Brilliant and funny
The main story arc is how Leslie and Ben manage to cope with having a relationship that is banned at work and how Leslieruns as a councillor.
9/10
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Bread – The Complete Series
The 8 series follow the trials and tribulations of the Boswell family in Liverpool as they try to get by and try to get as much for the social security as they can and trying to keep the police away.
The fist 3 series have been edited for language with any words silenced rather than beeped but the later series don’t seem to have the same problem.
7/10
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Mr Selfridge series 4
This is the final series of Mr Selfridge and has a 9 year time jump from the end of series 3.
It has 4 deaths, 1 wedding and 1 birth and quite a few few characters as they continue at Selfridges.
The dvd has 3 mini documentaries on the show.
7/10
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Call the Midwife Series 5
This contains all episodes of series 5 along with the 2015 Christmas special and a behind the scenes feature.
This continues the story of the nuns and nurses of Nonatus House along with their colleagues, friends and patients in 1960s Poplar.
The main story is about Thalidomide which features in 3 of the episodes. It also has romances for a number of nurses, a long awaited holiday for the Turner family, danger on the streets of Poplar and a sad farewell at the end.
9.5/10
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Sound of Music Live 2015
This is a well performed and sung British live action version of the musical Sound of Music. It was originally shown live on ITV but this has the adverts removed and has a behind the scenes special.
8/10
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Dickensian
This 20 part BBC series features a variety of characters from different Dickens stories interacting in the same environment at the same time. Characters are there from Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Old Curiosity Shop and Great Expectations.
It also shows in some cases what might of happened before the famois novel’s begin. This includes how Bill Sykes and Nancy end up together, how Jacob Marley died and what exactly happened on Miss Haversham’s wedding day.
The DVD extras include behind the scenes features
7/10
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Fuller House Season 1
This is the long awaited spin off/reunion show of Full House.
The kids are all grown up now. DJ is a vet and a widowed mother of 3 boys Jackson, Max and Tommy Fuller, Kimmy has a daughter Ramona and an on off relationship with her estranged husband, Stephanie is a successful DJ, and Michelle is busy with her fashion empire in New York.
Danny, Joey, Jesse and Becky make a number of guest appearances as does DJ’s high school Sweetheart Steve.
Danny is planning on selling the family home but decides to let DJ, her son’s, Stephanie, Kimmy and Ramona live there instead.
There is a lot of references to Full House for the fans and also to some of their other work such as Dancing with the Stars and the absence of the Olsen twins.
9/10
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Eichmann Show, The
Staring – Martin Freemand and Anthony LaPaglia
This is a docudrama about the team who televised the 1961 war crime trial of Adolf Eichmann who was responsible for the deaths of many in the holocaust in ww2. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz the director and Milton Fruchtman the producer.
It contains archive footage of the the trial and of the concentration camps and the original televised trial which included evidence from holocaust survivors and was the first time many in the world learned of the true horrors of the holocaust, which affected many of those involved in the trial and filming.
8/10
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Cuckoo Series 2
Series 2 starts 2 years after series 1. Cuckoo is presumed dead after going missing on a trek in the Himalayas. He is replaced in the story with a long lost son Dale who he fathered aged 13.
Rachel is planning on moving in with her new boyfriend Ben and Dylan is getting ready for university. Ken and Lorna decide to let Dale stay and he and Rachel begin to get feelings for each other.
6/10
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Cuckoo Series 1
Staring – Greg Davies, Helen Baxendale, Andy Samberg, Tamla Kari, Tyger Drew-Honey
This sitcom is set in Litchfield, Staffordshire and features the Thompson family (parents Ken & Lorna and their children Rachel and Dylan). Ken and Lorna’s daughter Rachel has just got back from a gap year and has brought a surprise – a hippy husband called Cuckoo. The series explores how Cuckoo gets used to the Thompsons and how they get used to him living with them. He gets a job selling jack potatoes from a van.
7/10