Television

• Risk | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £5.01   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Documentary directed by Laura Poitras about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Laura Poitras examines the story of Assange and how he came to be an internationally notorious figure as well as interviewing him and examining his position in recent events, most prominently the vitriolic United States presidential election and the fallout afterwards.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 3 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years. The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to get one over on Buffy and becomes even more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses and vampires (inevitably). --Kim Newman On the DVD: The DVDs are presented in a standard television 4:3 picture ratio and in a clear Dolby sound that does full justice both to the sparkling dialogue and to the always impressive indie-rock and orchestral scores. Special features include an overview of Season Three by its creator Joss Whedon, and by writers Marti Noxon, David Fury, Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson and documentaries on the weapons, clothes special effects of the show and the speech/verbal tone which makes it what it is-"Buffyspeak". The episodes "Helpless", "Bad Girls", "Consequences" and "Earshot" have commentaries by, Fury, Petrie, director James Gershman and Espenson, in which we find out some fascinating details about the way the scripts mutate and about the particular illuminations added to scripts by actors' performances. After complaints about the Season 2 DVD packaging, the disc envelopes include a protective coating. --Roz Kaveney

• Flying Doctors - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Flying Doctors: The Complete Sixth Series (4 Discs)

• Catherine Cookson - The Storyteller | DVD | (29/10/2008) from £4.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.40%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Story Teller: Catherine Cookson

• The Man Behind The Poster | DVD | (16/02/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Documentary about the legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan. Featuring interviews with Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox and George Lucas, the documentary delves into the life of Struzan looking at how he created some of his greatest masterpieces.

• Franklin And Bash: Season 3 | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £9.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (153.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After winning a high-profile case streetwise lawyers and life-long friends Peter Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Jared Franklin (Breckin Meyer) are recruited to shake things up at a stuffy law firm. Now living large in the buttoned-down world of corporate law these two legal rebels continue to practice their freewheeling courtroom style.

• Alcatraz - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  From executive producer J.J. Abrams (Fringe, Lost, Star Trek) comes Alcatraz, a chilling new drama revolving around America's most infamous prison, the one-time home to the nation's worst murderers, rapists, kidnappers, thieves and arsonists.When San Francisco Police Department detective Rebecca Madsen is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: Jack Sylvane, an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Given her family history -- both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer, were guards at the prison -- Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser tries to impede her investigation, she's doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast Dr. Diego Doc Soto to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The two discover that Sylvane is not only alive, but he's loose on the streets of San Francisco, exacting decades-old revenge and leaving bodies in his wake. And, strangely, he hasn't aged a day since 1963 when Alcatraz was ruled by the iron-fisted Warden Edwin James and the sadistic Associate Warden E.B. Tiller.Madsen and Soto reluctantly team with Hauser and his technician, Lucy Banerjee, to stop Sylvane's vengeful killing spree. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Madsen's own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first to reappear from Alcatraz, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane won't be the last.Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto will learn that Hauser has been awaiting the prisoners' return for nearly 50 years. Soto will witness his life's work -- the history of Alcatraz -- come alive. Madsen will be forced to keep her supportive San Francisco cop fianc, Jimmy Dickens, at arm's length from the highly classified assignment as she sees everything she thought she knew about her family's past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history's most dangerous criminals.

• Gazette - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant Lives!) stars as James Hadleigh, proprietor of the Westdale Gazette, a Yorkshire newspaper owned by his father. Created by Robert Barr and originally screened in 1968, Gazette introduced the charming, privileged but conscientious protagonist whose continuing mixed fortunes would be chronicled in Hadleigh, Yorkshire Television's immensely popular and long-running series aired between 1969 and 1976.

• Saxondale - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £12.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (58.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Comedy series about an ex-roadie now running a pest control business in suburbia. Tommy rescues Martin from committing suicide and decides to change Martin's outlook on life. But Tommy's complete lack of professional skills for dealing with the suicidal and his mounting paranoia lead to an almost fatal climax in a karaoke club.

