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Pixie DVD
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
John-Luke Roberts - It Is Better Vinyl
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
It Is Better is the fourth release from Monkey Barrel Records, and the first to be conceived, written, recorded and scored specifically for vinyl.
A brand new show by John-Luke Roberts with music by John Chambers, it has been created specifically to be listened to - ideally in the evening,...
Restless Natives Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
Starring Vincent Friell (Will) and Joe Mullaney (Ronnie) and directed by Michael Hoffman (The Last Station, One Fine Day) from a script by Ninian Dunnett this much-loved film from 1985 comes with additional features including a new documentary with cast and crew.
Ronnie and Will are two under-employed Scots living...
Jen Brister - The Other Mother Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
"I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum - I'm the other one. Confused? Let's back up a bit. Two years ago, my partner (a woman - we're not solicitors) gave birth to twins. Yes. Yes. Already there's a lot to take...
Katy Brand - I Carried A Watermelon: Dirty Dancing And Me Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
I Carried A Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand's life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities.
It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women's stories to...
Paul Tonkinson - 26.2 Miles To Happiness: A Comedian's Tale Of Running, Red Wine And Redemption Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon. With a supporting cast of fellow comedians, this is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
Along the way, we...
The Missing Hancocks - The Complete BBC Radio Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Kevin McNally and Andy Secombe star in new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of the hugely popular comedy classic, Hancock's Half Hour. The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony...
Pam Ayres - With These Hands Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Delighting her fans for decades with her mischievous wit and wry observations, this is a classic collection of poems and monologues from Pam Ayres, which takes us back to where it all began.
From the nostalgia of her 1950s childhood, conjuring up images of hand-knitted swimming costumes and suet puddings,...
Sing As We Go! Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 8th March 2021
Beloved by the British public for her string of hit pre-war films, Gracie Fields's Lancastrian earthiness, impish humour and memorable songs have endeared her to many generations of fans. A morale-boosting feelgood movie made at a time of great economic depression, Sing As We Go! was written by legendary novelist,...
The Ladykillers 4K Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 8th March 2021
To celebrate the 65th anniversary of Ealing Studios' flawless The Ladykillers, STUDIOCANAL will be releasing the first ever 4K restoration of the 1955 black comedy from the original 3-strip Technicolor negative, showcasing director Alexander Mackendrick's vision in its full glory.
The Ladykillers follows the hilarious capers of a group of...
Lee Ridley - I'm Only In It For The Parking Paperback
Release date: Thursday 11th March 2021
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...
The Complete Uncle Mort Adventures - North Country, South Country & Celtic Fringe Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th March 2021
For the first time ever all three much-loved series featuring the legendary creations Uncle Mort and Carter Brandon are brought together in one collection. As the pair tour Britain, Uncle Mort's recollections make for some hilarious moments.
Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire-based family first appeared in Peter Tinniswood's novel [i]A...
A Run For Your Money Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th March 2021
Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith star in this classic piece of BAFTA-nominated Welsh whimsy from Ealing Studios. Made during their golden, post-war period, A Run For Your Money was directed by Charles Frend and is presented here as a brand new high definition transfer from original...
Babblewick Hall Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th March 2021
When Squire Fenton Babblewick inherits his uncle's Yorkshire estate, it's the perfect opportunity to realise his utopian dreams.
He attempts to become a member of parliament, reform beetroots, win the love of lovely Lucinda, be a musical composer genius and buy a workhouse to turn it into a school.
His...
Nish Kumar - It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 1 Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th March 2021
Stand-up comedy from Nish Kumar.
Nish Kumar - It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 2 Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th March 2021
Stand-up comedy from Nish Kumar.
The Lady Is A Square Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd March 2021
Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan and Janette Scott star alongside Anthony Newley and Wilfrid Hyde White in this swinging musical from the late 1950s! "Mr Showbusiness" sings four top tunes in what was to be the swansong for both Neagle and her long-time creative partner and husband, director Herbert Wilcox. The...
Neil Archer - Beyond A Joke: Parody In English Film And Television Comedy Paperback
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Beyond A Joke explores the myriad ways English film culture has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the present day. It provides a contextual and textual analysis of a range of works that, while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic attention, from Morecambe &...
Coming Alive Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Convict Terry is challenged to revive a rundown community centre after being released early from prison.
He is supported by Sandra Gains, a social worker with a warm heart but a sad past. Will he be forced to go back to prison, or will he succeed in showing his case...
Phil Ellis Is Trying Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Phil's trying to keep his entertainments business afloat. He's trying to get over his divorce from Leanne. He's trying to be a better person. He's trying. Boy, is he trying. Will he manage it?
In Series 1 Phil is late with the rent he owes to his celebrity-memorabilia-shop-owning landlord Johnny,...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong DVD
Release date: Monday 29th March 2021
The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One.
As part of a commitment to community theatre, The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, has been commissioned to recreate the JM Barrie classic as part of the festive season programming. But can they pull...
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong DVD
Release date: Monday 29th March 2021
Blacklisted by the BBC after ruining Peter Pan, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society do not take their ban lying down and force themselves back on the TV by hijacking the jewel of the Christmas schedule, a live production of A Christmas Carol, staged by a professional cast that includes the...
Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc.
It's the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way.
Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one...
Tony Nicholson - The Squire Of Knotty Ash And His Lady: An Intimate Biography Of Sir Ken Dodd Hardback
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Sir Ken Dodd was a national institution. He worked tirelessly as one Britain's most popular comedians for a staggering seven decades. His five hour stage shows were legendary, and he was still performing these hilarious theatrical marathons right up to the age of ninety.
Ken was the comedian's comedian. Fellow...
