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• Blackadder: Back and Forth | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £5.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (91.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It seemed a good idea at the time: to celebrate the end of the millennium by resurrecting Edmund Blackadder for a one-off special Blackadder: Back and Fourth. Unfortunately, those responsible for Back and Forth got the cart before the horse. The Blackadder television series worked by recasting the same characters in different times, thereby reinforcing the dynamic between Blackadder and the buffoons who ran his life (World War One generals, various idiot royalty) and the troglodytes whose lives he ran (Baldrick). Given that most of us feel most of the time like the people we work for are useless and the people that work for us are even more useless, Blackadder's concept had a huge appeal. A special feature looking at Blackadders through the ages might, therefore, have been a worthwhile enterprise. In Back and Forth, however, the character--a modern-day descendant of the Blackadder line--is merely briefly imposed on a variety of historical circumstances; he is no longer the victim of circumstances but the creator of them, and far less appealing for it. The script is lame and formulaic, and the conclusion unbelievably lazy. Okay, so it's a comedy, but if he really had returned to an England which had been conquered by France at the battle of Waterloo, shouldn't everyone there have been speaking French? On the DVD: There are three sound options Dolby 2.0 and 5.1, and DTS 5.1. The main feature has an easily negotiable scene selector, and there are two extra features; including a behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Back and Forth featuring interviews with co-writer Richard Curtis and the biggest gem on the whole DVD, a lost episode set in the time of Cromwell, far funnier than the dismal Back and Forth, especially for Stephen Fry's delightful blurring of the doomed Charles I and the future Charles III. --Andrew Mueller

• Shameless - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £9.41   |  Saving you £25.58 (73.10%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Shameless the BAFTA award-winning and brilliantly funny drama series from writer Paul Abbott follows the roller coaster lives and loves of the highly un-orthodox yet extremely tightly knit Gallagher family. With Christenings riots salsa school reunions sibling rivalry shoot-outs cross-dressing weddings gigolos and messages from beyond the grave the wonderful inimitable world of Shameless is back for the seventh series.

• Maigret | DVD | (09/01/2017) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Maigret Sets A Trap Montmartre, Paris. A serial killer is stalking the streets. Five women are dead and people are afraid to go out after dark. The newspapers are rife with speculation. And Chief Superintendent Maigret is without a lead and under great pressure Maigret's Dead Man One February morning, an agitated man calls the Police judiciaire asking for Maigret. He claims he's being followed by someone trying to kill him. Before Maigret can get the details he hangs up, calls back again from various cafés, until the calls finally stop. That night, his body is found, his face badly beaten, stabbed to death. Ridden with guilt for not having saved his dead man, Maigret is determined to find the murderer. Bonus Features: Behind the Scenes

• Johnny English | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rowan Atkinson is Johnny English, an inept office-bound junior intelligence worker suddenly thrust into the spotlight when the Crown Jewels are stolen from the Tower of London and a plot is uncovered that threatens world security.

• Blackadder the Third (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £5.58   |  Saving you £10.41 (186.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rowan Atkinson's irredeemably wicked Edmund Blackadder has moved forward in time from the court of Queen Elizabeth but a little down the social ladder. He's now butler to Hugh Laurie's congenitally stupid Prince Regent on the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries, and if that wasn't bad enough he's still accompanied by Tony Robinson's dim-witted Baldrick, whose cunning plans never fail to make an impossible situation worse. Blackadder's desperate scheming and utter contempt for all he surveys hasn't changed, nor have the baroque complexities of the situations in which he becomes embroiled: from an anachronistic war of words with Dr Johnson (Robbie Coltrane relishing every syllable) to taking on the Scarlet Pimpernel at his own game, to fighting a duel with a psychopathic Duke of Wellington, Edmund's luck never seems to change. Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's sharp scripts have more fun with the period setting than ever before, as contemporary literary archetypes from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen are ripe for lampooning. Howard Goodall's theme tune is updated to a glorious classical pastiche, while the extravagant costumes of the times hardly need altering to achieve the desired effect. The comedy is so good it seemed this could never be bettered, until Blackadder Goes Forth that is. --Mark Walker

• Mr Bean 25th Anniversary Boxset | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £19.71 (197.30%)   |  RRP £29.70

