This delightful family comedy based on the bestselling book by David Walliams (The Boy in the Dress, Gangsta Granny) tells the story of Len and Joe Spud, an impoverished father and son who become instant billionaires when Len invents a new type of toilet roll. Home is now a huge mansion with a celebrity butler, but while 12-year-old Joe has everything money can buy, what he really needs is a friend. With his father obsessed by a high-spending lifestyle and new gold-digging girlfriend, Joe manages to transfer from his expensive private school to the local comprehensive. Hiding his wealth, he is happy and soon making friends. But when Len turns up in a helicopter to deliver his forgotten homework, Joe's secret is out!
The Boy in the Dress Dennis is an ordinary boy who lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary street but he is frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona. But can a boy wear a dress – and how will his headmaster, his dad and his friends react when they find out? EXTRA: Behind the Seams Gangsta Granny Ben hates spending time with his boring granny while his parents are off ballroom dancing. Little does he know that his granny has a secret. Together they go on an adventure and become the best of friends. EXTRAS: Behind The Scenes • Walliams: Man, Artist, Beast Mr Stink The touching, twisted and hilarious tale of Mr Stink, a homeless man who is befriended by a local girl, Chloe. Chloe sees Mr Stink every day, but she’s never spoken to him, which isn’t surprising because he’s a tramp, and he stinks. As it turns out that there is more to Mr Stink than meets the eye... or nose. EXTRA: Interview with David Walliams
Written by and starring Rob Brydon and Julia Davis, Human Remains features six different "mockumentaries" with the pair playing couples caught in bizarre, dysfunctional or hopelessly imbalanced relationships. These include an upper-class couple, in which wife openly pines for her first, lost love, whom she has buried on the grounds; a thoroughly homely hubby and wife who run a guest house in the Midlands that features an S&M parlour; and a ghastly pair of God-botherers who live in a state of curtain-twitching loathing of their neighbours. While the sheer range of characters depicted in Human Remains represents a prodigious feat on the part of both actors, the show has much in common with Brydon's other hit Marion and Geoff. The strangeness or awfulness of each couple's situation generally takes a while to come into focus, the deeper truths conveyed through low-level bickering, cumulatively revealed in deceptively banal interviews to camera. Brydon and Davis are sometimes merciless in their satirical savagery, as with the Alanis Morissette wannabe Fonte Bund; at other times, Human Remains is too bleak to watch. However, the sheer acuity and detail with which these characters are unwittingly realised, coupled with the brilliance of the (semi-improvised) monologues/dialogue means that our encounters with them, although mercifully brief, are both hilarious and touching. This is an exceptional series. On the DVD: Human Remains features a generous package of extras, including deleted scenes and outtakes, among them an extension of the "healing" scene featured in the episode with the S&M couple, footage of the early rehearsals and improvisations from which the characters took shape, a commentary in which Davis and Brydon recap on the circumstances of the filming, an excerpt of the pair in S&M gear singing "American Pie" in rich Brummie accents and, best of all, the Fonte Bund Band in which the folk-rock duo featured in the series have an added, Spinal Tap-type documentary also starring John Martyn (who supplies the series' theme). --David Stubbs
It is 2006 and there's a new Dr Jekyll with an old problem - Mr Hyde. But they have a deal - a body share - and an impossible life is somehow lived. What Hyde doesn't know is that Jekyll is married. There's a wife and two children he'll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the resources of modern technology and the best surveillance hardware he's determined to keep his dark side in line. He's done a deal with his own devil. What neither of them knows: an ancient organisation with limitless wealth and power is monitoring their every move and a plan over a century in the making is coming to fruition. The return of Dr Jekyll is no accident...
Tommy Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose shoots from the hip and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tommy never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire.
Filmed as a 'UK road movie' Catterick is the story of two brothers Carl and Chris who have not seen each other for 15 years but who reunite in a desperate mission to find Carl's estranged son. That mission soon becomes a journey into hell when encounters with dodgy villains a psychotic murderer the police and a hotel proprietor who is missing a vital piece of his anatomy mean that things do not go exactly to plan. What will the brothers find on their journey - love friendship r
Daniel (Rupert Grint) was in a dead end job and lost the girl of his dreams until he was misdiagnosed with cancer, a mistake which gave him a new zeal for life renewed. His colleagues are nicer to him and his girlfriend takes him back the only issue being the lie is getting out of hand and Daniel and his incompetent Dr. Iain Glennis (Nick Frost) are fast becoming out of their depth. Daniel and Dr Glennis's lies keep threatening to catch them out when Will_5000 (an online gamer friend of Daniel) shows up as an unwelcome house guest and begins blackmailing them for money. And ill-advised trip to a drug dealer called Shank to sell Daniel's unused cancer medication leads to a number of mix-ups that end with Shank after their blood. Dr Glennis is repeatedly forced to go undercover to save his and Daniel's bacon, whether it's as a pest exterminator to steal incriminating footage from a nosy neighbour, or as Daniel's dad so they can break into his car and steal back their drugs money under the nose of the police force. Both he and Daniel will be moments from death from the sword of a furious drug dealer. Can they lie their way out of this one?
Originally broadcast in 2001, Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is a six-part pastiche of 1970s Hammer Horror from Steve Coogan's Baby Cow production company. Each episode is topped and tailed by Coogan beneath a mass of prosthetics in a high-back leather chair as the avuncular, flatulent, faintly morally debauched Dr Terrible. "That was truly diabolical", he concludes of each show, a verdict with which one or two critics unkindly and unfairly concurred. Coogan also stars in each as six different characters. In "And Now the Fearing...", for example. he plays rat-faced, unpleasant millionaire Denham Denham; in "Frenzy of Tongs"--a mickey-take of the Fu Manchu films--he's the insufferably suave Nathan Blaze, a Jason King-a-like; in "Scream, Satan Scream", meanwhile, he superimposes a parody of Peter Sellers over a lampoon of the Vincent Price film Witchfinder General. Although most of these episodes are elaborate period pieces and genuine care has been made to render them as scary as possible, the real period detail has been in recreating the luridly quaint, over-acted, hammy feel of the 70s productions to which these episodes pay affectionate homage. Although hardly a perfect series, the camped-up daftness of the entire enterprise, a star-studded cast that includes Honor Blackman, John Thompson and Ronnie Ancona, some nice scripting and Coogan's versatility all make for a programme that's hard to dislike. On the DVD Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is quite generous in its extras. These include "An Appointment with Terrible", a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show, much of which was shot in the studio hangars where the original Hammer horrors were made, dry audio commentary by cowriters Graham Duff and Henry Normal and director Matt Lipsey, and "Behind the Screams" a mock-70s film journal ("only 10p!") reflecting on the making of one of the episodes. --David Stubbs
The hilarious smash hit comedy returns starring an award winning cast; David Walliams (Gangsta Granny Mr Stink Come Fly With Me Little Britain) Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate’s Nan The Catherine Tate Show Doctor Who) Philip Glenister (Mad Dogs Ashes to Ashes Life on Mars) and Frances da la Tour (Harry Potter Rising Damp Vicious). It may be start of a new year at Greybridge School but the teaching staff is as dysfunctional as ever. Series 2 features the arrival of Dr Dalton (Jimmy Akingbola; Rev Holby City Silk) an unwelcome visit from Offsted a challenging parents evening and a member of staff goes to meet his maker…
his Is Jinsy Series 2 takes you back to the extraordinary island of knitwear, folksong and hi-tech surveillance for a series of eight colourful new adventures. Join Arbiter Maven, his assistant, Sporall, repairwoman Soosan and legal advisor Trince as they attempt to control Jinsy s troublesome residents. From an invasion of ancient hair to a dangerous encounter with a tribe of wild accountants, from the mysterious scheming of arch-enemy The Speckled Pom-Pom to a quest for The Golden Woggle... the island is once again peopled with a host of British television s most popular stars as you ve never seen them before: Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Ben Miller, Sir Derek Jacobi, Rob Brydon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Greg Davies, Stephen Mangan, Jennifer Saunders, KT Tunstall, Phil Davis and Katy Brand.
O hold the twig and stare to sea and Jinsy comes to thee!This is Jinsy is the a out-there oddity of a comedy that tells the story of the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy. A unique blend of narrative and sketch comedy, featuring big guest stars including David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Harry Hill, Simon Callow, Jane Horrocks, and Jennifer Saunders.....Written by and starring Justin Chubb and Chris Bran as Maven and Sporall - the hapless administrators of Jinsy Island. They watch over the residents, carrying out the instructions of the unseen but all-powerful 'Great He', dispensing punishment, propaganda and pelch to the 762 inhabitants of Jinsy.
More intrigue suspense weirdness and laughs in the return of the cliff-hanging comedy thriller... After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital Mr Jelly Joy David and Maureen Sowerbutts Mr Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted mad and sad lives. But the shadowy if technologically-deprived Grace Andrews and the enigmatic detective Finney are tracking them down - one by one - in search of Nurse Kenchington's locket. Meanwhile we meet some new but equally bizarre Psychoville characters: Jeremy Goode a librarian tortured by a silent singer as he hunts for 50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles Volume 2; Peter Bishop whose toy shop Hoyti Toyti has a very strange basement and a desperate and dateless overworked make-up artist Hattie. What could they all have to do with the mystery - and why is it truly a matter of life and death?
