Television

• Gina Yashere - Skinny Bitch! | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.67   |  Saving you £2.32 (30.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gina Yashere brings her substantial comic talents to DVD. A Mock the Week regular Gina has travelled the globe and delighted audiences everywhere. A semi finalist in Sydney Australia in the 'Last Comic Standing' competition and was also the first British comedian to appear on Def Comedy Jam.

• Aerial Britain: The Coast to Coast Walk | DVD | (09/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

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• Magnus | DVD | (12/12/2016) from £13.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Benjamin Ree co-writes and directs this documentary which charts the rise to stardom of Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen, who at the age of 23 became one of the youngest chess grandmasters in history. Featuring archive footage and interviews with some of the leading players on the chess circuit, the film takes a detailed look at Carlsen's rapid progression from exciting child prodigy to multiple world champion.

• Underbelly Files: The Movie Collection | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  TELL THEM LUCIFER WAS HERE For two young police officers, a night in the back roads of Moorabbin, Victoria, was just a routine surveillance operation, but Rod Miller and Gary Silk had no inkling it was to be the last night of their lives, coldly shot by two men on a getaway from robbing a local diner. Detective Inspector Paul Sheridan and a crew of investigators determined to find the killers, but the men Sheridan was convinced lay behind the crime proved to be ruthless opponents. ...

• The Complete Stressed Eric Collection | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Since its 1990’s broadcast, Carl Gorham’s multi award-winning animated sitcom has achieved cult status. Now released for the first time on DVD and including all thirteen episodes as well as a host of exclusive extras, this really is The Complete Stressed Eric Collection. Eric Feeble is 40, a divorced father with two kids and a crippling mortgage. His son is thick, his daughter is allergic to everything and his au-pair is an unreliable waster. The successful and wealthy Perfect family, who live next door, provide a constant and irritating reminder of what his life could have been. At work, a series of stress related illnesses have seen him demoted from Sales through half a dozen offices to the dark, dank wastelands of the Data Department, next to the Gentlemen’s lavatory. Through it all Eric battles on, a man whose very survival each week against impossible odds makes him an ulcer-growing hero for our times. Featuring the voices of Alexander Armstrong, Rebecca Front, Mark Heap, Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks, Gordon Kennedy and Doon Mackichan. Special Features Cast Interviews Drawing the characters with Stig Bergqvist Audio Commentaries Original Animatic of the ‘Nativity’ Episode Static Storyboard of the ‘Pony’ Episode US Episode BBC Trails

• Reg (BBC) | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £13.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (19.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tim Roth stars as the father who confronted Tony Blair over Britain's role in the Iraq war. Lance Corporal Tom Keys, Reg Keys' son, was one of six British Military Policemen murdered in Iraq in 2003 when angry crowds descended on a police station. As Reg and his wife Sally struggle to come to terms with the devastating news, questions begin to arise not only around the events that led to Tom s death, but also the legitimacy of the war as a whole. Driven by grief, anger, and a need for answers, Reg decides to stand against Tony Blair as an independent candidate in the 2005 general election. This heart-wrenching film follows Reg s journey, from his decision to stand to his experiences on the campaign trail, all the way through to election night as the results are announced.

• Man in a Suitcase - To Chase a Million | Blu Ray | (05/07/2021) from £10.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When former Russian spy Max Stein is murdered, private investigator McGill inherits a key to a safe deposit box in a Lisbon bank a box that contains secret intelligence documents and a cool million dollars! With both the CIA and rogue elements within the Russian intelligence community in hot pursuit, McGill puts his life on the line in a race to the fortune! Featuring a powerful performance from Richard Bradford as McGill, a discredited ex-CIA agent reduced to working as a private investigator, To Chase a Million is the exceptionally rare, feature-length version of the Man in a Suitcase two-parter Variation on a Million Bucks. With a strong story from award-winning writer Stanley R. Greenberg, it is presented here as a brand-new widescreen High Definition remaster from original film elements. Special feature: Fullscreen version

• Upstairs Downstairs | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £3.46   |  Saving you £17.79 (808.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A spectacular critical and ratings success when first transmitted on ITV Upstairs Downstairs still maintains its position as one of the major success stories of British television worldwide. Multi award-winning (including ones from BAFTA the Writers Guild the Royal Television Society Emmies and Golden Globes) the series stars Jean Marsh Gordon Jackson Angela Baddeley Pauline Collins and Lesley-Anne Down and was produced by John Hawkesworth. Upstairs Downstairs takes place in 165 Eaton Place from the turn of the century through the Great War and into the Roaring Twenties and concerns the Bellamy family: politician Richard Bellamy his wives Marjorie and Virginia wastrel son James wayward daughter Elizabeth and his flighty ward Georgina Worsley. The house domestics are led by Hudson the Butler a conservative Scot who must contend with the 'below stairs' behaviour of the household staff including cook Mrs Bridges and maids Rose and Sarah.

