Studios.

BONUS FEATURES:
• New Docs on the Block Get to know the newest ladies at Seattle Grace- Dr. Hahn, Dr. Lexie Grey and Nurse Rose. Hear from each actor about their role on the show and from the other cast members on working with them.

• On Set with Patrick & Eric Get some one on one time with Seattle Grace’s dreamy team. Behind the scenes moments with Patrick and Eric on location in Seattle and on set. Also hear from fellow cast members as they share stories about the pair.

• Good Medicine: Favorite Scenes The Cast of Grey’s tell of their favorite scenes from Season Four.

• Extended Episode – “Forever Young” includes audio commentary by actress Lauren Stamile (Nurse Rose) and executive producer and director Rob Corn.
• Audio Commentary - With actress Chyler Leigh (Dr. Lexie Grey) and associate producer Karin Gleason

• Deleted Scenes

• Bloopers

Private Practice - The Complete First Season: Extended Edition

In Private Practice: The Complete First Season Extended Edition, Seattle fades into grey as renowned surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) aims to reinvent herself in the Golden State. The promise of a new beginning finds her working alongside medical school friends at California's Oceanside Wellness Center. But is this sunny new life the cure for what ails her?

Join Addison, Drs. Naomi and Sam Bennett—a newly-divorced but still professionally bound couple—the ultra-kissable Pete Wilder, and Violet Turner—a psychiatrist with plenty of her own issues—in a medical practice where affairs of the heart are known to cause acute symptoms of love, lust, and high drama.

“Private Practice” stars Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, Tim Daly as Dr. Pete Wilder, Audra McDonald as Dr. Naomi Bennett, Paul Adelstein as Dr. Cooper Freedman, KaDee Strickland as Dr. Charlotte King, Chris Lowell as William Dell Parker, with Taye Diggs as Dr. Sam Bennett and Amy Brenneman as Dr. Violet Turner.

BONUS FEATURES
• Kate Walsh: Practice Makes Perfect (Working title) - Spend some quality time with Kate Walsh and get a taste of her life beyond the confines of the Private Practice set.

• Alternative Ensemble: Behind the Scenes of Private Practice

• Two Extended Episodes

• Deleted Scenes

• Bloopers

• Audio Commentaries

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