Request “The Inside” on DVD
What is The Inside?
Created by Tim Minear (Firefly, Angel, Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse) and Howard Gordon (24, The X Files), The Inside was a show about Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols) as she joined the Violent Crimes Unit of the FBI in an attempt to put her traumatic past to good use and become whole again.
The Inside
The series began with Locke being drafted to the department by manipulative Supervisory Special Agent Virgil Webster (Peter Coyote) after the supposed murder of agent Margaret Alvarez.
It soon becomes apparently to the rest of the department that Rebecca Locke may not be as stable as they first thought and together they set about making sure Alvarez’s fate doesn’t befall her.All the while investigating some of Los Angeles’s most violent crimes and dealing with their own inner demons.
The Inside was a psychological noir masked as a procedural that aired on FOX in the summer of 2005. Airing only three weeks after being given a release date, The Inside was not allowed the chance to get an audience and was subsequently cancelled after seven episodes were aired and thirteen were made.
The Inside starred Rachel Nichols (The Amityville Horror, Alias), Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Serenity, Chuck), Katie Finneran (Wonderfalls), Nelsan Ellis (Veronica Mars), Jay Harrington (Desperate Housewives) and Peter Coyote (The 4400). The series also boasted a slew of guest appearances from people such as Buffy’s Amber Benson, Angel’s Keith Szarabajka and Lost’s Michael Emerson and William Mapother.
Aside from Tim Minear, writers on The Inside included Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls), David Fury (Lost, 24) and Craig Silverstein (Standoff, Drive).
The Inside was never released on DVD and six of the thirteen episodes remain to be televised in the US.
TheInsideOut.com
Our aim is to inform everyone who may have an interest in this show due to the people involved in it that The Inside actually exists.
And once we’ve done that we want everyone to contact 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and ask for a DVD release. This will be done by phone, e-mail or post. Online petitions are useless and easy to ignore. The aim is not to annoy 20th, merely to make them aware that there is interest in seeing this show on DVD as so many short-lived shows before it have been immortalized.
This site is run by Jackal and Dev. Jackal co-runs Dollverse.com while Dev runs SerenityMovie.org. Both are fans of Tim Minear’s work. They can be contacted at: jackal[at]theinside-out.net.
How Can I Help?
I’m arrogant enough to assume you’re asking that question to yourself right now. And I have answers. There are two things that are equally important that you can do to help…
Firstly, contact 20th Century Fox Home Video. Send them pithy postcards to this address:
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME VIDEO
P.O. BOX 900
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90213-0900
Or e-mail: foxmovies@fox.com
Do not contact them multiple times pretending to be someone else. The aim is to give them an honest indication of what the interest in this DVD release is. Lying will likely harm this effort more than it will help it.
The other thing you can do is spread the word. To help you do this, we have a Facebook group. Invite everyone who you think may be interested to join it. Mention this on message boards, your own site, blogs, whatever.
Got a Livejournal or MySpace? Embed one of the trailers or show clips from the Video section of our website.
Chances are you won’t get Joe Public to splash out for a boxset, but fans of Angel, Buffy, Alias, Firefly, Dollhouse and other similar shows will more than likely be interested. And there are definitely enough of them to support a DVD release.
