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We will very likely be fixated upon Paralympic exploits for the next week or so, and willing Team GB on to further super-human endeavour and medal glory.

In and around the sport, there are plenty of streaming options on LOVEFiLM Instant at the moment, and you could do a lot worse than starting with our wide variety of instant TV series.

Of these, the top 5 below are proving most popular at the moment, but equally fine stuff like  Lie To Me (starring Tim Roth), old faves like Spooks and Only Fools & Horses, and the entirely more recent Sons of Anarchy (from the makers of The Sopranos and The Shield) are hard on their heels.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Prison Break
3. Desperate Housewives
4. 24
5. Brothers & Sisters

We’ve got the original Danish version of The Killing too, if you like your telly dark and enthralling.

And if you need something a little less murdery for the kids (probably wise), there’s plenty of family entertainment to be had, especially with new Aardman stuff coming in like Shaun The Sheep, Timmy Time and dear old Wallace & Gromit. Plus Pingu, Thomas, Bob and many more.

Film wise, action is top of the pops right now, with sword & fortarama Centurion smashing allcomers (probably due to Dominic West and the Fass factor), all – that is – except Diane Kruger’s Special Forces.

Get Him To The Greek and The Waterboy are flying the comedy flag, and perennial faves The Dark Knight and I Am Legend continue to play well too.

Best place to start having a root around for great movies would be the LOVEFiLM Instant page, which has loads of great suggestions, Most Popular and Highest Rated collections, as well as some Hidden Gems. And stacks of other ways to search our range besides.

Fill your boots, and come on Team GB…!

Darren Bignell, Senior Communications Manager

TVs across the land are very probably on 24-hour Olympics at the moment. And rightly so – seems any time you glance at the screen you’re likely to see someone incredible doing something amazing.

And Team GB are climbing the medals table, which just adds to the joy.

If you’re looking for some alternative entertainment to go alongside your sports viewing, we’ve got a strong line-up to watch instantly. (And if you can’t be bothered to read any further, you’ll find a score of titles in our August Top 20 – there you go, easy!)

Recently added highlights include Sam Worthington Greek godding it up in Clash of the Titans, as the half-mortal Perseus caught in a dust-up ‘twixt top god Zeus (Liam Neeson) and big bad Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). I mean… Hades. (Some sort of Olympic/Mount Olympus/Greek gag surely goes here, but I can’t make it work. Sorry.)

Sleeping Beauty is very definitely NOT of Disney origin, so approach with extreme caution. And on the subject of films-not-for-the-faint-hearted, American History X – with Ed Norton’s terrific performance as a neo-Nazi skinhead – is available now and proving very popular.

As are Infestation and Observe & Report, the first of which looks a bit rubbish to me (28 Days Later meets Starship Troopers, roughly) but clearly enjoyable rubbish at that. And O&R is the Seth Rogen and Anna Faris comedy that’s a bit like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, but not.

Still in the comedy department, Russell Brand and Jonah Hill in Get Him To The Greek and Omid Djalili in The Infidel started on 1 August, and have already established themselves in the top ten.

John Travolta actioner From Paris With Love is going great guns too (pun, embarrassingly, very much intended). And while we’ll have The Dark Knight to stream for a few weeks yet, Batman Begins will disappear into the night from Thurs 9 August, so watch while you still can.

All seven seasons of Desperate Housewives have arrived, if you fancy ploughing through a long-running telly show.

And from 6 August, we’ll have The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock (who won an Oscar for her role), with The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler (who didn’t) from 8 August.

Which brings us back around to the sports stuff, and there – for now – we shall leave it.

Happy viewing, and COME ON TEAM GB!

Darren Bignell, Senior Communications Manager