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• Two Doors Down Series 6 | DVD | (16/01/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two Doors Down returns with 6 brand new exasperating episodes and a Christmas Special that really tests the neighbours' friendships to the limit. Bursting with comic vitality, acid-tongued put downs and ultimate awkwardness, this sixth series of the award-winning comedy brings us back into the world of the neighbours we wouldn't want to live next door to. Beth and Eric's peaceful suburban existence is continually punctured by the inappropriate behaviour of their fellow residents, who are often rude about their hospitality and nearly always outstay their welcome. Lifelong hypochondriac Christine never misses an opportunity to sponge a cuppa off Beth while undermining her at the same time; Colin needs his neighbours more than ever this series but can't help oversharing personal details as he adjusts to his new life; and ever-positive Michelle continues to struggle with hapless Alan's imperfections. It seems Beth and Eric's only support comes in the form of loving son Ian and his wide-eyed fiancé Gordon. Includes All Series 6 episodes + 2022 Christmas Special

• Two Doors Down Series 4 | DVD | (04/03/2019) from £10.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Loving thy neighbour continues to be an uphill struggle for the residents of Latimer Crescent. Two Doors Down returns to the street for another dose of neighbourly interference. Beth (Arabella Weir) and Eric (Alex Norton), Cathy (Doon Mackichan) and Colin (Jonathan Watson), Ian (Jamie Quinn) and partner Gordon (Kieran Hodgson), new neighbours Alan (Graeme ˜Grado' Stevely) and Michelle (Joy McAvoy) and the indomitable Christine (Elaine C Smith) look out for each other and drive each other to distraction on a regular basis. They also all do their very best to endure everything friends and family can throw at them - which this year includes a dubious trifle, an unconventional wake, an extended stay in hospital and overbearing pressure to love rhubarb.

• Plebs - Series 4 | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The sudden departure of Stylax and equally sudden arrival of dappy blonde builder Jason (Jonathan Pointing) throws the lives of the Plebs into turmoil. But upheaval gives way to hope when they manage to wangle an abandoned toilet from crooked property developer Crassus (Robert Lindsay) which they decide to convert into Rome's hottest new wine-bar - The Crown and Toga . With Grumio as head-chef, Jason and waterboy/man Aurelius on drinks and Marcus as manager, this could be the boys chance to finally hit the big time and become players in the most exciting city in the world.

• Toast Of London: Series 2 | DVD | (15/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steven Toast (Matt Berry The IT Crowd House of Fools) is back. Struggling actor and resident of Soho's famous theatreland the hapless thespian returns for more misadventures alongside his inept agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan Smack the Pony Plebs) and peculiar flatmate Ed Howzer-Black (Robert Bathurst Cold Feet Downton Abbey). This time he faces amongst other challenges a prostitutes’ and celebrity blow-football tournament the horror of being buried alive freemasonry and of course his arch-nemesis Ray 'Bloody' Purchase. Can Toast win out and secure the glamorous acting roles he's sure his immense talent deserves? Special Features:   Audio Commentary of Desperate Measures with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Audio Commentary of Fool in Love with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Mo' Burned Toast Series 2 Songs Deleted Scenes Steven Toast's Voiceover Showreel 'My Turn' Toast Autobiography On the Analyst's Couch Part II: Steven Toast recalls some of his most memorable stage roles.  

• Two Doors Down: Series 7 | DVD | (08/01/2024) from £10.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Doors Down - Series 2 | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £9.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two Doors Down features a cast of truly distinctive characters Beth (Arabella Weir) and Eric (Alex Norton), Cathy (Doon Mackichan) and Colin (Jonathan Watson), Christine (Elaine C Smith) and daughter Sophie (Sharon Rooney), Ian (Jamie Quinn) and Jaz (Harki Bhambra) all ready to support each other through life's highs and lows. That sounds like a blessing but it's often more of a curse. From day-to-day, apparently trivial, events to life-defining decisions and ordeals, what starts out as friendly interest usually snowballs into trodden toes, crossed boundaries and seriously frayed tempers.

• Beast - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £11.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (79.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alexander Armstrong stars as a reluctant and dangerously incompetent vet in this sharply scripted BBC-1 sitcom from Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye. Running for two series, Beast also stars Emma Pierson, Sylvestra Le Touzel and Smack the Pony's Doon Mackichan - along with an array of live animals. This complete set makes both series available for the first time. Nick is fortunate enough to have inherited a successful rural practice from his father. The problem is that he i...

