British Comedy Merchandise - New Releases
Below is a list of the last 25 British comedy related DVDs released in the Region 2 format...
Pauline's Quirkes - The Complete Series (DVD)
Pauline's Quirkes, a light-hearted, provocative magazine-style show for teenagers, provided an early showcase for the talents of one of Britain's best-loved stars. After playing a leading role in Thames's You Must Be Joking!, the 16-year-old Pauline took centre-stage in this teatime spin-off series, presenting a lively mix of comedy sketches, music and features.
Teen pop idols Flintlock provided the songs while unleashing outbreaks of hysteria among the studio audience, and Pauline's co-presenters included her future Birds Of A Feather co-star Linda Robson. Irreverent, often surprisingly risqué humour (usually at the expense of the Flintlock boys) and discussion of the pressing issues of the day (should boys be allowed to wear skirts to school?) raised eyebrows and blazed a trail for a new kind of show aimed at teenage audiences. This set contains the complete series, also featuring DJs Mike Read and Steve Wright, and master magician Ali Bongo.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Network DVD
Rings On Their Fingers - The Complete Series One (DVD)
Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was and women were free to both work and run the home, a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did!
Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three popular series. With Oliver convinced that he must marry Sandy or lose her, the couple soon find themselves embroiled in a world of wedding plans, wedding gifts, honeymoons and coming home to realise that... they re married! Nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple happily living together suddenly find themselves with Rings On Their Fingers. This release features the complete first series and the 1978 Christmas special.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Acorn Media UK Ltd
Shine On Harvey Moon - Series Four (DVD)
The complete penultimate fourth series of hit comedy drama Shine On Harvey Moon.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Acorn Media UK Ltd
The Arthur Haynes Show - Volume Three (DVD)
Third collection of episodes from the 1950s sketch show The Arthur Haynes Show, co-starring Nicholas Parsons.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (3 discs) Distributor: Network DVD
Fonejacker / Facejacker - Complete Series 1 & 2 (DVD)
This 4 disc box set brings together the complete collection of Fonejacker alongside both series of Facejacker.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (4 discs) Distributor: 4DVD
Not Going Out - Series Five (DVD)
Lee Mack and Tim Vine star alongside Sally Bretton and Katy Wix in the fifth series of the hit Royal Television Society and Rose d'Or award-winning BBC One sitcom Not Going Out.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Universal Pictures
Not Going Out - Series One, Two, Three, Four & Five (DVD)
BAFTA-winning comedians Lee Mack and Tim Vine star alongside Sally Bretton (The Office, Green Wing), Miranda Hart (Miranda), Megan Dodds (Spooks) and Katy Wix (Torchwood) in the hit BBC One prime-time series Not Going Out.
Series 1: Lee is unburdened by ambition or drive, drifting from one ill-advised job to another, living off the goodwill and generosity of his landlady, Kate (Dodds), a clean living Californian. Meanwhile, his best mate and uptight accountant Tim (Vine), struggles to get over his break-up with Kate and cope with her rapidly blossoming friendship with Lee.
Series 2: Kate has moved out for good and his best mate and now sole landlord, Tim, has put the apartment up for sale. Faced with the prospect of losing the flat, not to mention his well-meaning but utterly useless cleaner Barbara (Hart), Lee rents the spare room to Tim's ambitious younger sister Lucy (Bretton)... Well, sort of.
Series 3: Having developed feelings for Lucy and successfully sabotaging her relationship with her then-boyfriend Guy, Lee still has no significant plans to confront her, and distractions such as pregnancies, insurance scams, and noisy neighbours keep his mind off the bigger picture.
Series 4: Trouble seems to find Lee at every turn. Not only are friends Tim and his ditzy girlfriend Daisy (Wix) on hand to cause problems, but Lee also has to cope with stolen drugs, missing OAPs, long-lost daughters and a coma.
Series 5: Lee continues to get into all sorts of scrapes and sticky situations in his eagerness to please and impress the object of his affections. But will a drunken experiment with Lucy show once and for all that love really is in the air or will it just lead to more mayhem and mishaps?
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (9 discs) Distributor: Universal Pictures
The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon (DVD)
The Portuguese singing sensation, with a lifestyle to match, delights us with an hour of non-stop entertainment. All courtesy of master comedian Steve Coogan.
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Release Date: 21st May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: 2 Entertain
Hotel Splendide (DVD)
Nobody knows where love and colonic irrigation goes.
Terence Gross's bizarre and satiric dark comedy follows the peculiar travails of chef Kath (Toni Collette) and her former lover Ronald (Daniel Craig). He's been running decaying resort and spa, the Hotel Splendide, just the way his parents did years before. Bad food and regular enemas are included in the price. After five years away, Kath returns to work with Ronald, with unexpected results.
Strange, beguiling and scatological, Hotel Splendide is a singular journey into the gothic and eccentric. An exceptional international cast includes veteran actor Peter Vaughan, the late Katrin Cartlidge and Stephen Tompkinson.
