In November of 2008, Koch Vision and The Archive of American Television launched a new line of DVD's called The Archive of American Television Presents dedicated to presenting newly restored and remastered editions of classic television programming.  The inaugural release under this new banner is the Studio One Anthology.  The set features seventeen hand-picked, digitally re-mastered episodes (never-before-available on home video) from the distinguished “Westinghouse Presents Studio One” series, which ran on CBS from 1948-1958.  Their next release will be of Budd Schulberg's 1959 adaptation of his classic novel, What Makes Sammy Run? (starring Larry Blyden, John Forsythe, Barbara Rush, Dina Merrill and Norman Fell).

In 2008 I was hired by Koch Vision to curate a multi-disc Ernie Kovacs DVD box set  that was to be part of this series of releases.  The set was to contain 15 hours of Kovacs shows plus several rare bonus extras.  I had been involved with the project for several months and was been going through Edie Adams' incredible collection of kinescopes and tapes, as well as screening programs at the Paley Center and elsewhere.  Unfortunately, in the  aftermath of Edie's passing away in October of 2008 plans for the DVD set have come unraveled and as of this posting the project is currently im limbo.  This does not mean there will be no Kovacs DVD releases, just that the planned Koch set will not be happening.  I will post news about this as it happens, so stay tuned.  Come back to this site or stay tuned to the Ernie Kovacs Blog for more updates..

-- Ben Model, New York NY