SEPTEMBER:
ABSOLUTELY
FABULOUS: 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS
Street Date: September 11, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $24.98
($30.98 in Canada)
Length: approx. 90 minutes + bonus
features & UV copy/ single disc
They’re back, darlings. International comedy sensations
Jennifer Saunders (French & Saunders) and Joanna Lumley (The
Corpse Bride) return to their celebrated roles as Edina Monsoon and Patsy
Stone in three all-new specials, written by Jennifer Saunders. Twenty years
since we first met them, the ladies are a tiny bit older, none the wiser, but
definitely still Absolutely Fabulous. The original fashionistas, PR
rep Eddy (Saunders) and best friend/enabler Patsy (Lumley), were often found at
the bottom of a champagne bottle – and not much has changed. In the first of
the new specials, there’s a homecoming for one of the ladies who has been
“away” for quite some time. She returns with her new, slightly scary best
friend in tow, with wide reaching ramifications- including forcing a certain
person to own up to her real age… if she can still remember what it is. In the
second special, Eddy sets her sights on changing the career of a very big fish
indeed; and in the final special, Eddy and Patsy play their own very special
part in the London 2012 Olympics. The Absolutely Fabulous specials
premiered on BBC AMERICA and Logo. Bonus Features include: The charity
sketch “Ab Fab Does Sport Relief” as well as the “Behind The Scenes at Sport
Relief” featurette.
WALLANDER 3
Street Date: September 25, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98
($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 270 mins. / 2-disc set
Don’t miss the third installment of the the Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated detective
drama series Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, My
Week With Marilyn). The gripping new mysteries have twists that will keep
you at the edge of your seat till the very end. In “An Event in Autumn,”
Kurt Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried a little too close to
home – in the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the
shore, Wallander must investigate the connection in order to solve this sorted
run of events. The next thrilling chapter, “The Dogs of Riga,” the corpses of
two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When
Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web
of corruption to which he may never recover. In the last instalment “Before the
Frost,” a childhood friend of Wallander’s daughter Linda goes missing.
Wallander and Linda worry for her safety when they find links between her and a
murderer.
STORYTIME WITH SPOT
Street Date: September 4, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $9.97 ($12.46 in
Canada)
Length: Approx. 30 mins + bonus content / single
disc
Spot, the
star of Eric Hill’s beloved children’s books, is back on DVD with a whole new
set of adventures. In the title episode, it is story time and Sally
has promised to read a book to Spot. But with so many books to choose from, how
can Spot ever decide? Wouldn’t it be more fun to play hide and seek among the
books? Playing with books certainly is fun, but having them read is even
better. Enjoy Storytime with Spot and five
stories plus two bonus stories in this wonderful new Spot collection. With the voice of Ryan
O’Donahue (Toy Story,The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride) as Spot in
the main programs and Hayley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) in the bonus
episodes “Spot’s Hobby Horse” and “Spot Cleans Up.”
LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE: VINTAGE 1993
Street Date: September 18, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98
($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 289 mins / 2-disc set
The world’s longest running sitcom is back for another
season of hilarious adventures… and a few misadventures. Hoping to keep his
comrades as young and spritely as ever, Foggy sets up a training course to get
Compo and Clegg in shape, but, as usual, safety isn’t his first concern. And
when a gift arrives from Auntie Wainwright – a grill – the trio puts throws a
barbecue that would put the savviest outdoor chef to shame. We can’t forget
Foggy, ever the inspired inventor, comes up with the idea to create bicycle
safety underwear and, later in the season, a three man windsurfing sailboard.
Finally, in the Christmas special, the trio plan to host a visitor from outer
space… or maybe just a neighboring town.
OCTOBER:
COPPER: SEASON ONE
Street Date: October 30, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $49.98
Blu-ray $59.98
Length: Approx. 450 minutes + bonus
features & UV copy / 3-disc set (DVD) and 2 disc set (BD)
Bring home the highest rated series premiere BBC AMERICA
drama COPPER starring Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5), Franka Potente (The
Bourne Identy), Ato Essandoh (Blue Bloods, White Collar), Kyle
Schmid (Being Human)and Anastasia Griffith (Once Upon A Time).
From the brilliant minds of Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson,
Emmy®-winner Tom Fontana and Academy Award®-nominee Will
Rokos, this gripping drama, filled with intrigue, corruption,
mystery and murder follows Detective Kevin Corcoran (Weston-Jones) – a rugged
Irish immigrant cop – as he seeks justice for the powerless in the notorious
immigrant neighbourhood of Five Points. Bonded by battle to two Civil War
compatriots – the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist and an
African-American physician who secretly assists the forensic
investigations – Corcoran is thrust into the contrasting worlds of elegant
and corrupt Fifth Avenue, and the emerging African- American community in
Northern Manhattan. The three men share a secret from the battlefield that
inextricably links their lives forever.Bonus features include: audio
commentary on select episodes with Tom Weston-Jones, Franka Polente, Ato
Essandoh, Kyle Schmid, and Anastasia Griffith, “Making of” Documentary, Deleted
Scenes, and Character Video Profiles and Featurettes.
THE ICE HOUSE
Street Date: October 16, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.97 ($24.98
in Canada)
Length: Approx. 180 minutes + bonus feature
/ single disc
When an unidentifiable corpse is discovered on the grounds
of Streech Grange, the detectives played by Corin Redgrave (Four Weddings
and a Funeral) and Daniel Craig (Skyfall, The Girl With The Dragon
Tatoo) have to decide whether it’s the start of a new case - or the
solution to a missing person case which started ten years ago when David
Maybury disappeared without a trace. Based on the award-winning novel by
Minette Walters, The Ice House is a crime drama with
fascinating characters and a plot filled with twists and turns, yet asks a very
simple question: is vengeance ever justified? Bonus features include: Minette
Walters On Writing A Novel featurette.
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS: SEASON TWO
Street Date: October 23, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in
Canada)
Length: Approx. 380 minutes + bonus features /
2-disc set
One of the most beloved television series of all time
returns for a second season in this exquisite new production starring Keeley
Hawes (MI-5, Life on Mars), Ed Stoppard (Brideshead
Revisited), Claire Foy (Little Dorrit), and Alex Kingston (Doctor
Who, ER). It is now 1938, and 165 Eaton Place has become a well established
and thriving household in the heart of London; Lady Agnes and Sir Hallam’s
family is complete with the addition of two small children, yet below the
surface of a well-run household, both upstairs and downstairs are harboring
life-changing secrets. London faces tumultuous times with the threat of the
World War II looming and later impacting everyday life, and while romance,
heartbreak and revelations engulf the household, its inhabitants discover that
the real threat to 165 Eaton Place is much closer to home. Bonus
features include: cast and crew interviews.
KINGDOM: SEASON ONE
Street Date: October 2, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: $34.98 ($43.98 in
Canada)
Length: Approx. 275 mins. + bonus
features / 2-disc set
Stephen Fry (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
stars as Peter Kingdom, a country solicitor whose compassion and humility has
won him huge respect in the picture-perfect town of Market Shipborough. But the
popular lawyer is recovering from a recent tragedy - his brother, and business
partner, Simon, disappeared at sea and is presumed dead. Simon’s body has never
been found, leaving Peter searching for clues to the mystery surrounding his
brother's disappearance. Hermione Norris (Outcasts) stars as Peter's
troubled and lustful younger sister Beatrice, who wreaks havoc when she comes
to live with him after being released from a rehabilitation clinic. Bonus
features include a behind the scenes documentary.
LAST
OF THE SUMMER WINE: VINTAGE 1995 RESERVE
Street Date: October 16, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: $34.98 ($43.98 in
Canada)
Length: Approx. 298 mins. / 2-disc set
The world’s longest running sitcom is back for another
season of hilarious adventures…and once again, a few misadventures. In the
Christmas Special, the trio organizes a piano recital for their friend Billy,
but when he takes the stage, Billy faints from fright. Luckily, Compo has an
idea up his sleeve. After seeing a pothole that reminds him of trenches, Foggy
relives his World War II memories. When the trio inherits a van, they’re
surprised to find it also comes with someone’s wife in the back. Foggy picks up
hypnotherapy, but ends up hypnotizing himself in the process. Later, he
believes he is a distant member of an old aristocratic family. Finally, when
Compo uses his bed as a trampoline, he ends up caught in a bed spring, but will
Compo and Clegg find a way to free him?
NOVEMBER:
Street Date: November 6, 2012
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98
($43.98 in Canada)
Blu-ray
$39.98 ($49.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 355 minutes / 2-disc set
Based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, the
critically acclaimed BAFTA nominated drama Call the Midwife is
a moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colorful
stories of midwifery and families in East London in the 1950s. When Jenny Lee
first arrives in Poplar, East London, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty
or indeed, life itself. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House,
Jenny is part of a team of midwives who visit expectant mothers, providing the
poorest women with the best possible care. Here the streets teem with children
and with only a single eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district,
most deliveries take place at home. The series follows Jenny as she travels
through the streets to meet her patients - including Conchita, who is on her
25th pregnancy, and Mary, a prostitute and pregnant at just 15 years old.
Starring Jessica Raine (The Woman in Black) and narrated by Oscar®-winner
Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement, Girl, Interrupted) as the
mature Jenny, Call the Midwife provides a fascinating
look at personalized health care and the courage of mothers under any
conditions.
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