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June
Brazil with Michael Palin
Street Date: June 10, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)
Blu-ray $29.98 ($37.48 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 227 mins / single disc

Join award-winning actor and founding member of Monty Python, Michael Palin as he visits Brazil for the very first time to discover the spectacular people, landscape, food, and music of this bustling and beautiful country.  Brazil with Michael Palin releases just in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the most viewed sporting event in the world which will be hosted by Brazil. Learn about the fifth largest country in world, which takes up over half of South America and is home to over 192 million people. This latest installment in Palin’s successful travel documentary series takes viewers on an intimate tour of a rising global superpower. From the lost world of Amazonia to the buzzing metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, Palin will meet with remote tribes, Brazilian Cowboys (vaqueros), soap stars, Capoeira dancers and even a prince in his exploration of this vast, diverse nation.

Komodo: Secrets of the Dragon
Street Date: June 3, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $11.98 ($16.25 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 49 mins / single disc

Get up close and personal with one of the planet’s most fearsome predators in Komodo: Secrets of the Dragon, narrated by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, The Thick of It). The most dangerous lizard in the world, with a powerful set of jaws used to rip prey apart, may actually have a secret weapon – extremely poisonous venom. This film follows scientist Bryan Fry’s quest to truly understand this dragon’s deadly bite, beyond its ripping teeth. A man on a mission, Bryan will do whatever it takes for answers, from delving into the mouth of a living dragon to testing its venom on his own blood. But it’s not just the venom that makes this predator so deadly – this film also takes a look at the bio-mechanics of the jaws of this predator through hi-tech CT analysis, which reveals some surprising facts about where the Komodo gets its bone-crushing power.

DCI Banks: Season One
Street Date: June 17, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 270 mins / 2-disc set

Based on the bestselling “Inspector Banks” novels by Peter Robinson, DCI Banks: Season One follows the tenacious Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks (Stephen Tompkinson, Ballykissangel) and his headstrong partner Annie Cabbott (Andrea Lowe, The Tudors) as they attempt to solve three gruesome crimes in the Yorkshire, England countryside. Fire engulfs two canal boats in a deliberate act of arson over a million-dollar painting – a woman is found dead on the moors with her throat slashed in a case eerily close to the murder of a young girl in the center of town – and Chief Superintendent Rydell recruits Banks to find his missing teenage daughter. Shocking twists and stunning revelations await the unlikely duo on their path to set things right.

Death in Paradise: Season One
Street Date: June 17, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 466 mins / 2-disc set

Quintessentially British cop Richard Poole (Ben Miller, Johnny English, Primeval) is a fish out of water when he is sent to the tiny Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to investigate a murder in the first season of Death in Paradise. Richard is more suited to London rains than a tropical paradise, and the assignment threatens to be his personal hell on earth – especially when he sees the ramshackle police station complete with a goat in one of the cells. His new partner, DS Camille Bordey (Sara Martins, Paris, je t’aime), is instinctive, feisty, brilliant and beautiful, and the rest of the Saint Marie police force certainly have their own unique way of doing things. Though Richard would never admit it, they make a perfect team – so perfect that his temporary assignment becomes permanent. Tackling a mind-boggling new mystery every episode, Death in Paradise is a light-hearted, intriguing detective drama series.

Scott & Bailey: Season One
Street Date: June 17, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 270 mins / 2-disc set

Gripping murder mysteries face Detective Constable Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones, The Secret of Crickley Hall) and her partner Detective Constable Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp, Afterlife) in the first season of Scott & Bailey, from award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (Last Tango in Halifax). Beyond their work with the Major Incident Team in Manchester, Bailey and Scott maintain a close friendship; Bailey, who is argumentative and impulsive, is balanced well by the wry and diplomatic Scott. Whether these two tough women are facing challenges in their complex personal lives or in their cases, Scott & Bailey proves to be a refreshing, funny and honest crime drama. The series was the highest rated new drama in the UK for 2011.

July
A Young Doctor’s Notebook: Season One
Street Date: July 1, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.96 ($23.99 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 93 minutes + bonus features/ single disc

Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter films) star in this insanely dark and brilliantly hilarious four-part comedy noir based on the semi-autobiographical short stories by the celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. A Young Doctor’s Notebook is set on the eve of the Russian Revolution as a young doctor (Radcliffe) begins his new life in a small backwards Russian village. Dealing not only with the superstitious and less educated patients but also with his own inner demons, the young doctor reveals doubts about his own competence and struggles with the immense burden of medical responsibility. His turbulent and brutal introduction to his new practice is narrated by his older, more experienced self (Hamm). It’s a fascinating, pitch black comedy with two of Hollywood’s leading talents which will surprise and entertain in a wholly unique way. Bonus materials include a Behind-the-Scenes featurette.

