Warner Home Video Brings Season Five, Part One Of “Nip/Tuck,” The Perfectly Disturbing Drama To DVD December 30, 2008
(November 4, 2008 – Burbank, CA) – There will be trouble in Tinseltown when two of South Beach’s hottest plastic surgeons, Drs. McNamara and Troy, move their Miami-based practice to Los Angeles on the ground-breaking original series “Nip/Tuck.” The first installment of the show’s fifth season arrives on DVD December 30, 2008, courtesy of Warner Home Video (WHV). Coinciding with new episodes airing on FX, the release of “Nip/Tuck: Season Five, Part One” will feature 14 episodes from the show’s fifth season, as well as bonus features on five discs. “Nip/Tuck: Season Five, Part One” will retail for $59.98. Order due date is November 25, 2008.
Season Five, Part One of this Golden Globe® Award-winning series will continue to shock and surprise viewers as Sean (Dylan Walsh) and Christian (Julian McMahon) relocate their practice from Miami to Los Angeles. In order to build their LA-based clientele, they hit the town and night club scene, discovering their new territory. Christian poses for Playgirl. Sean dates the leading actress from “Hearts & Scalpels.” The duo even star in their own reality-based television program, which chronicles their careers as plastic surgeons. These outrageous fifth season episodes promise more excitement, surprises, controversy and exciting guest stars, including Rosie O’Donnell, Portia de Rossi, Oliver Platt, John Schneider, Phyllis Diller, Lauren Hutton and others.
“There is nothing on television like ‘Nip/Tuck.’ The series is outrageous, unpredictable and completely addictive,” commented Rosemary Markson, WHV Vice President, TV and Special Interest Marketing. She added, “Each new season outshines the previous one. Producers continue to push the envelope, driving consumer demand on DVD. We are confident that this release will be an enormous hit with consumers.”
Uplifting DVD Bonus Features Include:
• “Hollywood Hedonism” – This featurette highlights Christian and Sean’s transition to Hollywood and all of the fanfare associated with it: Celebrity impersonators, drumming up business in a town where plastic surgery is a commodity, Christian’s layout in Playgirl, and many more tantalizing escapades.
• Gag Reel
• Deleted Scenes “Nip/Tuck” explores the lives of doctors Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, two talented, hot-shot plastic surgeons whose catch phrase, “Tell me what you don’t like about yourself,” sets the stage for a series filled with secrets and deception. As close friends and business partners who own an overwhelmingly successful plastic surgery practice, they attempt to bring inner peace and visceral contentment to their patients through external cosmetic surgery procedures. Although their clients aspire to cover up their pain, it is the surgeons who truly wear the masks of anguish, unhappiness and disillusionment. At midlife, the doctors question the prosperity that has brought them so much and has offered so little. “Nip/Tuck” stars Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Kelly Carlson and Joely Richardson. The series was created by Ryan Murphy (“Popular”). It premiered in July of 2003 on the FX cable network and since its debut, the show exploded to critical acclaim and earned multiple awards, including a Golden Globe® Award in 2005 for Best Television Series – Drama. Season Five, Part One of “Nip/Tuck” premiered on FX (October 30, 2007). The executive producers for Season Five, Part One are Ryan Murphy, Michael M. Robin, and Lyn Greene & Richard Levine. “Nip/Tuck” is from The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Bros. Television. The Credits With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.# # #
• Gag Reel
• Deleted Scenes “Nip/Tuck” explores the lives of doctors Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, two talented, hot-shot plastic surgeons whose catch phrase, “Tell me what you don’t like about yourself,” sets the stage for a series filled with secrets and deception. As close friends and business partners who own an overwhelmingly successful plastic surgery practice, they attempt to bring inner peace and visceral contentment to their patients through external cosmetic surgery procedures. Although their clients aspire to cover up their pain, it is the surgeons who truly wear the masks of anguish, unhappiness and disillusionment. At midlife, the doctors question the prosperity that has brought them so much and has offered so little. “Nip/Tuck” stars Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Kelly Carlson and Joely Richardson. The series was created by Ryan Murphy (“Popular”). It premiered in July of 2003 on the FX cable network and since its debut, the show exploded to critical acclaim and earned multiple awards, including a Golden Globe® Award in 2005 for Best Television Series – Drama. Season Five, Part One of “Nip/Tuck” premiered on FX (October 30, 2007). The executive producers for Season Five, Part One are Ryan Murphy, Michael M. Robin, and Lyn Greene & Richard Levine. “Nip/Tuck” is from The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Bros. Television. The Credits With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.