Items Matching Tag 'Stephen Fry'

March of the Dinosaurs (DVD Details)
The Arctic: 70 million years ago. It is a world of extremes. Tropical summers of 24hr sunlight are replaced by freezing winters of continuous night. The remarkable dinosaurs that lived under the Northern Lights had to make a choice, brave the winter or head south to find the sun. Join Scar, a young Edmontosaurus embarking on his first thousand-mile migration. It is a journey for survival that is...

Alice in Wonderland Blu-ray + DVD (Blu-ray Details)
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, Alice in Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover his true destiny. This Wonderland...

The Best of Never Mind the Buzzcocks (DVD Details)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks host Simon Amstell and team captain Phill Jupitus have a rare out of hours get together to look back at some exclusive, never-before-aired, deleted material from the last 3 series. This Exclusive DVD Featurette includes clips ranging from the too rude, too drunk, too nasty, too sweary, too awkward and in absolutely no instances too funny for TV.

At Last Smith and Jones Volume One (DVD Details)
A collection of the best sketches from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones' 1980s comedy show Alas Smith And Jones. Also includes all four short comedy plays from the 1989 series Smith And Jones In Small Doses. Over 6 hours of classic timeless comedy in a 2 disc set. Contains the very best moments from the first 4 series including Granny News, In At The Deep End, the Businessmen Babies &...

1 Giant Leap - What About Me? (DVD Details)
One Giant Leap have created a unique music, TV and film project. What About Me? is the culmination of 4 years work visiting 50 global locations collecting wisdom and musical jewels. It's an inspiring and alarming look at our collective insanity: how we are ego-driven, needy in relationships, insatiable in desire, addicted to status, wounded by childhood and unable to stop thinking, but how we...

The Discovery of Heaven (DVD Details)
God wants the original Ten Commandments back. But no Angel is allowed to travel to earth to get them. The Angels have to ‘create’ a human being smart enough to find the Stone Tablets, and willing to sacrifice his or her life in order to return the Tablets to Heaven. The Angels design an ingenious and at the same time merciless plan to achieve their goal. The plan shapes up when two men on earth...

Stephen Fry in America (DVD Details)
I could have been American; after all, I was nearly born there. So I wanted to find out what it is that makes the United States of America so unique, so diverse, so very American..." Britain's comic genius, Stephen Fry, travels around each of America's states in his black London cab in order to discover, in his own inimitable style, what makes the country unique and to get under the skin of...

QI : Series C (UK) (DVD Details)
The comedy quiz that refreshes the parts other shows don`t even have names for. This is the third series of QI, a 26-year project, each series dealing with a different letter of the alphabet, and we`re only up to C. A collection or cornucopia of craziness. The friendliest show on British TV is graced by the cream of world-class comedy talent including Bill Bailey, Hugh Laurie, Rich Hall, Jo...

QI : Series B (UK) (DVD Details)
The comedy quiz that refreshes the parts other shows don`t even have names for. This is the second series of QI, a 26-year project, each series dealing with a different letter of the alphabet, and we`re only up to B. A big bag of bees, bushes, beetroot, biscuits and bells. The friendliest show on British TV is graced by the cream of world-class comedy talent including Bill Bailey, Hugh...

Saturday Live: Best of Series 2 (UK) (DVD Details)
Shiny suits, big glasses? Yes it`s the 1980s all over again, with the best of the second series of Channel 4`s classic live comedy show, hosted most famously by Ben Elton. Relive series 2 with this 2 disc set featuring Harry Enfield`s various characters including Stavros, Fry & Laurie, Julian Clary, Rowan Atkinson, Angus Deayton, Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Morris Minor and the Majors and...

Saturday Live: Best of Series 1 (UK) (DVD Details)
Shiny suits, big glasses? Yes it`s the 1980s all over again, with the best of Channel 4`s classic live comedy series, hosted most famously by Ben Elton. Relive the best of series 1 with this 2 disc set featuring Harry Enfield`s first TV appearances as Stavros, Fry & Laurie, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Frost, Josie Lawrence and more.

QI : Series A (UK) (DVD Details)
The comedy quiz that refreshes the parts other shows don`t even have names for. Here is the first, ground-breaking series of the programme that won Stephen Fry the Golden Rose of Montreux for the world`s best game-show host. BBC2`s smash-hit comedy is also the most popular programme on BBC4. It`s a 26-year project, each series dealing with a different letter of the alphabet, and this is the one...

V For Vendetta (UK) (DVD Details)
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, this tense thriller tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as `V`. Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to...

Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien and, to top things off, planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur`s only chance for survival: hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft. For the novice space traveler, the greatest adventure in the universe begins when the world ends....

I.Q. (UK) (DVD Details)
All the world knows about Einstein the scientific genius. But what about Einstein the matchmaker? I.Q. puts this fanciful notion to the test and comes up with winning results in this fun warm-hearted romantic comedy that has critics and audiences cheering. Walter Matthau gives one of his greatest performances as the famed physicist who must solve a particularly vexing problem - how to lure his...

