The IT Crowd
The Complete Third Season
Written and directed by Graham Linehan
Starring Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry
MPI Home Video
Release date: September 15, 2009

For the uninitiated, The IT Crowd is a British-made sitcom and the story so far goes something like this: Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is hired as the new head of department in the IT basement. Her new “˜team’ is Roy (Chris O’Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade), Reynholm Industries’ computer support nerds. Roy and Moss are very comfortable in their geeky treasure trove office. They don’t need a head of department and their frustrations spill out onto their computer-illiterate colleagues. Roy and Moss are intimidated by women and “˜real men’, learning to interact with both by researching on the internet.

The IT Crowd Season 3, like the two seasons before, is written and directed by Graham Linehan, responsible for many excellent comedy series like Father Ted, Black Books, and Big Train. The IT Crowd follows the familiar brand of surreal humour with some outrageous characters.

Very early this morning, we posted the Black Friday DVD & TV deals over at Amazon today, which includes “lightning” deals all day today (meaning, drastically reduced prices for a limited time only selling out very quickly, so jump on these sales while you can.

There’s also lightning deals on Video Games, which include Assassin’s Creed for Xbox 360 and Fallout 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3. Check the page for upcoming deals and times for when they’ll be available.

Some all-day sales in video games include Video Game Gold Box deal of the day, a Sony PlayStation 3, a 120 GB “Black Friday Bundle” with Infamous and Killzone 2 (Includes a $10 Amazon.com Promotional Credit on Black Friday) for only $299.99.

Also, today ONLY, if you buy a Nintendo Wii along with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, you’ll get Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games for free. See full details HERE.

Here are some more video games sales happening today only (all qualify for $10 off if you pay with a Discover Card):

Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) – $39.99

Guitar Hero Metallica (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) – $25

Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Slimer Edition (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) – $29.75

Many people instantaneously went from loving Shrek to hating Shrek when Shrek the Third was released in 2007. And since we’ve already said “Shrek” more than anyone in the history of mankind has ever said in such a short amount of words, why stop now! Although said third film was pretty unanimously disliked compared to the original and wonderful first two Shrek films, DreamWorks has moved forward with the planned fourth film in the mega franchise — a movie that we now know will officially be called Shrek Forever After. The studio has given USA Today released a couple of new images from the film, as well as many new details as to what we can expect. Click the image to go large and click the link to go see another image.

One smart move that’s being made is that DreamWorks hasn’t been talking a lot about this project and releasing a ton of images. Instead of risking fans becoming turned off by two straight years of news and images and rumors, it appears that they’re trying to ease us into the return of the giant green ogre. They’re doing this by dropping this first batch of images and updates right before the first trailer is debuted in only a few weeks when Avatar is released. The movie itself will be released on May 21, 2010.

It’s finally here people, the most insane shopping day of the year — BLACK FRIDAY!

And as you know, Amazon has been having a weeklong countdown to Black Friday Sale with huge DVD/Blu-ray and Video Game sales.

Well, the sale continues day with more drastically reduced prices in the Lightning Deals appearing throughout the day. All the items up for grabs are limited time only and limited supply, which means if you see it and want it, buy it immediately before either the sale ends or all items are claimed.

Below is a list of today’s Lightning Deals, which begin at midnight PST/3am EST and end 12am PST/3am EST.

LIGHTNING DEALS

12am – 4am PST | 3am – 7am EST

• Monsters vs. Aliens [Blu-ray] – $9.99
• Monsters vs. Aliens – $6.99
• Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins – $10.00

4am – 8am PST | 7am – 11am EST

• Transformers – $5.99 (Starts at 4:10am)
• Twilight – $8.99
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [Blu-ray] – $9.99 $7.99
• James Bond 10-Pack [Blu-ray] – $59.99 (Starts at 4:45am)

All week, Amazon has been doing a countdown to Black Friday Sale sale. The Lightning Deals for today are now up, but the site has also posted some awesome DVDs and Blu-ray titles at amazing prices! Here’s just a small sample of some of the titles on sale right now! (Look at the Star Trek deals!!!)

DVD

• Star Trek – $9
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – $7.99
• Disney’s Up – $13
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – $9
• The Office: Season 1 – $11.49
• The Mummy – $6.49
• The Dark Knight – $8.99

Blu-ray

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – $7.99
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – $10
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – $9
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – $9
• Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride – $7.99
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection – $41.99
• Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection – $64.99