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By Harvey F. Chartrand

Peter Gunn: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 12-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 114 episodes, with a running time of over 58 hours.

Peter Gunn – created and produced by Blake Edwards – ran for three seasons – from 1958 to 1961. This classic detective show was a delightful blend of film noir and fifties cool, featuring a modern jazz score by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of the soundtrack is included in the set), outbreaks of the old ultra-violence, a gallery of eccentric and sleazy characters (usually informants, gangsters and Beat Generation bohemians), and great acting by series leads Craig Stevens (as Gunn), Lola Albright (as his squeeze, sultry nightclub singer Edie Hart) and Herschel Bernardi (as Gunn’s friend and competitor Lieutenant Jacoby, who seems to work all by himself 24 hours a day...

Darren Star is teaming with Priscilla Presley for MGM to remake the studio's Peter Sellers comedy The Party. Star and Presley will produce together, with Star eyeing the project for his feature directorial debut. Blake Edwards directed the 1968 release that saw Sellers star as an Indian film extra who is mistakenly invited to a swinging Hollywood party. There, he embarks on a series of slapstick misadventures. Claudine Longet, Natalia Borsova, Jean Carson, Marge Champion and Al Checco also starred. It's unclear if the remake will follow the exact story line. There is no writer yet on board to adapt it. At MGM, Elizabeth Cantillon is overseeing the project. Star and Presley are both repped by WMA. Star has directed episodes of his series Grosse Pointe and Sex and the City. Presley serves on the board of MGM.

Darren Star is teaming with Priscilla Presley for MGM to remake the studio's Peter Sellers comedy The Party. Star and Presley will produce together, with Star eyeing the project for his feature directorial debut. Blake Edwards directed the 1968 release that saw Sellers star as an Indian film extra who is mistakenly invited to a swinging Hollywood party. There, he embarks on a series of slapstick misadventures. Claudine Longet, Natalia Borsova, Jean Carson, Marge Champion and Al Checco also starred. It's unclear if the remake will follow the exact story line. There is no writer yet on board to adapt it. At MGM, Elizabeth Cantillon is overseeing the project. Star and Presley are both repped by WMA. Star has directed episodes of his series Grosse Pointe and Sex and the City. Presley serves on the board of MGM.