New Releases
All Round To Mrs. Brown's - Series One DVD
Release date: Monday 16th October 2017
All six episodes from the first series of the comedy chat show featuring the mischievous Mrs Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) and her unruly brood. Guests include Holly Willoughby, Kevin Bridges, Steve Backshall and Pamela Anderson.
The Party Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 16th October 2017
American comedy starring the great British comic, Peter Sellers. With the massive success of Breakfast At Tiffany's and The Pink Panther cementing his reputation as one of America's finest directors of comedic cinema, Blake Edwards followed them up with The Party, arguably his greatest film, and at the time...
W1A - The Complete Series 1 - 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 16th October 2017
Series 1 & 2 When was the last time that we as a nation organised something that wasn't a complete disaster? Answer: The 2012 London Olympic Games. Conclusion: Let's get that guy in to work for us. Hence the arrival of Ian Fletcher and the start of W1A. The post...
W1A - The Complete Series 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 16th October 2017
The BBC's Head of Values Ian Fletcher once again throws open the revolving doors to New Broadcasting House to allow cameras to film staff in action at W1A. Ian and the team are tackling the BBC's Charter Renewal, reacting to the new mission statement of doing More Of Less, which...
People Just Do Nothing - Series 4 DVD
Release date: Monday 9th October 2017
The complete fourth series of BBC Three's cult-hit sitcom.
The Tales Of Para Handy DVD
Release date: Monday 9th October 2017
The classic BBC series The Tales Of Para Handy is finally coming to DVD; a Scottish television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s. Based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro, this BBC series stars Gregor Fisher as Captain Peter Para Handy MacFarlane,...
The Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 9th October 2017
The legendary Bernard Manning compères 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! A 1970s TV treasure in the mould of The Comedians, this massively popular show brought the quickfire comedy, variety...
1,423 QI Facts To Bowl You Over Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
A brand new sixth volume of incredible and fantastic facts from the QI team.
Citizen Khan's Guide To Britain Paperback
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
It's that handsome, bearded man from the telly! No, not Gary Lineker, the other one. The lovable, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan shares everything you need to know about living in post-Brexit Britain, such as bringing up the perfect daughter, educ-asian, romance and how to 'get our country back'...
Danny Baker - Going On The Turn: The Autobiography - Vol 3 Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
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 subsequent nationwide tour) and Going Off Alarming. With his trademark exuberance, he recalls the years which...
David Jason - Only Fools And Stories Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician through to the joys of becoming a dad late in life. This autumn, in a follow up autobiography also known as My Lives, he tells us about the many other lives...
Dawn French - Me. You: A Diary Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
I can't count the amount of diaries I have crammed full with entries in January, that then fizzle out as the other months pile in. One of my teenage diaries has fulsome fizzing reports of every single conversation, thought and feeling about every friend, every crush, every meal, every argument...
Morecambe & Wise - Radio Collection Series 1-4 CD
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
Collected together for the very first time, 18 editions of Eric and Ernie's BBC Radio 2 comedy series. Between 1975 and 1978, when they were at the peak of their popularity on BBC TV, Morecambe and Wise also starred in their own radio series, with each episode scripted by...
Richard Ayoade presents The Grip of Film Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement,...
Sarah Millican - How To Be Champion Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Millican's debut book How To Be Champion delves into her super normal life with daft stories, funny tales and proper advice on how to get past life's blips -...
The Missing Hancocks - Series 3 Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 5th October 2017
Five more brand new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts, starring Andy Secombe and Kevin McNally. One of the first modern sitcoms, Hancock's Half Hour made Tony Hancock a household name and launched the careers of writing partners Galton and Simpson. However, 20 of the original radio shows...
1,423 QI Facts To Bowl You Over Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
A brand new sixth volume of incredible and fantastic facts from the QI team.
Matt Lucas - Little Me: My Life From A-Z Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Hello there. Welcome to the dust jacket of my autobiography. I see they've made my teeth whiter in the photo, so that's good. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course,...
Richard Ayoade presents The Grip of Film Paperback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement,...
Arthur Christmas DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd October 2017
How CAN Santa deliver billions of presents to the whole world in just one night? With an army of one million combat-style Field Elves and a vast, state-of-the-art control center under the ice of the North Pole! So how could this incredible operation have MISSED one child?! To Santa's young...