• The Borrowers | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The popular children's books by Mary Norton have been filmed before, but never with as much imagination and ingenuity as you'll find on display in this delightful fantasy film released to critical praise in 1998. The eponymous Borrowers are a family of tiny people who live in the walls and under the floorboards in the homes of "normal-sized" humans; they earn their by "borrowing" the household items (string, food crumbs, buttons, and so on) needed to furnish their tiny hiding places and provide their meals. The little Clock family lives happily undisturbed in the home of an aged aunt, but when the aunt dies and her will is stolen by an unscrupulous lawyer (John Goodman), the Clocks face eviction and the frightening hazards of the outside world. Under the ingenious direction of Peter Hewitt, this simple, straightforward movie mixes comedy, adventure, and suspense with some of the cleverest special effects you've ever seen, taking full advantage of effects technologies to immerse you in the world of the tiny people. A climactic chase scene in a milk-bottling plant is a visual tour de force, and the movie's smart and dazzling enough to entertain parents and children alike. After its modest success in cinemas, The Borrowers stands a good chance of becoming a home-video favourite. --Jeff Shannon

• Hale and Pace - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following a one-off Christmas special in 1986, Hale and Pace became household names with this phenomenally successful series for LWT. A rapidly paced, occasionally notorious mix of stand-up and sketches that stayed just the right side of Broadcasting Standards, the series won the Silver Rose at Montreux and made the two former PE teachers one of the most mimicked comedy acts in television history.This complete second series sees Gareth and Norman visiting a centre for Guide Cats, lifting the lid on Moroccan cuisine, displaying their beer guts and finding out whether the American doughnut-and-hamburger diet really works. We also catch up with the Two Rons - the legendary tuxedoed heavies later to enjoy fame on their own terms as The Management - and kids' TV presenters Billy and Johnny, who find themselves at an Acid House party...

• Brass Eye | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £9.17   |  Saving you £10.82 (117.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chris Morris' Brass Eye is a brilliantly funny spoof on current affairs media that carries on where his previous The Day Today left off. The show ran for one single, contentious series in 1997, to be followed by an even more controversial one-off in 2001. While these episodes might cause offence to those not versed in Morris' satirical methods, and while one occasionally suspects his work is informed by a dark seam of malice and loathing rather than a desire to educate, Brass Eye remains vital satire, magnificently hilarious and, in its own way, fiercely moral viewing. Brass Eye satirises a media far too interested in generating dramatic heat and urgency for its own sake than in shedding light on serious issues. Morris mimics perfectly the house style of programmes such as Newsnight and Crimewatch, with their spurious props and love of gimmickry. Meanwhile his presenter--an uncanny composite of Jeremy Paxman, Michael Buerk and Richard Madeley among others--delivers absurd items about man-fighting weasels in the East End and Lear-esque lines such as "the twisted brain wrong of a one-off man mental" with preposterously solemn authority. Much as the media itself is wont to do, each programme works itself up into a ridiculous fever of moral panic. Most telling is the "drugs" episode, in which, as ever, real-life celebrities, including Jimmy Greaves and Sir Bernard Ingham, are persuaded to lend their name to a campaign against a new drug from Eastern Europe entitled Cake. The satirist's aim here isn't to trivialise concern about drugs but to point up the media's lack of attention to content. A response to the ill-conceived News of the World witch-hunt, in the wake of the Sarah Payne affair, the 2001 "paedophilia" special was the most supremely controversial of the series. It followed the usual formula--duping celebs such as Phil Collins into endorsing a campaign entitled "Nonce Sense", urging parents to send their children to football stadiums for the night for their own safety and mooting the possibility of "roboplegic" paedophiles--and prompted the sort of hysterical and predictable Pavlovian response from the media that Brass Eye lampoons so tellingly. On the DVD: Brass Eye on DVD includes brief outtakes, such as "David Jatt" interviewing celebrities about breeding hippos for domestic purposes, an hilarious exchange with Jeffrey Archer's PA ("He's a very wicked little man") as well as trailers for the paedophilia special.--David Stubbs

• Smack The Pony - The Best Of | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £10.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (82.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the first time ever 'Smack the Pony' the acclaimed International Emmy award-winning all female comedy sketch show from Channel 4 comes to you on one hilarious DVD. Sexy sassy and at times surreal. 'Smack the Pony' consistently hits the mark with knowing comment a sense of satire as well as silliness and sharp observations of modern life.

• Plebs - Series 1-4 Box Set | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city... of Ancient Rome! Marcus (Tom Rosenthal), Stylax (Joel Fry) and their lazy slave Grumio (Ryan Sampson) live in a grotty apartment block run by a dodgy Landlord (Karl Theobald) and work in dead end jobs for a ruthless boss Flavia (Doon Mackichan). But when a couple of fit Britons Cynthia (Sophie Colquhoun) and Metella (Lydia Rose Bewley) arrive in the neighbourhood things start to look up. Also featuring cameo stars including Danny Dyer, from orgy etiquette to being bashful down the bathhouse, this is Ancient Rome like you've never seen before. Other Guest Stars include Simon Callow, Shaun Williamson, Lauren Socha, Tim Key, and James Fleet.

• Bromwell High - Complete Series | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £22.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bromwell High is a highly irreverent animated comedy which follows the exploits of three exceptionally naughty girls - Keisha Marie Natella and Latrina - one maverick headmaster and a group of desperate overworked and underpaid teachers. It is extremely non-PC in its edgy approach to the material. Keisha Marie Natella and Latrina are the kind of schoolgirls you see on the back seat of the bus - talking too loudly on their mobiles and abusing fellow passengers! Incl

• Bedtime - Series 2 | DVD | (29/12/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Bedtime' takes a peek behind the curtains and watches the night-time rituals of three contrasting couples in the last half hours of their day. Written by Andy Hamilton (Drop The Dead Donkey) 'Bedtime' is a funny moving and compelling mini-soap set in the bedrooms of adjoining house in an ordinary street in an ordinary London suburb... This DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of 'Bedtime'.

• Don't Eat The Neighbours - A Rabbit For All Seasons | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD features four of the best episodes from the first series of the critically acclaimed animated comedy. Episodes include: 'A Rabbit For All Seasons' 'Colin Pays A Visit' 'Lucy The Adventurer' 'Lucy Blows Her Top

• Pure | DVD | (11/03/2019) from £7.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Twenty-four year old Marnie has bad thoughts all the time and she can't tell anyone. Her mind is XXX-rated and intrusive thoughts are piling up inside her head. She is caught in the grip of an excruciating form of obsessive compulsive disorder nicknamed ˜pure O' where her obsessions take the form of intrusive sexual thoughts, and the compulsions are unseen mental rituals that deeply affect her daily life. Something. Has. Got. To. Give. At breaking point, she packs a bag and, with no plan, jumps on a coach to London. In the capital, Marnie soon discovers she's not the only one who's lost. On her search for herself, Marnie finds a gang of new friends, all with their own foibles. She moves in with her deceptively cheery old school friend Shereen. She befriends Charlie, who is in recovery, having torpedoed his love and work life, due to his porn addiction. He's now single, stuck with an old-school flip-phone and attends weekly Sex Addicts Anonymous meets. Queen among Marnie's new gang is journalist and ladies-woman, Amber who has been gaining a problematic rep. for her promiscuity. Then there's Amber's housemate, the irresistible and unassuming Joe whom Marnie shares a will-they-won't-they romance.

• The Best Of Smack The Pony | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Take the banal, the irrelevant and the downright silly, add a female perspective, pour in a hefty dose of comic timing, stir well, and what do you get? Two series of Smack the Pony, the highlights of which are found here. So many of the sketches are very short that watching this in one go might induce epilepsy, but regular doses, little and often, can only prove beneficial. The team of Sally Phillips, Doon MacKichan and Fiona Allen play on women's neuroses (snogging, pubic hair and size of boobs, not necessarily in that order), their preoccupations (finding a man, finding a man and finding a man), their weaknesses (Marks & Spencer, fashion and men) and their competitiveness (more covert than that of the male of the species, and therefore far more deadly). The spoof dating agency clips take in the full range of stereotypes and unfailingly hit the spot. And the prize for the most surreal sketch goes to the one which sets that most bourgeois of institutions--the wedding list--in a sex shop, with the coup de grace: "Two butt plugs ... with love from Kathy and Edward". Not a compilation to give your grannie for her birthday but to be enjoyed in the company of like-minded people (men included). On the DVD: The one failing here is that the DVD disappointingly adds nothing to the VHS format. Shame!--Harriet Smith

• Taking The Flak | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £21.59   |  Saving you £-1.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Gladiatress | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An exciting British comedy featuring the three leads from 'Smack The Pony': Fiona Allen Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. The year is 55 B.C. The Romans are cutting a bloody swathe through the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel. Now with the Romans invading it is up to three sist

• With Or Without You | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past--Benoît, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can--right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff--the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. --Philip Kemp