Television

• Marie Curie | DVD | (01/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £36.99

  A beautifully crafted captivating mini-series charting the life and times of one of the greatest pioneering scientists of the 20th century who received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium. This daring portrait gives viewers a rare insight into the heartbreak and scandal that rocked Curie's early years following the death of her husband which had a negative impact on her esteemed position within the scientific world. And how she overcame this to become one of the most influential women in science Award winning actress Jane Lapoaire's (The Devil's Crown Antony and Cleo-patra Love Hurts) convincing performance in the title role of Marie Curie first brought her to wide attention acting as a springboard to a long successful career both on screen and stage. Lapotaire is also joined by acclaimed actor Nigel Hawthorne (Madness of King George III Amistad and Yes Minister) as her husband Pierre.

• D-Day Lost Films | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the spirit of LOST FILMS: WORLD WAR II and LOST FILMS: VIETNAM this two-part special event features the most critical military operation of World War II. D-DAY: LOST FILMS presents this iconic battle using newly discovered colour footage much of which has never been seen. For the first time viewers can see the largest amphibious assault in history entirely in newly transferred colour footage – 5 000 Allied ships landing over 160 000 soldiers across a 50-mile stretch of Normandy beaches. D-DAY: LOST FILMS presents this world-changing week through the personal accounts of soldiers on both sides focusing on three specific units: the American 1st Division at Omaha Beach the American 507th Paratroopers and the German 352nd Division. Allied and German survivors give their first-hand stories on the war that changed the course of the world. The long-held belief that an Allied victory was secured after a single bloody day will be dispelled. And the final death toll far exceeds anything seen on the beaches. D-Day remains one of the most important turning points of World War II yet very few of us know the real story...until now. Memorable new programming from HISTORY™. D-DAY: LOST FILMS presents the most critical military operation of WWII and the largest amphibious assault in history in newly transferred colour. This programme takes a first-hand account from survivors of WWII soldiers paratroopers pilots marines and even one German trooper. It shows the battle tactics strategies struggles losses and cost for victory.

• Darkness: Those Who Kill | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Darkness: Those Who Kill is a gripping drama series dealing with a series of brutal murders that opens up a web of intrigue and deceit for the officers investigating. In Copenhagen, Detective Jan Michelson is desperately trying to keep the case of a missing girl open, and when she digs into the police archives she finds a similar case dating back ten years. Teaming up with expert profiler Louse Bergstein, a much more complicated investigation reveals itself as more and more seemingly related cases come to light. As they realise they are dealing with a serial killer, shocking twists and discoveries that rock them to their core. A brilliant, smouldering Nordic Noir, Darkness keeps viewers gripped as the mystery slowly unravels in ways that are impossible to predict and terrifying to watch.

• Six English Towns - The Complete Collection - Special Edition - BBC | DVD | (03/11/2018) from £11.76   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Some People | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A lively musical tale of teen rebellion Some People stars BAFTA winner Kenneth More alongside a group of young actors on the cusp of bursting onto the Swinging London film scene. Ray Brooks Annika (Anneke) Wills and David Hemmings play the young bored rebels living for kicks in this key British film from the early 1960s. Some People is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Young and bored Johnnie Bill and Bert are teenaged tearaways whose only interests are motorbikes and rock music. When they are banned from riding and fined heavily they become convinced that society has no use for them. But a choirmaster finds them playing rock on a church organ and for some of them at least there seems to be a way out of a no-hope situation... SPECIAL FEATURES [] Full-frame 4:3 as-filmed version of main feature [] Original theatrical trailer [] Image gallery [] Press book PDF

• Six More English Towns | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £8.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (127.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Presented by Clifton-Taylor, in each episode of Six More English Towns he visits a different town in England presenting a history of both the architecture and the town itself.

• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.00

  The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary Featurettes

• Blinded: Those Who Kill | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Blinded: Those Who Kill is a captivating psychological crime drama that sees leading criminal profiler Louise Bergstein delve into the dark desires and psychology of the potential suspects surrounding a murder case. The series follows the acclaimed first season of Darkness: Those Who Kill, perfectly combining a tense thriller with a gripping human drama, this time delving into the psychological and behavioural patterns behind a serial killer. When Louise embarks on a new murder case, she quickly uncovers a distinct pattern in the unsolved murders of three young men, killed within a few months of each other. We soon discover that she has a blind spot clouding her judgement and analysis of the case: Louise may have a personal connection to the killer, who is more intelligent than she had dared to imagine. She desperately wants to solve the case before the next brutal killing, but could she herself be in the killer's sights?

• Mixed Blessings - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Created and written by Sid Green (Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind, The Strange World of Gurney Slade), Mixed Blessings stars Christopher Blake (That's My Boy) and Muriel Odunton as a mixed-race couple struggling to placate their disapproving and constantly bickering families. This popular and - for its time - provocative series also stars much-loved sitcom stalwarts Carmen Munro (The Fosters), and Joan Sanderson (Please Sir!).Series Two finds the ever-obliging newlyweds continuing to be torn between two sets of in-laws, as Thomas finally lands an engineering job, and Susan announces her pregnancy. Her news meets with typically mixed responses: fathers-in-law William and Edward seem dismayed, and even Matilda and Annie, who both welcome the event, find a reason to squabble. Thomas and Susan - who'd hoped a baby might just bring the two families together - are once again driven to despair...

• Still Open All Hours - Series 3 | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arkwright's, the nation's favourite corner shop, opens its doors again for series three of Roy Clarke's follow up to Open All Hours. The series begins with a Christmas special where Granville (David Jason) and Gastric (Tim Healy) find themselves playing marriage counsellors and Kath (Sally Lindsay) attempts to get everyone into the Christmas spirit. In other episodes Granville finds ever more ingenious ways to winkle out a small profit from customers like the ever-gullible Cyril (Kulvinder Ghir) and Granville's courtship of Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw) continues with more fish and chip dinners and trips out in Gastric's mini, but he's got to keep an eye out for Mrs. Featherstone (Stephanie Cole) who doesn't seem quite satisfied with Mr Newbold (Geoffrey Whitehead), her current candidate for the position of husband number four Meanwhile Granville's son, Leroy (James Baxter) still yearns for a delivery vehicle that won't spoil his success with dating; love-sick Gastric, full of heart but low on grey matter, is still trying to impress Mavis's formidable sister Madge (Brigit Forsyth); local gossip Mrs Hussein (Nina Wadia) continues her quest to catch Leroy's eye; and arch pessimist Eric (Johnny Vegas) is still looking for improvements in his own married life, which takes a turn for the worse when a mystery woman starts asking for him round the neighbourhood

• Tenko Series Two | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £5.60   |  Saving you £24.39 (435.54%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on real life experiences this is the powerful story of a disparate group of women whose lives are changed forever during their capture by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1941. It is now 1942 and the women have been split into two groups to march to their new camp. Speculation is rife and despite the apparent luxury that awaits them in the new camp, unimaginable hardships are not far away and only the very strongest will survive. This four disc set contains all ten episodes from Series Two of the classic BBC series. Special Features: The Tenko Story Cast Filmographies Subtitles

• Batman: Soul of the Dragon | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £3.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman and world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva to battle the monsters of this world and beyond! Bonus Features A Sneak Peek at the Next Animated DC Universe Movie: Justice Society World War II A Preview of Superman: Red Son A Preview of Gotham By Gaslight

• Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £6.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (189.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rick Steins: Far Eastern Odyssey

