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DVD: Sherlock

You've got to love DVD, surely the best way to watch TV these days. Take BBC One's Sherlock for example, it's three 90-minute adventures now out to be enjoyed all over again.

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DVD: Avatar: Special Edition

Given that Avatar has made a bisquillion dollars at the box office, chances are you've seen it already, which rather begs the question why you're reading a review about whether or not you should see it again. What am I, your freaking mother? Go play in the road.

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CINEMA: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

If you detest hipsters, asymmetrical hairstyles and 80s videogames, Scott Pilgrim will feel like you're watching a group of younger, prettier people in skinny jeans slowly scrape their nails down a blackboard (in other words, it's a lot like being trapped in Shoreditch). On the plus side, you do get to see Michael Cera get punched in the face, repeatedly.

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DVD: The Protectors

Relatively fresh from The Man from UNCLE, it took UK television entrepreneur Sir Lew Grade to bring US actor Robert Vaughn to these shores in 1972 for new spy/cop/adventure series The Protectors, out now from Network DVD.

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DVD: Cannon and Ball

First arriving on TV in 1972, it took Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball (real names Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper, fact fans) seven years to secure their own weekly comedy showcase, simply titled Cannon and Ball: it would run for an impressive 12 series.

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CINEMA: Marmaduke

When British kids were knee-deep in Roobarb and Custard, Americans were reading Marmaduke, a newspaper comic strip about a lovable Great Dane.

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DVD: Cougar Town

Welcome to Botox Town! No, that’s cruel, but Courteney Cox and Christa Miller do look like they’ve been apple-bobbing in a bucket full of the stuff.

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DVD: Cybermen Box Set

The juggernaut that is the Doctor Who DVD release schedule continues this month with the release of two stories which individually may not feel much love from the fans, but, when squeezed together into a themed (however loose that theme is) set and given a sprinkling of quality extras, suddenly become a better proposition.

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CD: Doctor Who

Doctor Who fans may have gone wild for a certain Highland companion with a penchant for short skirts, but Amy Pond wasn't the first: back in the 1960s, the Doctor was accompanied by James Robert McCrimmon, and, while it may have been a kilt which led to him baring his legs each week, his spirit for adventure matched his fellow countrywoman's.

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DVD: Breaking Bad Season Two

Hailing from the same cable network behind such modern US TV classics as The Shield and Mad Men, Breaking Bad may not have quite the same size of fanbase here in the UK, but for those who have discovered it tucked away on Five, this is something very special.

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DVD: The 4 Just Men

Four men who fought together during war time band together to fight injustice on a weekly basis in this latest release from Network, and no, it's not another repackaged A-Team DVD set: it's The 4 Just Men, which first aired on UK TV back in 1959.

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Stargate Universe Complete First Season

If the original Stargate TV series and its numerous spin-offs have until now passed you by, the idea of a planet-hopping McGyver and friends not quite your thing, then the arrival of Stargate Universe could be the series which makes you think again.

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