The housewives of Wisteria Lane are still as desperate as ever as they return for a fifth season, but five years on and suspense still lurks in suburbia. Find out how the famous five-some fare as the Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fifth Season flashes forward half a decade and is released on DVD from Monday 9th November.

The Complete Fifth Season propels audiences five years into the future of white-picketed Wisteria and picks up from the dramatic climax of season four that left fans on tenterhooks. Why does Susan (Teri Hatcher) have a new man in her life? Why has Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) let her looks go? And is trouble-making temptress Edie (Nicolette Sheridan) on a path towards self destruction? With the behaviour more outlandish than ever, secrets being spilt in sensational fashion and lashings of suburban suspense, your favourite housewives are back with a bang for their fifth season.

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Winner of two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, the critically acclaimed US drama Grey’s Anatomy returns as the eagerly anticipated fourth season releases on DVD on Monday 23rd November.

Thoughtful and heartfelt, season four continues to chart the characters tangled relationships, set against an ever-changing backdrop of weird and wonderful patients and cases. Packed full of exclusive extras and bonus features Grey’s Anatomy Season Four includes “New Docs on the Block,” a look at the latest members of the cast; and an on set tour with Dempsey and Eric “McSteamy” Dane; extended scenes; and outtakes. Immerse yourself in the high octane drama of Seattle Grace Hospital.

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Season Five of critically acclaimed US drama series, Lost: Season Five crashes onto Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 26th October, as the stranded survivors of the Oceanic Airlines 815 crash continue their frantic bid to escape the island…and their demons.

All of them have a secret. All of them are lost. In a groundbreaking narrative which jumps erratically through time, Lost: Season Five inches towards resolution, following two parallel storylines focused both on and off the island; on the island, the remaining survivors end up stuck in a period of time after being stranded with the Dharma Initiative in 1977. With the shocking discovery that the island is constantly in motion as it contains a pocket of powerful electromagnetic energy – energy which caused Oceanic 815 to crash in the first place – Lost: Season Five answers many long-standing questions, whilst inviting a whole host of new ones.

Packed full of exclusive extras including the feature ‘Lost on Location’, scene commentary and Lost bloopers, Lost: Season Five is the ultimate explosive experience and a must-have for all fans.

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Emilia Fox leads the star cast in five revealing films about the years that shook The Queen and the world forever.

This epic five part drama documentary series explores the private dilemmas of The Queen during critical periods that were turning points both in her life and in the history of the world. The Queen, originally shown on Channel 4 is released on 7th December, courtesy of 4DVD.

The Queen is played by a different actress in every episode, each lasting an hour and illustrating a pivotal moment in the monarch’s life. Emilia Fox, who starred in Silent Witness leads the cast, along with Samantha Bond, best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films, Susan Jameson from New Tricks, Barbara Flynn (Cranford) and Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited). The series also features The Tudors’ Katie McGrath who plays a young Princess Margaret.

The series takes us into the heavily guarded walls of Buckingham Palace and looks behind the different periods in The Queen’s life. This includes fascinating documentary elements, featuring testimonies from royal insiders, historians and news archives combined with dramatised sequences.

From the day the abdication of Edward VIII made Queen Elizabeth II heiress to the throne, she has been one of the most powerful women in the world. As she approaches the later years of her reign, hers is one of the most extraordinary and yet mysterious stories of our time. Surviving eight decades that have seen the world change almost beyond recognition, little is really known of the private face behind the public monarch. This powerful series explores her subtle influence on world events, her private relationship with presidents, prime ministers, kings and the torment she has suffered through a family torn apart by indiscretions, affairs, divorces and re-marriages.

The five-part series begins in 1955, with Emilia Fox portraying a young Queen Elizabeth facing her first public and personal crisis as her sister Princess Margaret is forced to decide whether or not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, a divorcée and controversial marital choice. This was the first constitutional crisis The Queen faced by herself – but what was the truth behind Princess Margaret’s decision to put duty before love?

The second film features Samantha Bond with focus on 1974 and the kidnap attempt on The Queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, during a time of extreme uncertainty, terrorist attacks and paranoia in the UK. When at threat from rogue extremists with political and religious differences, this film shows how The Queen remained undeterred.

Tension between the Crown and the government is explored in the third episode of the series with Susan Jameson stepping up to become Queen. Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister, had developed a strong relationship with President Reagan as they both entered their second terms. However, when Thatcher set herself in opposition to The Queen and Commonwealth over sanctions against South Africa, the hostility between the pair went into meltdown. This episode explores the feelings The Queen had towards Margaret Thatcher and how she vocalised them within the media.

The fourth episode centres on 1992 and the infamous “Annus Horribilis”, when the marriages of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson came to a well documented end. The Queen, played by Cranford’s Barbara Flynn, also had to watch her beloved Windsor Castle burning down.

The series concludes in 2005 with Diana Quick starring at a time when Prince Charles’ marriage to Camilla Parker-Bowles invoked royal conflicts between love and duty that stretched back to the abdication of Edward VIII. The Queen is faced with the issue of accepting the marriage, as well as the problem of a divorcée marrying a Royal.

