New Releases
Maggie And Her - The Complete Series DVD
Release date: Monday 14th August 2017
This highly popular comedy from London Weekend Television features BAFTA-nominated Fresh Fields star Julia McKenzie in an early sitcom role as Maggie, a divorced schoolteacher living on her own in a block of flats in London. Legendary comedy battleaxe Irene Handl is "her" - Maggie's nosy next-door neighbour Mrs...
Minder - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 14th August 2017
Classic Minder: the complete series box set. The legendary George Cole plays Arthur Daley, a man synonymous with dodgy goods and shady deals and who knew a 'nice little earner' when he saw one, hires Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman) to be his 'Minder' to protect him from other small...
Oh Doctor Beeching! - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 14th August 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...
Joe Lycett - Parsnips, Buttered Paperback
Release date: Thursday 10th August 2017
Dear Reader, Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed. I love...
Hot Property DVD
Release date: Monday 7th August 2017
Hot Property is an anarchic satire for 'generation rent'. An un-romantic comedy about love, greed and psychotic estate agents. Set amid London's deranged property market and self-parodying hipster culture, it stars MyAnna Buring.
Stay Lucky - The Complete Series DVD
Release date: Monday 7th August 2017
Minder and Sweeney legend Dennis Waterman stars as a London wheeler-dealer who heads north to escape old demons and start a fresh chapter in this popular, light-hearted drama series; Jan Francis, Susan George, Rula Lenska and Leslie Ash are among the ladies in his new life. Also starring Ian McNeice...
John Finnemore's Double Acts - Series 2 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 3rd 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...
Rosie Wilby - Is Monogamy Dead? Audiobook, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd August 2017
In early 2013, comedian Rosie Wilby found herself at a crossroads with everything she'd ever believed about romantic relationships. When people asked, 'who's the love of your life?' there was no simple answer. Did they mean her former flatmate who she'd experienced the most ecstatic, heady, yet ultimately doomed, fling...
Steptoe And Son - Series 5 & 6 Audio Download & CD
Release date: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Series 5 and 6 of the BBC radio sitcom starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe And Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the series' popularity in the mid-1960s that the cast...
Electric Dreams Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 31st July 2017
Miles is helpless, hopeless and about to blow a fuse. He has a problem. His computer Edgar has decided to wreck his life. He's ruined his credit rating, run up his phone bill, cancelled his plane reservations, locked him out of his house and now he's trying to steal his...
The Time Of Their Lives Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 31st July 2017
Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen (Joan Collins) escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage. Pooling their limited resources, they hit the road together by coach,...
The Trip Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 31st July 2017
The Trip Steve Coogan has been commissioned by a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants in the North of England. When his food-loving American girlfriend backs out, Steve is faced with a week of meals for one. Reluctantly, he calls Rob Brydon, the only person he can think...
The Trip To Spain DVD
Release date: Monday 31st July 2017
Third series of the improvisational impressions comedy starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they travel around Spain.
Car Trouble
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
Julie Walters plays a two-timing suburban wife who borrows her husband's new E-Type Jaguar, without permission, for an illicit rendezvous with a car salesman. The meeting ends with dire but comical consequences, as the couple get stuck together and fireman have to cut the car in two to release...
Citizen Smith - Series 1 - 4 DVD
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
All four celebrated series of John Sullivan's hit sitcom about a wannabe Marxist revolutionary living in south London, starring Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith.
Count Arthur Strong - The Complete Third Series DVD
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
Wit, bon vivant, social gadfly, master of the mystic arts and star of stage and screen Count Arthur Strong is none of these, though he likes to think he is... Steve Delaney returns as the pompously delusional Count Arthur in this BAFTA-nominated sitcom written by Delaney and Graham Linehan...
Danger Mouse - The Agents Who Saved Summer DVD
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
Ten more episodes from the children's animated series following the adventures of the world's greatest secret agent Danger Mouse (voiced by Alexander Armstrong) and his best friend and sidekick, Penfold (Kevin Eldon). With the help of their boss Colonel K (Stephen Fry), the duo pit themselves against all manner of...
Love On A Branch Line DVD
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
All the episodes of Love On A Branch Line on DVD. The comedy follows Jasper Pye, a perfect Civil Servant. He is polite and refined but to his girlfriend and even himself he is a bore. He decides to change his life, resign and become an artist in Paris...
The Prince Of Denmark DVD
Release date: Monday 17th July 2017
In the wake of No, That's Me Over Here! and Now Look Here!, this is the third sitcom series penned by Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer for Ronnie Corbett's archetypal everyman. Corbett shines as a pompous but affable ingénue whose witless bluster and eagerness to fit in land him in...
Andrew O'Neill - A History of Heavy Metal Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 13th July 2017
The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Iron Maiden and Metallica, to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the...
The Diary Of A Nobody DVD & Download
Release date: Wednesday 12th July 2017
Hugh Bonneville stars in this classic BBC 4-part adaptation of one of Victorian Britain's best-loved comic novels, adapted by Andrew Davies. The hapless Victorian diarist Charles Pooter records the minutiae of life in the suburbs with a dry wit, sarcasm and mostly misunderstood humour, as he battles with impertinent...
Palgrave Studies in Comedy - Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy Hardback
Release date: Saturday 8th July 2017
This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh, but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle's Show, author Nicholas Holm explores how...
Round The Horne Compendium Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 6th July 2017
An exclusive collection of restored episodes and archive rarities from the fondly remembered BBC radio comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. Two complete episodes - Series 1, Episode 5 and Series 1, Episode 15 - are presented remastered and in full...
Loaded DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd July 2017
Meet Josh, Leon, Ewan and Watto. They started Idyl Hands Games, the team behind inane app Cat Factory, and they've just sold the company to US investors for a cool £300 million. They might have grown up in each other's pockets, but now those pockets are lined with gold and...
The Hippopotamus Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd July 2017
Triple Olivier Award winner Roger Allam heads a stellar cast as the cantankerous, whiskey-swilling protagonist in this brand-new adaptation of Stephen Fry's best-selling novel. With a supporting cast that includes Tim McInnerny, Emily Berrington, Russell Tovey, Fiona Shaw and Matthew Modine, director John Jencks realises a decade-long ambition to become...
White Gold DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd July 2017
Britain, the early '80s. At Cachet Windows, the stakes are high and so are the staff. Vincent Swan, Cachet's head of sales, excels at selling his favourite product - himself. Martin Lavender has a university degree, which in the world of sales is as much use as an aerated condom....
Miranda Hart - Peggy & Me Paperback
Release date: Thursday 29th June 2017
For years Miranda viewed dog owners with some suspicion. She was bored by the way that only talked about their pooches, alarmed by their light coating of dog hair and troubled by their apparent comfort around excrement. But that all changed when, nine years ago, Miranda met Peggy, a...
Sykes - The Complete Series DVD
Release date: Monday 26th June 2017
Comedy genius Eric Sykes stars alongside Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler in the complete run of this classic comedy series. Showcasing Eric's whimsical, slightly anarchic sense of humour, Sykes saw Eric basically playing himself just one step removed from normality! Sharing a house with his twin sister,...
The Magic Christian Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 26th June 2017
Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) is the richest man in the world, and when he stumbles across a young orphan (Ringo Starr) in the park he decides to adopt him and travel around the world spending cash. It's not long before the two of them discover on their happy-go-lucky madcap...
Amar Akbar & Tony DVD
Release date: Tuesday 20th June 2017
A realistic, multicultural coming-of age comedy drama, Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives of three childhood friends as they stumble through life from their carefree twenties into adulthood.
Mr Bean - Number 12 - Birthday Bean DVD
Release date: Monday 19th June 2017
Mr Bean is feeling very left out when he discovers that Mrs Wicket is having a huge party downstairs and, apparently, he isn't invited. Also watch as Mr Bean is chased by burglars, gets a magician's trunk with magical results, creates a successful pizza business and takes dance lessons to...
Palgrave Studies in Comedy - Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Hardback
Release date: Monday 19th June 2017
This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of artistic realms beyond the confines of the comedy troupe. Their work as individuals, before and after coming together as Monty...
Dying Laughing Blu-ray & Download
Release date: Friday 16th June 2017
A stand-up comedian is mostly his or her own writer, director and star performer. Unlike any other art form, there is no safety net and no private rehearsal. In its singular realisation, stand-up comedy only works live on a stage - in front of often hostile audiences. For most people...
Eddie Izzard - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens Audio Download, Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th June 2017
"I know why I'm doing all this, " I said. "Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come back." When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother....
Eddie Izzard - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens Audio Download, Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 13th June 2017
"I know why I'm doing all this, " I said. "Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come back." When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother....
Prevenge Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 5th June 2017
A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It's her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth's actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her...
Very British Problems - Series 1 DVD
Release date: Monday 5th June 2017
Channel 4's Very British Problems sees some of Britain's most famous faces share their struggles against the endless capacity of social awkwardness which comes with being British. Originating from a Twitter account that amassed 1.1 million followers, Very British Problems features hilarious & engagingly wry observations about life as an...
The Navy Lark - Series Fifteen Audio Download & CD
Release date: Thursday 1st June 2017
Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips and Stephen Murray star in the complete Series 15 of the fondly remembered nautical radio sitcom.
All eleven episodes of this, the final full series from 1976, are included, alongside the 1977 Jubilee special and other bonus items.
Plebs DVD
Release date: Monday 29th May 2017
Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperors and senators, generals and gladiators, a dignified theatre of pomp and ceremony. But what about the little guys, the wasters - new to the big city, stuck in office jobs, unable to get the girls? Plebs follows three desperate young...
Plebs - Series 1 - 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 29th May 2017
All episodes from the first three series of the TV comedy following the exploits of three young men in ancient Rome. Whilst others revel in the grandeur, opulence and splendor of Rome, low-on-the-totem-pole Marcus (Tom Rosenthal), Stylax (Joel Fry) and their apathetic slave Grumio (Ryan Sampson) are more interested...
Plebs - Series Three DVD
Release date: Monday 29th May 2017
The Plebs are back again! In Series 3 of the award-winning sitcom set in ancient Rome Grumio, Marcus and Stylax come up against ferocious lions at the games, a vicious landlady, an estranged father and a vestal virgin who is anything but!
Plebs - Series Two DVD
Release date: Monday 29th May 2017
All roads lead to Rome for the return of the multi-award winning comedy Plebs in a brand new eight part series. Since series one the world has progressed (from 27BC to 26BC) but flat-mates Marcus (Tom Rosenthal), Stylax (Joel Fry) and slave Grumio (Ryan Sampson) have made no strides...
Eat Local Blu-ray
Release date: Friday 26th May 2017
Horror comedy set in a farmhouse as Britain's vampires gather for their twice-a-century meeting.
Alan Partridge: Nomad Paperback
Release date: Thursday 25th May 2017
The deeply personal follow-up to Alan Partridge's deeply personal autobiography, I, Partridge, charting the highs, lows and mediums of Alan's one-man walking tour around (certain parts of) Britain. In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once...
Richard Herring - Emergency Questions Paperback
Release date: Wednesday 24th May 2017
Have you ever stamped on a mouse? Do you remember the Rubik's Snake? Please tell me about all your memories of it. Who was your favourite member of Blazin' Squad? (mine was Plat'num) Did you ever consider a career in dentistry? (do not ask this to a...
Rita, Sue And Bob Too - Dual Format Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 22nd May 2017
A film by Alan Clarke, this release includes both DVD and Blu-ray editions. Following an acclaimed career in hard-hitting TV drama, director Clarke achieved a cinema hit with his much-loved comedy. Bradford teenagers Rita and Sue regularly babysit for successful couple Bob and Michelle, whose comfortable suburban lifestyle...
Sooty - It's A Dog's Life DVD
Release date: Monday 15th May 2017
Five more adventures with Sooty, Sweep, Richard and Sue. In this instalment, Richard appears on a TV show to pitch his invention, the gang help out on a farm and Richard wins a mystery holiday for the group. The episodes are: The Inventions Game, Cow Capers, The Rainy Day,...
The 4 Marx Brothers At Paramount 1929 - 1933 Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 15th May 2017
The Marx Brothers - Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo - are one of the cornerstones of American comedy and highly influential across the globe. Starting out in vaudeville, they conquered Broadway and the big screen in their own inimitable style, at once innovative, irreverent, anarchic, physical, musical, ludicrous and hilarious....
The Goose Steps Out - 75th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th May 2017
Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German, who they are currently holding prisoner, they decide to drop...
This Is Jinsy - 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 15th May 2017
This Is Jinsy Series 2 takes you back to the extraordinary island of knitwear, folksong and hi-tech surveillance for a series of eight colourful new adventures. Join Arbiter Maven; his assistant, Sporall; repairwoman Soosan; and legal advisor Trince as they attempt to control Jinsy's troublesome residents. From an...