‘Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Alf Garnett. His daughter prefers the company of her Scouse husband, his mates all abandon the pub for their families and he’s left with Marigold and a cheese sandwich. Happy Christmas!

There’s not much that gets Alf’s goat more than Christmas – that is if you ignore immigrants, the unions, the Labour Party, Scousers or the price of beer – and every festive season finds him delivering some of his greatest rants. For a lonely OAP whose pension won’t stretch much further than a pint of mild and some pipe tobacco, it’s time to put on the waterworks, wring what he can out of friends, relations and do-gooders – and spend it down the pub.

These Christmas specials, broadcast between 1985 and 1990, find Alf in great miserable form and include his last Christmas with Else; his short lived career as a store Santa; his Christmas in hospital for a hip replacement and a disastrous wedding day that leaves Mrs. Hollingbery in a less than festive mood…

Upbeat homecoming comedy as a glitzy talk show host returns to the land of his roots. Having pulled himself up by his bootstraps, self-help guru RJ Stevens (Martin Lawrence) has come a long way from his Deep South childhood. Now, with all the trappings of a successful TV career and a gorgeous celebrity fiancee on his arm, RJ feels he's finally arrived in the 'city of the angels'. So when he receives an invitation to his parents' 50th wedding anniversary, RJ sees it as the ideal opportunity to show the folks back home how well he's done, and receive the praise he feels he's due. But when he arrives in his old stomping ground to find his family distinctly underwhelmed by his Californian approach, RJ realises that maybe it's time to re-evaluate his life.

Another screen adaptation of a Disney theme park ride (the other being 'Pirates of the Caribbean'). Real-estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is given the task of shifting Gracey Manor, a delapidated old house in New Orleans, and decides to visit it with his family. When they arrive, however, they come face-to-face with 999 grim, grinning ghosts who are not too keen on sharing their space with mortals. With the help of supernatural psychic Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly), the family must battle to break the mansion's curse before the clock strikes 13.

All six episodes of the Bafta-winning black comedy series from the 1990s, starring David Tennant in his debut role. Set in a Scottish mental asylum, St Jude's, Ken Stott plays Eddie McKenna, a double-glazing salesman fighting his own demons, who moonlights as a D.J. in the hospital at night. During his time at work, he develops friendships with Francine (Katy Murphy), a self-harmer, and manic depressive Campbell (Tennant). Whilst Eddie and Campbell both dream of hitting the heights on commercial radio, Eddie's future is swiftly put on the back-burner when his personal life is suddenly thrown into chaos, forcing him to finally confront his problems. Episodes comprise: 'Hey Jude', 'Fly Like an Eagle', 'You Always Hurt the One You Love', 'Fool On the Hill', 'Rainy Night in Georgia' and 'Let It Be'.

All 18 episodes from the fourth series of the popular TV comedy. In 'The Agony and the 'Ex'tasy' Carrie has her 35th birthday and Samantha gets a crush on a priest. 'The Real Me' has Carrie asked to model for Dolce & Gabbana. 'Defining Moments' sees Miranda have some bathroom problems with her boyfriend. 'What's Sex Got To Do With It?' finds Carrie having sex with Ray, Charlotte having sex with Trey, Samantha having her sex gay, and Miranda not having sex at all. 'Ghost Town' sees Miranda's ex-boyfriend Steve and Carrie's ex-boyfriend Aidan open a bar together. 'Baby, Talk is Cheap' has Miranda date a marathon runner. 'Time and Punishment' finds Carrie getting jealous when Aidan starts hanging out with a beautiful bartender. In 'My Motherboard, My Self' Miranda's mum dies and Samantha buys a sex manual in the street. In 'Sex and the Country' Carrie is frightened by a squirrel and Samantha has sex with a farmer. 'Belles of the Balls' sees Aidan and Mr Big confront each other in the country. 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda' has Miranda discover that she is pregnant. 'Just Say Yes' finds Carrie and Aidan discussing moving in together. In 'The Good Fight' Carrie storms out on Aidan and Charlotte storms out on Trey. 'All That Glitters' sees Carrie, Miranda and Samantha go dancing at a gay club. 'Change of Dress' has Samantha get upset when she discovers that Richard is still sleeping with other people. 'Ring a Ding Ding' finds Carrie worrying about how to buy back her apartment from Aidan. 'A Vogue Idea' sees Carrie's new job at Vogue get off to a bumpy start. Finally, in 'I Heart NY', Miranda goes into labour, Mr Big leaves for California, Samantha confronts Richard, and Charlotte starts dating again.

Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was at the altar, about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton) his pregnant fiancee. He got cold feet and ran for the hills and he's been going in circles ever since.

When Dennis discovers Libby's hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria) he realises it's now or never. He enters a marathon to show he's more than a quitter, but then he finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to change.

Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to be more than a running joke...

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett's magnificent partnership became a cherished British institution. Their Christmas Specials were particularly eagerly awaited and, for many, they were the highlight of the festive television schedules. The 1987 Christmas Special proved to be The Two Ronnies last ever full show together, but by then they had left so many cherished memories.

The Christmas Specials featured extra special guests - such as Elton John, David Essex and Elaine Paige - and great Christmas fun, as well as the regular Two Ronnies fare of the opening and closing new headlines, party, allotment and pub sketches and Ronnie Corbett's shaggy dog monologues.

This collection will bring back all the memories of those shows including such highlights as Chas and Dave; The Milkman's Christmas Address To The Nation; Christmas Day In The Ukon; Game For A Trial; The Tree - an Extra-Festival encounter of the Christmas Kind and Pinnochio II - Killer Doll.

The popular raconteur captured live at the Theatre Royal, Wakefield on his 2007 tour.

Three classic episodes from the sixth series of the hit show. Episodes Are: 'Lucy The Starmaker', 'Lucy Meets Robert Goulet' and 'Lucy Meets Tennessee Ernie Ford'.

All 27 episodes from seasons 1-3 of the BBC's comedy series set in and around a hospital, where the newly qualified Dr Andrew Collin (Andrew Lancel) is thrown into a world that is totally beyond him. Episodes are: 'Welcome to the House of Pain', 'Doctors and Nurses', 'The Killing Season', 'You Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Legs', 'Turning Out the Light', 'The Edge', 'The Shallow End', 'A Cold Heart', 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Bad Blood', 'Factor 8', 'The Critical Hour', 'Running on Vapours', 'The Betrayed', 'The Body Electric', 'Open and Shut', 'The Practise of Privacy', 'The Red Queen', 'Trench Warfare', 'Suffer Little Children', 'The Glass Ceiling', 'The Ways of All Flesh', 'The Age of Consent', 'The Holy Triad', 'The Oedipus Effect', 'Breaking Strain' and 'Death Us Do Part'.

Wonderfully wacky. Absurdly hysterical. Insanely irreverent. It's the laugh-out-loud intergalactic comedy based on Douglas Adams' best-selling novel and filled with out-of-this world visual and special effects, this is one ride you don't want to miss.

Seconds before Earth is destroyed by the nastiest creatures in the universe, mild-mannered Arthur Dent is whisked into space by his friend, an alien in human form.

And so the misadventures begin as he and fellow travellers, including a two-headed Galactic President and a paranoid android, search for answers to the mystery of life, the universe and everything.

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage among modern day New Yorkers, TRUST THE MAN features the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress, her stay at home husband, her slacker young brother and his aspiring novelist girlfriend. The film follows these four on their pointed, often surprising and frequently hilarious search for love in the midst of careers, family, infidelity and the ever-daunting search for Manhattan street parking.

All 10 episodes from the fourth series of the popular BBC sitcom, starring Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench as Lionel Hardcastle and Jean Pargeter, a couple who are re-united after being out of touch with each other for 38 years. Their brief romance in the early 1950s was cut short when Lionel was posted off to the Korean War - but will things run more smoothly now that they are both older and wiser? In this series, an American TV company suggests that their love affair might make a good miniseries, but Lionel gets suspicious when they want him to spice up some of the stories.

BBC Scotland sketch comedy series introduces a cast of motley Caledonians. Originally a radio programme, Chewin' The Fat was the springboard from which its creators, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, launched Jack and Victor - the central characters of subsequent spinoff, 'Still Game'. Alongside the peripatetic pensioners, the programme also featured such varied favourites as; Betty The Auld Slapper who sat, open legged, retelling her invariably pornographic wartime remembrances, Ballistic Bob, to whom the most perfunctory task provided potential for unfettered rage and Eric The Activist who favoured doing unto animal abusers as they would do unto animals like pouring salt on a man salting snails then taking flight shouting his catchphrase, 'c'mon the slugs.'

