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• The Very Best Of The Royle Family | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spanning the three series of this superb sitcom, The Very Best of The Royle Family is a prime taster for those not familiar with the series. Co-created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, who star as Denise and Dave respectively, The Royle Family deserves its own comedic category. They had a hard fight persuading the BBC to leave a laughter track off the show, which would have disrupted its unique ambience and chemistry. Never departing from the house of lazy, good-for-nothing but defiantly sardonic Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson) and wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), The Royle Family chronicles the everyday chat and banal comings and goings of this Northern household, which barely qualifies as "working" class, since mostly they are slumped on the sofa in front of the telly in a cathode-induced stupor. Confused viewers waiting for something to "happen" in the conventional sitcom manner will be disappointed. What they'll get instead is an irresistible stream of dialogue that captures unerringly the humdrum cadences of "ordinary" people. These episodes capture the Royles in customary, festive mood--Denise's marriage, Christmas, baby David's birthday party and so forth--which is good, as we get to see more of Liz Smith's magnificent Nana. As each seemingly inconsequential scene vividly illustrates, this is hardly a romanticised family. Denise is an appallingly negligent mother, there's probably never been a green vegetable in the house, most of their friends, including Darren, are well dodgy, and mum Barbara is unfairly put-upon ("Eh, I've been so busy this morning I haven't had time to smoke", she laments at one point). Yet undoubtedly, unlike their regal counterparts, this Royle Family are close-knit, somehow getting by. The family that watches telly together stays together. On the DVD: The Very Best of the Royle Family, disappointingly, has no extra features. --David Stubbs

• The Royle Family - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television--a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny. It's Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series). Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sit-coms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis--who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World"--this programme just keeps getting better. But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family's. Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless. Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what it's come to?" Not quite; as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 1 To 4 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (66.69%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Two Pints of Lager And a Packet of Crisps is a sitcom set in Runcorn centering around the lives of five nineteen/twenty year-olds. This 5 Disc Box Set features all the episodes from series 1-4. Series 1 - Episodes: 1. Fags Shags and Kebabs 2. Spunk 3. Bone with the Wind 4. Angry Wangry 5. Lard 6. Ugly Babies Series 2 - Episodes: 1. On the Blob 2. Bungle 3. Dirty Girls 4. Vomit 5. Crusty Curtains 6. Mo Mo And Pigsy Series 3 - Episodes:

• Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 6 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £4.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (303.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Series 6 of the Runcorn-based comedy series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Speedycruise! 2. Goblins 3. Mummy Cupboard 4. Cauliflower 5. Drunk 6. Croppity Crops 7. Finger Sniffing 8. War Hurrgh! 9. Closing Time 10. When Janet Killed Jonny

• Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 5 | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £4.61   |  Saving you £15.38 (333.62%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Back together at last with Jonny Janet has just arrived at The Castle in time to see him shot by the police. Luckily he survives and spurred on by his near-death experience the couple find new depth in their relationship. For Donna and Gaz things are not so encouraging. Donna finds out that Gaz has slept with Janet - will she ever forgive him? Meanwhile Louise at last meets the man of her dreams - or does she? Episodes comprise: 1. Dead 2. Nobbly Bobbly 3. Shrink 4. Ec

• The Royle Family Album - Complete Collection Plus Specials | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Sit down put your feet up light a fag and join Britain's first family in their sitting room for the complete three series of The Royle Family as well as the Christmas specials and the Finale episode! The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house. Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family. The intense drama and emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum of the television. The rosy hue of their life is yellowed only by a nicotine haze. Series 1: 1. Bills Bills Bills 2. Making Ends Meet 3. Sunday Afternoon 4. Jim's Birthday 5. Another Woman? 6. The Wedding Day Series 2: 1. Pregnancy 2. Sunday Lunch 3. Nana's Coming To Stay 4. Nana's Staying! 5. Barbara's Finally Had Enough Series 3: 1. Hello Baby Dave 2. Babysitting Again 3. Decorating 4. Elise Funeral 5. Antony's Going To London 6. The Christening Also includes the 1999 2000 and 2008 Christmas Special episodes as well as the Finale!

• Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 3 And 4 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The five young gifted and skint 19-somethings return with the rudest and least helpful Mum in the universe. Series 3 starts exactly where the second series ended - with Jonny's half-baked proposal of marriage to Janet. Will she succumb to his dirty charms and tie the knot? Meanwhile Gaz and Donna are in for a shock when their latest attempt to break new sexual boundaries goes spectacularly wrong with the arrival of Gaz's relative Munch. And Louise finally gets a boyfriend for mor

• Married Single Other | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £5.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Married Single Other

• The Waiting Room | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £14.54   |  Saving you £3.45 (23.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two complete strangers, Anna and Stephen are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform.

