This hilarious comedy series features Matt Lucas as an eccentric and penniless character who is experiencing the full effect of life with no money. Housed in a caravan along with his loyal butler, Hove (Alex Macqueen), Pompidou is a unique show which is described by the Guardian as being unlike any other currently on TV. The show is filled with light-hearted humour and visual gags, leaving out the need for any unnecessary scripted lines and helping viewers release their inner child. Matt Lucas is Pompidou in this superb visual comedy series, a penniless aristocrat living in a broken-down caravan on his now-crumbling estate. Kept company by his long-serving and loyal butler, Hove and his devoted Afghan Hound Marion, when there's no food and no money, or no heat and no money; or no money and no money, what's a man like Pompidou to do? He looks to the lottery or turns up an antique; he takes on a blind date or empties his cupboards for a jumble sale. But whatever he does, Pompidou embraces a whole new world of laughter as he tries to turn his life around. The undeniably silly show is an all-visual comedy with barely any dialogue involved, making it a unique watch that is guaranteed to make you laugh. Immerse yourself in the comedy genius that is Matt Lucas and release your inner child with Pompidou. Episodes: Series One: Hunger Lottery The Bowl The Date Hoarder Cold
The third Series of the Hit BBC Show Combining corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries, this quirky crime drama has won the hearts of over 200 countries. Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank s tidied himself up a bit, there s no stopping them. But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing
Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilisations... To boldly go where no one has gone before! - Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)The complete first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the finest sci-fi shows of all-time - on Blu-ray for the first time.
Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of five journeys he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.;This 5 DVD set features 25 episodes covering 5 different journeys;High Wycombe to Aberystwyth;Portsmouth to Grimsby;Stirling to John O'Groats;Paddington to New Abbott;Killarney to Galway;Michael's first journey follows the track that help fuel the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the rolling Chiltern Hills he makes his way through to the stunning Severn Valley and finishes at the Victorian sea-side resort of Aberystwyth. He then travels from port to port from the centuries old naval hub of Portsmouth to the historic Grimsby docks. On Michael's third journey he explores the awe inspiring scenery of rural and coastal Scotland from Stirling in the east and ending at 'the start of Great Britain' John O' Groats. The fourth journey of the series he retraces the footsteps of the master engineer of the Great Western Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel beginning at London Paddington Station through to Newton Abbott in Devon the scene of one of Brunel's heroic failures. In Michael's final journey he uses 'Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland' as he journeys through the Republic of Ireland from Killarney to Galway on the Atlantic Coast.
Take one modern family from Hampshire remove them from their 21st century home and lifestyle and transport them back to Edwardian Britain. For 3 months they will have a team of 13 staff who will attend to their every need. However by abiding to strict Edwardian standards and rules how will each of the 21st century volunteers react to a social structure where there is a place for everyone and everyone knows their place? Upstairs Downstairs: The volunteers arrive at Mandersto
Season two of Travelers picks up where season one left off, with FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren and his team of time travelling specialists attempting to navigate their 21st century lives while tasked with the mission of saving the future from a dystopian existence. The Travelers will face their most difficult obstacles yet, including the Faction, a deadly virus, and a mysterious new Traveler, all while continuing to live the everyday lives of the present-day host bodies they've taken over. Starring: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing
An emboldened Galvanax comes to Earth with a new, seemingly unstoppable plan to defeat the Power Rangers. Preston receives a mysterious spell book, but as the spells begin to backfire, he ll need to use all of his focus, concentration and strength to become a master magician. Including two bonus seasonal episodes where the Power Rangers celebrate Halloween by playing a spooky new board game, but find the stakes bigger than anything they ve ever imagined! Then Sarah teams up with Santa Claus to save Christmas and the Power Rangers from a time-manipulating monster.
