American fans and Buffy completists here in the UK will be pleased to know that the series' third season is released this week on Region One DVD.

All 22 episodes, plus the features and commentaries previously available on the British and Australian releases are included, plus the odd few seconds of various episodes snipped by the UK censors (such as Giles hot-wiring a car in Dead Man's Party).

In an unexpected move, German fans will be getting an individual DVD release of Once More With Feeling on February 15th, 2003. Details of any extras that may accompany this release have yet to be announced.

New books out this week include The Cordelia Collection, a selection of episode adaptations from the first three season of Buffy and Tales of the Slayers Volume 2.

The latter features a dozen stories of past Chosen ones, including tales penned by series scripters Jane Espenson and Rebecca Rand Kirshner.