Virgin Media has bought in a bunch of past seasons of popular US shows - including House, Heroes, The Office (US) and 30 Rock - to its TV On demand service.

The programmes are also available in HD and also online and on mobile. from December 1.

And they arrive courtesy of a deal signed by Virgin with NBC.

Virgin says it currently has 4,600 hours of TV, film and music already available on demand.

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