Mr Bean - On Thin Ice DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd October 2017
Another seven episodes from the animated series based on the popular British television comedy about the eccentric loner and his slapstick adventures. In this collection, Mr Bean (voiced Rowan Atkinson) steals a slice of chocolate cake, posts a video online and has trouble with a stubborn rat. The episodes...
Lisey and Jenby's Bumper Book of Comedy Colouring, Vol. 1 Book
Release date: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Lise and Jenny were basking in the glory of their first published colouring book* when inspiration (or desperation to remain cool and relevant) struck. A new colouring book full of all** their favourite comedians! This is that book. Try and colour within the lines. Or don't you're your...
Life Is Sweet - Dual Format Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 25th September 2017
Mike Leigh's much-loved film was his third theatrical feature and stars a stellar British cast including Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman, Stephen Rea, Jane Horrocks, Claire Skinner and, last but not least, Timothy Spall as wannabe restaurateur Aubrey. Also included is Leigh's 2012 production A Running Jump, which was made...
Oh Doctor Beeching! - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 25th September 2017
From Richard Spendlove and David Croft, writer of Dad's Army and Hi-De-Hi!, Oh Doctor Beeching! has been a firm favourite with millions of British comedy fans. Arriving in 1963, please alight at the small branch railway station of Hatley, threatened with closure under the Beeching Axe. Paul Shane stars...
See Ya Later: The World According To Arron Crascall Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 21st September 2017
A window into the world of comedian and social-media star Arron Crascall. In the same vein as his favourite TV show, The Wonder Years, old Arron (full of See Ya Later wisdom) meets young 13 year-old Arron (who needs a firm steer) and tackles all the big stuff. ...
Simon Amstell - HELP Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 21st September 2017
Comedy, tragedy, therapy. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon's ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage....
A Fish Called Wanda Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 18th September 2017
In 1988, John Cleese, former Python and the mastermind behind Fawlty Towers, teamed up with the veteran Ealing comedy director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) to produce another classic of British comedy. Cleese plays Archie Leach, a weak-willed barrister who finds himself embroiled with a quartet of ill-matched...
Danger Mouse - From Duck To Dawn DVD
Release date: Monday 18th September 2017
Another collection of 8 episodes from the new Danger Mouse.
The Peter Sellers Movie Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 18th September 2017
An all new original Peter Sellers DVD gifting set. The set features 4 DVDs in a slipcase and includes his 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall; set in Victorian times, a story of the world's greatest poet, William Topaz McGonagall. Also starring Spike Milligan. The 1969 classic comedy The...
Trollied - Complete Series 1 - 6 DVD
Release date: Monday 18th September 2017
Jason Watkins, Sarah Parish, Stephen Tompkinson, Miriam Margolyes, Jane Horrocks and Mark Addy are amongst the stars in an ongoing saga of beleaguered managers, oddball checkout staff and unsatisfied customers at Valco, a fictional north-west supermarket. This set contains all six series and all three Christmas specials - alongside...
Here's Harry - The Complete Surviving Episodes DVD
Release date: Monday 11th September 2017
Harry Worth forged an award-winning stage and screen persona as a bumbling fusspot out of sync with a fast-changing society. After many years on the variety circuit, his first TV series, The Trouble With Harry (1960), cast him as a would-be novelist failing to make any sense of the world...
Ill Behaviour DVD
Release date: Monday 11th September 2017
Thirty-something friends Joel, Charlie and Tess are having a tough time. Joel is recently divorced and now has the hots for doctor Nadia, a raging alcoholic. Tess has quit her job. And Charlie - well, Charlie has cancer. Charlie wants to treat the cancer naturally (it's curable if caught in...
Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 7th September 2017
Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going To Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current...
Cold Feet: The Lost Years Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 7th September 2017
This original novel is set between the original and recently revived series of hit ITV comedy drama Cold Feet, filling in the gaps, bringing us even closer to the characters we've laughed, grieved and grown up with. It's the missing piece of the puzzle that the show's millions of fans...
Damien Trench - Egg & Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 7th September 2017
Miles Jupp (The News Quiz presenter, star of Rev., I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and The Thick Of It) delves into the mind of his comedy creation Damien Trench - urbane food writer and protagonist of BBC Radio 4's acclaimed sitcom In And Out Of The Kitchen. 'I...
Just A Minute - The Golden Collection Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 7th September 2017
To celebrate 50 years of Just A Minute, this new collection includes 12 previously unpublished archive episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 panel game presented by Nicholas Parsons. What better way to mark a glorious half century of Just A Minute than with a collection of episodes from...
Mindhorn Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 4th September 2017
British comedy and debut feature from director Sean Foley. The film follows Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barratt), a washed-up actor who enjoyed fleeting success in the 1980s playing a TV detective named Mindhorn. Now living in poverty in London after throwing his career away trying to make it in Hollywood,...
The Story Of Derek And Clive Paperback
Release date: Monday 4th September 2017
This is the story of Derek and Clive, the dark and foul mouthed creations of treasured comic duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Emerging in the mid 1970s, just as Cook and Moore's working relationship was disintegrating, Derek and Clive started as a private joke, but gained a cult...
John Finnemore's Double Acts - Series 2 Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 31st August 2017
This is the second series of one-off comedies written by the genius behind the smash-hit radio sitcom Cabin Pressure - John Finnemore. The first series won the coveted Writers Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy, with each show a stand-alone comedy perfumed by just two actors. Stephanie...
Robert Webb - How Not To Be A Boy Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 29th August 2017
RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry Love Sport Play Rough Drink Beer Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to...
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg - Dual Format Limited Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 28th August 2017
Playwright Peter Nichols adapted his own blackly comic 1967 Tony Award-winning play for this confrontational film version by director Peter Medak. Alan Bates and Janet Suzman play a married couple struggling to come to terms with their daughter's disability using comedy and cruelty to dispel the desperation of their...
Entertaining Mr. Sloane Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 28th August 2017
Entertaining Mr. Sloane is a 1970 black comedy directed by Douglas Hickox and based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. Kath (Beryl Reid) is a lonely, middle-aged woman living in the London suburbs with her ageing father Kemp (Alan Webb). When she meets the...
Loot Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 28th August 2017
Adaptation of the celebrated farcical play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in...
The National Health - Dual Format Limited Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 28th August 2017
Jack Gold's film about life and death in a shabby London hospital interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy one which exists in the soap-opera world of Nurse Norton's Affair, where everything is fully funded and patients are miraculously cured. A darkly funny satire on the...
The Windsors - Complete Series One & Two DVD
Release date: Monday 28th August 2017
Outrageous comedy series re-imagining the Royal Family as the characters of a TV soap. The Windsors are divided: Prince Charles (Harry Enfield) wants his son Wills (Hugh Skinner) to show a more regal detachment but Wills wants to fly the air ambulance and mingle with the people. Kate (Louise...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 24th August 2017
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times in a row and has appeared on Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Russell Howard's Stand Up Central. Unfortunately for James, fame and critical acclaim haven't prevented him from ending up in a breathtaking amount of...
My Beautiful Laundrette - Dual Format Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 21st August 2017
In Stephen Frears's groundbreaking and hugely successful drama, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), the son of a Pakistani immigrant, embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle's laundrette with the help of his childhood friend, ex-National Front member Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Written by Hanif Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia), My Beautiful...
The Ken Dodd Laughter Show DVD
Release date: Monday 21st August 2017
One of Britain's best-loved comedians, Ken Dodd's anarchic, energetic brand of humour has made him a firm favourite with audiences for more than six decades. Bearing his trademark tickling stick and tattifilarious jokes, The Ken Dodd Laughter Show stars Knotty Ash's most famous son in a classic mix of madcap...
The Riff Raff Element - The Complete Series DVD
Release date: Monday 21st August 2017
Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Greg Wise, Trevor Peacock and Brenda Bruce are among the stars of this BAFTA-nominated comedy drama of class conflict and the North-South divide. This complete-series set contains all twelve episodes. Created and scripted by Debbie Horsfield, writer of Making Out, Cutting It and Poldark, The...
Their Finest Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 21st August 2017
1940, London, the Blitz; with the country's morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton - Gemma Bovery), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the nation's flagging spirits; and inspire America to join the war. Partnered alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley...