It's Garry Shandling's Show News

Okay, it's getting down to the wire, Christmas gift-wise, so allow me to put in a brief plug here for a very cool stocking stuffer for any loved one on your list with a taste for innovative TV comedy and a very large stocking.

Sure, the economy is on unstable ground, and you will have to be judicious in your gift giving.

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Each year around this time, complete-series DVD sets hit the shelves as holiday gift possibilities for TV fans, and this collection of new releases leads off with three.

HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" is in my estimation the funniest live-action American sitcom ever forged, but two years before "Sanders" began we saw the conclusion of "It's Garry Shandling's Show," a funny, surreal and similarly groundbreaking Showtime sitcom from the same creator-star. I was surprised to see writer Sam Simon worked on ...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - While critics wonder if their days are numbered as many of their colleagues are being laid off at cash-strapped newspapers, they might also ask how much influence they have left.

"It's Garry Shandling's Show" might be the most meta sitcom in the history of television.

Just like at the box office, it seems every other movie is scared of Transformers: ROTF because it's the only feature film of any kind exploding onto shelves this week.

Garry Shandling's humor on DVD, an Italian cook's life in paperback, Cuban music after Castro, and more.

IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW Series: Sitcom deconstruction fuels Shandling's '80s fave - he plays a comic who talks to the audience during his "wacky adventures" with show-biz friends and suburban pals.

WARREN CLEMENTS Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

After spurning a regular guest-host gig for Johnny Carson , and before his career-defining role as fictional host of The Larry Sanders Show , comedian Garry Shandling starred on one of TV's most innovative sitcoms.

ON SEPT. 10, 1986 , the comic Garry Shandling walked out onto a barely furnished stage and addressed a short monologue to his studio audience.

TO this day, Garry Shandling still wonders what his career would have amounted to without his breakthrough comedy, the one that skewered television conventions even as it religiously observed them and provided a framework for countless imitators.

Attractive, bright-eyed, and talented leading lady with a winning smile and a soothingly placid quality.

The DVD box set will be comprised of 16-DVDs, featuring the complete 72 episodes from the entire four seasons, a payload of bonus content and much more all collected in a lavish package.

Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Garry Shandling, has announced the start of DVD production on a spectacular new complete series collector's set of Shandling's groundbreaking first TV series It's Garry Shandling's Show .

This is just another quick tip of the hat.... For Karl Malden, his ultimate League of Themselves appearance in Toobworld was as a serlinguist.

Wonderful news, even better that the whole show will be coming out as one complete-series set .

Michelle Solomon , Contributing Writer POSTED: 11:19 am EDT June 5, 2009 'My Life in Ruins' : As an American tour guide in Athens, Greece, Georgia is looking for the "kefi," or spark she's lost in life.