  Bendy Bean Gift With Purchase Celebrate 25 years of Mr Bean with this amazing anniversary boxset - including over 21 hours of Mr Bean mayhem and collectable Bendy Bean!  Set includes all epsiodes from the original TV series volumes 1 - 8 of the animated spin-off as well as two Mr Bean movies. In 'Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie' (1997) Mr Bean (Atkinson) obtains a job as an attendant at the London National Gallery. He enjoys the protection of the chairman but the gallery's governors are keen to be rid of him. When the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles asks for an expert to give a speech on the recently-purchased painting of Whistler's mother Bean is quickly despatched. On his arrival in America he begins wreaking havoc in the art world. In 'Mr Bean's Holiday' (2007) Bean has won a church fete raffle's top prize consisting of a trip to France where the language barrier predictably causes our hero no end of grief until he meets Emil (Karel Roden) a Russian director on his way to judge at Cannes. Title List Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie   Mr Bean - Mr. Bean's Holiday Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 1 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 2 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 3 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 4 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 1 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 2 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 3 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 4 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 5 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 6 Mr Bean The Animated Series - Volume 7 Mr Bean The Animated Series - Volume 8

• Johnny English - Fully Loaded Edition | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £2.86   |  Saving you £7.13 (249.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He knows no fear. He knows no danger. He knows nothing!Bumbling British intelligence officer Johnny English has to step into the breach when all his fellow agents are suddenly bumped off. With the machinations of mysterious millionaire Pascal Sauvage becoming increasingly threatening, it's up to Johnny to save the crown jewels and the very fate of the Royal family!

• Blank Cheque | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £12.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When 11-year-old Preston Water's bicycle is hit by a crook on the run a hastily scrawled BLANK CHEQUE sets the wheels in motion for the spending spree of a lifetime. Preston fills out the cheque for 1 million dollars and starts buying up all his dreams - his own house a chauffeured limo and of course the best toys money can buy. But before long the crooks and the FBI are hot on Preston's trail and he's about to learn that a million dollars can buy a whole lot of trouble. In the

• Mr Bean: Series 1, Volume 2 (20th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Five episodes of the Live TV Series of Mr Bean including: Mr. Bean Rides Again Merry Christmas Mr. Bean Mr. Bean in Room 426 Mind The Baby Mr. Bean Do It Yourself Mr. Bean

• Mozart In Turkey | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart in Turkey is a feature-length 88-minute hybrid BBC co-production which interleaves making-of documentary footage (24 minutes) and filmed highlights (64 minutes) from Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"). Working to their pre-recorded performance of the complete opera conducted by leading Mozartian Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir, we see the cast mime to playback key arias, duets and quartets from Mozart's gorgeous work. The story of a Spanish noble woman, Konstanze (soprano Yelda Kodalli), her English maid, Blonde (soprano Désirée Rancatore), fiancé, Belmonte (tenor Paul Groves) and his servant, Pedrillo (tenor Lynton Atkinson) in the Turkish Harem of Pasha Selim (Oliver Tobias in a speaking role) is beautifully filmed in the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The documentary sections offer a brief, rather superficial look at Mozart's writing of the opera and the ideas that influenced it and are expressed within the drama. The music-making is hardly to be faulted and the staging is ravishing. Unfortunately the whole seems like an over-length DVD extra that should accompany a complete film of the opera--the very thing that is mysteriously missing from this release. On the DVD Mozart in Turkey is presented anamorphically, enhanced at 16:9 for widescreen televisions, with a virtually flawless picture taken, presumably, from digital tape. If the programme is watched complete the sound is stereo only and the music sometimes sounds harsh. If music highlights are selected, sound is available in stereo or a much fuller and more rounded Dolby Digital 5.1. There are optional subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch, but if any of these is selected it is imposed over the English-language documentary sections as well as the German-language opera scenes. When playing music highlights there are rather abrupt and unmusical fades in and out between scenes. The menu is awful, offering the option either to play all or select a given track, but not to play from a particular scene onwards. Switching subtitles on or off, or changing audio tracks, entails returning to the main menu then starting the programme afresh. There is no resume play facility and there are no extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• Mr Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie | Blu Ray | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster!