DVD details:
Release date: Monday 7th December 2009
Cat No: C4DVD10311
RRP: £19.99
Discs: 2
Running time: 238 mins approx.
Cert: 15 (TBC)

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LONDON, Monday 2nd November 2009: This extraordinary drama story follows the lives of everyone affected by a road collision and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change everything. Douglas Henshall, Kate Ashfield, Paul McGann and Phil Davis lead a prestigious cast in Collision – a compelling new 5-part drama serial, created by Anthony Horowitz, for ITV1 and released on DVD on Monday 16th November 2009 courtesy of 4DVD.

This tense, thought provoking drama, tells the story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one devastating moment that will change their lives.

The five part serial is a modern epic tale which explores how fragile our lives are. It focuses on how fate and the feeling of immortality behind the wheel play a part in modern lives, where events are not always in our control and ordered.

Douglas Henshall (Primeval, Dorian Gray, French Film) and Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead, The Children, The Diary of Anne Frank), play the senior police officers in charge of the investigations whose complicated personal lives threaten to collide with the grim job they face. Paul McGann (True Dare Kiss, Withnail and I) stars as millionaire property developer Richard Reeves who starts to fall for the service station waitress who comes to his aid after the crash, played by Lucy Griffiths (Marian in Robin Hood, Sugar Rush, Sea of Souls, U Be Dead).

Dean Lennox Kelly (Married Single Other, Robin Hood, Shameless, The Invisibles, Being Human) and his real life brother Craig Kelly (Coronation Street, Strictly Come Dancing, Hotel Babylon, Queer as Folk) team up for the first time to play brothers Danny and Jeffrey Rampton, whose business dealings are about to be exposed as a result of the crash.

Claire Rushbrook (New Tricks, Mutual Friends, Whitechapel) plays Karen Donnelly who survives the crash, but has a secret which puts her life in jeopardy again. Phil Davis (The Fixer, Desperate Romantics, Whitechapel) plays Brian Edwards who escapes the carnage which kills his mother in law, Joyce, played by Sylvia Syms (The Queen, EastEnders, Above Suspicion; The Red Dahlia). His wife Christine, played by Jan Francis (U Be Dead, Mistresses, New Tricks) is devastated by the death of her mother, and confused by her husband’s reaction to the police questions.

David Bamber (Psychoville, Hotel Babylon, Rome, Daniel Deronda) plays Sidney Norris, a piano teacher whose guilty secrets are uncovered in the investigations.

Collision is created and written by acclaimed author and screen writer Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War) and co-written by Michael A Walker (Does God Play Football). The producers are Jill Green and Eve Gutierrez. It is directed by Marc Evans (My Little Eye, Snow Cake), marking his first return to TV direction in five years.

Amid the tangle of twisted metal and emotional turmoil wrought by the tragedy of a crash of this scale are the stories of the victims and the impact of the accident on their families, friends and colleagues.

As the terrible task of investigating the cause of the carnage begins, a series of revelations emerge: from Government cover-ups and smuggling, to disturbing secrets and murder.

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Mars, 2059. Bowie Base One. Last recorded message: “Don’t drink the water. Don’t even touch it. Not one drop.”

LONDON, Friday 30th October 2009; Doctor Who will return to BBC One on Sunday 15th November for The Waters of Mars – the second of four specials airing throughout 2009.

Starring David Tennant as The Doctor and guest starring the acclaimed British actress Lindsay Duncan, best known for her roles across stage and screen (Margaret, Lost in Austen), The Waters of Mars is set to be one of the most terrifying episodes of the series to date.

Lindsay Duncan stars as Adelaide – the Doctor’s cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet. She and The Doctor face terror on the Red Planet as they battle against a mysterious alien living within the terrarium of life on Mar’s surface which infects its victims using a water compound it creates.

Neighbours, Flying Doctors and Casualty star Peter O’Brien also guest stars as Ed, Adelaide’s second in command at the base.

The Waters of Mars is the second of four specials which will air throughout 2009.

The Waters of Mars is written by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford and is directed by Graeme Harper. Producer is Nikki Wilson.

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, Sunday 15th November at 7pm on BBC ONE

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The critically-acclaimed hit comedy drama series Skins returns for a third series with an exciting new cast of teen misfits available to own on DVD from Monday 6th April, with the Series 1-3 Box Set released on the same date.

Both DVD and boxset are packed with exclusive extras including ancillary storylines, behind-the-scenes featurettes for each episode, video diaries and much more. Led by original cast member and new Queen Bee Effy Stonem, expect another rollercoaster take on each of the group’s experiences of teen life mixed with the madness of the adults surrounding them. Following the lives and loves of Effy and the new class at Roundview College, Skins – Series 3 features more chaos, drama and confusion which kept viewers begging for more.

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David Tennant will be joined by guest stars Michelle Ryan and Lee Evans for the first of four Doctor Who specials, Planet Of The Dead, set to premiere on BBC One this Spring.

Starring David Tennant, in what will be his last appearance as The Doctor, the four specials are set to be the most explosive and emotional Doctor Who episodes yet.

Michelle, best known for her roles as Zoe Slater in EastEnders, and Jaime Sommers in the recent remake of Bionic Woman, will play the mysterious Lady Christina de Souza who joins The Doctor on a bus-trip which takes a very unexpected detour into danger. One of Britain’s best loved and biggest comedy stars, Lee Evans, will also be joining the cast playing a character called Malcolm, whose life becomes connected to the Doctor’s under extraordinary circumstances.

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