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The Gravy Train & The Gravy Train Goes East DVD A biting satire about bribery and corruption in the European Union. Malcolm Bradbury's delicious four-part comedy, first shown on Channel 4 in 1990, sees idealistic young Eurocrat Hans Joachim Dorfmann get a rude awakening when he takes up his new position in Brussels. In the sequel series, a newly independent, post-communist Eastern European nation wants to join the bloc. Details |
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Hang Ups DVD Stephen Mangan stars in this largely improvised Channel 4 comedy as Dr. Richard Pitt, a therapist trying to relaunch his career with a new online practice. Carried out via weekly webcam sessions, the new practice examines a wide catalogue of neuroses, phobias, issues, anxieties and psychopathies - not all belonging to his patients! Clients are a range of top guest stars. Details |
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Stath Lets Flats DVD Jamie Demetriou writes and stars as incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath. Stath needs to impress his dad/boss and let some flats, but his lack of enthusiasm is matched only by his lack of ability. Jamie's real-life sister Natasia co-stars, alongside Katy Wix, Tom Stourton, Al Roberts, Dustin Demri-Burns and the late Alex Beckett. Details |
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Lee Ridley - I'm Only In It For The Parking Hardback & eBook 'Lost Voice Guy' Lee Ridley publishes his first book in the Spring. What's the worst thing about being disabled? Is it the shameless staring? Is it that people assume you're a bit thick because you can't speak? Or is it the fact that your friends always take you to theme parks just so they can jump the queues? In fact, it's the stupid questions people ask that really rile Lee... Details |
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Ffizz - The Complete Series DVD Sitcom about an upmarket London wine merchants that finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy. Its workshy, ageing socialite directors - Benjamin Whitrow and the late Richard Griffiths - are forced to actually do some normal work in order to keep the business afloat. By The Brittas Empire writers Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss, it co-stars Robin Kermode and Felicity Montagu. Details |
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Tom Jones! Blu-ray Jam-packed with extras, this is the BFI's brand new 4K restoration of the four-time Oscar-winning period caper, adapted from Henry Fielding's classic novel. Albert Finney stars as the titular rustic playboy in 18th Century England, with Susannah York as the subject of his affections, the rather higher-born Sophie. A double-disc set, it includes both the original and directors' cuts. Details |
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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 1970s 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 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Primary Phase Vinyl The first phase of the original series, now issued in a luxurious special vinyl edition. Arthur and Ford escape the Earth moments before it is demolished. Their journey takes on a trip to a very old planet where they find the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. Details |
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Anyone For Denis? DVD Thames Television's acclaimed adaptation of John Wells's hit political farce, following then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, her husband Denis, and a group of his drinking buddies at her official country residence, Chequers. Based on Private Eye's Dear Bill letters, this one-off special was directed by writer, producer and director Dick Clement (Not Only... ...But Also). Details |
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Wasted DVD E4 sitcom by triple-BAFTA winning writers team James Lamont and Jon Foster (Paddington). Dylan Edwards is Kent, a wannabe DJ who returns from a failed life in Bristol to resume his dull existence in a quiet Somerset village. There, he reunites with friends Gwyneth Keyworth, Danny Kirrane and Rose Reynolds. An ode to the stupid stuff people get up to when bored. Details |
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Alex Horne - Taskmaster: 200 Extraordinary Tasks For Ordinary People Hardback & eBook Experience the insanity of Taskmaster first-hand, with show creator Alex Horne's book based on the BAFTA-nominated international hit comedy series. From making the most artistic tea-stain on the page to creating a self-portrait while blindfolded, this book requires you to think outside the box. Details |
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I'm About To Lose Control And I Think Joe Lycett Live DVD & download Joe Lycett has pressed his brand new stand-up show onto a digital disc! AND uploaded the file for online distribution!!!!! He shares jokes, paintings, and some of the pathetic trolling he's been up to recently. You will totally love it babe!!! Details |
