Television

• Private Practice - Season 1 | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (380.76%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh, Grey's Anatomy) leaves behind McDreamy, McSteamy, and McSeattle to join California's Oceanside Wellness Center, a private practice that was founded by two best friends from med school. But if she's expecting a drama-free existence, she's in the wrong place. Naomi (Audra McDonald) and Sam (Taye Diggs) Bennett are the perfect couple who aren't together anymore. Pediatrician Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein) is a horny Peter Pan looking for love on the Internet. Violet Turner (Amy Brenneman) is a psychiatrist who can dish out the advice, but can't get over her own breakup to a man who has clearly moved on. And then there's Pete Wilder (Tim Daly), an alternative-medicine practitioner so good-looking and charming that Addison can't stop crushing on him, even though she dismisses his brand of practice as New Age-y. Created by Grey's Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes to capitalize on Walsh's popularity, Private Practice has some screwy moments that don't fall in line with Addison's cosmopolitan character. Are we really to believe that Addison is so messed up that she really believes the elevator is talking to her? That conceit would've worked on Ally McBeal's titular heroine, but on Addison Montgomery? We don't think so. The show, which was affected by the writer's strike of 2007, lacks cohesiveness in the truncated 10 episodes on this DVD box set. But still, the series shows promise. Though some of the plot devises are melodramatic at best (Sam has to deliver the baby of a woman who had been robbing the store just moments before), viewers end up rooting for the quirky characters to get their personal lives in order. Though we're supposed to be longing for Addison and Pete to couple up, and for the Bennetts to realize that their divorce was a mistake, it's really Cooper and Violet who have all the makings to be the show's most intriguing couple. The debut season showed some interesting plot devices: two couples whose babies were mistakenly exchanged at birth; a senior citizen with unexplainable bruising on his body; and one of the female characters dealing with her own infertility issues. But the thrust of the show is how the doctors work and play together. Talking to one of her patients, Addison says, "Everyone screws up once in awhile." That can also be the motto for the Oceanside Wellness Center. --Jae-Ha Kim

• 24 - Season 1 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £15.93   |  Saving you £34.06 (213.81%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes place over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you extract the ad breaks). Everything to take place in real time--on-screen and off-screen time the same--which means no flash-backs, no flash-forwards, no nice handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked to make sure that things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy. Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done a pretty impressive job in putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as Federal Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hares around LA trying to stall an assassination attempt on a black Presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It’s not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?) and the final twist, once you start thinking back, makes no sense whatsoever. There are altogether too many huggy family moments ("I love you, Dad." "I love you, son"); and as for überbaddie Dennis Hopper’s "Serbian" accent… Even so, this is undeniably mould-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed--we gain a real sense of LA’s splayed-out geography--and Sean Callery’s score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series future TV thrillers will have to measure themselves against. On the DVDs: 24 is released in a six-disc box set. On discs 1- 5 there are no extras, but disc 6 includes the "alternative" ending and a preview of Series 2, presented by an urbane Kiefer Sutherland, that tells us precisely nothing. The transfer, in 16x9 widescreen and 2.0 Dolby Digital sound, does the high production values of the original every justice.--Philip Kemp

• Somewhere at Sea | DVD | (29/08/2016) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Timothy Spall, one of Britain's best-loved actors, was facing a life-threatening illness, he promised himself that if he survived, he'd take up sailing. Somewhere At Sea follows Timothy, and his wife Shane, as they navigate around the coast of Britain in a specially built sea-going barge, the Princess Matilda. As they slowly move from port to port, they meet local characters and experience the day-to-day adventures of life at sea. This first of three series sees Timothy and wife Shane set off in their Dutch barge, the Princess Matilda, from Fowey in Cornwall, heading towards Lands End and then into South Wales. Inspirational, charming and funny series starring BAFTA nominated actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter / Mr. Turner) First series of the seafaring adventures abroad the Princess Matilda in a mini-odyssey from Cornwall to Cardiff Bay.

