A weekly round-up of the latest DVD releases.

By Damon Smith.

New to rent on DVD/Blu-ray The Merry Gentleman (Cert 15, 92 mins, indiVISION, Drama, also available to buy DVD £14.99) Starring: Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald, Tom Bastounes, Bobby Cannavale.

Abused wife Kate Frazier (Macdonald) escapes her troubled marriage and heads for the Windy City to start afresh with a new job and a new home. She keeps her distance from co-workers at her office, hoping to bury the past. Looking up one day, Kate sees Frank Logan (Keaton) standing on the ledge of an adjacent building, apparently about to jump to his death. She screams and he falls back then engineers a meeting with the beautiful woman, but she has already reported the incident to the cops. Little does Kate know that Frank is a ruthless hit-man, who has just shot dead a target in the opposite office. When the body of the assassinated man is found, wily cop Murcheson (Bastounes) suspects Kate may have seen the killer and he quickly aligns himself with the young woman, forming one point of a volatile triangle of lost souls, hungry for companionship. The Merry Gentleman is a misnomer - there's nothing remotely cheery about actor Michael Keaton's directorial debut - but there is much to enjoy in this drama about the meeting of strangers in modern-day Chicago. Deriving his title from a Christmas carol, screenwriter Ron Lazzeretti refuses to tread a predictable or linear narrative path, gifting the leading actors sharply crafted dialogue. So often an attention-grabbing performer, Keaton allows Macdonald to shine the brightest, delivering a compelling portrayal of a woman hoping in vain that she can walk away from her husband (Cannavale). The sins of the past return to haunt all of the characters, and some of them finally atone.

DVD Extras: none stated.

Rating: *** New to buy on DVD/Blu-ray Married, Single, Other (Cert 15, 270 mins, 2entertain, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99, Drama) Starring: Amanda Abbington, Dean Lennox Kelly, Ralf Little, Miranda Raison, Shaun Dooley, Lucy Davis, Jack Scanlon.

Three couples come to crossroads in their respective relationships in the six-part ITV1 comedy drama written by Peter Souter. Babs (Abbington) has been married to Dickie (Kelly) for years but she has grown tired of his carefree attitude towards their finances, frittering away money on his hare-brained ideas that go nowhere. She must decide whether divorce is the best way forward. Dickie's womanizing brother Clint (Little) should install a revolving door on his bedroom, given his taste for bedding one girl after the next, without any thought of commitment. However, he abruptly changes his mind when he meets model Abbey (Raison). Meanwhile, Eddie (Dooley) proposes to his childhood sweetheart Lillie (Davis) for the 16th time, and for the 16th time she turns him down. She doesn't believe they need to get married because she loves him completely so a ring on her finger would add nothing to the relationship. However, when Lillie discovers that young son Joe (Scanlon) secretly dreams of a white wedding, she is compelled to re-evaluate her stance on walking down the aisle. The course of true love never did run smooth and that's certainly the case in Married Single Other, which has been compared endlessly to Cold Feet. The two series are very different creations and this enjoyable if slight confection coasts along on glib dialogue, with characters that we like but don't truly care about, apart from Davis's spunky mother. She is the reason we keep going until the final installment when most characters get a hefty portion of just desserts, garnished with sentimentality.

DVD Extras: Behind the scenes featurette, deleted scenes.

Rating: *** 30 Rock - Season 3 (Cert 12, 462 mins, Universal Playback, DVD £24.99, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Steve Buscemi, Carrie Fisher, Salma Hayek, Steve Martin, Megan Mullally, Elaine Stritch and Oprah Winfrey guest star in the latest series of the award-winning comedy series centred on Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), the head writer on fictitious TV sketch show, TGS With Tracy Jordan. Caught between her demanding boss Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) and the programme's star, Tracy (Tracy Morgan), Liz struggles to cling on to her sanity while embittered supporting actress Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) attempts to steal the spotlight and reinvigorate her career. The three-disc set includes all 22 episodes.

DVD Extras: Cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, "Behind The Scenes With The Muppets" featurette, "1-900-OKFACE" featurette, "Kidney Now!" table read, "The Making Of Kidney Now!" featurette, photo gallery, Alec Baldwin Saturday Night Live monologue, Tracy Jordan's Rant, award acceptance speeches.

Burn Notice - Complete Season Two (Cert 15, 664 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, DVD £24.99, Drama) Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar return in 16 more episodes of the FX Channel's action-packed spy series revolving around covert operative Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan), who discovers he has been fired or 'burned', and returns to Miami to set himself up as a freelance undercover agent with his ex-girlfriend and former IRA operative Fiona (Anwar). While dealing with his chain-smoking mother (Sharon Gless), Michael continues to search for the men who terminated his contract.

DVD Extras: none stated.