The second screen adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling novel (the first, starring Katherine Ross, was made in 1974) is a darkly satirical comedy, in contrast to the paranoid social critique of the first version. Nicole Kidman stars as Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful New York career woman who, after suffering a nervous breakdown, moves with her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) from Manhattan to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford, Connecticut, where everything is chic, polished, and a little too perfect for Joanna. She soon strikes up a friendship with cynical and irreverent Jewish writer Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler) - and together the two women discover the ominous secret that underpins the social fabric of the too-good-to-be-true community in which they find themselves.

Steve Carell stars in The Office, a fresh and funny mockumentary-style glimpse into the daily interactions of the eccentric workers at the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company.

Based on the smash-hit British series of the same name and adapted for American Television by Greg Daniels (The Simpsons), this fast-paced comedy parodies contemporary American water-cooler culture. Earnest but clueless regional manager Michael Scott (Carell) believes himself to be an exceptional boss and mentor, but actually receives more eye-rolls than respect from his odd staff.

At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort...but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff; in the hilariously cynical BAFTA-nominated comedy series that won Stephanie Cole a British Comedy Award in 1992.

Episode 1:
Tom is new to the Bayview Retirement Village and is quickly labelled a 'troublemaker' when he is appalled with the food and takes action.

Episode 2:
Deciding she wants a trip to Brighton, Diana takes Tom along for company. However, the police are hot on their heels...

Episode 3:
When Diana's attempts to bring Tom out of a depression fail, she dreams up the perfect solution.

Episode 4:
The pair are invited to a christening but can they be trusted to behave? Meanwhile Tom discovers that Diana's stay at Bayview is in jeopardy.

Episode 5:
There's a new matron at Bayview. Diana doesn't like the changes being instigated, but on which side is Tom?

Episode 6:
The management wish to have Tom and Diana certified with the help of their relations, but it's going to take more than a psychiatrist to catch these two out.

Episode 7:
Diana's past as a photo journalist comes in useful once again as her and Tom embark on some aerial photography.

One of the stars of 'Phoenix Nights', award-winning comedian Dave Spikey, performs his unique brand of stand up comedy in front of a live audience.

Double-bill of post-pub entertainment. In 'Household Hints From Adult Film Stars', some of the porn industry's hottest girls demonstrate their talents for DIY and dusting and polishing. In 'The Man Show Boy', the cheeky 13-year-old from 'The Man Show' pulls off hidden-camera stunts that make his victims look twice, from trying to buy porn with a fake ID, to selling beer on the streets.

Sophisticated romantic comedy starring Will Smith. Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens is a legendary - and deliberately anonymous - New York City 'date doctor' who, for a fee, has helped countless men woo the women of their dreams. While coaching Albert (Kevin James), a meek accountant who is smitten with a glamourous celebrity, Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finally meets his match in the person of the gorgeous, whip-smart Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who follows Allegra's every move. The ultimate professional bachelor, Hitch suddenly finds himself falling deliriously in love with Sara, a reporter whose biggest scoop could very well be the unmasking of Manhattan's most famous date doctor.

All six episodes from the first series of the surreal BBC dark comedy, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Chris (Reeves) and Carl (Mortimer) are two estranged brothers who have not seen each other for 15 years, but who join up out of Carl's desperation to find his missing son. Heading towards the town of Catterick, the last place he was seen, the two brothers begin a nightmarish journey on the margins of contemporary Britain. On the way they meet a sinister B & B proprietor (Matt Lucas), a psychotic mass murderer, and become involved in an ongoing police investigation into a shooting at a car dealership.

Wherever he goes, Dennis Pennis leaves a trail of embarrassment in his wake.

From London to the Venice Film Festival and on to Hollywood, no-one is spared, no star is too big to escape verbal abuse.

Victims include Steve Martin, Pierce Brosnan, Don Johnson, Jim Carrey, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Sandra Bullock, Charlie Sheen, Cindy Crawford, Demi Moore and Arnold Schwarzennegger.

If you're a star, beware! Pennis is out to get you.