Hi everyone, it’s been a few weeks since the TV releases headed this column, but this week some really cool new TV titles have been added to Incoming, as well as news of a very good sale from Virgin on the Offers page.

Right, let’s get cracking with those juicy TV titles….

The BBC Shop has listed more of BBC Worldwide’s forthcoming releases. Two greatly-anticipated comedy titles, Little Britain – Series 1 and The Office Specials, have listed dates of October the 11th and 25th respectively, both have an RRP of £19.99.

A second four-disc Jonathan Creek box set, featuring Series 3 and 4, has an RRP of £39.99 and is listed for August the 2nd.

There’s a little clarity on what extras will be included on Sellers On Sellers which is also listed for August the 2nd. The press release states it will include: a unseen and uncut interview with Peter Sellers; I Say, I Say, I Say – a home movie film made by Peter Sellers in which he appears together with Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Britt Ekland; a picture gallery taken from Peter Sellers' family collection and themed menus - The Pink Panther and The Look of Love (which presumably means the two music tracks will be used to back the menus). This release is the 2002 special entitled The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It, re-edited from the original 1995 three part documentary series, Sellers on Sellers. It has an RRP of £15.99.

Another press release, this time for  the 1974 version of The Secret Garden, says the DVD version will include extra footage (whatever that may be), a special reunion interview with the original cast, and a biography of author Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Acorn have quite a few new titles showing. The third series of To The Manor Born and The Good Life have respective dates of June the 14th and July the 12th. Both have RRP’s of £24.99.

The first series of Sam, Granada’s drama set in the 1930s and 40s, is also showing for July the 12th. Originally spanning three series between 1973 and 1975, the series starred Kevin Moreton and Mark McManus. All thirteen episodes of  the first series are to be released in Acorn’s standard format: over three parts - Part 1 - A Way Of Life, Part 2 - The Cost Of Living and Part 3 – Where The Heart Is – with five episodes in Part 1 and four each in Part 2 and 3. All three parts are listed for July the 12th.

Thanks to Analogueman for letting me know that Acorn’s Tenko – Series 3 box set had slipped again, and is now being listed for July the 12th. The first individual volume - Tenko - Series 3 Part 1 – is now also listed for the same date. Joining them is Tenko - Series 3 Part 2 on August the 9th. Only Choices Direct is listing all three releases at the moment, and they have the Tenko – Series 3 complete box set with an RRP of £49.99, Part 2 at £24.99 and Part 1 at £19.99. This is almost certainly a mis-price for Part 1 as all Tenko’s previous individual parts have had an RRP of £24.99 – Choices Direct are offering it at £16.99.

The 9th of August sees Rumpole Of The Bailey - The Specials, featuring the BBC Play for Today episode which marked the character's first TV appearnace, and the later special, Rumpole’s Return. It has an RRP of £24.99.

Acorn’s release of Love For Lydia – Part 2, which was due today, has been put back a week until the 10th of May.

June sees a flurry of activity by Network, with bare-bones releases of Soldier Soldier - Series 2 on June 14th and Dick Turpin - Complete Series 2 on June the 21^st (both with RRPs of £19.99).

The second series of Third Rock From The Sun will dawn on June the 21st. The set will feature season 2 promos, behind the scenes of Nightmare on Dick Street, bloopers, an unaired season ending and the special Nightmare on Dick Street 3D episode (the set comes packaged with two sets of free 3D glasses), all for an RRP of £29.99).

Next up are Press Gang - Series 2 and Strange Report – The Complete Series both showing for June the 28th. Press Gang with feature behind-the-scenes footage, and other material still to be cleared, for an RRP of £19.99. The box set of Strange Report will feature digitally-restored episodes, generic and episodic trailers; an on-location interview with co-star Anneke Wills and Roger Lloyd Pack; stills and promotional gallery with Roger Webb's original music soundtrack; an interview with co-star Kaz Garas; Kaz Garas's On-Location photo gallery; original script PDFs; restoration featurette; and a Robert Hardy introduction, for an RRP of £49.99. It looks like being a busy month for Network! Let’s hope the dates don’t slip too much!

