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Back To Life - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 25th October 2021
It's three weeks after the friendship-shattering revelations of Series 1, and Miri Matteson has retained her determination to live her life after coming out of prison and returning to her childhood home in Hythe. She's got a trial shift at the supermarket; she and her neighbour Billy are going for...
Big Screen British Comedy Blu-ray
Release date: Wednesday 27th October 2021
Three of the most popular and long-running BBC comedy series hit the big screen in four film adaptations featuring the original casts - Dad's Army, Steptoe & Son, Steptoe And Son Ride Again and Are You Being Served? - three appearing on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere.
Dad's Army...
The Assassination Bureau Blu-ray
Release date: Wednesday 27th October 2021
Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg head an impeccable cast in The Assassination Bureau, a spirited caper inspired by a book co-written by Jack London.
Reed plays Ivan, the self-confident chief of an association of hitmen for hire, who will refuse no well-paid offer - especially the lucrative challenge of an...
Robert Ross - Forgotten Heroes Of Comedy Hardback
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
In this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most fascinating names in comedy - from both sides of the Atlantic.
With the passionate input of such favourite comics as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Hattie Hayridge, Roy Hudd, Michael Palin,...
Jack Dee - What Is Your Problem? Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
Jack Dee has been very busy during lockdown and would like to update everybody on what he's been up to.
While the nation was baking bread and clearing out cupboards, Jack retrained online as a psychotherapist and is now open for business. After FOUR HOURS study, he has a certificate...
Matt Winning - Hot Mess Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
For fans of Randall Munro's What If?, Matt Parker's Humble Pi, and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world!
Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and environmental economist with a PHD in climate change policy, which means he's the sort of doctor...
Daisy May Cooper - Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother Chaz, she had to work a myriad of low-paid and unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet. Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her is the endearingly honest and hilarious memoir...
Victoria Wood Unseen On TV Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
In the five years since Victoria Wood's death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we'll never again be surprised by new material from her.
But now, as part of the research for the Sunday Times bestselling and critically acclaimed biography Let's Do It, her official biographer, Jasper Rees...
Paddy McGuinness - My Lifey Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
Get the kettle on, the biscuits out and settle in for a belting read.
Paddy McGuinness is a much-loved presence on British TV. His stand-up tours sell out across the country. His acting roles are legendary, from Phoenix Nights and Max And Paddy to The Keith & Paddy Picture Show.
...
Mark Salisbury - The Insider's Guide To Inside No. 9 Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 28th October 2021
Welcome, reader, to the experience of a lifetime: a behind-the-scenes tour of the remarkable BAFTA award-winning series. This show-by-show guide reveals the genesis of each episode's idea through to the scripting, casting, design, direction, and production - where you'll have access to the minds and imaginations of creators Reece Shearsmith...
The Watch Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 1st November 2021
The Watch follows an unlikely group of misfits, The City Watch, who are forced to find the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in the process.
The comedic yet thrilling eight-part series pits trolls, werewolves and other improbable heroes against an evil plot to resurrect a great dragon...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - The Complete Fourth Series Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 1st November 2021
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 4 sees lifelong friends and comedic royalty, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse return to the riverbanks.
Features six episodes and the fabled 2020 Christmas special featuring Chris Rea.
Tessa Coates & Stevie Martin - Nobody Panic: How To Be A Functional Adult Without Screaming Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th November 2021
You'll never need to buy another self-help book - Nobody Panic is the essential guide to being a fully functioning adult without screaming.
Useful, funny and life-affirming, Nobody Panic will give you all the skills necessary to at least convince people you're bossing life. From the useful, such as how...
All Puns Blazing: The Best British Knockout Jokes Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th November 2021
From Geoff Rowe and the Leicester Comedy Festival comes this brilliant tribute to that most British of jokes, the humble pun.
Including a foreword from Dr Oliver Double and a wealth of hilarious (and occasionally groan-inducing) material from some of Britain's finest stand-up comedic talent, All Puns Blazing is a...
Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th November 2021
Distinctive, unusual, difficult, but spectacularly entertaining, this quiz book is to other pub quizzes what Trivial Pursuit was to Ludo, what The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is like to the Rhyl phone directory, and what the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is like compared to a kid's scooter. Loads better.
David...
Calling All Forces Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 4th November 2021
A bumper collection of classic selected episodes and extracts from vintage variety show Calling All Forces.
Broadcasting on the BBC Light Programme from December 1950 until July 1952, Calling All Forces was the biggest show of its day, attracting the biggest names of the time. Written by a young Bob...
Armando Ianucci - Pandemonium: Some Verses On The Current Predicament Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th November 2021
[i]Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and,
That tremendous plus, The Science,
Saw off our panic and Globed vexation
Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth
And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life
For which we give plenty gratitude and pay
Willingly for the vict'ry triumph
Merited by...
David Crump - Fred Karno: The Legend Behind The Laughter Paperback
Release date: Friday 5th November 2021
Fred Karno: The Legend Behind The Laughter, tells for the first time the true story of this complex man: a genius of comedy, a mentor to the 20th Century's greatest comedians, a goliath of the music hall, and a man who's rags to riches, back to rags, story is surely...
Mrs. Brown's Boys - Festive Fancies! DVD
Release date: Monday 8th November 2021
Hold on to your tinsel and baubles, Mrs Brown and her boys are back for even more antics and festive fun in two brand new episodes.
Episode 1: Mammy Of The People
It's Christmas once again in the Brown household and Agnes and her family are getting used to "the new...
Mrs. Brown's Boys - Very Merry Christmas Bundle DVD
Release date: Monday 8th November 2021
Celebrate the Christmas cheer with everyone's favourite Mammy and her family. The Very Merry Christmas Bundle features all 19 festive episodes packed with fun, shenanigans and a stocking full of laughs!
Episodes:
- Mammy Of The People
- Mammy's Memories?
- A Wonderful Mammy
- Orange Is The New Mammy
- Exotic Mammy
- Mammy's Motel
-...
Morecambe & Wise - Xmas At ITV DVD
Release date: Monday 8th November 2021
The best-loved double act that Britain has ever produced, Morecambe and Wise were a staple part of British television for three decades and their festive specials as much a part of Christmas as turkey, tinsel and terrible pop songs!
Families across the country gathered around the box for these legendary...
Harry Hill - Fight!: Thirty Years Not Quite At The Top Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 11th November 2021
In this highly entertaining memoir from one of the nation's most popular comedians, Harry Hill takes an honest and hilarious look back at his life and career through the lens of what didn't go right.
We join him on the journey in childhood, and his starring role in the cub...
Stephen Fry - Fry's Ties Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 11th November 2021
Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished accessory, the perfect gift for the tie-wearer in your life.
Every single one of Stephen Fry's ties - whether floral, fluorescent, football themed; striped or spotty, outrageous or simply debonair - tells an intimate tale...
Giles Wembley Hogg Goes Off - Complete Series 1-5 Plus Specials Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th November 2021
All five series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy - plus World Cup, Glastonbury and Brexit specials.
Meet Budleigh Salterton's most famous son, Giles Wemmbley Hogg: bumbling backpacker, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, connoisseur of Eastern philosophies and upper middle-class student ponce. In these five series, armed with his...
The Penny Dreadfuls - The Brothers Faversham Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th November 2021
Eight swashbuckling tales about the eccentric members of Victorian Britain's greatest aristocratic family.
Based on their critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows Aeneas Faversham, Aeneas Faversham Returns and Aeneas Faversham Forever, these action-packed romps chronicle the lives of the Brothers Faversham, nine men who straddled the Victorian era 'like a...
The Complete Penny Dreadfuls Present... Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th November 2021
All 10 of the Penny Dreadfuls' riotous revisionist plays, retelling famous fictional tales and historical events.
Sketch trio The Penny Dreadfuls made a name for themselves with The Brothers Faversham, telling the stories of nine extraordinary siblings in the Victorian era. In these 10 comedy dramas, they step away from...
Off The Rails Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th November 2021
Three women in their 50s recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe to fulfil a friend's dying wish, leading to as many laughs and tears as the first time around.
Staring Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Ben Miller, Franco Nero and Judi Dench.
Casino Royale Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th November 2021
This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond", and all six...
Morecambe & Wise At Thames DVD
Release date: Monday 15th November 2021
The best-loved double act that Britain has ever produced, Morecambe and Wise were a staple part of British television for three decades and their festive specials as much a part of Christmas as turkey, tinsel and terrible pop songs!
The shows they made for Thames Television in the late '70s...
David Walliams - Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 16th November 2021
The new children's book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams - an extraordinarily brilliant and rollicking mystery adventure illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross, and the sequel to the much-loved and best-selling Gangsta Granny.
Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast,...
The Party Party Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th November 2021
Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions.
1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal, very predictable, very...
Not The Nine O'Clock News - The Collected Comedy Albums Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th November 2021
BBC Audio presents all three original albums from the ground-breaking comedy series that launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones.
Not The Nine O'Clock News is one of the great classics of British television comedy. The show ran from 1979 to 1982 on...
The Brothers Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 18th November 2021
All 16 episodes of the BBC radio comedy about the dysfunctional Burbage siblings.
Brothers Nigel and Michael share everything - home, work and acute neuroses. Several years ago, they gave up respectable careers to set up a website design company in Nigel's living room. That was their first mistake...
They...
Bleak Moments Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 22nd November 2021
Sylvia (Anne Raitt) leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda (Sarah Stephenson) who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair.
Released in 1971 to critical acclaim, Mike...
Seekers Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th November 2021
All 12 episodes of Steve Burge's sitcom about the staff and clients of an Essex job centre.
When Stuart is made redundant from his post as an advisor at Rayleigh Job Centre, he finds it hard to let go. Losing his job is tough enough, but worse than that is...
The Brig Society - The Complete Series 1-4 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th November 2021
In the complete Series 1-4 of the multi-award-winning hit show from the people who brought you Cabin Pressure and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, stand-up comedian Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing!
In each episode, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old...
Sweetheart DVD
Release date: Monday 29th November 2021
This is your holiday too Sweetheart; you can enjoy it.
For AJ (Nell Barlow) planning a gap year trip to knit jumpers for elephants is much more appealing than spending a week with her family at a British Seaside Holiday Park. Yet, she finds herself on a four-hour car journey...
Morecambe & Wise At ITV DVD
Release date: Monday 29th November 2021
Undoubtedly the best-loved double act that Britain has ever produced, Morecambe & Wise first came to fame in the mid-1960s with Two Of A Kind, their hit comedy series for ATV. Showcasing their mildly anarchic humour, impeccable sense of timing and keen eye for the absurd, its success propelled Eric...
Alma's Not Normal DVD
Release date: Monday 6th December 2021
A bitingly funny and unflinching take on class, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse.
After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it is not going to be easy. Meanwhile, her heroin-addicted...
The News Quiz 2021 - The Complete Series 104, 105 & 106 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 16th December 2021
Twenty-four episodes of the popular topical comedy show, chaired by Andy Zaltzman.
With its brilliant blend of the silly, the serious and the satirical, The News Quiz has been a must-listen for comedy fans since 1977. Recorded in front of a virtual audience, these three series see Andy Zaltzman presiding...
Just A Minute 2021 - The Complete Series 86 & 87 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 16th December 2021
Sixteen sparkling episodes of the iconic comedy panel show
BBC Radio 4's longest-running panel game returns for the first time since the death of much-missed maestro Nicholas Parsons, who chaired the show for more than 50 years. Following in his footsteps for Series 86 are an array of special guest...
The Larkins - Series 1 Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 20th December 2021
In the idyllic and beautiful Kent countryside, known as the Garden of England, the Larkins have a achieved a small patch of paradise where nothing is wasted, and they enjoy life to the full.
There's an overwhelming sense of plenty in their lives and a lot of joy and raucous...
Nobody's Perfect - The Complete Hit Comedy Series
Release date: Friday 31st December 2021
Richard Griffiths partners Elaine Stritch in this classic London Weekend Television comedy charting the outrageous complications that frequently arise in the domestic lives of a transatlantic couple. Based on scripts for the long-running American sitcom Maude (itself a spin-off of All in the Family, America's remake of Till Death Us...
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - The Complete Series
Release date: Friday 31st December 2021
One of the premiere comic performers from the second half of the 20th century, Marty Feldman struck a high water mark with his ATV series from the early 1970s: The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine.
The brainchild of M*A*S*H producer Larry Gelbart and co-starring anarchic comedy genius Spike Milligan, these fourteen...
Bill Bailey - Larks In Transit
Release date: Friday 31st December 2021
Bill Bailey's brand new stand-up tour, Larks In Transit, is expected to be released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Mark Steel - Who Do I Think I Am?
Release date: Friday 31st December 2021
Mark Steel tells the story of his own adoption, at the age of 10 days.
Marks & Gran - Shooting The Pilot
Release date: Friday 31st December 2021
A book from Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran collecting together scripts from pilot episodes of their most celebrated shows, with essays on each.
C. K. McDonnell - The Stranger Times Paperback
Release date: Thursday 6th January 2022
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . .
A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the...
C. K. McDonnell - This Charming Man Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 6th January 2022
Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .
Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight...
Hoffman Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 17th January 2022
One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack) and, discovering that her boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch) has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week...