• Filmed in Supermarionation / This is Supermarionation | Blu Ray | (20/07/2020) from £14.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FILMED IN SUPERMARIONATION This is the definitive documentary telling the story of the unique puppetry and animation technique developed by Gerry and Sylvia and their team and deployed in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds. Directed and co-produced by Stephen La Riviere and hosted by Lady Penelope and Parker themselves, Filmed in Supermarionation is a screen adaptation of his book of the same name and features a wealth of previously unseen archive footage, brand new interviews with the surviving casts and crews and clips from the shows themselves. A highlight of the film are ingenious and accurate recreations of the pioneering techniques used in the productions. SPECIAL FEATURES Deleted scenes: a selection of material that did not appear in the final documentary. Filming in Supermarionation: filming the effects and puppets for the documentary Special effects reel: an unedited reel of special effects shots created for the documentary Gerry and Sylvia in America: colour footage shot by Barry Gray of Gerry and Sylvia at the 1965 World's Fair in New York Tomorrow s World: full Video Assist report Something for the Children: Sylvia Anderson archive interview Parade: colour, behind-the-scenes Thunderbirds footage Lord Mayor & Thunderbird 3 (silent reel) THIS IS SUPERMARIONATION You ve seen how the shows were created now see them in High Definition! Launch the disc, sit back and enjoy some rare treats on a journey through Supermarionationland. Parker, Lady Penelope and Brains are your hosts, introducing some of the very best episodes from the Supermarionation archive as well as news items, commercial breaks with tie-in adverts and much more. Stand By For Action! Four Feather Falls: Gunfight on Main Street Supercar: False Alarm Fireball XL5: Space City Special Stingray: Pilot Thunderbirds: Terror in New York City Captain Scarlet: The Mysterons Joe 90: Hi-Jacked The Secret Service: More Haste, Less Speed

• King Of The Hill - Season 10 | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete tenth season of the popular animated series. In this season, Peggy (voice of Kathy Najimy) gets a job at the town newspaper, Bill (Stephen Root) volunteers at a halfway house and Hank (Mike Judge)'s softball team goes head-to-head with their undefeated rivals. The episodes are: 'Hank's On Board', 'Bystand Me', 'Bill's House', 'Harlottown', 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Clown', 'Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?', 'You Gotta Believe (In Moderation)', 'Business Is Picking Up', 'The Year of Washing Dangerously', 'Hank Fixes Everything', 'Church Hopping', '24 Hour Propane People', 'The Texas Panhandler', 'Hank's Bully' and 'Edu-macating Lucky'.

• Xiaolin Showdown: The Complete Second Season | DVD | (10/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bridge Trilogy | DVD | (21/12/2015) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-3.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.64

  The body of a woman is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge. Half of it belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute. Trapped in the middle of the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark, a bi-national investigatory team is put together to solve the crime. Laid-back Danish family man, Martin, and Swedish single woman, Saga, have to work together to stop the horrific staged murders before the terrorist wins over public opinion with his anti-corruption agenda.

• Peaky Blinders - Series 6 | Blu Ray | (09/05/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final series of Steven Knight's beloved BAFTA® award-winning drama based in Birmingham between the two world wars.

• Black Beauty - The Complete Mini-Series (3 Disc Set) | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's 1877 heartwarming literary classic, is brought to life in this five part US mini-series from 1978 released on triple DVD for the first time. Filmed entirely on location in Kentucky, Black Beauty is the story of a horse, the people who loved &cared for him, and those who did not - the story of a magnificent spirit that overcame all odds and prevailed. Starring William Devane (24:Live Another Day, The Dark Knight Rises), Diane Ladd (Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman, Chinatown), Eileen Brennan (Will & Grace, The Last Picture Show. ) New Black Beauty movie to be released theatrically in 2015 starring Luke Perry(Beverley Hills 90210).

• Young Montalbano | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Inspector Montalbano is back - as you've never seen him before. These are the tales of the young Inspector Montalbano with all the integrity but less of the experience of his older possibly wiser self. Exhausted by the never-ending hillsides of his rural Sicilian beat the Deputy Inspector - in the midst of investigating a murder - finds himself promoted to Inspector and dispatched to his childhood home of Vigata. There he will be called upon to take control of the local police station and gradually build his team with both Fazio Senior and Fazio Junior Domenico 'Mimi' Augello and the young and exceedingly eager Officer Catarella. Along the way he'll discover the simple dining pleasures of Calogero's and the unexpected passions that will guide him into the waiting - always waiting - arms of Livia. Drawing on the bestselling novels and short stories of acclaimed Italian author Andrea Camilleri in a Sicilian world of loan sharks mafia families drug-dealing perilous love affairs and murder Michele Riondini is Young Montalbano. Episodes Comprise: The First Case (La Prima Indagine) New Year's Day (Capodanno) Back to Basics (Ritorno Alle Origini) Mortally Wounded (Ferito a Morte) The Third Secret (Il Terzo Segreto) Seven Mondays (Sette Lunedi) Special Features: Andrea Camilleri Biography Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Curb Your Enthusiasm - Complete HBO Season 8 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £17.42   |  Saving you £7.57 (43.46%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Coast to coast, from Manhattan Island to Manhattan Beach, there's nobody who compares to Larry David when it comes to speaking one's mind, no matter the cost or consequences. That will be hysterically self-evident in July, when the new season of HBO's hit comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres.

