Nativity Rocks! returns to St Bernadette's Primary School as the staff and students work together to win the coveted prize of Christmas Town of the Year' by performing a spectacular rock music-themed nativity. Celia Imrie reprises her role as headmistress Mrs Keen, starring alongside a host of British talent including Simon Lipkin, Daniel Boys, Helen George, Hugh Dennis, Anna Chancellor, Ruth Jones, Meera Syal, Bradley Walsh and Craig Revel Horwood.
When five children are forced to stay in the dilapidated mansion of their very odd uncle, they discover an 8,000-year-old sand fairy who can grant a wish per day and experience the summer of their lives.
Loving Vincent is a biographical drama film about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh. It is the world's first fully oil painted animated film and brings his artwork to life in an exploration of the death of one of history's most celebrated artists. A true labour of love, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 115 painters.
When Lady' Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband of forty years is having an affair with her best friend, she seeks refuge with her estranged, older sister Bif (Celia Imrie). The two could not be more different - Sandra is a fish out of water next to her outspoken, serial dating, free-spirited sibling. But different is just what Sandra needs and she reluctantly lets Bif drag her along to her community dance class, where gradually she starts finding her feet... and romance. In this hilarious and heart-warming modern comedy, a colourful group of defiant and energetic baby boomers' show Sandra that retirement is only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life - and love.
Set in Cambridge University Porterhouse Blue centres around the fictional Porterhouse College whose genially eccentric Fellows are the proud guardians of six centuries of tradition in which oar-pulling prowess and gourmet cuisine have taken priority over academic achievement. However the arrival of a new master threatens the old established order and events take a number of unexpected not to mention explosive turns...
The dramatised story of how Jimmy Perry and David Croft overcame BBC management scepticism, focus groups and cast constipation to get the much-loved series onto air. Running from Perry's initial idea in 1967 until the transmission of the first episode in 1968, this affectionate and witty film shows the beginnings of Perry and Croft's writing partnership and the casting woes, personal clashes and production difficulties that put the show's very existence in jeopardy. It reveals to fans and newcomers alike what went on behind the scenes in the making of Dad's Army and is a true love letter to British creativity.
The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adapation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronised madness of Zoe Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin sisters and the duplicitous charm of Jonathan Rhys-Meyer as Steerpike, the kitchen-boy determined to take over no matter how many deaths it costs. John Sessions is surprisingly touching as Prunesquallor, the family doctor who realises almost too late what Steerpike intends. It is always tricky to film a book dear to the hearts of its admirers: Wilson and his design team achieve a look rather more pre-Raphaelite than Peake's own illustrations, shabby velvets, garish sunlight and dank stone passages. The score by Richard Rodney Bennett is full of attractive surprises--fanfares and waltzes and apotheoses--and John Tavener's choral additions are plausibly parts of the immemorial ritual of Gormenghast. On the DVD: The double DVD comes with scene selection, an informative half-hour documentary on the making of the serial and a slide gallery of costume designs, characters and their dooms. --Roz Kaveney
On the beautiful, haunting shores of Scotland's iconic Loch Ness, amid a community sustained by myth and bordered by untamed nature, the search for the truth becomes a matter of life and death in this gripping murder mystery. Here the monster doesn't lurk in the depths it walks amongst men, a serial killer who must be stopped. When a body is found at the foot of Carn Mohr Mountain, local detective Annie Redford is thrown into her first murder case. But as grief, terror and suspicion envelops the town and the repercussions of the investigation expose the fault-lines in Annie's closest relationships, this tightly- plotted drama becomes about more than catching a killer; it's about the survival of a family and community.
Spitting Image: Series 8
A milestone in television comedy Spitting Image lifted satire to a new level through the 1980s and '90s. No target was safe from its gunsights: politicians of all persuasions even the Royal Family and the Pope could find themselves up for a ribbing on any given programme. BAFTA-nominated many times Spitting Image won a Bronze medal at the Montreux TV festival in 1984 firmly establishing its success for over a decade. Packed with more wickedly witty sketches and spoof songs this complete eleventh series employs the familiar vocal talents of Steve Coogan Hugh Dennis Kate Robbins and Alistair McGowan among others. In this series the entire Labour Party attends a drama workshop Prince Charles tries to rein in William's video-game addiction Jeffrey Archer tries to finish his novel and there's ongoing televised coverage as Boris Yeltsin introduces the first loaf of bread in Russia. A retired Alastair Burnet is still reading the news at ten every night and we share some intimate moments over dinner with John and Norma Major...
Cheeky London stray Pudsey (voiced by David Walliams - Room on the Broom) has just found a new loving family in the shape of Gail (Jessica Hynes - Nativity 2: Danger in a Manger) and her three children Molly George and Tommy and things couldn’t be better. However his new life comes under threat when their dog-hating landlord Mr Thorne (John Sessions – Made In Dagenham) plots to demolish the entire village leaving Pudsey no choice but stop him by whatever means. Join Britain’s Got Talent winner Pudsey on his big screen adventure - a heart-warming and hilarious tail for all the family!
The cult BBC comedy show sends-up the world of celebrity like no other! Come and join the illustrious residents of Stella Street including Mick Jagger Keith Richards Jack Nicholson Michael Caine Jimmy Hill Joe Pesci Al Pacino David Bowie and Madonna amongst others!
When the public unwrapping of an allegedly ancient Egyptian mummy turns out to reveal the fresh corpse of a contemporary gentleman it is clear to Dr. Joseph Bell and Doyle that foul play is at hand. After a post mortem proves that the deceased was indeed the victim of a brutal murder the doctor and his friend resolve to discover the killer. In their search they become acquainted with a Canadian art collector who appears to be equally keen to solve the riddle of the mummy. But can
In January 1963 21-year-old Stephen Hawking (author of the international best seller A Brief History of Time) stood in a consulting room on the third floor of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He looked out on the snow-covered street below listening in silence to the carefully chosen words of the hospital's senior neurologist. In two years the doctor slowly explained Stephen would be dead. He had been diagnosed with ALS - amyotrophic latereral sclerosis or motor neurone disease. Featuring an Award-winning cast Hawking is a dramatization of those next two extraordinary years. In the vein of A Beautiful Mind Hawking is both a love story and a historical account culminating in one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of any age the final proof of Einstein's big bang theory. Against all the odds and with the strength of this girlfriend Jane's love Stephen survived his debilitating illness and went on to make his ground-breaking discovery that contributed to the Nobel Prize of 1978 and is still acknowledged today.
The cult BBC comedy show sends-up the world of celebrity like no other! Come and join the illustrious residents of Stella Street including Mick Jagger Keith Richards Jack Nicholson Michael Caine Jimmy Hill Joe Pesci Al Pacino David Bowie and Madonna amongst others!
The New Statesman' is a multi-award winning masterpiece of political satire. Rik Mayall stars as the ruthless Alan B'Stard the egocentric MP who will stop at nothing to further his political career. With no morals no depth to which he wouldn't sink and no plot too cunning following the antics of such an immoral MP makes for unbelievable nonstop comedy. This DVD box set features all four series of 'The New Statesman' culminating with the feature length special 'Who Shot Alan B'Stard'.
The classic tale of Tom Jones a boy who is adopted in childhood by the kindly Squire Allworthy adapted from the novel written by Henry Fielding. As a result he becomes a privileged gentleman but one with a roving eye. Soon an amorous indiscretion results in him being exiled from his home...
Nativity 1 This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is being charged with the biggest challenge of his life - directing the school's musical version of the Nativity. Maddens' only hope is to lure Hollywood to town so that everybody's Christmas wishes come true. Nativity 2 The unforgettable pupils of St Bernadette's have set their hearts on competing in the National choir contest A Song For Christmas. But with the headmistress not in favour of the plan, new class teacher Mr Peterson (David Tennant) has his hands full trying to curb the enthusiasm of the kids and Mr Poppy. Nativity 3 This Christmas the children of St Bernadette's face their biggest adventure yet! When their new teacher Mr Shepherd (Martin Clunes) loses his memory as well as Archie the Donkey, it's up to them to save the day and reunite him with his fiancée (Catherine Tate) in New York.
A large number of Hollywood actors rock stars and other celebrities move into Stella Street a quiet suburban street in southwest London. Away from the celebrity life they settle down in domestic bliss until the day they follishly entrust their wealth to a cousin of the Duke of Marlborough and lose everything! For the first time in their lives these showbiz legends fall on hard times and suddenly the simple life they craved in Stella Street has become all too real...
In 1998 two piglets escaped from an abattoir. This is their story as they hit the headlines as 'Butch and Sundance'. Evading capture for some time they finally earn their freedom and take up residence at an animal sanctuary in Kent.
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