New Releases
Upstart Crow - The Complete Series 1-3 And The Christmas Specials DVD
Release date: Monday 14th January 2019
Based on the facts we know about William Shakespeare, Ben Elton's critically acclaimed sitcom is about the life of the world's favourite bard as it just might have been.
This box set includes the complete Series 1 to 3 and the 2017 and 2018 Christmas specials of the hit [z]BBC...
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Tertiary Phase Vinyl
Release date: Friday 11th January 2019
When Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect hitch a lift away from Prehistory on a Chesterfield sofa, it's the beginning of a galactic quest that takes in Lord's Cricket Ground, deadly cricket bat-wielding robots, a spaceship that looks like an Italian bistro, a planet of sentient mattresses, a wretched soul who...
David Morgan - Monty Python Speaks!: Revised & Updated Edition - The Complete Oral History Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 10th January 2019
The complete oral history of Monty Python - one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes - publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their BBC debut, with a foreword by John Oliver from hit US satire Last Week Tonight.
"Gilliam is one of the most manipulative bastards in...
Stan DVD
Release date: Monday 7th January 2019
Based on Neil Brand's critically acclaimed radio play of the same name, this BBC drama tells the story of the world's greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy how they met, worked together and remained close friends.
Jim Norton (Father Ted) stars as Stan Laurel, who somewhat reluctantly goes to...
Still Open All Hours - Series Five DVD
Release date: Monday 7th January 2019
The complete fifth series of the popular Sunday-evening sitcom, starring Sir David Jason as shopkeeper Granville Arkwright.
Granville still has his sights set on romance with Mavis, and Madge is giving Gastric more attention these days, but that could be because she's impressed with his invention skills.
The Black Widow...
Vic & Bob's Big Night Out - Series 1 DVD
Release date: Monday 7th January 2019
Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer return to Big Night Out and present a brand new series full to the brim of their original trademark comedy featuring songs, sketches, stunts and amazing special effects.
Simon Amstell - HELP Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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. To tell...
Susan Calman Is Convicted - The Complete Series 1 & 2 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Susan Calman has some very strong opinions, and in her radio debut she expresses them with her trademark wit and charm. In series 1, she examines the current hot political topic of equal marriage, looks at the issues surrounding the death penalty from the perspective gained whilst working on death...
The Navy Lark - Volume 34 Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Four vintage episodes from the classic seafaring sitcom, including the original pilot episode and the final regular episode
Operation Fag End ('Working Their Passage') - 5 April 1959
New head honcho Commander Povey is heading to the island to inspect the crew - just as Pertwee's consignment of 50, 000 smuggled...
Black Mirror - The Complete Fourth Series Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 31st December 2018
All six episodes from the fourth season of the sci-fi anthology drama created by Charlie Brooker, which explores the role of technology in modern society.
Includes:
USS Callister
A woman wakes up on a Star Trek-esque space ship where the crew praise their all-knowing and fearless captain, who has used DNA...
Old Baggage Paperback
Release date: Thursday 27th December 2018
What do you do next, after you've changed the world?
It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.
Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present....
The Unbelievable Truth - Series 20 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 20th December 2018
David Mitchell hosts the panel show that turns honest men into lying cheats. In this devious and delightfully funny competition, four comedians have the audacity to lie through their teeth for victory.
They compete against each other with lies, untruths and dishonesty. Tall tales, white lies, blatant bluffs and misdirection...
Austentatious - Live At The Savoy DVD
Release date: Wednesday 19th December 2018
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that anyone in possession of wit and good taste must be in want of great entertainment...
Join Austentatious for the social event of the season, with this special show recorded live at London's Savoy Theatre!
Austentatious is an entirely improvised comedy play, starring a...
Mark Thomas - Walking The Wall / Showtime From The Frontline DVD
Release date: Wednesday 19th December 2018
The acclaimed Walking The Wall and Showtime From The Frontline shows in one box set, with additional footage of Mark's journey along the route of the Israeli wall.
Walking The Wall
Never one to take the easy option, Mark decided to go rambling in the Middle East, walking the entire length...
Fast And Loose DVD
Release date: Monday 17th December 2018
Charming 1950s farce superbly written by the legendary Ben Travers.
A young married couple, Peter (Brian Reece) and Barbara (June Thorburn) are travelling by train to the countryside for a romantic weekend. Leaving Barbara on the train at the platform Peter pops out to buy a newspaper, but meets old...
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Vinyl
Release date: Friday 14th December 2018
As co-founder of Fuck Buttons, the highly-influential noise-electronic duo, Andrew Hung has toured extensively with headline shows at the Kentish Town Forum, Glastonbury and Greenman Festivals, been featured on the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and all three of their albums have featured as Best New Music on Pitchfork Media.
His...
Anna And The Apocalypse - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Vinyl
Release date: Friday 14th December 2018
Original songs from the musical comedy horror film about a schoolgirl and her friends who encounter a zombie apocalypse.
Monkhouse Encore Paperback
Release date: Friday 14th December 2018
Bob Monkhouse was one of the UK's best comedians, blessed with the gift of the gag. Bob Sinfield wrote extensively for Monkhouse and interviewed him on BBC Radio 4. The results of their collaborations are here in print for the first time.
Dave Cohen - The Complete Comedy Writer Paperback
Release date: Wednesday 12th December 2018
Make your sitcom, stand-up, screenplay, sketches and stories 62% funnier
Comedian, founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now one of the top comedy writers in the UK. Dave Cohen has written for dozens of comedians and TV and radio shows: Have I...
The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy: The New Alternative Hardback
Release date: Tuesday 11th December 2018
This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s can be described as a time of unruly experimentation and left-wing radicalism. This book examines how alternative...
David Morgan - Monty Python Speaks!: Revised & Updated Edition - The Complete Oral History Audiobook
Release date: Monday 10th December 2018
The complete oral history of Monty Python - one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes - publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their BBC debut, with a foreword by John Oliver from hit US satire Last Week Tonight.
"Gilliam is one of the most manipulative bastards in...
The Festival Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 10th December 2018
The BAFTA Award-winning creators of The Inbetweeners invite you to the mother of all music festivals this summer... pack your bags, grab your wellies and don't forget your tent!
When Nick's (Joe Thomas) girlfriend dumps him at graduation, he has a colossal meltdown in front of the entire university. He's...
Ben Moor - Pronoun Trouble Download
Release date: Friday 7th December 2018
Pronoun Trouble: Miscellaneous subjects that crossed my mind while listening to a lecture about Chuck Jones's Hunting Trilogy (1951-53) (which was nevertheless really good).
Ben is sitting in a lecture about a series of Chuck Jones cartoons, but his thoughts drift off in various directions.
There's his friendship with the...
Kevin Bridges - The Brand New Tour: Live DVD & Download
Release date: Friday 7th December 2018
Glaswegian comic Kevin Bridges returns to the stage, and into your living rooms, with his first new tour release in three years.
The show was filmed as part of Kevin's UK and Ireland tour and his 19 night residency at the Glasgow Hydro. It's written and performed by a comedian...
Kevin Bridges: The Complete Collection - Live DVD
Release date: Friday 7th December 2018
Includes all 4 of Kevin's live DVDs released to date.
The Story So Far
The Story Continues
A Whole Different Story
The Brand New Tour
Ayres On The Air - Complete Series 1-6 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 6th December 2018
Writer, poet, and broadcaster Pam Ayres has been making her fans smile for more than 30 years, since her first television appearance on Opportunity Knocks. Now some of her best sketches, verses and songs are brought together in this complete collection of Series 1-6 of her Radio 4 show, Ayres...
Dot - Complete Series 1-3 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 6th December 2018
A rollicking wartime comedy set in the personnel department of the Cabinet War Rooms, starring Fenella Woolgar as Dot.
Dot's had quite enough of making tea in the Cabinet War Rooms. When she finds a cryptic message in the newspaper she enlists the help of her gals - will this...
The Fitzroy Download
Release date: Thursday 6th December 2018
In a post-apocalyptic 1950s, The Fitzroy Hotel - a derelict submarine - is your last resort for a traditional summer holiday.
Crammed like sardines into a rusting tin can, the oddball residents of The Fitzroy spend their days bickering and scheming. It is left to Bernard - the hotel's hapless...
The News Quiz - Series 97 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 6th December 2018
The complete 97th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp, with special guest hosts including Jo Brand, Bridget Christie, Susan Calman and Lucy Porter.
Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to...
All Round To Mrs. Brown's - Series Two DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
The mammy of BBC comedy Mrs Brown returns and invites the nation back round to her house providing endless hilarious entertainment.
Agnes and the family are joined by celebrity guests including Danny Dyer, Amir Khan, Sting, Jerry Springer, Gloria Hunniford, Boy George and many others. Brace yourselves!
David Nixon's Christmas Magic DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
Over a thirty year career in television, David Nixon's subtle blend of magic, music and comedy was loved by millions and is fondly remembered to this day. In his heyday during the 1970s, Nixon was hardly ever off screen and David Nixon's Magic Box and The David Nixon Show were...
David Nixon's Magic Box DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
Over a thirty year career in television, David Nixon's subtle brand of magic, music and comedy was loved by millions and is fondly remembered to this day. In his heyday during the 1970s, Nixon was hardly ever offscreen and his shows were firm favourites with the viewing public.
This special...
Sarah Millican - Control Enthusiast: Live DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
Sarah Millican is a control enthusiast not a control freak. In her hilarious new show, everyone's favourite potty mouth will tell you about her road rage, her IBS, her favourite word and how she lets her husband know "tonight's the night". You'll learn about Rescue Men, farting in hospital pants,...
The Goodies - The Cricklewood Tapes CD
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
Since the early days of television, programme-makers have used music to enhance their visuals - but few did it as well as The Goodies. So intrinsic is the show's music that it is impossible to imagine its absence - it isn't in the show, it's of the show. And yet,...
The Goodies DVD File Paperback
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
An overview of Graeme, Bill and Tim's careers, beginning at Cambridge and working through to the post-Goodies era, bringing the story right up to date.
Written by archive television historian Andrew Pixley.
The Goodies' Book Of Criminal Recordings Paperback
Release date: Monday 3rd December 2018
An episode-by-episode analysis of the entire Goodies output, including their ITV series and an index covering commercial recordings and other endeavours.
Written by archive television historian Andrew Pixley.
To Trend On Twitter Download
Release date: Friday 30th November 2018
Susie Jenkins is a single mother with a terminally ill son, barely clinging on to her hopeless life by attending support groups which don't quite connect with her. Feeling alone and deflated, Susie is soon sucked into the world of celebrity charity parties and, after being papped with a famous...
Dave Cohen - The Complete Comedy Writer eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th November 2018
Make your sitcom, stand-up, screenplay, sketches and stories 62% funnier
Comedian, founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now one of the top comedy writers in the UK. Dave Cohen has written for dozens of comedians and TV and radio shows: Have I...
CJ Skuse - Sweetpea CD
Release date: Tuesday 27th November 2018
The last person who called me 'Sweetpea' ended up dead...
'I haven't killed anyone for three years and I thought that when it happened again I'd feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whisky. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night's sleep. Didn't wake up at all....
Bill Bailey - Limboland DVD
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
Limboland is a place where we find the gaps in life. From a fantastically downbeat version of Happy Birthday - via an hilarious tale of a disastrous family trip to see the Northern Lights - to a heart-rending country and western ballad on the nature of love, Bill explores our...
Charlie Bubbles Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
After achieving international renown as one of the finest actors of his generation in films such as Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960) and Tom Jones (1963), Albert Finney turned director for this surreal comic twist on the 'kitchen sink' dramas in which he'd made his name.
Finney plays Charlie...
Georgy Girl Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
One of the defining films of the 1960s, Silvio Narizzano's adaptation of Margaret Foster's 1965 novel stars Lynn Redgrave in an Oscar-nominated role as the put-upon teenager Georgy Parkin. Awkward and full of self-doubt, Georgy finds herself forever just outside of the 'Swinging Sixties' London life she craves.
Marked by...
Laughter At Sea DVD
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
We Joined The Navy
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, "the Artful Bodger" has the bad habit of saying the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away...
Starring...
Laughter On Parade DVD
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
Joey Boy
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. But police stage a lightning raid and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside!
Starring Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter,...
The Wrong Box Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 26th November 2018
Two warring elderly brothers and their respective heirs are determined that each will outlive the other in an attempt to hold onto the family fortune, and will stop at nothing - even murder - to achieve their goal.
Bryan Forbes's riotous black comedy, based on the 1889 novel by Robert...
Anna And The Apocalypse - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Download & CD
Release date: Friday 23rd November 2018
Original songs from the musical comedy horror film about a schoolgirl and her friends who encounter a zombie apocalypse.
Nativity Rocks! - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Download
Release date: Friday 23rd November 2018
Nine tracks from the comedy musical Nativity Rocks!.
Gloomsbury - Series 5 Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 22nd November 2018
The complete fifth series of Sue Limb's satirical send-up of the Bloomsbury Group.
In this fifth series, our arty, adulterous Bohemians are creating havoc at home and abroad. Henry is hoping to ignore his fiftieth birthday - but Vera has organised a surprise party. When Venus sneaks in uninvited and...
I'm About To Lose Control And I Think Joe Lycett Live DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 19th November 2018
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!!!
John Bishop - Winging It Live Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 19th November 2018
Multi award-winning comedy superstar, John Bishop is back with his brand new show, recorded during his mammoth 150 date sell out tour of UK & Ireland at the iconic London Palladium in 2018. Here, you too can experience him Winging It!
John shares his opinions on the royal family and...