Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the third season of sitcom Home Improvement on DVD on January the 9th.

The four-disc set will include twenty-five episodes of the series. In addition, there's an additional bonus, Tim's Tool Corral, featuring Tool Time girl Debbie Dunning.

Buena Vista will also release the third season of The Golden Girls on January the 9th.

The four-disc set will feature twenty-five episodes. Bonus features include a compilation of "the most entertaining jokes" titled Golden Moments; and a compilation of "the most hilarious moments from the series", called The Golden Girls Scrapbook.

Hong Kong Legends will release the martial arts comedy classic Wheels on Meals (Kwai tsan tseh) on DVD on January the 30th.

The film, which stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, will be presented as a two-disc Platinum Edition set, with more than four hours of bonus material.

The film has been "digitally re-mastered and restored", and will be presented in 16:9 anamorphic format, from a high definition master. It will feature a choice of English dubbed and Cantonese (with re-mastered English subtitles) Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks, and the original Cantonese mono audio track. The film will be accompanied by a commentary track by the estimable Bey Logan.

The second disc will include an exclusive interview with Sammo Hung, the film's director and star, titled On Giants' Shoulders; Born To Fight featurette on action icon Yuen Biao; Rush and Roll with Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 director Brett Ratner; The Inside Track with veteran action-director / stuntman Stanley Tong; Jet Fighter, an interview and teaching seminar with undefeated kickboxing champion Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez; King of the Ring featurette with Black Belt Hall of Fame Karate champion Keith Vitali; outtakes; and a trailer gallery.  RRP for the set is £19.99.

Warner Home Video will release John Huston's Academy Award-nominated film noir thriller The Asphalt Jungle on February the 13th.

The film, which stars Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore and Marilyn Monroe, will be presented in 4:3 ratio, with mono English audio, and optional English subtitles. There's no indication on the press release that the disc will feature the introduction by John Huston, or the commentary track, by author Drew Casper, interspersed with comments by James Whitmore. The RRP is £15.99.

If the lack of bonus features makes you want to investigate the Region 1 edition, then you might like to know that the disc is also available as part of Warner Home Video's Film Noir Classic Collection (a five-film set that retails for about £24).

Warner Home Video will release teen chick flick The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (sic) on DVD on February the 13th (just in time for Valentine's Day and the half-term holidays!)

The film is about four lifelong friends on a journey of self-discovery who have adventures wearing a magical pair of jeans (shades of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit!) Like The Gilmore Girls, it, too, stars Sin City's Alexis Bledel (and Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera and Blake Lively.

The disc will feature deleted scenes with commentary by director Ken Kwapis; Fun On The Set; Suckumentary (about one of the character's summer); Sisters, Secrets and the Travelling Pants - A Video Commentary (sic, in which the cast reminisce); A Conversation With Ann Brasheres (author of the enormously popular series of novels used that the film is based on); and a theatrical trailer. No technical spec's were announced (not that it matters, because, y'know, it's for the ladies). The RRP is £15.99.

Incidentally, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was the first to be released simultaneously in American cinemas, and on DVD in China, in an effort to stem piracy.