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Release Date: 14th May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Park Circus
Note: A similar DVD in Region 1 format is listed on Amazon.com
My Hero - Complete Series 3 (DVD)
This new double-disc set includes all 10 episodes of My Hero Series 3, the superhero sitcom starring Ardal O'Hanlon as the meek-mannered Irishman George, and loved saviour of the endangered, Thermoman.
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Release Date: 14th May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: IMC Vision
Facejacker - Series 2 (DVD)
BAFTA and Comedy Award winner Kayvan Novak (Fonejacker, Four Lions, Sirens) returns with a second series of Facejacker.
Disguised with the aid of prosthetics, Novak is back to showcase his amazing array of characters and voices, ably demonstrating his sublime comic improvisational skills. His popular arsenal of comic creations include the charismatic and multi-divorced car salesman, Terry Tibbs, scamster Augustus Kwembe, the super irritating complainer, Dufrais and charlatan art critic Brian Badonde, along with several new characters. All are thrust into real-life situations where they can baffle and confuse members of the public.
As well as travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the production team will spent several weeks filming in the US, bringing some of Novak's best known characters to an unsuspecting American public.
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Release Date: 7th May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: 4DVD
Paul & Pauline Calf's Video Diaries (DVD)
The two award-winning Paul and Pauline Calf programmes starring Steve Coogan: Paul Calf's Video Diary, and Three Fights, Two Weddings And A Funeral, plus an interview with Paul and Pauline.
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Release Date: 7th May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: 2 Entertain
Solo - The Complete Series One & Two (DVD)
In this deeply human series from Carla Lane (Bread, Butterflies, The Liver Birds), Solo finds Felicity Kendal in the role of Gemma Palmer, a passionate and confused thirty year old.
On discovering that her live-in boyfriend Danny (Stephen Moore) has been having an affair with her best friend, she throws him out and decides to live life on her own, independent and free. But keeping Danny out of her life and staying unfettered turns out to be much harder than she expected.
Series One follows Gemma's struggle to shake Danny loose from her life - and her heart, where he's more difficult to dislodge. Meanwhile, in the room upstairs two flatmates, Bernadette and Josie, debate dating, romance, love and marriage. In Series Two, a fully freed-up Gemma finds herself back in the dating world and making friends with a new neighbour, Sebastian, whose close friendship and reckless love life runs on parallel and occasionally bumping lines. With Gemma's mother always on hand to dispense guidance, support and tales of her own love life, Solo uncovers the many surprising layers of dependence that independence brings.
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Release Date: 7th May 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Acorn Media UK Ltd
Twice Round The Daffodils (DVD)
From the team behind the Carry On films, Twice Around The Daffodils focuses on the nurses and patients of a British TB ward.
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Release Date: 30th April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Optimum Home Entertainment
Shelley - The Complete Sixth Series (DVD)
A long-running success for ITV lasting for ten series over fourteen years, Shelley features a masterful performance by Hywel Bennett as the bone-idle graduate-philosopher cast adrift on a sea of unemployment.
This set contains the complete sixth series, also featuring Belinda Sinclair as girlfriend Fran, and Garfield Morgan (The Sweeney) as hall porter Desmond; Fulton McKay, Max Wall and Robert Raglan guest-star.
It's been months since Fran gave Shelley the elbow until he can prove himself, economically speaking. In this sixth and final series, his ceaseless battle with bureaucracy sees him staging a sit-in at the electricity board and spending a night in a police cell, while enduring loneliness, burglary, and a visit from his mother who's on a mission to reconcile him with Fran. But most distressing of all... he has to live without his toaster!
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Release Date: 30th April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Network DVD
The Balloon Goes Up / Up With The Lark (DVD)
The Balloon Goes Up
Comedy duo Ethel Revnell and Gracie West star in this 1942 New Realm comedy musical, alongside Ronald Shiner. Revnell and West were a popular female double act. Ethel was just over six feet tall, while Gracie was considerably shorter, at just under five feet. They began their career in concert party. Their most popular variety characters were "Ethel & Gracie", malevolent cockney schoolgirls. In this film the double act masquerade as WAAFs on a balloon site to help the authorities capture a group of fifth columnists.
Up With The Lark
The British music-hall comedy team of Ethel and Gracie were busy starring in the popular BBC radio series The Long And The Short Of It. Ethel was the "long" and Gracie the "short" when they starred in a group of high-grossing feature films. In this film, a 1943 New Realm production, the famous duo disguised as land girls pursue a gang of black marketeers to their secret headquarters in the country - the film includes some wonderful musical interludes. Written by Val Valentine, who also wrote some of the St Trinians films.
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Release Date: 30th April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Renown Pictures
The Morgana Show (DVD)
Sketch-based comedy show starring new talent Morgana Robinson who showcases her skilfully-crafted range of characters and impersonations of stars, including Cheryl Cole and Fearne Cotton.
Extras include deleted sketches, out-takes, and a 'making of' documentary.
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Release Date: 30th April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: PolyGram Video
Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 23 & 24 (DVD)
The 22nd and 23rd series - despite the box set's title - of Last Of The Summer Wine.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (4 discs) Distributor: Universal Playback
On The Ropes (DVD)
On The Ropes follows the story of fictional Martial Arts instructor, Keith Kraft and his rivalry with boxing gym owner Big Joe. When a local documentary maker is invited to cover a news story for regional TV on a "proper fighting gym", run by Big Joe, little does he know how events will unfold; particularly as his attention is drawn to a rival gym with a unique fighting style owned by self-proclaimed karate expert Keith Kraft.