Talking of Billy Pilgrim-style release dates, the complete series box set of Ever Decreasing Circles has been put back again, to May the 24th, but Virgin’s sale (more of which later!) includes the four series releases at £6.99 and £7.99. As the box set has an RRP of £49.99, it’s far better to buy the discs separately in Virgin’s sale if you can find them.

Rising Damp – The Complete Works, which was previously exclusive to WH Smith, is now being listed by other retailers. Whether or not - as is being claimed - it will offer the “entire” series, remains to be seen. When it was released to WH Smith it was missing one episode, the 1975 Christmas special, For The Man Who Has Everything. Chances are the new set will be the same. It has a date of June the 14th and an RRP of £29.99.

VCI are preparing a release of the second series of BBC sitcom My Family for June the 7th with an RRP of £19.99.

Last week we said that Playback would be releasing Three Up, Two Down today. That’s what the press release said, but it appears to be wrong. All the retailers have a date of May the 17th. It will probably follow the format of Playback’s other sitcom releases and be Series 1 and 2, with the remaining Series 3 and 4 appearing at a later date. Playback’s release of Sorry! and Just Good Friends, both of which were at one time due out today, have been put back to May the 17th and 24th respectively.

Twentieth Century Fox are lining-up more Buffy The Vampire Slayer Collection titles for August the 16th. The four titles will focus on Cordelia, Dawn, Giles and Xander, and have an RRP of £12.99 each.

New bonus material for The Simpsons has been cleared by the BBFC. This is for presumably destined for the Season Four box set which, so far, has not been listed anywhere. There are multi-angle sequences for three episodes: A Streetcar Named Marge (9m36s); Homer’s Triple Bypass (8m19s) and Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie (7m51s). There appears to be four different angles cleared, although Homer’s Triple Bypass only has three cleared against it (so far), with the angles being Animatic, Main Color, Storyboard and untitled (which probably is the completed sequence from the episode). There are also deleted scenes: four for Homer’s Triple Bypass (untitled (6s); Homer in the ambulance (9s); Krusty Cannon (7s) and Homer eating pizza (14s)). The Front has six deleted sceness: untitled (17s); I will learn to ski (20s); Richy and Kathy (8s); Dynamite in the cat (16); Sit and play with my teeth (12s) and Nickel for the trolley (15s). In addition there are three featurettes: A Word From Matt Groening (1m53s); Promotional Stuff (13m53s) and The Cajun Controversy (2m7s), together with a thirty-second piece entitled Unforgettable Classics, which is listed as a promo. Finally, a bonus commentary has been cleared for the episode Marge Vs The Monorail.

The track listing for Warner Music Video’s new Later With Jools Holland release, Cool Britannia, is now showing on some of the retailers. It will feature 34 performances, from between 1993 to 2003, which are: Ash - Shining Light, Blur - Tender, British Sea Power - Remember Me, Catatonia - Bleed, Coldplay - In My Place, Cornershop - Brimful of Asha, Doves - The Cedar Room, Echo And The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever, Elastica - Connection, Elbow - Fugitive Motel, Embrace - All You Good Good People, Feeder - Just The Way I’m Feeling, Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out, Keane - This Is The Last Time, Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life, Morrissey - Boy Racer, Oasis - I Am The Walrus, Paul Weller - Sunflower, Primal Scream - Movin’ On Up, Pulp - Disco 2000, Radiohead - The Bends, Spiritualized - Come Together, Starsailor - Good Souls, Stereophonics - More Life In A Tramps Vest, Suede - So Young, Super Furry Animals - Something For The Weekend, Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz, 22-20s - Devil In Me, The Beta Band - Human Being, The Charlatans - Just When You’re Thinkin’ Things Over, The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love, The Libertines - Up The Bracket, The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work, Travis - All I Wanna Do Is Rock. The release will also include an interview with Doves (which is listed as being exclusive to DVD), an interview with Travis and a feature to programme your 6 favourites tracks. It has a date of June the 7th with an RRP of £14.99.

