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For people who ever wondered what a lovechild between Supermarket Sweep and the cast of Comedy Central's Reno 911! would look like: 10 Items or Less: Seasons 1 & 2

Over the past couple years, comedy cabler TBS has transitioned from solely broadcasting funny reruns of Seinfeld and Friends to adding some original programming to its primetime lineup, like My Boys, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, The Bill Engvall Show and Frank TV. Series 10 Items or Less is on that list, too, a partially improvised program that is gearing up for its third-season premiere early next year.

The little-seen comedy, which has surprisingly been around since 2006, stars John Lehr as a down-and-out businessman who begins running his family's supermarket after his father dies. The store, Greens & Grains, is filled with a number of colorful characters, including a quirky customer service rep (Ingrid Wakowski), a butcher with NASCAR dreams (Todd Sykes) and a cashier who one day hopes to make it big in the professional ice dancing biz (Richard Mednick). Filmed in a real grocery store called Jon's in California, 10 Items or Less uses actual customers as its extras.

Disc includes: 10 Items or Less: A Look Behind-the-Scenes featurette, Notes from the Casting Couch featurette, blooper reel, Internet viral videos

For people who prefer to watch video games instead of playing them: Resident Evil: Degeneration

George Lucas found a way to do it with his Star Wars franchise, so why couldn't Sony do a similar thing with Resident Evil? Like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, released earlier this year as the franchise's first CGI entry, Resident Evil: Degeneration marks the first full-length, CGI feature for the popular Capcom video game series.

Unlike the trilogy of live-action movies before it, Degeneration is set within the same universe as the original video games, occurring after the events of Resident Evil 2 and 4. The direct-to-DVD movie made its world premiere at the Tokyo Game Show in October, and will be released in that country a day earlier than here in the States. A fourth live-action flick is also currently set up over at Sony.

Disc includes: Character profiles, bloopers, featurettes, sneak preview of Resident Evil 5 videogame

For people who have a costume drama fetish: The Duchess

Talk about a quick exit from theaters. Released here in mid-September, Saul Dibb's The Duchess is already available for home viewing. In it, Keira Knightley stars as English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, from the 18th century. Married to the older, blatantly unfaithful Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes), Georgiana became a fashion leader and beloved icon of her people. The movie � based on Amanda Foreman's best-selling biography, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire � focuses on Georgiana's doomed affair with future Prime Minister Earl Grey, as well as a complicated love triangle featuring herself, her husband and her best friend at its points.

Disc includes: How Far She Went...Making The Duchess featurette, Georgiana in Her Own Words featurette, Costume Diary featurette

December 23, 2008

99 Pieces
Anger
Beethoven's Big Break
Beethoven's Dog-Gone Best Movie Pack (Set)
Berserk: The Complete Series (Set)
Billy Crystal Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Brad Pitt Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Bruce Willis Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Denzel Washington Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Gene Hackman Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Jake Gyllenhaal Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
John Travolta Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Johnny Depp Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Kevin Costner Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Leonardo DiCaprio Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Matt Damon Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Queen Latifah Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Renee Zellweger Triple Feature (Triple Feature)
Savage Grace (Widescreen)
Tom Hanks Triple Feature (Triple Feature)

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