Television

• Ashes To Ashes - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  8 episodes of Ashes to Ashes the BBC's follow-up to Life On Mars starring Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes.

• The Wonders Collection - Special Edition | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £15.14   |  Saving you £19.85 (131.11%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Wonders of the Solar System ReviewThe latest example of just how much a terrific documentary series can benefit from the Blu-ray format, Wonders Of The Solar System is a fascinating six-part series that simply looks stunning in high definition. Presented by Professor Brian Cox, the series takes time to investigate the solar system around us, and the many natural beauties contained within it. Across the episodes, Cox covers the likes of planets themselves, the rings of Saturn, the question of whether we’re alone in the universe, and the sun itself. What lifts Wonders Of The Solar System above the many shows that have tackled the subject before, however, are two factors. Firstly, it’s Cox himself, an enthused and interesting host, who explains things well and really helps make accessible the material. Secondly, it’s the utterly stunning visuals. The BBC has mixed in CGI along with images sent directly from space to quite breathtaking effect. And this, inevitably, is where the Blu-ray kicks in. Wonders Of The Solar System simply looks wonderful in high definition, with the visuals coming across terrifically well. On DVD, this all looked very impressive. Here, it’s simply brilliant, and the end result is a series that can sit alongside Planet Earth as an example of just what Blu-ray can do for material of this quality and ilk. --Jon Foster

• After You've Gone - Series 2 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £28.82   |  Saving you £-13.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jimmy is the only man who after his divorce still has to deal with his disapproving meddling mother-in-law. When his ex-wife volunteers to go to east Africa to help the victims of a natural disaster weekend-dad Jimmy agrees to take care of their two teenage kids full time in an attempt to win her back!

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 4 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £34.20   |  Saving you £0.79 (2.31%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In its fourth season, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had to change its formula radically. Two major characters--the vampire-with-a-soul Angel and Cordelia, the queen bitch of Sunnydale High--had gone off to be in their own show, Angel, and soon after the start of the season Willow's werewolf boyfriend Oz left when Seth Green needed to concentrate on his film career. Buffy and Willow started college, where they met new characters like Riley, the All-American Boy with a double life, and Tara, the sweet stuttering witch; but Xander and Giles found themselves at something of a loose end. Several characters were subjected to the radical re-envisioning possible in a show that deals with the supernatural: the blond vampire Spike came back and soon found himself with an inhibitor chip in his head, forced into reluctant alliance with Buffy; the former vengeance demon Anya became passionately smitten with Xander. Not all fans were happy with the central story arc about the sinister Dr Walsh (Lindsay Crouse) and her Frankensteinian creation Adam, though Crouse's performance was memorable. The strength of Season Four was perhaps most in impressive stand-alone episodes like the silent "Hush", the multiple dream sequence "Restless" and the passionate, moving "New Moon Rising", in which Oz returns, apparently cured, only to find that Willow is no longer waiting for him. This was one of the high points of the show as a vehicle for intense acting, perhaps only equalled by "Who Are You?", in which the evil slayer Faith takes over Buffy's body and Sarah Michelle Gellar gets to play bad girl for once. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: Buffy Season 4 was a hit and so is this sublime box set. The commentaries for "The Initiative", "This Year'sGirl", "Superstar" and "Primaveral" are all well above average, but are nothing compared to "Hush" and "Restless" where Joss Whedon gives out all the information and insights any fan would dream of. The four featurettes included are a pleasure to watch, especially the evolution of the sets for the show. The scripts, trailers and cast biographies complete the set and make for a decent addition to your Buffy archive. The soundtrack is in 2.0 Dolby surround, but the image is as grainy and dark as the previous seasons on DVD. --Celine Martig

• Merlin: The Complete Collection | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a land of myth and a time of magic... the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man. His name... Merlin. Swords, sorcery and swashbuckling adventure rule in the hit series Merlin! This complete collection brings together all five series, as we follow the young warlock Merlin (Colin Morgan) as he attempts to fulfil his destiny at the side of the future King Arthur (Bradley James). Featuring a stellar cast including Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Anthony Head, Richard Wilson, and John Hurt as the voice of the Dragon, this collection tells the epic story of the golden age of Camelot! SPECIAL FEATURES: Making of Merlin documentaries Out-takes Cast & crew audio commentaries Deleted scenes Wallpapers Series 2: Secrets & Magic Photo galleries

• The Seasons In Quincy - Four Portraits Of John Berger | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton and Colin MacCabe to produce a portrait of this fascinating figure and celebrate his ideas, his art and the man himself. The four essay films that comprise The Seasons in Quincy combine different aspects of Berger s life in the Haute-Savoie with ideas and motifs from his work amid the reflective atmosphere of his mountain home. Each film was created as an individual work of art but viewed together form a beautifully paced and meditative feature-length documentary that demonstrates how film can move beyond text and art to offer a multi-faceted and multi-layered portrait of an extraordinary human being.