Jeeves And Wooster: The Complete 4th Series (UK) (DVD Details)
Cripes Jeeves it looks like we`re back for another. We`ve got all six episodes of our splendid fourth series in one marvellous double DVD box set. Bertie has returned, with Jeeves of course, to that glittering metropolis New York, hoping for a peaceful existance. The peace doesn`t last long though as he is soon beseiged by his wayward cousins along with the dreaded Aunt Agatha. When former...

Jeeves And Wooster: The Complete 2nd Series (UK) (DVD Details)
Featuring the entire second series of `Jeeves And Wooster` based on the characters created by P.G. Wodehouse.

Jeeves And Wooster: The Complete 1st Series (UK) (DVD Details)
What Ho!, you lovely young ladies and frolicsome chaps. We`ve put together a sizzling collection containing all the scrummy stories from our very first television series. All the hoohaa began when I got myself a brand new valet, my good man `Jeeves`. Since then I`ve had a ballyho time of it with all kinds of close shaves. I`ve had to help old `Bingo` Little with a bit of a girl problem, and...

Fish Called Wanda, A: Special Edition (2 Discs) (UK) (DVD Details)
Barrister Archie (John Cleese) falls in love and tosses off more than his wig for sexy thief Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) – who can charm the pants off anyone! To make things worse, Wanda is already using her charms on fellow partner-in-crime Otto (Kevin Kline in an Oscar-wining performance), a dim-witted, intellectual psychopath who thinks the London Underground is a political movement! Meanwhile,...

Gosford Park (US) (DVD Details)
Robert Altman directs this elegant period drama and Agatha Christie-style murder mystery that features the cream of British acting talent. Gathered at aristocrat Michael Gambon`s big house are fellow toffs Charles Dance, James Wilby and Jeremy Northam (as British matinee idol Ivor Novello) among others. Meanwhile, downstairs in the bustling servant`s quarters we encounter Alan Bates and Helen...

Gosford Park (UK) (DVD Details)
Robert Altman directs this elegant period drama and Agatha Christie-style murder mystery that features the cream of British acting talent. Gathered at aristocrat Michael Gambon`s big house are fellow toffs Charles Dance, James Wilby and Jeremy Northam (as British matinee idol Ivor Novello) among others. Meanwhile, downstairs in the bustling servant`s quarters we encounter Alan Bates and Helen...

Jeeves And Wooster: The Complete 3rd Series (UK) (DVD Details)
All six episodes of Bertie and Jeeves` from the third series. In these adventures we see Bertie flitting across the pond on a transatlantic jolly, and flitting back again once Jeeves has cleared up the hilarious mayhem! Faced with the horrifying prospect of marriage to Glossop, Bertie flees London for the New World and New York. However, the quiet life still evades him as his Manhattan apartment...

Relative Values (UK) (DVD Details)
1950`s England. Nigel, the eligible earl Of Marshwood, announces his engagement to the beautiful Miranda Frayle. Nigel`s mother takes the news with a stiff upper lip but privately she`s appalled to hear her son and heir is to marry, of all things, a Hollywood actress! On the other side of the Atlantic meanwhile, Miranda`s ex, movie star Don Lucas, toasts the happy couple with a bottle of Jack...

Peter`s Friends (UK) (DVD Details)
Stephen Fry plays Peter, the owner of a stately home, who gathers together his friends from University on New Year`s Eve. It has been 10 years since they all gathered together for the last performance of their musical comedy review and things and people have changed. Their differences begin to affect the celebrations.

Blackadder: Back & Forth (UK) (DVD Details)
It`s New Year`s Eve, 1999, and Blackadder and friends meet to celebrate the Millennium. He has built a time machine and offers a bet of ten thousand pounds to anyone who will name an object for him to collect as he journeys through time - will he and Baldrick make it back in time to see in the new Millennium?

Longitude (UK) (DVD Details)
Once out of sight of land, mariners had no reliable way of telling their exact position in the world`s seemingly endless oceans, so in 1714 Parliament offered a £20,000 prize to anyone who could accurately measure longitude at sea. This is the true story of one man`s forty year struggle to win the prize money by proving that his mechanical clock was the answer, not the stars as most people in...

Blackadder 2 (UK) (DVD Details)
England 1558-1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back in search of grace and favour from the stark-raving mad Queen Bess. All six episodes of Blackadder 2, including Bells, Head, Potato, Money, Beer and Chains.

Gormenghast (UK) (DVD Details)
The glorious Castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed for thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. With the birth of a new heir, Titus Groan, Steerpike begins his ruthless ascent to power. As he charms, outwits and terrorises the castle`s inhabitants, only Titus, the young and timid Earl of...

Spice World: The Movie (UK) (DVD Details)
Welcome aboard the Spicebus for a rollercoaster ride around London with The Spice Girls in their debut movie `SpiceWorld`. The girl`s first live concert at the Royal Albert Hall is in just five day`s time. With trusty bus driver Dennis (Meatloaf) at the wheel, they hurtle from guest appearances to parties, photoshoots and even dance camp! But when the evil tabloid editor Kevin McMaxford...