Complete second series of the sitcom classic, the follow-up to the earlier ' The Likely Lads', where Terry Collier (James Bolam) has returned from the army to find his northern home town & its inhabitants changed beyond recognition. Out of contact during the intervening years, his best friend Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) has settled into a respectable job & is engaged to his boss's daughter. In this series, Bob lends Terry money for a job interview but he blows it all at the races, Bob gets arrested for drunk driving, & the lads decide to relive their youth by going on a cycling trip to Berwick. Episodes are: ' Absent Friends'; ' Heart to Heart'; ' The Ant & the Grasshopper'; ' One for the Road'; ' The Great Race'; ' Some Day We'll Laugh About This'; ' In Harm's Way'; ' Affairs & Relations'; ' The Expert'; ' Between Ourselves'; ' The Go Between'; ' Conduct Unbecoming'; & ' The Shape of Things to Come'. ...

A pick of the best episodes from the follow-up to the earlier ' The Likely Lads', where Terry Collier (James Bolam) has returned from the army to find his northern home town & its inhabitants changed beyond recognition. Out of contact during the intervening years, his best friend Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) has settled into a respectable job & is engaged to his boss's daughter. ...

Howard Jacobson, brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed journalism. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes & the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen & desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder & joy of a man possessed. ...

Teenage version of ' Cyrano de Bergerac' in which two guys team up to get the girls of their dreams. Ryan (Shane West) agrees to introduce the gorgeous football star Chris (James Franco) to his best friend Maggie (Marla Sokoloff) on the condition that Chris will help him meet the beautiful Ashley (Jodie Lyn O' Keefe). The boys then work together, using fake e-mails & carefully contrived phone calls in an attempt to woo their beloveds in time for the all-important Titantic-themed prom. ...