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Darkplace’s spin-off, Man To Mean With Dean Learner which featured Garth’s manager and publisher the “smut-peddling” Dean Learner interviewing a number of guests in his “swanky” appartment is now available on DVD so rejoice good people!

Play.com and Amazon are now head to head. With everyone fleeing Jersey now they are no longer VAT exempt prices have been fiddled around with and Play.com are selling it for a penny more than Amazon. But you need to make a £15 order on Amazon to quality for free delivery.

The 7th series of Will & Grace will arrive in the U.S. on December 4th according to TV Shows on DVD. DVD Empire are now taking pre-orders on it, interestingly enough though, Amazon are not.

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If you haven’t seen The Shawshank Redemption, now is the time. The DVD is absolute budget (I picked it up for £3 in Tesco, Play.com are telling it for a similar price) and it’s a kick ass film - it has Morgan Freeman in, what more can you possibly want from a film? (I know, I know, Kevin Spacey as well but we can only dream ;)).

In terms of extras the disk isn’t completely stripped. It has a trailer, interviews with the cast and crew including Tim Robbins and Morgan. There is also a featurette which is like an hour long.

“You and he were, buddies weren’t you?” Darkplace has finally arrived on DVD and it’s about time too! The cult 80’s show set in a hospital im Romford has been one of the biggest cult hits of the decade and fans have been going made to get a DVD released of it.

The DVD features all six episodes from the series which is all good, in play all form and individually with optional commentary on every episode from Garth, Dean and Todd.

There is also plenty of extras - there is a small amount of unseen footage (literally only a few minutes) including a flashback to Rick’s chip shop adventure in Glasgow, a few photo galleries and other such little extras and two extra sections of interviews which make up the bulk of the extras and are well worth a watch.

All in all, it’s a good DVD and if you are a fan of the show it’s well worth shelling out for.

It’s time to stock up your DVD collection - Play.com have already announced their sales and no doubt other online and high street retailers will be following suite soon. Virgin have been doing £4.99 DVDs (and good titles that should actually be more than that normally, not the crap that is usually that price) for a while now.

The Channel Island of Jersey (who’s existence is still in debate) is introducing VAT which means bad things for Play.com (and indeed Amazon Jersey) who may be forced to raise their awesomely low prices to cover the additional costs.

Rejoice good people, the first series of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is finally coming to DVD! We are still in for a long wait but Play.com are now accepting pre-orders. It’s priced at £13.99 and scheduled to arrive on March 26th next year.

EDIT: Actually, it’s available now! Go! Go order it now!

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