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Shop Newsletter Friday 13th July 2018
It's another jam-packed edition of our newsletter this week with a series of new books, DVDs and Blu-rays to share.
Coming Soon
Del Boy - You Know It Makes Sense: Lessons From The Derek Trotter School Of Business (And Life) Del Boy - You Know It Makes Sense: Lessons From The Derek Trotter School Of Business (And Life) Hardback & eBook

Following the success of 2015's He Who Dares... My Genuine Autobiography, Del Boy returns with his second book, sharing all he has known from decades of experience as one of south London's premier businessmen. Details
Fleabag - Series 1 Fleabag - Series 1 Blu-ray

A confession of the modern woman, the critically acclaimed series by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. A poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world. The critically acclaimed series is already available on DVD, and now fans can enjoy the show in crisp HD quality with this upcoming Blu-ray. Details
Asian Provocateur - Series 1 & 2 Asian Provocateur - Series 1 & 2 DVD

In this laugh-packed docu-comedy, stand-up star Romesh Ranganathan goes to Sri Lanka to connect with his roots. He doesn't know anything about the country's culture, can't speak a word of Tamil, and is a home-comfort loving loafer. What could possibly go wrong? In Series 2, his mum accompanies him to meet extended family in America. Details
Friday Night Dinner - Series 1-5 Friday Night Dinner - Series 1-5 DVD

Tuck into five glorious helpings of award-winning madness with the Goodmans as they get together for a Friday night dinner of food, family and major-league bickering. Every family has eccentricities, but the Goodmans have made an art form of theirs. This riotous sitcom about a Jewish family in London comes from acclaimed writer/producer Robert Popper. Details
Norbert Smith: A Life Norbert Smith: A Life DVD

Harry Enfield's ground-breaking mockumentary in The South Bank Show style about fictional British film star Norbert Smith was first shown on Channel 4 in 1989, winning an Emmy the following year. Co-starring Melvyn Bragg as himself, it's an outrageous and very funny send-up of both arts documentaries and the history of British cinema. We have 3 copies to give away. Details
Shaun The Sheep - Shape Up With Shaun Shaun The Sheep - Shape Up With Shaun DVD

This one of a number of compilation DVDs being re-released this Summer - alongside some new titles - for your little ones' entertainment, ahead of the Shaun The Sheep Movie sequel in cinemas next year. Details
Flowers II - Original Soundtrack Flowers II - Original Soundtrack CD

18 tracks from Flowers Series 2. A digital download of the album is already available. Details
Fanged Up Fanged Up DVD

Fanged Up follows the story of arrogant, wannabe playboy Jimmy Ragsdale, who may have the gift of the gab but certainly doesn't have the lifestyle he wants. After a desperate play for the ladies, in one fell swoop, Jimmy is himself fired and arrested. On remand at Stokesville prison over the weekend, he soon finds the guards are in fact blood-sucking vampires! Details
Executive Stress - The Complete Series Executive Stress - The Complete Series DVD

Penelope Keith leads in this sitcom by writer and actor George Layton. Co-starring Butterflies' Geoffrey Palmer in Series 1 and Keith's To The Manor Born co-star Peter Bowles in Series 2 and 3, the show sees Caroline Fairchild facing a problem when her and her husband's companies are merged by a new megalomaniacal owner who frowns on workplace relationships. Details
Stath Lets Flats Stath Lets Flats DVD

Comedy series with Jamie Demetriou as incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath, co-written by Friday Night Dinner's Robert Popper. Stath needs to impress his dad/boss and let some flats, after losing his patience and pushing a customer, but he's not as fast as the other agents when it comes to arranging viewings. Details
The Rag Trade - The Complete LWT Series The Rag Trade - The Complete LWT Series DVD

A huge hit from On The Buses creators Wolfe and Chesney, The Rag Trade stars Peter Jones and Miriam Karlin as Harold Fenner, the much put-upon proprietor of Fenner Fashions, and Paddy, his militant trade union shop steward. A BBC hit in the early 1960s, a decade later both cast and writers reunited for these two further series, fascinatingly reworking original plots. Details
Crashing - The Complete Series Crashing - The Complete Series DVD

Channel 4 comedy about the lives of young property guardians living together in an abandoned hospital, created by and starring the Fleabag and Solo: A Star Wars Story star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Co-starring Kathy Burke, Adrian Scarborough, Damien Molony, Louise Ford, Jonathan Bailey and Amit Shah. Details
Daliso Chaponda - What The African Said... Daliso Chaponda - What The African Said... DVD

