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• Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.55   |  Saving you £18.44 (281.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Venetian architect and historian Francesco da Mosto sets out from Venice to cross the Mediterranean sea - following in the wake of his ancestor the explorer Alvise da Mosto - to discover the cities and islands where Western civilization was born. Sailing in a late nineteenth-century schooner his journey starts in Venice and finishes in Istanbul. Along the way he takes in spectacular ruins like the Acropolis in Athens and the Roman city of Ephesus in Turkey; sacred sites like the monasteries of Mount Athos and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; and beautiful Dubrovnik (destroyed and rebuilt in the last decade). Ancient history and bygone legends intertwine as Francesco visits these wonderful ancient sites bringing the past vividly to life.

• Wagner-Tannhauser | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £19.30   |  Saving you £5.69 (29.48%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, performed by Orchester Der Bayereuther Festspiele and conducted by Sir Colin Davis.

• Persepolis | Blu Ray | (18/08/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi "Persepolis" is the coming of age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

• Yoga for Stress Relief (With The Dalai Lama + 20 Routines) | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.32   |  Saving you £4.67 (63.80%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Excessive stress in our daily lives is one of the greatest obstacles to achieving happiness good health & well-being. Over the centuries yoga practitioners have discovered simple and effective practices to reduce stress and achieve optimal health vitality and serenity. For the first time ever this DVD reveals how to approach dozens of common physical mental and emotional stress related conditions through the ancient science of yoga. This revolutionary interactive system allows you to choose from over 20 customized routines ranging from 15 - 60 minutes to help with common stress related issues including: 1. Relaxation and rejuvenation for day-to-day anxiety and worry 2. Neck and shoulder pain; including headaches 3. Lower back pain 4. Stomach and digestive issues 5. Troubled sleep including Insomnia 6. Mild depression 7. Routines to cultivate serenity Also featuring a 30 minute How to Meditate feature with the Dalai Lama (from A Path to Happiness.) Routines led by world renowned yoga instructor Barbara Benagh who over the last 35 years has developed an insightful style that emphasizes reducing stress and letting go of tension.

• You Got Served | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Spectacular street dancing flick about two crews battling it out for money and respect.

• A Town Called Eureka - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.03   |  Saving you £23.96 (397.35%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes all 13 episodes from the second season of the hit TV show A Town Called Eureka! Step into the quirky and seemingly perfect small town of Eureka where the hidden work of America's brightest scientists can lead to innovation or utter chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.

• Bachelor Party/Bachelor Party - The Last Temptation | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bachelor Party (1984): This outrageously funny look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of friends who view partying as their full-time religion. Rick's worried fianc''e Debbie (Tawny Kitaen) dresses up in disguise and crashes the party to spy on her future husband. To complicate the night further Debbie's father hires her ex-boyfriend to win back his daughter. It turns out to be an evening the soon-to-be bride and groom will never forget. Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation (2008): Ron and Melinda may be happily engaged but Melinda's scheming brother-in-law Todd doesn't like the thought of a new addition to the family business so he plans to incriminate Ron at the ultimate bachelor bash in Miami Beach. Between Ron's party-hearty friends and Todd's tantalizing temptations not to mention a sex addicts convention right in their hotel it's an outrageously sinful celebration that you have to see to believe.

• Top Cat Vol.4 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £5.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (34.29%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Top Cat remains a favourite cartoon of many for its slyly subversive yet comically light-hearted anti-authoritarian themes. Set in the trash-strewn alleyways of New York City the animated series centres around charismatic con-man Top Cat and his gang of lowlife felines as they dodge nemesis Officer Dibble in their eternal quest for get-rich schemes.

• Howards' Way - Series 6 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £17.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (67.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete sixth series of the glamorous eighties soap set in the fabulous world of yachting.

• Young and Innocent | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a woman's body is discovered on the beach by one of her former lovers he races off to call the police. But two witnesses see him run and think he is the escaping killer. After being arrested he manages to escape in the confusion at the courthouse. With the assistance of the Police Constable's daughter he tries to prove his innocence while avoiding the police...

• Meet The Spartans | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £5.24   |  Saving you £14.75 (281.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators of "Scary Movie" and "Date Movie" comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epic, "300".

• Allo Allo : Complete BBC Series 6 & 7 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £19.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Welcome to the Cafe Rene in the French village of Nouvion where you can get fine wines paintings by Van Clomp (not all originals) and a selection of German and British officers. The owner Rene Artois (Gorden Kaye) who may have his mind on other things -''- like his waitresses Yvette and Mimi ''-- will look after you. Just don''t tell his wife Edith (Carmen Silvera)!

• The Pleasure Garden | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Patsy Brand works as a chorus girl at a music hall called The Pleasure Garden. She helps down on her luck Jill Cheyne to find a job and she subsequently meets Hugh Fielding who she becomes engaged to. Meanwhile Patsy has married Levett but he and Hugh have to leave for the English colonies in the tropics. With her husband away Jill starts to live the high life but Patsy remains loyal to Levett. When she hears that he is ill she makes the journey to the tropics only to find him living with a native with a severe alcohol problem.

