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Summer Heights High is out on DVD this week
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Monday, 29, Sep 2008 04:48
Summer Heights High, Entourage and Criminal Justice in this week's best TV shows to hit the DVD shelves.
Created by the amazingly versatile Australian comedian Chris Lilley, Summer Heights High is released on DVD this week, telling of highly-strung drama teacher Mr G (Lilley), troublemaker Jonah (Lilley again) and rich bitch Ja'mie (yep, Lilley again).
With Mr G's demands for his 'arena spectacular' musical growing ever more ridiculous, Ja'mie struggling to cope away from having taken part in an exchange from her private school to "the boganist school ever" and Jonah struggling to avoid expulsion, this is one of the funniest comedies in years.
A fourth series of Battlestar Galactica hits the shelves while the amazing Ben Whishaw stars in BBC drama Criminal Justice.
Ben Coulter (Whishaw) is a shy young man who finds himself way in over his head when, after a drunken night out with a strange girl, he finds her dead and himself covered in blood with murder weapon in her hand.
Screened five nights in a row earlier this year, it's a compelling piece of drama and opens your eyes as to the depths of our criminal justice system.
Take a look at Ben Whishaw discussing the five-part show below:
Two Midsomer Murders collections - The Magician's Nephew and Midsomer Life - are released while fans of Big Cat Week will be pleased to see series four available to buy.
There's more ITV crime drama on offer in the shape of collection seven of Agatha Christie's Poirot and series three of Agatha Christie's Marple but if you prefer your drama to be a bit more socially relevant, you can't go wrong with series six of Spooks, also out this week.
American shows they may be but the likes of One Tree Hill (series five is out this week), and Two and a Half Men (series four hits the shelves) continue to charm British viewers while the eleventh series of one of the greatest show ever, The Simpsons, is also released.
One of the strongest of the later series, it sees Homer becoming a food critic and starting a biker gang, Lisa taking tap lessons and Bart prescribed behavioural medication.
But for one of the most consistently funny, unfailingly up-to-date and always charming shows of recent years, season four of Entourage deserves a place on your DVD shelf, especially as it chronicles the battle of Vince (Adrian Grenier) Eric (Kevin Connolly), Ari (Jeremy Piven) and co to complete a movie about drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Take a look at super-agent Ari Gold in action below: