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November 18th, 2011

Celebrate the holidays with BBC specials

Lark Rise to Candleford

As BritCom fans, we often return to our favorite Christmas specials for holiday viewing, but we concede that it can be a hassle to track those down in multi-disc sets, not to mention trying to glean several favorites out of several collections for a full night’s entertainment. This year we decided to take the guesswork out, and pack these specials together into comedy and drama collections.

Now any night can be a spectacular BritCom night with the BBC Holiday Comedy Collection, which brings together four and a half hours of holiday-themed specials from Are You Being Served?, Good Neighbors, To the Manor Born, Allo Allo, Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley. If you’ve ever tried to find the All Creatures Great and Small episode in which Siegfried (Robert Hardy) sets up a skeleton in a locked room to keep Tristan (Peter Davison) from raiding the Christmas champagne, it’s in the BBC Holiday Drama Collection along with specials from Ballykissangel, Monarch of the Glen, Lovejoy and Lark Rise to Candleford. For fans of both genres, you’d have to get up pretty early on Black Friday to find a more perfect gift (and better value) than the combined  BBC Holiday Comedy & Drama Gift Set.

And to really get you in the spirit, stop by our newly launched BBC All-stars and Staff  Holiday Reflections and Wishlist pages, this year with video messages from Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Ricky Gervais!

Doctor Who Fan Alert: Speaking of Christmas, we just got the trailer for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. Be one of the first to see it!

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November 11th, 2011

Top Gear 17, or Richard Hammond the Lionheart

Top Gear 17

Behind that tinted windshield is Richard Hammond, testing the durability of the 10-ton Marauder in conditions typical to South Africa. Meanwhile Clarkson celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Jaguar E-type, with a party checklist that includes live music, classic fighter planes and a group of Royal Marines. In James May’s challenge (evocative of the minis-in-the-ice-rink sequence famously cut from The Italian Job), the latest Mini rally car pits its reputation in a downhill race with gold medal winning British Olympian Amy Williams on her skeleton sled. And that’s just Episode One of Top Gear 17. Stars in a Reasonably Priced Car include rock legend Alice Cooper, LiveAid’s Bob Geldof, Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel and Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder, Mr. Bean), who is very much a racing enthusiast in private life. Special Features include extra chats and laps plus a sample episode from the American version of Top Gear. Look for Top Gear 17 to arrive on DVD and Blu-ray before Spring 2012.

Doctor Who fan alert! BBC America is looking for talking heads to appear in its next Doctor Who Special, The Best of the Christmas Specials, set to premiere on December 24th. This is an exclusive, can’t-miss chance to be featured on-air in the program alongside the musings of celebrity Whovians.

First, check out this video:

Then, grab your camera and record your wittiest, most festive answers to the any of the Christmassy questions listed below – and submit it as a response video on YouTube! Your video might just appear in the “Doctor Who: Best of the Christmas Specials” show on BBC America, or online.

  • Would you rather go sleigh riding with a Dalek or make snow angels with an Ood?
  • Would you rather ride with Santa in his sleigh or The Doctor in his TARDIS?
  • Would you rather find yourself under mistletoe with a Weeping Angel or The Silence?
  • Would you rather spend Christmas traveling with the Doctor or relaxing at home with Amy and Rory?
  • Would you rather eat fish fingers and custard or a traditional Christmas dinner?
  • Would you rather see Santa Claus come down your chimney or the Doctor land in your yard?
  • Would you rather find a Sonic Screwdriver in your stocking or a TARDIS under your Christmas tree?

The deadline is November 23rd.  Click here for full instructions on how to submit a video response on YouTube.

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October 7th, 2011

Merlin’s magic grows from strength to strength

Merlin: Season 3

It comes as no surprise to fans that Merlin established a niche for itself on SyFy. The youth-oriented take on the Arthurian legend has something for everybody: attractive leads in Colin Morgan and Bradley James, Katie McGrath as the relentlessly dangerous yet deliciously dressed Morgana, solid support from Anthony Head and Richard Wilson, “eye candy” art direction and enough twists on the traditional legend to keep you guessing. SyFy has already announced that Season Four (which just kicked off on the BBC) will air in the US in 2012. (Canadian broadcast details are not yet known.) With Season Four looming, the DVD of Merlin: Season 3 is expected to release early next year, in time to refresh your memory of last winter’s broadcast. This is the season that opened with screaming mandrakes, giant scorpions, a siege on Camelot by an army of 20,000 and a dozen or two sword-wielding skeletons. Semi-regulars and guest stars include Emilia Fox (David Copperfield –‘99), Miriam Margolyes (Oliver Twist –’85, Blackadder, Freud), Pauline Collins (Bleak House, Upstairs Downstairs – ITV) and a goblin voiced by Mark Williams (Harry Potter films, Sense & Sensibility).

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June 17th, 2011

Secretly British

Jamie Bamber, Outcasts

This Saturday night marks the launch of Outcasts on BBC America and, in Canada, on Space. You have to see the first episode if you want to see guest star Jamie Bamber (Law & Order UK).  Preceding Outcasts, BBC Americans will be also able to see Battlestar Galactica, the series that established Bamber as a television name over here and placed him in the ever swelling ranks of the Secretly British.

In honor of BSG’s new window on BBC America, we have stocked the complete series set in our shop, where you can also find a number of DVDs featuring the Secretly British.

Secretly British is a slippery term, of course. Some of you may have already spotted Jamie Bamber in Horatio Hornblower and Daniel Deronda before he went to America. Longtime viewers of BBC America would have known Andrew Lincoln from Afterlife before he became Deputy Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead. Some of us first became aware of Jason Flemyng (Primeval: Volume 2, Doctor Finlay) when he played Brad Pitt’s father in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Hugh Laurie was so well established on British TV (Blackadder […the Third, …Goes Forth, …Back and Forth], Jeeves & Wooster) that his long term fans were happiest when his fame in House M.D. led to the long awaited release of A Bit of Fry & Laurie on DVD. Even so, when Laurie was recently on The Graham Norton Show with Reese Witherspoon, she conceded that he was still secretly British to her mother: “I think she thinks you’re really a doctor, too!” If you missed that program, and have enjoyed Laurie’s musical interludes through the years, watch the clip below for a number he sang on the show.

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