Television

• 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

• Tarzan: The First Season Part One | DVD | (11/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 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 £14.39   |  Saving you £13.60 (94.51%)   |  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.

• 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 £6.79   |  Saving you £33.20 (488.95%)   |  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

• The L Word: Generation Q, Season 1 | DVD | (02/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 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

• Truckers | DVD | (03/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by William Ivory (Made in Dagenham) and starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart) Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy Top Boy) John Dagleish (Beaver Falls) Harry Treadway (Control) Sian Breckin (Tyrannosaur) and Jenn Murray (The Fades) Truckers follows the lives of six truck drivers working for a Nottingham haulage yard. Funny moving painful and raucous Truckers tells stories of real life of ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode one of our truckers undergoes a life changing journey and we are along for the ride. This DVD includes all five episodes along with an entertaining look behind the scenes on the set with cast and crew. Special Features: Behind the Scenes with Cast and Crew Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Agatha Christie's Poirot Complete Collection | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £81.98   |  Saving you £98.01 (119.55%)   |  RRP £179.99

  The world Agatha Christie conjures up is populated by sleuths criminal masterminds and dastardly plots just waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. One such inhabitant is Hercule Poirot who loves nothing more than sniffing out a new mystery solving it and bringing the perpetrators to justice. David Suchet brings the super-sleuth to life in this long-running series of mysteries.

• Medium - Season 6 | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £20.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (40.00%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In Medium: Season 6 psychic Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) recovers from brain surgery and returns to work where she is reunited with District Attorney Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval) and Detective Lee Scanlon (David Cubitt). Now their most challenging murder cases to date haunt Allison's waking life as well as her dream world. And while her scientist husband Joe (Jake Weber) faces his own problems at his new company daughters Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva) and Bridgette (Maria Lark) continue to develop their own special gifts that they inherited from their mother. In the hit series' best season yet it helps to have more than one psychic in the family!

• Sgt. Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show - Season 1 | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Goldbricker." Now there's a term you don't hear much any more. But that's what Ed Sullivan called Sgt. Ernest G. Bilko back in the 1950s, and it's as apt a term as any for Phil Silvers' immortal comic creation. Hustler, gambler, scam artist, and con man also apply, but anyway you slice it, Bilko is inarguably one of the greatest characters to emerge in television's so-called Golden Age. Created by Nat Hiken and originally called "You'll Never Get Rich," The Phil Silvers Show is classic situation comedy. There's no character arc, no lessons learned, no sentimental denouement; just laughs, and plenty of 'em. The typical episode finds Bilko on the make--usually, though not exclusively, for money--and generally ends with him holding the short end of his own shtick. (They don't all follow the formula; a hilarious exception is "The Court Martial," in which Bilko is ordered to defend a chimpanzee that the Army has somehow managed to enlist and is now trying to expel.) Silvers, a master at both verbal and physical comedy, is the focal point, of course. But the ensemble work, featuring Bilko's usual stooges from the Fort Baxter motor pool (Barbella, Doberman, Paparelli), his favourite victims (cf. Col. Hall), and occasional guest stars, is uniformly brilliant, the acting is seemingly effortless, and the pleasure they take in their work is palpable. Bottom line: these shows may have been produced 50 years ago, but the jillions of TV comedies that followed have never improved on them. --Sam Graham

• Fleabag Series 2 | Blu Ray | (06/05/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fleabag is back. Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The second season picks up not too far from the end of the first season. Fleabag's family is as dysfunctional as ever: her uptight sister Claire, played by Sian Clifford, hasn't forgiven her, and Claire's obnoxious alcoholic husband is still on the scene, while the pair are presenting a united front as they come to term with their father's relationship with their godmother, played by Olivia Colman. Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman, Jenny Rainsford and Hugh Skinner return, while Sherlock's Andrew Scott joins the cast. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Cold Comfort Farm | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Flora Poste who has had an expensive athletic and lengthy education is then orphaned and left with only 100 a year descends on her relatives in Cold Comfort Farm in 'Howling' Sussex. There she finds plenty of relatives namely the Starkadders ruled by the ferocious Aunt Judith. Each of the four cousins has a peculiar character trait there is no bathroom or telephone and the Starkadder women believe that pregnancy is the 'hand of nature and we women can't escape it'. Flora feels it her duty to bring order into the Starkadders chaotic bucolic lives...

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £22.99   |  Saving you £47.00 (204.44%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Season Three of Star Trek: The Next Generation took televised science fiction storytelling to new heights. Now, on high definition Blu-ray, the seminal season of this beloved series is more spectacular and compelling to watch than ever. Experience such thought-provoking episodes as 'The Survivors,' 'Sins of the Father,' 'The Offspring' and one of the great cliffhangers in television history: Part One of 'The Best of Both Worlds'... like never before, in glorious 1080p with English 7.1 sound.

• Limmy's Show - Series 2 | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A unique blend of comic characters, sketches, observation, animation, music and dancing. Starring Brian Limond AKA Limmy who writes, directs, performs and guides the viewer throughout the show. His character creations include Falconhoof the fearless TV adventure call phone-in host, Dee Dee - a zoned-out waster and occasional intergalactic space traveller and a vignette from a shirtless figure who tells the world, she turned the weans against me. Limmy's Show was hailed by the Guardian as simply the best British comedy made this year and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme in 2011.