Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #635 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-03
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 150 minutes

DVD Description

Live from his luxury apartment in London's glittering East End, Dean Learner--club owner, celebrity manager, restaurateur, entrepreneur and publisher of high-class gentlemen's magazines (including "Flesh Wrangler" and "Skin City")--invites you to meet some of his closest friends, Man to Man.* Dean's special guests include the living legends Garth Marenghi, Steve Pising, Glynn Nimron, Merriman Weir, Amir Chanan and the recently-deceased Randolph Caer. The Man to Man With Dean Learner DVD includes: a pilot episode; deleted scenes; soundtrack; surround sound mix of War of the Wasps; VT clips without audience laughter; and a 16-page souvenir booklet.

*In his capacity as the Producer of Man to Man with Dean Learner, the sole owner of Deano's After Dark Productions, and Manager of the artists appearing thereon, Dean Learner acknowledges that there is a potential conflict of interest between his private business concerns and his duty to Channel 4 in providing top-quality, un-biased programming.

Synopsis

Live from London's glittering East End comes Man to Man with Dean Learner--a spoof chat show hosted by none other than showbiz tycoon Dean Leaner (Richard Ayoade). Bringing his unique brand of culture and sophistication to the masses, Learner interviews an array of distinguished guests--from world-renowned horror writer Garth Marenghi, to legendary folk guitarist Merriman Weir--all of whom are played to comic perfection by the show's co-writer Matthew Holness.

Customer Reviews

When it works it works!
...but when it doesn't it falls flat.

Fortunately it works most of the time.

This is part of the extended Garth Marenghi universe which you either know and love or gave up on when the show originally aired.

Richard Ayoade rocks with his dead pan delivery but unfortunately neither Matt Berry (in the cut-scenes) or Matthew Holness (as the guest every week) can match him.

If this had truly been a Dean Learner show and not a Matthew Holness vehicle then it could have been great. Unfortunately tying itself to Matthew Holness has dragged it down. Behind the scenes he'd be fantastic but in front of the camera we're unlikely to see anything better than his Darkplace.

Dark place this ain't
It is the same gang that did the excellent 'dark place'

Here the format is more 'Alan Partridge Knowing me, Knowing you'

Occassionally funny, but not in the same league.

Hit and miss.. but real moments of genius
I haven't yet bought the DVD but having watched the series this is an up and down affair. But the folk singer (Merriman Weir) episode is absolutely brilliant, contrary to what some other reviewers here seem to think. I suppose you either get it or you don't.

These guys are quite new to us and, to an extent, this series is a testing ground for potential comedy characters in the same way as some of Steve Coogan's programmes of the mid-90s were. Coogan eventually settled for the wonderful Alan Partridge. It'll be interesting to see if any of these characters are still around in a few years time.