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Lovejoy - The Complete Season 1

Actors: Ian McShane, Charlotte Edwards, Terence Dackombe
ASIN : B000NJXG8Q
Sales Rank : 6073
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051294524
UPC : 794051294524
Release Date : December 19, 2007
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
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Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 509

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Ian McShane (Deadwood) stars as the irresistible rogue with a keen eye for antiques, intrigue and beauty. Just call him Lovejoy. This antiques dealer and part-time detective scours the murky salesrooms, auction halls and stately homes of Britain, always on the lookout for a find or a quick buck. As if the antiques business isn't exciting enough, Lovejoy has a particular weakness for a good sob story or a pretty face, either of which is enough to send him off in pursuit of villains and help victims recover their property. Whether it's a priceless old master or a pretty young lady, his love of beauty is sure to land him in trouble wherever he goes.

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"I've been in more hot water than a tea-bag," declares rapscallion antiques dealer Lovejoy, played with devilish charm by Ian McShane (Deadwood, Sexy Beast). And indeed he has: Whether his quarry is a forged snuffbox, a pair of pistols, or an Arab wedding headdress, he always seems to run afoul of greedy collectors, unscrupulous dealers, and scheming lowlifes. How does he triumph? By being just as greedy, unscrupulous, and scheming as they are! This raffish mysteries series, set in the world of English antiques, revels in roundabout plots and oddball characters, but its success rests on McShane's shoulders. Some episodes are sluggish (the one with an axe-wielding lunatic after a Welsh dresser never quite takes off) and some are deft (a forger's heart attack in the middle of a cricket match leads to an underground crypt, with a phony priest and an upper-class nymphomaniac along the way), but McShane is always captivating as he zips around the countryside in his battered yellow station wagon or clings to his assistant's motorcycle sidecar. The ten episodes of this first season (followed, after a hiatus due to some contractual problems, by five more) feature a Japanese firefly cage, Roman coins, mysterious love letters, and Machiavellian identical twins, as well as run-ins with Lovejoy's prat of a rival, Charlie (Malcolm Tierney) and flirting with the posh Lady Jane (Phyllis Logan). The supporting cast does a decent job (particularly Dudley Sutton as a boozy antiques expert), but they know they're just along for the ride. With his heavy-lidded eyes, rolling voice, and dangerously seductive smile, McShane's charisma is off the chart. He even carries off talking to the camera--you wish he was talking to you all the time. Fans of English mysteries who tire of the usual moral rectitude should give this bad boy a try. (The only extra is a brief interview with McShane, pleasant but unrevealing.) --Bret Fetzer

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Lovejoy - The Complete Season 2

Actors: Patrick Murray, Terence Dackombe, Charlotte Edwards, Ian McShane
ASIN : B000VWX6T4
Sales Rank : 7605
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051423023
UPC : 794051423023
Release Date : December 08, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
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Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 624

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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/08/2008

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Ian McShane has the best eyes on television--they turn from a mischievous twinkle to a baleful, heart-stopping glare in an instant. McShane achieved fame in the U.S. as foul-mouthed saloon owner Al Swearengen on Deadwood, but long before then he'd made his mark as lovable but slippery antiques dealer Lovejoy, whose gift for sifting true articles from false is matched only by his personal magnetism--for trouble. The second season of this British series beings with Lovejoy in prison for transporting stolen goods. Naturally, he'd been set up, and the episode darts back and forth in time as Lovejoy and his compatriots--boozy partner Tinker (Dudley Sutton), resentful flunky Eric (Chris Jury), and the woman Lovejoy wishes was more than a friend, Lady Jane (Phyllis Logan)--figure out the who, what, and how of the con game. Though the show is best categorized as a mystery, only a few episodes feature any serious violence, and only one is a murder mystery (with a dead body in a suit of medieval armor). At its best, Lovejoy is about trickery and human weakness. Lovejoy helps a disinherited brother take revenge on his greedy sibling; a collection of classic pornography may belong to a girls' school; a wandering artist seduces lonely housewives by doing paintings of their cottages. When there is gunplay--as when a French policeman is killed by thieves who strip homes of their architectural features--it feels a bit overdone, a bit showy. Far more compelling are the subtle conflicts and dramas, such as when Lovejoy gently forces an elderly woman to admit her silver bowls aren't worth what she claimed. Both writing and direction have sharpened in this second season: Plots are twistier, characters better developed, the pace more sprightly, and McShane seems gloriously at ease with unscrupulous alter-ego. In addition to twelve excellent episodes (including the two-part season finale, featuring Linda Gray from Dallas), this box set has two charming interviews with McShane, one made for the dvd release and one from a 1991 British talk show, conducted when the series was aired. Lovejoy features an abundance of vaguely familiar character actors as guest starts, including Brian Blessed (Flash Gordon), Patrick Malahide (The Singing Detective), and Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). --Bret Fetzer

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Lovejoy - The Complete Season 3

Actors: Ian McShane, Chris Jury
ASIN : B00132D84E
Sales Rank : 6941
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883929012558
UPC : 883929012558
Release Date : December 13, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
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Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 705

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Ian McShane is back as Lovejoy, the crime-solving antiques dealer with an eye for beauty…and trouble! The worlds quirkiest crime-solving antiques hero is back in Season three, now with four discs of side-splitting and outrageous escapades! Much to Lovejoys annoyance, hes not the only one on a never-ending quest for wealth and valuables. However, while he proves unstoppable in the face of sinister Italians, vengeful customers and even Erics vintage motorbikes, can he manage to escape the snares of love?

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LOVEJOY - COMPLETE SERIES 6

Actors: Ian McShane, Chris Jury
ASIN : B0015O5LIG
Sales Rank : 53345
Studio : Delta Music Plc
Region Code : 0
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
UPC : 978387197463
Publisher : Delta Music Plc
Manufacturer : Delta Music Plc
Label : Delta Music Plc
Running Time : 470

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Please note that this is a PAL, Region Free DVD and requires PAL capable DVD player. It will not play on all standard North American DVD players. Please read the item technical description carefully. ----------------------------------- Synopsis: All ten episodes from the sixth series of the popular drama focusing on the charismatic antique dealer, poised ever more precariously on the knife edge of the law. Episodes include: 'Fair Exchange', 'Day Of Reckoning', 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow', 'Double Edged Sword', 'Guns And Roses', 'Last Of The Uzkoks', 'Breaking The Broker', 'Fruit Of The Desert', 'Holding The Baby' and 'Last Tango In Lavenham'.

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LOVEJOY - COMPLETE SERIES 5 (Region 0 PAL DVD- Non USA Format)

Actors: Ian McShane, Chris Jury
ASIN : B0015O2L3Y
Sales Rank : 54408
Region Code : 0
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
UPC : 978373800551
Running Time : 740

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Please note that this is a PAL, Region Free DVD and requires PAL capable DVD player. It will not play on all standard North American DVD players. Please read the item technical description carefully. ----------------------------------- Synopsis: Comprises fourteen episodes, including the feature length episode 'The Lost Colony', from the fifth series. Also an exclusive interview with Ian McShane, who talks about the rogue antique dealer.