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• Three...Extremes | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £13.93   |  Saving you £1.06 (7.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A collection of three horror shorts from three of Asia's most revered directors: Fruit Chan Takashi Miike and Park Chan-Wook. This anthology offers three inventively chilling tales from three masters of Asian terror. Takashi Miike's Box presents us with a troubled writer haunted by the memory of her sisters death. Park Chan-wook's Cut delights in more revenge with a film extra deciding to torture a director and his wife. And the final terror tale is Fruit Chan's bite-size version of Dumplings.

• You, Me & The Apocalypse | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Seven eclectic and seemingly unconnected characters' lives start to intersect in the most unexpected ways as news breaks that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course towards Earth and will hit in just 34 days! Some of them are destined to make it to a bunker deep beneath the suburbs of Slough and, as a result, will become the hugely unlikely (and, frankly, somewhat unsuitable) future of mankind. Starring Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation), Jenna Fischer (The Office), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans).

• The Time of Their Lives (BD) | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £3.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Collins stars in this comedy drama written and directed by Roger Goldby. Former Hollywood starlet Helen (Collins) decides to pay her respects to her late ex-husband by crashing his funeral on the glamorous French island of Ile-de-Ré. With the help of her best friend Priscilla (Pauline Collins), Helen escapes her retirement home in London and the pair set off on their journey. Things take a turn however, as the duo soon become entangled in a love triangle with reclusive Italian millionaire Alberto (Franco Nero) after they decide to pick him up along the way. The cast also includes Ronald Pickup and Joely Richardson.

• Mount Pleasant | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £11.12   |  Saving you £8.87 (79.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mount Pleasant is a brand new comedy-drama, following the life of Mancunian Lisa (Sally Lindsay) and the day-to-day adventures she has with her husband, friends and family. Written by Sarah Hooper (Shameless) and co-starring Daniel Ryan (Skins, Just William) Bobby Ball, Pauline Collins (Upstairs Downstairs, Shirley Valentine), Angela Griffin (Waterloo Road, Hustle) and Lisa Tarbuck (Linda Green, Extras).

• Birds of a Feather: The Complete BBC Series | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £56.98   |  Saving you £45.00 (81.83%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Tony Dow Charlie Hanson Nic Phillips Terry Kinane Baz Taylor

• Broadchurch (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £4.43   |  Saving you £20.56 (464.11%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When ITV first started screening Broadchurch, ostenisbly a murder mystery from the mind of Chris Chibnall, it didn't really get an awful lot of attention. Sure, the strong cast, led by David Tennant and Olivia Colman, meant it got noticed. But detective whodunnits are hardly rare. However, as the weeks went by on original transmission, Broadchurch escalated, and by the end, large parts of the nation were gripped by one of the best mysteries to have screened in many, many years. No wonder a second series was swiftly announced. This first one introduces us to the apparently quiet town of Broadchurch in south England. There, an 11-year schoolboy has gone missing, as two detectives, who hardly get on, are forced to join together to get to the bottom of what's happened. But all is not what it seems in Broadchurch, and to say any more would spoil the undoubted fun in watching it all unfold. For this is premier quality drama. Tennant and Colman are excellent, but the ensemble cast bring a collection of excellent, believable performances too. It's the writing that lifts things, though, and you can't help but be gripped as the story unravels. As well as the excellent show itself, the disc release also features a look behind the scenes of Broadchurch, along with background material. But it's that main drama that's the undoubted attraction, and one that's aching to be rewatched once seen, if only to pick up all the clues you might just have missed... --Jon Foster

• Jean Cocteau Collection | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This stunning Jean Cocteau box set features Le Sang D'Un Poete (aka: The Blood Of The Poet) and Testament D'Orphee (aka: Testament Of Orpheus). Also an artist poet playwright and novelist Jean Cocteau is widely regarded as one of the most pioneering and important avant-garde directors cinema has produced. His debut Le Sang D'Un Poete and swansong La Testament D'Orphee are released here together in a boxset for the first time in the UK; made 30 years apart they bookend his filmic career and are both masterpieces of the avant-garde movement of which he was at the heart. Cocteau released 12 films in his lifetime including the award-winning La Belle Et La Bete (1946) perhaps his most accessible (and therefore well-known) work. Though often described as a poet first and foremost Cocteau's films were also infused with the phantasmorgorical surrealist imagery and rich symbolism characteristic of all his work. Le Sang D'un Poete (1930): In an artist's studio an unfinished statue comes to life. The lips of its androgynous face move pressing a kiss to the artist's hand. At the statue's demand he plunges it into a mirror. Le Testament D'orphee (1960): Jean Cocteau gave the cinema a truly abstract piece of work as his swansong in which the mind of a poet (played by Cocteau himself) takes control of reality twisting and re-moulding it until it bears not the slightest resemblance to reality as we know it in real life.

• Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Series | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.91

  Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected comes to you as a collection of every episode from each series. Although widely-regarded as one of the greatest children's authors of all-time Roald Dahl also wrote chilling adult fiction taking the twisted ideas used to entertain children and thrilling adults with similar themes. Much-gossiped about in its day the surprising stories - usually with a sting in the tale - enthralled a nation the moment the iconic titles started. Sinister and with a touch of the macabre Tales of the Unexpected holds at its heart a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete First Series | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Boasting a virtuoso comic performance from Leonard Rossiter The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79) remains one of the greatest of all television sitcoms. Writer David Nobbs combined the surrealist absurdity of Monty Python with an on-going story line that unfolded through each of the three seasons with a clear beginning, middle and end; a ground-breaking development in 70s TV comedy. The first and best season charts middle-aged, middle-management executive Reginald Perrin as he breaks-down under the stress of middle-class life until he informs the world that half the parking meters in London have Dutch Parking Meter Disease. He fakes suicide and returns to court his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates) in disguise, a plot development that formed the entire basis of Mrs Doubtfire (1993). Series Two is broader, the rapid-fire dialogue still razor sharp and loaded with caustic wit and ingenious silliness, as a now sane Reggie takes on the madness of the business world by opening a chain of shops selling rubbish. The third season, set in a health farm, is routine, the edge blunted by routine sitcom conventions. At its best The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is hilarious and moving, its depiction of English middle-class life spot on, its satire prophetic. Reggie's visual fantasies hark back to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Billy Liar (1963), and look forward to Ally McBeal (1997-2002) and are the icing on the cake of a fine, original and highly imaginative show. On the DVD: Reginald Perrin's discs contain one complete seven episode season. There are no extras. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 picture is generally fine, though some of the exterior shot-on-film scenes have deteriorated and there are occasional signs of minor damage to the original video masters. Even so, for a 1970s sitcom shot on video the picture is excellent and far superior to the original broadcasts. --Gary S Dalkin

• Father Ted - Series 3 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £9.20   |  Saving you £10.79 (117.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This set contains the final series of Father Ted, which ended abruptly in 1998 with the death of its talented comic star, Dermot Morgan. The eight episodes here are a little uneven, but the best stuff is classic, laugh-out-loud satire, including "Are You Right There, Father Ted", in which Morgan's titular Catholic priest is re-banished to Ireland's Craggy Island, a green rock replete with paranoid sheep, randy milkmen, Nazi memorabilia collectors and an inexplicably large community of Chinese immigrants. Outstanding, too, is "Speed 3", in which Ted discovers that a number of babies recently born on Craggy all look like a self-made swinger named Pat Mustard. "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" speaks for itself, and "The Mainland" gives supporting actor Ardal O'Hanlon (as idiotic fellow cleric Dougal) a great showcase. --Tom Keogh

• Birds of a Feather: The Complete Second Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £10.09   |  Saving you £14.90 (147.67%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this second series of Birds of a Feather - one of the 1990s most successful longrunning and memorable sitcoms. This release also features the feature-length Christmas Specials from 1990. Created by legendary screenwriters Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman Shine on Harvey Moon) the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of 'Dalentrace' - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl's criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now Sharon lives with Tracey enjoying a few home comforts and offering some much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull there are always the extra-marital adventures of their man-eating neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) to keep them entertained...

