Television

• The Hills Season 1 | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £12.36   |  Saving you £7.63 (38.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fans of Laguna Beach will love the first season of The Hills, which follows Laguna's Lauren Conrad as she attends fashion school in Los Angeles and works as an intern at Teen Vogue magazine. OK, so that's the premise for this quasi-reality MTV series. But in reality, the show is an excuse to watch pretty young people make out, break up, get back together, and break up some more. The show has more in common with a daytime drama than a documentary; none of the subjects worries too much about paying rent for their glamorous apartments or designer clothes. But when it comes to dating, the Geneva Convention could learn a thing or two about negotiating from these gals. Lauren fans may be dismayed to learn that Jason, the monosyllabic Lothario who cheated on her in the second season of Laguna Beach is back. And instead of going on dates with the thousands of young men who would love to have a pretty blonde on their arms (and get the opportunity to appear on TV to boot!), Lauren allows Jason to get back into her good graces--even though he hasn't matured since high school. Or figured out how to treat a woman. Or learned how to talk better. It's actually heartbreaking watching her struggle with a relationship that we can all see is doomed. Or is it? The season finale ends with the kind of dilemma we all wish we could've faced when we were 19 or 20: spend the summer working in Paris or move into a beach house with your boyfriend and frolic on the beach for three months. Paris? Jason? Hmmmm. You'd think that'd be a no-brainer. Also on hand to offer support are Lauren's friends Heidi and Audrina. The cast always looks chic and freshly made up (even after getting out of bed) and the cameras somehow always manage to be in the right place to capture romantic moments (and drama). It's easy to make fun of this show because of the preposterous setup that this sun-kissed life is reality for a group of kids who don't seem to have to work that hard for their privileged lives. But therein lies the guilty pleasure. We know it's a fantasy created by MTV. And while we would kill for the rocking apartments, cars, and clothes, there is no way most of us would endure being publicly humiliated to get 15 minutes of fame. --Jae-Ha Kim

• Scandal - Season 1-4 | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £52.99

  Pour the red wine and savour every delicious, decadent drop of OMG! as Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and her gladiators dial up the drama in ABC Studios' Scandal: Seasons 1-4. From unwittingly sleeping with the enemy, to igniting conspiracies that threaten both national security and the entire world whether it's a twisted love triangle, a shocking betrayal, or a high-stakes game of chess between the sheets, this jaw-dropping blend of seduction, power, politics and murder will have you gasping for breath! Surrender to the sexy, captivating series that has become a worldwide obsession with this essential DVD box set, complete with gripping bonus features that put you at the fl ashpoint of Scandal.

• Kojak | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £21.45   |  Saving you £13.54 (63.12%)   |  RRP £34.99

  He's got style, is street smart and has a penchant for lollipops, and he's hitting the gritty streets of New York City in pursuit of some of television's toughest criminals. Relive all his smart, edgy adventures in what is widely regarded as one of the most classic, slickest police dramas of all time. Finally, it's an open-and-shut case for Kojak in the fifth and final series, available for the first time ever on DVD.Includes all 22 epsiodes from the fifth and final season.

• Challenge of the Gobots: The Series: Volume One | DVD | (17/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Birds of a Feather Series 1 & 2 ITV | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Series 1. After nearly fifteen years, Chigwell s most famous daughters are finally back together and this time they re all sharing the same nest. As the series begins, sisters Sharon (Pauline Quirke) and Tracey (Linda Robson) are living separate lives and Dorien (Lesley Joseph) has seemingly flown off into the sunset to live a jetsetting life as Foxy Cohen, the writer of best selling erotic memoir, Sixty Shades of Green . Tracey s marriage to former robber Darryl petered out years ago and although she has since remarried and got divorced again, is still living in relative comfort in Essex s legendary Chigwell with now 17 year old son, Travis (Charlie Quirke), who studies Latin and wants to become a barrister. Tracey gets by with a telesales job, but times aren t easy and she misses her older son Garth, who s been living in Australia. Meanwhile Sharon scrapes a minimum wage in World of Quid , Essex s leading everything's a pound chain and living in a tiny flat which leaves a lot to be desired. After a chance meeting at Dorien's book signing in Chigwell High Street, their lives collide once more Sharon moves back in with Tracey and an impending court case means that Dorien has nowhere to go so moves in too. The nest then gets busier still as Garth, his Australian partner Marcie and her 10 year old daughter Poppy unexpectedly make the long migration back to Chigwell. Join three generations of the family again for proof that for Sharon, Tracey and Dorien, Essex really is the only way ... Series 2: There were never two more unlikely sisters than working class heroines Sharon (Pauline Quirke) and Tracey (Linda Robson). Along with their friend and lodger, man-eater Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph), they're back for another series of laugh-out-loud and bittersweet adventures. Kicking off with a promised Christmas trip to Tenerife, courtesy of Dorien's continued income as 'Sixty Shades of Green' author Foxy Cohen, the Birds share their many successes and failures, including Sharon's interview to become a spy, Tracey's trip to jail and a traditional cockney knees-up with London's Pearly Kings and Queens. But there are life-changing surprises too as Dorien comes face-to-face with someone she thought she'd never see again and a heart-stopping scare for both the Chigwell sisters in a poignant and hilarious two-part finale.

• Minding the Gap | DVD | (29/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First-time filmmaker Bing Liu's Oscar®-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire as he gets his first job. As the film unfolds, Bing is thrust into the middle of Zack s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend and Keire s inner struggles with racial identity and his deceased father. While navigating a complex relationship between his camera and his friends, Bing explores the gap between fathers and sons.

• Witnesses The Complete Season 1 | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £13.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Desecrated graves dead bodies dug up and left in model homes… Every time the same ritual: a woman a man a teenager who weren’t related but who form a new family. Amid the bodies a photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve a Crime Squad legend in the North of France now retired but forced to return to duty. Who is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young female detective Sandra Winckler in charge of the case must work with Paul Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During her investigation she will have to delve into Paul’s past believing him to know more than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past. For the detective and the ex-cop life will never be the same… For in the shadows is a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge

• Richard the Lionheart: The Complete Series | DVD | (28/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Notable Irish actor Dermot Walsh gives a memorable performance as the heroic mediaeval swashbuckler King Richard I in this exciting television series from The Danziger Brothers. Featuring tales of adventure and derring-do both at home and abroad - including a run of tales set on Crusade in the Holy Land - Richard the Lionheart has been transferred from original film elements especially for this release. Featuring a rousing soundtrack by Bill LeSage and memorable theme tune from Buddy Kaye and Philip Springer, the series includes appearances from many notable character actors of the period - including Francis de Wolff, Glyn Owen, Anton Rodgers, Conrad Phillips, Nigel Green, Lisa Daniely, Margaretta Scott and Francis Matthews, among many others. This set contains all 39 episodes. Product Features Lionheart... Remembered and The Danziger Studios Story documentaries Archive interviews with Sheila Whittingham, Trader Faulkner and Iain Gregory Image gallery Colouring Book image gallery Limited edition booklet written by Derek Pykett

• Rock And Chips - Five Gold Rings | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Paula Wilcox Shaun Dingwall Phil Daniels Kellie Bright and James Buckley star in Rock & Chips It's Christmas 1960 and the Trotters are settling into their new flat in Sir Walter Raleigh House Peckham. Rodney is a babe in arms Reg is still drawing the dole and hard-working Joan is struggling to keep the family afloat after losing her jobs at the town hall and the cinema. A 16-year-old Del has left school and is exploring employment opportunities around the docks - including a nice line in selling 45s straight off the back of a boat from America - and Freddie Robdal has been temporarily detained in Wormwood Scrubs at Her Majesty's pleasure. Meanwhile Del who has been advised that slipping an engagement ring on a girl's finger can open up a whole new world of lustful opportunity has managed to get himself engaged to half of Peckham. But will any of his engagements lead to a trip up the aisle?

• In Treatment - Complete HBO Season 3 | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £16.19   |  Saving you £0.81 (5.00%)   |  RRP £17.00

  Rumours of In Treatment's death have been greatly exaggerated. The half-hour HBO drama that was originally adapted from an Israeli TV show has continued to flourish among devoted fans in spite of wide-ranging critical opinion about its integrity and entertainment value. Nevertheless, season three is an absorbing continuation of the life and practice of psychotherapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne), and the tortured processes he undertakes with patients and with himself. Continuing the format of episodes that focus on individual patients--only three this time--then concluding each week with his own therapy session, season three is the first based on original scripts rather than adaptations of episodes from the hit Israeli series Be' Tipul. The new show runners, Anya Epstein and Dan Futterman, follow the previous design in assigning the same writer to script for each patient. The only other major thematic difference is the absence of Dianne Wiest, whose Emmy-winning performance as Paul's mentor, supervisor, and therapist was the highlight of seasons one and two. Fortunately her replacement, Amy Ryan, is as capable an actor and strong a foil to give Paul's panoply of problems a whole new arena for discussion (TV vets Epstein and Futterman were responsible for writing the Amy Ryan "Adele" scripts). Anyone who has experienced the psychotherapeutic process cannot help but be instantly drawn in to the show's eloquent design of talk-and-listen, as secrets are told or held back, fears and desires explored or repressed. Even those who are perfectly adjusted and scoff at the value of psychological treatment should be fascinated by the twists and turns that mostly seem entirely naturalistic, and better yet, unexpected. The 50-minute hour that is shortened to 20-something for dramatic purposes may sometimes play against the realistic portrayal of the professional dynamic, but after all, this isn't reality. Even so, the episodes crackle in their basic form as one-act plays that thrive on nothing but two people trading razor-sharp dialogue about who they are and what they're thinking. Paul is still listening, and he's entirely engaged. The flow of each session reflects the depth of his perception as he leads himself and his patient back to points, gestures, and remarks that may have been made in passing, yet which represent the basic spectacle of the therapeutic process and the essential role the therapist has in that relationship. We understand that what goes on in his office affects him as much as his patients. That's where Amy Ryan comes in as the young, brilliant psychiatrist who Paul sees at the end of each week to bare his own tortured soul. He's still terribly depressed. His ex-wife is remarrying, he's plagued with guilt over his 12-year-old son, and he has terrorized himself into believing that he's becoming his father, even to the point of being convinced that he'll die of the same disease (Parkinson's). At first Ryan comes off as the perfect psychiatric ice queen. But as their connection deepens with knowledge, insight, transference, counter-transference, and enthralling exchanges of actorly acrobatics (their butts never leave their seats!), she becomes perhaps the show's most compelling character. She's in great company with Debra Winger as a patient who plays an aging actress (though decidedly not typecast) who finds work elusive and is facing some ordinary family struggles as well. Not only does she look terrific, Winger brings the best game she has to her sparring-match scenes with Byrne. As an anguished gay teen, Dane DeHaan is the weakest character. He's saddled with annoying sexual and adolescent stereotypes that seem to be thrown into the show's mix just for a proper portrayal of patient demographics. Best of all is the Indian actor Irrfan Khan (best known for The Namesake and Slumdog Millionaire) as a maladjusted immigrant whose inscrutable nature fascinates Paul. As the most glaring example of how Paul's relationships with his patients sometimes slip into the inappropriate, the two become friends of sorts, even into the ultimate and unforeseen conclusion of this sensational seasonal thread. In all, In Treatment continues to be an engrossing dramatization of psychotherapy, made human by excellent writing and gripping characterizations. --Ted Fry

• My Hero Academia: Season Three Part Two Blu-ray/DVD Combo | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The dual format release meant for anyone who previously purchased the My Hero Academia Season 3 Part 1 Collector's Edition.

• Harry & Paul - Series 4 | DVD | (10/12/2012) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse return in their double BAFTA award-winning sketch show. The kings of the bang-on-the-nail sketch are back with a blast as the inspired characters and spot-on spoofs just keep on coming – but don’t fret, the old favourites are all here too... This series welcomes the incomprehensible Horse Trainers, the hard-bitten American Cops, the overlooked but jolly Minor Royals (featuring Victoria Wood), the gossipy 50s Typists (featuring Kevin Eldon), the bizarrely threatening Portuguese Curse Lady and the Everything's Better in Scotland bloke. Of course, their affectionate but wicked satire reappears in gems such as When Life Was Simpler, remembering a time before such inconveniences as holding a driving licence or having to remember the name of your wife, and in fabulous spoofs of the likes of Question Time, The King's Speech and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. And, there's still a place for some brilliant old faces as The Surgeons, I Saw You Coming, Is He a Quare? and the Dragons’ Den.

• CSI - Crime Scene Investigation - Miami - Series 5 - Vol.1 | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £9.09   |  Saving you £25.90 (284.93%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Season five of CSI: Miami begins with one of the most exciting backdrops ever filmed on the series. Horatio and Delko find themselves travelling to Rio de Janeiro Brazil in pursuit of the man behind Marisol Delko Caine's murder. When they arrive there they are shocked to learn that Horatio's brother Ray and nephew Ray Jr. are mixed up in the nepharious international criminal's heinous activities. Before they leave Brazil characters living on each side of the law will die and the drug lord's business will continue in Miami putting Ray Jr.'s life in dire jeopardy.

• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Real Cash Prize Edition | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £18.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (10.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Interactive DVD version of the popular quiz show. Join Chris Tarrant as you battle your way to a million pounds in this general knowledge brain teaser. Choose your answers from an onscreen multiple choice use 50/50 phone a friend or ask the audience this new interactive DVD features brand new video and audio questions.

• The Fall - Series 3 | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £11.93   |  Saving you £16.06 (134.62%)   |  RRP £27.99

  At the climax of the last series, audiences were left reeling as Spector, critically injured in a devastating ambush, lay bleeding in the arms of Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson. Moments before, the intense and single-minded investigator thought she had her man; now, shocked and desperate, she's losing him. Bringing a killer to book is going to take much more now than simply catching him. In the emotionally charged aftermath of the shooting, Gibson's personal journey to exact justice for the victims' families must begin with the blood-soaked fight to keep Spector alive. As The Fall reaches its inexorable conclusion, it's clear that the rules of this deadly game of cat and mouse are set to shift once again.

• A Deliquent Season | DVD | (22/01/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Night Gallery - Season 2 | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £14.09   |  Saving you £25.90 (183.82%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Prepare for the unexpected as Season Two of The Night Gallery comes to DVD! This 6-disc DVD set contains all 67 stories, created and hosted by the master of mystery: The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling. With guest performances by Hollywood legends that reads like a roster of Who's Who in Hollywood, you'll be sure to see sights to amaze! Featuring audio commentaries, behind the scenes featurettes and a gallery presentation of the paintings from the series, this collector's set is the classic anthology of timeless, spine-tingling entertainment you don't dare to miss. BONUS FEATURES: Uncut Original Version of ˜Little Girl Lost' Audio Commentaries from Director Guillermo Del ToroAudio Commentaries from Night Gallery historians Scott Skelton and Jim Benson Revisiting The Gallery: A Look Back Art Gallery: The Paintings in Rod Serling's Night Gallery NBC Night Gallery TV promos Included within are all 22 episodes from Season 2 and available for the first time on DVD Witches's Feast. An episode thought to have been lost to the darkest corner of the Night Gallery and not seen since its first and only airing in 1971.

