Medium: The Complete Fifth Season
Starring: Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, David CubittStudio: Paramount
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 809 minutes
DVD Release: October 6th 2009
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Allison Dubois (Arquette) is a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of three girls, who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. This season, Allison and her family's world is turned upside down after her abilities are publicly exposed, resulting in sweeping changes both professionally and personally.
User Reviews
MEDIUM - Rating: 4/5
I LOVE THIS SHOW .WILL I BE SAD TO SEE IT GO?... YES!!
ARE THE NETWORKS MANIPULATING US??? NO.........
ANY AUDIENCE VIEWER THAT IS UNHAPPY WITH THE OUTCOME CAN CERTAINLY TAKE UP READING INSTEAD. AND WHEN THE AUTHOR STOPS WRITING BOOKS THEY WILL STILL BE ASKING THEMSELVS THE SAME QUESTION. WHY??????
Goodbye NBC... Hello CBS! - Rating: 5/5
Consistently a good show. Shaping and developing charecters each year. Great story lines with a supernatural twist. CBS certainly has lucked out picking up this show from NBC. I look forward to MEDIUM season 6. Its great , and I'll keep watching on CBS.
Inspired Production, Foolish Programming. - Rating: 5/5
See, here's the thing I don't get about US TV. Being a Brit, we only get treated to hand-me-downs of your shows: the UK networks wait to see what is hot before buying it and showing it 9 or 12 months late. But we sit down at a regular time, commit 22-25 weeks of our lives to getting involved in the (fictional) lives of the characters, sharing their emotions as well as their adventures, and then some US network exec, in an office remote from production, says "We've had enough of that" and the whole thing is canned!
Never mind it wins Emmys, never mind the wishes of the viewers, if the network wants to take this decision - however half-baked - we've got to put up with it.
It's fantastic news that CBS is finally airing its own product, but this again begs the question "Why didn't they show it all along?"
The simple fact is that the big corporations are interested in the "Bottom Line". If their only involvement with a show is buying it and selling the air time for a profit, then their plans are going to be influenced by the advertisers' needs and budgets, not the viewers' wishes or the producers' and writers' plans.
As broadband speeds and bandwidths both increase, TV networks around the world will be looking anxiously over their shoulders. Why? Because handled correctly, and I admit that's a big assumption, TV via computer, with its view anytime, pay for exactly what you want to see ethos, will give more power to the show producers and their audiences.
Already small independent companies are selling their own advertising time directly, and the audiences are willingly handing over their pounds and dollars to watch their output.
As the bigger companies wake up to this phenomenon, perhaps excellent shows such as Medium will find themselves less likely to be hostages of fortune to the caprice and whims of NBC, CBS and so on.
Exceptional - Rating: 5/5
I love this show!!
I love this show!!
I love this show!!
Shame on NBC for all the crap it's pulled on Medium, shortening each years episodes, this year we deserved 25 to 27 episodes, and they gave us only 18 of them, Last year same thing (because of strike), plus they didn't even start it at the normal season start period. Granted I'm not aware of all the reasoning behind it, but it's like they set the show up to be cancelled in the first place. SHAME ON NBC!!! Hooray for CBS for seeing the value in this show.
Put the shame where it belongs - Rating: 5/5
If you will notice, Medium is a CBS show & it was CBS who didn't air it in the first place & so NBC picked it up to give it a shot. With today's economy, it basically boils down to NBC looking at their bottom line & not wanting to give their competition money for a show that their competition produces & that they pay to air. I have watched Medium from day 1 & have all the seasons & will watch it no matter which network it is on(I work with an NBC affilliate)
