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

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Ruth Jones, James Corden, Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Rob Brydon

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

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Jeremy Clarkson

Outnumbered follows the daily chaos of family life with two parents and three young children locked in an unequal contest. Containing strong elements of improvisation, this comedy is an honest portrayal of the well meaning parental incompetence that happens in most homes, as Mum and Dad attempt to raise their kids with the minimum of emotional damage for all concerned. From the ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain
Starring: Claire Skinner, Hugh Dennis, Samantha Bond, Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche
Directed By: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin

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

The first series of Gavin and Stacey brought the show richly-deserved BAFTA recognition, and left the two title characters married by the time it came to an end. Series two picks things up from there, as they settle into married life, and the challenges that ultimately brings. Never forgetting its comedic roots, Gavin and Stacey now follows the pair, and the collection of ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Ruth Jones, James Corden, Mathew Horne, Joanna Page

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