• Is Harry On The Boat? | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A bawdy, ultimately moral tale of hedonism's complications, Is Harry on the Boat? is probably the most memorable film to come out of the culture of young singles' holidays on Ibiza. Tour rep Brad (Danny Dyer) is determined to win the informal competition among the male reps to sleep with as many female clients as possible, while his friend Mikey (Des Coleman) is looking for true love. Brad gradually learns responsibility and human concern from the awful examples set by corrupt manageress Alison and self-serving treacherous super-stud Mario. Along the way we get some memorably gross-jokes and one or two moments of rather touching tenderness, as well as a convincing portrait of what people go to Ibiza for--loud, large times of music and drunken excess. Dyer is convincing as a young man who learns better from experience and Des Coleman makes Mikey a three-dimensional, soulful romantic with a wicked sense of humour rather than merely Good personified. --Roz Kaveney

• The Royle Family - The Complete First Series | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television: a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny--Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).The Royle Family marked an on-screen reunion for Brookside-actors Ricky Tomlinson (who plays bearded, big-hearted, banjo-playing Jim Royle) and Sue Johnston as his wife Barbara, the driving force behind the Royle household. It is smart casting because The Royle Family is as much a soap opera as a situation comedy. Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sitcoms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis, who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World", this programme just keeps getting better.But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family. (The scripts from the series are available to buy.) Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless: Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a Cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what its come to?" Not quite: because as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• The Royle Family - Series 1 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £4.40   |  Saving you £15.59 (354.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house. Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family. The intense drama and emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum of the television. The rosy hue of their life is yellowed only by a nicotine haze. Episodes Comprise: 1. Bills Bills Bills 2. Making Ends meet! 3. Sunday Afternoon 4. Jim

• The Royle Family - Series 3 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £6.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (65.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sit down put your feet up light a fag and join Britain's first family in their sitting room for the complete third series of The Royle Family. The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house. Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family. The intense drama and emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum of the television. The rosy hue of their life

• The Royle Family - Series 2 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sit down put your feet up light a fag and join Britain's first family in their sitting room for the complete second series of The Royle Family plus the 1999 Christmas Special. The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house. Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family. The intense drama and emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum

• Al's Lads | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £6.10   |  Saving you £-0.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone...

• The Royle Family - Series 1 | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• 24 Hour Party People (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of the Manchester music scene from 70s punk through to the early nineties, as seen from the perspective of Tony Wilson, musical entrepenuer who signed countless bands from Joy Division to the Happy Mondays to his legendary Factory Records label.

• Zemanovaload | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Davies is an odd-ball. He writes gags. But his whole life is a joke. He has multiple Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. When his model girlfriend leaves him he vows to exact revenge in the only way possible. He'll replace her with the best looking woman on the planet. A girl so unbelievable you want to clap when she walks in the room. An internet search tells him that the world's most downloaded woman is Czech model Veronika Zemanova. The movie follows John's dysfunctional life as he tries to overcome his old obsessions in order to meet his latest obsession - Veronika.

• Married Single Other | Blu Ray | (05/04/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's never as simple as I do Married Single Other is the brand new comedy drama that tells the story of three couples trying to work out what a couple is these days. This humorous romantic take on modern day life stars Amanda Abbington Lucy Davis Shaun Dooley Dean Lennox Kelly Ralf Little and Miranda Raison. Married Babs has realised her relationship is in real trouble. She can no longer live with her useless but lovable husband Dickie who has a unique talent for spending his days and her income on 'great ideas' none of which ever materialise. Frustrated by his frivolous approach to life Babs is faced with one of the biggest decisions of her life. Should she divorce Dickie after all they've been through together? Single Clint Dickie's brother has never dated the same girl twice. Until he meets Abbey a gorgeous model who turns his world upside down and makes him question his one night stand approach to relationships. For the first time in his life he wants a proper relationship. And in order to persuade her he's boyfriend material Clint has to change his attitude to love and romance. Is he a confirmed womaniser or will he settle down and be faithful to one woman for the rest of his life? The other are childhood sweethearts Lillie and Eddie who have been together for 16 years and are blissfully happy. Eddie has actually proposed on 16 occasions but each time he crashes and burns. Lillie still refuses to wed Eddie claiming she loves him too much to marry him. However when she encounters an abusive husband whilst working at the women's refuge her opinion on life dramatically changes. She also never realised how much her young son and child prodigy Joe wanted her to marry his dad until she finds his blue scrapbook containing all his research on weddings. This is a life changing moment for Lillie as the impact of what she's discovered sinks in.

• The Café Series One | DVD | (02/09/2014) from £20.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written by Craig Cash, and starring Ralf Little, The Caf is a brand new comedy set in and around a caf in Weston-Super-Mare run by generational trilogy Mary, Carol and Sarah. Acting as the social hub of the seafront town, the caf sees all walks of life pass through and gives views an honest portrayal of the richness of life in a typical British seaside resort.