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How I Met Your Mother - The New Friends....but better.

Advantages: Great Characters With Great Acting, Funny, Addictive, Great Concepts
Disadvantages: Can be confusing for new watchers

How I Met Your Mother has been one of my favourite American Sitcoms since I got a glimpse of it back in 2007 when BBC 2 showed the first season and I have secretly been longing for the past 2 years, hoping that BBC will show it again someday. Thankfully my secret prays have been answered by E4, which makes sense since they are the ones famous for bringing the British public Friends, Ugly Betty, Samantha Who and the other American sitcoms. I have ...
...How I Met Your Mother has had, I have never come home looking forward to a show as much as I have in the recent months, even epic shows like Lost or Heroes failed to grip me as much as How I Met Your Mother has, and I am glad because it brings a little ray of sunshine into my usually miserable day. What’s It About The show usually begins with a man who we never see in the stated year of 2030, who is telling his 2 teenage kids stories about ...

Shellshocker 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of How I Met Your Mother - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

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The return of the magnificant seven

Advantages: Superb series
Disadvantages: Again, no extras

Further adventures of our favourite builders. The series opens with Barry, now married to Hazel, moving into a new house and needing a set of good builders to renovate it. Barry decides he'll call on his old friends from Germany, Dennis, Oz, Moxey, Wayne and Neville. Who all come running as soon as they get the letter. With Barrys house done, they move on and renovate a stately home in Derbyshire which is being turned into flats. Their boozing, ...
...it's not long before they're in trouble. The publican soon wises to Waynes womanising ways and, when Wayne starts to take an interest in his daughter, he's none too pleased. Wayne soon gets him back though when he discovers a certain video tape. Finishing the renovation, they move on again, this time to Spain where the bloke they've been working for wants them to work on his villa. Accidentally ending up at the wrong villa and skinny dipping in ...

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Review of Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 2 (Mini Tool Box Set) (DVD)

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The Dwarfers Series 1 - 4

Advantages: VERY FUNNY
Disadvantages: NOTHING

Red Dwarf series 1 - 4 ~Starring~ Dave Lister. (Craig Charles). Begins his journey as a tone deaf, idle, useless, curry loving, carefree or should that be careless, scruffy slob. But his character develops Arnold J Rimmer. (Chris Barrie) Arnie is the most cowardly, back stabbing, regimented, and pathetic life form to ever call itself human. But Arnie, or big man to his friends, has the biggest transformation of them all because ...
...so he enlists aboard the Red Dwarf little realising it will not reach earth for another 5 years. Dave smuggles a cat aboard the ship but is found out and put into "stasis" for refusing to surrender his cat for dissection. Whilst in stasis there is a radiation leak which kills all of the remaining crew. The computer keeps Dave in stasis for 3 million years until the radiation levels are safe for him to emerge. The ships computer 'Holly' creates a ...

Maximus-Qualitus 23.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Red Dwarf - Just The Shows Vol. 1 (Box Set) (Series 1-4) (DVD)

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Scrubs - series 4

Advantages: Another great set of Scrubs episodes
Disadvantages: The DVD extras aren't great

Plot J.D. and Elliot are finally fully-qualified doctors, but medicine is the least of their worries as their on-off relationship has collapsed into hatred and revenge. J.D. wants to patch things up, but heartbroken Elliot needs more time. Dr.Cox and JD's brother have to step up and join forces to support JD through the death of his father and Turk has to come to terms with a life-threatening medical condition. J.D. finds himself irresistible ...
...does - only to find she moves on to a relationship with his brother. The cast and writers are still on the ball for the fourth season of Scrubs, and their antics will keep you entertained night after night. Main cast J.D. = Zach Braff Elliott = Sarah Chalke Turk = Donald Faison Carla = Judy Reyes Janitor = Neil Flynn Perry Cox = John C. McGinley Bob Kelso = Ken Jenkins Guest appearances include Matthew Perry, Tom Cavanagh and Molly ...

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Review of Scrubs - Series 4 (Box Set) (DVD)

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Red Dwarf - Just the Shows series 5, 6, 7, and 8

Advantages: VERY VERY FUNNY
Disadvantages: NOTHING

Red Dwarf series 5, 6, 7 and 8 = JUST THE SHOWS !! ~Starring~ ********* Dave Lister ********* (Craig Charles). Begins his journey as a tone deaf, idle, useless, curry loving, carefree or should that be careless, scruffy slob. But his character develops Arnold J Rimmer ******************* (Chris Barrie) Arnie is the most cowardly, back stabbing, regimented, and pathetic life form to ever call itself human. But Arnie, or big man ...
...so he enlists aboard the Red Dwarf little realising it will not reach earth for another 5 years. Dave smuggles a cat aboard the ship but is found out and put into "stasis" for refusing to surrender his cat for dissection. Whilst in stasis there is a radiation leak which kills all of the remaining crew. The computer keeps Dave in stasis for 3 million years until the radiation levels are safe for him to emerge. The ships computer 'Holly' creates a ...

Maximus-Qualitus 05.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Red Dwarf - Just The Shows Vol. 2 (Boxset) (Series 5-8) (DVD)

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