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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051419729
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 433 minutes
Sales Rank: 2332
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 2001
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Description:
Black Books centers around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black (Dylan Moran). Bernard's devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and willful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny (Bill Bailey), his assistant. Bearded, gentle, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn't and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran (Tamsin Greig), their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group's peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Other
Outtakes
Photo gallery
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Black Books is Clopened for Business
I would give this show a million stars if I could. It has become one of my new favourites. Dylan Moran is a comic genius. Bill Baily and Tamsin Greig round out this hysterical and talented ensemble. If you're not familiar with Dylan or Bill, check out some of their stand-up clips on YouTube or better yet, pick-up their CD's here on Amazon. You absolutely will laugh you arse off. From here I would suggest going to Spaced with Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson Hynes, if you haven't already experienced this show.
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Rating: - A Brit Comedy Must Have
If you are someone who fancies themselves as someone who appreciates classic British comedy, this is one of the best. Anything Graham Lineham does seems to be golden, but it's a bloody shame that Dylan Moran isn't the huge star that others have become as their British shows end up on American TV. Worth every penny, if only to hear the three main characters razz each other in the commentary tracks
Rating: - Amazing, buy it!
Absolutely hilarious, one of the best sitcoms I've ever seen. Smart, witty humor with some light slapstick to keep it all together. It's a shame only 3 seasons were made and an ever bigger shame that nothing else is even close to the charm of Black Books. You will not be disappointed.
Rating: - Best show EVER!
Black Books is one of my favorite shows of all time. It's witty, funny, and loveable. While the plot reads out to be kind of boring, Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey are absolutely histerical and have such great chemistry. Black Books is a bit offbeat, so I guess it takes a couple episodes to get into, but if you're already a fan of such movies as Run Fatboy Run, Shaun of the Dead, or Hot Fuzz, you'll love this show.
Also, while the extra features are few, each of the series has a set of outtakes which are extremely funny, as well as some cast commentary, and series 3 has deleted scenes. My only complaint is that they only made 3 seasons!
Rating: - To be anti-social as a social art
The English have a genre no one else has anywhere in the world. They call that comedies on television. Short less than half an hour episodes of situational humor positioned in one particular social niche. In this case it is a marginal book store held by a social drop out who hates all other human beings and yet cannot survive without constant contact with some of these strange animals we call human beings. Unable to love, unable to have any sentimental life with any person that would approach a gender definition. Yet he recuperate in his book store that becomes a haven for stray cats, though he hates cats, a flunked and failed accountant who is fired from his job because he is kind of abnormal for the job, both in looks and behavior. And he has a neighborly relation with the next door shop lady who is soon going to get out of business and remain behind like an errant animal. And the three of them are going to live the daily life of this book store. But it is nothing close to a social drama or anything social. It is nothing like a soap opera or even a sitcom. Those are more American, more normal, banal and less out of the way, funny or strange. The fun in American sitcoms or soap operas comes from the wit of the characters. The fun of English comedies comes from the situation and the slight details in the behavior, appearance, reactions of the characters that make them weird. There is always something unforeseen and unforeseeable because so much out of the way that we could not even think of it as ... Read More
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