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At Home with the Braithwaites

Charlotte, the youngest daughter of Alison and David Braithwaite, buys her mother a lottery ticket. Her Mother wins £38,000,000 but doesn't tell her DYSFUNCTIONAL family ... but when they find out all hell breaks lose.
They seem to go though getting the money and losing it alot

Life Begins

Maggie and Phil are a late-30s English couple on a standard summer holiday with their two teenage children. On their first morning on holiday, Phil announces he wants to move out. Maggie is numb and the situation doesn't get better as she's not-so-subtly questioned as a wife by her friends and mother, forced to adapt to life as a breadwinner to pay the bills while Phil seeks truth and self-fulfillment. She finds that she is stronger than she thought she was and weaker too.
Caroline Quentin brilliantly plays a housewife (Maggie) with two children whose husband decides to dump her for a younger woman, leaving her to bring up the children and forcing her to find a job to make ends meet, hence the "life beginning" part of it. Her husband (Phil) then splits up with his new girlfriend and loses his job, while Maggie meets a new man and makes new friends at work. Now that she is no longer available, Phil wants her back...
Heartwarming and realistic, the stories revolve around Maggie, Phil, their children, families and friends. Every viewer will find something that strikes a chord within.
Highly recommended.

Hustle

Set beneath the grey skies of London, HUSTLE follows the exploits of five grifters (played by Adrian Lester, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister, Marc Warren, and Robert Vaughn). This ambitious group of conmen (and woman) are no small-time crooks either; they've got much loftier goals which play out as elaborate schemes, trickery, and double-crossing.

Shameless

Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the family is big sister Fiona (20), who looks after Carl (11), Debbie (9) and baby Liam (3). She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by reluctant virgin 'Lip' (16) and the actively gay, but very private, Ian (15). Welcome to a hectic world of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate, where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.

Sensitive Skin

Suddenly, it's sexy to be 60 in this dark comedy starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson.
Sensitive Skin looks at life through the eyes of a successful couple living in metropolitan London. Along with their friends, Al and Davina Jackson struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealousy and try to cope with their fear of the future.
Al is a pundit for a broadsheet newspaper and is paid to find imperfection in everything; Davina works in an art gallery and is paid to make life more beautiful.
However, being 60 isn't simple. The couple's 30-year-old son, Orlando, refuses to acknowledge adulthood, while Davina's sister, Veronica, and her husband, Roger, intimidate the Jacksons with their confident and controlled grasp of life.

Kingdom

Kingdom is Stephen Fry’s first drama series since Jeeves and Wooster ten years ago. Filmed in Norfolk, the series (appearing on ITV in April 2007) follows Peter's life in Market Shipborough as he takes on the responsibility for everyone's welfare. Stephen plays country solicitor Peter Kingdom, whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough.
But there's a secret sadness for the popular lawyer. His brother, and business partner, Simon, has died but his body has never been found. Peter constantly searches for clues to the mystery surrounding Simon's death.
Hermione Norris stars as Peter's troubled and lustful younger sister Beatrice, who wreaks havoc when she comes to live with him after being released from a rehabilitation clinic. Celia Imrie is Gloria Millington, the faithful receptionist and confidante, Phyllida Law plays Peter's dotty Aunt Auriel, and Karl Davies is the sharp young trainee solicitor, Lyle Anderson, who dreams of escaping the sleepy backwater to work in the metropolis. Tony Slattery blusters through as the cantankerous villager Mr Snell, who's always seeking litigation.

Minder 2009

Minder is a spin off from the popular 1980's series of the same name. Archie Daley, the nephew of the legendary Arthur Daley, turns to taxi driver Jamie for help dealing with his problems.

Doc Martin

The lowdown: Martin Clunes is Dr Martin Ellingham, a highly efficient and dedicated GP. The trouble is that he is also grumpy, rude and had no bedside manner. His career as a surgeon was cut short when he developed a fear of blood. That secret is known only by a few. Can he grow to love Portwenn, the beautiful moorland around it and the village’s 996 contrary inhabitants?
Memorable moments: Dr Ellingham walks into the patients’ waiting room and declares “Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem?” In another toe-curling incident he tells school teacher Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz) that her dental hygiene regime is not up to scratch. His brutally honest remark is made just as it looked like they would get together as a couple.

