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• Homicide - Series 1 | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £16.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history Homicide: Life On The Street re-invigorated a tired genre by focusing on the grueling work of solving murders instead of an endless succession of bloody crimes and car chases. Inspired by David Simon's Edgar Award-winning account of Baltimore homicide detectives and brought to television by director Barry Levinson (Rain Man Oz) and writer Paul Attanasio (Gideon's Crossing) Homicide boasted a powerhouse cast featuring Ned Beatty (Deliverance) Yaphet Kotto (Alien) Richard Belzer (Law & Order: SVU) and breakout star Andre Braugher (Frequency). The critical response was overwhelming: Homicide won multiple Emmy and Writer's Guild of America Awards and is one of just two shows in history to claim three Peabody Awards. Now Homicide debuts on DVD with this collector's set featuring all 13 episodes from the first two seasons. Episodes Comprise: 1. Gone For Goode 2. A Ghost Of a Chance 3. Son Of A Gun 4. A Shot In The Dark 5. Three Men And Adena 6. Dog And Pony Show 7. And The Rockets' Dead Glare 8. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 9. The NIght Of The Living Dead

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £13.89   |  Saving you £48.10 (346.29%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television seriesThe Sopranos is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home. This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegiate mob clan and his own nouveau-riche brood. The brilliant first series is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get. Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed. The first year's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 1 (Six Disc Set) | DVD | (29/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own nouveau riche brood. The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get. Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed. The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• The Shield - Season 3 | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £7.00   |  Saving you £27.99 (399.86%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Shield made history with the most Emmy nominations ever for a basic cable drama. It won a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series and star Michael Chiklis won the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Get ready as this hard-hitting award-winning cop drama returns with a vengeance for a pulse-pounding third season. Episodes Comprise: 1. Playing Tight 2. Blood And Water 3. Bottom Bitch 4. Streaks And Tips 5. Mum 6. Posse Up 7. Safe 8. Cracking Ice 9. Slipknot 10. What Power Is 11. Strays 12. Riceburner 13. Fire In The Hole 14. All In 15. On Tilt

• Oz - Season 2 | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £5.05   |  Saving you £24.94 (493.86%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Oz chronicles life inside an experimental cell block in the Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility: Level Four called Emerald City. Under unit manager Tim McManus and Warden Leo Glynn the inmates in Em City all struggle to fulfill their own needs. Some fight for power; either power over the drug trade or power over the other inmate factions. Others want money others Corrections officers and inmates alike simply want to survive long enough to make parole or even to se

• Dexter - Seasons 1-5 Complete | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £26.95   |  Saving you £93.04 (345.23%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Orphaned at the age of four and harbouring a traumatic secret Dexter is adopted by a police officer who recognises Dexter's homicidal tendencies and guides his son to channel his gruesome passion for human vivisection in a constructive way - by killing those heinous perpetrators who are above the law or who have slipped through the cracks of justice. A respected member of the police force a perfect gentleman and a man with a soft spot for children it's hard not to like Dexter. Although his drive to kill is unflinching he struggles to emulate normal emotions he doesn't feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring socially responsible human being. This collection presents Seasons 1-5 in their entirety.

• Lizzie Borden Took An Ax | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £16.75   |  Saving you £-3.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sweltering hot day in Massachusetts 1892 is pierced by the brutal double murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden that would stun the nation. Lizzie (Christina Ricci) a wholesome Sunday school teacher and Mr. Borden's youngest daughter quickly becomes the prime suspect. Now as her lawyer Andrew Jennings (Billy Campbell) proclaims her innocence the original good-girl-gone-bad will stand trial in one of the most gripping gruesome mysteries of all time. Her name will forever live in infamy and the eerie children's rhyme will continue to haunt those that know the story but the truth is anything but clear.

• Homicide: The Complete Series | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £59.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Homicide: Life on the Street is one of the most acclaimed shows in US TV history. Based on a book by David Simon (creator of The Wire) it captures the gritty reality of life for a team of Baltimore homicide detectives. Features: Contains all 122 episodes over 33 discs.

• The 4400 - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.59   |  Saving you £36.66 (1,100.90%)   |  RRP £39.99

  When 4400 alien abductees return to earth just as mysteriously as they vanished, the Department of Homeland Security demands answers.

• Homicide - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history Homicide: Life On The Street re-invigorated a tired genre by focusing on the grueling work of solving murders instead of an endless succession of bloody crimes and car chases.

• Oz - Season 3 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility has opened an experimental new ward Emerald City reserved for especially dangerous criminals. Inside the walls of this rehabilitation unit is a world that's even more corrupt and dangerous than the mean streets the inmates left behind. Survival is dependent on two sets of rules; those laid down by the warden and those understood by the racially divided prisoners. Gritty and violent OZ deftly handles sensitive issues concerning the American justice system. This release contains every compelling episode from the show's third series.