• Castle - Season 1-5 | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £54.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £52.99

  Together at last! Now you can experience every thrilling and provocative moment of Castle and Beckett's first five seasons in one spectacular DVD set. After years of heated banter Castle and Beckett have finally revealed their true feelings for one another. They may be a killer combo but how will their newfound passion affect their work together? Get on the beat with a world-famous crime novelist and a beautiful streetwise detective as they try to crack the most mystifying cases New York City has to offer. Relive each misadventure and every hilarious twist of 'Caskett's' riveting relationship in this comprehensive collection - complete with captivating bonus features available only on DVD! Special Features: Season 1: Misdemeanours: Bloopers and Outtakes Whodunit: The Genesis of Castle - Meet the creators of Castle and find out which classic detective shows and writers inspired and influenced them Write-Along With Nathan Fillion - Join the star of Castle as he spends a hilarious day tagging along with a real-life mystery writer Castle's Godfather - Meet frequent Castle guest star and legendary mystery writer and television producer Stephen J. Cannell Audio Commentaries Season 2: On Set with Seamus and Jon - Go Behind the Scenes with the Cast's Resident Comedians Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas. As They Reveal Secrets of the Set On Location with Nathan - Nathan Fillion Introduces Us to Some of His Favourite Crew Members and Demonstrates Some Interesting Tricks of the Trade Manhattan's Most Unusual Murders - Discover How The Production Team Stages Murders Using Research Props And Special Effects With Inside Stories From The Producers Actors And Set Designers Deleted Scenes Misdemeanours: Bloopers and Outtakes Season 3: Deleted Scenes Bloopers and Outtakes Murder They Wrote - Follow This Roundtable Discussion As Icons From The World Of Mystery-Solving Discuss Tricks Of The Trade And Reveal Insights. To Castle Star Nathan Fillion and Executive Producers Andrew Marlowe and Rob Bowman Castle Goes Hollywood - 'To Love And Die In L.A.' Spend Time With Cast And Crew As Castle And Beckett Take L.A. By Storm Cast and Crew Commentaries Murder Board 101 Season 4: View Rise With Audio Commentary by Director and Executive Producer Rob Bowman and Actors Jon Hearts Seamous Dever and Tamala Jones View Cuffed with audio commentary By Creator and Executive Producer Writer Andrew W. Marlowe Writer Terri Miller and Actors Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic View The Blue Butterfly with audio commentary by Writer Terence Paul Winter Costume Designer like Reichle and Actors Susan Sullivan Tamala Jones and Molly Quinn Fillion and Friends - Castle Goes Radio: Making the Show Work juice Commercial Sparks Nevada Marshall on Mars Cactoid Jim King Of The Martian Frontier Submerged: An In-depth Looks at Stunts Bowman Bowman and Castle Deleted Scenes Bloopers Season 5 Deleted Scene: Are We Dating? Martha's Master Class Lot Cops Your Home Is Your Castle Gag Reel

• Travelers: Season One | Blu Ray | (02/07/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.70 (314.63%)   |  RRP £20.69

  Hundreds of years in the future, the last remaining humans discover a means of sending consciousness back through time. These 'travelers' assume the lives of seemingly random people in the 21st century in order to secretly save humanity from the natural and man-made disasters, harmful politics and policies that resulted in the dystopian future they abandoned. The travelers assume the lives of people who are about to die. Despite rigorous research into their hosts' lives, they quickly find out that impersonating these people is more difficult than they could ever imagine. For them, keeping up pretenses will prove just as tough as their high-stake missions. FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren (Eric McCormack) is the team's leader who after the nearly fatal pursuit of a criminal, is taken over by a traveler from the future. The newly arrived MacLaren is immediately forced to live a double life while pretending to be an FBI agent, acting like the man his wife of 11 years knows and loves, while juggling the complicated plans set out for him and his team from the future. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Guy Martin: Speed 3 & F1 Special | DVD | (28/11/2016) from £6.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guy Martin is back to push the boundaries of the science of speed. As always, Guy will be recruiting the very best of current day British engineering talent to provide plenty of knowledge and help in his mission. But will he succeed? Guy goes head to head with Formula One legend David Coulthard to see if a F1 car has the edge over a Moto GP bike in four break-neck challenges. Guy will also try and cross the channel in a human-powered airship that he'll design and try to race the fastest human-powered boat and he will race his customized Transit van in the fastest road-race on the planet; the Nevada Open Road Challenge

• Top Gear - The Great African Adventure | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Welcome to the muddy funny and marvellous Top Gear Africa special in which Clarkson Hammond and May saddle up three tired old estate cars and set off to find the source of the Nile. Their journey starts with insane traffic jams and mountainous speed bumps takes in dubious hotels and ingenious modifications before entering an epic odyssey of treacherous mud impenetrable forests vicious crocodiles and truly breathtaking scenery building to a brilliant brutal climax and a glorious landmark discovery. Special Features: Over 20 Minutes of Previously Unseen Idiocy

• Friday Night Lights - Season 5 | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The fifth and final season - One of the highest praised and most critically-acclaimed series on television, this compelling drama from executive producers Brian Grazer and Peter Berg takes place in Dillon, Texas, a community obsessed with the status of its high school football team. The head coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), constantly feels the pressure of the town's expectations as he leads this troubled and conflicted team throughout another season. While offering unique insight into an outsized, bigger-than-life Texas culture, Friday Night Lights really tells a story universal for all audiences - that there is more to life than victory and that there is more to being a man than being a winner. ***** The Telegraph

• Waffle The Wonder Dog - Waffles Day Out | DVD | (01/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Joan Rivers - (Still alive) at the London Palladium (Exclusive to amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £21.46   |  Saving you £-1.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Chief - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (55.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Series three of this outstanding police procedural drama sees the role of Chief Constable passing from John Stafford (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) to former Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Cade (Martin Shaw - The Professionals Judge John Deed). This release contains all six episodes originally transmitted in 1993. As John Stafford takes up a new position with Europol Alan Cade replaces him as Chief Constable at Eastland East Anglia; Anne Stewart continues as Cade's deputy. While Cade is every bit as capable as his predecessor he finds that the challenge of frontline policing continues to be eclipsed by the pressure to manage ever-tighter budgets and justify expenditure. Sharing Stafford's tolerant but scrupulous approach he also faces ongoing conflict with his superiors and certain local politicians whose cavalier attitudes towards issues of civil liberties contrast sharply with his own.

• Bear Grylls: Born Survivor - Complete Season Five And Six | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £15.73   |  Saving you £17.25 (135.40%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Survival doesn't get tougher than this! If you were ever stranded in the wilderness there are few people who'd be handier to have with you than Bear Grylls. As a former SAS man and survival expert Bear's adventures have seen him travel all over the world to prove himself as the 'ultimate survivor'. You name it he's tackled it taking on extreme survival dares in some of the world's most hostile environments. In Series 5 and 6 of Born Survivor Bear travels to the four corners of the Earth revealing what it takes to stay alive when faced with the toughest of conditions. Along the way Bear takes on snakes scorpions and terrifying vertical drops in Arizona rappels into the forbidding jungles of Borneo and is dropped on an ice cap covering an active volcano in Iceland revealing the skills and survival tips you need to stay alive in some of the most extreme locations on the planet.

• Happy Valley - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £17.54   |  Saving you £8.71 (53.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sarah Lancashire returns in the acclaimed BBC thriller written by Sally Wainwright. No-nonsense police sergeant Catherine Cawood is back heading up her team of dedicated police officers in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. While on duty, she makes a gruesome discovery - a body. The victim's injuries bear a striking similarity to a string of other murders over the previous few months, suggesting a serial killer is on the loose. But the case becomes even more shocking when it emerges that Catherine knows the victim - something that could have serious repercussions for both herself and her family.

• Death Watch | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Before Big Brother there was Death Watch. Media mogul Vincent Ferriman (Harry Dean Stanton) wants to create the most popular reality television show ever. He cajoles journalist Roddy (Harvey Keitel) into having cameras implanted in his eyes and sets him on the trail of terminally ill Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider), but this unwitting celebrity has other ideas. Shot in Glasgow in 1979/80, Bertrand Tavernier's prescient cult sci-fi noir has been completely digitally restored and is ripe for rediscovery. Extras include extended interviews, rarely seen production still shots and much more.

• Cold War Hots Jets (Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (11/05/2018) from £12.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the Skies In 1945 as Britain prepared for peace the country was thrown into a different kind of conflict, one that forced the nation to learn a new language of war. COLD WAR, HOT JETS is a BBC/Open University film that traces the story of Britain s jet aircraft industry; from international sales successes which provided a post-war economic lifeline to its role in some of the most dangerous espionage missions of the cold war and eventually, how it became the platform for Britain's ultimate deterrent. Historian and novelist James Holland presents a gripping and exhilarating journey through 20 years of dazzling aircraft innovation and design that was driven relentlessly by the threat of fearsome global conflict. This DVD features sensational footage of some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring aircraft ever created: the Meteor, the Vampire, the Javelin, the V-Force, the English Electric Lightning, TS-R2 and many more. Here also is film of the men who flew them, from dashing test pilots performing at Farnborough Air Shows to Vulcan bomber air crews training to respond to a 2 minute warning, together with interviews with veterans, some of whom lived in the knowledge that they could be ordered to fly into nuclear Armageddon at any time.