After some years making a name for himself as a serious actor and television presenter, Lenny Henry in Pieces sees the comedian return to the world of the TV sketch show. Having always struggled to find a suitable format for his comedy (remember Delbert Wilkins?), Henry has this time settled on a fairly frantic style, with mixed results. The best bits, as has often been the case with his material, come when he draws on the rich vein of West Indian humour, particularly the more mature characters. When he heads more for the middle of the road, however, Henry starts to falter. The movie pastiches are largely uninspired, ironically coming across as little more than cast offs from French and Saunders, and the show is lacking in the energy that so infuses Henry's stand up routines. There certainly are some good characters (Weekend Dad and the homo-erotic trawlermen Pete and Steve especially) but after a while the lack of variety in even these creations becomes frustrating. Such repetition works in the superior ensemble piece of The Fast Show, but this falls flat over the course of the eight episodes. Looks like Lenny Henry might need to go back to the drawing board. On the DVD: Lenny Henry in Pieces has a running time of nearly four hours, so the lack of extras may be understandable but is no less disappointing. The interactive menu is handy for skipping through some of the less engaging moments but is not detailed enough to help pinpoint specific scenes. The audio and picture quality is good enough television quality. Additional material is limited to 14 minutes of cringingly unfunny out-takes, further proof (if it were needed) that watching someone forget their lines over and over again does not necessarily mean great comedy. --Phil Udell
From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'. An embittered hook-handed clown a desperately misguided midwife a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf a blind avaricious collector and a murder-obssessed manchild: all are affected in different ways by the letters and their already bizarre lives are hilariously turned on their heads. As the series progresses the characters are forced to confront what happened to them in the past and the secret that binds them together.
Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?
Meet the Starlings: Granddad has recently moved in, following a rabble rousing incident at the old folks' home. Rather than see him unhappy, his son Terry and wife Jan, decide to put him up in their already crammed family home. Making room for him is Charlie, their 16 year old football crazy tomboy daughter; work-shy, reptile enthusiast, Gravy, beautiful Bell (and her brand new baby, Zac, who arrives bang on time for the first episode.Then there's Bell's ex-boyfriend, Reuben, desperate to get back together with her. Uncle Loz, Granddad's long lost son, is the artist of the family. Last but not least, Jan's nephew, Fergie who offers to bivouac in the garden, after being made homeless when his long suffering partner chucks him out.
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: This Is Jinsy: Series 2 takes you back to the extraordinary island of knitwear, folksong and hi-tech surveillance for a series of eight colourful new adventures. Join Arbiter Maven, his assistant, Sporall, repairwoman Soosan and legal advisor Trince as they attempt to control Jinsy's troublesome residents. From an invasion of ancient hair to a dangerous encounter with a tribe of wild accountants, from the mysterious scheming of arch-enemy The Speckled Pom-Pom to a quest for The Golden Woggle... the island is once again peopled with a host of British television's most popular stars as you've never seen them before: Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Ben Miller, Sir Derek Jacobi, Rob Brydon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Greg Davies, Stephen Mangan, Jennifer Saunders, KT Tunstall, Phil Davis and Katy Brand. ...This Is Jinsy (Series 2) - 2-DVD Set ( This Is Jinsy - Series Two )
Tommy Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose shoots from the hip and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tommy never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire. After a hostile divorce Tommy has found his soulmate in Magz proprietress of an anarchic T-shirt shop. In the course of the series Tommy gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute has a heart murmur in Halfords executes a pigeon and experiments with women's make-up. Includes all 7 episodes from the first series.
Bafta, British Comedy Award and Rose d'Or winner David Walliams returns to the sketch show format in this laugh-packed spectacular. Filmed in front of a live studio audience, Walliams & Friend captures the joyous theatricality of classic British comedy. In each episode, a showbiz luminary joins David and the regular cast in a series of rib-tickling skits and spoofs. Also includes Christmas special starring Joanna Lumley.
More intrigue suspense weirdness and laughs in the return of the cliff-hanging comedy thriller... After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital Mr Jelly Joy David and Maureen Sowerbutts Mr Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted mad and sad lives. But the shadowy if technologically-deprived Grace Andrews and the enigmatic detective Finney are tracking them down - one by one - in search of Nurse Kenchington's locket. Meanwhile we meet some new but equally bizarre Psychoville characters: Jeremy Goode a librarian tortured by a silent singer as he hunts for 50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles Volume 2; Peter Bishop whose toy shop Hoyti Toyti has a very strange basement and a desperate and dateless overworked make-up artist Hattie. What could they all have to do with the mystery - and why is it truly a matter of life and death?
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