OZ: The Complete Second Season

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From: HBO Home Video

For Immediate Release

'OZ: The Complete Second Season - On HBO Video, January 7

New York, NY September 24, 2002 - On January 7, HBO Video will return to "OZ," the searing drama that explores the lives of the correctional officers and inmates of an urban prison, when the second season of this acclaimed series hits video stores nationwide.

OZ: The Complete Second Season picks up where the first season left off, exploring the aftermath of the deadly riot that swept through Emerald City, the experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary. Featuring 8 episodes, OZ: The Complete Second Season on HBO Video is packaged in a 4 volume VHS set for $64.92 SRP/$49.99 MAP and a 3 disc DVD set for $64.98 SRP/$49.99 MAP.

Among the special DVD bonus features is "The Museum of Television & Radio Seminar Series: Oz," featuring commentary from series creator Tom Fontana as well as director Nick Gomez, producer Bridget Potter and cast members Edie Falco, Terry Kinney, Ernie Hudson, Kirk Acevedo, and Dean Winters.

(Order Due Date: 12/3/02, Runtime: 465 minutes, Not Rated) Executive produced by the award-winning team of Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana ("Homicide: Life on the Streets,") "Oz" is "one slammer of a prison drama," (Entertainment Weekly). Returning to HBO Video with a second season that is "superbly acted, interestingly cast, and jazzily directed" (New York Post), critics agree, "Fontana's 'Oz' wizardry still dazzles" (Dallas Morning News).

In addition to "The Museum of Television & Radio Seminar Series: Oz," the DVD release also includes an exclusive behind the scenes short, featuring interviews with the cast and crew including guest stars L. L. Cool J. and Kathy Bates. The DVD also features a season one recap, season three preview, Easter Eggs, episodic previews, cast and crew bios, web links, an episode index, chapter selections, English Dolby 5.1, English Dolby 2.0, Spanish subtitles and Spanish Mono.

"Oz" stars Ernie Hudson as warden Leo Glynn; Terry Kinney as Em City headmaster Tim McManus; Harold Perrineau as disabled prisoner Augustus Hill; Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo, the prison's counselor; Eamonn Walker as militant Muslim prisoner Kareem Said; Kirk Acevedo as inmate Miguel Alvarez; J.K. Simmons as inmate Vern Schillinger; Lee Tergesen as Beecher, a white, upper-middle class lawyer incarcerated for killing a young girl in a drunk-driving incident; Dean Winters as inmate Ryan O'Reilly and B.D. Wong as Father Ray Mukada.

Launched in October 1984, HBO Video markets an extensive variety of HBO original programming including multiple Emmy Award® winner "Wit," "61*" and the hit series "Sex and the City," "The Sopranos," and "Oz."