On The Ropes is best described as Spinal Tap meets Rocky and is based on the writer's own experiences with gym culture.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Cornerstone Media
Slinger's Day - The Complete Series (DVD)
Environmental protesters, a shoplifting epidemic, a burgeoning butter mountain and largely incompetent staff are just a few of the problems facing Cecil Slinger, the new manager of Supafare. And just how is he supposed to offload 560 packets of Jacobson's Savoury Fishcakes when no-one wants to buy them? Slinger is forced to concede that the public doesn't respond to lying, cheating and deception any more. Whatever happened to the old values?
Featuring light entertainment legend Bruce Forsyth in his only sitcom role, Slinger's Day charts the trials and tribulations of the beleaguered manager of a London supermarket. This Thames series boasts scripts by veteran comedy writers Brian Cooke and Vince Powell, Sorry! creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and novelist Alex Shearer.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Network DVD
Stay Lucky - The Complete Third Series (DVD)
Starring Dennis Waterman and Jan Francis alongside Emma Wray (Watching) and Anthony Valentine (Callan), this third series also features appearances by Celia Imrie, Michael Kitchen, Roger Lloyd Pack, Amanda Burton and Julie T. Wallace.
Things seem to be going well for Thomas: he's started up his own business, and almost a year after he was abandoned by his significant other, Sally Hardcastle, she's suddenly back in his life. The unlikely couple have always shared more than money-making interests, and soon find their mutual attraction is as strong as ever. But shock-horror surprises, fiscal dilemmas and misadventure continue to dog Thomas and Sally; this series sees them trying to unravel the tangled finances of Sally's deceased Uncle Leonard, and taking a seemingly innocent trip that sets off a chain of events with terrifying consequences...
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Network DVD
Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club - The Complete Fifth Series (DVD)
The legendary Bernard Manning comperes and fellow stand-up veteran Colin Crompton is Mr. Chairman at the Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club: the friendliest working men's club in the North!
Cut from the same cloth as The Comedians, this 1970s ratings winner captures the quickfire comedy, musical variety and convivial atmosphere of a typical Clubland concert night, showcasing rising stars, contemporary acts and internationally renowned performers plus the occasional musical oddity.
Syd Lawrence and his Orchestra, Roger Whitaker, Josef Locke, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Lena Zavaroni are on the bill for Series 5, and this set includes the 1976 Club Mirror National Club Acts Awards, with Cannon & Ball and Wheeltappers stalwart Paul Daniels among the winners; also included is a celebrity-studded Special that sees various acts vying for the following year's awards, while Patrick Mower introduces the glamorous girl finalists who have their sights set on the title of Miss Nightclub 1977.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (2 discs) Distributor: Network DVD
Benidorm - The All Inclusive Boxset - Series 1-5 & Specials (DVD)
The complete first five series and specials collection of hit ITV sitcom Benidorm.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (11 discs) Distributor: 2 Entertain
Paul - Augmented Reality Edition (DVD)
Graeme and Clive are two British sci-fi geeks on holiday in America. After a trip to Comic-Con to meet their favourite author, Adam Shadowchild, Graeme and Clive load up their RV and hit the road for a tour of some of the most famous UFO hotspots in the American Southwest. They know we're not alone in the universe, but they won't be satisfied until they get a firsthand glimpse of the famed Area 51. However, somewhere deep in the Nevada desert, the two UFO enthusiasts narrowly avoid crashing into a speeding car when they happen across a most unlikely hitchhiker. Paul is a pint-sized alien who has spent the last 60 years in Area 51. He's been cooped up in the care of the U.S. Government for far too long, and he's starting to get a little homesick...
This new release, to mark studio Universal's 100th anniversary, comes in special 'augmented reality' casing.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Universal Pictures
Note: A similar DVD in Region 1 format is listed on Amazon.com
Shaun Of The Dead - Augmented Reality Edition (DVD)
Life is going nowhere for Shaun. He spends his life in his local pub, The Winchester, with his best mate Ed, has issues with his Mum and neglects his girlfriend Liz.
When Liz dumps him, Shaun finally decides to get his life in order. He must win back the heart of his girlfriend, repair his relationship with his mum and face up to the responsibilities of adulthood. Unfortunately, the dead are returning to life and attempting to eat the living. For the newly inspired Shaun, this is just another obstacle.
In the face of a full scale zombie epidemic, armed with a cricket bat and spade, Shaun sets out with Ed in tow, to rescue his mum and grudgingly his step-dad, his girlfriend and even more grudgingly her friends David and Dianne and take them to the safest most secure place he knows, The Winchester.
This new release, to mark studio Universal's 100th anniversary, comes in special 'augmented reality' casing.
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Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Product Type: Region 2 DVD (1 disc) Distributor: Universal Pictures
Note: A similar DVD in Region 1 format is listed on Amazon.com
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