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, Sonja Sohn

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis
Directed By: Michael Rymer

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

Anybody whose faith in Lost was beginning to waiver will surely appreciate the fourth season of the show. For this is Lost firing on all cylinders, showing a willingness to answer a few more questions than usual, while not being afraid to deepen elements of the mystery of Ocean 815. The big new idea for Lost season four, as introduced in the cliffhanger at the end of the ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista
Starring: Evangeline Lilly, Dominic Monaghan

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, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Idris Elba, Amy Ryder

Pulling few punches and garnering its fair share of headlines as a result, The Tudors is a controversial, yet compelling period piece, that dramatically tells the story of the early years of King Henry VIII. Not for nothing though has it attracted its fair share of awards attention. For The Tudors is a complex drama, and not one to simplify its storylines. The young Henry, for ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Natalie Dormer, Gabrielle Anwar

It's borderline tragic that one of American television's finest shows of recent times comes to an end with season five of The Wire. Long-praised for its astonishing mix of character, grit and outstandingly scripted drama, the upside is that the show sure goes out with some style. As with every season of The Wire, there's an underlying theme running alongside the exploration of ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dominic West

Corruption is rife throughout The Wire: The Complete Third Season, which picks up the further adventures of the Baltimore Major Crimes Unit as they continue to wage war on drugs. Only as this is The Wire, that's just the beginnings of their problems. Once again, the show that's rightly being acclaimed as one of America's finest and most intelligent dramas covers the story from all ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams, Sonja Sohn

Truncated to a slim 11 episodes as a result of the writers' strike that was ongoing in America during its production, Heroes' second season nonetheless packs enough in to keep the momentum rolling on one of the most exciting Stateside shows of the moment. Heroes is, at heart, the comic book tale of a varied group of people, each with special powers that they struggle to come to ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Leonard Roberts, Greg Grunberg, Masi Oka, Ali Larter
Directed By: Adam Kane, Greg Beeman, Donna Deitch, Allan Arkush

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Francesco Da Mosto