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

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

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

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, Matthew Fox

Scheming Cilla Battersby is back - and this time she's got her eye on the main chance. The selfish mother-from-hell is on the verge of pulling off her most audacious scam to date but there's one small problem. Cilla needs her family to join her in South Africa. But after deserting them so many times before - she's going to have to go to extraordinary lengths to convince or cajole ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Wendi Peters, Jennie McAlpine, Sam Aston, Andrew Whyment, Katherine Kelly
Directed By: Duncan Foster

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

Based on a trio of novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford is the latest in a long line of sumptuous costume dramas from the BBC. And it's a fine addition to the BBC's heritage too, pulling together a stellar cast for an involving, highly enjoyable series that's well worth picking up on DVD. The key asset Cranford has in its corner is that aforementioned cast. It's lead by the ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis, Michael Gambon, Lesley Manville
Directed By: Simon Curtis

Sex and the City is based on Candace Bushnell's provocative bestselling book. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw, a self-described "sexual anthropologist," who writes "Sex and the City," a newspaper column that chronicles the state of sexual affairs of Manhattanites in this "age of un-innocence." Her "posse," including nice girl Charlotte (Kristin Davis), hard-edged Miranda ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Davis, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, David Eigenberg
Directed By: Timothy Van Patten

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, Chris Bauer, Paul Ben-Victor, John Doman, Idris Elba
Directed By: Daniel Attias, Edward Bianchi, Elodie Keene, Ernest R. Dickerson, Rob Bailey

Manufacturer: Disney
Starring: Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria Parker, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
Directed By: Larry Shaw, David Grossman