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Danny Baker - Going On The Turn: The Autobiography - Vol 3 Paperback Danny Baker's third volume of memoirs barrels along at the same cracking pace as its predecessors, the bestselling Going To Sea In A Sieve (the inspiration for TV series Cradle To Grave) and Going Off Alarming. Released in hardback last year, this paperback edition is out in September. Details |
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Soupy Twists! - The Full Official Story Of The Sophisticated Silliness Of Fry And Laurie Hardback & eBook Written with full co-operation of both Stephen and Hugh, this is the official history of their comedy partnership, marking the 30th anniversary of their beloved, landmark sketch show A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. With access to their extensive personal archives, this is sure to be a treat for fans. Details |
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The Kit Curran Radio Show - The Complete Series DVD Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these - and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit reigns as the undisputed king of small-time Radio Newtown; but sparks start to fly when a new boss arrives - and Kit finds that his days of egocentric scheming may soon be numbered. Includes both series of the 1980s sitcom. Details |
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Jon Plowman - How To Produce Comedy Bronze Hardback & eBook Celebrated TV producer Jon Plowman's credits range from Absolutely Fabulous to Inside No. 9 and Gimme Gimme Gimme to The Office. In this new book he 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, sharing his extensive knowledge and experience built up over a 30-year career. Details |
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The Goodies - The Complete BBC Collection DVD For the first time ever, archive specialist DVD company Network presents the complete run of episodes and specials made by The Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie - for the BBC (apart from the original edit of Kitten Kong, which is missing) in this 12-disc set. Including all 8 series from 1970-80, there's also a new Audience With retrospective discussion. Details |
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Our Day Out DVD Different approaches to schooling clash when compassionate Mrs Kay (Jean Heywood) and disciplinarian Mr Briggs (Alun Armstrong) supervise a coach trip for their inner-city comprehensive. Our Day Out is a funny, chaotic tale of a group of teenagers let off the leash for a day's outing to Conwy Castle in Wales, broadcast in 1977 as a BBC Play Of The Week. Details |
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Cunk On Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena Hardback & eBook Now, with the internet and more people and science and research, there's just too much knowledge - more every year - and it's overwhelming. So, after years of asking the big questions - like 'what did people do before evolution?' and 'what is clocks?' - intrepid reporter and visionary philosopher Philomena Cunk is bringing the encyclopedia back with this DEFINITIVE guide to everything. Details |
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Red Dwarf - Complete Series 1 - 8 Blu-ray Utilising the same remastering technology employed for recent popular releases of original Doctor Who series on Blu-ray, this box set - out in October - contains all eight original BBC series of sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf. Don't expect to see the picture in as beautiful high definition quality as you may be used to, but both picture and sound promise a marked improvement on DVD releases. Details |
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The Fishing Party DVD First shown in BBC One's renowned Play For Today series in 1972, Peter Terson's sparkling comedy of class and manners stars Brian Glover, Ray Mort and Douglas Livingstone. Derbyshire miners Art, Ern and Abe head to Whitby for a boys-only escape and a spot of sea fishing. With a shabby B&B and a grim ex-fisherman captain, the trio are half-cut before they've even left harbour... Details |
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Billy Connolly - My Grand Adventures In A Wee Country Hardback & eBook LA-living comic Billy Connolly writes this unique and intimate portrait of his native Scotland, a love letter to the places and people that made him. It's an adventure inspired by a single incident: the moment Billy received his Knighthood and was asked 'How does it feel to have achieved all this when you came from nothing?'. Details |
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Executive Stress - The Complete Series DVD Sitcom legend Penelope Keith reunites with The Good Life producer John Howard Davies in this cleverly written and immensely popular comedy from writer/actor George Layton. Co-starring Butterflies' Geoffrey Palmer and Keith's To The Manor Born co-star Peter Bowles, this set contains all three series about a husband and wife working at the same firm. Details |
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James Hogg - More Than Just A Good Life: The Authorised Biography Of Richard Briers Hardback & eBook Stuffed with anecdotes, this revealing and celebratory biography of the late actor and comedy star Richard Briers is to be published at the end of September, charting his long career far beyong The Good Life, including celebrated roles on stage and the silver screen for starters. Details |
