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• 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

• Little Britain - Complete Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Little Britain was the injection that the British comedy sketch-show needed. Matt Lucas and David Walliams have created a host of bizarre characters on a surreal but hilarious tour of the British Isles and its curious inhabitants. Narrator Tom Baker adds insightful and eloquent comments throughout the odyssey! All of modern Britain is here including favourites such as Daffyd the only gay in the village; Jason the teenager with an unhealthy attraction to his best friend's granny; Marjorie Dawes the terrifying Fat-fighter group leader and Emily Howard the rubbish transvestite who likes doing 'ladies things'.

• Little Britain - Series 3 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The third series of the double-Bafta award-winning show, finds Matt Lucas and David Walliams bang on form.

• The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | DVD | (12/12/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Multi-award winning comedians The League of Gentlemen bring their hilarious and monstrous creations to the big screen. Everyone's favourite town Royston Vasey is facing disaster and the only way to save it is for the locals to travel to a new and exciting world... ours! From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.

• Mr Bean 25th Anniversary Boxset | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £19.71 (197.30%)   |  RRP £29.70

  Bendy Bean Gift With Purchase Celebrate 25 years of Mr Bean with this amazing anniversary boxset - including over 21 hours of Mr Bean mayhem and collectable Bendy Bean!  Set includes all epsiodes from the original TV series volumes 1 - 8 of the animated spin-off as well as two Mr Bean movies. In 'Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie' (1997) Mr Bean (Atkinson) obtains a job as an attendant at the London National Gallery. He enjoys the protection of the chairman but the gallery's governors are keen to be rid of him. When the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles asks for an expert to give a speech on the recently-purchased painting of Whistler's mother Bean is quickly despatched. On his arrival in America he begins wreaking havoc in the art world. In 'Mr Bean's Holiday' (2007) Bean has won a church fete raffle's top prize consisting of a trip to France where the language barrier predictably causes our hero no end of grief until he meets Emil (Karel Roden) a Russian director on his way to judge at Cannes. Title List Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie   Mr Bean - Mr. Bean's Holiday Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 1 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 2 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 3 Mr Bean - Live TV Series - Volume 4 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 1 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 2 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 3 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 4 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 5 Mr Bean - The Animated Series - Volume 6 Mr Bean The Animated Series - Volume 7 Mr Bean The Animated Series - Volume 8

• Sting/COE/Abbado - Prokofiev - Peter And The Wolf | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £15.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

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• The Very Best Of The Royle Family | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spanning the three series of this superb sitcom, The Very Best of The Royle Family is a prime taster for those not familiar with the series. Co-created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, who star as Denise and Dave respectively, The Royle Family deserves its own comedic category. They had a hard fight persuading the BBC to leave a laughter track off the show, which would have disrupted its unique ambience and chemistry. Never departing from the house of lazy, good-for-nothing but defiantly sardonic Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson) and wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), The Royle Family chronicles the everyday chat and banal comings and goings of this Northern household, which barely qualifies as "working" class, since mostly they are slumped on the sofa in front of the telly in a cathode-induced stupor. Confused viewers waiting for something to "happen" in the conventional sitcom manner will be disappointed. What they'll get instead is an irresistible stream of dialogue that captures unerringly the humdrum cadences of "ordinary" people. These episodes capture the Royles in customary, festive mood--Denise's marriage, Christmas, baby David's birthday party and so forth--which is good, as we get to see more of Liz Smith's magnificent Nana. As each seemingly inconsequential scene vividly illustrates, this is hardly a romanticised family. Denise is an appallingly negligent mother, there's probably never been a green vegetable in the house, most of their friends, including Darren, are well dodgy, and mum Barbara is unfairly put-upon ("Eh, I've been so busy this morning I haven't had time to smoke", she laments at one point). Yet undoubtedly, unlike their regal counterparts, this Royle Family are close-knit, somehow getting by. The family that watches telly together stays together. On the DVD: The Very Best of the Royle Family, disappointingly, has no extra features. --David Stubbs

