Last updated on August 28th, 2025
Here’s a look at media of interest coming out in September 2025.
DVDs/Blu-rays
A full list is available here.
- Elio (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Sept. 9
- Jurassic World Rebirth (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Sept. 9
- Flow (The Criterion Collection) (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Sept. 23
- Superman (2025 film) (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Sept. 23
- Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series (Blu-ray), Sept. 30
Disney+
A full list is available here.
- Lilo & Stitch (2025 movie), Sept. 3
Peacock
A full list is available here.
- Jeopardy!, Sept. 9
- Wheel of Fortune, Sept. 9
Sports
- NFL football season, starts Sept. 4 (Cowboys vs. Eagles, NBC/Peacock)
WildBrain to shut down Family cable channels in Canada
On Monday came sudden news from north of the border: WildBrain, the owner of Canadian mainstay cable network Family, is shutting down all of its cable channels. Said channels include Family, Family Jr., WildBrainTV, and Télémagino.
The reason? Two of the major cable giants in Canada, Bell and Rogers, plan to remove the channels from their lineups, after WildBrain was unable to reach carriage agreements. (No date has been given for when the shutdown will happen, but likely after Rogers removes the channels from their lineup.) Since not being on Bell or Rogers will remove Family from most Canadian households, WildBrain concluded keeping the channels running is now economically unviable. WildBrain states they plan to instead double down on streaming, YouTube, and its brands (which include “Peanuts”, “Strawberry Shortcake,” and “Teletubbies”). Like Americans, Canadians have also been cutting the cord on cable.
Family was the longtime home of Disney programming in Canada; in turn, some Family programming aired on Disney Channel in the US back in the 2000s (such as “Life With Derek” and “Naturally Sadie”). In 2015, media conglomerate Corus obtained the rights to set up a Canadian version of the Disney Channel. Family’s owners subsequently shifted to other sources of programming.
This leaves YTV and its preschool sister channel Treehouse as the only major children’s (and animation) cable outlets in Canada that aren’t branches of an American network. (YTV was the traditional home of Nickelodeon programming until a Canadian version of Nick launched.) It feels like a big shift from 10-15 years ago, when Canada was a major holdout in not having a version of Disney Channel, Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network.
Sports stuff
Football’s back, as usual. What’s different are new ways to watch the games, with the debut of Fox One and ESPN as streaming services. No idea how much uptake there’ll be for these services (again, sports are expensive), but at least one finally doesn’t need cable or a cable replacement streaming service service to watch ESPN or Fox?
Physical media: Superman, Elio, and… Touché Turtle?
Some of this summer’s major films are coming to Blu-ray, including “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth” and the less-than-stellar-performing “Elio.” (I haven’t seen “Elio,” but might have more to say about its performance in my usual “summer blockbuster” roundup post in September.) Also hitting physical media is this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar winner, “Flow.”
On the TV side, the next Hanna-Barbera series to see a Blu-ray release (via Warner Archive) is the 1962-1963 series “Touché Turtle and Dum Dum.” This was a series of six-minute shorts that aired in syndication, alongside two other sets of shorts, “Wally Gator” (an alligator who constantly tries to escape from a zoo) and “Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har” (a get-rich-quick scheming lion and his depressed hyena pal). From what I gather, most stations just aired the three series together in a half-hour block under Wally’s name.
For the unfamiliar, Touché (voiced by Bill Thompson, best known as the voice of Droopy) is a crime-fighting turtle (two decades before the more famous crime-fighting turtles debuted) who uses a fencing sword as his main weapon. Together with his sidekick, Dum Dum (a dopey sheepdog, voiced by Fred Flintstone’s initial voice actor Alan Reed), the duo had various misadventures in trying to aid whoever needed help. A running gag sees Touché answering a phone in his shell (this being the days before cell phones).
“Wally” and “Lippy” already had DVD releases, but this marks “Touché”’s first modern home video release. I assume the former will get Blu-ray upgrades at some point.
The opening credits:
Image: “Superman” (2025). (Warner Bros.)