Volume 2 of the 1980s cartoon series Ulysees 31 is showing for the 5th of July from Contender. It has a £12.99 RRP.

Delta have Series 4 of Henry's Cat listed for June the 21st with an RRP of £5.99.

And finally, for the TV releases, is Space Rangers for July the 26th. This US science-fiction series from 1993 only lasted 6 episodes and was created by the same people behind the new version of The Outer Limits. There’s no information yet on which label is releasing it, but it has an RRP of £24.99.

Now the film releases…

Play are listing November the 1st as the release date for the delirious Jim Carrey fantasy film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, currently on release at a cinema near you. There are no clues about what special features the DVD release from Momentum will contain, but it has an RRP of £19.99. The Region 1 version is due on June the 1st. Knowing Momentum the UK disc will have some unique bonus materials.

Anchor Bay are releasing the 1979 version of The Cat and the Canary, which starred Honor Blackman and Edward Fox. It’s listed as having 5.1 and DTS sound options, with an audio commentary and biographies. The release has a date of June the 28th and an RRP of £14.99.

If you thought November seemed a long way away, how about Disney’s Alice In Wonderland, which is being listed for release on January the 31st? It’s being listed by Play, who are also showing it to contain the same special features as the recently-deleted version. It’s likely that Play have just lifted the information from the old release, and that this new version will contain brand new features, inherited from the recent Region 1 version. It has an RRP of £19.99.

Finally for the film releases is Ken Russell’s adaptation of The Who’s Tommy from Odyssey Video. We would have featured this in the News last week, but requests for a sleeve image, which is available elsewhere online, went unanswered. It will feature a specially-restored widescreen print, an audio commentary from director Ken Russell hosted by film critic Mark Kermode, exclusive interviews with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret and Ken Russell, a Sound Restoration featurette and a Recollections featurette, where original technical personnel, including music editor Terry Rawlings, reflect on their experiences with the movie. It has an RRP of £15.99 and a date of June the 14th.

Right, let’s have a look at the changes to Offers….

Amazon have unfortunately cottoned onto their mis-price of the Battle Of The Planets box set, and it’s now been corrected to the right RRP with the pre-order price of £67.49. I’ve added Lovejoy – Series 1, The Norman Conquests and Third Rock From The Sun – Series 1 all at £22.49 (£7.50 off); Without A Clue at £4.97 (£5.02 off) and The Saint – The Complete Series 1 at the pre-order price of £44.99. dvd.co.uk have stopped their Buffy box set promotion. They had the slightly better price on the Season 1 set, so I’ve added Amazon’s listing of it, which is now the best deal. Amazon also has a new DVD sale with titles at either £6.97 or £7.97. Have a look at the Amazon section on the Offers page for the full list of highlights from this sale.

I’ve added the Tenko - Series 3 Part 1 mis-price at £16.99 from Choices Direct.

As already mentioned, dvd.co.uk have stopped their Buffy promotion, but they have the Fox Animated TV Box Sets promotion with some of the best prices around – The Simpsons and Futurama sets at £14.99 and the Family Guy sets at £9.99 – shaving a further £1.00 off the prices offered at most other retailers.

Loaded247.co.uk has Vincent Price’s Theatre of Blood at £5.99 (£7.00 off).

Play have converted their buy one get one free offer for the Alien special editions to now include all the recently reissued Fox two-disc special editions. So, you can pick up two for £17.99.

And finally there’s Virgin’s sale, which, as ever - because they have a terrible on-line shop - is in store only, so it’s on a basis of whatever the store has in stock, and first come first served. There are lots of Network titles included in the sale as well as the six-film Hammer Resurrected box set at £39.99 (£20.00 off). I’ve provided a full list of what I’ve seen and what has been reported on the Virgin thread of Roobarb's DVD Forum – thanks to Richard Spurr and MikeW for posting! Have a look at the Virgin section on the Offers page for the full list.

And that’s it from me.