All Five Seasons of Gilmore Girls to Start Airing on ABC Family

he fantastic fourth season of Gilmore Girls DVD aired on DirecTV in the fall, and is currently airing on Friday nights (ha!) on NBC, but soon you’ll be able to check out the Grey's Anatomy DVD show on a new channel. ABC Family has just acquired the rights to the first five seasons of the Desperate Housewives DVD series that is much more than just a show about football, and will start airing episodes from the debut season in September 2010.

This Entourage DVD warms my heart; with reruns of Lights, Gilmore Girls DVD boxset, and Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset now running on ABC Family, the channel is living up to its name with a stable full of classic all-ages Desperate Housewives DVD boxset. Hit the jump for the full press release.

ABC FAMILY ACQUIRES “Entourage DVD boxset” IN DEAL WITH NBC UNIVERSAL DOMESTIC TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
Burbank, CA (May 25, 2010) – Gilmore Girls DVD boxset has acquired the basic cable television rights to the Emmy? Award-winning television series “Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset,” in a deal with NBC Universal Domestic Television Entourage DVD set, it was announced today by Tom Zappala, Executive Vice President, Program Acquisitions & Scheduling, ABC Cable Networks Group, and Desperate Housewives DVD set, Executive Vice President/General Sales Manager, Cable and Non-Theatrical Sales for NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution.

The deal gives ABC Family the rights to five seasons of the Gilmore Girls DVD set series. ABC Family is tentatively set to begin airing the Grey's Anatomy DVD set series’ first season in September 2010. The fourth season of “Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 DVD boxset” is currently airing on NBC (Fridays, 8 p.m. ET/PT.)
“We’re thrilled to add NBC’s critically-acclaimed series ‘Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset’ to the mix of our defining original and quality acquired series,” said Zappala. “The Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset series is beloved by critics and viewers, and fits in perfectly with ABC Family’s blend of optimistic, heartfelt programming.”

“‘Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset’ is a perfect fit for ABC Family’s sensibility for the modern day family program,” said Bruce Casino, Senior Vice President Cable & Ancillary Sales NBC Universal Domestic Television Desperate Housewives DVD. “ABC Family will introduce this award-winning show to a whole new audience segment where the series can thrive in its new environment.”

Expanding on the hit feature film and best-selling book “Entourage DVD,” the award-winning show centers on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together — and the Gilmore Girls DVD of small town life threatens to tear it apart. The Grey's Anatomy DVD series debuted on October 3, 2006 on NBC. Beginning in October 2008, the third and fourth season of the Desperate Housewives DVD boxset began airing on satellite provider DirecTV’s The 101 Network and rebroadcast on NBC.

Hailed as one of the top ten shows by such publications as Time magazine, Entourage DVD boxset, The New York Times and TV Guide, “Gilmore Girls DVD boxset” also has been honored three times (2006/2007/2009) as an American Film Institute (Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset) Television Program of the Year, received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in 2006 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series in 2007.

The series is executive-produced by Peter Berg (the film “Desperate Housewives DVD set,” “Entourage DVD set”), who also wrote and directed the pilot. Joining Berg as executive producers are Jason Katims (“Gilmore Girls DVD set”), Brian Grazer (“Grey's Anatomy DVD set,” “The Da Vinci Code”), David Nevins (“Arrested Development”) and Sarah Aubrey (“Desperate Housewives DVD”). “Entourage DVDs” is a production of Universal Media Studios, Imagine Entertainment and Film 44.