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| Highlander | Prodigal Son | Swashbuckling adventure series about ancient time-travelling warriors. Richie returns, on the run. An Immortal has been following him but refuses to confront him. |
| Highlander | Counterfeit | Swashbuckling adventure series about ancient time-travelling warriors. MacLeod meets a girl who is the perfect double of the late Tessa. |
| Highlander | Counterfeit | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Joe Dawson arrives in Paris to let MacLeod know that Horton may still be alive and looking for him. MacLeod's problems mount when Ritchie is shot and Lisa kidnapped. |
| Lenny | Whether you consider controversial American stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce a lost comic genius or a self-destructive chancer who caught the countercultural mood of the late 1950s and early 60s will dictate how much you enjoy this mockumentary-styled biopic of the man who died of an overdose in 1966. Dustin Hoffman inhabits the main part and really comes alive during Bruce's improvised, convention-baiting routines (so much so that more people will have seen Hoffman than pre-video-age Bruce himself ). Valerie Perrine is convincing, too, as his stripper wife. Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse brilliantly captures Bruce's jazz-inflected style, and if the film, told in interlocking flashbacks, lacks a strong narrative arc, it compensates in style. Bob Fosse Dustin Hoffman Honey Bruce ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Behind Enemy Lines | ||
| Bilbo and Beyond | Documentary celebrating and exploring the phenomenon of `The Lord of the Rings', examining why this epic tale of good versus evil holds such fascination for so many people. Remind me by text | |
| The Simpsons | Marge v Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays | After a preschool children's concert goes wrong, leading to a tax rise to pay for the damage, the childless of Springfield start a campaign against them. Remind me by text |
| Strange Frequency | A collection of four sci-fi comedy horror segments with a rock music twist. In Disco Inferno, metalheads accidentally discover Hell; in My Generation, hitchhikers help people to die before they get old; in Room Service, a chambermaid is more than a match for some hotel room-trashing rockers; and in More than a Feeling, a talent scout cannot hold on to any of his acts. Remind me by text Mary Lambert, Bryan Spicer | |
| Great Books | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Documentary series looking at great works of fiction. This edition explores Conan Doyle's well-loved novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, featuring Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. Remind me by text |
| Archives of Babel | Documentary taking a look inside Leipzig's international linguistics laboratory. Researchers are working on a project seeking to test the theory that all 6,000 languages used today have their roots in a single original tongue. Remind me by text | |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Talisman, gets a Hollywood makeover courtesy of director David Butler. Rex Harrison blacks up to play the Muslim leader, Saladin, who goes up against European powers led by Richard Lionheart (George Sanders). Laurence Harvey is the pretty juvenile lead, but it's Virginia Mayo who falls for sexy Saladin and gets the best line of dialogue: "War, war, that's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet!" Remind me by text David Butler Rex Harrison Lady Edith ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Highlander | Line of Fire | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A girl Ritchie dated briefly several years ago returns with her 18-month-old son whom she claims is his. Remind me by text |
| Jackie Chan's Hong Kong | Jackie Chan leads a whirlwind tour of his home town, from the Star Ferries where he used to wind down from his gruelling martial arts training to the Hollywood Road antiques shops where he spends his time these days. Remind me by text | |
| Project ALF | Spun off from an eighties American television series, director Dick Lowry's unassuming sci-fi comedy about an furry orange extraterrestial â?? ALF stands for Alien Life Form â?? is amiable family fare. Here the wisecracking ET has close encounters with the military, who have taken him to a top-secret base for analysis; but others at the establishment wish to see him destroyed. Miguel Ferrer, Ed Begley Jr and Martin Sheen are the well known faces in an otherwise unfamiliar cast. Remind me by text Dick Lowry Miguel Ferrer Captain Rick Mulligan ..... William O'Leary Major Melissa Hill ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Highlander | The Revolutionary | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The people of a tiny Balkan nation ask for MacLeod's help in rising up in arms against an oppressive dictatorship. Remind me by text |
| Frost: Portrait of a Vampire | Gory thriller in which a mercenary, who was infected by a poisoned prisoner while on an overseas mission, returns to America and begins to commit gruesome murders. However, one of his friends - an expert on the supernatural - begins to piece the jigsaw together. Remind me by text Kevin VanHook | |
| Charmed | Witchstock | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Paige finds herself transported back in time to an era of free love and free magic, where she discovers Grams, a peace-loving hippie, who is on a crusade to rid the world of evil. Remind me by text |
| Great Books: Dracula | Documentary series looking at great works of fiction. This edition examines the enduring appeal of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which continues to horrify and delight readers more than a century after it was written. Remind me by text | |
| Liquid Assets: Keanu Reeves' Millions | Series which examines the finances of the famous. Remind me by text | |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar | This American riposte to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a good concept in search of a plot. The concept? Dress macho movie stars Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in evening gowns, sit back, and watch the camp laughs roll in. And sometimes they do. The plot? Three New York drag queens on the road to Hollywood get stuck in small-town America. Cue the culture-clash messages about tolerance, Aids awareness and sexual freedom. Although sentimentally shallow and nowhere near as gutsy as its Australian counterpart, Beeban Kidron's frock opera is diverting enough, with the hugely under-rated John Leguizamo giving an amazing performance as Chi Chi Rodriguez, the cha-cha queen from hell. Remind me by text Beeban Kidron Wesley Snipes Vida Boheme ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Behind Enemy Lines | Rising star Owen Wilson takes a break from comedy â?? Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Shanghai Noon â?? and here plays a naval reconnaissance pilot who's shot down over Bosnia after inadvertently filming evidence of war crimes. Grisly Gene Hackman is the maverick admiral who battles Nato caution to find his flyboy before the pursuing Serbs get their hands on him. Former commercials director John Moore proves a dab hand at the action stuff â?? the sequence where Wilson is shot down is thrilling, edge-of-the-seat cinema â?? but, pyrotechnics aside, the rest of film is less enthralling and comprises Wilson running, stopping, getting shot at, and then running again. This is hardly surprising with such a dull script and characters. Hackman's bad-tempered naval commander in particular is so two-dimensional, he'd disappear if he turned sideways. A shame really because, if the rest of Behind Enemy Lines matched up to the action scenes, we'd be talking four-star material here. Remind me by text John Moore (3) Owen Wilson Reigart ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| The Breed | Adrian Paul, star of the Highlander TV series, has a nice line in deadpan humour as a Polish bloodsucker teaming-up with vampire-hating cop Bokeem Woodbine in this slickly enjoyable futuristic thriller. Taking obvious visual inspiration from John Woo, Tony Scott, Terry Gilliam and the Wachowski brothers, director Michael Oblowitz adds an impressive surface sheen to a fast-paced effort, shot in moody Budapest locations. Beneath the novelty window-dressing, it's merely a standard, formulaic buddy movie, but there are a few noteworthy narrative touches, such as the on-screen computer displays introducing each new vampire character and Paul's poignant wartime origin. A more entertaining package than the straight-to-video tag suggests. Michael Oblowitz Adrian Paul Steve Grant ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Deadly Arts | Capoeira | Documentary examining martial arts around the world. Martial arts expert Josette D Normandeau seeks out the masters of Brazil's rhythmic martial art. |
| Black Hawk Down | Following on swiftly from the release of Behind Enemy Lines, here's another noisy, gung-ho modern war movie. However, the fact the film is based on the disastrous 1993 "Battle of Mogadishu" in Somalia does not temper its flag-waving, pro-American militarism.The film's poster tagline "Leave no man behind" disguises what was a strategic American mess as chest-beating melodrama â?? in reality, 18 Americans were killed, as were hundreds of Somalis during a 15-hour firefight. That it should come from a British director is the surprise, though to his credit Ridley Scott has cast many non-Americans in prominent roles â?? an underused Ewan McGregor, an impressive Jason Isaacs, comic turn Ewen Bremner and Aussie-to-watch Eric Bana. It's sensitive, cool-headed and intelligent for a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, but for all of Scott's incredible technical skill â?? you really do feel as if you are there â?? the battle scenes lack identifiable characters and there is scant insight into the Somalian conflict. In a post-11th-September world, its call for "heroes" makes it little more than a recruitment film. Ridley Scott Josh Hartnett Ranger Spec Grimes ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Ginger Snaps | In this highly sophisticated and disturbing Canadian horror movie, director John Fawcett transcends the banality of the werewolf formula with verve, well paced action and genuine terror. When teenager Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is attacked by the legendary "Beast of Bailey Downs", she goes from being a death-obsessed Goth freak to a sexually charged dominatrix. Too terrified to confide in their flaky, home-loving mother (Mimi Rogers on fine form) and not wanting to go to the police when Ginger's lust turns murderously savage, her younger sister, Brigitte (Emily Perkins), approaches an enigmatic drug dealer (Kris Lemche) for a cure. Fawcett expertly puts the werewolf myth into the tortured adolescence melting pot and keeps the blood spilling, the suspense high and the humour engaging as this wonderfully crafted chiller hurtles towards a sustained, lyrical and powerfully bleak climax. John Fawcett Emily Perkins Ginger ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| The Ultimate Warrior | Post-apocalyptic action tale set in 2012 in a world overrun by plague and roaming cannibals, centring on the battles between two communes over a valuable food supply. One group hires a man to protect their interests, a challenge the warrior is only too happy to take on as it finally gives him a reason to live. Also know as The Barony. Remind me by text Robert Clouse | |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | Bounty | A double bill of episodes to round off the third series and also to set up events for the highly different fourth season, currently airing on Sky One on Monday nights at 8:00pm. Remind me by text In Bounty at 3:15pm, Captain Archer faces the consequences of earlier heroics as the Klingons come after him with the help of a bounty hunter. Then at 4:05pm, it's the big one, The Expanse, which opens with aliens tearing a strip out of the Earth, killing millions. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | The Expanse | Prequel series to Star Trek, set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. An alien race launches a brutal attack upon Earth, so Enterprise heads home. Then an unlikely source gives Archer some useful information. Remind me by text |
| Pleasurecraft | Erotic sci-fi yarn in which three women from a distant galaxy who know how to satisfy a man become caught up in an interplanetary conflict, and are transported to a distant planet in order to marry high-ranking officials there and avert a full-blown war. Remind me by text Franklin Adreon Vallette | |
| Murder Most Foul | Murder mystery featuring Agatha Christie's elderly sleuth Miss Marple, who joins a theatrical company in order to prove the innocence of a young man accused of murdering his landlady. The delightful Margaret Rutherford's third outing as Miss Marple, based on the book 'Mrs McGinty's Dead'. Remind me by text George Pollock | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | A Diplomatic Incident | Classic political sitcom. The French and British governments are at loggerheads over the Channel Tunnel borders, so when Jim Hacker discovers the French are planning some `dirty tricks' to get political advantage, the PM turns the tables on them. Remind me by text |
| Without a Clue | Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - is merely the fictional creation of Dr Watson, who is the real crime-solving genius. But the doctor has a problem: he needs an actor to appear as Holmes, and the best he can do is the clueless ham, Reginald Kincaid. Then to cap it all, the ill-matched pair find themselves the victims of the villainous Moriarty. Remind me by text Thom Eberhardt | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | A Conflict of Interest | Classic political sitcom about a beleaguered prime minister. When a scandal in the City breaks out, Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey cannot agree on who should be the new governor of the Bank of England. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Reasonable Doubt | MacLeod offers to act as a go-between when a valuable DaVinci sketch is stolen from a friend of his. Remind me by text |
| Crusades | Jihad | Terry Jones describes how the crusaders lost Jerusalem in 1144 to Zengi, the Arab leader. A second crusade fell foul of Zengi's son, Nur el-Din, who planned to surround the crusaders by gaining control of Egypt. For this he employed a Kurdish general - Shirkuh - and his nephew Saladin. After Nur el-Din's mysterious death, Saladin succeeded him in Damascus, a daunting figure who was wholly committed to the `jihad', or holy war. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Chosen Realm | They may be in the middle of a season-long war with the Xindi, but there's still time to give a helping hand to a ship in distress. Remind me by text But when you stop to pick up survivors, you might want to think about confining them somewhere and not letting them roam around the ship, because this particular group brings a nasty surprise. You can bet that Captain Picard's crew on the Enterprise-D would've spotted it - and speaking of future ships, watch out soon for a glimpse of the Enterprise-J. |
| Highlander | The Lamb | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod and Richie protect a 10-year-old boy after the fatherly Immortal who was helping him is beheaded. Remind me by text |
| The Fish that Time Forgot | ||
| Understanding | Extraterrestrials | Documentary which reveals what NASA missions have discovered about other worlds, comparing the perceptions of popular culture with scientific theories. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Obsession | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Immortal Daniel Keogh sets his heart on marrying his sweetheart but she has other ideas. Remind me by text |
| Dragon Fighter | Science fiction yarn in which a clutch of fossilised eggs are discovered in the ice in a frozen wasteland. The eggs soon hatch and unleash dragons upon the world. Remind me by text Phillip J Roth | |
| Anne Rice | Profile of the author of the `Vampire Chronicles'. Having an alcoholic mother contributed to a hellish childhood, and losing her own daughter sent her into despair, but Anne Rice learned to cope by creating her own world and sharing it with millions of mesmerised readers. Remind me by text | |
| Charmed | Prince Charmed | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Piper has an epiphany about the rest of her life concerning Wyatt. Unable to handle Piper's revelation, Paige and Phoebe decide to conjure up a `Mr Right' as Piper's birthday present. Remind me by text |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar | This American riposte to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a good concept in search of a plot. The concept? Dress macho movie stars Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in evening gowns, sit back, and watch the camp laughs roll in. And sometimes they do. The plot? Three New York drag queens on the road to Hollywood get stuck in small-town America. Cue the culture-clash messages about tolerance, Aids awareness and sexual freedom. Although sentimentally shallow and nowhere near as gutsy as its Australian counterpart, Beeban Kidron's frock opera is diverting enough, with the hugely under-rated John Leguizamo giving an amazing performance as Chi Chi Rodriguez, the cha-cha queen from hell. Remind me by text Beeban Kidron Wesley Snipes Vida Boheme ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| The Hunted | In this proficient action thriller, video favourite Christopher Lambert plays a businessman based in the Far East who becomes the target of a crazed ninja gang after witnessing a murder. Help comes in the form of a modern-day samurai warrior (Yoshio Harada) who's looking to settle a centuries-old feud. Director JF Lawton ensures there's plenty of swordsmanship and violent action scenes, while the performances are a cut above the norm for this sort of thing. Remind me by text J F Lawton Christopher Lambert Kinjo ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Webs | Action-packed science fiction thriller about four electrical workers who stumble upon a time portal and are transported to an alternative reality dominated by vicious spider soldiers. The four heroes team up with a group of survivors from the arachnid invasion in a bid to return to their own world and escape from the voracious Spider Queen. Remind me by text David Wu | |
| Deadly Arts | Karate | Documentary examining martial arts around the world. A female martial arts expert travels to Japan to train with the masters of karate, the ancient practice rooted in resistance fighting. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Shadows | Adventure series. MacLeod is tormented by visions of his own death and turns to an old friend for help. Remind me by text |
| Time After Time | In Nicholas Meyer's splendid literary conceit, the novelist HG Wells (Malcolm McDowell) follows Jack the Ripper (David Warner) from Victorian London to contemporary San Francisco in his time machine. It's a sometimes gruesome experience, but it's wittily aware of anachronisms, as the blood-steeped Ripper, warped in nature as well as time, becomes gratefully aware that the present-day has many more killing devices. That's an advancement Wells was always pessimistically aware of when contemplating the future, and it's a point he would have relished being made in a film that never down-markets his genius even though it up-markets the action. Remind me by text Nicholas Meyer Malcolm McDowell Dr John Lesley Stevenson ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Patti D'Arbanville Harding ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Return to Salem's Lot | Offbeat vampire yarn about an ambitious anthropologist who arrives with his estranged son in Salem's Lot to find it populated by bloodsuckers. The locals ask him to write an apologist's history of their vein-draining activities, but he soon realises that he is getting in too deep. Remind me by text Larry Cohen | |
| The Forsaken | A vampire yarn for the slacker generation â?? with nods to 1980s chillers Near Dark and The Hitcher â?? sees hapless film editor Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek) on a long-distance drive to Florida. Having picked up hitch-hiker Brendan Fehr â?? who just happens to be a vampire slayer â?? Smith then falls into the clutches of a vanload of young bloodsuckers who roam the highways and byways of America's southwest. When our hero is himself infected with the vampire virus, he must go after their leader before he too becomes a bone fide nosferatu. Johnathon Schaech as the black clad boss vamp with killer cheekbones provides some much needed charisma, but his efforts are largely wasted on material that has "straight-to-video" stamped all over it. A few chills, but for something meatier you'd be better off digging out that copy of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark, which treads much the same territory, only with considerably more style and originality. Remind me by text J S Cardone Kerr Smith Nick ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Race to Space | Although it's rooted in fact, this is a feel-good family melodrama of the most calculatingly saccharine kind. The action revolves around Alex D Linz, the neglected son of widowed, expatriate German rocket scientist James Woods, who finds solace from troubled home life in a lab monkey named Mac, who is being trained for a pioneering mission. There was an opportunity here to produce a junior version of The Right Stuff and enthuse children about the Nasa space programmes of the early 1960s. But, instead, we get a simian reworking of such "boy and his dog" movies as Old Yeller. Remind me by text Sean McNamara | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Chosen Realm | Sci-fi drama series. Enterprise rescues the crew of a Triannon ship. However it proves to be a trap: the crew are religious extremists who seize the ship to use against those who oppose their beliefs. Remind me by text |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind II | Tongue-in-cheek, Kung-fu horror film in which a penniless teahouse employee and martial arts student must use his best moves in order to win his childhood sweetheart back from her new, rich suitor. Remind me by text Ricky Lau | |
| The Fearless Vampire Killers | ||
| The Octagon | With his penchant for martial art butt-kicking and monosyllabic, mahogany-table acting, Chuck Norris was probably the precursor to the likes of Van Damme and Schwarzenegger. Here he plays a retired kung fu champ hired as a bodyguard for a wealthy woman against attack by sinister ninja types. As chop-socky movies go, this is better than most, but still devoid of a single brain cell. The elaborate fight scenes are like Chinese food, it's only a matter of time before you want another one, and you have to pity poor old Lee Van Cleef, roped in as a mercenary soldier, who throughout looks to be pining for those halcyon days with Leone and Eastwood. Remind me by text Eric Karson Chuck Norris Justine ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Xtreme Martial Arts | Innovative animation journeys inside the bodies and minds of two young martial artists to reveal the biomechanical secrets of this fighting style. Remind me by text | |
| The Green Slime | The first official Japanese/American co-production mixes the worst of both industries in this blah monster confection. After successfully thwarting an earthbound asteroid, astronauts unknowingly take on board a cargo of native green cells. On commander Richard Jaeckel's Gamma III space station, the slimy amoebas proliferate into one-eyed triffids with stiff tentacles that multiply further when shot. Will Jaeckel and rocket pilot Robert Horton ever stop fighting over mini-skirted Luciana Paluzzi long enough to notice the growing alien threat? While initially intriguing in a space opera context, all interest evaporates once the silly protoplasmic squids become visible. Vivid colour photography can't make up for the inadequacies, either. But director Kinji Fukasaku didn't have to worry; a year later he would be called in to supply the war action for Tora! Tora! Tora!. Remind me by text Kinji Fukasaku Robert Horton Vince Elliot ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter | Examining the inspiration for the tale of Harry Potter, from magical legends to the locations that have been transformed into magic portals. Remind me by text | |
| Highlander | Vendetta | Swashbuckling adventure about ancient time-travelling warriors. To save himself, a petty hoodlum turns Macleod over to a vengeful gangster. Remind me by text |
| Last of the Dragons | An investigative documentary which tries to link the dragon myths of the world with the reality of the planet's reptile population. Monitors, lizards, crocodiles and snakes are all descended from animals that survived the Jurassic period. This programme examines their specialised predatory skills and compares them to the attributes of the fabled dragons of folklore. Remind me by text | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Proving Ground | Continuing what has turned out to be a particularly good run of episodes from the underdog Star Trek series, this is Proving Ground. Remind me by text Captain Archer and co have discovered where the Xindi superweapon is being tested, but they're not likely to be able to get it without help. Cue the blue-skinned Andorians with those great, bendy-straw-like antennae, as once more Commander Shran comes to return a favour owed to Archer. If you're now thinking that this is a generous move, isn't it also a rather suspicious one? |
| Genius of the Vikings: Raiders by Design | They swept across Europe in the 9th century AD with brutal force, but did the Vikings' achievements have more to do with naval supremacy, military strategy and spirit? Remind me by text | |
| Stephen King's The Night Flier | Based on a Stephen King short story, this is definitely one of the better adaptations of the author's work, though it still falls short of working overall. The story is certainly one of King's most peculiar, involving a vampire who pilots a Cessna plane and leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. Sleazy tabloid reporter Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer) and a young rival (Julie Entwisle) pursue the mysterious killer. Director Mark Pavia does wonders on a small budget, making the atmosphere genuinely tense and mysterious, and gruesome when it needs to be. However, a number of questions remain unanswered, and Pavia frequently seems content to focus on Ferrer's utterly obnoxious character. Remind me by text Mark Pavia Miguel Ferrer Katherine Blair ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Lust for a Vampire | Veteran Hammer writer/director Jimmy Sangster called this gothic horror "an embarrassment" in his autobiography, and Ralph Bates regretted ever starring in something so "tasteless". Both also hated the cheesy pop song Strange Love (by Tracy) incongruously dubbed over the love scene in the second of Hammer's Karnstein trilogy inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's story Carmilla, with gratuitous lesbianism thrown into the gore formula. A shallow performance by former game-show hostess Yutte Stensgaard and some pretty ragged sets fix the lurid tone even lower as terror stalks the corridors of an exclusive girls' finishing school. Remind me by text Jimmy Sangster Ralph Bates Mircalla / Carmilla ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Haunted History | London | Documentary series focusing on the events which give rise to spine-tingling tales of the supernatural. This edition takes a look at London, a city which has seen its fair share of bloodshed over the centuries. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | They Also Serve | Swashbuckling adventure about ancient time-travelling warriors. Recent Immortal Michael Christian has had an incredible string of good luck, beating many unarmed and vulnerable opponents, and the race is on to discover his secret before he gets to MacLeod. Remind me by text |
| Genius of the Vikings: Victims of Success | Two hundred years after bursting onto the world stage, the Vikings had invaded England, attacked the world's wealthiest empire- Byzantium, and were poised to colonize North America. How did they achieve such far-flung expeditions? And why, ultimately, did they disappear from history? Remind me by text | |
| Pluto Nash | With elaborate special effects substituting for the missing script, director Ron Underwood's alleged sci-fi action comedy is a slapdash, $100 million turkey. An unusually bland Eddie Murphy plays former crook Pluto Nash, bizarrely described by one character as the "Tito Puente of smuggling", who is struggling to keep his moon nightclub from falling under intergalactic mafia control in 2087. Accompanying Murphy on these lunar-tic rambles is his outdated robot bodyguard (a truly asinine Randy Quaid) and wannabe singer Rosario Dawson. Complete with a Xanadu-style dance routine, Pam Grier as Pluto's mother indulging in tired blaxploitation moves and rent-a-cameo John Cleese as a virtual reality chauffeur, this is a flop of epic proportions. Remind me by text Ron Underwood Eddie Murphy Bruno ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Yes, Minister | Jobs for the Boys | Sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. A departmental construction project is in progress - but Sir Humphrey is being very evasive. Remind me by text |
| Target Earth | Extraterrestrials are up to their usual tricks in this made-for-TV sci-fi adventure. When a man goes insane and a little girl is kidnapped, a small-town Illinois cop realises something is terribly wrong. Soon, he finds himself battling insidious aliens who have implanted devices to control the minds of humans, from local citizens to government agents. Writer Michael Vickerman and director Peter Markle have taken every 1950s space-invader cliché and fed them into a blender, producing this silly, banal, painting-by-numbers tale. The competent cast deserve better than this but, ultimately, it's the viewer who is caught in the crosshairs. Remind me by text Peter Markle Christopher Meloni Karen ..... ..... ..... | |
| Time Changer | Sci-fi tale in which a stuffy bible professor in the late 19th century travels in a time machine to the present day to see how world has progressed. However, the time traveller is shocked by how far morality in society has slipped and the extent to which Christianity has been sidelined. Remind me by text Rich Christiano | |
| Highlander | Blind Faith | A religious leader dies on an operating table and then returns from the dead. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Song of the Executioner | An Immortal monk seeks revenge on McLeod for expelling him from his monastry. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | Used Karma | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Jason breaks up with Phoebe when he finds out her sisters really are witches. Richard tries to free himself from his family's karma. Piper and Paige attempt to vanquish a group of swarm demons. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Star-Crossed | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod, forced to leave the States by Kalas, returns to France where he is reunited with old friend Hugh Fitzcairn, who, for the first time in 350 years, has settled down with the love of his life. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Proving Ground | Sci-fi drama series. An Andorian ship led by Commander Shran arrives in the Delphic Expanse to help Enterprise home in on the Xindi superweapon. Remind me by text |
| Stranded | Sci-fi adventure in which a special unit is sent into space to rescue a group of scientists tending to a troubled Russian space station. However, their race against time is hindered by the fact that they have a traitor in their ranks. Remind me by text Fred Olen Ray | |
| Jackie Chan: The Inside Story | Documentary tracing the rise of Jackie Chan, the highest-paid Chinese actor in the USA, from his time as a pupil at the tough Peking Opera School through to success in the Hong Kong film industry and eventual Hollywood stardom. Featuring extensive interviews with Chan himself, martial arts expert Julian Dale, the `Matrix Twins' Neil and Adrian Rayment and pop group Ash, whose song Kung Fu celebrated the martial arts superstar. Remind me by text | |
| Jackie Chan's First Strike | Martial arts movie about a Hong Kong detective contracted to recover a stolen nuclear warhead. Hired by both the CIA and Russian intelligence, the kung-fu cop is harassed, assaulted and framed for murder as he delves into the murky world of international arms dealing. Remind me by text Stanley Tong | |
| Jackie Chan's Police Story | Comedy thriller in which martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars as an honest Hong Kong cop protecting a Triad boss's girlfriend-turned-informer, before finding himself framed for the murder of a dirty cop and going on the run. Directed by Chan himself, the movie mixes slapstick with wild stunts and features some painful outtakes during the final credits. Remind me by text Jackie Chan | |
| Highlander | Testimony | Mythic drama series drawn from the blockbuster films. MacLeod tells Anne the truth about his immortality. When Anne flies to Paris to be with him, she helps save the life of a young woman who turns out to be smuggling drugs for the Russian mafia. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Stratagem | Sci-fi drama series. Having captured Degra, who designed the Xindi superweapon, Archer tries to trick him into revealing its location by setting him up in a Mission Impossible-style deception. Remind me by text |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | Bloody Mary | Rory McGrath explores Mary Tudor's murderous reign, learning about various Tudor techniques for torture and the best method for burning heretics. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Take Back the Night | When an Immortal and her mortal husband are gunned down in the street, she calls upon her ancient Celtic skills to exact her revenge. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | The Portrait | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Drew decides to paint Sherry, but as she sits for him she grills him about his mysterious nocturnal schedule. Murdoch finds out about their secret meetings. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | The Awakening | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Expelled from the school, Drew decides to tell Sherry the truth before leaving forever. But she goes down with appendicitis. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | The Compassionate Society | Political sitcom. The minister sees an opportunity to further his career when a newly built and fully staffed hospital seems to have no patients. Remind me by text |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | The Body Snatchers | Rory McGrath investigates the grisly phenomenon of body-snatching in 19th-century London. Remind me by text |
| Crusades | Pilgrims in Arms | Former `Monty Python' star Terry Jones explores the history of the Crusades. He embarks on a journey to discover exactly what happened nine hundred years ago when the Pope instigated a popular campaign to conquer Jerusalem. Following the route of the crusaders through the Byzantine Empire, whose ruler had made the mistake of asking for help against Turkish invaders, he uncovers a tragicomedy of savagery, greed and ignorance. Remind me by text |
| The Kung Fu Dragons of Wudang | The power of Chinese weapons and martial arts is legendary. Can applying scientific analysis to the use of weapons in martial arts set a new standard for destruction? Remind me by text | |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | The Siege of Rochester | Rory McGrath finds out how King John was able to burn down Rochester in 1215 using the fat of forty pigs and learns how to fire a crossbow. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Mortal Sins | A Nazi major returns looking for revenge and Father Bernard goes to MacLeod for help. Anne has a secret to tell. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. The sisters help Leo's mentor discover who cast the spell of darkness over a magic school. Phoebe goes on a vision quest. Remind me by text |
| Crusades | Jerusalem | Encased in medieval armour and resembling an armed dustbin, Terry Jones sets out on the 1000-mile walk from the Bosporus to the Holy City - a journey that took the Crusaders two years. Terry recounts how four in five Crusaders died on the road trying to cross a mountain in torrential rain wearing 200 pounds of iron, and how they became religious fanatics and cannibals who slaughtered a defenceless population. Remind me by text |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | The Witchfinder General | Rory McGrath finds out about the savage witch hunts of the 1640s. Remind me by text |
| The Sign of Four | In a darkly atmospheric retelling of one of Conan Doyle's most famous mysteries, the celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson take on a challenging case involving a secret drenched in blood, a very proper governess and a priceless gem. Remind me by text Rodney Gibbons | |
| Bloody Britain: Vikings | Rory McGrath travels to Northumberland to learn the story of a Viking raider nicknamed Hairy Trousers and finds out how to fight Viking-style. Remind me by text | |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Remind me by text | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Power to the People | Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker meets a local councillor who has some radical ideas about local government. The PM likes what he hears but Sir Humphrey, fearful it will weaken the Civil Service, must persuade him otherwise. Remind me by text |
| Crusades | Destruction | Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out to do battle with the legendary Saladin and discovers that, inevitably, Richard was an unsatisfactory hero. Terry then re-stages the Fourth Crusade as part of the Venice festival and finds out how the Crusaders destroyed the world's largest Christian city in a bloody orgy. The final chapter of the story sees the rise of Muslim fanaticism as a mirror to Christian ferocity. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Patron of the Arts | Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a bigwig friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Finale | Kalas returns and is determined to rid himself of MacLeod forever. Remind me by text |
| Barbarians | The Vikings | Series recalling the conquering tribes whose very names became bywords for savagery. This edition looks at the Vikings, whose immense historical legacy spans three continents. In 793 AD, the northern raiders attacked England, beginning a wave of conquest through Europe that would continue until the death of the great Viking King Harald Hardrada at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Both Sides Now | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Murdoch is shocked when he traces a recent attack on a day student to star pupil Merrill, who refuses acknowledge her guilt. He puts her in therapy, but she learns that she has an evil doppelganger. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Sunrise | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Mourning Sherri, Drew embraces the dark side of his predatory nature. Remind me by text |
| Bloody Britain | The Battle of Trafalgar | Rory McGrath climbs aboard the Victory in Portsmouth to discover the brutality of life at sea for ordinary English sailors in the early 1800s. Remind me by text |
| The Spying Game | A School for Spies | Documentary series, written and presented by David Rose, exploring the role of secret intelligence forces in the Cold War. This first programme tells the extraordinary story of the workings of the innermost sanctum of the East German secret intelligence service, the Stasi, whose infamous Sector 20 specialised in foreign espionage and recruitment. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Lost Weekend | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Alone at the school over spring break, Merrill and Marty discover that their blood supply has been locked away. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Breaking Up | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Karl wants the vampire equivalent of a wedding, but Essie falls ill. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | Doing the Honours | Sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker plans to block honours for civil servants until cost-cutting measures are introduced in their departments. Sir Humphrey plans his own retaliation. Remind me by text |
| Master Spies | The Real 007 | Roger Moore narrates an investigation into what was really happening throughout the intelligence-gathering battles of the Cold War. Remind me by text |
| The Spying Game | The Last of the Cold War Warriors | Documentary series, written and presented by David Rose, exploring an extraordinary yet frequently overlooked aspect of the Cold War: the role of secret intelligence forces. This programme tells the amazing story of the KGB's 40-year campaign of spying and covert actions against the West during the Cold War. Remind me by text |
| Cyberwars: To Catch a Little Fish | Documentary account of the 14-year-old Chinese boy known as Little Fish whose skill at computer hacking, using very modest equipment, led to a breach in CIA security. With China second only to the US in its number of internet users, the potential emergence of more mischievous net surfers and hackers is of concern to all who venture into the cyberworld. Remind me by text | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | The Bishop's Gambit | Classic comedy in which politician Jim Hacker has been unexpectedly installed at Number Ten. Jim must recommend the appointment of bishops to the Queen but is not keen on the two offered by the Church. And Humphrey has his own reasons for wanting a third. Remind me by text |
| Bloody Britain | The Welsh Rebellions | Rory McGrath learns about an attempt to seize Wales from the English in the 15th century, trying out for himself the weapons and techniques used. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Brothers in Arms | Friends become enemies when MacLeod discovers the sniper who shot Cord in none other than his good friend Charlie Desalvo. Remind me by text |
| The Spying Game | Covert Action | Documentary series, written and presented by David Rose, exploring one of the most extraordinary and yet under-reported aspects of the Cold War: the role of secret intelligence forces. This film reveals how covert intelligence services were used to break communism once and for all. It tells how western intelligence ditched the idea of containment and went all-out for a final victory over the communist regime. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | I Dream of Phoebe | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Phoebe frees a genie from a bottle but discovers she must take its place. Chris is anxious to put Leo and Piper back together. Remind me by text |
| Blade of Fury | Martial-arts action tale set in Imperial China about a low-born warrior who becomes embroiled in government treachery and a plot to overthrow the Empress. Remind me by text Sammo Hung | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | One of Us | Classic comedy in which minister Jim Hacker finds himself transported to Number Ten. MI5 drops a bombshell - the papers of a recently deceased head of MI5 show that he was, at one stage, spying for Russia. Worse still, he was investigated and cleared by an internal Civil Service Committee of Enquiry headed by Sir Humphrey Appleby. Remind me by text |
