BBC Home Entertainment Holiday Gift Guide

 
Kick off the holiday season with over 1200 minutes of content from BBC Home Entertainment – from the stunning and educational Wild Planet 3D Collection and Limited Edition Dinosaurs DVD Gift Set to Doctor Who: The Christmas Specials Gift Set; and for those of you waiting for new Sherlock, fill the gap with The Guilty, a crime drama from the producers behind the hit detective show.

 

THE GUILTY

Street Date: November 10, 2015

Suggested Retail Price: DVD $24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)

Length: Approx. 135mins / single disc

The producers behind the international hit Sherlock are back with another crime to solve in The Guilty. Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing in this tense and emotional drama. Moving between two timelines, 2008 and 2013, The Guilty follows the story of detective Maggie Brand (Tamsin Greig, Episodes, Shaun of the Dead) as she investigates the disappearance of five year old Callum Reid after a neighborhood party. Callum was never found and the case was never solved. Then, five years after he disappeared, a child’s body is discovered, buried only yards from Callum’s own front door, and the nightmare begins all over again. Obsessed with discovering what happened to Callum, Maggie is determined to leave no stone unturned, even if it means putting her own happy family life at risk.

 

WILD PLANET 3D COLLECTION

Street Date: November 17, 2015

Suggested Retail Price: BD $52.99 ($66.15 in Canada)

Length: Approx. 186 mins / 3-disc set

For the first time take home three stunning BBC Natural History 3D titles, with narrations by John Hurt, Stephen Fry, and David Tennant, in one complete collection. Travel hundreds of millions of years back in time to experience the breathtaking prehistoric world of history’s most terrifying reptiles with Planet Dinosaur 3D, narrated by John Hurt (Doctor Who, the Harry Potter films); experience the giant adventures of the world’s smallest heroes in Tiny Giants 3D, narrated by Stephen Fry (the Hobbit films, 24: Live Another Day); and soar alongside some of Earth’s most majestic avian creatures with Wings 3D, narrated by David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch). Experience Earth in a whole new way with these three immersive 3D films.

 

DOCTOR WHO: THE CHRISTMAS SPECIALS GIFT SET

Street Date: November 24, 2015

Suggested Retail Price: DVD $50.82 ($57.99 in Canada)

BD $57.98 ($63.99 in Canada)

Length: Approx. 692 mins + bonus features / 4-disc set (DVD) / 3-disc set (BD)

It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Doctor, and now for the first time, every Christmas special is available in one complete set. David Tennant (Broadchurch), Matt Smith (Terminator Genisys), and Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It) all take turns starring in a collection of exhilarating specials that set the Doctor rushing to save the world from a wide array of dastardly foes, including robot Santas, exploding Christmas trees, and an army of snowmen. The specials include Tennant’s first full episode and the Doctor’s regenerations into Smith and Capaldi. In an exclusive bonus feature, British comedian and upcoming season nine guest star Rufus Hound embarks on a mission to discover what makes a Doctor Who Christmas Special so, well…special. From juggling tangerines to meeting a guest star from The Time of the Doctor, Hound journeys through Christmases past to showcase many of the greatest moments and monsters of the holiday season. This bonus feature also includes personal reflections from current Doctor Peter Capaldi and writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. The gift set comes with a replica of the Twelfth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver.  

 

LIMITED EDITION DINOSAURS DVD GIFT SET

Street Date: November 17, 2015

Suggested Retail Price: DVD $42.84 ($51.99 in Canada)

Length: Approx. 270 mins + bonus material / 3-disc set

Travel back to prehistoric times and experience the wonders of ancient Earth with a collection of three dinosaur films from BBC Home Entertainment.

Chased by Dinosaurs is a monstrous, Emmy^® Award winning triple feature from the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs that takes viewers around the world and brings the lizards of the past to life. Journey back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia and discover the therizinosaurus, a gigantic dinosaur with enormous 28-inch claws in The Giant Claw; travel to South America’s Patagonia and see the animal kingdom’s most awesome hunt in Land of Giants; and in Allosaurus go back 150 million years in a stunning recreation of the life of “Big Al,” the dinosaur whose complete fossil skeleton was discovered in Wyoming. Bonus material includes “Big Al Uncovered,” a 30-minute look at the science behind Allosaurus.

Extreme Dinosaurs is a dino double feature that will challenge a number of the previous perceptions of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In Extreme Dinosaurs, accompany Paleontologist Dr. Philip Currie as he searches for evidence of a fiercer predator than the T-Rex – the Argentinosaurus, a six-ton flesh-eating dinosaur; and in T-Rex: Warrior or Wimp, watch as the T-Rex’s reputation as the meanest, most bewitching dinosaur comes into question.

Predator Dinosaurs uses innovative techniques through biomechanics, CGI, special effects and hi-tech scans to provide an insightful look at dinosaurs and challenge theories about the prehistoric world.

The giftset includes a viewfinder full of 3D dinosaur images and instructions on how to upload new images to create your own 3D viewfinder reels.