We have long had a deep love for all things 80’s in Thinkhouse, so when we got the news from Paramount that Dynasty was making its debut on DVD, the shoulder pad quotient in the office rose considerably.

Exploring the conflicts, passions, motives and tensions of the Carrington family, the show’s immensely entertaining plot lines follow the scheming and conniving members of the oil-rich clan as they seek to maintain their positions of wealth and power and destroy their enemies in the process.

With a cast including Joan Collins as our style icon Alexis Carrington Colby, Linda Evans as her nemesis Krystle Carrington (is this where the inspiration came for the Dublin nightclub?) and Heather Locklear as Krystle’s niece Sammy Jo and a producer of the legends in the form of Aaron Spelling what’s not to love.

Seasons 1 & 2 are out this Friday, 6th March and available from Tower Records Stores, towerrecords.ie,
and all good DVD retailers nationwide.

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Our new favourite actress du jour is Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig, who wipes the floor with the laughs as Ricky Gervais’ self involved surgeon in the upcoming DVD release of Paramount’s Ghost Town. Tina Fey may have stole a lot of the laughs last year with her Sarah Pallin impression but critics have already dubbed Kirsten the next big thing on the female comedy circuit. Catch her in Ghost Town from the 27th February.

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So say the good folk at Omni Consumer Products who have just released Sex Panther Cologne. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the same cologne Will Ferral wears in Paramount’s Anchorman. According to Omni Consumer Products founder Pete Hottelet 'The fragrance is clean, fresh, and extremely manly. Manly like eating a bowl of cereal doused in motor oil, consisting mainly of shavings from the Apollo moon lander and Richard Petty's championship 1970 Plymouth Superbird’. The company specialise in licensing, defictionalization, and reverse-branding and have already released Brawndo- The Thirst Mutilator, an energy drink licensed from another feature film. Licensing from movies has always meant big bucks but the ‘defictionalisation’ of movie products throws the doors wide open to all sorts of possibilities.

The Anchorman Special Edition. Complete with Wake-Up Ron Burgundy is available now at all good DVD retailers.

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