Britain's Got Talent finalist Daliso Chaponda presents his new show What The African Said. Join Daliso as he discusses his new found fame, how he deals with online trolls, and help him decide just how racist some people really are. Details
Ffizz - The Complete Series Ffizz - The Complete Series DVD

Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow and Felicity Montagu lead the cast in this sitcom from the writers of Chance In A Million and The Brittas Empire. The two series follow a prestigious London wine merchants' whose bumbling, workshy directors, Jack and Hugo, are forced to face real work for the first time after discovering the company is almost bankrupt. Details
How To Talk To Girls At Parties How To Talk To Girls At Parties Blu-ray, DVD & download

From the visionary minds of writer Neil Gaiman and director John Cameron Mitchell comes a story of the birth of punk, the exuberance of first love, and the universe's greatest mystery of all: HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES. Details
Wasted Wasted DVD

E4 comedy from triple-BAFTA winning writers James Lamont and Jon Foster (Paddington), starring Sean Bean, Dylan Edwards, Gwyneth Keyworth, Danny Kirrane and Rose Reynolds. Having failed to make it as a DJ, Kent returns to the Somerset village of Neston Berry to hang out - and imbibe chemically - with old schoolmate Morpheus, his sister Sarah and her friend Alison. Details
Soupy Twists! - The Full Official Story Of The Sophisticated Silliness Of Fry And Laurie Soupy Twists! - The Full Official Story Of The Sophisticated Silliness Of Fry And Laurie Hardback & eBook

Bet you can't eat three! From the biographer of Douglas Adams comes this new crowdfunded work profiling and cataloguing the story of comedy icons Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The book includes a plethora of exclusive, must-see material. Details
Jon Plowman - How To Produce Comedy Bronze Jon Plowman - How To Produce Comedy Bronze Hardback

In How To Produce Comedy Bronze, legendary TV producer Jon Plowman lifts the lid on the comedy industry so you can peer inside and wonder how any of it ever got made in the first place. In a career spanning 30 years Jon has learned (almost) everything there is to know about comedy and now wants to share his wealth of knowledge before he becomes completely demented. Details
The Goodies - The Complete BBC Collection The Goodies - The Complete BBC Collection DVD

One of the most hotly-awaited DVD collections to ever be released, this is the (almost) complete BBC collection of smash hit 1970s sitcom The Goodies, starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. The only thing missing is the original version of Kitten Kong, for which only the Montreux contest winning edit is now known to exist. Details
Elis James & John Robins - The Holy Vible Elis James & John Robins - The Holy Vible Hardback, eBook & audiobook

Comedians Elis James and John Robins have captured the hearts and minds of a generation, and it's time those hearts and minds had a book. The Holy Vible is a complete guide to their wonderfully obscure world, taking on the big topics: shame, Queen, The Highway Code (and others). Details
Anchor And Hope Anchor And Hope DVD

Upcoming feature film. Eva and Kat's carefree lifestyle is turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, but when her best friend, Roger, drops in from Barcelona to party, the three of them toy with the idea of creating a baby together. Details
Peter Kay's Car Share - The Complete Collection Peter Kay's Car Share - The Complete Collection Blu-ray & DVD

Includes all 10 episodes from Series 1 and 2, plus the unscripted and finale specials, starring Peter Kay and Sian Gibson. Details

For more, see our full list of new releases and items coming soon.
New Products
Educating Rita Educating Rita Blu-ray & DVD

The Oscar-nominated cultural cornerstone is re-released on Blu-ray and DVD to mark its 35th anniversary. Working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols for an adult education course at her local university. She's assigned alcoholic lecturer Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), and as her horizons broaden she begins to feel stifled by her home life. Details
Top Of The Form Top Of The Form DVD

Riotous 1950s comedy caper about an under-performing boys' school, directed by John Paddy Carstairs, with stars including Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley and Ronnie Corbett. 'Professor' Fortescue stumbles into Bagshot Boys College and finds himself appointed headmaster. And so begins a series of escapades, culminating in a trip to Paris. Details
Is It Legal? - The Complete Series Is It Legal? - The Complete Series DVD

