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• The Royals - Season 1 | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £54.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the first season of the US drama following a fictional British royal family, set in modern-day England. Matriarch Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley) tries to keep her family together when her eldest son and heir to the throne is killed. The situation doesn't get any easier for the queen as her husband King Simon (Vincent Regan) plans to abolish the monarch, much to her chagrin, and an unwelcome truth about her twins Prince Liam (William Moseley) and Princess Eleanor (Alexandra Park) is revealed. The episodes are: 'Stand and Unfold Yourself', 'Infants of the Spring', 'We Are Pictures, Or Mere Beasts', 'Sweet, Not Lasting', 'Unmask Her Beauty to the Moon', 'The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune', 'Your Sovereignty of Reason', 'The Great Man Down', 'In My Heart There Was a Kind of Fighting' and 'Our Wills and Fates Do So Contrary Run'.Technical Specs: Languages(s): EnglishInteractive Menu

• The Royals - Season 1 | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the most talked-about TV shows of the year The Royals is a fabulous and glamorous drama where power is everything limits do not exist and all is fair in love and royalty. Set in modern-day England it follows the lives of a fictional British Royal family who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire but one that also comes with a price tag of duty destiny and intense public scrutiny. Prince Liam (William Moseley) is thrust into the spotlight after the death of his older brother puts him next in line to the throne. When King Simon (Vincent Regan) announces that he is considering abolishing the monarchy the manipulative Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley) will do whatever it takes to remain in power.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. Volume 3 contains another selection of four episodes from across the series. "Steel" (episode 122) stars Lee Marvin in a futuristic Richard Matheson story concerning a penniless boxing manager who is forced into the ring when his robot boxer breaks down. Matheson is concerned to illustrate the lengths to which people are forced to go when desperate, but his moral is undermined a little by setting the story in the far future of 1974; Marvin, however, is a magnetic presence. In the tense and tautly written "A Game of Pool" (episode 70), Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) is a boastful pool player who challenges champion "Fats" Brown (Jonathan Winters) to a match in which the stakes are his life. "Walking Distance" is a slice of wistful, semi-autobiographical nostalgia from Serling in which a burned-out media exec returns to the town of his childhood (watch out for a very young Ron Howard as one of the kids). Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for this episode was composed not long after his music for Hitchcock's Vertigo, and has a similar tragi-romantic streak. Finally, "Kick the Can" (episode 86) is the story of the residents of a retirement home who discover (or rediscover) Peter Pan's secret for staying permanently young: it's easy to see why Steven Spielberg decided to adapt this episode for the 1983 movie. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker