By William Gallagher BBC News Online

Big Fish stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor and Jessica Lange

"From the imagination of director Tim Burton," reads the poster in very big letters before admitting, "Screenplay by John August" in little ones.

And then "Based on the novel by Daniel Wallace". So you expect the film to be either a director's ego trip or a tale by committee and this is neither.

Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor both play Edward Bloom, an almost Walter Mitty-like character who is dying.

Finney lies ill while McGregor is the young man in flashbacks, living out preposterous but heartwarming adventure.

Tim Burton provides an audio commentary and there are short features on the strange creatures and major characters that people his film.

Frasier season two

Frasier has come to an end after 11 series

When season one came out late last year - and was immediately reduced to about �15 - you suspected sales were not doing well and we would not see more.

Fortunately, we do. While we wait to see the final episode air on Channel 4 - and it's a good one - you can go back to one of the show's finest runs.

The second season saw Niles have that fantastic duel with Maris's fencing instructor and Frasier and Niles try to fix a toilet.

There are 24 episodes, almost all of them exceptional, and minor extras.

You sense that Paramount is pacing out the extras, knowing that it has 11 seasons to fill, and the result is a slightly disappointing mix of the good and the completely missable.

The good extras include a director's and writer's commentary on the famous The Matchmaker episode, plus some short interviews with the makers.

The poorer extras include The Mystery of Maris Continues, which amounts to a short collection of clips from season two episodes.

Cheers season two

The second series of Cheers was originally on TV in 1983

It is astonishing how well this comedy holds up - it seemed exceptional in the 1980s, got completely forgotten in the 1990s, and now thankfully returns on DVD.

There has always been a feeling that its spin-off, Frasier, was the better show - but Cheers is tightly written, very funny and completely compelling.

This is arguably the best season of the Boston bar sitcom's Diane Chambers years, too, and sees Norm ("Norm!") facing unemployment and divorce.

Er, sounds hilarious. But it is - and the extras are a nice little bonus.