The North East Magazine
Produced by Acorn Media and starring Polly James and Nerys Hughes this is the DVD release of Series Two of the crowd-pleasing BBC serial written by Carla Lane. Originally broadcast in 1971 on the BBC the comedy programme told the story of two single girls sharing a flat at the end of the “Swinging Sixties” and [...]
Written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson, ‘Trevors World Of Sport’ is the first time release of this BBC television sitcom that was broadcast originally in 2003 . Set in a Sports Industry PR Company Pearson plays as duck out of water decent man in a mindboggling corrupt business. Diva like stars from [...]
Starring, Ciaran Hinds and Kelly Reilly, Above Suspicion 4 (Silent Scream) written by Lynda La Plante is now released on DVD by Acorn Media. An up and coming film starlet is found murdered in contempory London. This “on edge” wild child actress was rumoured to be promiscuous, abusing drugs and playing with a fast [...]
Quincy (ME) - The Complete Series 3 , is now available as a full DVD set courtesy of Acorn Media Before CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) there was Quincy, the lovable but tough Medical examiner for Los Angeles. City of the odd, weird, famous and infamous. As in life so in death. The character was loosely [...]
The Girl starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones is now available on DVD courtesy of Acorn Media Alfred Hitchcock as well as being a cinematic genius was a strange bird. His strangeness first became public knowledge many years after his death in 1980 with the celebrated biography written by Donald Spoto in his “The Dark [...]
When we think about the continent of Africa images of famine, war and the rhetoric of self appointed white savours telling its peoples how to live spring to mind. An intelligent antidote to that media-fed diet is collected in this series of films originally seen on BBC is presented by the charming, lucid and very [...]
Alternative stand up comic Alex Zane presented four series of this Channel 4 hit show. It is now available on DVD lasting around one hundred and fifty minutes and priced at £19.99. Living out the Andy Warhol mantra that everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes the show’s format was simple. Invite wannabe reality stars [...]
The British Isles are a collection of islands with thousands of miles of coast fronting out into the Atlantic Ocean, Irish Sea and the English Channel.The people that have occupied these islands have been moulded by this interaction between land and water.A bright television executive realising that fact commissioned a show which told that story.So [...]