An overlooked sitcom from Men Behaving Badly's Simon Nye, Is It Legal? won the British Comedy Award for Best ITV Sitcom in 1995. Imelda Staunton, Patrick Barlow, Kate Isitt and Richard Lumsden star in the comedy about a slightly rubbish west London law firm. A real treat of a show, now available in this single complete box set. Details
Plunkett And Macleane Plunkett And Macleane Blu-ray

This is the action-packed tale of two highwaymen in 18th Century England who form an unlikely alliance, starring Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller. After meeting in prison two strangers from different echelons of English society, lowlife William Plunkett and gentleman-debtor Capt. James Macleane decide to join forces and become highwaymen. Details
I've Never Seen Star Wars - The Complete Series 1-6 I've Never Seen Star Wars - The Complete Series 1-6 Audio download

Marcus Brigstocke persuades his reluctant guests to try new experiences: things that they've perhaps always meant to try but haven't had the time, the courage or possibly the inclination. Details
Iain Stirling - Not Ready To Adult Yet: A Totally Ill-Informed Guide To Life Iain Stirling - Not Ready To Adult Yet: A Totally Ill-Informed Guide To Life Hardback, paperback, eBook & audiobook

Comedian, TV presenter and voice of Love Island, Iain Stirling has written his first book. In it he explores why millennials are the way they are - and whether they're self-obsessed, work-shy, mollycoddled, egomaniacs; or just a misunderstood generation with a fear of failure. Details
Please Sir! - The Complete Fenn Street Collection Please Sir! - The Complete Fenn Street Collection DVD

From writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles) comes this complete collection of sitcoms that began 50 years ago with smash hit school comedy Please Sir!. It includes every episode of the show, its film spin-off, sequel series The Fenn Street Gang, and the latter's own spin-off, Bowler. A sublime collection of classic comedy. Details
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop - Series 1 - 3 Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop - Series 1 - 3 Audio download

Ever wondered what sort of a police officer you might make? Alfie Moore spent 18 years on the Humberside police force before turning to stand-up comedy. Details
Dave Miles - Tony Hancock - Spiral Dave Miles - Tony Hancock - Spiral Paperback

Written by Dave Miles, a former senior member of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, Spiral is a personal journey into the late, great comic. Alongside transcriptions of a number of exclusive interviews with Tony's friends and colleagues are never-before-published photos of a plethora of Hancock-related items and ephemera, plus many of Tony himself. Details
Keep It In The Family - The Complete Collection Keep It In The Family - The Complete Collection DVD

By Brian Cooke (Man About The House, George & Mildred), this familial comedy stars Robert Gillespie, Pauline Yates and Stacy Dorning. Dudley Rush is a procrastinating cartoonist with a very silly sense of humour, and Muriel his long-suffering wife. Their young adult daughters have just moved into the downstairs flat to live semi-independently. Details
Home From Home - Series 1 Home From Home - Series 1 DVD

Complete first series of the sitcom about a pair of couples and their holiday homes in the Lake District, starring Johnny Vegas, Emilia Fox, Niky Wardley and Adam James. Also includes the original 2016 pilot episode. Details
Wordaholics - Complete Series 1-3 Wordaholics - Complete Series 1-3 Audio download

All 18 episodes of Radio 4's word-obsessed comedy panel game hosted by Gyles Brandreth, where stars from across the world of wordplay come together to guess the meanings of now-obsolete words, invent their own clichés and cockney rhyming slang, and much more. Details
Early Man Early Man 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD & download

Animated prehistoric comedy adventure from Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park. It tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) as he unites his tribe against a mighty enemy, Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston), and his Bronze Age City to save their home, all around football. Details
The Windsors Royal Wedding Special The Windsors Royal Wedding Special DVD

The Windsors returns for the Royal wedding. Harry and Meghan take Charles to America to meet Meghan's mum, but Charles fails to reassure her about Meghan marrying into the royal family. Wills is forced to protect his subjects from Windsor's evil Trampcatcher; Beatrice is swept off her feet by a hunky political firebrand; and Pippa has a violent reaction to the upcoming event. Details
Adam Endacott - The Kenneth Williams Companion Adam Endacott - The Kenneth Williams Companion Hardback

The Kenneth Williams Companion is the first, and only, definitive book on the career of Kenneth Williams. The book details all his stage, radio, TV, recordings and film work as a chronology. With fascinating facts, memories, many from people who haven't spoken before, and information, this book is everything you ever needed to know about the great man's amazing career. Details

For more, see our full list of new releases and items coming soon.
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