• Real Women: Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (05/02/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five friends grew up together in North London before going their separate ways. Twenty years on they're about to reunite for the first time to celebrate Susie's wedding. Bride-to-be Susie (Michelle Collins) isn't sure she wants to get married and tries to keep details of her wild past hidden. And each of her four friends are also going through a crisis of their own. Janet (Gwyneth Strong) is a working wife, desperate to have a baby. Mandy's (Pauline Quirke) husband makes her feel overweight and under loved, driving her to other men.Anna (Frances Barber) is a single and carefree writer determined to pursue her dream. And Karen (Lesley Manville) is a teacher unwilling to reveal she is gay. Series Two continues a year after Susie's wedding. Approaching forty, the friends find themselves facing a fresh set of problems. Motherhood turns Susie into a different woman. Mandy is single. Janet's issues aren't solved by IVF. Anna accepts that certain men are single for a reason. Only Karen seems content. Directed by Phil Davies, better known today as one of Britain's best character actors. Real Women delivers an intelligent social commentary on the contemporary lives of women during 90s. Features: Directed by BAFTA-nominee Phil Davies (Poldark (2016)) Written by Coronation Street writer Susan Oudot Music composed by Emmy-nominee Carl Davies (Buster Keaton) Starring Jane Gurnett (Crossroads), Toni Palmer (The French Lieutenant's Woman), Michelle Collins (Coronation Street), Pauline Quirke (Emmerdale), Darren Kempson (Grange Hill), Gary Webster (Family Affairs), BAFTA-nominee Lesley Manville, Golden Globe nominee Simon Ward (The Tudors) and Gwyneth Strong (Only Fools and Horses)

• American Gods Season 1 & 2 | Blu Ray | (08/07/2019) from £25.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Season One When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the centre of a world that he struggles to understand. It's a hidden world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they've lost. As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it. Season Two Season Two finds the battle between Old Gods and New Gods moving inexorably towards crisis point as their destinies collide with those of men. In this strange new world, faith requires terrible sacrifice.

• Black Work | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Leeds police constable Jo Gillespie (Sheridan Smith) is devastated when her husband, undercover officer Ryan (Kenny Doughty), is killed in suspicious circumstances. As she battles to stay strong for the benefit of daughter Melly (Honor Kneafsey) and stepson Hal (Oliver Woollford), Jo is urged by her bosses, DCI Will Hepburn (Douglas Henshall) and Chief Constable Carolyn Jarecki (Geraldine James), to leave it to her fellow officers to find the killer. But when the murder enquiry starts to uncover some dangerous secrets about Ryan, Jo's faith in the police family of which she has been a part for so long is severely tested. No longer sure who to trust, Jo embarks on her own investigation with the help of friend and colleague Jack Clark (Matthew McNulty), but as they close in on the identity of Ryan's killer, Jo's hunt for the truth will put her own life in danger. Written by Matt Charman (Suite Francaise, Bridge of Spies) and directed by Michael Samuels (The Fear, Any Human Heart), Black Work is a powerful crime thriller that takes the audience into the murky depths of undercover police work and tells the story of a woman willing to risk everything to protect her family.

• Serengeti | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £15.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The BBC natural history documentary from the director of Spy in the Wild and narrated by John Boyega (Star Wars). Many tales have been told of Africa but this is the intimate story of the animal families who live there, told from inside their world. A drama where the characters' lives are as entwined as their stories and it all plays out across the Serengeti's magnificent Pride Lands. There's passion and devotion, friendship and loss, jealousy and rivalry, tragedy and ultimately triumph. For the characters it is an emotional story of a year that would change all their lives forever.

• Extant - Season 2 | DVD | (25/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Oscar® winner Halle Berry questions what it means to be human in this sci-fi thriller from executive producer Steven Spielberg. After the death of her husband and losing her son Ethan, Molly Woods battles internal and external struggles to pick the pieces of her life back up and start fresh, this time working with the very people who betrayed her.

• All Neat in Black Stockings | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £6.94   |  Saving you £3.05 (43.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Part bawdy romp, part kitchen-sink drama, this box-office hit features then-rising star Victor Henry as a twenty-year-old window cleaner whose womanising is curtailed when he finds himself falling in love for the first time. Also starring Susan George and, in his film debut, Jack Shepherd, All Neat in Black Stockings' bold intermingling of sexual adventure, humour and tender love story instantly caught audience's imaginations, its evocation of London's dingy back-street pubs and dubiou...