• Thicker Than Water Season 1 | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oscar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer and that her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won t inherit it at all. It is a mother s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

• The Corner (HBO Mini Series) | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £29.16   |  Saving you £0.83 (2.85%)   |  RRP £29.99

  On the front lines of America's drug war, one family is living in the crossfire in The Wire creator David Simon's THE CORNER.

• Most Haunted | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £6.16   |  Saving you £13.59 (308.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This Christmas, Yvette Fielding and the ‘Most Haunted’ team of investigators will take you on a supernatural adventure like no other. Alone and in the dark they experience their worst nightmare yet as they try to find out who (or what) is haunting the manor. On a mission to capture paranormal evidence of things that go bump in the night, the team will find themselves pushed to the very limits. Have they gone too far this time?

• Riverdale - Season 1 | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the characters from Archie Comics, Riverdale gives a subversive take on small-town life. Things aren't always what you expect in Riverdale. As a new school year begins, the town is reeling from the tragic death of high school golden boy Jason Blossom. The summer's events made all-American teen Archie Andrews realize that he wants to pursue a career in music, but his fractured friendship with Jughead Jones, and Josie McCoy's focus on her own band leaves Archie without a mentor. Meanwhile, girl-next-door Betty Cooper is not ready to reveal her true feelings for Archie, and new student, Veronica Lodge, has an undeniable spark with her crush. And then there's Cheryl Blossom, Riverdale's Queen Bee, who stirs up trouble amongst Archie, Betty and Veronica. But is Cheryl hiding something about the mysterious death of her twin brother, Jason? Riverdale may look like a quiet, sleepy town, but there's more to the story.

• Vixen - Season 1-2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Vixen is based on the DC Character Mari McCabe / Vixen, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to mimic the abilities of any animal that has ever lived on Earth. The series is set in the same fictional universe as Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow.

• Jeremy Clarkson - World War II Collection | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £15.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (4.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson presents two fascinating and informative documentaries focusing on some of the bravest actions of World War II.The Victoria Cross: For Valour:In September 1944 at the Battle of Arnhem, Major Cain won what was described as the finest Victoria Cross of the whole war. Telling his story, along with other personal accounts of staggering bravery, Jeremy Clarkson looks at the history of the highest military decoration awarded for valour in the face of the enemy.The Greatest Raid Of All:Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so successful and so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry.

• Guy Martin: Our Guy In India | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £6.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Motorcycle enthusiast and engineer Guy Martin is going on a brand new adventure in this intrepid travelogue series that sees him experience India from his trusty motorbike. Starting in the capital Delhi, Guy's plan is to head north - crossing the highest road in the Himalayas, the Khardung La Pass, and finishing in the remote village of Turtuk - following two aspects of life that he is genuinely interested in... tea and motorbikes. On the way, Guy will be making a few pit stops - including the luxurious family home of one of India s oldest tea plantations and the garage of one of India's female truck mechanics - plus of course, there will be a few spontaneous diversions that naturally crop up as his journey unfolds! Armed with his motorbike and the open road - Guy is ready to take India by storm in this charismatic series.

• NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 3 | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £17.98   |  Saving you £34.00 (212.63%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Season 3 of NCIS: Los Angeles hits the ground shooting as the team lands in Romania to rescue their boss and friend, Hetty Lange (Oscar winner Linda Hunt), from a ruthless crime family. But Hetty's mission is as much personal as it is professional, revealing a bombshell secret about team leader G Callen's (Chris O'Donnell) past.This secret culminates in the team's first-ever collaboration with Hawaii Five-0, in a joint effort to prevent a global pandemic... which ultimately brings Callen's vendetta full circle. The team pulls together with the bold moves of ex-Navy SEAL Sam Hanna (LL Cool J), Special Agent Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) and LAPD liaison Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen).While the operatives hunt the world for criminals, Eric Beale (Barrett Foa) and Nell Jones (Rene Felice Smith) are the home-base tech wizards who keep them posted on all international intel. In this 6-disc, 23-episode set, every mission keeps the team on its toes... and viewers on the edge of suspense.