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John Cleese - Professor At Large: The Cornell Years Hardback & eBook And now for something completely different. Professor At Large features John Cleese in the role of ivy league professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty years as professor-at-large has led to many talks, essays, and lectures. This collection of the very best moments from Cleese under his mortarboard provides a unique view of his endless pursuit of intellectual discovery. Details |
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Ben Schott - Jeeves And The King Of Clubs Hardback & eBook Building on P.G. Wodehouse's incalculable legacy, the brand new story Jeeves And The King Of Clubs reimagines Bertie Wooster as a British spy, and the Junior Ganymede - the club for the gentleman's gentleman - as a branch of the British Secret Service. Full of intrigue, exploits, comedy and wit, author Ben Schott and Wodehouse "make for a harmonious, hilarious pair". Details |
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Shaun The Sheep - Wash Day DVD Eight sheeptactular episodes featuring Shaun and the rest of the flock. All's wool that ends wool in this collection, as the farmer employs a robotic sheep dog, the flock have some alien encounters, Shaun has a go at dentistry and, after some hi-jinks with the rotary clothes line, there's a desperate race to get the farmer's washing clean. Details |
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2:HRS Download Three friends, two hours, one bucket list. What could possibly go wrong in this family adventure about three teens who skip a school trip? When they sneak off and explore tunnels beneath the British Museum, stumbling across a machine that accurately predicts the time of death of any living organism is only the start of their problems, in this family comedy film. Details |
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Friday Night Dinner - Series 1-5 DVD Tuck into five laugh-out-loud funny series of award-winning madness with the Goodmans as they get together for a traditional Jewish Friday night dinner of food, family - and major-league bickering! Of course every family has its eccentricities, it's just the Goodman family have made an art form of theirs. Details |
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Norbert Smith: A Life DVD Harry Enfield's ground-breaking mockumentary in The South Bank Show style about fictional movie star Norbert Smith was first shown on Channel 4 in 1989, and is a hilarious send-up to both TV biopics and the history of British cinema. Co-starring Melvyn Bragg as himself, it won the Popular Arts Award at the 18th International Emmy awards in 1990. Details |
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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. In each episode of this live stand-up show, he takes his audience through a scenario based on a real-life case. Details |
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Plunkett And Macleane Blu-ray This is the action-packed tale of two 18th Century highwaymen who form an unlikely alliance. After meeting in prison in the wake of a botched grave robbery, two strangers from different ends of society decide to join forces and become highwaymen. But as their infamy increases, one falls for the beautiful Lady Rebecca. Starring Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller. Details |
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The Windsors - Complete Box Set DVD This is a complete collection of Channel 4's satirical soap-opera sitcom The Windsors, spoofing the lives of the Royal Family. Written by Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie (Psychobitches, Big Train, My Family), the hilarious hit series is reportedly a favourite of the real Prince William. With an all-star ensemble cast and outrageous laughs, it's time to catch up if you haven't already. Details |
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Please Sir! - The Complete Fenn Street Collection DVD One of television's all-time-great sitcoms, Please Sir! stars John Alderton as Bernard Hedges, a newly qualified teacher thrown in at the deep end with a troubled class in an unruly school. Marking its 50th anniversary this year it was created by comedy giants John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, and spawned a feature film plus sequels The Fenn Street Gang and Bowler. All are included. Details |
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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, discuss their own favourite words and phrases - and suggest words they would like to ban. Details |
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Keep It In The Family - The Complete Collection DVD Created by sitcom veteran Brian Cooke (Man About The House, George & Mildred) and starring Robert Gillespie, Pauline Yates, Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle and Sabina Franklyn, these 5 series are set in the delightfully chaotic home of procrastinating cartoonist Dudley and his wife Muriel Rush, whose daughters Jacqui and Susan occupy the family's basement flat. Details |
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