• Nikita - Season 1 | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £16.24   |  Saving you £23.75 (146.24%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In Nikita, the CW Network has developed another resounding hit on its roster of solid dramatic series that do a nice job of grabbing viewers from a variety of demographics. With season two starting in late September 2011, this slick package of the 22 episodes of season one is a great way of diving into a show that's among the best looking, most tightly produced, and intensely cinematic on the small screen. The title and the premise both come from the 1990 French feature film and early style-setter from writer-director Luc Besson, La Femme Nikita. The character of Nikita was a beautiful, troubled young criminal who was essentially abducted from prison and inducted into covert intelligence to become a sleeper assassin used at the will and the whim of the government. There was an American remake in 1993, Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda, then a TV adaptation in 1997 that used the original French title and ran for just over four seasons on the USA Network. This reworking maintains the basic premise of a black ops organization that has largely gone rogue from US government control, with the title character of a dangerous, sexy assassin having escaped its clutches and gone rogue herself. After six years as its most expert operative, this Nikita (Maggie Q, who is very dangerous and very sexy) uses all her training and black ops wiles to destroy the unit known only as Division. Division is run from a high-tech bunker by the evil, calculating Percy (a steely-eyed Xander Berkeley) as a kind of top-secret consulting firm for the high-paying interests of those in need of murder, protection, or other sundry cleanup or coverup services. It employs a stable of young, buffed, highly trained male and female "recruits" who, like Nikita, have been plucked from prison and indentured to lives dedicated to Division's devious details. But the pilot episode reveals that Division's latest recruit, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca), is Nikita's mole, and she runs Alex from the outside, getting intel on Division's nefarious operations in her effort to bring it all down. The depth of Nikita's (and Alex's) malice toward Division is revealed over the course of the season, along with her ambivalence toward Percy's lieutenant, Michael (Shane West). Their cat-and-mouse includes a fair amount of personal heat within the missions that Nikita tries to disrupt, especially the one that becomes Division's top priority: eliminate Nikita. Michael has his own mixed feelings for his former protégé, and even as the intrigue among Michael, Nikita, Alex, and the other assorted characters both within and without Division becomes more elaborate, it's clear that there's a lot of gray for everyone. Except Percy, that is, who remains deliciously black throughout. The final episodes set up a suspenseful scenario of character maneuvering, compromised loyalties, and convoluted conspiracies that bodes very well for a new season. Every installment of Nikita is paced and plotted like a mini thriller, with production values and heavily styled good looks to match. As series creator Craig Silverstein and many other behind-the-scenes contributors confirm in the extensive supplemental materials, incredible attention is given to the details of art direction, design, wardrobe, cinematography, scoring, etc. in order to make what are essentially mini action movies. And action is definitely a key word. There is gunplay aplenty, with a level of physical violence that's about as powerful as anything on TV these days. But all of it is expertly staged and carefully motivated to serve the needs of brainy, quick-witted scripts. Maggie Q certainly has the background chops to bring integrity and authenticity to her smooth martial arts moves; that's really her chopping and shooting up there. She is eminently appealing not only for her beauty and grace, but also her soulful stare. Silverstein admits that the CW Network was looking for a shoehorn series to capture not just action fans, and they all thought the Nikita brand could be adapted into a version of something like Alias. It makes sense with all the secret agent stuff going on and with Maggie Q making herself a rousing antidote for Jennifer Garner fans. But she's also uniquely Nikita as she guides an exciting show that gives equal weight to brain and brawn with a precise combination of restraint and exuberance. --Ted Fry

• Man Down - Series 2 | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dan (Greg Davies) is a childish fool trapped in an adult's life. Still stuck in a teaching job he despises and rejected by the girl he thinks will solve everything, Miss Lipsey (Jeany Spark), he turns his attentions to self-improvement. His friend Jo (Roisin Conaty) seems blissfully happy with near-constant failure, and Brian (Mike Wozniak) seems distracted by an unspoken event that is rocking his steady world, meaning Dan must fend for himself. His always kind mother (Gwyneth Powell) and petrifyingly blunt aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole) seem to think he needs help--and his pupils agree. Will Dan move on, avoid complete humiliation and evolve into a fully functioning grown up?

• Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Complete Series 2 DVD | DVD | (27/01/2020) from £13.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS FULLY RESTORED IN HIGH DEFINITION FOR THE FIRST TIME! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of a genuinely iconic series, we present Monty Python s Flying Circus, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin in all its HD glory! This unrivalled restoration has been produced from the best available materials, painstakingly restored... and includes just the right amount of lovely spam, wonderful spam... Previously edited sketches have been returned to their original length, while filmed sequences and Terry Gilliam s animations have been newly scanned in High Definition, adding unimaginable depth and clarity to classic moments. From the archive come genuine rarities including previously unseen studio outtakes and extended versions of filmed sketch material, making this the ultimate in television restoration and a must-have for every generation of Python fan! SERIES 2 FEATURES: The Buzz Aldrin Show: Extended & unused filmed material Live from the Grill-O-Mat: Extended Ken Clean-Air System filmed material It's a Living: Reinstated content & alternative, censored sketch audio, extended Election Night Special and School Prizes filmed material How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body: Reinstated content & alternative, censored sketch audio Scott of the Antarctic: Extended filmed material How Not to Be Seen: Restored animation, unused film material, extended Conquistador Coffee sketch And Now For Something Completely Different: Vic Jamison's 1970 student film shot on location with the Python team Interview with Ian Macnaughton: Recorded in November 1971 at Imperial College London