• DISPOSSESSION: The Great Social Housing Swindle | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £7.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods Invisible Britain) and narrated by Maxine Peake, exploring the catastrophic failures that have led to a chronic shortage of social housing in the UK. These failures include government policy that prevents local councils and housing associations from building homes for the 1.4 million people on council housing waiting lists and the quarter of a million homeless people in Britain. Or the deliberate neglect of council estates by local authorities that s used to justify regeneration projects with private developers, which often force those who cannot afford homes in the new properties to relocate to other parts of the country, far from their families and support networks. With unprecedented access to residents, politicians and experts in the housing industry and media, Dispossession is the story of people fighting for their communities, of people who know the difference between a house and a home, and who believe that housing is a human right, not an expensive luxury.

• Deadliest Catch: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (651.63%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Where work is a matter of life and death. Rough waves and fierce weather make winter on the Bering Sea a difficult dangerous and potentially deadly place to do business. But for the fishermen who work these waters risk to life and limb is just another part of the job. Deadliest Catch Series 1 takes viewers deep into the Bering Sea with five boats and their crew through the three toughest fishing seasons in the world. The fleet will fish hundreds of miles out and 400-hundred feet deep in search of the prized crustaceans. As the captains strategise the crews test their endurance as they repeatedly drop and haul the 700-pound crab pots with hopes of pulling in riches. Then in Series 2 the extreme fishermen of the Bering Sea return and the crews remember the previous year's Big Valley tragedy. In the wake of a treacherous storm the Captains choose conflicting approaches to get through it in an attempt to safely come out on the other side. Watch in awe as Captains and crew must rally against the impossible in the hunt for elusive blue king crab.

• The Vampire Diaries - Season 1-5 | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Season 1Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists the kind of beautiful minds that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon Leonard's roommate is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love. Season 2The science of funny is back! At work physicists Leonard and Sheldon and their geek pals conquer the cosmos. At home real life from dating to driving conquers them. This season Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!) Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch. Raj woos a terminator. Gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan. And super-smart überconfident Leslie Winkle reduces mere men to spineless jellyfish. Twenty-three laugh-filled episodes from series creators Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and Bill Prady (Dharma and Greg) and a talented cast with astronomical comedy I.Q.s show why Big Bang is such a big hit. Season 3Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big wide wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy clueless Sheldon and practical grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse. This complete 3-Disc 23-Episode Season 3 Set also features Raj Howard tattoos football awkward dates jail time Stan Lee a The Lord of the Rings ring and all the fun of a series that only gets better. The Big Bang Theory has transformed from a cute comedy about eggheads and their hottie neighbor into an addictive ensemble piece that could be this decade's answer to Friends (Lynette Rice Entertainment Weekly). Season 4This season the Big Bang gang's romantic universe expands. On the rebound from Penny Leonard falls into the arms of Raj's sister Priya. Sheldon gets a girlfriend or rather a friend who is a girl: Amy a dour neurobiologist who declares herself besties with Penny. Howard and Bernadette heat up. And so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj's Bollywood daydream). All in the furtherance of award-winning genius comedy. Season 5Regarding the opposite sex they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes chemical deviations girls and other mysteries of the universe in all 24 phenomenally funny episodes of Season Five. With Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard's relationship in uncharted terrain Sheldon Howard (Simon Helberg) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) discover that the feminine mystique is something that cannot be easily graphed or calculated. As they muddle through relationship bugs and romance re-launches they also discover it's nothing a good roll of the D and D dice or a paintball tournament can't solve. Season 6Whether on or above Earth hilarity is outrageously universal in TV's most popular comedy featuring four forward-thinking but socially backward geniuses. Fun discoveries multiply: Leonard learns jealousy is bad for a relationship (with Penny) but science is good for seduction (of Penny). Howard finds life in the International Space Station life is no escape from terrestrial turmoil between his mom and his new wife Bernadette. Raj meets someone special who may be a good match if he can keep her from fleeing mid-date. And then there's Sheldon. He learns what not to say after facing harassment charges or competing for tenure at work and how Dungeons and Dragons can be the icebreaker his relationship with Amy needs. For those who need laughter with scientific regularity this 24-episode Season Six set of The Big Bang Theory will rock your cosmos. Season 7Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - wizards in the laboratory but socially challenged outside of it. Enter beautiful street-smart neighbour Penny who aims to teach them a thing or two about life.Despite their on-again off-again relationship in the past Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny. Even Sheldon has found a female companion - entering into a Relationship Agreement with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. In their free time Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends including fellow scientists Raj and Howard and Howard's adorable microbiologist wife Bernadette.