• Blackadder the Fourth (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The final Blackadder series, which first appeared in 1990, was the most highly evolved of all of the Richard Curtis/Ben Elton-scripted excursions. Having contrived to attain the Crown at the end of the third series, Rowan Atkinson's Edmund Blackadder is now reduced to a mere Captaincy in the trenches during World War I, with these episodes finding him shooting messenger pigeons, grumbling about Charlie Chaplin and unscrupulously evading his patriotic duty to pile over the top and be slaughtered pointlessly. Hugh Laurie plays the upper class silly arse to the hilt while Baldrick, who has grown progressively more stupid throughout the four series, can barely muster the intelligence to move from the spot. Blackadder Goes Forth stoutly refused to the end to abandon its relish for broad, puerile scatological puns: "Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room," growls Stephen Fry's General Melchett. However, Blackadder's cynicism is laced with genuine despair at the recent madness of World War I. The closing moments of the final episode, as Blackadder and co. finally receive their orders, are handled with sober poignancy and became a frequent fixture in Remembrance Day TV scheduling. --David Stubbs

• Happy Birthday Mr Bean | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £8.47   |  Saving you £1.52 (17.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All Bean's best birthday bits in one very special package. Comprises: The Restaurant from The Return of Mr. Bean Birthday Bear The Disco from Mr. Bean Goes To Town Dinner for Two The Funfair from Mind The Baby Mr. Bean The Restaurant

• Shameless - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £13.72   |  Saving you £21.27 (155.03%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Shameless the BAFTA award-winning and brilliantly funny drama series from writer Paul Abbott follows the roller coaster lives and loves of the highly un-orthodox yet extremely tightly knit Gallagher family. Head of the family in name only is Dad Frank - a feckless charmless self-pitying unemployed bully - a model father. Since mum went AWOL dad hit the bottle leaving his six remarkably well-balanced children Fiona Lip Ian Debbie Carl and Liam to fend for themselves. But the Gallaghers need not worry anymore now they've teamed up with the local gangsters the Maguires who continue to explode the myth of a conventional family.

• The Dyatlov Pass Incident | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £6.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (166.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) and based the shocking true story of the Dyatlov Pass deaths, this horror will chill your bones. A group of American students set out to film a documentary following the fateful path of the nine skiers, whose bodies were found in 1959, deep in the Russian mountains. Trying to solve one the most bizarre mysteries of the 20th century, the group aren't prepared for what they find, or what finds them ... A truly disturbing story wit...

• Shameless Series 4 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £21.00 (526.32%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The critically acclaimed and brilliantly funny drama from award-winning writer Paul Abbott features the Chatsworth Estate's Gallaghers probably the UK's most dysfunctional family.

• Harlots Series 1&2 | DVD | (17/06/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featuring an award-winning creative team and all-star cast, Harlots is a powerful drama set against the vibrant, cosmopolitan backdrop of 18th century Georgian London, offering a bold new take on the city's most valuable commercial activity sex. Inspired by the stories of real women, and the men who surround them, this provocative character-driven series centres on the formidable Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton) and her daughters (Jessica Brown Findlay and Eloise Smyth) as she struggles to reconcile the role of mother with brothel owner. Collects the First two series.

• Mum Series 1 | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £3.47   |  Saving you £5.78 (261.54%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Cathy is attempting to move on with her life after the death of her husband. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.

• Mr Bean Complete Collection | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £122.83   |  Saving you £-32.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Features The Mr Bean Titles: Mr Bean's Holiday: Mr. Bean returns but not for long as he goes on his travels to the south of France where mishap and mayhem begin by the end Bean even has his video diaries at the Cannes Film Festival. Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie (Special Edition): When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Within days of his arrival Mr. Bean destroys virtually everything he comes into contact with be it the career and marriage of his host or America's greatest painting. Mr Bean - The Animated Series Vols 1-6: The animated adventures of Mr Bean as he bungles his way through one sticky situation after another! Mr Bean Vols 1-5: Rowan Atkinson as the hilarious legendary character Mr. Bean; delighting all ages with his madcap antics fans can relive classic Bean episodes whilst younger family members can be introduced to the crazy world of Mr. Bean!

• Without Sin | DVD | (14/08/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A