Hook/Oliver/Annie (DVD)

Advantages: Quite good extras
Disadvantages: All in one long episode

...Fimbles ? Smelly Jelly I have to admit that Fimbles are not one of my favourite children?s programmes though my daughter loves it so we decided to go and get her a DVD so when we wanted to watch something on the television, she could watch it happily on the laptop ? which she enjoys doing as its mummy?s laptop and she isn?t meant to touch it! The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, who all live in a lovely, colourful place called Fimble Valley. The Fimbles are cuddly hippo like creatures each with lovely colourful ?skins?. Other characters in this programme include a blue tree frog called Rockit and a mole called Roly Mo, a pink bird called Bessie and her chick Ribble. Most of the other characters are essentially large puppets except the chick who is just a great ball of fluff with eyes stuck on it, unmoving in the main... Read review

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Advantages: entertaining, great length, good features, appealing natural comedy
Disadvantages: sorry, if you're under 12, its a no-go!

...! He explains aboutJamie Oliver's chicken farm experiment, the clip then telling us more. Jamie Oliver has set up an intensive peasant farm, and a free-range one for chickens. The clip then shows us him literally throwing crates of chicks into barns. If this was not amusing enough, we then see Hill repeatedly throw crates of little fuzzy Easter chicks around his studio (the ones you get at Easter time for decoration!). I couldn't stop laughing! After this, there are a lot of other hilareous clips to follow, and I must admit there are just one or two I did not find amusing. Why? Probably because I cannot relate to them in any way. Though thankfully this was a rare occasion! There was another part which I will explain as I think it makes the DVD what it is. Remember in Emmerdale when Val found out she had Cataracts? Such a fuss has been... Read review

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...history of the ashes Back in eighteen eighty two a test match series between england and australia started a regular feature for cricket fans. The eighteen eighty two series provided a victory for england, and it was the australian's who got a request granted to play a fourth test match, and whilst they won, it was england who got to keep the famous ern where the ashes are kept. The series is played every two years, though only once every four years back here in England. this dvd lasts two hours eleven minutes, and it provides a historical platform in terms of cricketing. clips shown of great catches, supreme batting performances, and legendary bowlers of cricket's all time, hall of cricketing fame. The dvd also is interesting to see how world war one and two affected english cricket. the results of the ashes are mainly... Read review

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