• Fraud Squad - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £22.00 (122.29%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A well-remembered police procedural drama from the late 1960s, Fraud Squad showcases the exploits of Detective Inspector Gamble and his aide, Detective Sergeant Vicky Hicks, Metropolitan officers on the trail of the con-men and fraudsters who operate at all levels of society - from boardroom to bingo hall. Fraud Squad was notable for being one of the earliest British television dramas to feature a female detective in a leading role, while several storylines focus on Gamble's tangled personal...

• New Town Utopia | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £8.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New Town Utopia is a feature documentary film about utopian dreams and concrete realities... the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex. The narrative is guided by the artists, musicians and poets of Basildon on a journey through memory, place and performance. Facing austerity, adversity and personal battles they are individuals driven by creative spirit to help their community through art, poetry, music... and some rather angry puppets.

• Most Haunted - Season 8 - Complete | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £37.87   |  Saving you £-2.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Yvette Fielding returns for another chilling series as she travels to the length & breadth of the country looking for more scary and spooky locations in this complete collections of episodes froms Series 8. Episodes Comprise: 1. Michelham Priory 2. Warwick Castle 3. Gladstone Pottery Museum 4. Margam Castle 5. Royal Exchange Theatre 6. Preston Manor 7. Plas Mawr 8. Taunton Castle 9. East Riddlesden Hall 10. Ancient High House 11. NE Aircraft Museum 12. Discovery & Unicorn 13. Bamburgh Castle 14. Spitbank Fort 15. Chambercombe Manor

• Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (27/08/2013) from £12.99   |  Saving you £57.00 (438.80%)   |  RRP £69.99

  With Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) trapped in the 31st century, season 2 of Enterprise opens with a rousing resolution to season 1's cliffhanger finale. The first four episodes instantly became fan favourites: "Shockwave, Part II" advances the Suliban's role in the Temporal Cold War; "Carbon Creek" reveals the real first contact (albeit a secret one) between humans and Vulcans in Pennsylvania in 1957, allowing Jolene Blalock to play T'Pol's "second foremother" in a Sputnik-era scenario; in "Minefield," Reed (Dominick Keating) is nearly killed by an explosive device attached to Enterprise's hull; the damage is repaired in "Dead Stop," featuring award-winning digital modeling effects as the disabled Enterprise encounters a mysterious automated space station. Season 2 also emphasises Archer's ongoing friction with the Vulcan High Command, exacerbated when T'Pol's career is threatened (in "Stigma") by her involuntary involvement with ostracised mind-melders. Connections to the original Star Trek (series and films) continue with episodes involving Tellarites, Tholians, Klingons, Andorians, and even a brief appearance by a Tribble (one of many occasions for humor in Dr. Phlox's sickbay, the setting of many of the season's finest dialogue-driven scenes). Early warp-drive history is also explored in "First Flight," a Right Stuff-like episode guest-starring Keith Carradine as Archer's friend and rival in breaking the Warp 2 barrier. Consisting primarily of stand-alone episodes that integrate ongoing story arcs, season 2 showcases the primary cast with generally good results: Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery) visits the "boomer" cargo ship he was raised on in "Horizon"; Hoshi (Linda Park) experiences unsettling transporter symptoms in "Vanishing Point"; and Tucker (Connor Trineer) plays a pivotal role in several episodes, notably "Dawn," "Precious Cargo" and "Cogenitor." And while "Regeneration" provoked controversy among fans for introducing the yet unnamed Borg in an early Starfleet context, it's a fine episode (with echoes of The Thing) that holds up to scrutiny, while others (including "The Crossing," "The Breach" and "Cogenitor") feel somewhat recycled, indicating the challenge of finding new ideas in the Star Trek canon. Overall, however, season 2 is consistently strong, with several episodes directed by cast alumni from previous Trek series, including NextGen's LeVar Burton, and Voyager's Roxanne Dawson and Robert Duncan McNeill. They all lead up to a devastating attack on Earth (with seven million casualties, including Trip's younger sister) in "The Expanse," ending the season with high-stakes mystery as Enterprise enters a treacherous region of space in search of the Xindi, an enemy race that factors heavily in season 3. Abundant bonus features include a generous selection of deleted scenes (non-essential, but interesting to fans); audio commentary (on "Dead Stop" and "Regeneration") by writers Mike Sussman and Phyllis Strong, who explain the challenge of writing under constantly shifting production conditions; and text commentary (on "Stigma" and "First Flight"), in which Trek veterans Michael and Denise Okuda demonstrate their encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek fact and fiction. Six Easter eggs, known as "NX-01 Files," are hidden on the Special Features menus; they offer brief glimpses into specific aspects of production, including set recycling and art direction. "Enterprise" secrets are revealed for those who pay meticulous attention to detail; "Inside 'A Night in Sickbay'" offers a behind-the-scenes assessment of that memorable episode; and "LeVar Burton: Star Trek Director" celebrates the actor's smooth transition to directing after his stint on Next Generation. "Enterprise Profile: Jolene Blalock" is a tribute to the sexy actress by her fellow cast members and executive producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman, including Blalock's assessment of T'Pol's pivotal role as Enterprise's resident Vulcan. Best of all, however, are the hilarious outtakes: They show the cast as a family unit, combining hard work with humour as the second season progresses. --Jeff Shannon

• Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac | Blu Ray | (20/09/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Suge Knight, the former CEO of legendary rap music label Death Row Records was recently sentenced to 28 years imprisonment for manslaughter in a long line of violent crimes not typically associated with a highly successful record executive. This film takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.'s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings as well as an association with corrupt LA police officers who were also gang-affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would claim the lives of the world's two greatest rappers, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. People have only now started talking since Suge commenced his 28-year sentence and the film comes up with new evidence showing the involvement of the LAPD in these murders and their attempt to conceal evidence. Includes Q&A with Trevor Nelson and director Nick Broomfield.

• A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Katherine Mansfield was a rebel. A modernist writer known for her short stories, she counted Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence amongst her friends. Brought up in New Zealand, Mansfield left for London when she was 15 angry at her homeland for its repression of the Māori people. Settled in England, the writer recorded romantic relationships with both men and women in her journals and married John Middleton-Murray (Jeremy Brett) when she was 23, though their marriage was not without troubles… Mansfield’s life was tragically cut short when she died of tuberculosis aged just 34. This is her story. Each hour-long episode in this magnetic series features a dramatization of a moment in Mansfield’s fascinating life, and an adaptation of one of her short stories.

• Lip Service - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Cat and Sam arrive back in Glasgow with a colossal bump after a loved-up month in South America. Has Cat made her mind up once and for all about her first love, Frankie? Or is she still torn between the two women she loves? Meanwhile, it looks like Tess has finally got her first proper acting role, a hot new girlfriend and is sharing a pad with Frankie, what could possibly go wrong? Special Features: Behind the Scenes Heather's Tour of Glasgow Sadie, Lauren and Lexy

• Spartacus: Blood & Sand/Gods Of The Arena | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £34.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £55.99

  Blood And Sand: Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a graphic and visceral account of Rome's most famous gladiator. When he's separated from the love of his life Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena where a grisly death is primetime entertainment. Spartacus must fight for survival befriend his enemies and play politics in this new world of corruption violence sex and fame. He'll be seduced by power and tormented by vengeance. But his passion will give him the strength to prevail over every obstacle in this modern and uninhibited tale of death honour and endurance. Gods Of The Arena: The House of Batiatus is on the rise basking in the glow of its infamous champion Gannicus whose skill with a sword is matched only by his thirst for wine and women. These are the times a young Batiatus has been waiting for. Poised to overthrow his father and take control he'll freely betray anyone to ensure his gladiators are in the highest demand. And he'll have his loyal and calculating wife Lucretia by his side for every underhanded scheme drawing on the brazen talents of her seductive friend Gaia when it counts. Together they will stop at nothing to deceive the masses seize power and bleed Capua dry in this audacious prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand.