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List Price: $24.98Price: $19.99You Save: $4.99 (20%)Black Books: The Complete 3rd Series
Actor: Black Books
ASIN : B000TSTEPK
Sales Rank : 17355
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051420121
UPC : 794051420121
Release Date : December 13, 2007
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 147
DescriptionThe foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) is back for a third season. Black Books concerns the musings, doings and time-frittering techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), his shy, multi-challenged assistant, Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) and their under achieving friend, Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig). This dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London, but nothing can protect them from each other. DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Other
Outtakes
Photo gallery
Amazon.comThe lovably misanthropic Britcom Black Books wrings its laughs out of characters as cynical and crabby as they come. The third series continues to follow the adventures, such as they are, of Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), a bilious bookstore owner who dislikes books and dislikes customers more. The deep-black comedy of the series is built on satire and sarcasm (Moran created the series and is also its chief writer), and no depth is too low to go. In "Manny Comes Home," Black Books' sole employee, the clueless aging hippie Manny, finally has had enough of Bernard's unappreciation, and takes a job at the swanky Goliath Books next door. The episode gets as many chuckles for Manny's fish-out-of-water experience (honestly, Black Books is the only place he can work, probably in all of the British Isles) as for Bernard's flailing and resentment without him. "Up he goes with that little wiggle of his," Bernard sneers as he spies on Manny shelving Gotham books on a ladder, "the wiggle of Judas!" Meanwhile, the sight gags of the deplorable conditions of both Bernard and the shop (mushrooms growing in Bernard's hair; mollusks on a drink glass) are good for that singularly pleasurable combination of cringing and belly-laughing. The extras include deleted scenes (the cat who plays Mr. Benson is a true rising star); a moody black-and-white short called "Bernard's Letter," in which Bernard composes a snarky response to a manuscript rejection; and loads of great deleted scenes, showing that the cast has as much fun on the set as the viewer does watching them. --A.T. Hurley
Reviews for the Black Books: The Complete 3rd Series
List Price: $24.98Price: $18.99You Save: $5.99 (24%)Black Books - The Complete First Series
Actors: Bill Bailey (IV), Tamsin Greig, Dylan Moran
ASIN : B000BVM1SW
Sales Rank : 26194
Director : Martin Dennis, Graham Linehan
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781419817380
ISBN : 1419817388
UPC : 794051240125
Release Date : December 10, 2006
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 142
DescriptionBlack Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's worst-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme or violent or fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre. Amazon.comHow can the concept of a drunk owning a bookshop be surreally funny? Well, Black Books may be owned by Bernard Black on screen, but off screen it belongs to writer-director Graham Linehan of Father Ted fame, that’s how. His writing partnership with Dylan Moran (Black) produced the strangest situation comedy of 2001, fully deserving its British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award. The almost blissfully vague plotline begins when stressed-out office worker Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) accidentally swallows The Little Book of Calm. Somehow his beard and Bernard's booze get on well enough for them to work together in the shop. They're ably assisted/distracted/confused by the hormonal interruptions of neighboring storeowner Fran (Tamsin Greig). And that’s about it. But across six episodes, this first year crammed in an enormous amount of insanity and sight gags. Definite highlights include Fran's over-the-radio seduction by Shipping News broadcaster Howell Granger, a good cop/bad cop Sweeney spoof and a cameo by Nick Frost (Mike in Spaced) as a more than slightly over-the-top security system installer. The standout episode is "The Grapes of Wrath," in which Bernard and Manny agree to babysit a valuable wine cellar. No prizes for guessing what happens! Kevin Eldon guest stars as The Cleaner, declaring the shop to be "dirty." Manny already knew that. When he made the appointment he had to confess, "Right now I'm eating scrambled egg with a comb out of a shoe." --Paul Tonks
Reviews for the Black Books - The Complete First Series
List Price: $24.98Price: $21.99You Save: $2.99 (12%)Black Books - The Complete Second Series
Actors: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Mark Donovan, Nigel Harrison
ASIN : B000HC2LXU
Sales Rank : 21946
Director : Martin Dennis
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051274922
UPC : 794051274922
Release Date : December 14, 2006
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 144
DescriptionThe foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) is back for a second season. Bernard's devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and willful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny (Bill Bailey), his assistant. Bearded, gentle, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn't and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran (Tamsin Greig), their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Other
Outtakes
Photo gallery
Amazon.comHow do the British make surly misanthropy so entertaining, even downright delightful? Britcom Black Books springs from a dingy London bookstore owned by Bernard Black (series creator Dylan Moran, Shaun of the Dead), a bilious, petty xenophobe whose only pleasures in life are drinking, smoking, and berating his one long-suffering employee, Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey, Saving Grace), whose bursts of competence only drive Bernard to greater heights of apoplexy. Bernard's only friend in the world is Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig, also on the equally blackhearted Green Wing), who's similarly enslaved by her appetites and dabbles in personal fads that she drops as soon as they become inconvenient. The second six-episode series of Black Books takes a series of relatively modest set-ups--Bernard wants to ask a customer out on a date; Manny tries to emulate upscale chain bookshops; Fran needs to find a job--and spins them out into deranged, surreal, and sometimes near-apocalyptic conclusions involving infestations of rat-like creatures and illiterate mob enforcers, often accompanied by spasms of slapstick comedy and arias of verbal abuse. None of these characters is "likable" in the usual sitcom sense--which is exactly why they've earned radically devoted fans, who savor every nasty, jittery moment. Black Books would give an American TV executive a heart attack; fans of similarly loopy Britcoms like Fawlty Towers and Spaced should dive right in. --Bret Fetzer
Reviews for the Black Books - The Complete Second Series
New Price: $49.98Black Books - The Complete First and Second Series
Actors: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Paul Beech, Steve Bowditch
ASIN : B000HC2LY4
Sales Rank : 69806
Director : Graham Linehan, Martin Dennis, Nick Wood
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051276025
UPC : 794051276025
Release Date : December 14, 2006
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 286
Product DescriptionStudio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/14/2006
Reviews for the Black Books - The Complete First and Second Series
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New Price: $79.99Black Books: Series 2 [Region 2 Import - UK]
Actors: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Paul Beech, Steve Bowditch
ASIN : B000IFORTM
Sales Rank : 208938
Studio : Channel 4 Video
Region Code : 2
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 8420018080801
Publisher : Channel 4 Video
Manufacturer : Channel 4 Video
Label : Channel 4 Video
Running Time : 144
Product DescriptionThe second series of the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed comedy from Channel 4. Black Books stars creator and co-writer Dylan Moran, with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), proprietor of the grubby bookshop Black Books, prefers the company of his books to his customers. Devoted to the twin pleasures of excessive drinking and wilful antagonism, Bernard enriches his life and the lives of his only two friends Manny (Bill Bailey) and Fran (Tamsin Greig) in the process. In this second collection of episodes, Bernard finds positive proof that Manny is mad; Manny worries about the reliability of his magic hot water bottle and uses his underworld connections to help the recently unemployed Fran find a job. Fran struggles to find her inner karma in-between trying to find her cigarettes and making excuses to have another drink. Under constant threat from the nasty, unfeeling outside world, the characters in Black Books attempt to maintain the haven of the bookshop even as their own talent for relentless stupidity pitches them towards mayhem.
Reviews for the Black Books: Series 2 [Region 2 Import - UK]
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New Price: $79.99Black Books: Series 3 [Region 2 Import - UK]
Actors: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Paul Beech, Steve Bowditch
ASIN : B000IHFGR2
Sales Rank : 180752
Studio : VCI
Region Code : 2
Format : PAL
Feature : Deleted Scenes; Outakes
Binding : DVD
EAN : 8422397105410
Publisher : VCI
Manufacturer : VCI
Label : VCI
Product DescriptionThe third series of Channel 4`s multi-award winning and critically acclaimed comedy Black Books starring creator and co-writer Dylan Moran, with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. Black Books concerns the musings, doings and time-frittering techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), his shy, multi-challenged assistant, Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) and their under achieving friend, Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig). This dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London, but nothing can protect them from each other. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group`s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.
Reviews for the Black Books: Series 3 [Region 2 Import - UK]
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