• The League of Gentlemen -- Christmas Special | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £4.41   |  Saving you £15.58 (353.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Gothic-comedy masterpiece, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special is a horrific anthology of three related stories, all set in Royston Vasey, which takes its inspiration as much from the writings of MR James and Edgar Allan Poe as the low-budget Hammer and Amicus shockers that the team parody so affectionately. The stories are all linked by the Dickensian device of Reverend Bernice receiving unexpected guests on Christmas Eve: the first concerns troubled married couple Charlie and Stella becoming unwittingly involved in voodoo and witchcraft; the second features the horrendous Herr Lipp in a Nosferatu skit that reveals the terrible truth about what really goes on in Duisburg; while the third, and best, tells of the horrible hereditary curse that afflicted Dr Chinnery's great-grandfather. This one-off special distils all the League's penchant for disturbing, twisted characterisation and macabre humour into a single hour; the result is one of the most daring "comedies" ever seen on British TV. On the DVD: The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special on disc contains the hour-long main feature accompanied by a diverse and entertaining array of extras. There's another illuminating group commentary; a 20-minute documentary "Tales from Behind the Crypt", in which we get to see excerpts from the team's first ensemble effort, "Highgate House of Horror"; a chat with composer Jody Talbot; and the League themselves "In Conversation" with Paul Jackson in the complete Radio 4 broadcast. A selection of out-takes, extended scenes, character biographies and a photo gallery are all worthwhile, but best of all is a Jackanory special with Mark Gatiss as the Victorian Dr Chinnery telling the Gothic tale of "The Curse of the Karrit Poor", a spot-on Arthur Conan Doyle spoof. --Mark Walker

• Mr Bean Complete Collection | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £122.83   |  Saving you £-32.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Features The Mr Bean Titles: Mr Bean's Holiday: Mr. Bean returns but not for long as he goes on his travels to the south of France where mishap and mayhem begin by the end Bean even has his video diaries at the Cannes Film Festival. Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie (Special Edition): When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Within days of his arrival Mr. Bean destroys virtually everything he comes into contact with be it the career and marriage of his host or America's greatest painting. Mr Bean - The Animated Series Vols 1-6: The animated adventures of Mr Bean as he bungles his way through one sticky situation after another! Mr Bean Vols 1-5: Rowan Atkinson as the hilarious legendary character Mr. Bean; delighting all ages with his madcap antics fans can relive classic Bean episodes whilst younger family members can be introduced to the crazy world of Mr. Bean!

• Little Britain - Series 1 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement. We've had running water for over ten years, an underground tunnel that links us to Peru, and we invented the cat," narrates Tom Baker gleefully at the beginning of Little Britain, introducing the first hit show for fledgling digital channel BBC3 and the best new comedy since The League of Gentlemen. In fact, creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams acknowledge a large debt to the League, not only in the gallery of grotesques all performed by the duo, but also in the way in which the familiar sketch-show format is expanded by clever use of locale: not Royston Vasey here, but "Britain" itself in all its perverse splendour: from Darkly Noon, where chavette Vicky Pollard seems all too frighteningly real ("Yeah, but no, but yeah. Shut up!"), to the Welsh village with only one gay, to the council estate where buck-toothed Lou looks after apparently wheelchair-bound Andy ("Yeah, I know"), to Kelsey Grammar School where pupils are baffled and confused by their fusty teacher, and many more besides. It's unashamedly puerile stuff and, as with The Fast Show before it, many sketches rely on a single incident or catchphrase repeated over and over in only slightly different contexts. But it works brilliantly, thanks to the characterisations of Lucas and Walliams, their sharp eye for the eccentricities of modern life, and of course that surreal voiceover from Tom Baker. On the DVD: This is a handsome two-disc set chock full of tasty extras. Lucas and Walliams provide a surprisingly serious commentary, joined in turn by producer Myfanwy Moore and director Steve Bendelack (a League of Gentlemen alumnus). There's the original pilot episode, plus plenty of deleted scenes, live sketches, several behind-the-scenes segments, an interview with Jonathan Ross, and a half-hour Best of Rock Profiles, the hilarious spoof series in which Walliams and Lucas impersonated various rock stars. If that's not enough, you can also select from a gallery to watch all the sketches featuring your favourite characters. Another triumph for Auntie Beeb. --Mark Walker

