Rev. Series 1 On DVD 21st November, 2011

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BAFTA winning comedy Rev. returns to the small screen for a brand new series on BBC2 this winter and from the 21st November Series One makes its divine debut on BBC DVD. With exclusive footage including The Making of Rev., Character Sketches, a guided tour of the church where the show is filmed with a real Rev., Out-takes and Audio Commentaries, this DVD release makes perfect viewing for the congregation of Rev. fans.

Available from Amazon / Play.com / HMV

Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander,) he’s a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour’s in Hackney, East London. It’s a world he has no experience of, and it shows. It really shows.

It is an impossibly difficult job being a good, modern, city vicar. And, equally, it’s a very hard job being married to one. Alex (Olivia Colman) Adam’s long-suffering wife does her best to support him, but she’s got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one’s idea of a conventional vicar’s wife.

Anybody can and does come into St Saviour’s and into Adam’s life. From scheming MPs trying to educate their children on the cheap to Colin, a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul who is Adam’s most devoted parishioner. Then there’s Mick, the local crackhead in need of £20 to visit his ‘dying mother’ in Southend…she’s died three times in the last 12 months. Every day throws up a new moral conflict for our vicar. Everyone always wants something from Adam – all the time, even his supposedly supportive Lay Reader Nigel, who has his eye on Adam’s job.

Adam’s door must always be open. From urban sophisticates to the lonely, the lost, the homeless, the poor and the insane, all are welcome at St Saviour’s and Adam can’t turn any of them away, even if they’re clearly lying, mad or just very annoying.

In addition to caring for his flock Adam has to worry about the financial burden of running a huge, decaying building with a smashed stained glass window and a dwindling congregation. He has to contend with hopeless volunteers, ambitious church rivals, the sinister attentions of the Archdeacon and the romantic attentions of Adoha, a renowned ‘cassock-chaser’ and church regular.

With a stellar cast headed by Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman plus exciting guest stars including Hugh Bonneville and Alexander Armstrong, Rev. is an authentic comic portrait of a modern inner-city vicar, and what life is really like in a dog collar.

The successful launch of Rev. Series One attracted over 2.4 million viewers and was nominated for 7 awards scooping up the South Bank Show award and Best Situation Comedy at the 2011 Television BAFTA.
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Series One is available on BBC DVD from 21st November 2011

Extra features include The Making of Rev., Character Sketches, Rev. Out-Takes., A Tour Of The Church With A Real Rev. Audio Commentaries.

Rev | Episode 6

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After a terrible review of one of his sermons on a Christian website, Adam suffers a crisis of faith.

After a terrible review of one of his sermons on a Christian website, Adam has a crisis of faith which, to Alex’s surprise, seems more serious than his usual biannual episodes of doubt. While he’s at home experimenting with leaving the cloth by sitting in his pants watching daytime telly and gambling on the internet, someone else is going around the parish impersonating a vicar to get free beers and avoid parking tickets. Adam’s meltdown comes to a head when he drunkenly comes on to Ellie at a Vicars and Tarts party in aid of the school library – and Alex finally snaps. [click to read more...]

Rev | Episode 5

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Adam’s thrilled to make a new London friend who has nothing to do with the church – but something in his past makes things more complicated.

Tired of feeling excluded and derided by the rest of society, Adam is thrilled to meet Leon who’s keen to get married at St Saviour’s. Leon sees past the dog collar and a friendship develops, with the pair sharing pints in the local pub and even jogging together. But the bromance comes to a crashing halt at an embarrassing vicarage dinner party when Adam discovers that his wife Alex went to college with Leon – and that they had done something naughty in a rather surprising place. [click to read more...]

Rev | Episode 4

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Adam attempts to climb the greasy pole and make a career of his vocation as he competes with an old rival.

Adam succumbs to envy when he hears an old rival on Thought for the Day. But his own attempts to make a career of his vocation spectacularly backfire – an ill-advised comment on The One Show about homosexuality within the church results in orders from the Archdeacon to take media instruction from the very vicar Adam was trying to out-do. And while Adam neglects his pastoral duties in favour of climbing the greasy pole Colin looks for meaning outside of St Saviour’s, swapping his lager for spliffs to dabble in the Rastafari religion. [click to read more...]

Rev | Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman TV interview Round-Up

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Tom Hollander talks about Rev. on BBC Breakfast News

Olivia Colman talks about Rev. on GMTV

Rev | Episode 3

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Adam takes inspiration from Islam to oppose the opening of a local sex club opposite the school and sees rather more than he’d anticipated.

Adam’s decision to allow a Muslim children’s prayer group to use the church for classes brings his congregation’s prejudices to light. Inspired by the clear moral stance he sees in the Islamic classes, Adam decides to take a stand himself and oppose a lapdancing club threatening to open opposite the school. But when he finds himself in one of the branches checking out pole dancers in the name of research, things get rather more complicated. [click to read more...]

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