Top 10 Best Selling TV Shows on DVD March 2012

Top 10 Best Selling TV Shows on DVD March 2012

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1. Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 6. The Walking Dead: Season One
2. Downton Abbey Unedited UK Version 7. Justified: The Complete Second Season
3. The Big Bang Theory: The First Season 8. Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Third Season
4. True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season 9. Sherlock: Season One
5. Weeds: Season Seven 10. Mad Men: Season Four

1. Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season

List Price: $59.99
Price: $33.99
You Save: $26.00 (43%)

Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; and all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men, all will play the Game of Thrones.

2. Downton Abbey Unedited UK Version

List Price: $34.99
Price: $16.99
You Save: $18.00 (51%)

Downton Abbey — a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion nestled in the Yorkshire landscape — needs an heir. Dame Maggy Smith stars as Violet, the stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic, unflapple Lord Crawley. Elizabeth McGovern is his far-sighted American wife, Cora. From Academy Award-winner Julian Fellowes. This is the original un-edited UK version of the program.

3. The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season

List Price: $29.98
Price: $17.09
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University physicists Leonard and Sheldon know whether to use an integral or a differential to solve the area under a curve. But they don’t have a clue about girls. Or dating. Or clothes. Or parties. Or having fun. Or, basically, life. So when a pretty blonde named Penny moves in the apartment across the hall, the guys decide to get an education outside of the classroom. Boys, you have a lot to learn. With series creators Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and Bill Prady (The Gilmore Girls) concocting the right mix of logic and lunacy and stars Johnny Galecki (Roseanne) and Jim Parsons (Judging Amy) turning geekdom into Phi Beta fun, The Big Bang Theory is big on laughs. And life.

4. True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season

List Price: $59.98
Price: $41.99
You Save: $17.99 (30%)

True Blood is the sexy, scary, wildly entertaining drama series from Oscar®- and Emmy®-winning Alan Ball (HBO’s Six Feet Under), and based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, True Blood tells the continuing tale of Sookie (Anna Paquin, Golden Globe-winner for this role), a human waitress with telepathic gifts – and a so-far irresistible attraction to 174-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). Surrounded by familiar faces – including her brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten), shape-shifting boss Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), soul-searching pal Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley), Tara’s cousin Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis); police chief Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer), vampire suitor Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård) and teen vamp Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) – Sookie faces some new otherworldly threats in this season – as if vampires, werewolves, werepanthers and shapeshifters weren’t enough!

5. Weeds: Season Seven

List Price: $39.98
Price: $18.50
You Save: $21.48 (54%)

Special Features Include:

  • Cast and Crew Commentaries
  • “Uncle Andy’s Tricks of the Trade” mockumentary with Andy’s wisdom and advice for fans.
  • “Puff Puff Pass” Q&A with Jenji Kohan, Justin Kirk and Kevin Nealon
  • “Born Botwin” featurette with Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould discussing how their characters have inherited their dubious nature.
  • Gag Reel
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Multi Screen Comparisons

New York, New High! After serving 3 years in the joint, the onetime suburban soccer mom is making a fresh start in New York City and going back to doing what she does best — selling pot. But when some old friends return, they could send everything up in flames.

6. The Walking Dead: Season One

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Price: $24.69
You Save: $15.29 (38%)

After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, police officer Rick Grimes finds the world he knew gone – ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. Nearby, on the outskirts of Atlanta, a small encampment struggles to survive as ‘the dead’ stalk them at every turn. Can Rick and the others hold onto their humanity as they fight to live in this terrifying new world? And, amidst dire conditions and personal rivalries, will they ultimately survive one another? AMC’s The Walking Dead is an epic, survival adventure series from the director of The Shawshank Redemption and the producer of The Terminator and Aliens.

7. Justified: The Complete Second Season

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Price: $21.99
You Save: $17.96 (45%)

In the aftermath of the deadly showdown that freed Harlan County from the Crowder family crime reign, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens must now take on even greater criminal forces looking to seize power – including hellbent nemesis Boyd Crowder and the arrival of brutal, new adversary Mags Bennett (Emmy® Winner Margo Martindale). Filled with treacherous twists at every turn… the second season of “Justified” proves “spectacularly entertaining” (TV Guide) and has established itself as a show for the ages.

8. Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete Third Season

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Price: $27.99
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Goodbye, PTA…hello, foreign intrigue! Single mom Amanda King leads a quiet suburban life in Washington DC until the day a dashing stranger shoves a package in her hands with instructions to give it to the man in the red hat. In no time, Amanda is dodging bullets, foiling assassination plots – and finding herself drawn to the dashing stranger, agent Lee Stetson, aka Scarecrow. Of course, Scarecrow has no interest in a ditsy amateur spy, no matter how pretty. But she certainly is handy in a crisis! Share the Season One fun with stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner in this fast-paced 5-Disc, 21-Episode Set of the lighthearted series that proves laughs and romance are powerful weapons in the battle to protect national security.

All 22 episodes from season three–including “A Lovely Little Affair,” “Sour Grapes,” “J. Edgar’s Ghost,” “Wrong Number,” and “All the World’s a Stage”–are featured in a five-disc set. Standard; Soundtrack: English. **22 episodes on 5 discs.**

9. Sherlock: Season One

List Price: $34.98
Price: $19.99
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A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. Co-created by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars BAFTA-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking, Amazing Grace) as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually), as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade. The iconic details from Conan Doyle’s original books remain–they live at the same address, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed and highly modern-day adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers to get at the truth.

10. Mad Men: Season Four

List Price: $49.98
Price: $17.49
You Save: $32.49 (65%)

Welcome to a Mad New World. Season Four of Mad Men, 3-time Emmy® winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of 3 consecutive Golden Globes®, returns for a new year rife with possibilities. Last season stunned fans with its cliffhanger finale, as Don Draper’s professional and personal lives unexpectedly imploded. In Season 4, Jon Hamm and the rest of the breakout ensemble continue to captivate us as they grapple with an uncertain new reality.

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