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Complete Seasons 1-7 | Blu Ray | (15/12/2014) from £91.98   |  Saving you £-25.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £64.79

  After Star Wars and the successful big-screen Star Trek adventures, it's perhaps not so surprising that Gene Roddenberry managed to convince purse string-wielding studio heads in the 1980s that a Next Generation would be both possible and profitable. But the political climate had changed considerably since the 1960s, the Cold War had wound down, and we were now living in the Age of Greed. To be successful a second time, Star Trek had to change too. A writer's guide was composed with which to sell and define where the Trek universe was in the 24th Century. The United Federation of Planets was a more appealing ideology to an America keen to see where the Reagan/Gorbachev faceoff was taking them. Starfleet's meritocratic philosophy had always embraced all races and species. Now Earth's utopian history, featuring the abolishment of poverty, was brandished prominently and proudly. The new Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, was no longer a ship of war but an exploration vessel carrying families. The ethical and ethnical flagship also carried a former enemy (the Klingon Worf, played by Michael Dorn), and its Chief Engineer (Geordi LaForge) was blind and black. From every politically correct viewpoint, Paramount executives thought the future looked just swell! Roddenberry's feminism now contrasted a pilot episode featuring ship's Counsellor Troi (Marina Sirtis) in a mini-skirt with her ongoing inner strengths and also those of Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) and the short-lived Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby). The arrival of Whoopi Goldberg in season 2 as mystic barkeep Guinan is a great example of the good the original Trek did for racial groups--Goldberg has stated that she was inspired to become an actress in large part through seeing Nichelle Nichols' Uhura. Her credibility as an actress helped enormously alongside the strong central performances of Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes (First Officer Will Riker), and Brent Spiner (Data) in defining another wholly believable environment once again populated with well-defined characters. Star Trek, it turned out, did not depend for its success on any single group of actors. Like its predecessor in the 1960s, TNG pioneered visual effects on TV, making it an increasingly jaw-dropping show to look at. And thanks also to the enduring success of the original show, phasers, tricorders, communicators and even phase inverters were already familiar to most viewers. But while technology was a useful tool in most crises, it now frequently seemed to be the cause of them too, as the show's writers continually warned about the dangers of over-reliance on technology (the Borg were the ultimate expression of this maxim). The word "technobabble" came to describe a weakness in many TNG scripts, which sacrificed the social and political allegories of the original and relied instead upon invented technological faults and their equally fictitious resolutions to provide drama within the Enterprise's self-contained society. (The holodeck's safety protocol override seemed to be next to the light switch given the number of times crew members were trapped within.) This emphasis on scientific jargon appealed strongly to an audience who were growing up for the first time in the late 1980s with the home computer--and gave rise to the clichéd image of the nerdy Trek fan. Like in the original Trek, it was in the stories themselves that much of the show's success is to be found. That pesky Prime Directive kept moral dilemmas afloat ("Justice"/"Who Watches the Watchers?"/"First Contact"). More "what if" scenarios came out of time-travel episodes ("Cause and Effect"/"Time's Arrow"/"Yesterday's Enterprise"). And there were some episodes that touched on the political world, such as "The Arsenal of Freedom" questioning the supply of arms, "Chain of Command" decrying the torture of political prisoners and "The Defector", which was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis of The Neutral Zone" by its writer. The show ran for more than twice as many episodes as its progenitor and therefore had more time to explore wider ranging issues. But the choice of issues illustrates the change in the social climate that had occurred with the passing of a couple of decades. "Angel One" covered sexism; "The Outcast" was about homosexuality; "Symbiosis"--drug addiction; "The High Ground"--terrorism; "Ethics"--euthanasia; "Darmok"--language barriers; and "Journey's End"--displacement of Indians from their homeland. It would have been unthinkable for the original series to have tackled most of these. TNG could so easily have been a failure, but it wasn't. It survived a writer's strike in its second year, the tragic death of Roddenberry just after Trek's 25th anniversary in 1991, and plenty of competition from would-be rival franchises. Yes, its maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing, but the strong stories and readily identifiable characters ensured the viewers' continuing loyalty. --Paul Tonks