Teachers

The fictional Summerdown and Wattkins Comprehensive Schools provide the two settings for Teachers over its four series. The cast includes an eccentric mix of teachers--both seasoned and young--and some rather raucous pupils, whose daily interactions make for loads of very humorous and entertaining incidents. Set as much outside of the classroom as it is inside, Teachers is a contemporary light-hearted series, where the staff find their personal lives just as problematic as their lives at school.
The Guardian :- "Sharply scripted, irreverent and wickedly funny"

Cold Feet

Mike Bullen's comedy drama was about the human condition writ large, but although its six characters go through a life's worth of emotions in each series and the action consistently draws on elements of farce, Cold Feet never strays too far from the bounds of credibility. Initially James Nesbitt (Adam) and John Thomson (Pete) provided the comic core but, as the series developed, Fay Ripley (Jenny), Hermione Norris (Karen) and Robert Bathurst (David) all proved they had comic capabilities worth exploiting.

Minder

This BAFTA award-wining programme from Thames Television is being released in the order it was first shown on TV. The comic partnership of Arthur Daley (GEORGE COLE) and Terry McCann (DENNIS WATERMAN) became a British institution in the 1980s and 90s. Relive again and again their unique blend of raw-edged humour and gritty realism.

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon is a drama set in the provocative world of 5 star hotels in London, where if you are rich enough, you can buy anything you want. The show goes behind the glitz and glamour to explore the often frantic goings-on behind the scenes. Based on Imogen-Edwards-Jones' book of the same name, and starring Tamzin Outhwaite, Max Beesley, Dexter Fletcher, Emma Pierson, Natalie Mendoza, Martin Marquez, Ray Coulthard and Michael Obiora; Hotel Babylon is a fast-paced and exciting drama.

Ballykissangel

Ballykissangel (also known as BallyK) is a series set in a small village in Ireland. The series starts with a new priest, Father Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson), taking over the local priestly duties in BallyK. The locals are happy to have a new priest, but are suspious of this Englishman. The local pub is owned by Asumpta Fitzgerald (Dervla Kirwan), and the local constable, Ambrose Egan (Peter Hanly), is setting up a family with the daughter, Niamh Quigley (Tina Kellegher), of the local business leader of the community, Brian Quigley (Tony Doyle)

The Last Detective, Complete Collection

The Last Detective, Complete Collection


Price: Bt1,100

Quantity:

9 Discs

Britain’s bumbling and beloved detective , Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants--and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans. Collected here are all 17 episodes from the hit British mystery series starring Peter Davison (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small), who plays the beleaguered Davies "with a pitch-perfect mix of self-effacement and irritation at the endless slights from crooks and fellow cops alike" Mocked by colleagues at his small London police station and estranged from his wife, he actually listens to advice from his kooky chum Mod (Sean Hughes, The Commitments). Still, Dangerous manages to make connections that the slicker cops miss and shows that underdogs do have their day.
BONUS PROGRAM: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, the 1981 movie starring Bernard Cribbins that tells the same story as series pilot.


Any Human Heart

Any Human Heart


Price: Bt500

Quantity:

2 Discs

An adaptation of William Boyd’s best-selling novel, Any Human Heart tells the story of Logan Mountstuart’s long and rackety life, one which spans every decade of the twentieth century, in all its fantastic and humdrum, dangerous and tranquil, tragic and humorous aspects. The four films follow Logan from his time in Oxford; through literary market success with the publication of his ‘racy’ novel ‘The Girl Factory’; through numerous affairs and two marriages; one tragic true love; adventures as a spy behind enemy lines; flirtations with Wallis Simpson; encounters with Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming, sexual scandal in the New York art scene; destitution in Pimlico; unlikely heroism to a final and perhaps even contented death. Although it would appear to the outside that his life has been defined by a combination of random quantities of good and bad luck for Logan, if he really looked closely, it has probably been more accurately defined by sex. While it is compelling, pacy, witty, sexy, emotional and clever it is also a brilliant and innovative charting of the history of the 20th Century. Logan has the habit of popping up, Zelig-like, at pivotal moments in 20th Century history and teetering on the brink of immortality before, inevitably, plunging back into obscurity. Logan’s journey touches on key moments and movements that still shape our times in the 21st Century: the pre-war emergence of the working class power and the end of establishment complacency; the rise of European Fascism; the last global conflict that was World War 2; the zenith of American hegemony in the 1950s and 60s; the emergence of political terrorism (the Baader-Meinhof Gang); the squalor and degradation of urban poverty; the long shadow of the 2nd World War; and finally the serenity and wisdom that a long, fully-lived life can provide.


Monday Monday - Series One

Monday Monday - Series One


Price: Bt600

Quantity:

2 Discs

Recession gets the comedy treatment in this ITV comedy drama. A moribund supermarket chain relocates its head office to Leeds in a last ditch attempt to save its ailing business. The change of environment, however, doesn’t do much to improve the catty relationships among the different departments. Features the complete first series of the show.

Diamond Geezer - Series 1 (inlcuding pilot episode)

Diamond Geezer - Series 1 (inlcuding pilot episode)


Price: Bt900

Quantity:

4 Discs

DIAMOND GEEZER follows the adventures of the loveable seasoned criminal Des (David Jason), as he attempts to pull off several heists. Contains the pilot of DIAMOND GEEZER and three further episodes. In the pilot episode, Des attempts to convince a first time offender to join him in a scam. In the other episodes, Des takes on a number of different guises in order to break into Buckingham Palace to steal a diamond, plunder a financial institution of their ill-gotten gains and attempts to steal ?8 million of Russian gold.

Randall And Hopkirk - Complete Series

Randall And Hopkirk - Complete Series


Price: Bt900

Quantity:

4 Discs

"The Best Programme the BBC have made in years" - The Sun
Based on the classic '60s detective series of the same name, Vic Reeves takes on the role of Marty Hopkirk, a ghost who can only be seen by his former colleague, Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer).
The new production brilliantly maintains the spirit (!) of the original, whilst bringing it up to date with some state of the art special effects and the introduction of such brilliant characters as Wyvern, Marty's ghostly mentor, played by Tom Baker (Little Britain, Doctor Who).
Written and produced by 'The Fast Show''s Charlie Higson, who also appears in every episode as a different character, this fast-paced drama combines moments of high comedy and thrilling action with cameos from such luminaries as David Tenant, Hugh Laurie, Steven Berkoff, David Walliams, Derek Jacobi and Paul Whitehouse.
Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are detective partners who don't let a little thing like murder get in the way of an investigation. Even if the death in question is a little close to home.
The action begins a week before Marty's wedding to Jeannie Hurst (Emillia Fox, 'Silent Witness') as he and Jeff are hired by famous artist Gordon Stylus (David Tennant, 'Dr Who') to watch over Stylus' emotionally unstable wife, Annette.
Unfortunately during the course of the assignment, Marty is hit by a car, apparently driven by Annette, and the two plunge over a cliff to their deaths.
As a grieving Jeff and Jeannie investigate how Marty died, so their lives too become endangered. Luckily for Jeff, he is helped by the ghost of his dead partner who, it transpires, is cursed to walk the earth for the duration of Jeff's life.
Needless to say, solving the crime is just the beginning. With Marty's supernatural powers proving an invaluable help, and Jeannie now a fully fledged (if unsuspecting) member of the team, it's soon business as usual for Randall & Hopkirk...,
Mad ghosts, mummified bodies, dastardly dealings at a boarding school and experiments that mysteriously change a person's gender; no case is too complex - or too bizarre - for these most unconventional of super sleuths.

Online Catalogue |  British Comedy Drama