"Actor: Joanna Scanlan"

• Big School: Series 2 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious smash hit comedy returns starring an award winning cast; David Walliams (Gangsta Granny Mr Stink Come Fly With Me Little Britain) Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate’s Nan The Catherine Tate Show Doctor Who) Philip Glenister (Mad Dogs Ashes to Ashes Life on Mars) and Frances da la Tour (Harry Potter Rising Damp Vicious). It may be start of a new year at Greybridge School but the teaching staff is as dysfunctional as ever. Series 2 features the arrival of Dr Dalton (Jimmy Akingbola; Rev Holby City Silk) an unwelcome visit from Offsted a challenging parents evening and a member of staff goes to meet his maker…

• After Love | Blu Ray | (27/09/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Grappling with the unexpected death of her husband (Nasser Memarzia), Mary Hussain is tidying his things in their Dover home when she stumbles upon a secret connection he had across the Channel, in Calais. Armed with just a bag and his cell phone, she sets off to uncover the truth. Beautifully directed by Aleem Khan and abetted by sensitive performances from Joanna Scanlan (No Offence), Nathalie Richard and impressive youngster Talid Ariss, this is a drama of real insight about two women, living just 20 miles apart, who are separated by cultural difference and yet share a connection. A remarkable debut, whose delicate tenderness is a testament to the quality of its writing and performances, by its close you will feel you truly know these people.

• No Offence | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It, Getting On), Elaine Cassidy (The Paradise, Harper's Island) and Alexandra Roach (The Iron Lady, Utopia) lead the unorthodox crack team of cops at the heart of Paul Abbott's NO OFFENCE, an outrageous new police procedural series from the writer of Shameless and State of Play. Will Mellor (Dates, Broadchurch), Paul Ritter (Friday Night Dinner, The Game) and Colin Salmon (Arrow, 24: Live Another Day), join them in the mix of tough but big-hearted bobbies who go above and beyond to bring down the criminal rabble in a crumbling cop-shop. Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie but there's a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day's work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering (Scanlan). But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling. Flanked by her right-hand women the compassionate but impulsive DC Dinah Kowalska (Cassidy) and the recently (surprisingly) promoted DS Joy Freers (Roach) Deering and her team must crack this case by whatever unconventional means possible. Because amidst all the assorted low life; the pimps, the petty thieves, and downright nasty bastards they've dealt with, this is their most disturbing case yet, one that will touch their lives in ways they could never expect. The cast includes: Ste Johnston, Tom Varey (The Village), Neet Mohan (Fresh Meat), Saira Choudhry (Hollyoaks), Hannah Walters (This Is England), Charlie May-Clark (South Riding) and Kate O Flynn (Mr.Turner). This DVD comprises all 8 episodes of the series. NO OFFENCE is produced by AbbottVision.

• House of Boys | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £10.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (59.53%)   |  RRP £16.99

  It is 1984. Frank (Layke Anderson) is a determined teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the House of Boys a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame (Udo Kier) who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay plague' casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank his perseverance along with support from a willing doctor (Stephen Fry) will carry him through. 'House of Boys' is a glamorous colourful coming-of-age story that lifts the lid on an exciting world of sex and music where deep passions suddenly turn into a struggle for courage. Featuring music from Spandau Ballet Soft Cell Dangerous Muse Jimmy Somerville Roy Orbison and The The.

• Getting On | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £7.64   |  Saving you £8.35 (109.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If The Office was set in a hospital... Health care for the elderly is the least prestigious area of the medical service. The patients rarely make a fuss - often they're unable to - and for that reason bad practices slip through. But are they that bad? It's a tough world for staff too and getting on means well getting on. Dark funny tough and compassionate this is the story of one ward in one hospital in one overlooked corner of the modern health service. But although status isn't high moral questions come from all corners. It's a long way from ER and a lot closer to most people's experiences. It's the bit of health care that gets swept under the carpet - an overload of grumpy messy old people patched up only to return again a few months later. The staff on this ward joke as they go about their daily tasks leaving humour and dignity to mix as it will. With a retrospective script deliberately allowing for improvisation by the actors Getting On is a comedy of characters doing the best they can in a situation we can all relate to; everyone has an elderly relative parent grandparent and difficult choices are the order of the day. It's the scene that awaits all of us - whether we like to admit it or not.

• Getting On - Series 3 | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bafta-Award winning Getting On returns for more dark humour among the bedpans; set in the backwaters of the National Health Service this third series sees King Edwards closed and Den, Kim and Dr Moore transferred 12 miles to a newer ward. Cuts, re-structuring and life events once again dominate the daily grind. Devised and written by its three principal cast, the real challenge lies in just getting on with life in a world where few things work smoothly and messy choices are the order of the day. Over six shifts we watch as the staff cope with mounting bureaucracy and shine a light on the everyday.

• Getting On - Series 1 and 2 Box Set | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Devised and written by its three principal cast Getting On is a funny refreshing and improvised look at the staff 'getting on with it' in an overlooked corner of the health service: care for the elderly. It may be the least glamorous area of the hospital but in this comedy of characters the staff are doing the best they can in a place where difficult choices are the order of the day. It's the scene that awaits all of us - whether we like to admit it or not.

• Getting On - Series 2 | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Devised and written by its three principal cast Getting On is a funny refreshing and improvised look at the staff 'getting on with it' in an overlooked corner of the health service: care for the elderly. It may be the least glamorous area of the hospital but in this comedy of characters the staff are doing the best they can in a place where difficult choices are the order of the day. It's the scene that awaits all of us - whether we like to admit it or not.

• The Invisible Woman | Blu Ray | (16/06/2014) from £13.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (38.70%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes).

• The Invisible Woman | Blu Ray | (16/06/2014) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this romantic drama adapted from Clare Tomalin's book about the relationship between celebrated 19th-century novelist Charles Dickens and his mistress. School teacher Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), now a wife and mother, looks back on her life as a young woman when, while working as an actress, she met the 45-year-old Dickens (Fiennes). Having become disenchanted with his wife Catherine (Joanna Scanlan), Dickens finds himself enamoured by the equally smitten Nelly and the two become romantically involved. However, they must keep their relationship a secret, meaning Nelly must live an almost invisible existence. The cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander and Michelle Fairley.

• Testament of Youth | Blu Ray | (25/05/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times. Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother's close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the griefs of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, Vera endures and returns to Oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to find a new purpose, which spurs her towards a redemptive act of remembrance. Featuring an all-star cast including: Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Ex Machina, Anna Karenina), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Emily Watson (War Horse, The Book Thief), Hayley Atwell (Captain America, The Duchess), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Dominic West (The Wire, 300) and Miranda Richardson (The Phantom of the Opera, Empire of the Sun)