Silver Spring, MD —Starring Robson Green (Being Human, Wire in the Blood, Touching Evil, Reckless) and Mark Benton (Career Girls, Waterloo Road, Murphy’s Law), NORTHERN LIGHTS: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on February 7, 2012, featuring all 12 episodes and two movies plus a 46 min. behind-the-scenes bonus feature ($59.99, www.AcornOnline.com). Broadcast on BBC America and produced from 2004-2008, the ITV series follows lifelong friends and rivals Colin Armstrong (Robson Green) and Howard Scott (Mark Benton) on a hilarious series of misadventures in these four complete programs. From a stint in witness protection to an international Santa competition, there’s never a dull moment.

When they were schoolboys, their rivalries were over soccer teams, girls, and clothes. Now that they’re married men in their thirties, they compete over jobs, cars, and even the Christmas decorations on their houses. Lifelong friends Colin Armstrong and Howard Scott are so bent on outdoing each other that they risk jeopardizing everything and everyone around them, especially their long-suffering wives, Jackie and Pauline. In the end, they find there is no escaping each other—for good or for ill, the bitterest of rivals and the best of friends.

Follow the adventures of Colin and Howie in these hugely popular British dramas— Christmas Lights, Northern Lights (6 episodes), City Lights (6 episodes), and Clash of the Santas—four hilarious stories about loyalty and betrayal, small-minded rivalry and big-hearted love. The series co-stars Nicola Stephenson (Holby City) and Siân Reeves (Hope Springs).

Street Date: February 7, 2012
SRP: $59.99
DVD 4-Disc Set: 12 episodes & 2 movies on 4 discs; approx. 713 min., plus bonus; SDH subtitles
BONUS: Behind the scenes of Northern Lights (46 min.)

Headquartered in suburban Washington, D.C., Acorn Media U.S. distributes distinctive home video releases to the North American market with a special focus on the best of British TV. 2011 releases included Upstairs, Downstairs: 40th Anniversary Edition, Brideshead Revisited: 30th Anniversary Edition, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Early 2012 releases include a bonus packed collector’s edition of I, Claudius; the Blu-ray debuts for the first three series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot; the first Blu-ray of Acorn’s top-selling series with Midsomer Murders, Set 19; the U.S. debut of Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion; complete collections of Poldark, The Brief, and French Fields; and more episodes from Single-Handed, New Tricks, and Murder Investigation Team. Acorn’s DVD sets are available from select retailers, catalog companies, and direct from Acorn Media at (888) 870-8047 or www.acornonline.com.

Northern Lights is distributed by ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment; one of the world’s leading international TV distribution, home-entertainment and merchandising & licensing businesses.