Death In Paradise - Disc 2

Death In Paradise returned for a second series. A crime drama-comedy starring Ben Miller and Sara Martins, it takes place on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and will be returning with a third series in a year or so.
Death In Paradise

Primeval: New World

Primeval: New World.....Primeval moves over to Canada (Vancouver) for this one. The science fiction drama has ended and it's not returning.
Primeval New World

Dancing On The Edge + Spies Of Warsaw

2 new drama mini-series that take place in the 1930's.

Dancing On The Edge
Early 1930's London jazz scene and race is the topic.
Dancing on the Edge

Spies Of Warsaw, starring David Tennant, based on the 2008 spy novel by Alan Furst. Adapted for TV by veteran writing team Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (The Likely Lads, Not Only...But Also, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Old Boy Network, Full Stretch, Lovejoy).
Spies of Warsaw

If you read the info on the link above, you'll see the note about due to a low budget outtakes were often left in including a train scene with someone sticking their bottom out a window. 

Engrenages (Spiral) - Disc 4

Series 4, State Of Terror, of the French crime thriller Engrenages (Spiral) has 12 episodes and will not fit on a single disc. Here are the first 4 episodes. The last 6 will be on a 5th disc and available on March 16. French audio with hard coded English subtitles.
Engrenages (Spiral)

Ripper Street

Ripper Street, a new mystery drama set in 1889 in London's East End. It will be returning with a second series sometime in 2014.
Ripper Street

Blandings + Great Night Out + Way To Go

3 new comedies. 

Blandings, based on the Blandings Castle stories by P.G. Wodehouse, takes place in the late 1920's. Starring Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders (no - not going to list their numerous major credits - too tired) and Mark Williams (the Harry Potter films, Father Brown, The Fast Show, Grass) and Jack Farthing with guest stars such as David Walliams, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Jessica Hynes.
Blandings

Great Night Out takes place in suburban Manchester and is about a group of lifelong friends. Very solid cast on this one. William Ash (Soldier Soldier, Where The Heart Is, Burn It, Waterloo Road and in the current comedy Being Eileen), Lee Boardman (Rome, Ladies of Letters), Craig Parkinson (Massive, Whitechapel, In With The Flynns, Misfits, Line of Duty, Secret of Crickley Hall), Stephen Walters (Buried, The Visit, Good Cop), Rebekah Staton (State of Play, Tess of D'Ubervilles, No Heroics, Pulling, Home Time, Hunderby, Spy), Christine Bottomley (Early Doors, The Street, Massive, Tess of D'Ubervilles, Hope Springs, Land Girls), Naomi Bentley (Dalziel & Pascoe, Grownups, Primeval, Mutual Friends, Ideal, White Van Man, Miranda), Susie Blake (Born And Bred, Victoria Wood, Singles, A Prince Among Men, Roger Roger, Coronation Street, Parents, Mrs. Brown's Boys) and finally...Ricky Tomlinson (The Royle Family, Cracker, Playing The Field, Mike Bassett: Manager) with appearances by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Whites), Keith Allen....and so on.
Great Night Out 

Way To Go....about 3 guys who start an assisted suicide business. Starring Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners, The Increasingly Poor Decision of Todd Margaret, Bleak Old Shop of Stuff), Marc Wootton (Cyderdelic, La La Land), Laura Aikman (Teenage Kicks, Mitchell & Webb, Personal Affairs, Lemon La Vida Loca) and so on.......
Way to Go

I have no idea if any of these are returning. I watched the first two and they get the UK TV FL seal of approval.

Pramface

Pramface, the BBC Three comedy, returned for a second series.
Pramface

Get Real + Punchdrunk

2 more sitcoms from the 90's.

Get Real starring Lindsay Duncan (Travelling Man, Kit Curran, Dead Head, G.B.H., Colin's Sandwich, A Year In Provence, Jake's Progress, Rome, Come Fly With Me, White Heat and recently in a couple episodes of Merlin and Spy), Lesley Vickerage (Between The Lines, Soldier Soldier, My Good Friend, Grafters, Insp. Lynley, was recently in a couple episodes of Friday Night Dinner and Lewis), Lloyd Owen (Hearts & Bones, Monarch of the Glen) and Simon Godley (Lazarus & Dingwall, Paris) as four friends. Episode 3 is missing. Not sure why. Maybe it's out there somewhere, maybe not. I'll keep looking.
Get Real


Punchdrunk, a Scottish comedy starring Kenny Ireland (Benidorm, Victoria Wood), Diana Hardcastle (First Among Equals), John Kazek (Rab C. Nesbitt). 
Punchdrunk

Us Girls

Us Girls.......a family-centered comedy with three generations of problems...reminiscent of After Henry.
Us Girls

Richard Briers 1934 - 2013

Richard Briers has died. Richard enjoyed a long career on the stage and in front of the camera and starred in some of Britain's most popular television programs such as the 60's sitcom Marriage Lines, 70's sitcoms The Good Life and The Other One, the 80's comedy Ever Decreasing Circles, the 90's comedy Down To Earth and the 2000's Scottish comedy-drama Monarch of the Glen as well as cult favorites such as The Norman Conquests, If You See God Tell Him, Heavy Weather and many guest appearances as well as other shows that seem to have been lost to time.  

Richard Briers dies
I'm hoping to have the surviving Marriage Lines episodes available shortly and I have Down To Earth but am missing 1 episode and trying to track it down.

Asylum + Me, You & Him + Sometime, Never

A 3-for-1 of 90's sitcoms. I'm not going to waste too much of my time on this as there seems to be zero interest in this stuff.

Asylum......with people like Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes (when she was Jessica Stevenson), Julian Barratt and Norman Lovett.
Asylum

Me, You and Him.....more Punt & Dennis with Nick Hancock and Harriet Thorpe.
Me, You and Him

Sometime, Never.....with Sarah Crowe and Ann Bryson
Sometime, Never

Tygo Road + What You Looking At?

2 sitcoms from the early 90's.

Tygo Road - I believe the pilot episode and first episode are the same thing. The pilot was part of Comic Asides program. Some of the other pilots from that series that became shows were KYTV, I Lovett, Mornin' Sarge, and The High Life.
Tygo Road

What You Looking At? - the first 10 minutes of the last episode are missing.
What You Looking At?

Holby City - Series 14 Disc 8

Holby City - Series 14 Disc 8....the latest from the medical drama.

Moving On - Series 4

Moving On, the Jimmy McGovern produced drama anthology series, returned again this year with 5 new stand alone episodes (21-25).
Moving On

Lewis - Disc 6

Lewis - Disc 6....with Series 7, the final series for this crime drama.
For those of you in the USA, these are the full-length episodes and not the butchered ones that will eventually find their way to PBS.
Lewis