"Actor: Ricky"

• Karl Pilkington's An Idiot Abroad | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £2.50   |  Saving you £17.49 (699.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are outraged that Karl has written off the Seven Wonders claiming they're all a bit s**t having never seen any of them with his own eyes. They've thrown down the gauntlet to send him around the globe to force him out of his comfort zone. Stephen wants the experience to broaden Karl's mind and change his outlook on the world. Ricky wants Karl to hate every minute of it for his own amusement. Despatched on what many would term a journey of a lifetime the 'little Englander' will be putting his misgivings to one side as Karl finds out for himself what the fuss is about. He will travel to the Great Wall of China Christ the Redeemer in Brazil Petra in Jordan Machu Picchu in Peru Chichen Itza in Mexico the Taj Mahal in India and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Meanwhile Gervais and Merchant will be keeping a watchful eye from London monitoring every step of Pilkington's journey.

• The King of Staten Island (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guysOscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson)and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley). But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray (Bill Burr), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life. Over 2 1/2 hours of Bonus Features including: Feature Commentary with Director/ Co-Writer Judd Apatow and Actor/Co-Writer Pete Davidson Alternate Endings (Which Didn't Work!) Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Line-O-Rama The Kid From Staten Island Judd Apatow's Production Diaries You're Not My Dad: Working with Bill Burr Margie Knows Best: Working with Marisa Tomei Friends with Benefits: Working with Bel Powley Sibling Rivalry: Working with Maude Apatow Best Friends: Working with Ricky, Moises, & Lou Papa: Working with Steve Buscemi Friends of Firefighters Stand-Up Benefit Scott Davidson Tribute The King of Staten Island Official Trailer Who is Pete Davidson? The Firehouse Pete's Casting Recs Pete's Poppy (Grandpa) Video Calls

• American Gods Season 2 | DVD | (08/07/2019) from £4.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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.

• The Muppets Bumper 7 Movie Box Set | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Muppets Most WantedThere's plenty of fun for the whole family as Kermit the Frog Miss Piggy Animal and the entire Muppets gang head out on a world tour. But mayhem follows the Muppets as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper. Now Kermit is behind bars at the mercy of prison warden Nadya (Tina Fey) and the World's Number One Criminal Constantine - a dead ringer for Kermit - has taken his place. As Constantine and his dastardly sidekick Dominic (Ricky Gervais) plot the robbery of the century they are pursued by Sam Eagle and Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon (Ty Burrell). Will Constantine get away with his nefarious scheme? Will Kermit escape in time to save the day? Disney's Muppets Most Wanted is the most hilarious most wanted Muppet movie ever! The MuppetsMuppet domination continues with a hilarious movie from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams and Chris Cooper join everyone's favourite Muppets and an all-star celebrity cast in a comic adventure for the whole family. Bring home the biggest Muppet adventure ever on Disney DVD! The Muppets MovieThey're irreverent irrepressible and downright irresistible. They're the Muppets! - starring in their first full-length movie. See how their meteoric rise to fame and fortune began: with a rainbow a song... and a Frog. The Great Muppet CaperStop the press! The crime of the century has occurred and Kermit Fozzie and Gonzo are out to crack the case! In this song-filled star-studded extravaganza directed by the legendary Jim Henson. The Muppet Christmas CarolThis is the season for love laughter and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog Miss Piggy and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry magical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Muppet Treasure IslandAhoy matey! Get ready for hilarity on the high seas with Kermit the Frog Miss Piggy and all the Muppets in their first-ever action adventure inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale. The Muppet Wizard of OzJoin Kermit the Frog Miss Piggy and all the Muppets as they turn everyone's favourite classic tale into a musical madcap adventure that shines brighter than Emerald City! Special Features: Muppets Most Wanted Mickey Short 'No Service' The Muppets (2011) The Longest Blooper Reel Ever Made (In Muppet History*) *We Think The Muppets Movie (1979) Pepe Profiles Present Kermit: A Frog's Life: Join Pepe the King Prawn as we profile the life of Kermit The Frog The Great Muppet Caper Pepe Profiles Present Miss Piggy: The Diva Who Would Not Be Denied: Join Pepe the King Prawn as we profile the life of Miss Piggy The Muppet Christmas Carol Pepe Profiles Present Gonzo: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Weirdo: Join Pepe the King Prawn as we profile the life of Gonzo On The Set Gag Reel Christmas around the World Muppet Treasure Island Pepe Profiles Present Fozzie Bear: A Long Day's Journey Into Nightclubs Join Pepe the King Prawn as we profile the life of Fozzie Bear The Muppets Wizard of Oz Outtakes and Bloopers: Oz Oops! Backstage Disney: Pepe's Exclusive 'Making Of' Extended Interview with Quentin Tarantino

• Muppets Most Wanted | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two Frogs! One Pig! Intrigue! Music! Mayhem! Muppets! There's plenty of fun for the whole family as Kermit the Frog Miss Piggy Animal and the entire Muppets gang head out on a world tour. But mayhem follows the Muppets as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper. Now Kermit is behind bars at the mercy of prison warden Nadya (Tina Fey) and the World's Number One Criminal Constantine - a dead ringer for Kermit - has taken his place. As Constantine and his dastardly sidekick Dominic (Ricky Gervais) plot the robbery of the century they are pursued by Sam Eagle and Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon (Ty Burrell). Will Constantine get away with his nefarious scheme? Will Kermit escape in time to save the day? Disney's Muppets Most Wanted is the most hilarious most wanted Muppet movie ever! Special Features: Mickey Short No Service

• Riff Raff | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (197.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stevie a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison comes down to London and gets a job on a building site - a melting pot of itinerant laborers from all over the country. Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying - but usually failing to control his workers Shem Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the rules and regulations of the building trade. Stevie has other problems to contend: the wages are low the site teems with rats he has nowhere to sleep and life in London isn't that easy. One day on his way to work Stevie finds a handbag in a skip. He takes it back to it owner and meets Susan. As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London Riff-Raff builds a portrait - sometimes gritty often funny of life as it is lived in the margins.

• An Idiot Abroad - Series 1-3 Boxset | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £7.90   |  Saving you £22.09 (279.62%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Series 1Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world... under the pretence of visiting the Seven Wonders. However, along the way the 'Little Englander' must endure camel rides, jungle treks, tribal customs and local oddballs while dining on toads and testicles... and searching for a decent lavatory. Series 2This time we see Karl set out on the ultimate bucket list. Karl is dispatched to far-flung corners of the world to complete a definitive list of things to do before you die in an attempt to prove whether they really are what they're cracked up to be. Series 3In this final series, Ricky Gervais has persuaded Karl to embark on an epic journey following in the footsteps of the famous explorer Marco Polo, but this time he'll have a little company... Ricky is sending Warwick Davis to join Karl on his 5000 mile journey from Venice to China.

• The Royle Family - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £4.94   |  Saving you £15.05 (304.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television: a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny--Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).The Royle Family marked an on-screen reunion for Brookside-actors Ricky Tomlinson (who plays bearded, big-hearted, banjo-playing Jim Royle) and Sue Johnston as his wife Barbara, the driving force behind the Royle household. It is smart casting because The Royle Family is as much a soap opera as a situation comedy. Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sitcoms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis, who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World", this programme just keeps getting better.But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family. (The scripts from the series are available to buy.) Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless: Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a Cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what its come to?" Not quite: because as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Ghost Town | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £4.50   |  Saving you £15.49 (344.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ricky Gervais is brilliant in Ghost Town, playing an unnervingly rude dentist, Bertram, who dies for a few minutes during surgery and acquires the unwanted ability to see ghosts. Chased throughout Manhattan by a gaggle of restless spirits begging him to take care of their unfinished business on Earth, Bertram turns them all away except Frank (Greg Kinnear). The latter, a rogue who cheated on his archaeologist widow, Gwen (Téa Leoni), wants Bertram to intervene in a romance between Gwen and a starchy activist (Bill Campbell). Misanthropic Bertram has to polish his relationship patter, but ends up sounding a lot like Gervais' infamous character in the original The Office, unable to complete a sentence without making others uncomfortable. In time, of course, Bertram falls for the wonderful Gwen, setting up a bunch of overlapping conflicts. Cowritten and directed by David Koepp (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Ghost Town walks a fine line between comic freshness and a story idea with elements that have become overly familiar in movies and on television. Kinnear and Leoni have never been better on screen, but Ghost Town is well worth seeing because no one like Gervais has previously played the hapless hero in a high-concept film such as this one. With Gervais doing his familiar, hilariously discomfiting thing, it really doesn't matter what kind of movie Ghost Town is. Happily, it's a pretty good film in every respect. --Tom Keogh

• American Gods Season 2 | Blu Ray | (08/07/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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.

• Brookside - Best Storylines (30th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Celebrating the 30th Anniversary since the first ever episodeHotly anticipated 'Best Episodes' DVD. Will include explosive and well-remembered storylines through the years and starring Anna Friel, Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnstone, Claire Sweeney and Amanda Burton to name a few

• The Royle Family 2009 Special | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £7.93   |  Saving you £10.06 (126.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Royle Family: 2009 Special

• Night At The Museum | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (434.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ben Stiller faces a shift he'll remember as the exhibits at the museum he works come to life late one night.

• American Gods | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £4.64   |  Saving you £8.36 (180.17%)   |  RRP £13.00

  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.

• David Brent: Life on the Road | Blu Ray | (12/12/2016) from £4.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD sees the highly anticipated big screen debut of one of comedy's best-loved characters, David Brent (Ricky Gervais). The film catches up with Brent twelve years on from the BBC mockumentary ˜The Office' to find he is now a travelling salesman with Lavichem, a cleaning and ladies' personal hygiene products company. However, he hasn't given up on his dream of rock stardom and is about to embark on a self-financed UK tour with his band, ˜Foregone Conclusion'.

• The Office: Complete Box Set (Series 1 - 2 plus Christmas Specials) | DVD | (22/11/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £22.46 (128.12%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of ! the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller The second series exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais is once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, but in this series, Brent's to-the-camera assertions concerning his management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil (Patrick Baladi) takes over as area manager. To compensate, Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer-motivator-comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of "Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. --David Stubbs The brilliant and devastating comedy of The Office is brought to a satisfying conclusion in The Office Special, originally a two-part Christmas special on the BBC, set three years after the end of the faux-documentary's second season. The former office manager David (Ricky Gervais) now ekes out a desperate existence as an oblivious quasi-celebrity, making awkward, humiliating visits back to the office staff he still believes loves him. Gawky Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) has risen to manager and become a petty tyrant, while the sweet but snide Tim (Martin Freeman) continues to pine for former receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who fled to Florida with her fiance. When the documentary crew pays for Dawn to return for the holiday party, an unpredictable reunion looms ahead. The Office fuses scathing humor and genuine empathy, turning excruciating social discomfort into inspired satire. Fans will find this special rewarding in all respects. --Bret Fetzer

• The Royle Family: Jellylegs | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £8.37   |  Saving you £4.62 (55.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at The Royle's and Barbara's gone overboard with the presents. If you can't spoil your family at Christmas when can you? she asks, having spent a whole two hours in Poundland. A new neighbour moves on to the street with an impressive cleavage but will she be welcome on the sofa? In a flash of seasonal entrepreneurial spirit Dave reveals the idea he intends to pitch to Dragon's Den. Will it take off and make them rich? Or is Jim's scratch card more likely to bring in the Christmas cheer? Joe, next door, is looking for love and places an advert in the Lonely Hearts column, 'Vacant Lady Wanted'. Who could resist?

• Tomorrow Never Dies | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.19   |  Saving you £14.80 (285.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of co-stars. It's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent 007 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war--beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China--to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. It's the information age run amok and Bond must team up with a lovely and lethal agent from the Chinese External Security Force (played by Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh) to foil the madman's plot of global domination. Luckily for Bond, the villain's wife (Teri Hatcher) is one of his former lovers and, at the behest of his superior "M" (Judi Dench), 007 finds ample opportunity to exploit the connection. Although it bears some nagging similarities to many formulaic action films from the 90s, Tomorrow Never Dies (with a title song performed by Sheryl Crow) boasts enough grand-scale action and sufficiently intelligent plotting to suggest the Bond series has plenty of potential to survive into the next millennium. Armed with the usual array of gadgets (including a remote-controlled BMW), Brosnan settles into his role with acceptable flair and the dynamic Yeoh provides a perfect balance to the sexism that once threatened to turn Bond into a politically incorrect anachronism. He's still Bond, to be sure but he's saving the world with a bit more sophisticated finesse. --Jeff Shannon --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. On the DVD: Somewhat disappointingly there is no specific "making-of" documentary for Tomorrow Never Dies: instead we get a generic "Secrets of 007" made-for-US-television feature, a promotional piece that does however include footage from the set of TND. There is also a very brief special effects reel, which highlights the novel (for a Bond movie) use of CGI, as well as a breakdown of key sequences with their storyboards. Elsewhere, composer David Arnold enthuses about writing Bond music from a fan's perspective and Sheryl Crow's music video is included as are theatrical trailers and a text piece on some of the gadgets. There are two commentaries: the first from producer Michael Wilson and stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong; the second has director Roger Spottiswoode in conversation with "friend and colleague" Dan Petrie Jr. Only die-hard fans would have wanted both, the rest may find themselves switching between the two. The film, of course, looks and sounds stunning. --Mark Walker

• The Ricky Gervais Show | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The hit HBO animation featuring Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington.

• Christmas With The Royle Family | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Box Set Comprises: Christmas With The Royle Family (series 2) The Royle Family At Christmas (series 3) The New Sofa (hour long special)