• Still Life | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (175.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region Jia Zhangke's humane and moving Golden-Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie - an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will soon vanish for ever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

• Gossip Girl | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.18   |  Saving you £22.81 (317.69%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on Cecily Von Ziegesar's teen novels Gossip Girl follows the lives of the teenagers who attend an elite private school in New York City. The privileged prep school teens discover the latest on friendships relationships and jealousy in their complex world of Manhattan's Upper East Side from the blog of the all-knowing yet utterly secretive Gossip Girl.

• Gina Yashere - Skinny Bitch! | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.67   |  Saving you £2.32 (30.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gina Yashere brings her substantial comic talents to DVD. A Mock the Week regular Gina has travelled the globe and delighted audiences everywhere. A semi finalist in Sydney Australia in the 'Last Comic Standing' competition and was also the first British comedian to appear on Def Comedy Jam.

• Gossip Girl - Season 1 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £12.25   |  Saving you £17.74 (144.82%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Loosely based on the books by Cecily Von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl focuses on a privileged group of New York teenagers and their comparably glamorous social lives. When Serena van der Woodsen suddenly returns from boarding school with no explanation, it takes no time for tongues to start wagging. Cue "Gossip Girl", the voice behind the website gluing together all the characters in this entertaining show, who reports on what everyone in their social circle is up to. Nobody knows who is behind the site, but everyone pays attention to what it has to say. It is the website mechanic that gives Gossip Girl a new twist on its rival teen dramas. The cast, too, have plenty of punch, with the likes of Blake Lively (Serena), Leighton Meester (Blair) and Taylor Momsen (Jenny) just some of the highlights among a good ensemble. Gossip Girl is ultimately a fun, enjoyable drama that knows its target audience and hits it very well. Slickly packaged and easy on the eye, it’s a fine piece of television drama, and has enough here to suggest a long and successful run on our screens. --Jon Foster

• Never Back Down | Blu Ray | (18/08/2008) from £11.55   |  Saving you £11.44 (99.05%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, "Never Back Down" is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart.

• Natural World - Earth Pilgrim | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £9.78   |  Saving you £-4.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This spiritual journey sees conservationist Satish Kumar spend one year exploring the beauty of England's Dartmoor National Park - the largest and wildest area of open country in southern England. The film pays homage to the heather-covered moors and deep-wooded gorges craggy granite outcrops known as tors and the wonderful variety of wildlife that has made this place home. Satish a former Jain monk from Rajasthan acts as a guide to this remarkable environment presenting the sacred beauty of the forests rivers and moors in a very new light.

• Streets of San Francisco Season 1 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The first season of The Streets of San Francisco was nominated for an Emmy for Best Drama Series and its stars, Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. But as this inaugural season unfolded, the veteran cop/rookie cop dynamic that charged the first 14 episodes matured into a more paternal mentor/student relationship (Malden's Mike Stone refers to Douglas's Steve Keller, throughout as "the boy" and "buddy-boy"). These episodes are particularly engrossing, and provide Malden with some of his finest primetime hours. In "Trail of the Serpent," a street gang bent on freeing their captured leader takes Stone hostage. Stone plays it cool, appealing to the humanity of one of the more sensitive gang members, while the more hotheaded Keller almost jeopardises his rescue. In "Legion of the Lost," Stone goes undercover on skid row to investigate the murders of three homeless men. In two episodes, Stone does not allow personal relationships to compromise his sense of duty. In "Deadline," a newspaper editor tries to cover up the murder of his mistress, and in the process, unwittingly implicates his own son, who was also the victim's lover. In "Shattered Image," a woman from Stone's old neighborhood is now the socialite wife of a murdered senatorial candidate. "Beyond Vengeance" echoes Cape Fear as a vengeful sociopath, freed on parole, seems to be stalking Stone's daughter. Malden and Douglas are a terrific team, and they are aided and abetted by literate scripts ("Room with a View" alludes to Hemingway's story "The Killers"), with clever twists. In "The Albatross," a killer is freed when it turns out he wasn't wearing his hearing aid and did not hear Keller when he read him his rights. In the Emmy-nominated "The House on Hyde Street," an elderly recluse becomes the prime neighborhood suspect in the death of a young boy. Guest stars in these episodes read like a Hollywood's Most Wanted List, with veteran character actors (Joseph Cotten, Jack Albertson, Leslie Nielsen, Barbara Rush) and future TV Land favourites (Victor French from Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven, a pre-Cheers Nicholas "Coach" Colasanto, Jamie Farr, and Clint Howard). Of course, the real star is San Francisco, an intriguing backdrop with its roller coaster hills and funky neighbourhoods. --Donald Liebenson