Of all the Sherlock Holmes tales written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (one of the four novels) remains the best-known. Adding a dash of the supernatural to the Great Detective's adventures, it is certainly one of the most dramatic and an obvious target for screen interpretation. Prior to Jeremy Brett indelibly making the role his own to modern TV audiences, Ian Richardson made for a suitably incisive and enthusiastic Holmes in this enjoyable 1983 adaptation. The much-filmed tale finds Holmes and Watson drawn in to the mysterious curse afflicting the well-heeled Baskerville dynasty. Is a monster stalking the heir to the Baskerville fortune, or is the culprit a far from demonic force? As Holmes, Ian Richardson is blessed with the avian features that, like Basil Rathbone or Peter Cushing, effectively capture Sidney Paget's original likeness. Though Holmes' more anti-social facets are dispensed with, Richardson is engaging in such a well-explored role, recalling the razor-sharp wit and intelligence of Rathbone. Attracting a distinguished British cast (Brian Blessed, Denholm Elliot, Martin Shaw) and decent production values (though with a few Hammer Horror moments), this will not disappoint fans of Victorian literature's finest detective, nor those in search of a classic, chilling thriller. --Danny Graydon
Bold brash and beautiful in Drag Queens of London the drama isn't just on the stage. We're stripping back the makeup jewels and glitter to reveals the eye-opening and electrifying stories behind these fabulous artists as they strive to carve out lives in and out of drag in the capital city. We follow some of the biggest characters on the London drag scene as well as special appearances from famous drag queens including American group DWV. These courageous and colourful characters have plenty of challenges to face and with a little help from their family friends and business associates we'll see them fight against all odds to forge careers find love and take their rightful place on stage. Special Features: Interviews With The Drag Queens Behind-The-Scenes – Making The Opening Credits Photo Gallery
Its seedy London setting and sharp humour prefiguring Minder, which launched just six months later, this light-hearted ATV drama series centred on the exploits of the eponymous small-time crook first encountered in the 1975 thriller The Hanged Man. The series finds Turtle and his accomplice, retired hooligan Razor Eddie, in accidental possession of a van containing eighty safe deposit boxes - the proceeds of a major bank raid. From top-secret documents to mysterious chemical formulae, the highly valuable contents are soon being sought by their former owners, with a new adventure unfolding as each box is opened. The lovable petty thieves may have a new source of income, but they also find themselves dodging the law, in the form of the relentless but continually thwarted Superintendent Rafferty, their fellow lawbreakers, and some altogether more sinister characters. Devised and written by Edmund Ward (The Main Chance) with guest appearances from Antony Sher, Joss Ackland and Peter Bowles, among many others, its no surprise that this fresh, witty and original series has garnered a considerable cult following.
Four classic episodes together for the first time... Homers Night Out Sunday Cruddy Sunday The Mansion Family and Homer The Moe.
This Thames comedy series stars BAFTA-nominated Maureen Lipman as a recently widowed woman who must not only deal with her grief but also find a way to make ends meet and keep her bank manager at bay; her co-stars include Martin Clunes Gary Waldhorn and Carol Hawkins. Running for two series All at No. 20 is co-produced by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones with scripts by novelist Alex Shearer and former Sez Les contributor Richard Ommanney. This set comprises both series. Sheila Haddon's husband died eighteen months ago sans life insurance leaving her with nothing but cherished memories and a hefty mortgage on 'No. 20'. Now Sheila and daughter Monica are faced with the awful prospect of having to sell their beloved family home. The soft-hearted but independent Sheila doesn't relish the thought of calling on the help of old family friend Richard Beamish – perhaps lodgers will prove the solution to her predicament?
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A romantic comedy unlike any other. Kinjiro Sakamachi is a normal seventeen-year-old boy who happens to suffer from an abnormal fear of women, otherwise known as gynophobia. His phobia, which surfaces as an occasional nosebleed, has been kept more or less under control... until now. A fateful visit to the school bathroom turns Kinjiro's world upside down, as he discovers the dashing and popular Konoe Subaru is actually a girl! What's worse, the principal's cruel and domineering daughter, Kanade Suzutsuki, has every reason to keep this secret from leaking out, and makes it her life's work to torment Kinjiro while attempting to cure his gynophobia. Is Kanade simply sadistic, or does she really want to help Kinjiro overcome his fears? It makes no difference to poor Kinjiro, because his life has just become a living hell. Special Features: Textless Opening Textless Ending Trailer
Coast: Discover the curious relationship between the British and the seas in this series first shown on the BBC. The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9 000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine to rebuilding the Ti
Intruders is a bold intelligent ambitious drama written by Glen Morgan (The X-Files) and starring John Simm and Mira Sorvino. Strange apparently unrelated events are taking place: Amy (Mira Sorvino) the wife of our anti-hero troubled ex-cop Jack Whelan (John Simm) vanishes after behaving erratically. The family of a brilliant but obscure scientist are brutally murdered. A nine-year-old girl (Millie Brown) begins having nightmares and runs away from home after displaying unsettling characteristics. These seemingly disparate events quickly collide to reveal a larger conspiracy.
From 1971 to 1980 millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series following the trials and triumphs loves and betrayals adventures and disasters of James his family and others in the Onedin Line fleet and boardroom. Five years have passed and it is now 1875. Although the Age of Steam is coming fast James is still investing in sail ships - does he know something others don't? The death of Albert Frazer finds Elizabeth taking control of the line and beginning a romance with one of her captains. And while James is spending more time with Charlotte and her governess is his hard-heartedness about to lose him his only real friend? Originally transmitted: 25/04/1976 - 27/06/1976. Due to the archive nature of the footage sound and picture quality may vary.
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