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Yes the 'Joke-Amotive' is pulling into your living room now. He's wearing platform shoes and he's got the carriage of a lion. What a goody choo choos. Here he comes! It's the gag rush hour. His dis-embark is worse than his dis-embite. Be on your guard. Take a deep breath and hold on tight. This train Timinates here.

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Richie (Rik Mayall) and Eddie (Adrian Edmondson) are running the nastiest, smellist, most squalid hotel in the world and things aren't going well.

The Chef's guzzled all the food, cash is running low and most of the guests have fled without paying! But things are on the up with the arrival of the Nice family, some exotic underwear and the sexy Italian movie star Gina Carbonara (Hélène Mahieu). Richie is soon indulging his passion for panty pilfering whilst desperately trying to impress the fragrant Ms. Carbonara. But with Gina's jilted fiancee in hot pursuit and something decidedly iffy about the fish dinner, Richie and Eddie are going to need a miracle to escape in one piece.

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Life is going nowhere for Shaun (Simon Pegg). He spends his life in his local pub, The Winchester, with his best mate Ed (Nick Frost), has issued with his Mum and neglects his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield). When Liz dumps him, Shaun finally decides to get his life in order.

He must win back the heart of his girlfriend, repair his relationship with his mum and face up to the responsibilities of adulthood. Unfortunately, the dead are returning to life and attempting to eat the living. For the newly inspired Shaun, this is just another obstacle. In the face of a full-scale zombie epidemic, armed with a cricket bat and a spade, Shaun sets out with Ed in tow, to rescue his mum and grudgingly his step-dad, his girlfriend and even more grudgingly her friends David (Dylan Moran) and Dianne (Lucy Davis) and take them to the safest most secure place he knows, The Winchester.

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More smells, yells and bloody hells from 1980s student-land as the second and final series of the cult classic finds Scumbag College appearing on University Challenge, Vyv getting pregnant, Rik getting a girlfriend, Neil having the worst cold in the history of civilisation, the whole household

taken hostage by Brian Damage, an escaped murderer (Alexei Sayle) and a trip on a double-decker bus which would give Saint Cliff recurring nightmares.

Episodes Comprise:
- Bambi
- Cash
- Nasty
- Time
- Sick
- Summer Holiday

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Stick your knobbly knees out of your chalet and prepare to chuck your granny in the pool - it's another fun-packed season at Maplin's, the nation's number one holiday camp, where the summer never ends.

And, as always, there's lots of fun stuff for Peggy and the Yellow Coats to do: like find a cat-burglar's loot hidden somewhere in the camp, prepare to celebrate Gladys's impending birthday, and with Mr Partridge looking like he's finally lost his punch, keep the young campers amused till the end of the season. Com on Campers! - Hi de Hi!...

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Living under three months' house arrest, Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) passes his days spying on the neighbors. It's all fun and games until things take a horrifying turn for the worse.

Kale is convinced his neighbor next door is a serial killer - but he can't prove anything, can't convince anyone and can't leave his house without triggering an alarm. Enlisting the help of his friends, Kale is determined to expose the truth - but have they all taken on more than they bargained for with a cold-blooded murderer on the loose? With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, Kale and his friends are in a race for their lives in this electrifying thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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You're invited to one of the most celebrated and audaciously funny hit comedies of the year - Muriel's Wedding! Follow frumpy, misguided Muriel Heslop on her lifelong quest for a glitzy fairy-tale wedding.

With visions of nuptials dancing in her head, this ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney. But the road to the altar takes surprising twists and turns - and Muriel is about to learn the lesson of a lifetime. Wry, witty and hailed by critics everywhere, Muriel's Wedding is one affair you don't want to miss.

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Danny tries to sort his life out but when he stands alone to defend the victim of a shocking rape he finds himself at odds with the village, including his wife and her family.

Emotions are running high in the small community and behind the picturesque landscape lie infidelities, revenge and a brutal murder.

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She's safe now. Safe from the hordes of screaming, grasping fans. Safe from demanding kooks who pop up unexpectedly. Safe from the unknown killer stalking her every move. She's in the arms of The Bodyguard.

In her spectacular film debut, Whitney Houston plays Rachel Maron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, touch her. But one wants to kill her - and that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel's glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.

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Al Pacino won his first 'Best Actor' Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him.

It's a heart-wrenching and heart-warming tale of opposites attracting when they embark on a wild weekend trip that will change the lives of both men forever...

A powerful front line cast, including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson, and George Clooney, explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II.

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Here comes the sun and with it comes our final fun-drenched season at Maplin's Holiday Camp. But even with knobbly-kneed antics still high on the agenda, it's not just the jolly campers that are keeping our favourite band of Yellow Coats busy.

There's the new Camp-Controller for one-he wants rid of them all. Then there's Ted's assault-course challenge to the Army display team-that'll be tricky. And of course there's Spike, worried that he's lost his sense of humour for good-will it ever return? Let's finds out now, before we bid a final farewell to the Olympic Sized Swimming Pool, the Hawaiian Ballroom and all-Hi-de-Hi!

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One of the best-loved movies of all time. 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) stars Judy Garland as Dorothy, a young Kansas farm girl who is whisked away by a twister to the land of Oz. Accompanied by a brainless Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), a heartless Tin Man (Jack Haley) and a cowardly Lion.

Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, follow the Yellow Brick Road seeking the Wizard of Oz. In order that he may grant her wish to return home.

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Two of Hollywood's hottest young stars, Chris O'Donnell and Drew Barrymore, ignite the passion in this riveting story of love on the run. When honour student Matt (Chris O'Donnell) meets gorgeous yet reckless Casey (Drew Barrymore), their attraction spirals into a heated love affair.

Under pressure from their parent's to break up, Matt and Casey take to the road in a desperate attempt to stay together. But soon, Casey's troubled past catches up with them - and Matt begins to see an irrational and dangerous side to her that frightens him. Now, he's forced to make a decision that could separate them forever. Wildly compelling, sexy and provocative, Mad Love is the ultimate romantic adventure!

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When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California, they send their most inept and detested employee, in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr.

Bean - the master of disaster! Within days of his arrival, Mr. Bean destroys virtually everything he comes into contact with, be it the career and marriage of his host or American's greatest painting. Forget volcanoes and alien invasions - horror now has a human face.