• The Avengers: The Complete Series 1-6 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  All the surviving episodes from series 1-6 of the cult 1960s action series starring Patrick MacNee, Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg. Series 1 episodes are: 'Hot Snow' (incomplete; first 15 minutes only), 'Girl On a Trapeze', 'The Frighteners'. Series 2 episodes are; 'Mission to Montreal', 'Dead On Course', 'The Sell Out', 'Death Dispatch', 'Propellant 23', 'Mr Teddy Bear', 'The Decapod', 'Bullseye', 'The Removal Men', 'The Mauritius Penny', 'Death of a Great Dane', 'Death On the Rocks', 'Traitor in Zebra', 'The Big Thinker', 'Intercrime', 'Warlock', 'Immortal Clay', 'Box of Tricks', 'The Golden Eggs', 'School for Traitors', 'The White Dwarf', 'The Man in the Mirror', 'Conspiracy of Silence', 'A Chorus of Frogs', 'Six Hands Across a Table' and 'Killer Whale'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Concerto', 'Brief for Murder', 'The Nutshell, 'The Golden Fleece', 'Death a la Carte', 'Man With Two Shadows', 'Don't Look Behind You', 'The Grandeur That Was Rome', 'The Undertakers', 'Death of a Batman', 'Build a Better Mousetrap', 'November Five', 'Second Sight', 'The Secrets Broker', 'The Gilded Cage', 'The Medicine Man', 'The White Elephant', 'Dressed to Kill', 'The Wringer', 'The Little Wonders', 'Mandrake', 'The Trojan Horse', 'The Outside-In Man', 'The Charmers', 'Esprit de Corps' and 'Lobster Quadrille'. Series 4 episodes are: 'The Town of No Return', 'The Murder Market', 'The Master Minds', 'Dial a Deadly Number', 'Death at Bargain Prices', 'Too Many Christmas Trees', 'The Cybernauts', 'The Gravediggers', 'Room Without a View', 'A Surfeit of H20', 'Two's a Crowd', 'Man-Eater of Surrey Green', 'Silent Dust', 'The Hour That Never Was', 'Castle De'ath', 'The Thirteenth Hole', 'Small Game for Big Hunters', 'The Girl from Auntie', 'Quick-Quick Slow Death', 'The Danger Makers', 'A Touch of Brimstone', 'What the Butler Saw', 'The House That Jack Built', 'A Sense of History', 'How to Succeed... at Murder' and 'Honey for the Prince'. Series 5 episodes: 'The Fear Merchants', 'Escape in Time', 'The Bird Who Knew Too Much', 'From Venus With Love', The See-Through Man', 'The Winged Avenger', 'The Living Dead', 'The Hidden Tiger', 'The Correct Way to Kill', 'Never, Never Say Die', 'Epic', 'The Superlative Seven', 'A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Station', 'Something Nasty in the Nursery', 'The Joker', 'Who's Who???', Death's Door', 'Return of the Cybernauts', 'Dead Man's Treasure', 'The £50,000 Breakfast', 'You Have Just Been Murdered', 'Murdersville', 'The Positive-Negative Man' and 'Mission... Highly Improbable'. Series 6 episodes are: 'The Forget-Me-Knot', 'Invasion of the Earthmen', 'The Curious Case of the Countless Clues', 'Split!', 'Get-A-Way!', 'Have Guns-Will Haggle', 'Look-(Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...', 'My Wildest Dream', 'Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?', 'You'll Catch Your Death', 'All Done with Mirrors', 'Super Secret Cypher Snatch', 'Game', 'False Witness', 'Noon-Doomsday', 'Legacy of Death', 'They Keep Killing Steed', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Killer', 'The Rotters', 'The Interrogators', 'The Morning After', 'Love All', 'Take Me to Your Leader', 'Stay Tuned', 'Fog', 'Who Was That Man I Saw You With?', 'Pandora', 'Thingumajig', 'Homicide and Old Lace', 'Requiem', 'Take-Over' and 'Bizarre'.