• OZ Season 1 | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Welcome to Emerald City an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or ""Oz."" As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer whether you're in for a few years or in for life you have a role to play. Once inside choose your friends carefully. Every group - Muslims Latinos Italians Aryans - stick close to mutual friends and terrorize mutual enemies. Don't smile. Get yourself a weapon. Stay on everybody's good side... if you can find one. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Routine 2. Visits Conjugal And Otherwise 3. God's Chillin' 4. Capital P 5. Straight Life 6. To Your Health 7. Plan B 8. A Game Of Checkers

• The Shield - Series 4 | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £5.95   |  Saving you £29.04 (488.07%)   |  RRP £34.99

  With the addition of Glenn Close to its already excellent cast The Shield entered its fourth season with tensions high and tempers flaring. Aceveda (Benito Martinez) has gained political clout on the City Council and former Farmington district officer Monica Rawling (Close) is introduced as the new Captain of ""the Barn "" where she immediately confronts a maelstrom of personal and professional turmoil. His strike team now splintered Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has returned to routine detective duty while Shane (Walton Goggins) and new partner ""Army"" Renta (Michael Pea) are neck-deep in trouble with Farmington's ""untouchable"" drug-lord Antwon Mitchell a new villain played to perfection by actor/comedian Anthony Anderson. This seemingly traitorous predicament places Shane at further odds with former strike-teammates Mackie Lemon (Kenneth Johnson) and Ronnie (David Rees Snell) and while Wyms (CCH Pounder) resents Rawling's promotion the ""Dutch"" (Jay Karnes) makes a selfish backroom deal that causes further friction with Wyms and Mackey. Tensions are intensified by Rawling's aggressive seizure of homes and property paid for with drug money -- an effective campaign that forces ""Danny"" (Catherine Dent) and Julien (Michael Jace) and the entire police force to take sides in a hotly divisive civil rights debate that culminates in the murder of two Farmington cops.

• The 4400 - The Complete First Season | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £15.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (78.63%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The 4400, which began as a five-week mini-series, is built around a deceptively simple, dramatically rich premise. What if all the people, who had ever been abducted by aliens, were suddenly returned to Earth? What would happen? Although they look exactly as they did when they left, they have no knowledge of where they were or why they were taken. Now some even have special powers, like clairvoyance. As with ABC's Lost, which centres on the survivors of a plane crash, The 4400 features a large cast of characters and a host of mysteries to be solved. If the special effects, which are kept to a minimum, can be a little cheesy at times, the concept--and the skillful execution of the concept--easily makes up for it. Produced by Francis Ford Coppolla's American Zoetrope and created by Scott Peters (The Outer Limits), The 4400 is set in Seattle, where the 4400 are returned. The principal characters include Dennis Ryland (Peter Coyote of E.T.), the local supervisor of Homeland Security. He's joined by agents Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch of Taken), whose nephew was one of the returnees, and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie of Romper Stomper), who takes in one of the youngest returnees. Guest stars include Michael Moriarty (Law and Order) in "Pilot" and Lee Tergeson (Oz) in "Becoming." Billy Campbell (Once and Again) also appears in several episodes as Jordan Collier, a real-estate magnate and returnee who becomes an advocate for others like himself, many of whom are having problems adjusting to a changed world. Like Lost, one of the biggest success stories of 2004, The 4400 debuted to strong ratings and was renewed for a full season. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Drowning Mona | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (-66.90%)   |  RRP £2.99

  During the opening credits the despicable Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is seen driving her Yugo into the Hudson River. This sets off an investigation headed up by Chief Rash (Danny DeVito) who quickly determines that Mona was murdered. Now his problem is that everyone who knew the woman is a possible suspect. Her self-described battered husband Phil (William Fichtner) her unnaturally dumb son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) and her son's much-abused good-natured landscaping partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) all have motives. Complicating matters Phil and Jeff were both having an affair with the same waitress (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Bobby is engaged to Chief Rash's lovely daughter Ellen (Neve Campbell).

• Oz - Series 1-6 - Complete | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Welcome to Emerald City an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or Oz. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer whether you're in for a few years or in for life you have a role to play. Once inside choose your friends carefully. Every group - Muslims Latinos Italians Aryans - stick close to mutual friends and terrorize mutual enemies. Don't smile. Get yourself a weapon. Stay on everybody's good side... if you can find one.

• The Sopranos - Complete HBO Season 1 | Blu Ray | (23/11/2009) from £15.42   |  Saving you £35.83 (253.04%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Meet Tony Soprano: your average middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Antony Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot-headed uncle. A not too-secret mistress. A nd a shrink to tell all his secrest except the one she already knows:Tony's a mob boss. These The Sopranos chronicles a dysfunctional suburban American family. For Tony Soprano there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families his mob clan and his own nouveau-riche brood. The beginning of the epic Sopranos story can now be enjoyed in superior Blu-ray high definition and sound. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Sopranos 2. 46 Long 3. Denial Anger Acceptance 4. Meadowlands 5. College 6. Pax Soprano 7. Down Neck 8. Tennessee Moltisante 9. Boca 10. A Hit Is A Hit 11. Nobody Knows Anything 12. Isabella 13. Jeanne Cusamano

• Brotherhood Season 2 | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £3.89   |  Saving you £21.10 (542.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second season of the critically-adored and Peabody Award-winning series Brotherhood returns to DVD. This 3-disc set includes all 10 dramatic season two episodes where we reunite with the Caffee family for more explosive blue-collar drama violence and politics. In the tradition of Showtimes brilliant original programming this series continues to compellingly examine the perhaps not-so-different moral worlds of politicians and mobsters as shown through the dynamic Caffee brothers. Episodes Comprise: One Too Many Mornings 3:4-8 Down in the Flood 3:5-6 The Lonesome Death of... 4:7:8 Dear Landlord 1:3-4 True Love Tends to Forget 1:1-4 Only a Pawn... 1:7-8 Not Dark Yet 3:5-6 Shelter From the Storm 1:1-2 Call Letter Blues 1:2-6 Things Have Changed 1:7-8

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 1) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• The Agency | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Agency' is a thrill-a-minute look at the inner workings of the Central Intelligence agency and its global network of intelligence agents. Whether preventing terrorist attacks nuclear threats or biological warfare at home or abroad evertone working for 'The Agency' is acutely aware that they deal in life and death every day. Utilising the latest developments in science and technology specialised agents in the CIA command centre play a strategic role behind top spy Matt Callan's covert operations in the field.