New York, N.Y., December 8, 2016 – If your New Year’s Resolution is to laugh more in 2017 – you won’t want to miss out on Vice Principals: The Complete First Season, available on Blu-ray^TM and DVD (both with a free digital download copy) February 7, 2017. Created by Danny R. McBride and Jody Hill (creators of HBO®’s Eastbound & Down®, along with Ben Best), this acclaimed new HBO comedy series tells the story of North Jackson High School and the two people who almost run it, the vice principals. McBride and Walton Goggins star as the school administrators, who are in an epic power struggle to become school principal. Heralded by Rolling Stone as “the summer’s best new comedy,” Vice Principals: The Complete First Season is loaded with exclusive new bonus content including a hilarious blooper reel, never-before-seen deleted scenes and laugh-out-loud audio commentaries with the cast and crew for all nine episodes.

In the “must watch” (Entertainment Weekly) new comedy series Vice Principals, the longtime principal of a suburban high school steps down, leading ambitious vice principals Neal Gamby (McBride) and Lee Russell (Goggins) to both set their sights on the vacated top spot. But when new rival Dr. Belinda Brown (Kimberly Hébert Gregory) enters the picture, these bitter antagonists must form an unholy alliance to bring down the outsider by any means necessary. The series also features Georgia King, Busy Phillips, Shea Whigham, Sheaun McKinney and guest stars Bill Murray and Susan Park.

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Vice Principals: The Complete First Season
Blu-ray with Digital Download & DVD with Digital Download

Street Date:    February 7, 2017
Order Date:    January 3, 2017
Rating:            TV-MA
Runtime:        Approx. 269 minutes (excluding bonus materials)

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