Check out today’s Digital Bits update for some exciting news. CHUCK JONES: EXTREMES AND IN-BETWEENS is due out on DVD next month. That’s not really news. It’s been public knowledge for awhile. The exciting part is that they’re including two of the classic shorts on the disc: FEED THE KITTY and DUCK DODGERS AND THE 24 1/2th CENTURY.

The same web site’s Rumor Mill is indicating that Warner Bros. is getting ready to roll out the Looney Tunes catalog to DVD next year at long last. That’s fairly consistent with what Warner Bros. has been saying for a couple of years now. No word yet on what form it will take. There are so many directions that they could go with this. So very many… It’s very exciting. I’m hoping for big boxed sets. Maybe one boxed set for each year of the studio’s existance, combining some of the early years together. Themed by character, or themed by director might be other options. (One disc could fit all the Charlier Dog, Three Bears, and Pepe Le Pew cartoons that Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese did.)

I know I would like a way to own every short made by the Termite Terrance gang from their founding in the 1930s until their demise in the early 1960s, when DePatie/Freleng made their awful shorts. (Really, it’s not political sensitivity that prevents me from watching Speedy Gonzalez cartoons. It’s boredom.)

Keep your eyes and ears open for news on this one, folks. I’ll be reporting anything I can find about it here.

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