Not only is Planet Earth one of the most jaw-dropping, ambitious, nature documentaries the BBC has ever produced, it’s now taken on another role: as a superb demonstration disc for the strength of and Blu-ray. Spread over a good ten hours, the series charts life and nature in dozens upon dozens of differing locations around the earth. Diligently and warmly narrated by Sir David ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough

Television really doesn't come much better than this. Criminally ignored by far, far too many people, The Wire has proven itself to be that rarest of things: an intelligent, clever, character-driven show, that's lasted more than one season.This boxset brings together all the episodes from the maiden series of The Wire, spread across thirteen episodes. Yet those episodes, unlike ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre Lovejoy
Directed By: Brad Anderson, Clark Johnson, Clément Virgo, Edward Bianchi, Gloria Muzio

Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, Fawlty Towers is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farces, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes--death, psychology, xenophobia and even ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Bernard Cribbins
Directed By: Bob Spiers, John Howard-Davies

One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Mr Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Directed By: Martin Shardlow, Mandie Fletcher, Richard Boden

A genuinely epic achievement, the 10-part World War II drama Band of Brothers is a television series that makes big-screen Hollywood war movies look small in comparison. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the series follows the US 101st Airborne Division's "Easy" E-Company from initial training through D-Day and across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria until the end of the ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes, Peter Youngblood Hills

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe
Directed By: Jason Ensler

Picking up after the dramatic events of its maiden season, the second series of The Wire achieves something really rather special: it even manages to outclass the first.For those fresh to the show, surely the best, most intelligent piece of scripted drama to emerge from America in the last decade, the actual premise is fairly simple. Across the thirteen episodes of its season, it charts ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre Lovejoy
Directed By: Daniel Attias, Edward Bianchi, Elodie Keene, Ernest R. Dickerson, Rob Bailey

As befits the BBC's reputation for producing some of the world's best nature documentaries, the five-disc set Planet Earth is an epic travelogue, focussing on different ecologies and the unique animals that inhabit them. Once again, Sir David Attenborough provides the narration, as the cameras fly across the surface of the earth, zooming in to give us a bug's eye view one minute, zooming ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough
Directed By: Alastair Fothergill

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Jemima Rooper, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Dan Zeff

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Robert Webb, Paterson Joseph, Neil Fitzmaurice, Rachel Blanchard, David Mitchell
Directed By: Tristram Shapeero, Becky Martin, Jeremy Wooding