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £6.87   |  Saving you £3.12 (45.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three bodies are found. Beside each lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide. The police are baffled. But the killer has made one mistake; he has challenged Hercule Poirot to unmask him...

• Birds of a Feather 3 | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £4.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (215.58%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There are surprises, twists and revelations galore as Sharon, Tracey and their man-eating friend Dorien return for this hilarious third series - guest-starring Martin Kemp, Jamie Foreman and Kate Williams, and includes scripts by series creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series begins with the discovery that Darryl, Tracey's ex-husband and father to Travis and Garth, has died doing what he loved burglary! Unfortunately his funeral brings the ladies into contact with some undesirable local characters... Further inappropriate adventures include a visit to an infamous drag club to recover Dorien's stolen clothes, Auntie Vera causing domestic unrest and Sharon and Dorien being temporarily turfed out of the nest when Tracey's patience finally snaps!

• The Ambassador | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £14.98   |  Saving you £22.00 (169.36%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Harriet Smith is the newly appointed British Ambassador to Ireland, and she has the unenviable task of quelling the mounting tensions between the two countries. Each heart-pounding episode from the award-winning, BAFTA-nominated Russell Lewis (Inspector Morse) will leave you dying to know what happens next Ambassador Harriet Smith (Pauline Collins, Upstairs, Downstairs), a sharp-witted, confident woman, holds one of Britain's most coveted and powerful Embassy posts. Recently widowed, Harriet must perform a delicate balancing act between raising her two teenage sons and the demands of her career. John Stone (Denis Lawson, Star Wars) is Harriet's determined commercial attaché and main aide. But the ever-crafty Stone also works for another master MI6. As the UK's Ambassador to Ireland during a turbulent time for the two countries, Harriet finds herself in a sinister and dangerous world far removed from the cocktail parties of Downing Street. Entangled in a complicated web of half-truths and withheld information rife both in and outside of the Embassy walls Harriet is up against a host of people who would love nothing more than to see her fail. Harriet's personal life unavoidably spills over into her work, she faces seemingly insurmountable problems. As a mother, she's having difficulty relating to her children and while she cares deeply about them, as the Ambassador, Britain must always come first... Created by BAFTA nominee Russell Lewis, winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (Inspector Morse / Murphy's Law) Stars Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Pauline Collins OBE (Shirley Valentine) and Primetime Emmy nominee Denis Lawson (Bleak House / Star Wars / New Tricks).

• Wodehouse Playhouse (Multi-region DVD) | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £25.01   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the BBC adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse short stories starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins The first series includes 'The Truth about George', 'Romance at Droitgate Spa', 'Portrait of a Disciplinarian', 'The Unpleasantness at Budleigh Court', 'The Rise of Minna Nordstrom, 'Rodney Fails to Qualify and 'A Voice From the Past'. The second series includes 'Anselm Gets His Chance' and five other stories. Whilst the third series includes 'The Smile That Wins', 'Trouble Down at Tudsleigh', 'Tangled Hearts', 'The Luck of the Stiffhams', 'The Editor Regrets', 'Big Business' and 'Milliner's Buck-U-Uppo'.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Yellow Iris / The Case Of The Missing Will | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.42   |  Saving you £2.56 (34.45%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... Yellow Iris: A new French restaurant is opening in London. Poirot is reminded of an unsolved case that occured at a restaurant with the same name in Buenos Aires where the wife of an oil tycoon died mysteriously. When the London restaurant opens events appear to be repeating themselves but this time Poirot is determined not to fail. The Case Of The Missing Will: Poirot and Hastings are in Cambridge attending a Union Society debate. Poirot's old friend Andrew Marsh is one of the speakers. Marsh is in poor health and later at his home announces that he intends to change his will the next day. When on the following morning he is found dead in the nearby wood Poirot becomes involved in a case of infedelity illegitimacy and inheritance.

• Shine on Harvey Moon - Series Three | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This wonderful series was created by the incredible writing partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (Birds of a Feather Goodnight Sweetheart) and features a stellar cast including Kenneth Cranham (The Chatterley Affair) Maggie Steed (Born and Bred) Linda Robson (Birds of a Feather) and Pauline Quirke (Birds of a Feather). Originally broadcast on ITV in 1984 this triple DVD set contains the entire third series.

• Birds Of A Feather: Christmas Specials | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.68   |  Saving you £-0.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.00

  One of the nineties’ most successful sitcoms Birds of a Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as Sharon and Tracey North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. Doing their best to hang onto Tracey’s smart home the sisters also enjoy regular visits from waspish-yet-sympathetic neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) whose high-grade gossip and extra-marital antics liven up many a dull day in Chigwell… A new series in 2014 was a smash hit proving that the girls are still loved by the British public! A particular highlight of the original series were the fondly remembered Christmas Specials - this special release includes the first four.

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Tracey receives two tickets for a cruise - a romantic surprise planned by Darryl before being sent to prison. Dorien does her best to encourage her to use the tickets; just think about all the available men! That fails miserably but there’s always Plan B… Falling in Love Again 
Chris is in trouble - the McCarthy brothers who have bought his debts are threatening grievous bodily rearrangement. But there’s a simple and obvious solution! It involves a TV quiz show a trip to Berlin and a Messerschmitt bubble car… We’ll Always Have Majorca 
Darryl has been kind to Abel Kane a former rock star imprisoned for drug offences. Now Kane offers Darryl a favour. It concerns Kane’s Majorcan villa a prison breakout and an unexpected Christmas holiday for Sharon Tracey and Dorien… The Chigwell Connection 
When doubt is cast on the integrity of the officer who arrested Chris and Darryl the sisters start a campaign to Free the Chigwell Two. Dorien meanwhile suffers humiliation at the hands of tennis-club gossip queen Melanie Fishman when Marcus is accused of drug-running…

• PD James: The Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £74.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A spectacular critical and ratings success when first transmitted on ITV, Upstairs, Downstairs still maintains its position as one of the major success stories of British television worldwide. Multi-award-winning (including ones from BAFTA, the Writers' Guild, the Royal Television Society, Emmys and Golden Globes), the series stars Jean Marsh, Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Pauline Collins and Lesley-Anne Down. Upstairs, Downstairs takes place at 165 Eaton Place from the turn of the century through the Great War and into the Roaring Twenties. It concerns the Bellamy family: politician Richard Bellamy, his wives Marjorie and Virginia, wastrel son James, wayward daughter Elizabeth and his flighty ward, Georgina Worsley. The house domestics are led by Hudson, the butler, a conservative Scot who must contend with the 'below stairs' behaviour of the household staff, including cook Mrs Bridges and maids Rose and Sarah. Features: The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs five exclusive documentaries Commentaries for selected episodes Variant version of On Trial Archive interviews with Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh and Angela Baddeley An interview with composer Alexander Faris, and a 5.1 mix of Faris conducting the Upstairs, Downstairs theme with a live orchestra Russell Harty Goes Upstairs, Downstairs a 1975 Christmas special

• Family For Rent | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul-André is a shy and introverted 40-something. He's rich but alone, fed up with life, and decides that what he needs is a family. Violette is also in her 40s and full of life, but money troubles mean that she could lose her home and even her family. Paul-André offers her a crazy deal he rents her family in return for paying off her debts. He will finally be able to test out the true joy of family life for better or worse!