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Manufacturer: Lionsgate Brand: LIONS GATE HOME ENT.

Nominated for 12 Primetime Emmys(R) and 4 Golden Globes(R), "Orange is the New Black" is a fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-women's prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates. Shocking revelations and new arrivals shake up the lives and relationships of Litchfield's prisoners in this highly anticipated second season.

Manufacturer: BBC Home Entertainment Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Office, The - Collection (DVD)Welcome to The Office, a place of petty rivalry, bad flirting, and easily-bruised egos. Filmed in documentary-style, this sharply observed and highly acclaimed comedy exposes the excruciating truth about the world of nine-to-five. Complete collection includes all twelve episodes plus the special.]]> It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of ! the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller The second series exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais is once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, but in this series, Brent's to-the-camera assertions concerning his manageme...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Entertainment Presents A Studio G Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO Model: 33943796

From the Studio that brought you SPIRITED AWAY comes the visually stunning THE CAT RETURNS. Haru, a schoolgirl bored by her ordinary routine, saves the life of an unusual cat, and suddenly her world is transformed beyond anything she ever imagined. To change her fate, she'll need to learn to believe in herself and, in the process, she will learn to appreciate her everyday life. For the first time ever on Disney Blu-ray comes THE CAT RETURNS, a magical animated adventure that will delight and inspire everyone.

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Model: 025192169663

The cold and quirks continue in Cicely, Alaska, with all 23 unforgettable, highly acclaimed episodes of Northern Exposure: Season Three.  This must-own collection is TV’s most original series at its best: Season Three earned a remarkable 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won 6–including Outstanding Drama Series!  Zip up your parkas and rejoin Joel (Rob Morrow), Maggie (Janine Turner), “Chris in the Morning” (John Corbett) and the rest of the gang under the Northern Lights  as they learn to live with the ghosts of their pasts, ponder religion, plan weddings and even take Joel on his first hunting trip.  The humorous, heartwarming and still slightly bizarre Northern Exposure: Season Three is digitally remastered for outstanding picture quality and loaded with almost 2 hours of bonus features.  Take an offbeat trip to the eccentric small town with a big heart and own all 23 episodes of Season Three today!

Manufacturer: BBC Home Entertainment Brand: Warner Home Video

Red Dwarf: Complete Collection (DVD)Now together in this 18-disc box set, every episode of Red Dwarf plus 24 hours of extras! Chicken soup machine repairman and intergalactic loser Dave Lister awakesuspended animation to discover he is the lone survivor of a radiation lis now three million years into deep space and the last surviving memberhuman race. Dave is soon joined by a hologram of his dead bunkmate, a liform who's evolved from his pet cat, and a neurotic sanitation mechanoidTogether this unlikely bunch of heroes attempt to find their way back tounder the guidance of Holly, the ship's senile computer, encountering a heap of smeg on the way.]]>

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)

It's 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) leads a simple life. She lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that her best friend will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people – that is, until a long-buried family secret throws her quiet life spectacularly off course. With an all-star cast, Big Stone Gap is a love letter to small-town life, working people and the triumph of love.

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brand: UNIVERSAL

The World's End Twenty years after their first epic pub crawl attempt, the “five musketeers” reunite to complete the ultimate challenge – one night, five friends, twelve bars – a boozy quest on which only the strongest will survive. They soon realize that reaching their final pub, The World’s End, may be the least of their troubles. They’re having the time of their lives, ready to take on the world…but tonight they may have to save it. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reteam with director Edgar Wright in this wildly entertaining thrill ride that critics call “sheer comic perfection” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Hot Fuzz Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a big-city cop who can't be stopped - but he's making everyone else on the force look bad. When he is reassigned to a small, quiet town, he struggles with this new, seemingly idyllic world and his bumbling partner (Nick Frost). Their dull existence is interrupted by several grisly and suspicious accidents, and the crime-fighting duo turn up the heat and hand out high-octane, car-chasing, gun-fighting big-city justice in this hilarious hit critics are calling "Outrageous! Uproariously Funny!" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly). Shaun of the Dead There comes a day in every man's life when he has to get off the couch… and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite to eat, it's up to slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his best pal Ed (Nick Frost), to save their friends and family from becoming the next entreé. Novelist Stephen King gushes Shaun of the Dead is “a 10 on the fun meter and destined to be a cult classic" and Newsweek calls it "a bloody hoot!"