Tabloid TV - 12:09am

Kicking off this week's news is the latest from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Debuton on March 16th will be four classic catalog titles making their DVD debuts, plus another TV on DVD box set. First up are four diverse catalog gems, including the Sean Connery tabloid TV satire Wrong is Right, plus Alan J. Pakula's Baby the Rain Must Fall, the John Turturro drama Mac, and the New England prep school tale December, starring Jason London and Wil Wheaton. Mac and Baby the Rain Must Fall are presented in anamorphic widescreen, Wrong is Right in non-anamorphic 1.85:1, and December in full screen only. Each also includes bonus trailers, and retail is $24.95 a pop.

Also debuting on March 16th is Married...With Children: The Complete Second Season. This three-disc set includes 4:3 full screen and Dolby 2.0 soundtracks, plus episode synopses and airdate information. There are no other extras, and retail will run you $39.95.

Shipwrecked - 12:09am

Just in from Blue Underground are the full specs for the much-maligned The Final Countdown, which was previously issued in a very poor DVD edition from New Media last year, but will at last get the special edition treatment it deserves on March 30th. Blue Underground will release both single-disc and limited edition two-disc sets, each with newly remastered 2.35:1 anamorphic and full screen transfers, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and DTS 6.1 ES surround tracks, audio commentary with director of photography Victor J. Kemper, trailers and TV spots.  The two-disc set also includes an interview with producer Lloyd Kaufman and "The Jolly Rogers" F-14 fighter squadron, still and poster galleries, cast bios and ROM extras including a "Zero Pilot Journal." Retail will run you $19.95 for the single-disc, and $29.95 for the limited edition set.

Shoot the Moon - 12:09am

Just in from The Criterion Collection are two new classics just announced for a March 9th release. First up is Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba, which gets a newly remastered 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and Japanese Dolby mon track, plus a new video interview with Shindo, rare Super-8 footage shot on location by actor Kei Sato, a still gallery with production art, the theatrical trailer, and the original short Buddhist fable that inspired the film. Retail will be $29.95.

Also due on the 9th is Ingmar Bergman's seminal Scenes From a Marriage. This three-disc set includes both the U.S. theatrical version and, for the first time ever on video, the original five-hour television version. Each is newly remastered in their 1.33:1 full screen aspect ratio and Swedish mono, and extras include new video interviews with stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, a vintage interview with Bergman, an essay by author Phillip Lopate, and a comparison between the television and theatrical versions by film scholar Peter Cowie. Retail will run you $49.95.