Roald & Beatrix: The Tale Of The Curious Mouse Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th April 2021
Roald & Beatrix: The Tale Of The Curious Mouse introduces Harry Tayler as a lonely young Roald Dahl, who sets off on a big adventure to meet his favourite author - Beatrix Potter (Dawn French).
This heart-warming comedy drama tells the story of their real-life meeting and how it inspired...
Paintball Massacre DVD
Release date: Monday 5th April 2021
Old school friends go on a paintball trip, miles away from civilisation. Things go horribly wrong when they discover a cold-blooded masked killer is among them. Soon the paint is mixed with blood as they fight to survive their school reunion. Will anyone survive?
Paintball Massacre is a true British...
Tez Ilyas - The Secret Diary Of A British Muslim Aged 13¾ Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 8th April 2021
The hilarious and pubescent debut book from your favourite British Muslim comedian (that's Tez Ilyas, by the way) is coming to a shop near you. You may know and love Tez from his stand-up comedy, his role as Eight in Man Like Mobeen, his Radio 4 series TEZ Talks, or...
School's Out Forever Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 12th April 2021
Film based on the novel by Scott K. Andrews.
Stories To Make You Smile
Release date: Monday 12th April 2021
A collection of stories compiled for World Book Day 2021.
Katy Wix - Delicacy Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th April 2021
From award-winning comedian and writer Katy Wix comes Delicacy - a different kind of memoir from an astonishing new voice.
Eleven snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative, and profound, underpinned with moments of startling humour that shatter the darkness - all beginning with...
A Bit Of Fry & Laurie - The BBC TV Soundtracks Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 15th April 2021
In this classic TV soundtrack, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie explore a seemingly inexhaustible list of subjects with a delicious turn of phrase and elaborate wordplay.
The hilarity includes regular acts such as not so super Spy Tony Mercheson and his boss Control, yuppies, John and Peter and the Critics.
...
Zena Barrie - Your Friend Forever Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th April 2021
Preston, 1981. Maud, who is twelve and lives with her dysfunctional parents and her elder brother, spends a lot of her time in her bedroom writing letters to her favourite popstar, Tom Harding, the lead singer of a punk band called Horsefly.
No one really understands her or tries to...
Just William DVD
Release date: Monday 19th April 2021
Daniel Roche (Outnumbered) stars as William in this brand new adaptation of Richmal Crompton's timeless Just William stories, by Simon Nye.
There is only one boy whose irrepressible incorrigibility has delighted children and adults for nearly a century; only one boy who can prick adult pomposity with such satisfying regularity....
Finding Alice DVD
Release date: Monday 26th April 2021
Everything seems perfect when Alice, her husband Harry and their teenage daughter Charlotte finally move into their new dream home. The first night quickly turns into everyone's nightmare when Alice finds Harry dead at the bottom of the stairs. Alice loses her ground and tries to cope with his sudden...
Michael Palin - The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 (Volume 1) Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 29th April 2021
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for The Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner.
This first volume of his diaries reveals how Python...
Michael Palin - Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume 2) Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 29th April 2021
The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers.
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning...
Me Myself & Di DVD
Release date: Monday 10th May 2021
After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northerner, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in...
Geoff Norcott - Where Did I Go Right?: How The Left Lost Me Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
"Voting Conservative is like buying a James Blunt album: loads of people have done it, but weirdly you never meet them..."
Comedian Geoff Norcott should have been Labour through and through. He grew up on a council estate, both of his parents were disabled, and his Dad was a union...
Chris & Rosie Ramsey - Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
SH**GED
Saturday nights out on the tiles, undying crushes, dating like it's a competitive sport, awkward tales of dating woes, one-night stands, the walk of shame, ghosting, tears and break-ups.
MARRIED
Finding 'the one', meeting their parents, first holidays and romantic weekends away, engagement rings, big moment proposals, wedding bells, the hen...
Sara Gibbs - Drama Queen Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
During the first thirty years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a crybaby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her...
Daniel Sloss - Everyone You Hate Is Going To Die Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
From one of the hottest young comedians at work today - two Netflix specials, a world tour, a brand new HBO special, and a well-earned reputation as mind-bogglingly funny and hilariously offensive and challenging - a book about his favourite subject...and you will never think about relationships in the same...
Lee Mack - Mack The Life: The Autobiography Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Have you ever wondered where comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? And where does all that material come from? Well, young Lee McKillop used...
Alan Davies - Just Ignore Him Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.
In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight,...
Liam Williams - Homes And Experiences Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Mark is going on the trip of a lifetime: a summer touring Europe in the pay of the travel company he works for.
For his plus one, he turns to his idolised cousin, Paris. Everything Mark's not, Paris is a man of the world with a thirst for adventure -...
Lenny Henry - Who Am I, Again? Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry.
In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the...
Lenny Henry - Rising To The Surface
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
A second volume of memoirs from Lenny Henry, covering his entertainment career from 1975 to date.
Georgia Pritchett - My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life Hardback
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?), to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars), to becoming a...
The Now Show - Series 56 - 58 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
Three more series of the flagship topical comedy show presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
The Now Show is a much-loved stalwart of radio comedy. Featuring some of the best and brightest contemporary comedians, this award-winning show takes a satirical look at the news through a mix of stand-up,...
The News Quiz - Vintage Treasures Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
A brand new collection of previously unpublished episodes taken from the programme's first four decades.
The News Quiz began on Radio 4 in 1977 and continues to be hugely popular to this day. The first host was Barry Norman, and subsequently Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Miles Jupp, Nish...
They Come Over Here: Asking Famous People Where They're Really From
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
A forthcoming audiobook from Phil Wang.