It’s a pretty light week for new TV-on-DVD & Blu-ray releases. A couple of the more notable titles are the History Channel series The Men Who Built America and the fourth season of Scarecrow & Mrs King. However, the highlight of the week for me is the first series of the fun UK comedy Spy—which feels like Chuck, Archer and Johnny English all thrown into a comedy blender.

Spy: Series 1

In this award-winning British sitcom, bumbling single father Tim Elliott (Darren Boyd –ReGenesis, Holy Flying Circus) is embroiled in a tricky child custody battle with his acidic ex-wife Judith. Desperately trying to win the respect of his unimpressed, horribly precocious, 9-year-old son Marcus, Tim decides to quit his dead-end computer store job and look for something awe-inspiring.

In applying for a civil service position, Tim is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5 – and now he has the coolest job in the world – but he cannot tell a soul. Struggling to juggle his family and professional lives without his secret being discovered, Tim begins to learn a very unorthodox approach to the espionage game from his irrepressible, ninja-star-throwing MI5 boss, The Examiner (Robert Lindsay – My Family, Horatio Hornblower).

Episodes: Codename: Loser / Codename: Tramp / Codename: Grades / Codename: Bookclub / Codename: Blood / Codename: Portis

Starring: Darren Boyd, Jude Wright, Mathew Baynton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Rebekah Staton, Dolly Wells, Ed Coleman, Rosie Cavaliero and Robert Lindsay

Widescreen approx. 138 mins.