"Actor: Steve Coogan"

• Northern Soul | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Northern Soul is the story of a youth culture in the 1970’s which changed a generation. No longer satisfied with the prospect of a small town life and a factory production line two young boys dream mof going to America to discover rare records which will help them become the best DJ’s on the scene. This journey forces them to confront rivalry violence and drug abuse and their friendship is tested to the limit. This is Northern Soul.

• From Roger Moore, With Love | DVD | (03/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Minions | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £4.33   |  Saving you £20.66 (477.14%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the 1960s, the Minions need to find a new evil master to serve, so three of them vie for a female mastermind at a villain convention.

• The Day Today (2 Disc Set) | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fact me till I fart, it's The Day Today, the most outrageously satirical show ever to feature a man called Chris Morris--until Brass Eye, that is. Both savage and surreal, The Day Today heaps great steaming mounds of abuse and scorn upon our self-appointed moral guardians, upon pompous pundits, puerile newspaper headline-writers and vacuous, self-important TV presenters. And they all richly deserve it. First broadcast in 1994, the show's format is Newsnight-meets-Crimewatch in Hell. A ridiculously protracted title sequence and melodramatic headline announcements introduce Morris' demented, Jeremy Paxman-a-like anchorman, who simpers to the viewers while castigating on-air his useless reporter Peter O'Hanraha'hanrahan. The vacant Collatallie Sisters turns financial news into a Dadaist nightmare of meaningless statistics, graphically illustrated by the currency cat or the finance arse; while American journo Barbara Wintergreen's reports from Death Row are just scary and absurd enough to be completely believable. Also making his TV debut here is Steve Coogan's legendary sports caster Alan Partridge, with his appalling sports reporting, his cringe-inducing misunderstandings and his sheer blunt-headed stupidity (many of the same team, sans Morris, would reunite the following year for Knowing Me, Knowing You). Sketches such as the spoof soap "The Bureau" and the spoof docu-soap "The Pool" also betray the writing skills of Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, creators of Father Ted. On the DVD: The Day Today arrives as a two-disc set with all six episodes on the first disc. The second disc has a handful of fairly brief but still enjoyable extras: here you will find "Mini News" features in full and the complete versions of "The Pool" and "The Office" documentaries--the latter now looking like a brilliant premonition of the more famous Ricky Gervais vehicle. There's a rather dull Open University programme about the craft of TV journalism which uses extracts from The Day Today and is truthfully entitled "Po-Faced Analysis". Best of all is the complete original Pilot episode, plus a marvellous post-programme update in which Morris telephones a befuddled American McDonald's employee as if he was a crewmember of a sunken US submarine. Picture and sound quality are standard for a BBC show from the early 1990s. In summary: dispassionate. --Mark Walker

• Night at the Museum 1-3 | Blu Ray | (13/04/2015) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night at the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. This Blu-ray Triple Pack contains all three Night at The Museum films.

• Stan and Ollie | Blu Ray | (03/06/2019) from £6.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as Laurel & Hardy in the untold story of the world's greatest comedy act. Stan & Ollie wonderfully portrays the unique and precious partnership of the legendary duo as they set out on a tour of Britain in the twilight of their career. Whilst they face an uncertain future the charm and beauty of their performances shine through, making each other and their audiences laugh, re-connecting them with legions of adoring fans, old and new. With stunning performances from Coogan and Reilly, critics are calling Stan & Ollie ˜absolute perfection' (IGN), ˜incredibly funny' (The Telegraph), ˜an absolute delight' (Radio Times) and a film which ˜reaches genuinely sublime heights' (The Times).

• Paul and Pauline Calf's Video Diaries | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

• 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.68   |  Saving you £7.31 (128.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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.

• Despicable Me/Despicable Me 2 | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Despicable MeGru (Steve Carell) is your average guy at least that's what everyone else thinks. He has a secret that is known by very few; he's a criminal mastermind! He hasn't been in the news for a long time since he stole the Times Square JumboTron. He wants to be in the news once again and be recognised for the genius he is to do so he's about to steal something big. Something very very big; the Moon! To steal the moon he comes up with an ingenious plan. With the use of a shrink ray Gru is able to shrink the moon but before he can do so a cunning super nerd named Vector (Jason Segel) steals the shrink ray from him! Now he must battle Vector in order to become the super villain that he wants to be known as. Gru adopts three young girls to help him with his plan in stealing the shrink ray back but doesn't count on the fact that he may soon become a father to the girls and have a moral decision whether to live his dream or become a good dad. Despicable Me 2Get ready for more minion madness! This hilarious animated adventure sees the return of Gru (Steve Carell) who is retiring from the life of a super villain. However he is unwillingly recruited by the Anti-Villain league to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. Supported by the girls the hilarious minions... and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.

• This Time With Alan Partridge | DVD | (08/04/2019) from £19.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The comedy icon returns to mark the 25th anniversary of his BBC debut. Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?

• Saxondale - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tommy Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose shoots from the hip and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tommy never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire.

• The Parole Officer | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Although there are one or two belly laughs along the way, for the most part The Parole Officer gets by on the pleasantly old-fashioned charm of a latter-day Ealing comedy. And despite a handful of gross-out moments (involving a roller coaster at Blackpool, a severed head and a wasp) most of the humour comes from the interaction of a good ensemble cast. It’s the first big-screen vehicle for Steve Coogan, who plays the titular officer as a watered-down, more likeable version of his most famous creation, Alan Partridge. After being set up by a corrupt detective Coogan’s hapless Simon Garden--in fact always identified as a Probation Officer, so presumably the film’s title is an attempt to attract a transatlantic audience--must recruit a motley gang of his ex-con clients to plan and execute a bank robbery in Manchester. Indeed, one of the film’s principal attractions is its affectionate use of that city centre as a setting instead of the more usual seedy London locations of most British caper-comedies.Coogan’s gang are a familiarly dysfunctional bunch, redeemed by sympathetic performances from, notably, Om Puri as irascible serial bigamist George and the young Emma Williams as serial car thief Kirsty. Not enough effort goes into fleshing out the characters, though, and in particular Lena Headey as Coogan’s policewoman girlfriend is far too thinly sketched to seem convincing. However, much fun is had by all as the team bond, bicker and construct, A Team-style, the tools they need for the big heist. The bank raid itself is the film’s highlight and features a surprising deus ex machina appearance from a very distinguished guest star. If The Parole Officer never stretches to the sublime heights (or psychological depths) of I’m Alan Partridge, it does play out in a brisk 90 minutes like an extended episode of Coogan’s Run; which is to say it’s got plenty of easygoing charm even if it never pushes any boundaries. On the DVD: the handful of extra features include a surprisingly serious commentary from Coogan, cowriter Henry Normal, director John Duigan and producer Duncan Kenworthy. More interesting is the handful of deleted scenes, in which we find that some precious character development was sacrificed in the interests of pace (as well as a couple of perfectly good jokes). There's a 22-minute featurette, which isn't really a "making of" but just a series of interviews with the principal cast, plus the trailer and Atomic Kitten's "Eternal Flame" video. The picture is a good anamorphic (16:9) ratio with Dolby 5.1 sound. --Mark Walker

• Spitting Image: The Complete Twelfth Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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 twelfth series employs the vocal talents of Rory Bremner, Steve Coogan, Jan Ravens, David Baddiel, Pamela Stephenson and Alistair McGowan among many others. In this series Maggie finally loses her sanity, Stephen Fry's house goes up in flames, Wogan has brain surgery, Hercule Poirot investigates a fight in a pub, and John Major gets home just in time to stop Norma reading his goodbye note...

• Spitting Image - The Complete Series 10 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £9.32   |  Saving you £3.67 (39.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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; among its luminary team of contributors were Steve Coogan, Ian Hislop, ...

• Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge And Others | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.65   |  Saving you £14.34 (253.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge & Others

• Mid Morning Matters Series 1&2 Boxset | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Series 1 Once the king of TV talk shows, Alan (Steve Coogan) now hosts Mid Morning Matters, a weekday local radio show at North Norfolk Digital which is beamed via studio webcam to a (potential) audience of billions. In this hilarious and critically acclaimed series, Alan and his sidekick Simon (Tim Key) courageously tackle the burning issues of the day; childhood obesity, popular TV prostitutes and how often you should wash your towels – and prove beyond doubt that mid- mornings matter. Series 2 This second series sees the master at work as he broadcasts his daily radio show at the fictional North Norfolk Digital. Whether reprimanding a celebrity chef for the use of fennel in a recipe, or making history by having a massage live on air, Alan never fails to push the boundaries of broadcasting and, more often than not, good taste. Also includes Partrimilgrimage: The Specials. Mid Morning Matters Series 1 & 2 Boxset (DVD). Mid Morning Matters Series 1 & 2, Mid Morning Matters boxset, Mid Morning Matters Series, Mid Morning Matters Series 2, Mid Morning Matters complete, comedy boxsets, comedy dvd, Mid Morning Matters Series 1 & 2 dvd, alan partridge, steve coogan

• Around the World in 80 Days | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (123.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An all-singing, all-dancing version of Jules Verne's classic novel finds eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg set out on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race.

• Spitting Image - Series 8 - Complete | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £8.47   |  Saving you £4.52 (53.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spitting Image: Series 8

• Alan Partridge: Partrimilgrimage - The Specials | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Place of My LifeIn a love letter to the religion that made him the man he is today, Alan explores the key landmarks and natural beauty spots that have led some people to call Norfolk the 'Wales of the east'. He takes you, the viewer, back to Norwich's darkest days when councillors fought over the imposition of the night time parking fees, then brings us up to the present by revealing the inner workings of the place he describes as My Coalface, my canvas, my lathe. Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin BryceAlan's appearance on 'Norfolk's foremost forum for lovers of Literature' provides a fascinating insight into Alan Partridge - the author. Stand-in host Chris Beale pulls no punches as he turns the tables on Norfolk's King of Chat. Covering Alan's gruelling writing regime (1,500 words per day sustained by a bowl of hard boiled eggs), his inspirations and his views on literature, Alan also reads some poignant excerpts from his autobiography 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan.'

• Spitting Image - The Complete Eleventh Series | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £8.28   |  Saving you £4.71 (56.88%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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...