Since its 1990’s broadcast, Carl Gorham’s multi award-winning animated sitcom has achieved cult status. Now released for the first time on DVD and including all thirteen episodes as well as a host of exclusive extras, this really is The Complete Stressed Eric Collection. Eric Feeble is 40, a divorced father with two kids and a crippling mortgage. His son is thick, his daughter is allergic to everything and his au-pair is an unreliable waster. The successful and wealthy Perfect family, who live next door, provide a constant and irritating reminder of what his life could have been. At work, a series of stress related illnesses have seen him demoted from Sales through half a dozen offices to the dark, dank wastelands of the Data Department, next to the Gentlemen’s lavatory. Through it all Eric battles on, a man whose very survival each week against impossible odds makes him an ulcer-growing hero for our times. Featuring the voices of Alexander Armstrong, Rebecca Front, Mark Heap, Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks, Gordon Kennedy and Doon Mackichan. Special Features Cast Interviews Drawing the characters with Stig Bergqvist Audio Commentaries Original Animatic of the ‘Nativity’ Episode Static Storyboard of the ‘Pony’ Episode US Episode BBC Trails
As Suzie Gold's sister prepares to get married it seems only natural that Suzie's thoughts should turn to the state of her own love life. While her doting but dysfunctional family desperately want her to be happy - preferably by finding a good Jewish boy to settle down with - Suzie meets Darren a boy from work and they start a heady romance. But the relationship sours when Suzie finds herself unable to bring him home worried that he won't match up to her family's exacting (double)
The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed comedian Al Murray mightily presides over the pumps as the inimitable Pub Landlord in this brilliantly observed and hilarious pub based sitcom. Episode 1 - A Woman's Place: The Landlord loves his gaff. It might not have a carvery but it's a pub a real pub where a man is a man and a woman is in the way. He's The Guv'nor and 'Rules is Rules'. But things are set to change with the arrival of Janet a feisty Aussie with a filthy m
Grandpa is dead. Simon is living with Grandma. Having lost his presenting career and London flat Simon (Simon Amstell) is now set to act in an exciting low key BBC comedy. After the death of her husband, Grandma (Linda Bassett) is keen to suggest that everything is definitely fine, meanwhile Simon's mum, Tanya (BAFTA award winning Rebecca Front) and her sister Liz (Olivier award winning Samantha Spiro) haven't spoken since the funeral.We also see the return of recovering alcoholic Clive (James Smith), willing to do whatever it takes to win back Tanya. And Liz's son, Adam (Jamal Hadjkura) who is still odd. Simon Amstell and Dan Swimer's critically acclaimed BBC2 comedy brings their painfully honest writing together with one of the finest casts on television, including winner of the Best Female Newcomer at The British Comedy Awards, Samantha Spiro as Liz
Series 1: It's taken a long time for Kevin Whately to take centre stage in a detective drama, but Lewis proves it's been time well spent. Lewis, of course, was previously the sidekick to Inspector Morse, and that raised fair suspicions that this spin-off drama was a fairly unnecessary cash-in of sorts. But those suspicions have proven unfounded, and Lewis has emerged as one of the best new programmes to hit ITV in recent years. The format's not moved on a great deal since the heights of Inspector Morse, but in this case, that's no bad thing. The episodes in this set on the whole build slowly, and build up intelligently and with diligence. Occasionally there are moments where the pace slips a little too much, but that's more than overcome by the fact that the drama on offer here is so absorbing. It's all anchored, of course, by Whately's excellent portrayal of the lead character. Eminently watchable, and clearly wearing the clothes of a character that he knows completely, it's a smashing performance, and with the aid of an excellent supporting cast, Lewis develops into a real treat. Is it better than Morse? Well, that's far too early too call. But on this basis of this debut, Lewis certainly has the potential for as enduring a legacy. --Jon Foster Series 2: After the successful first standalone outing for the character, Kevin Whately returns to the title role of Lewis again, for a second full season of investigations. And things seem, to the benefit of the viewer, just as dangerous as they always were. This series of Lewis is set five years after the death of Inspector Morse (to whom Lewis was, of course, the sidekick), and while the gap left behind by the late, great John Thaw is occasionally felt, this is still very much quality drama in its own right. Thus, this series finds the detective in his familiar Oxford stomping ground. Accompanied by Laurence Foxs DS Hathaway, a collection of well-written, compelling mysteries are waiting to be solved. The series' investigations cover the discovery of a body in a library through to the world of underground boxing and a rape case that brings out the worst in the Oxford establishment. And there aren't any weak links here: each episode is involving, intelligent and a gripping watch. Even at its worst, Lewis is very good television drama. Whats more, Whately is terrific in the increasingly complex central role, and the scripts continue to allow him to flesh out the character. Lewis is, in many ways, a flawed man, and as he works his way through the layered and involving cases, this becomes ever-more obvious. And the programme is all the better for it. For in spite of some cynicism when it first announced that a standalone Lewis programme was being produced, theres ample here to silence the most sceptical of naysayers. For Lewis is, simply, very strong television. --Jon Foster Series 3: What could have been an ill-advised spin-off continues to excel as Lewis arrives at its third series. Firmly stepping out of the shadows of Inspector Morse, Kevin Whately as Inspector Lewis once more is solving murders and mysteries in Oxford. And again, he's joined by Laurence Fox as DS Hathway, his partner in crime-solving. And Lewis gives the pair some interesting scenarios to get their teeth into. There are four feature-length stories in total, and things get started when a Czech barmaid is discovered, having being slashed to death. There's, as you'd expect, more to the crime than immediately meets the eye, and that convention continues in the following episode, where a student Shakespearian production abruptly ends after one of the cast is stabbed with a prop knife. We also get to meet, before the series ends, a rock star towards the end of his career, in what proves to be a terrific episode to close the series. To reveal any more significant plot points of Lewis would be to spoil half the fun. What this third series retains though is the kind of diligent, well-produced drama that its predecessor was. And in Whately, it has a lead actor who studiously inhabits his role, and ensures that the name of Inspector Lewis is another to add to the British detective hall of fame. Very strong drama, and it's just getting better. --Jon Foster
The behind-the-scenes true life story of ground-breaking producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz, who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann. He is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of six million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how Eichmann's trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen. Filmed at the trial in Jerusalem in 1961, the production became the world's first ever global TV documentary series, where, for the first time, the horror of the camps was heard directly from the mouths of its victims. It was edited daily and broadcast in Germany, America, Israel and 34 other countries. People fainted when they saw it on TV. Never before had there been such drama in the use of cameras, their positioning or the revolutionary effect of operators being able to adjust frame and position to match subject and content.
The Rottentrolls are a group of crazy three-foot-high trolls who live in a strange Yorkshire valley called Troller's Ghyll. When young Roger Becket crashes his bike into the valley he doesn't suspect that he is about to be crowned King of the Rottentrolls and set out on a series of amazing adventures. Episode titles: The Football Sponsorship Scandal The Great Television Franchise The Gambling Crisis The Art Gallery The Complementary Cafetiere.
The Rottentrolls are a group of crazy three-foot-high trolls who live in a strange Yorkshire valley called Troller's Ghyll. When young Roger Becket crashes his bike into the valley he doesn't suspect that he is about to be crowned King of the Rottentrolls and set out on a series of amazing adventures. Episode titles: The Civil War The Miner's Strike Dirty Tricks The First Rottentroll Revolution plus a special episode The Rottentroll Files.
Boxset Comprises: Series 1 Kevin Whately returns in this new drama. Picking up five years after his mentor Inspector Morse's death it sees Lewis now an inspector himself returning to Oxford after two years overseas. Back in his old stomping ground he is teamed with a new sidekick Det Sgt. James Hathaway and is anxious to prove himself! Series 2 Kevin Whately returns as Lewis in the second series of the hit detective drama - always sure to deliver plenty of intriguing murder mystery. Partnering once more with his trusty sidekick D.S. Hathway expect absorbing plots intelligently built tension and a fine performance by Whately all set in the idyllic surroundings of Oxford and its University campus.
The Wedding Planner (Dir. Adam Shankman 2001): Your wedding day. It must be glorious. It must be perfect. It must be the most memorable idyllic and overwhelmingly love-filled occasion of your entire life. And there's only one person who can make this dream become a glowing reality - the wedding planner. But this time the one who makes everyone else's dreams come true A-list San Francisco wedding planner Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez) has finally found the man of her dreams
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