• Wentworth Prison Seasons 1 - 3 box set | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete first three series of the Australian TV drama, a reimagining of 'Prisoner Cell Block H', the popular soap broadcast between 1979 and 1986. The show follows Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack), one of the most iconic 'Prisoner Cell Block H' characters, in her early days at Wentworth Detention Centre as she attempts to establish herself as a force to be reckoned within the prison. Series 1 episodes are: 'No Place Like Home', 'Fly Me Away', 'The Girl Who Waited', 'The Things We Do', 'The Velvet Curtain', 'Captive', 'Something Dies', Mind Games', 'To the Moon' and 'Checkmate'. Series 2 episodes are: 'Born Again', 'Whatever It Takes', 'Boys in the Yard', 'The Danger Within', 'Twist the Knife', 'The Pink Dragon', 'Metamorphosis', 'Sins of the Mother', 'The Fixer', 'Jail Birds', 'Into the Night' and 'Fear Her'. Series 3 episodes are: 'The Governor's Pleasure', 'Failing Upwards', 'Knives Out', 'Righteous Acts', 'Mercy', 'Evidence', 'The Long Game', 'Goldfish', 'Freak Show', 'A Higher Court', 'The Living and the Dead' and 'Blood and Fire'.

• The League Of Gentlemen - Live At Drury Lane: Special Edition | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £7.03   |  Saving you £8.96 (127.45%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Local Show for Local People! The 'League of Gentlemen Live' Tour took the inhabitants of Royston Vasey on a travelling roadshow that was the comedy sensation of 2001. Packed with your favourite characters brand new sketches and classic sketches... Tubbs and Edward Papa Lazarou Pauline and Mickey Mr Chinnery Herr Lipp and many more. An absolute must for all League fans. Starring Mark Gatiss Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

• The Royle Family - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  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. It's 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). 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 sit-coms 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's. 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 it's come to?" Not quite; as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Mr Bean's Holiday | Blu Ray | (18/10/2010) from £7.87   |  Saving you £12.12 (154.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disaster has a passport! Mr. Bean returns but not for long as he goes on his travels to the south of France where mishap and mayhem begin by the end Bean even has his video diaries at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Little Britain - Live | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £4.26   |  Saving you £17.73 (416.20%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Messers Lucas and Walliams take the phenomenally successful Little Britain to the live arena; bringing all your favourite characters right up close and personal to the general public! Expect lewd remarks double entendres and guffawing in the aisles!

• The Harry Hill Movie | Blu Ray | (05/04/2018) from £3.81   |  Saving you £22.44 (880.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Surreal comedy starring award-winning British comedian, author and TV presenter Harry Hill. Featuring machine gun-toting chickens and a terminally ill hamster, the film follows Harry and his Nan (Julie Walters) as they travel to Blackpool while being pursued by a mentally unstable veterinarian (Simon Bird). While on the journey, the pair are met with a whole host of other weird and wonderful characters including Harry's long-lost twin Otto (Matt Lucas) and Michelle (Sheridan Smith), an underw.

• The Royle Family Album - Complete Collection Plus Specials | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Sit down put your feet up light a fag and join Britain's first family in their sitting room for the complete three series of The Royle Family as well as the Christmas specials and the Finale episode! The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house. Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family. The intense drama and emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum of the television. The rosy hue of their life is yellowed only by a nicotine haze. Series 1: 1. Bills Bills Bills 2. Making Ends Meet 3. Sunday Afternoon 4. Jim's Birthday 5. Another Woman? 6. The Wedding Day Series 2: 1. Pregnancy 2. Sunday Lunch 3. Nana's Coming To Stay 4. Nana's Staying! 5. Barbara's Finally Had Enough Series 3: 1. Hello Baby Dave 2. Babysitting Again 3. Decorating 4. Elise Funeral 5. Antony's Going To London 6. The Christening Also includes the 1999 2000 and 2008 Christmas Special episodes as well as the Finale!

• Jam and Jerusalem: Series 2 | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £7.71   |  Saving you £8.28 (107.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in the Women's Guild of Clatterford St. Mary this sitcom penned by Jennifer Saunders stars some of the best-loved women in comedy and returns to DVD with it's second series.

• Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie/Mr Bean's Holiday/Mr Bean Vol. 1 | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £7.46 (42.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie (Dir. Mel Smith) (1997): When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Mr. Bean's Holiday (Dir.Steve Bendelack) (2007): Disaster has a passport! Mr. Bean returns but not for long as he goes on his travels to the south of France where mishap and mayhem begin... By the end Bean even has his video diaries at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Little Britain - Series 2 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Meet the characters that inhabit 'Little Britain' once again in the second series of the comedy sketch show.