Comedy Central Home Entertainment has today announced that the Chappelle’s Show Season 1: Uncensored DVD box set has become the #1 all-time selling TV show on DVD ever with over 2 million units sold, according to Videoscan and retail sources. It puts the two-disc collection of Dave Chappelle’s top-rated Comedy Central series ahead of previous record-holder, The Simpsons – The Complete First Season, which has sold 1.9 million units. The show is celebrating by releasing the second season DVD earlier than planned. Meanwhile, recent research has shown that TV Show DVDs are the fastest growing trend in the home video business, and if Fox manage to release all fifteen seasons of The Simpsons while the format is still popular, the company could take in an estimated $235 million on the sets alone. If that’s not reason enough for Fox to push out these discs faster, I don’t know what is.