Wild Brazil: Land of Fire and Flood
Street Date: July 1, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 178 mins / single disc

Brazil isn’t just the home of the 2014 FIFA World Cup – it is the wild heart of South America, home to more species than any other country on the planet. Discover the land of extremes, where animals must adapt in order to survive in Wild Brazil: Land of Fire and Flood. This stunning series follows the intimate lives of an exceptional set of animal characters as they live through the vast floods of the wet season to the ravaging fires of the dry season. From the early days of a baby tufted capuchin, one of the cleverest monkeys in the world, to the giant river otter family forced to go head to head with the local jaguars, Wild Brazil brings some of the country’s most iconic species to the screen, showcasing never-before-filmed behavior and providing an intimate window on this vibrant country.

Perfect Shark
Street Date: July 22, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $14.97 ($18.70 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 50 mins / single disc

Is there such a thing as the perfect shark? Eminent underwater wildlife cameraman and shark aficionado Mike deGruy comes face-to-face with some of the greatest sharks that ever lived, past and present in this extraordinary natural history film – Perfect Shark. On his search for perfection, Mike encounters ancient sharks the length of a city bus, a shark that actually walks and even a pack of bull sharks in Oklahoma. Sharks have been evolving for 400 million years; in all that time they have developed in strange and fascinating ways to survive. Is there one amongst them all that is the perfect shark, one that is or was so successful and versatile that it sticks out fin and tail above the rest?

Shark Battlefield
Street Date: July 22, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $14.97 ($18.70 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 50 mins / single disc

Shark Battlefield reveals the raw drama of a shark’s world through cutting-edge underwater photography and state-of-the-art graphics – the conflicts, subterfuge, battle plans and attack tactics that these majestic yet ferocious ancient fish use on the hunt. Techniques such as underwater time-lapse, submarine scooters and even “Sharkcams” take the viewer closer to the tropical coral reefs that serve as an underwater battleground for nature’s version of submarine warfare. They map the terrain, identify the targets and follow the hide-and-seek battle tactics, demonstrating the extraordinary array of senses that sharks use to locate and home in on prey.

Dalziel & Pascoe: Season Ten
Street Date: July 22, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 500 mins / 3-disc set

The blunt-talking, politically incorrect Andy Dalziel (Warren Clark, Call the Midwife, Bleak House) once again pairs up with his younger, fast-tracked side-kick Peter Pascoe (Colin Buchanan, Casualty, A Touch of Frost), for a crime-solving marriage of opportunities. Dalziel & Pascoe: Season Ten sees the endearing duo travel to Amsterdam for a European Police Conference. Over the next six days Dalziel’s life is turned upside down. Finding himself on the wrong side of the law, he becomes the prime suspect for the murder of a young British singer. Pascoe is determined to carry out his own investigation, adamant his boss is innocent. But why are the Dutch officers so keen to ensure Dalziel is charged with murder? Over the course of five new feature-length stories Dalziel and Pascoe also investigate cases involving deadly toxins, glamorous former lovers, dysfunctional friends and even a bus crash.

August
Last Tango in Halifax: Season Two
Street Date: August 5, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 347 mins / 2-disc set

The award-winning comedy/drama and PBS favorite Last Tango in Halifax, returns for a second season as the two childhood sweethearts work to finally make a life together after nearly 60 years apart, from award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (Scott & Bailey). Having come so close to losing their chance at a future together after Alan’s (Derek Jacobi, Gladiator, The King’s Speech) near fatal heart attack, he and Celia (Anne Reid, Coronation Street, Upstairs Downstairs) decide to have a romantic secret wedding – but how will their daughters react? As the uptight Caroline and rebellious Gillian discover they actually quite like each other, their fledgling friendship as stepsisters is put to the test by Gillian’s need to come clean about her night with Caroline’s ex-husband. As secrets from the past come tumbling out and family members adjust to changing relationships, can Alan and Celia find the long-awaited happiness they deserve?   

*More titles in August to be announced