"Office" DVD tops sales charts

[Brian Damage]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Season 3 of the NBC comedy "The Office" debuted at No. 1 on the national DVD sales chart Wednesday, becoming the first TV-DVD release to accomplish this feat since the season 2 set of "Lost" a year ago.

"The Office" bumped the previous week's top seller, "Blades of Glory," to No. 2 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart. It also beat several new theatrical features, including "George Rule" (No. 3) and "Delta Farce" (No. 7).

"Georgia Rule," a box office bomb starring Lindsay Lohan,also was the week's top rental debut, landing at No. 6 on Home Media Magazine's chart with estimated rental earnings of $3.4 million -- virtually neck and neck with "Farce" at No. 7.

"Farce," a military spoof starring blue-collar comedian Larry the Cable Guy, topped some sales charts around the country and reportedly overperformed at some of the nation's biggest retailers, including Wal-Mart.

On the high-definition disc front, "300" remained at the top of both the Blu-ray Disc and the HD DVD sales charts, according to First Alert data.