• Wentworth Prison Season Two Volume 1 | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £20.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Big Bang Theory - Season 1-6 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £16.57   |  Saving you £53.42 (322.39%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Season 1Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists the kind of beautiful minds that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon Leonard's roommate is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love. Season 2The science of funny is back! At work physicists Leonard and Sheldon and their geek pals conquer the cosmos. At home real life from dating to driving conquers them. This season Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!) Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch. Raj woos a terminator. Gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan. And super-smart überconfident Leslie Winkle reduces mere men to spineless jellyfish. Twenty-three laugh-filled episodes from series creators Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and Bill Prady (Dharma & Greg) and a talented cast with astronomical comedy I.Q.s show why Big Bang is such a big hit. Season 3Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big wide wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy clueless Sheldon and practical grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse. This complete 3-Disc 23-Episode Season 3 Set also features Raj Howard tattoos football awkward dates jail time Stan Lee a The Lord of the Rings ring and all the fun of a series that only gets better. The Big Bang Theory has transformed from a cute comedy about eggheads and their hottie neighbor into an addictive ensemble piece that could be this decade's answer to Friends (Lynette Rice Entertainment Weekly). Season 4This season the Big Bang gang's romantic universe expands. On the rebound from Penny Leonard falls into the arms of Raj's sister Priya. Sheldon gets a girlfriend or rather a friend who is a girl: Amy a dour neurobiologist who declares herself besties with Penny. Howard and Bernadette heat up. And so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj's Bollywood daydream). All in the furtherance of award-winning genius comedy. Season 5Regarding the opposite sex they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes chemical deviations girls and other mysteries of the universe in all 24 phenomenally funny episodes of Season Five. With Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard's relationship in uncharted terrain Sheldon Howard (Simon Helberg) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) discover that the feminine mystique is something that cannot be easily graphed or calculated. As they muddle through relationship bugs and romance re-launches they also discover it's nothing a good roll of the D and D dice or a paintball tournament can't solve. Season 6Whether on or above Earth hilarity is outrageously universal in TV's most popular comedy featuring four forward-thinking but socially backward geniuses. Fun discoveries multiply: Leonard learns jealousy is bad for a relationship (with Penny) but science is good for seduction (of Penny). Howard finds life in the International Space Station life is no escape from terrestrial turmoil between his mom and his new wife Bernadette. Raj meets someone special who may be a good match if he can keep her from fleeing mid-date. And then there's Sheldon. He learns what not to say after facing harassment charges or competing for tenure at work and how Dungeons and Dragons can be the icebreaker his relationship with Amy needs. For those who need laughter with scientific regularity this 24-episode Season Six set of The Big Bang Theory will rock your cosmos.

• Blackadder the Third (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £5.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (186.05%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rowan Atkinson's irredeemably wicked Edmund Blackadder has moved forward in time from the court of Queen Elizabeth but a little down the social ladder. He's now butler to Hugh Laurie's congenitally stupid Prince Regent on the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries, and if that wasn't bad enough he's still accompanied by Tony Robinson's dim-witted Baldrick, whose cunning plans never fail to make an impossible situation worse. Blackadder's desperate scheming and utter contempt for all he surveys hasn't changed, nor have the baroque complexities of the situations in which he becomes embroiled: from an anachronistic war of words with Dr Johnson (Robbie Coltrane relishing every syllable) to taking on the Scarlet Pimpernel at his own game, to fighting a duel with a psychopathic Duke of Wellington, Edmund's luck never seems to change. Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's sharp scripts have more fun with the period setting than ever before, as contemporary literary archetypes from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen are ripe for lampooning. Howard Goodall's theme tune is updated to a glorious classical pastiche, while the extravagant costumes of the times hardly need altering to achieve the desired effect. The comedy is so good it seemed this could never be bettered, until Blackadder Goes Forth that is. --Mark Walker

• LARAMIE: SEASON ONE - LARAMIE: SEASON ONE (6 DVD) | DVD | (11/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Plantagenets ( As seen on BBC2 a 3 part series presented by Professor Robert Bartlett) | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Sarah Silverman Programme: Season 2 | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join the Emmy nominated Sarah Silverman and the rest of the gang on their latest adventures and learn what everyone else has already realized: it's Sarah's world and the rest of us are just living in it. Episodes Comprise: High It's Sarah Mongolian Beef Making New Friends Patriot Tact Pee There's No Place Like Homeless Fetus Don't Fail Me Now I Thought My Dad Was Dead But It Turns Out He's Not Kangamangus Vow Wow

• Prisoners of War (Hatufim) - Series 1 | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £8.49   |  Saving you £26.50 (312.13%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Prisoners of War is the gripping ten-part drama on which the American series Homeland is based. When three Israeli Defence Force reservists are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate is unknown, that is until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return - two of them alive, the third in a coffin. The story of their time in captivity unfolds as they attempt to reintegrate into society; trying to cope with the pressures of being reintroduced to their families and friends, as well as handling the national hero status being thrust upon them via the public limelight. The gripping plot unravels through three time plains; before capture, life in captivity and present day, which all intertwine to reveal dark secrets about their life in captivity.

• Bates Motel - Season 1-3 | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-7.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  After the death of her husband Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga The Conjuring) buys a motel in the picturesque coastal town of White Pine Bay giving herself and teenage son Norman (Freddie Highmore Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) a chance to begin anew. Shy Norman is reluctant at frst but with the help of his mother - with whom he shares an intensely close relationship - the boy begins to open up to others and make new friends. Some locals however aren’t as friendly and welcoming to the Bates who discover that because White Pine Bay isn’t as peaceful as it appears they are forced to do whatever it takes to survive. From executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) and inspired by the seminal 1960 horror flm Psycho BATES MOTEL explores the formative years of Norman Bates and how his complicated bond with his mother forged a serial killer. Features: Deleted Scenes Broken Psyche: Creating Norma(n)

• Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977) (DVD) | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Jack Hedley stars as Alan Haldane an ex-soldier who returns to Crete, thirty years after fighting alongside the local resistance during the Second World War. Alan is wanting to take stock of his life following the sale of his boat-building business. He wants to look for his beloved Melina, from whom he has heard nothing from in his years away from the island. When he arrives in Crete he finds the ghosts of the past waiting for him, along with those who wish to do him harm. The shadows of his past interrupt and threaten his present happiness. When an old friend tells him Melina passed away and left a daughter, his daughter, Alan decides to stay on the island to be close to his new family. When he meets Annika (Betty Arvaniti), Melina's sister he falls in love with her. However, he does not take into account the hatred of the elderly Katerina (Patience Collier) who breathes new life into an old feud, and puts his life at serious risk. Torn between fear and desire Alan is slowly but surely separated from the past. According to Greek mythology, when you die Charon, the ferryman, takes you over the River Styx to the realm of the dead, Hades, for this he must be paid. The plot of the series reaches the unbearable pitch of a genuine Greek tragedy by the stunning final episode. The question is: who will die? Who Pays The Ferryman? was originally transmitted by the BBC in 1977. The programme was a major success, watched by millions, the theme tune made the top ten and Michael J. Bird (The Lotus Eaters) established himself as one of the leading screenwriters of the time. This long requested series is exclusively restored and presented here for the first time in the UK, released as a 3-disc DVD.

• Spellbound | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £17.51   |  Saving you £-11.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Award-winning documentary following eight kids competing for the position of best speller in the National Spelling Bee competition in America.

• Guy Martin: Total Speed Boxset (series 1/2/3 and F1 Special) | Blu Ray | (28/11/2016) from £7.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All three series of Guy Martin's Speed in this box set. Featuring 12 different speed challenges from his popular Channel 4 show.

• Tiger & Bunny Part 2 Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack (Episodes 8-14) | Blu Ray | (22/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Sternbild City is home to people called Next who use their special abilities to protect the people as superheroes. These heroes solve cases and save lives so they can wear sponsor logos or acquire hero points. Their activities are documented on the popular program Hero TV which picks the King of Heroes in a yearly ranking. The veteran hero Wild Tiger has always preferred to work alone but now he's been assigned the rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr. who has a different perspective on being a superhero.

• Supernatural: Seasons 1-10 | Blu Ray | (21/03/2016) from £69.95   |  Saving you £50.04 (71.54%)   |  RRP £119.99

  The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as SUPERNATURAL enters its tenth season. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have spent their lives on the road, battling every kind of supernatural threat. Over the years, after dozens of bloody adventures, they have faced everything from the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters, angels and fallen gods. They even came face to face with Lucifer and the Four Horsemen in averting the Apocalypse. With the help of allies -- both human and supernatural -- they've discovered that every threat they vanquish opens a new door for evil to enter through. In the show's ninth season, their supernatural hunting expedition led them directly into two brand-new power struggles: the first involving the King of Hell and a Demon Knight after his throne; the second centering on an unbalanced angel who's taken over Heaven and exiled legions of volatile angels down to Earth. With the help of their protectors -- the fallen angel Castiel (Misha Collins) and devil-you-know Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard) -- Sam and Dean's lifelong quest to set the world right will take everything they've got ... and a bit more. And now, when the unthinkable happens to Dean, the Winchesters must find a way to make things right before their world explodes.

• The Good Wife - Seasons 1 and 2 | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £17.99   |  Saving you £22.00 (122.29%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Season 1 review: The US TV schedules have never been shy of legal thrillers, and at first glance, The Good Wife is the kind of show that might easily blend into the crowd. And yet is has some key assets in its corner that lift it into something altogether more interesting. The key asset to The Good Wife is Julianna Marguiles in the lead role of Alicia Florrick. Not long after we meet her, we discover that her life has been blown apart by the actions of her husband. Thus, in the middle of her life, she has to restart her career as a junior at a law firm, where she finds herself competing against the younger, fresher graduates. It’s an interesting dynamic, and one that’s strengthened enormously by some terrific writing and thoughtful cases. For it’s the storytelling that’s the other main strength of The Good Wife, and that’s likely to keep you gripped right the way through this maiden season. Granted, there’s a feeling that it often covers ground that many shows have got to before. Yet The Good Wife puts a strong enough spin on the formula to emerge as a quality TV show in its own right. --Jon Foster