| The Lying Game | Telling Lies | Series about lies and deception. Featuring experiments which demonstrate that lying is a result of mental maturity, a look at how professional liars avoid detection, and the story of a murderer who was trapped by her own lies. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Innocent | Richie encounters Mikey, a huge Immortal of limited mental development and a fascination with trains. Remind me by text |
| The Spying Game | Hearts and Minds | Documentary series, written and presented by David Rose, exploring one of the most extraordinary and yet under-reported aspects of the Cold War: the role of secret intelligence forces. This film shows how both East and West recognised that the Cold War was as much an ideological battle as a military one. Remind me by text |
| Spine Chillers | Goths | Series of black comedy dramas. Tim and Grish take their membership of the goth sub-culture very seriously - they even dye their milk black! But when they meet charismatic super-goth Balfus, they get more than they bargained for. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Harbinger | Sci-fi drama series. Archer tries to unravel the mystery surrounding an alien they've rescued. Meanwhile, there's trouble among the crew. Remind me by text |
| Bloody Britain | Bloody Mary | Rory McGrath explores Mary Tudor's murderous reign, learning about various Tudor techniques for torture and the best method for burning heretics. Remind me by text |
| Invincible | Kung fu action fantasy about a martial arts expert who devotes his life to protecting Earth against the Shadowmen, immortals who want to destroy humanity. Remind me by text Jefery Levy | |
| Sherlock Holmes | The Last Vampyre | A feature-length case for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated cerebral sleuth. The vicar of the village of Lamberley asks Holmes to look into several mysterious deaths that have taken place since the arrival of a man said to be descended from vampires. Though the village is gripped by fear and illness, Holmes remains convinced there is a rational explanation. Remind me by text |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | The Battle of Trafalgar | Rory McGrath climbs onboard the Victory in Portsmouth to discover the brutality of life at sea for ordinary English sailors in the early 1800s. Remind me by text |
| Robert Hanssen: The X-Rated Spy | A profile of the notorious American double agent who spent 20 years betraying his country to the KGB while preserving the demeanour of a staunch anti-communist. Remind me by text | |
| Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Beyond the Movie | Hosted by John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, this programme uses the characters, events and themes of Tolkien's stories of Middle Earth to explore some of human history's great heroes and its most intriguing conflicts. Surprising connections bring new perspectives to figures such as William Wallace, Queen Elizabeth I and Theodore Roosevelt, and the programme also explores the Battle of Britain. Remind me by text | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Doctor's Orders | Sci-fi drama series. The crew are in Dr Phlox's hands when he has to put them all into comas to survive a trans-dimensional disturbance. Remind me by text |
| Barbarians | The Goths | Series recalling the conquering tribes whose very names became bywords for savagery. This edition looks at the Goths, who rampaged through central Europe in the third century. Remind me by text |
| Purple Rain | The first and easily the best of pint-sized rock star Prince's forays into film. Breathtakingly egotistical, it follows the adventures of struggling rock singer "The Kid" as he battles to the top of the pop tree, despite the underhand tactics of his rivals. The less said about the lead performances the better, although Morris Day eclipses the star with a charismatic turn, but Prince and the Revolution were at the height of their powers and the hits Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry are memorably captured by director Albert Magnoli. Remind me by text Albert Magnoli Prince Apollonia ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Vampire High | Vampire's Patience | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Karl attacks a day student. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Official Secrets | Sitcom about the premiership of Jim Hacker, one-time government minister now elevated to Number Ten. When Hacker's predecessor decides to publish his memoirs, Jim tries to suppress a chapter in which he appears in an unfavourable light. The chapter is then leaked to the press, along with the information that the PM tried to stop its publication. Remind me by text |
| Metropolis | Re-imagining the core of Fritz Lang's 1926 silent masterpiece as an animé feature was always going to be a considerable challenge. Like its illustrious namesake, Metropolis is a grand city of the future; however the Japanese model comprises a strictly divided society of humans and robots, not thinkers and workers as in the German original. Into this chaotic mix are pitched a pair of detectives who are on the trail of a renegade robot scientist and his latest creation. Despite direction by Rintaro (the brains behind the cult TV series Astro Boy) and a script by Akira auteur Katsuhiro Otomo from the classic comic book by Osamu Tezuka (widely regarded as the godfather of manga), this stylised enterprise fails to live up to the reputation of its creators. The craftsmanship of the artwork is matched by a laid-back jazz score, but the decision to shun the pyrotechnics of contemporary computer-generated cartooning lessens the impact of the action. Remind me by text Yuka Imoto Kenichi ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Highlander | Leader of the Pack | The past comes back to haunt Richie when Mark Roszca returns. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Double Eagle | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. MacLeod's old friend comes to town in search of a racehorse and a change of luck. Remind me by text |
| De Sade | Profile of the author who gave his name to sadism. Was De Sade a sex-mad misogynist or a free-thinking radical arguing against the constraints of pre-revolutionary French morality? Remind me by text | |
| M Butterfly | Director David Cronenberg came horribly unstuck with this insipid adaptation of David Henry Hwang's successful Broadway play about sexual deception and espionage. Jeremy Irons stars as a minor French diplomat in Beijing who falls under the spell of beautiful Chinese diva Song Liling. But not only is Song a spy, she's also a man! It's not that John Lone's performance is bad, it's just that his constant five o'clock shadow would surely tip anyone off instantly. What worked as a stage illusion clearly doesn't in close-up and, while it's obvious why Cronenberg would be attracted to such an operatic story of blurred identity, his gender-bending Mata Hari should be filed under "interesting failure". Remind me by text David Cronenberg Jeremy Irons Song Liling ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Vampire High | There's a New Vamp in Town | Drama series about a school which, at night, is secretly the site of the Project, which aims to teach young vampires to control their dark side. Rowdy new vampire student Marty compromises the Experiment's security when he meets a teenage goth at the local roadhouse and decides to take her home. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | The Greasy Pole | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker finds himself in the middle of a major row over the British Chemical Corporation. Remind me by text |
| Bloody Britain | Body Snatchers | Rory McGrath investigates body-snatching in 19th-century London, visiting graveyards and learning how to remove a body from a coffin. Remind me by text |
| Myths and Logic of Shaolin Kung Fu | Taking its inspiration from the strengths of noble animals and its direction from the benign Buddha, Shaolin Kung Fu has spread from the Song Shan area of Henan province across the world. Its devotees possess the mind power to enable their bodies to repel lethal blades and perform many other awe-inspiring feats. Remind me by text | |
| Master Spies | The Deadly Game | Assassination has been used by intelligence services throughout history, but the instruments of death have become even more deadly with the use of cutting-edge technology. Roger Moore narrates. Remind me by text |
| Shakespeare Week: In Search of Shakespeare | The Lost Years | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. Michael Wood looks at the theories surrounding the fledgling writer's `lost years' between the ages of 18 and 28 - a period that is not covered by any known documentation - and uncovers a tale of religious conflict. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Reunion | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. When Macleod harbours a fellow Immortal for the night, a long-lost friend appears. Remind me by text |
| Universe | Planets | Space investigation which looks at how unusual the planets of the cosmos can be, and why inter-planetary collisions are a major influence on their development. Remind me by text |
| End of Extinction | Charting the progress of an Australian scientist who plans to clone and resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Remind me by text | |
| Shakespeare Week: In Search of Shakespeare | The Duty of Poets | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. Michael Wood uncovers Shakespeare's rise to fame and fortune, as with the successes of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, he becomes England's top entertainer. His good fortune is marred by the death of his son, and his summons for grievous bodily harm. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Colonel | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. An enemy of MacLeod is back for revenge. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | The Courtship of Wyatt's Father | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Gideon does a deal with the Darklighters to get rid of Leo and Chris begins to disappear. Remind me by text |
| Fulltime Killer | Hong Kong action thriller in which a reclusive hitman, who has retreated from the world even more since the death of his beloved housekeeper, is forced to emerge from seclusion and face off against a brash rival, who is keen to become the most renowned hitman and is also making moves on his rival's new love. Remind me by text Johnny To, Ka-Fai Wai | |
| What the Romans Did for Us | Building Britain | The innovations and inventions that the Romans brought to Britain. This edition reveals the new farming methods, crops and tools introduced by the Romans, including the plough and the combine harvester. The programme also looks at the Romans' skilful planning of towns using a grid pattern, and their intricate plumbing mechanisms - drains, bath houses and public lavatories. Remind me by text |
| Space Shuttle: The Human Time Bomb? | An investigation into the recent space tragedy when the shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere. Was it a genuine one-off disaster - or an accident waiting to happen? The programme attempts to go beyond the immediate technical failures to look back over almost three decades of space shuttle design and uncover the deeper reasons behind the tragic event. Remind me by text | |
| When Dinosaurs Roamed | Using state-of-the-art computer animation, this documentary travels 150 million years back in time to reveal what what Earth looked like when dinosaurs roamed. Remind me by text | |
| Shakespeare Week: In Search of Shakespeare | For All Time | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. The early optimism of the reign of King James I was blown apart by the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, and plays about plots and paranoia followed, including Shakespeare's Macbeth. Meanwhile, the bard's daughter received a court summons for her refusal to take Protestant communion. The programme includes a staged excerpt from Shakespeare's `lost' play, Cardenia. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Reluctant Heroes | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. MacLeod and Richie witness a murder attempt on David Markum. Remind me by text |
| Bloody Britain | Witch Hunting | Rory McGrath finds out about the savage witch hunts of the 1640s, learning how to test for a witch and how to protect himself from witchcraft. Remind me by text |
| The Lying Game | Detecting Lies | Series about lies and deception. This edition examines how professionals determine whether someone is lying. Including a private detective who wrote a book on the telltale signs of adultery, and a look at how computers can be used to catch liars. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | In Your Dreams | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. When Sherry's ex-boyfriend takes credit for Drew's love letters, Drew gets annoyed and invades Sherry's dreams to get closer to her. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | A Grave Matter | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Karl experiences `the chill', a phase during which a newly-made vampire longs to return to its human life. Remind me by text |
| Sherlock Holmes | An investigation of the life and lore of the ultimate sleuth - Sherlock Holmes. Valuable insight into the character can be gleaned from a historic interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as from analyses provided by a Holmes scholar and a forensic scientist. Remind me by text | |
| In Like Flint | James Coburn returns as stone-faced spy Derek Flint in this sub-James Bond adventure â?? a sequel to Our Man Flint. This spoof's plot concerns a group of women on the Virgin Islands who plan to rule the world â?? hence the presence of a bevy of beauties and plenty of insipid innuendo. It's often laughable, though Lee J Cobb does bring a touch of class to the crass proceedings. Remind me by text Gordon Douglas James Coburn Cramden ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Deadly Arts | Muay Thai | Documentary examining martial arts around the world. Martial arts expert Josette D Normandeau trains in Thai boxing. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | I Scream the Body Electric | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants - humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Gifted mutants Brennan and Emma join the Mutant X team in the fight against Eckhart's Genetic Security Agency. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Russian Roulette | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps New Mutants - humans whose powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Adam and his team match wits with Russians working for Eckhart, who use a machine to track down New Mutants. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Wrath of Kali | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. MacLeod has to face the immortal Kamir when an ancient statue of a Hindu goddess is purchased by the university. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Hatchery | Sci-fi drama series. Archer goes to extremes to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs which are ready to hatch. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Things that Go Vamp in the Night | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. When Marty experiences `the stirring', he is overwhelmed by bloodlust and chooses Sherry as his next victim. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | That's Why the Lady is a Vamp | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Merrill's evil maker, Patsy LaRue, pays a visit in the hope of taking her young charge back on the blood trail. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | I Scream the Body Electric | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants - humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Gifted mutants Brennan and Emma join the Mutant X team in the fight against Eckhart's Genetic Security Agency. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Yes, Prime Minister | The National Education Service | Sitcom about the premiership of Jim Hacker, one-time government minister, now elevated to No 10 Downing Street. Jim Hacker decides to abolish the Department of Education and Science to reduce bureaucracy and save money, giving cash directly to schools. Sir Humphrey, of course, is appalled. Remind me by text |
| Exodus Earth | A film exploring what humanity will do when Earth dies. If we are to survive, we will have to find a new home in the stars. But how will we get there? One possibility is to create new and faster forms of propulsion; however, these would need to overcome the laws of physics as they are currently understood. Another option is to build giant space arks to transport generations of humans across space for thousands of years. Remind me by text | |
| Bloody Britain | Trafalgar | Rory McGrath visits the Victory in Portsmouth to discover the harsh realities facing English sailors in the early 1800s. Remind me by text |
| Killer Queens | Series looking at female rulers of Britain. Rory McGrath tells the intriguing story of Empress Matilda, cousin of King Stephen, an early example of sexual discrimination. Robbed of her throne simply for being a woman, Matilda fought to ensure that her son would claim his birthright as Henry II. Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | Russian Roulette | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps New Mutants - humans whose powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Adam and his team match wits with Russians working for Eckhart, who use a machine to track down New Mutants. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Mutant X | Fool for Love | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants. A serum developed to reverse mutations turns deadly. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Chivalry | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. MacLeod has to convince Richie that his new-found love is a dangerous woman. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Feeding Frenzy | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Essie and Marty go into an uncontrollable feeding frenzy, while Merrill arranges a secret rendezvous for Drew and Sherry in the library. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | What's up Doc | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. As the vampires begin to wonder who their mysterious teacher really is, a government agent arrives in town to investigate a recent vampire attack. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | The Devil You Know | Classic political sitcom. The minister is upset by rumours of a cabinet reshuffle and decides to take drastic action to keep his post. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Kilohertz | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants. Adam leads the team on a crusade to stop a New Mutant who is using his powers to wreak havoc throughout the city. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Timeless | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. Immortal Walter Bellman decides to kill world-famous pianist Claudia Jardine, triggering her latent immortality. Remind me by text |
| Secrets of Samurai | The Last Samurai | In the land of the rising sun the past meets the present. Those who live according to the strict codes and practices of this ancient order reveal their hidden world. Remind me by text |
| Voyage of the Dragon King | A Chinese admiral named Zheng He predated Columbus by more than 90 years, sailed twice as far, with hundreds of ships and thousands of men. Trace his incredible journey. Remind me by text | |
| Highlander | The Blitz | When MacLeod tries to rescue a woman trapped in a subway station, he is reminded of the lover he lost when she trapped in a World War II air raid shelter. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | Hyde School Reunion | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Phoebe attends her high school reunion. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Meaning of Death | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. A deadly virus spreads throughout the city, causing infected mutants to lose control of their powers. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Lit Fuse | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam leads the team on a mission to protect Ashley Elliot, a new mutant whose electricity consumption is causing city-wide blackouts. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Something Wicked | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod has to find a way to save the Immmortal Coltec. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | The Withering | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. Essie worries about her health, and Sherry is devastated to hear of her grandmother's death. Remind me by text |
| Vampire High | Dads and Monsters | Drama series about a secret night school for young vampires. The Fury, a vicious sect of vampires, sends a monster to destroy the Experiment. Meanwhile, Sherry's dad visits Mansbridge. Remind me by text |
| Cyberterrorism | As Western civilisation becomes more and more dependent upon computers and information technology, cyberterrorists pose an increasing threat to our vital networks. How can we protect ourselves against the new hi-tech menace? Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. The team embarks on a dangerous rescue mission to save Jesse's new mutant girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by the GSA. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. The team embarks on a dangerous rescue mission to save Jesse's new mutant girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by the GSA. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Lara - Lethal and Loaded | Documentary examining the success of the `Tomb Raider' series of computer game, looking at the transformation of the games' heroine Lara Croft into a film character. Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | Crime of the New Century | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam and the team respond when a mutant child is kidnapped, but their efforts to rescue the boy are impeded by an FBI agent. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Prime Minister | The Tangled Web | Classic sitcom about beleaguered prime minister Jim Hacker. MPs have been complaining about their phones being tapped, and Jim Hacker naturally denies this - only to be told by Sir Humphrey that it is in fact true. Remind me by text |
| Deadly Arts | Capoeira | Documentary examining martial arts around the world. Martial arts expert Josette D Normandeau seeks out the masters of Brazil's rhythmic martial art. Remind me by text |
| Hackers | Not just nerds with modems and time on their hands, these hackers mean business. Cracking government passwords is a hobby for the cyber terrorists who say it's not about fame. Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | Crime of the New Century | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam and the team respond when a mutant child is kidnapped, but their efforts to rescue the boy are impeded by an FBI agent. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Mutant X | Dark Star Rising | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam and his team continue to battle Eckhart's destructive plans, all the while looking out for more mutants who are confused by their new abilities. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Remind me by text | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Azati Prime | Tonight's double bill of new episodes starts with the fearless Captain Archer embarking on - yes, you've guessed it - a suicide mission, to destroy the almost complete Xindi weapon. Remind me by text However, the silly man gets captured and interrogated, while the crew of the Enterprise face a devastating attack. But least you won't be kept dangling, as the second story, showing the result of the Xindi double-ambush, follows immediately after. The latter episode only aired 12 days ago in the States, so you're a privileged bunch. |
| Fulltime Killer | Consciously designed to appeal to Pan-Asian audiences, this country-hopping tale of two hitmen occasionally loses its way as it zips across the continent in the wake of its itinerant killers. However, co-directors Johnny To and Wai Ka-Fai make the most of the character contrasts lifted from Edmond Pang's source novel and allow Andy Lau's film-mad ex-Olympian to exhibit plenty of crowd-pleasing bravura, while Takashi Sorimachi's Japanese veteran looks on with cool disdain. Caught in the middle of their rivalry are Taiwanese video store assistant Kelly Lin and Singaporean Interpol agent Simon Yam. The action sequences, particularly the high-rise shoot-out, are expertly contrived, but elsewhere the editing and effects are self-indulgently flamboyant. Remind me by text Johnny To, Wai Ka-Fai Andy Lau O ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Innocent Blood | Gruesome black comedy. A female vampire and an undercover cop find themselves unlikely partners in a race against time to prevent a recently deceased Mafia crime lord from transforming Pittsburgh into the capital of the undead. This comic horror offering from John Landis features his usual quota of cameo appearances, including such notable horror directors as Dario Argento and Sam Raimi. Remind me by text John Landis | |
| Elizabeth's Pirates | This documentary looks at Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh - national heroes or murderous thugs? Their exploits around the globe brought wealth and power to queen and country, but one man's plunder is another man's loss. Remind me by text | |
| Conquest | Pirate Weapons | Series charting the development of fighting techniques across the globe. In this edition, Peter Woodward assumes the role of a 17th-century Caribbean pirate. Remind me by text |
| Barbarians | The Huns | Series recalling the conquering tribes whose very names became bywords for savagery. This edition looks at the Huns, who terrorised vast areas of Europe and Asia during the 5th century under the formidable leadership of Attila. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Whiter Shade of Pale | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. An ailing stealth mutant, who turns out to have once been Adam's lover, steals his prototype for a genetic sequencer. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Promises | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A promise made in 1755 comes back to haunt MacLeod when the Immortal Kassim demands that he assassinate the tyrannical dictator of a small country. Remind me by text |
| In Search of Shakespeare | The Lost Years | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. Michael Wood looks at the theories surrounding the fledgling writer's `lost years' between the ages of 18 and 28 - a period that is not covered by any known documentation - and uncovers a tale of religious conflict. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Dark Star Rising | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam and his team continue to battle Eckhart's destructive plans, all the while looking out for more mutants who are confused by their new abilities. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Yes, Minister | The Quality of Life | Sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker makes a rash promise to save a popular city farm from closure. However, he needs Sir Humphrey's help and, of course, there's a price to pay. Remind me by text |
| Robert Hanssen: The X-Rated Spy | A profile of the notorious American double agent who spent 20 years betraying his country to the KGB while preserving the demeanour of a staunch anti-communist. Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | Double Vision | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Emma is split in two by a synergetic blast emitted during a clash between Brennan and an old friend who has defected to the GSA. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Methuselah's Gift | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Masked thugs try to take Amanda's head while she sleeps. Remind me by text |
| In Search of Shakespeare | The Duty of Poets | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. Michael Wood uncovers Shakespeare's rise to fame and fortune, as with the successes of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, he becomes England's top entertainer. His good fortune is marred by the death of his son, and his summons for grievous bodily harm. Remind me by text |
| Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Strong female drama. A woman has stretched her friends' patience to the limit, with her daughter meanwhile worried about getting married, having kids and following in her mother's boozy footsteps. So her mother's friends, the Ya-Yas, resolve to help the daughter. Remind me by text Callie Khouri | |
| Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance | Documentary following the progress of three Thai boxers bidding to prove themselves in the Muay Thai ring. Champions of the sport are superstars in Thailand, since this martial art embraces an ancient code of honour and is steeped in Buddhist ritual. Narrated by actor Jason Statham. Remind me by text | |
| Control Factor | Made-for-TV sci-fi action thriller in which the victim of an apparently motiveless gun attack subsequently starts to hear voices in his head. On further investigation, he begins to suspect a government operation to use innocent people for criminal purposes through psychic technology. Remind me by text Nelson McCormick | |
| Mutant X | Blood Ties | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Jesse is roped into a dangerous undercover mission when his estranged father mysteriously shows up. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Immortal Cimoli | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. After a magician is hit by a truck, he becomes the Immortal Cimoli. Remind me by text |
| Anne Rice | Profile of the author of the `Vampire Chronicles'. Having an alcoholic mother contributed to a hellish childhood, and losing her own daughter sent her into despair, but Anne Rice learned to cope by creating her own world and sharing it with millions of mesmerised readers. Remind me by text | |
| In Search of Shakespeare | For All Time | Four-part series about the life of the great playwright. The early optimism of the reign of King James I was blown apart by the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, and plays about plots and paranoia followed, including Shakespeare's Macbeth. Meanwhile, the bard's daughter received a court summons for her refusal to take Protestant communion. The programme includes a staged excerpt from Shakespeare's `lost' play, Cardenia. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | Spin City | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Piper and Chris are caught in a web of evil. Leo finds out the truth. Remind me by text |
| Original Sin | Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel was brought to the screen in 1969 by François Truffaut and paired French superstars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. This latest version has a dream team, too, with sexy senor Antonio Banderas and Lara Croft herself, Angelina Jolie, as the stars of a corny, cliché-ridden bodice-ripper worthy of Barbara Cartland. Set in late 19th-century Cuba, Banderas plays a wealthy coffee merchant who orders a mail-order bride from the US to bear his children. What he gets is the lushly lipped Ms Jolie so it's lust at first sight. But Jolie has a sinister secret agenda, and Banderas, whose character is so far behind the plot he should wake up and smell his own coffee, soon finds himself embroiled in a cat-and-mouse con game. Judging by the promotional posters, the distributors are trying to push the movie's sexual chemistry but this is restrained stuff which is suggestive rather than explicit. Maybe director Michael Cristofer should have taken note of Truffaut's experience: it was the French master's first major flop. Remind me by text Michael Cristofer Antonio Banderas Julia Russell / Bonny Castle ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Pedro Armendáriz Jr | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Another adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famously witty play, this version benefits from superb performances from Rupert Everett (as the cad, naturally), Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell and Colin Firth as Jack (who pretends to have a younger brother named Earnest, so he can escape his stuffy country home for wilder times in London). Beautifully filmed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted An Ideal Husband for the screen) it only falls down in the casting of Reese Witherspoon as Jack's young ward Cecily (sounding and looking too modern) and Frances O'Connor (again, looking far too contemporary) as Jack's intended Gwendolen. Remind me by text Oliver Parker Rupert Everett Jack Worthing / "Earnest" ..... ..... Frances O'Connor Cecily Cardew ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Mutant X | Blood Ties | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Jesse is roped into a dangerous undercover mission when his estranged father mysteriously shows up. Remind me by text (Audio-described) |
| Mutant X | Altered Ego | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. A mutant from Adam's past shows up, seeking revenge for her father's death. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Through a Glass Darkly | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod tries to help an old friend accept his past. Remind me by text |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | The school that millions of children hope will never close is once again enrolling audiences â?? yes, it's a new term at Hogwarts. Youngsters who worship the bestselling work of fantasy author JK Rowling will find this sequel to The Philosopher's Stone even more to their taste. The mood is darker and more scary, but adventure tinged with danger has always been attractive to children, though this may prove too much for the very young. In this instalment, predatory spiders stalk Harry through the Forbidden Forest, there's a mandrake root with an ear-splitting scream and Harry (an audibly older Daniel Radcliffe) even exchanges a kiss with pal Hermione (Emma Watson). Director Chris Columbus (again working from a screenplay by Steve Kloves) has allowed some mechanical repetition to creep in, but overall this manages to be ingenious as well as faithful. Of the adult performers, Kenneth Branagh stands out as the egotistical new teacher Gilderoy Lockhart, managing to upstage even the special effects, but, sadly, the character of Dumbledore (played by the late Richard Harris) is mostly lost within the convolutions of the plot. Remind me by text Chris Columbus Daniel Radcliffe Ron Weasley ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Downtown Torpedoes | Slick martial arts espionage thriller in which Hong Kong security officers blackmail a gang of high-tech thieves into pulling a dangerous job against British intelligence. Remind me by text Teddy Chan | |
| Mutant X | Lazarus Syndrome | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Emma falls prey to someone who has to feed on the life force of new mutants to survive. Remind me by text |
| The King and I | Yul Brynner re-created his Broadway King for posterity in this faithful adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's marvellous Broadway success about English governess Anna Leonowens and her sexless romance with the King of Siam. Brynner is magnificent and he deservedly picked up a best actor Oscar for what is unquestionably a great performance. As Mrs Anna, Deborah Kerr is both resolute and touching, with an unbilled Marni Nixon dubbing her voice for such delights as Hello Young Lovers. Unfortunately, 20th Century-Fox's use of its own DeLuxe Color severely lets down the production design â?? if ever a film needed Technicolor, it was this one. And a stronger director than Walter Lang would also have been beneficial, but if you've never seen it, prepare to be enchanted. Remind me by text Walter Lang Deborah Kerr The King ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| She | Adaptation of H Rider Haggard's novel about an ancient immortal queen who seeks the reincarnation of her long-lost lover. While celebrating in Jerusalem at the end of World War I, a man is approached by a mysterious woman who offers him untold wealth if he will accompany her to a secret mountain city. Remind me by text Robert Day | |
| Mutant X | Power Play | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team attempts to take down a general who is threatening nuclear holocaust. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Presumed Guilty | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Adam is framed for murder after encountering a mutant who can steal people's memories. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Till Death | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. MacLeod decides it is up to him to save the marriage of a pair of Immortals going through a rocky patch after 300 years. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Forgotten | Prequel series to `Star Trek', set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. As Archer tries to prevent the Xindi from launching their weapon, the crew must come to terms with recent losses. Remind me by text |
| Vampire in Brooklyn | Offbeat horror comedy about a suave Caribbean vampire who heads for New York City in search of the woman he believes is destined to become his soul mate. In order to perpetuate his dying breed, the monster seeks out a NY policewoman who is unaware of the part-vampire heritage that makes her the object of his desire. But the vampire has not reckoned on her devoted NYPD partner, determined to protect her against evil. Remind me by text Wes Craven | |
| Space Shuttle Columbia | Space Shuttle Columbia. Remind me by text | |
| Keanu Reeves | A profile of the inscrutable actor, whose performances divide critics, and whose musical ambitions have been globally derided. Remind me by text | |
| Mutant X | Nothing to Fear | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. In a bid to find the Mutant X base, Eckhart employs a mercenary who can control dreams. He pulls the team into a nightmarish dreamscape where he plays on their fears. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Judgement Day | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient, time-travelling warriors against one another. Damson's life is on the line when the Watchers try him on the charge of treason for his friendship with MacLeod. Remind me by text |
| Blood of the Vikings | Invasion | Documentary series investigating the impact of the Vikings in Britain. This edition traces the story of the Danish Viking Great Army and its battles with King Alfred the Great, and also uncovers evidence pointing to Viking immigration and settlement in England. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | A Question of Loyalty | Sitcom about a government minister. Both Hacker and Sir Humphrey appear before a select committee. Remind me by text |
| Master Spies | Spy vs Spy | In the shadows of the Cold War, the battles between the spies were fought with stealth, deception, betrayal and some pretty nifty gadgets. Roger Moore narrates. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Dancing on the Razor | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Mutant X and the GSA find themselves fighting a common foe that threatens to expose them all when they are caught on video using their mutant abilities. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | One Minute to Midnight | The Immortals and the Watchers are poised on the brink of war, with every Watcher in the country hunting for Dawson and MacLeod, to bring them in dead or alive. Remind me by text |
| Blood of the Vikings | The Sea Road | An investigation into the impact of the Vikings in Britain. This edition focuses on the archaeological trail left by the Vikings as they travelled from Norway along the sea road to Dublin. Settlements, a boat burial and evidence of trading have been discovered on the Scottish isles, and silver hoards found in Ireland suggest that Dublin was not only wealthy and important, but also a centre for trade in slaves. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Ex Marks the Spot | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Shalimar's ex, mutant Zack Lockhart, joins the Mutant X team to steal a secret genetic formula. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Prophecy | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Cassandra, the witch of Donan Woods, has found McLeod again after 400 years. He must fulfil an ancient prophecy and challenge and defeat the voice of darkness. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | Crimes and Witch Demeanours | Brand new and exclusive sixth series, starring Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs as three sexy sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Remind me by text |
| Blood of the Vikings | Rulers | An investigation into the impact of the Vikings in Britain. This programme looks at the Vikings' rise to power by means of raiding, extortion and intimidation. Plus stories of gruesome English revenge attacks. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Deadly Desire | Sci-fi drama series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Brennan turns against the team when he falls for a beautiful, mysterious and deadly new mutant. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The End of Innocence | Swashbuckling adventure series about rival time-travelling warriors. Richie Ryan is back taking heads, incurring the wrath of a friend of one of his victims, who also happens to be an enemy of MacLeod. As a result Ryan and MacLeod team up against a mutual foe. Remind me by text |
| Possession | This wispy, time-shifting romance represents a clumsy change of pace for edgy director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty). His adaptation of AS Byatt's 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel evokes neither the poetry nor the passion of its source, while Gwyneth Paltrow and LaBute regular Aaron Eckhart phone in their drippy performances as literary sleuths researching the amorous secrets of bisexual Victorian poet Jennifer Ehle and her married lover Jeremy Northam. As the contemporary academics unearth the truth behind their dry studies â?? and LaBute bodice-rips away in arch 19th-century flashbacks â?? they find themselves falling under the spell of their subjects' romantic obsession. Low on mystery and emotional engagement, but high on Americans abroad clichés and chocolate-box settings, this is a frostily remote French Lieutenant's Woman wannabe. Remind me by text Neil LaBute Gwyneth Paltrow Roland Michell ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Scanner Cop | The fourth entry in the Scanners series gets a boost with its change in locale (moving from Canada to LA) and introduces a new psychic hero, who happens to be a police officer. The irresistible set-up has scanner cop Daniel Quinn on the trail of bad guy Richard Lynch, a scientist with a grudge against policemen. Lynch is fun as usual, hypnotising innocent people into killing cops in his usual hammy fashion, and the whole movie is executed with a healthy amount of zip. However, some violent scenes, especially the climax, seem to have been trimmed in order to get a more accessible rating. | |
| Mutant X | A Breed Apart | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Gabrielle Ashlocke, the first and most powerful Genomex creation, takes over where Mason Eckhart left off. Remind me by text |
| Rory McGrath's Bloody Britain | The Monmouth Rebellion | Rory McGrath investigates the rebellion of 1685 and learns how to fire a musket and take on a horse in a running race. Remind me by text |
| The Abduction Club | Despite a lingering whiff of Georgette Heyer, this historical romp has a pleasingly anachronistic undertone that prevents it from feeling like a Sunday evening serial. Set in 18th-century Ireland, when second sons were wont to kidnap heiresses in order to persuade them to marry, thereby avoiding the priesthood or the army, Stefan Schwartz's boisterous adventure is soon slowed by stereotypical characters and clichéd dialogue. However, Daniel Lapaine and Matthew Rhys are suitably dashing as the headstrong suitors seeking to keep spirited sisters Sophia Myles and Alice Evans out of the clutches of nouveau riche cad Liam Cunningham. It's like Hammer without the horror, just lashings of irony. Remind me by text Stefan Schwartz Daniel Lapaine Strang ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Vampire Bats | These much mythologised creatures do not go for the jugular, they attack at ground level and will drink their own weight in blood. Why, when they do not crave human blood? Remind me by text | |
| Deadly Arts | Aikido | Josette Normandeau seeks out Japan's top Aikido masters to train her in the martial art of peace. Will she be able to learn its difficult code of Japanese etiquette? Remind me by text |
| Charmed: Behind the Magic | A look at the making of the supernatural drama, including interviews with the stars and a peek at some special effects secrets. Remind me by text | |
| Diagnosis Murder | The Bela Lugosi Blues | Lighthearted detective drama series. A murderous vampire stalks the men on a list of LA's most eligible bachelors. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Past as Prologue | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants - humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. An ailing Ashlocke attempts to save his own life by reviving an ancient Egyptian sorceress who poses a lethal threat to the Mutant X team. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Manhunt | Time-travelling adventures. Carl Robinson, a former slave turned successful baseball player in the present day, is forced to go on the run when he decapitates a fellow Immortal and is seen committing the act. He turns to McLeod for help. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | E2 | The temporal paradox is a staple of the science-fiction series. Stories involving time travel are usually the most imaginative or thought-provoking, so they tend to crop up quite often. Remind me by text In tonight's episode, Archer and co, while preparing to enter a subspace corridor, encounter an NX class ship that turns out to be Enterprise. It's manned by the crew's descendants - including Trip and T'Pol's son and Archer's great granddaughter. It transpires that the Enterprise did enter the subspace corridor, but something went wrong. No kidding! |
| Globe Trekker | Germany | The budget traveller's guide to the world. Justine Shapiro explores the multicultural aspects of Berlin, encounters the city's avant-garde art scene and visits some of the former East German states. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Time Squared | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team chase Gabriel Ashlocke back in time in order to stop him changing the present. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Glory Days | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Dawson unexpectedly runs into his old high school sweetheart. McLeod has his hands full with cold-blooded assassin Johnny K. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | 3/7 - The Economy Drive | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker wants to implement some cost-cutting initiatives - but Sir Humphrey does not approve. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Remind me by text | |
| Experimental | Entertainment show from the makers of Banzai, revealing a new world of scientific madness. The strange group of men with the urgent but unfathomable sense of curiosity attempt to discover who is most in touch with the dead - psychics or goths? Also, a comedian faces a nightmare audience of people who refuse to laugh at his jokes. Remind me by text | |
| Yes, Minister | Equal Opportunities | Sitcom about a British government minister and the manipulative civil service advisers who surround him. Jim wants to see more women in higher posts, but Sir Humphrey does not agree. Remind me by text |
| Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure | Animated family adventure in which Wilbur the pig, having helped a lonely new lamb to settle in, must count on his friends' help to track him down when he is sold to another farm. Remind me by text Mario Piluso | |
| Mutant X | Whose Woods These Are | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team heads into the wilderness to stop a beast that has been killing hitchhikers. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Dramatic Licence | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A best-selling author's new steamy romantic novel features a hero named Duncan McLeod. Both he and the real-life counterpart of the novel's boorish villain, Terence Coventry, set out to find the writer. McLeod wants to find out how much she knows, while Coventry wants to kill her. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | The Future Revealed | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Ashlocke threatens to destroy the Mutant X team and the entire city unless Adam finds a cure to save him. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Remind me by text | |
| Helen of Troy Part 1 | First of a two-part epic recounting the story of how war broke out between Greece and Troy when the shepherd - and heir to an ancient kingdom - sent to broker an international deal fell for Helen, the wife of Greek king Manelaus. Remind me by text John Kent Harrison | |
| Mutant X | No Man Left Behind | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. A military plane is shot down behind enemy lines and Mutant X races to recover the secret government weapon that was hidden on board before innocent lives are threatened. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Haunted | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. When Jennifer believes the spirit of her dead husband is still with her, she visits Alec's old friend Macleod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit. Remind me by text |
| Helen of Troy Part 2 | Second of a two-part epic recounting the story of the war between Greece and Troy. Greek king Manelaus sets sail with a huge fleet to besiege Troy and reclaim his wife, Helen, who was abducted by Paris. Remind me by text John Kent Harrison | |
| Building the Ultimate | Spacecraft | Series which focuses on great feats of engineering. This episode looks at the wonders of spacecraft technology and features testimony from experts at NASA and the Russian Space Agency, talking about the design elements of spacecraft, illustrated by 3D computer images, high speed cameras and microiscopic analysis. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Crossroads of the Soul | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. When Brennan gets trapped inside an invisible town, the Mutant X team must rush to find him before he is executed for a crime he didn't commit. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | A Wrong Day's Journey into Right | Brand new and exclusive sixth series of the drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Paige reconjures Mr Right, but unknowingly releases his evil twin, Mr Wrong, who tricks her into wanting to kill her sisters. Remind me by text |
| Deadly Arts | La Savate | Documentary examining martial arts around the world. Martial arts expert Josette D Normandeau trains in this little known French martial art, developed over 200 years ago on the streets of Paris. Remind me by text |
| A Century of Sci-Fi | Christopher Lee examines the development of classic science fiction themes. Remind me by text | |
| Stranded | Sci-fi adventure in which a special unit is sent into space to rescue a group of scientists tending to a troubled Russian space station. However, their race against time is hindered by the fact that they have a traitor in their ranks. | |
| Cold War | Korea 1949-54 | Kenneth Branagh narrates an epic study of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This programme examines one of the biggest political stories of the second half of the 20th century. The conflict in Korea saw America supporting the South, while the Russians backed the North. Though the atomic option was rejected, the Korean War became one of the world's closest shaves. |
| Mutant X | Sign from Above | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team try to save Shalimar from a trio of aliens who pose a threat to humanity. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Body and Soul | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team set out to prevent the vengeful soul of a teenager from killing innocent people. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Little Tin God | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. When a young gospel singer is killed in a drive-by shooting, he awakens in the arms of God and is recruited in a holy war against Satan. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | The Council | Prequel Star Trek series, set 100 years before the time of Captain Kirk when interstellar travel is in its infancy. As T'Pol and Reed go on a harrowing mission into one of the mysterious metallic spheres, Archer and Hoshi approach the Xindi Council hoping to make peace. Remind me by text |
| The Bounty | Although this is the third Hollywood account of the infamous 1789 mutiny, it's not a remake. Unlike the Charles Laughton/Clark Gable or Trevor Howard/Marlon Brando versions, this sticks closely to historical fact. Consequently, Lieutenant â?? as he was at the time of the mutiny â?? William Bligh emerges as a gentleman bound by duty and loyalty who expected nothing less of his crew, while Fletcher Christian comes across as a man driven by heartfelt but half-digested notions of liberty and romance. It was undoubtedly a bold move for Mel Gibson to play such an antihero, but, despite his efforts, he is acted off the screen by the magnificent Anthony Hopkins, whose dignity and determination hold together Roger Donaldson's highly intelligent film. Remind me by text Roger Donaldson Mel Gibson Lieutenant William Bligh ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Mutant X | Understudy | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. An old friend with similar powers takes Shalimar's place on the team while she recovers from a wound. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Messenger | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Richie has found a new teacher, an Immortal who preaches a message of peace and believes all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | 4/7 - Big Brother | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim tries to implement a privacy safeguard for a new national computer database - but Sir Humphrey, as usual, does not approve. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Remind me by text | |
| Learning from the OU:Arthur - King of the Britons | Actor Richard Harris investigates the legend of King Arthur and finds evidence to suggest that the myth was inspired by real events that took place in 5th-century Britannia. Using a mixture of live action and state-of-the-art computer technology, the programme visits fabled sites of Arthurian legend - from Arthur's birthplace at Tintagel to the mystical Isle of Avalon where he is said to be buried. Remind me by text | |
| Yes, Minister | The Challenge | Satirical sitcom about a British government minister and the manipulative civil service advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker takes part in a television interview on local civil defence - but his interrogator is extremely tenacious. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | The Grift | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Brennan's ex enlists his help when one of her grifter schemes turns deadly. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Valkyrie | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. One of their number, a certain Ingrid Henning, had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 and failed. Ever since, she has been trying to atone for her mistake by assassinating dictators, tyrants and racists who have the potential to become just as dangerous. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | At Destiny's End | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Emma bonds with a mutant with precognitive powers, Tyler, who leads a gang of eco-terrorists. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Comes a Horseman | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. Kronos, leader of the dreaded Four Horsemen, gallops into town. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | Witch Wars | Brand new and exclusive sixth series of the drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. The sisters find themselves being hunted down as part of Witch Wars, a demonic reality TV show. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Within These Walls | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team fail to stop a dangerous New Mutant from escaping, and are unhappy because Adam has been cagey about the whole mission. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Revelation 6:8 | Kronos is putting the Four Horsemen back together one by one. Only Duncan MacLeod stands between them and the end of the world. Remind me by text |
| The Pirates of Blood River | In its present version, this Hammer swashbuckler is a colourful, action-packed adventure for undemanding kids. Kerwin Mathews, all-American hero in several other British films in the 1960, is a Huguenot who falls into the clutches of pirate king Christopher Lee, a buccaneer complete with eye-patch and hook. Lee attempts to use Mathews in a dastardly plan to steal Huguenot riches. There are wenches and scurvy knaves galore, but only tantalising vestiges of the X-rated bloodbath intended, as the film was reduced to U certificate derring-do for the school holidays after long sessions at the censor's office. Remind me by text John Gilling Christopher Lee Jonathan Standing ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Friends | The Last One | It's the group's last farewell after ten years. Remind me by text (Audio-described) Inevitably, final episodes of anything that's been so popular and enduring are burdened with nigh-on impossible-to-meet levels of expectation, but this hour-long special gets it absolutely right. There are no great fireworks, this is a neat and in some ways quite low-key tying up of loose ends to make a highly satisfactory valediction. It's sad, of course, but also frequently extremely funny, with some great gags. |
| Mutant X | Hard Time | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Brennan investigates when an old friend breaks out of prison, goes berserk and gets himself killed. Undercover, he and Jesse discover a scheme to make money out of gladiatorial games between inmates, made aggressive by an experimental drug. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Under the Cloak of War | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Shalimar infiltrates a group which has been hired to assassinate Adam, and is given the job of killing him. Remind me by text |
| Deadly Arts | Kalaripayattu | Josette Normandeau visits Kerala, India, to learn Kalaripayattu from the masters. This ancient martial art combines healing and combat techniques to devastating effect. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Once Around | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team try to protect a prosecution witness. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Ransom of Richard Redstone | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against each other. Desperate to save her family home from being repossessed, a woman kidnaps an American millionaire. Remind me by text |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Countdown | It's been nice to have a running story in Trek - the crisis over the Xindi superweapon has kept tensions boiling throughout the latter part of the third series (this is the penultimate episode). Remind me by text With time running out and the trigger about to be cocked, Captain Archer has to make a deal with factions of the Xindi, but how will they respond to his entreaties? Fortunately Dr Phlox (John Billingsley) manages to relieve some of the strain with the splendidly ridiculous line "The Xindi parasites were no match for my osmotic eels." |
| Mutant X | Final Judgement | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. A secret agency kidnaps Adam and puts him on trial for creating mutants with the intention of taking over the world, using a neuro-imager to pull incriminating scenes from Adam's memory. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Duende | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from an ancient Spanish swordsman, who is also a debonair dancer, bent on revenge. Remind me by text |
| The Transporter | Lock, Stock's Jason Statham plays second fiddle to a battery of special effects in this brainless high voltage action thriller. He plays the cool criminal driver who's paid to transport cargo â?? human, or otherwise â?? with no questions asked. When he violates his code by looking in one of the "packages and discovers a Chinese girl (Qi Shu), he's forced to go on the run from his employers and the police. Amid all the posturing macho extravagance (car chases, mega-explosive stunt work), there's also a bizarre oil wrestling sequence, and one extraordinary moment where Statham kisses his enemy underwater to steal his breath! Clearly, action is all that counts here and the plot (something about Chinese immigrants and the slave trade) seems the last thing on director Corey Yuen's mind. Remind me by text Corey Yuen Jason Statham Lai ..... ..... François Berléand Wall Street ..... ..... | |
| Mutant X | Final Judgement | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. A secret agency kidnaps Adam and puts him on trial for creating mutants with the intention of taking over the world, using a neuro-imager to pull incriminating scenes from Adam's memory. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Duende | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from an ancient Spanish swordsman, who is also a debonair dancer, bent on revenge. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Inferno | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team set out to identify a mutant arsonist. Emma telepathically links with the latest victim, and as he dies something of him is left in her mind. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Stone of Scone | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | One Step Closer | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. Brennan's powers begin to mutate out of control, and a prominent senator's daughter is kidnapped. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Double Jeopardy | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. CID agent Renee Delaney asks for MacLeod's help in finding a murderer. Remind me by text |
| Charmed | It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World | Brand new and exclusive sixth series of the drama about three sisters who have inherited the powers of witchcraft. Chris and Leo are sent to a parallel universe where evil prevails, and Phoebe and Paige try to rescue them. Piper gives birth to baby Chris. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Reality Check | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team face a mutant who can alter his victims' sense of reality, sending them into an alternative world that exists only in their minds. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | Forgive Us Our Trespasses | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. McLeod faces an English warrior from the Battle of Culloden. Remind me by text |
| Have I Got News for You | Topical comedy news quiz with regular team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. Remind me by text | |
| Asterix Conquers America | This German cartoon take on the characters created by Uderzo and Goscinny has none of the big-budget resources of the live-action version, but that won't bother fans of the comic-book series. Asterix's adventures are hardly the most politically correct at the best of times, but this dramatisation is guilty of some unforgivable racist lapses. The story of Getafix's rescue from the New World is not the strongest in the series, either, but the anachronistic gags are as sharp as ever, while the familiar drawing style atones for the rather uninspired voices. Remind me by text Gerhard Hahn John Rye Asterix ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Travel Sick | Germany | Grub Smith presents some of the strangest, wildest and most exhilarating experiences from around the globe. His travels take him to Germany, where he is challenged to have a singalong with a Neo-Nazi, read a peace poem to an anarchist rioter and find someone who slept with one of the Beatles. Remind me by text |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | The Ancients | Documentary series that probes the history of pornography by charting the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies. This first programme looks at how pornography played a vital and central role in civilisation and in cultural evolution. Early Victorians who unearthed `obscenities' of the past were horrified by the graphic images. Remind me by text |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | The Printing Press | Documentary series looking at the history of pornography, charting the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies. This second programme looks at how the arrival of the printing press turned once acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far more powerful. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Reawakening | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. An archaeological team find a prehistoric creature preserved in ice. As it warms up it comes back to life, and its killer instincts are also awakened. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Lest He Become | Sci-fi action series about a team of mutants with unique abilities. The team come up against New Mutants with previously unseen powers, suggesting that there's someone else out there doing genetic experimentation. The trail leads to a company owned by Shalimar's father. Remind me by text |
| Enough | The issue of domestic violence is exploited for cheap thrills in this tawdry cat-and-mouse thriller. Constructed from the usual clichés, it unsuccessfully attempts to redefine lightweight star Jennifer Lopez as a "serious" actress. Lip-glossed to perfection, Lopez works through a catalogue of female stereotypes: hard-working waitress; blushing bride; spousal punching bag, and, finally, determined mother who fights back. Each "life cycle" is accompanied by a different wig and display of mental ingenuity, as Lopez's character, Slim, embarks on a Sleeping with the Enemy-style journey to escape her vicious husband, Mitch (Billy Campbell). For all its gut-churning brutality, the film remains a grotesque mockery of reality, with director Michael Apted crudely using violence to manipulate audience emotion. Consequently, by the time he unveils his calculating conclusion, any meaningful message has been swept away on a tide of patronising, and ultimately comic, absurdity. Remind me by text Michael Apted Jennifer Lopez Mitch ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... | |
| Mutant X | Into the Moonless Night | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Tragedy strikes the team but a new face brings hope of salvation for the Sanctuary and Mutant X. Remind me by text |
| Highlander | The Modern Prometheus | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. McLeod faces the poet Lord Byron, now living the life of a decadent rock star. Remind me by text |
| Blood of the Vikings | First Blood | Julian Richards investigates the impact of the Vikings in Britain. The Vikings were a frightening people who left an indelible mark on the British psyche. Discoveries of murder victims in Wales and a Scottish monastery razed to the ground provide the first archaeological evidence of the infamous Viking hit-and-run raids, while British loot found hidden in Viking graves in Norway catches the perpetrators red-handed. Remind me by text |
| Mutant X | Into the Moonless Night | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Tragedy strikes the team but a new face brings hope of salvation for the Sanctuary and Mutant X. |
| David Bowie | Insightful interviews from throughout Bowie's career are brought together with live footage to form an in-depth profile - from glam rock, via Brian Eno and Berlin, through to the lucrative `Let's Dance' years and the new technology expert of today. | |
| Highlander | The Modern Prometheus | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. McLeod faces the poet Lord Byron, now living the life of a decadent rock star. |
| Mutant X | Wages of Sin | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team must stop a number of notorious international terrorists from acquiring a deadly substance at auction. |
| Highlander | Archangel | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The dead are walking the streets of Paris, and McLeod feels he may be losing his mind. |
| Yes, Minister | 6/7 - The Right to Know | Political sitcom. Are there occasions when the minister should be kept in the dark? Jim Hacker is not so sure. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | Photography | Documentary series looking at the history of pornography, charting the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies. This third programme examines the appeal of pornographic photographs, their development, their market and the evolution of the pornographic magazine. Remind me by text |
| Yes, Minister | Skeleton in the Cupboard | Sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the manipulative advisers who surround him. A normally efficient local council is late with some paperwork. Sir Humphrey wants to make an example of them, so Jim Hacker is forced to make him see the folly of his ways. |
| Hidden | Forbidden Berlin | Revealing the secrets of the fascinating city of Berlin and its chequered past. |
| Mutant X | The Breed | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. When the personnel at a military base become infected with a deadly parasite, the team step in to help. |
| Highlander | Avatar | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod vows to destroy the Zoroastrian demon, Ahriman, who caused so much havoc in the Highlander's life. |
| Cold War | Berlin | Epic documentary series charting the history of the Cold War. This programme traces the development of mutually hostile power blocs in Europe, as the Soviet Union, America and Britain battle over the future of Berlin. |
| Mutant X | Where Evil Dwells | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team attempt to save a criminal profiler whose mind is being controlled by a powerful serial killer. |
| Highlander | Armageddon | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The showdown between Ahriman and MacLeod begins. |
| Charmed | It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World | Brand new and exclusive sixth series of the drama about three sisters who have inherited the powers of witchcraft. Chris and Leo are sent to a parallel universe where evil prevails, and Pheobe and Paige try to rescue them. Piper gives birth to baby Chris. |
| Mutant X | The Taking of Crows | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. When Lexa is unknowingly drugged with a lethal substance, the team must race to find the antidote before it is too late. |
| Highlander | Sins of the Father | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod comes into contact with Alex Raven. |
| Johnny Mnemonic | Director Robert Longo's turgid sci-fi thriller, based on William Gibson's cyberpunk short story, is cyber junk. Keanu Reeves sleepwalks through the title role as a 21st-century hi-tech messenger who carries top-secret information thanks to a computer chip in his brain allied to bio-enhanced memory cells. Unfortunately, his latest employers have overloaded his cranial capacity to such an extent that his head will explode unless he downloads fast. Empty, flashy and incredibly dull, Longo's unpleasant movie fails to generate any suspense and, worse still, is lamely tarted up with incomprehensible surf-cowboy jargon, gratuitous violence and second-rate special effects. | |
| Cold War | Reds: 1947-53 | Kenneth Branagh narrates an epic study of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin controlled the Soviet Union quashing all dissent, while in the USA Joseph McCarthy persecuted communists as Dwight Eisenhower was elected President. |
| Doctor Who | The Power of Kroll | The Doctor and Romana come up against primitive swamp dwellers in their hunt for the fifth segment of the Key to Time. |
| Mutant X | Shadows of Darkness | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team investigate bizarre activities at a local hospital. |
| Entropy | Romantic comedy, set against the backdrop of U2's Popmart tour, about an aspiring film-maker who follows the band around, filming the tour while his personal life falls into a state of turmoil. | |
| Cold War | Star Wars: 1981-88 | Epic documentary series charting 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. In this edition a look at Reagan's space weapons. |
| Doctor Who | The Armageddon Factor | The Doctor and Romana arrive on Atrics in the middle of a nuclear war as they search for the final segment of the Key to Time. |
| Logan's Run | Michael York and Jenny Agutter star in this tale adapted by David Zelag Goodman from the novel by William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson that earnestly depicts a society that dooms those over the age of 30 to the myth of "renewal". Made 20 years after his Around the World in 80 Days, director Michael Anderson takes almost as long to make his point here, but puts on a real spurt when the runners head for the outside, only to find a wrinkled Peter Ustinov living in the ruins of what was Washington DC. Dale Hennesy and Robert De Vestel's imaginative designs were Oscar-nominated and provide some compensation for the rather cumbersome plot. | |
| The Good Girl | Small-town America comes in for another indie lashing in this patchy, pathos-packed comedy. Jennifer Aniston will surprise many as the shopgirl whose infatuation with wannabe writer Jake Gyllenhaal sends ripples through her insular Texan community. But it's the peripheral characters who bring some much-needed colour to the occasionally predictable proceedings, most notably born-again security guard Mike White and mischievous makeover clerk Zooey Deschanel, although John C Reilly and Tim Blake Nelson are typically sound as Aniston's forgiving husband and his scheming pal. It's engaging and enjoyable, but lacks the edge of Miguel Arteta's previous offerings, Star Maps and Chuck & Buck. | |
| Supernova | Begun by Romper Stomper director Geoffrey Wright, finished by 48 HRS director Walter Hill, re-edited against his wishes by Francis Ford Coppola and then partly re-shot by The Hidden director Jack Sholder. It's no wonder this drag of a science-fiction adventure is an incomprehensible mess. Credited to a bogus name â?? Thomas Lee, the new century's friendlier-sounding Alan Smithee replacement â?? this relentlessly mediocre Alien rip-off at least looks good, as it shambles through the familiar conventions of the genre. A medical crew in deep space answer a distress call and take on board the only survivor of a mysterious mining accident. The stranger (Peter Facinelli) has discovered an alien artefact from the ninth dimension (looking rather like a large glowing lava lamp!) with the power to destroy all life in the universe and start over from scratch. James Spader and Angela Bassett try in vain to soften the ridiculous impact of such clumsy space-opera theatrics, while the rest of the cast do little but disrobe. Alas, the distinct lack of fresh ideas keep this suspenseless, badly edited and overcooked melodrama from rising above even the most routine B-movie throwaway. | |
| Red Dwarf VIII | Pete | Interstellar sitcom. When Rimmer and Lister are forced to take on the guards in a basketball game, they sabotage the opposition's half-time juice with `boing', a virility enhancement drug. |
| Cold War | Sputnik 1949-61 | Kenneth Branagh narrates an epic study of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the then USSR. In the mid-50s, the Soviet Union is forging ahead and its economy growing. In October 1957, the first Russian satellite, Sputnik, orbits the Earth. America, dismayed at its own unsuccessful space programme, elects John F Kennedy president, who promises that, in a decade, America will put a man on the moon. |
| Steel | Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal suits up in a metal overcoat and butts heads with street gangs armed with super-weapons in this action fantasy that's loosely based on the DC Comics superhero of the same name. As an actor, Shaq makes a great basketball player; it's a shame that he can't deliver dialogue as easily as he put away free-throw shots. As portrayed in this movie, Steel resembles Batman kitted out by RoboCop's tailor. | |
| Mutant X | The Hand of God | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team embarks on a mission to locate and capture a powerful mutant who has the power to heal. |
| Highlander | Diplomatic Immunity | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod agrees to help a con man find out who was responsible for the murder of his wife. |
| The Sex Files: Alien Erotica 2 | Erotic sci-fi drama in which agents from the FBI's Sex Files department investigate a mysterious hotel room where people are disappearing. | |
| Enter the Ninja | After the kung fu mania of the early 1970s cooled off â?? following the unfortunate death of martial-arts superstar Bruce Lee â?? came a spate of movies relishing the silent but lethal killing machine that is the Japanese ninja. An evil Filipino crime baron (Christopher George) is intimidating a farmer into giving him his precious land. But he reckons without visiting friend and ninja Franco Nero who makes short shrift of various henchmen until he is forced into a real ninja-style showdown with all the trimmings laid on by far-eastern superstar Sho Kosugi. | |
| Zombie High | When female students are admitted to a formerly all-male prep school for the first time they discover their new classmates are walking zombies, the results of experiments carried out by teachers who crave immortal life. The title suggests a kind of camp teen horror flick (the original title The School That Stole My Brain was even worse), but what you get plays more like a masculine version of The Stepford Wives albeit one that's alternately tedious and unintentionally hilarious. It's a pity as Virginia Madsen's committed central performance deserved a better vehicle than this lacklustre attempt at social satire. Look out too among the student population for Twin Peaks alumnus Sherilyn Fenn. | |
| Cold War | The Wall 1958-61 | Kenneth Branagh narrates an epic study of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the then USSR. This programme looks at the years that followed Stalin's death. This period saw the erection of the Berlin wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War conflict. Consequently, Germany became a ruined canvas upon which the political contrasts between the East and West were painted. |
| Mutant X | Wasteland | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Jesse is forced to meet his former fiancee when the Mutant X team learns that her company is involved in the genetic manipulation of crops. |
| Highlander | Patient Number 7 | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A chance meeting with MacLeod leads a woman to discover that she is an Immortal. |
| Tru Calling | Reunion | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. Tru gets a second chance to stop an old rival dying at the school reunion. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| Who Runs Britain? | Who Runs Britain? | |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | Film | Documentary series looking at the history of pornography. This fourth programme covers the rise of the porn film industry, and looks at how the early 1970s - an era which heralded the global success of movies like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door - helped to push hardcore porn into the mainstream. Remind me by text |
| Red Dwarf VIII | Only the Good | Interstellar sitcom. Kryten decides to get his revenge on Lister for giving him dodgy advice about female biology. Meanwhile, Rimmer crosses into a mirror universe and finds another version of himself captaining the ship. |
| Yes, Minister | The Moral Dimension | Political sitcom. Third World politics are on the agenda for Jim Hacker. |
| Mutant X | No Exit | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. A mutant bent on revenge uses his powers to overtake Santuary's security system in a plot to destroy Mutant X. |
| Highlander | Black Tower | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod is pursued by a man bearing a 400-year-old grudge. |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | The Priory School | Detective drama series. Holmes sets out to solve the disappearance of Lord Arthur Saltire from the Priory School. |
| Tru Calling | Murder in the Morgue | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. Reliving the previous day, Tru attempts to stop the murder of a young bride before it happens. Plus Harrison gets the proof he needs that Tru is gifted. |
| The Sharon Osbourne Show | Talk show with Sharon Osbourne. S Clubber Hannah Spearritt rubs shoulders with music legend Richie Sambora and Keanu Reeves' band Becky, on today's star-studded show. | |
| Cold War | Vietnam | Documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This programme deals with the US involvement in Vietnam despite the warnings that this was a nationalist problem between the Communist north and the Nationalist south. The US conceded to peace talks after five years of fighting. |
| Mutant X | Brother's Keeper | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team learns about Lexa's estranged twin when he becomes the main target of an undergound operation harvesting mutant organs. |
| Highlander | Unusual Suspects | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. In 1929, MacLeod is asked by an Immortal friend to help him find the Immortal's own murderer. |
| Crime Summer at 9:Miss Marple: Nemesis | A millionaire posthumously hires Miss Marple to investigate a crime, but she is given no details. She is instructed to go on a coach tour of historic homes and ends up in Abbey Dulcis where she is invited to stay at the Old Manor. There is a murder and Miss Marple sets about finding the killer. | |
| The Hunger | Scientist Susan Sarandon replaces ageing David Bowie in vampire Catherine Deneuve's affections in director Tony Scott's visually sumptuous adaptation of Whitley Strieber's enigmatic bestseller. Set against a generally effective backdrop of immortal decadence, embodying several centuries of glossy fashion and culture, this MTV-influenced undead tale emphasises razzle-dazzle style over story content, despite an understated mix of sly humour, sexual mystery and clever make-up illusion. A spin-off anthology sequel and TV series has been produced with brothers Tony and Ridley Scott in command. | |
| Cold War | Mad World 1960-72 | Documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The USA and USSR confront each other, each armed with nuclear weapons. Each side must deter the other. But bombing the enemy could mean provoking retaliation and destroying everything. This is what is known as mutual assured destruction - MAD. |
| Clone | What will happen if we fundamentally change the way babies are made? Scientific advancements in the cloning field are shooting ahead - catch up with the latest findings. | |
| Mutant X | Possibilities | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Brennan and the team join forces with a time travelling mutant to diffuse a bomb, threatening devastating consequences. |
| Highlander | Justice | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Immortal Cara's adopted daughter is murdered. |
| The Guru | Satirising New Age mysticism and the excesses of the Bollywood musical, this appealing romantic comedy marked the first leading role for British actor Jimi Mistry (East Is East), who more than holds his own alongside Hollywood actresses Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei. Mistry plays Ramu Gupta, an amiable dance instructor who moves from India to New York in search of Broadway success. His bubble quickly bursts and he stumbles into a career as a guru to gullible socialite Tomei, dispensing second-hand sex advice gleaned from porn actress friend, Graham. This colourful diversion from Working Title (who produced Notting Hill and About a Boy) holds neither surprises nor much in the way of depth. However, there's a winning sweetness to Mistry's character and the film is consistently bright and amusing, particularly in a couple of delightful fantasy musical sequences. | |
| Cold War | Make Love not War | Epic documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This programme looks at America in the 1960s the decade of student demonstrations, radicalism and a sea-change in American society. Never has a nation been more economically stable and more socially unsettled. |
| Doctor Who | City of Death | The Doctor and Romana's holiday in Paris takes on sinister overtones. |
| Fall-out from Chernobyl | Horizon | A look at the effects of Chernobyl. In 1992, the first official Western study of Chernobyl reported no evidence of health dangers. But another small team led by two British scientists presented a very different picture, confirming local reports of an epidemic of thyroid cancer - a disease normally so rare in children that they realised Chernobyl must be the cause. The findings have grave implications for the nuclear industry worldwide. |
| Mutant X | Conspiracy Theory | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Brennan and Shalimar investigate a mysterious plane crash, while Lela contemplates her future with Mutant X. |
| The Tower | The Bloody Tower | Documentary series exploring the Tower of London's rich past through the people who live and work there today. This edition examines the truth behind the Tower's notorious reputation as a place of execution, from the murder of the Princes in the Tower to the beheadings of the Earl of Essex and Lady Jane Grey. |
| Eight Legged Freaks | David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer fight chemically mutated spiders in a rural mining town in this B-movie homage from New Zealand-born film-maker Ellory Elkayem. A virtual re-working of Louis Morneau's 1999 schlock-horror Bats, this is a tongue-in-cheek take on the creature features of the 1950s and early 60s. With its blend of absurd set pieces, hammy acting and deliberately exaggerated dialogue, the movie works hard to capture the kitsch spirit of its predecessors. Though it's too self-conscious and heavy handed to succeed entirely, there's much to enjoy, not least watching Scarlett Johansson battling for survival in a scatty supporting role before she became Hollywood gold. As for the real stars of the show â?? the often blatantly artificial arachnids â?? they may not be scary, but their jumping, galloping antics are a scream, nevertheless. | |
| Cold War | The Wall Comes Down 1989 | Epic documentary series charting 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The dominoes begin to fall in the Cold War. The Soviet bloc is breaking up and Gorbachev makes no effort to stop it, despite opposition from the communist hard-liners. In scenes of unrivalled jubilation, the hated Berlin Wall comes down and the collapse of the Eastern bloc heralds a new Europe. |
| Cold War | Red Spring - 1960s - East | Epic documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This programme focuses on 1960s Soviet Union, where defence expenditure cripples economic growth. There, and in eastern Europe, denials of freedom and of incentive stifle ambition and achievement. In August 1968, Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring. |
| Doctor Who | The Creature from the Pit | The Doctor and Romana arrive on the planet Chloris to answer a distress call which emanates from a very peculiar object. |
| The Space Game | The story of how Russia and the USA created an outpost for humanity in space - the International Space Station. In Moscow in July 2000, a reunion took place for those Russians and Americans who, at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, carried out a short-lived experiment to meet together in space. Decades later, other nations are continuing this ambitious project. | |
| Hollywood and the Pentagon | A covert look at the US armed forces' involvment in military themed films. Top Gun had backing, Platoon didn't. How will the story of Jessica lynch in Iraq be transformed for the screen? | |
| The Simpsons | Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore | When Milhouse and his mother relocate to Capital City, Bart strikes up a friendship with Lisa. Meanwhile, Homer makes money by pretending to be a transient. |
| Coupling | 9 and-a-half months | Comedy drama series about the tangled love lives of a close-knit group of friends. The night before the birth of his first child, Steve is visited by an old friend. |
| Mean Machine | Vinnie Jones doesn't stray too far from home for his first leading part, sticking with several of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stockâ?¦ company including Snatch producer Matthew Vaughn and an ex-footballer-turned-jailbird role. But what this remake of Robert Aldrich's 1974 movie The Mean Machine â?? remember, ex-football pro Burt Reynolds trained his fellow convicts to take on the guards â?? really misses is Ritchie himself, since first-time director Barry Skolnick and his writers lack the creativity and vitality of Madonna's film-making husband. That said, if you can overlook the rather thin characters and simplistic plot, the film's final third â?? an ill-tempered soccer match between warders and inmates â?? is very well filmed and highly entertaining. Jones isn't bad in a made-to-measure role, though the movie's best shots on goal come from Jason Statham's maverick keeper and Jason Flemyng's unconventional commentator. Definitely one for the boys. | |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | Though rather worthy and self-important, director Philip Noyce's superbly photographed true-life drama is not without impact as it throws light on a shameful period in Australia's past. In 1931, 14-year-old Molly (Everlyn Sampi) is interned by the Australian government as part of their policy to forcibly integrate "half-caste" Aborigines into white society (a policy which continued up until the 1970s). Molly escapes with her younger sister and cousin, and walks the 1500 miles back to their loving family using the fence that bisects the continent (it was erected to keep rabbits from the crops) as a guide. The children are wonderfully natural, Kenneth Branagh is excellent as misguided politician AO Neville â?? who apparently truly believed "racial cleansing" was for the greater good â?? and David Gulpilil is superb as the resentful Aborigine tracker employed to hunt down the youngsters. It's just a shame that Noyce's predictable direction often fails to emotionally engage us with this shocking "stolen generations" story â?? based on the book by Molly's daughter â?? that is given extra poignancy by the appearance of the real-life Molly and her sister in the heart-felt epilogue. | |
| Cold War | China - 1949-72 | Epic documentary series charting 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This edition looks at the Communist victory in China following the longest civil war in 20th-century history. Cautious at first, the reforms are soon carried out at breakneck speed. Underlying everything is the country's uneasy relationship with the USSR. |
| Mutant X | Art of Attraction | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Mutant X fights to retrieve a formula hidden in a collection of artwork, while Shalimar is given vital information from a mysterious source. |
| Highlander | Deadly Exposure | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Reagan Cole's holiday in Paris with MacLeod is not what she expects. |
| Red Space | Secret Space | The second of three programmes about recently released Cold War files which portray the Soviet space race programme as a mixture of tragedy, farce, heroism and scientific brilliance. |
| Cold War | Detente 1969-75 | Epic documentary series charting fifty years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This edition looks at China, under Mao Tse-tung, and its quarrel with the Soviet Union. Kissinger and Nixon visit China. Troops from North Vietnam overwhelm the American-backed forces in South Vietnam. Nixon meets Brezhnev and signs the SALT agreement, and the US pull out of Vietnam. |
| Tarka the Otter | Although Disney had forged an international reputation for natural history movies with the True-Life documentary series, author Henry Williamson refused to allow the studio to film his much-loved wildlife novel. Instead, he entrusted the story of Tarka to director David Cobham, who co-wrote the script with Gerald Durrell. Cobham not only remained fairly faithful to the bestselling original, but, in collaboration with cameraman John McCallum, also painted a glorious picture of the Devon countryside. Although the action is occasionally deflected by a nature ramble approach, Tarka's adventures, particularly his run-in with Deadlock the otter hound, are skilfully staged and vividly brought to life by Peter Ustinov's narration. | |
| Mutant X | A Normal Life | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Mutant X tracks down a rogue scientist, while Shalimar breaks away from the team to help Adam save the boffin and reveal the real bad guy. |
| Highlander | Two of Hearts | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Katherine is determined to take the head of a ruthless Immortal responsible for the deaths of thousands. |
| Orange County | Rising head and shoulders above the usual "teen comedy" pack thanks to its offbeat observations, quirky sensibilities and marvellous performances, this is also noteworthy for agreeably showcasing the second-generation Hollywood talents of Colin Hanks (Tom's son), Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter) and Jake Kasdan (director Lawrence's son). It feels so amusingly fresh because Kasdan focuses on extracting wry humour from a colourful ensemble of flawed eccentrics rather than gross-out actions. Set in the "perfect" Californian region of the title, aimless surfer dude Hanks finds his life changed when he discovers a novel buried in the sand and is so struck by its passionate content he decides to become a writer. But, a clerical mistake means his now brilliant grades are attributed to another student and he has 24 hours to fix the error before Stanford University closes its application ranks. Plenty of hearty chuckles and knowing giggles arise from the screwball complications, which are further energised by the brilliant John Lithgow and Catherine O'Hara as Hanks's divorced off-the-wall parents and a host of on-target cameos by Lily Tomlin, Ben Stiller, Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase and Kevin Kline. | |
| Cold War | Surrogates 1967-79 | Epic documentary series charting fifty years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both sides of the Cold War use surrogates to wage ideological and, sometimes, physical conflict. In the Middle East, the US arms Israel, while the USSR arms Syria and Egypt. |
| Yes, Minister | The Bed of Nails | Political sitcom. Jim encounters problems when he is given responsibility for developing and implementing an integrated national transport policy. |
| Mutant X | Divided Loyalties | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Brennan is forced to return to his criminal past when Mutant X discovers that his old partner is involved in stealing secrets from the Dominion. |
| Highlander | Indiscretions | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Methos and Joe are thrown together when past indiscretions threaten the present. |
| Changing Lanes | This offbeat drama is one of those smart, surprising movies that, from time to time, manage to sneak under the radar of mainstream Hollywood. It charts the escalating urban warfare between self-absorbed attorney Ben Affleck and recovering alcoholic Samuel L Jackson following a minor road accident that causes both to miss important appointments. As they struggle to right their desperate situations, they are drawn into an increasingly vindictive battle of wills. Their Road Runner-like duelling remains gripping throughout, with the deftly structured script and emotionally rich performances lending the slim premise unexpected weight, even with some fairly outlandish twists and turns. The film's numerous social and ethical undercurrents are capably handled by director Roger Michell, who also encourages exceptional work from Toni Collette and Sydney Pollack. (Audio-described) | |
| Cold War | Backyard 1954-89 | Epic documentary series charting fifty years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Determined to prevent any Latin American government from embracing communism and threatening US economic and strategic interests, the US urged the region to sever all ties with the USSR. |
| Mutant X | Age of Innocence | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The team discover an old military experiment involving an age-reversal serum and is surprised to discover that Jesse's grandfather is one of the test subjects. |
| Highlander | To Be | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Immortal Liam O'Rourke is determined to settle a 50-year-old score against MacLeod. |
| I Spy | This routine reworking of the 1960s Robert Culp/Bill Cosby TV espionage series has US secret agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) going undercover as the assistant to boxing champion Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy). Scott uses Robinson to get close to a billionaire industrialist (Malcolm McDowell), who is intent on selling an invisible plane to the highest bidder. The laid-back Wilson and the motormouthed Murphy have an engaging on-screen chemistry â?? the movie is at its best during their obviously improvised bouts of bickering â?? and there is some fun spy gadgetry on display. However, the likeable twosome are sold short by witless writing, predictable plotting and bog-standard action sequences that fail to spark this action comedy into any sort of life. | |
| Cold War | Freeze 1977-82 | Epic documentary series charting fifty years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. As America absorbs the rise in OPEC oil prices, and as concern over human rights in the East grows, the spirit of detente ebbs away. |
| Mutant X | She's Come Undone | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. The doctor responsible for using Lexa as a test subject for a secret experiment is being hunted by the team. |
| Highlander | Not to Be | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Immortal O'Rourke continues his mission to kill MacLeod. |
| Mutant X | Dream Lover | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Mutant X must stop a scientist from cloning women for use as slaves in an exclusive men's club. |
| Cold War | Soldiers of God 1979-83 | Epic documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1979, Iran, an ally of America under the shah, is swept by a fundamentalist revolution whose figurehead is the Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1982 in Afghanistan, the USSR attempts to establish a Marxist regime, leading to a hopeless Vietnam-style conflict. |
| Doctor Who | Nightmare of Eden | A collision between two ships in space marks the start of another adventure for the eccentric Time Lord. |
| Mutant X | In Between | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Brennan must connnect with Jesse and lead him through past memories they have shared in order to save his life. |
| Tru Calling | Pilot | Tru starts work at the morgue and hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When the previous day repeats itself, she realises she can change the victim's fate. |
| Sweet Home Alabama | The satirical edge that Reese Witherspoon displayed in Election is blunted by too much Legally Blonde-style kitsch in this negligible romantic comedy. She plays a New York-residing, Alabama-raised fashion designer who needs a divorce from her childhood sweetheart so she can marry socialite Patrick Dempsey. So Witherspoon heads home, bristling with snobbish attitude, only to step into a corny Dixieland fantasy that opens her eyes sufficiently to blind her to the problems that caused her to abandon husband Josh Lucas in the first place. Director Andy Tennant managed more realism in his Cinderella story Ever After, but the charming Witherspoon almost manages to make us care about yet another identikit big-city caricature. | |
| After the Genome | The three billion letters in the genetic code of humans have been read and published. But what do they mean? Does this knowledge bring science closer to curing cancer and understanding what makes us human? | |
| Cold War | Conclusions 1989-1991 | Epic documentary series charting 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the destruction of the Soviet Union as the world knew it, the balance of power has shifted. The US counts the peace dividend, and the social cost. The Cold War has ended without the antagonists firing a shot, at least at each other. Since 1945, nuclear weapons have not been used in war. |
| Cold War | Spies 1945-89 | Epic documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The atmosphere of the Cold War is saturated with mutual fear and apprehension. Giant institutions dedicated to spying come into being: KGB, FBI, MI6, the STASI, among others, all become increasingly powerful. By the 1960s, spy satellites and electronic eavesdropping are to the fore. |
| Doctor Who | Horns of Nimon | The Doctor and Romana get pulled into a whirlpool in space where they encounter a ship with a bizarre cargo. |
| Great Books: 2001 - A Space Odyssey | Documentary series investigating great works of fiction. A look at the themes of extraterrestrial life and human habitation in outer space that are raised by Arthur C Clarke's science fiction writing. | |
| Cocktail | five News Update | Having turned fighter pilots and pool players into sex objects in Top Gun and The Color of Money, Tom Cruise attempts to do the same service for, er, bartenders in this romantic comedy. You'd better believe it. Cruise learns all about the meaning of life by mixing drinks, under the tutelage of Martini-mentor Bryan Brown. Admittedly, Cruise's technique is pretty impressive; he juggles with bottles, jiggles his behind and makes his female customers drunk with desire. But then along comes Elisabeth Shue, who makes him re-assess his lifestyle. Cue lots of serious dialogue. Perhaps the best one can say for this bland concoction mixed by agents and the studio executives is that every bartender in Hollywood wants to be Tom Cruise and that suffices as an ironic subtext. Fans of Paul Verhoeven's pitiful Showgirls might like to check out Gina Gershon with her clothes on. | |
| Cold War | Star Wars 1980-88 | Epic documentary series which charts 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. American president Ronald Reagan abhors the idea of nuclear war, and is prepared to vastly increase arms expenditure to protect his country from danger. The Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev knows he cannot respond to Reagan's raising the stakes and a deal is struck. |
| The Alphabet Murders | Having met with cinematic success with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as played by Margaret Rutherford, MGM turned to another of Christie's detectives, Hercule Poirot, here incarnated in the unlikely personage of Tony Randall. The film's an unfortunate mess, which is doubly sad since talented satirist director Frank Tashlin should be capable of getting a handle on the whole affair. Poirot stalks a killer who is bumping off victims in alphabetical order. Rutherford makes a guest appearance, but even that fails to enliven the proceedings. Poirot would be better served by Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov a decade later, but Anita Ekberg fans should note that the buxom blonde is reunited here with her Hollywood or Bust director. | |
| 95 Worlds and Counting | Documentary combining footage from the frozen Arctic, the lava flows of Hawaiian volcanos and the geysers of Yellowstone Park with cutting-edge animation to represent conditions on some of the solar system's many moons. | |
| Highlander | The Gathering | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Duncan Macleod is roused from his peaceful existence when he is challenged to combat by Slan Quince, an evil Immortal. |
| Mutant X | The Prophecy | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for a race of superhumans. Brennan battles with a Guardian of the Prophecy to stop the late mutant Ashlocke's plan from beyond the grave of world domination. |
| Tru Calling | The Longest Day | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous 24 hours and thus prevent murders and suicides from taking place. Tru relives the same day four times as she tries to stop a man from robbing a grocery store, an event that repeatedly ends with someone being killed. |
| Cold War | Conclusions 1990... and After | Epic documentary series charting 50 years of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the destruction of the Soviet Union as the world knew it, the balance of power has shifted. The US counts the peace dividend, and the social cost. The Cold War has ended without the antagonists firing a shot, at least at each other. Since 1945, nuclear weapons have not been used in war. |
| Yes, Minister | The Whisky Priest | Sitcom about a British government minister and his advisers. MP Jim Hacker finds himself in possession of some embarrassing information regarding the sale of British arms to terrorist groups. |
| Highlander | Family Tree | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Richie attempts to learn more about his parents, but instead he falls prey to a conman. |
| Mutant X | Cirques des Merveilles | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Mutant X comes across a travelling death camp that is disguised as a circus. |
| O | It may be aimed at adolescents, but this modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Othello from director Tim Blake Nelson is in every way a grown-up movie. Fittingly set in a modern high school in the American south, the drama twists its themes of vengeance, jealousy and racism into a chilling and timely snapshot of contemporary teenage life. Rejecting the trend of "dumbing down" literary adaptations for a younger audience, Nelson keeps his tragedy dark and grimly pessimistic. There's no glimmer of hope or salvation here, as black basketball hero Odin James (Mekhi Phifer) staggers like a sleepwalker into an inescapable hell. Set up by embittered pal Hugo (a poisonously good Josh Hartnett), who envies him his sporting prowess and beautiful girlfriend Desi (Julia Stiles), Odin's fall from grace is painfully bleak and downright nasty. Such sombre and uneasy viewing will leave you with much to ponder when those end credits roll. | |
| Highlander | The Road Not Taken | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Immortal Kiem Sun has long sought to create perfect warriors to protect him. |
| Mutant X | The Assault | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants, humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. When the dominion captures Lexa and Jesse, the team uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding Mutant X. |
| Highlander | Innocent Man | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient, time-travelling warriors against one another. A brain-damaged, homeless veteran is charged with the beheading of an Immortal, whom MacLeod himself had killed in combat. MacLeod must therefore try and clear the innocent man. |
| Doctor Who | The Leisure Hive | The eccentric Time Lord's plans for a well-earned holiday go awry. |
| Highlander | So confused as to be hilariously watchable, this cult fantasy from director Russell Mulcahy wavers between sci-fi, horror flick and music video. Christopher Lambert plays the 16th-century Scottish clansman who is schooled into being an immortal swordsman by Sean Connery for eternal battles with the evil Kurgan (Clancy Brown). There are some great sword-lunging duels â?? the best, in fact, is in a Madison Square Garden garage at the beginning â?? but the plot itself is never as pointedly directed. | |
| Doctor Who | Meglos | What doom lies in store for the planet Tigella? What secret lies beneath the Zolfa-Thuran sands? |
| Highlander | Free Fall | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A young woman throws herself to her death, only to be revived with the realisation that she is an Immortal. |
| Hidden | Mysterious Stonehenge | An investigation into the mystery surrounding the function and construction of Stonehenge. |
| Tracker | Children of the Night | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole searches for a 15-year-old being controlled by an alien that is luring children for its sinister experimentation. |
| Highlander | Bad Day in Building A | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod, Tess and Richie are taken hostage in a courtroom by a desperate gang bent on saving their leader from prison. |
| Tracker | Breach | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole must rescue a jailed alien before the US government realises they are here on Earth. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| The Lost Legions of Varus | Documentary recalling one of the worst military disasters ever suffered by the Romans. In the year 9 AD, three legions marched into a trap in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany. Attacked by an alliance of German tribes, they were massacred almost to a man, with an estimated loss of 20,000 lives. The Roman commander, Publius Quinctilius Varus, committed suicide by falling on his sword. | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | The Window and the Weather | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. After an unfortunate accident involving a big tree, St Barnabus's Church finds itself in need of a new stained-glass window, but no one can remember the theme of the old pane. (Audio-described) |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Trauma | Sitcom about two flatmates who have nothing in common apart from their outrageous attitude to life and their taste in men. Stuck in hospital with a saucepan on her head and a broken wrist after falling off a bus on Oxford Street, Linda is consoled by the sight of a hunky nurse. Tom is also happy, having won a part in the TV series 'Doctor Deaf'. It seems that, for once, things are going well for the hapless flatmates. (Audio-described) |
| Yes, Minister | The Middle-Class Rip-Off | Sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker supports the sale of a museum, which will help fund the ailing local football club. Sir Humphrey, however, is horrified. |
| Ghostbusters | The often dazzling, special effects-driven slapstick tends to overshadow the fact that there are some slyer, more sophisticated laughs on offer in this blockbusting family comedy. Bill Murray is terrifically deadpan and sleazy as the dubious leader of a troupe of ghostbusters (writers Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, plus Ernie Hudson) who are called into action when ancient spirits are let loose in New York. Sigourney Weaver shows an admirably light touch as a possessed cellist, and Rick Moranis also scores in his breakthrough movie. Director Ivan Reitman stages some spectacular set pieces, including an enjoyably daft finale with a giant marshmallow man. The concept was so successful that the film spawned a cartoon series and almost the entire team reunited for a sequel. | |
| Highlander | Mountain Men | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. When Tessa is taken by a band of survivalists, MacLeod must call on his own skills, honed 150 years earlier when he roamed the same mountain. |
| Tracker | Double Down | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. When Dr Zin frames Cole for murder, Mel must find a way to free him. |
| Red Dwarf | Duct Soup | Cult space sitcom. The crew are forced to crawl through the mile-long labyrinth of service ducts to restart the engines. Along the way, they discover a few surprising things about one another. |
| Red Dwarf | Blue | Cult sci-fi sitcom. Lister seeks psychiatric help from Kryten when he begins to miss Rimmer. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Election | Sitcom about a female vicar. The local elections are looming and David is confident of victory. His new plans include twinning Dibley with every country in Europe - except Belgium. (Audio-described) |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Singing in the Drain | Sitcom about two flatmates who have nothing in common apart from their outrageous attitude to life and their taste in men. Linda finally realises her ambition to become a model, while Tom secures an audition for a West End musical. (Audio-described) |
| UFO | Ultra-blue comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown made his screen debut in this raucous, very British sci-fi comedy. (Not since Sid Field had a comic gone direct from stage to film without doing TV in between). When Brown is being his cheekily offensive self, it is often hard to suppress a smile. But when he is abducted by female extraterrestrials, who punish him for his sexism, the plot goes to pieces, entire scenes make no sense and the laughs are few. A pity that a live act of undoubted talent was not better coached for films. ("Contains swearing" is putting it mildly.) | |
| Ocean's Eleven | This is one of the great (and one of the most critically under-rated) caper movies. The story was discovered by Peter Lawford and brought to the attention of fellow Rat Pack member Frank Sinatra. Sinatra effectively produced the movie, casting himself as former sergeant Danny Ocean, who calls on his old wartime pals to help him in a raid on Las Vegas. The League of Gentlemen had a similar plot, but this is altogether sleeker and more audacious, and superbly cast. It's directed in glossy Panavision by veteran Lewis Milestone, who keeps a tight lid on the Rat Pack's antics. The ending, if rather derivative, is still utterly brilliant. | |
| Critical Eye | Aliens | Documentary focusing upon the science behind the unexplained, including paranormal and New Age philosophies. This edition examines evidence relating to UFO sightings, alien abductions, government conspiracies and communication with extra-terrestrial life forms. |
| Highlander | Deadly Medicine | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod is struck by a speeding automobile. As he recovers in hospital, he finds his accident has attracted the unwelcome attention of a deranged doctor. |
| Tracker | Native Son | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole gets some tracking advice from a Native American investigating a murder. |
| The New Statesman | Sex Is Wrong | Political sitcom. The devious Alan B'Stard realises that joining a moral crusade can be extremely profitable. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Animals | Sitcom about a woman vicar. Geraldine decides the Sunday service needs a radical overhaul and proposes turning the chapel into a wonderful new ark - but parish council chairman David is far from impressed. (Audio-described) |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Decoy | Sitcom about two flatmates who have nothing in common apart from their outrageous attitude to life and their taste in men. Linda goes undercover to find out if Jez is capable of having an affair. Meanwhile, Tom auditions for `Crossroads'. (Audio-described) |
| Highlander | The Sea Witch | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Richie Ryan tries to protect an old girlfriend from a band of drug dealers. |
| Tracker | To Catch a Desserian | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole and Mel go undercover to snare some alien fugitives at a ritzy art gallery event. |
| The New Statesman | Waste Not, Want Not | Sitcom about loathsome Tory MP Alan B'Stard. Alan and his sex-change business advisor have to dispose of a rather large consignment of Argentinian nuclear waste. Believing charity begins at home, Alan decides to bestow the honour on his own constituents. |
| Gangs of New York | Following director Martin Scorsese's fascination with the New York underworld back to its bloody, primal roots, this brutal, occasionally muddled, but always riveting dream project centres on Manhattan gang warfare in the 1860s. It begins with a gruesome street battle between the Nativists (gang members of Anglo-Saxon descent) and the Dead Rabbits (more recently arrived Irish-Americans), during which the latter's leader, Priest Vallon (a brief but striking appearance from Liam Neeson), is slaughtered in front of his young son. Sixteen years later, Priest's son, Amsterdam (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a disappointingly one-note performance), returns to the Five Points district in New York where the Nativists now rule supreme and insinuates himself with the gang in order to avenge his father. However, his evolving relationship with Nativist boss Bill the Butcher (a searing performance from Daniel Day-Lewis) tempers his anger and provides the young man with a dilemma. If the film never marries its complex political intrigue with the more simplistic personal stories â?? the surrogate father-son set-up between Amsterdam and Bill or Amsterdam's spiky romance with pickpocket Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz) â?? the epic sweep is breathtaking, the attention to detail intoxicating and Daniel Day-Lewis's turn is unmissable. | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. The villagers decide to give up something they love for Lent, and a debate rages over the Dibley bunny - is it real or just a figment of Alice's sad imagination? (Audio-described) | |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Who's That Boy? | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. Linda and Tom awake to find a half-naked man in their flat. The pair attempt to piece together the events of the night before and work out which one of them got lucky. (Audio-described) |
| Doctor Who | Full Circle | Another adventure for the eccentric time traveller who ends up in an alternative universe called E-Space. On the planet Alzarius, its passive inhabitants are ruled by the Deciders who have lied to them for years about their past roots. The Doctor discovers that they could leave the planet at any time and be free - but he has to convince the sceptical race. |
| Tru Calling | Valentine | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous 24 hours and thus prevent murders and suicides from taking place. On Valentine's Day, Tru searches for a serial killer who leaves newspaper clippings in the shape of hearts on his victims. |
| The New Statesman | Friends of St James | Political sitcom. B'Stard mistakes the president of a small Caribbean island for the head doorman. |
| Doctor Who | State of Decay | Classic sci-fi drama series. The Doctor must learn the secret of the Tower and find out what is draining the life of the planet. |
| Highlander | Revenge Is Sweet | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Seeking revenge for the apparent death of her lover, a woman toys with MacLeod before she attempts to kill him. |
| The New Statesman | Three-Line Whipping | Political sitcom. A night of passion with French maid Chantelle spells trouble for loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. |
| Tracker | The Miracle | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole realises a teenager with miraculous healing powers is actually an alien scientist. |
| The New Statesman | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. B'Stard attempts to regain popularity by proposing Haltemprice as the ideal place for a sheep farm. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Engagement | Sitcom about a woman vicar. Geraldine turns Cupid when she brings Alice and Hugo together - and then receives a marriage proposal from a most unexpected source. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | The Big Break | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. Tom believes he's got the break he's been waiting for when he lands an audition to play a hooligan in a TV crime reconstruction. Linda receives an anonymous love letter. |
| Highlander | See No Evil | Swashbuckling drama series about ancient time-travelling warriors. MacLeod recognises a serial killer as an Immortal he killed in 1921. |
| Tracker | Eye of the Storm | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. A snowstorm traps Mel and Cole with a murderous alien who is secretly working for Dr Zin. |
| Tru Calling | Drop Dead Gorgeous | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. A beauty pageant hopeful dies in mysterious circumstances, meanwhile a reporter is digging for information on Tru. |
| Yes, Minister | 2/7 - Doing the Honours | Classic sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker plans to block honours for civil servants until cost-cutting measures are introduced in their departments. Sir Humphrey plans his own retaliation. |
| Yes, Minister | The Death List | Political sitcom. The minister is shocked to discover that his department is responsible for supplying all the Government's electronic surveillance equipment. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Dibley Live | Sitcom about a woman vicar. When Radio Dibley is live on air for one week, Geraldine presents a `Brain of Dibley' competition, and Owen offers to give a running commentary whilst gelding horses. Meanwhile, Alice is desperate to impress her future father-in-law. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Legs and Co | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. Tom is bedridden with a broken leg, and receives a visit from a suicidal home help called Shirley. Meanwhile, Linda scores with a hunky motorcycle courier named Joe. |
| Highlander | Eyewitness | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod discovers that Tessa's life is in danger after she witnesses a murder. |
| Tracker | Dark Road Home | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole poses as a mental health patient in his quest to uncover Dr Zin's evil master plan. |
| The New Statesman | Live from Westminster | Political sitcom. Alan B'Stard MP sees an opportunity for self-promotion when television cameras are introduced to the House of Commons. |
| Red Dwarf | Beyond a Joke | Cult sci-fi sitcom. Kochanski uses the artificial reality suite to transport the crew into the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, where Kryten runs riot. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Celebrity Vicar | Sitcom about a female vicar. Geraldine becomes a celebrity after doing `Pause for Thought' on the Terry Wogan show. Meanwhile, the villagers prepare to unleash the Dibley Gala. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Do They Take Sugar? | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. In spite of Linda's evident disapproval, her long-lost sister takes refuge in the flat. Meanwhile, Tom is inundated with offers of television work. |
| Warriors of Virtue 2: Return to Tao | Martial arts fantasy sequel in which Ryan is sent to liberate the Warriors of Virtue from the evil Dogon. However, on returning from a successful mission, he discovers that some villains have followed him back into his world. | |
| Highlander | Band of Brothers | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Darius sends a message to MacLeod that Grayson is now stalking Darius' students - including MacLeod. |
| Tracker | A Made Guy | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole realises he may be in over his head after infiltrating the mob to stop Dr Zin. |
| The New Statesman | A Wapping Conspiracy | Political sitcom. Always eager to improve the minds of the young, B'Stard forms the Young Ladies' Recreational Association. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | The Arrival | Sitcom about a female vicar. When Reverend Pottle, the 102-year-old vicar of Dibley village, dies suddenly, the locals are shocked to discover that his replacement is a woman. The newly appointed Geraldine invites all and sundry to call her Gerry, but the breath of fresh air she brings looks like turning into a foul wind as the chairman of the parish council wants her removed as soon as possible. (Audio-described) |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Saturday Night Diva | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. Tom meets a gorgeous Italian named Nino, whom he attempts to impress by pretending to be a top British soap star. Meanwhile, Linda stays at home and entertains Jez over a bottle of wine. |
| The New Statesman | The Haltemprice Bunker | Political sitcom. Alan B'Stard has a run-in with anti-Nazi campaigners. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Songs of Praise | Dawn French positively revels in the role of the maverick female vicar. The Songs of Praise team comes to the parish to meet Geraldine. Unfortunately for her, the director of the team is rather dishy, while Alice continues to be devastatingly below par on the IQ front. (Audio-described) |
| Doctor Who | Warriors' Gate | Another adventure for the eccentric time traveller. The Doctor wants to save a race called the Tharils who are being exploited by The Privateers, a superior race who are using them as guinea pigs in an attempt to enter the gateway between E-Space and N-Space. |
| The New Statesman | California Here I Come | Political sitcom. Alan B'Stard flies to California and experiences the divide between Britain and America. |
| Final Destination 2 | For a director whose debut feature was Disney's animal adventure Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, choosing a horror film for a follow-up might seem a surprising option. But watching David R Ellis's highly effective sequel to sleeper hit Final Destination, you'd never imagine he was anything other than a seasoned frightmaster. This time around it's perturbed teenager AJ Cook who prompts Death to resume his stalking, after her premonitions save her and a group of motorists from a devastating freeway pile-up. While the film is no more sophisticated than the original, Ellis's skilful manipulation of tried-and-tested horror conventions demonstrates a thorough understanding of the genre. A tense mix of innovative gore sequences and irony-laden dialogue, this is a deliciously over-the-top thrill-ride with no pretensions â?? and the fun of guessing how the movie's doomed protagonists will meet their maker will keep most viewers hooked till the end. | |
| Tracker | Trust | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Guest starring Rod Wilson as Tev/Gordon. |
| Doctor Who | The Keeper of Traken | Classic sci-fi. A mysterious cloud appears over Traken, the Tardis disappears, and evil lurks not far away. |
| Highlander | For Evil's Sake | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The evil immortal Kuyler has hired himself out through the ages as assassin and strikes again in modern-day Paris. Can MacLeod put an end to his centuries-old reign of terror? |
| Highlander | For Tomorrow We Die | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod has the awesome task of tracking down Xavier, an Immortal who has lived in hedonistic spendour down through the ages. |
| The New Statesman | May the Best Man Win | Political sitcom. Alan B'Stard makes a lunch date with the Iron Lady's secretary. |
| Young Guns | Offbeat western about six young outlaws in 1870s New Mexico, led by Billy the Kid, who ride out to avenge the death of their mentor, a British rancher murdered by a cattle baron. The tearaways are deputised and told to bring the guilty men back alive, but Billy has other plans, and a bloody rampage ensues. | |
| Tracker | Back Into the Breach | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole tries to stop Dr Zin from gaining vital information from the government. |
| Tracker | What Lies Beneath | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole finally has a showdown with arch enemy Dr Zin. |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Broken Bow | Prequel `Star Trek' series, set 100 years before the time of Captain Kirk, when interstellar travel is in its infancy. In the pilot episode, the Enterprise sets off on her maiden voyage to return a wounded Klingon to his people. |
| The New Statesman | Piers of the Realm | Political sitcom. Alan B'Stard is holding a surgery in his constituency. But his constituents are made to pay for the pleasure - in hard cash. |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| The Young Ones | Boring | Ben Elton's anarchic comedy series about a group of students and their squalid North London house. With special guests Madness. |
| The Young Ones | Oil | Ben Elton's anarchic sitcom. Neil and Viv strike oil in the cellar. This sudden wealth brings out the worst in Mike. |
| Secrets of Lost Empires | Stonehenge | Art Malik follows an attempt by structural engineer Mark Whitby to solve one of the great mysteries of ancient Britain - how was Stonehenge built? With the aid of hundreds of labourers, he set out to build a full-size 90-ton trilithon using wood, rope, force and modern know-how in the hope of understanding how the stones were moved and laid with such precision. |
| Highlander | The Beast Below | Swashbuckling adventure series in which ancient time-travelling warriors are pitted against one another. A mysterious death at the Paris Opera reacquaints MacLeod with one of the stranger Immortals. |
| Tracker | Remember When | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Mel must help Cole after he loses his memory and risks being stuck on Earth for 100 years. |
| Tru Calling | Daddy's Girl | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. When Tru's father's girlfriend is murdered, Tru meets the man responsible for her own mother's death. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| The New Statesman | Labour of Love | Sitcom about an outrageous MP. Alan's position as the most right-wing Member of Parliament is threatened by the arrival of new boy Victor Crosby. |
| Highlander | Saving Grace | Sci-fi adventure series in which ancient time-travelling warriors do battle against one another. A former conquistador obsessed with McLeod's scientist friend Grace frames her for the murder of her lover. |
| Tracker | Pilot | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. |
| The New Statesman | The Party's Over | Political comedy. John Major's honeymoon period is over. The Tories desperately need someone young, energetic, radical and charismatic to lead them from the economic malaise. Who better to mastermind their campaign strategy than Alan B'Stard! |
| Red Dwarf | Epideme | Cult sci-fi sitcom. When an intelligent virus impregnates Lister, he sets up a communication link with his disease and tries to sweet-talk it into not killing him. |
| Highlander | The Lady and the Tiger | Swashbuckling adventure series about rival time-travelling warriors. Whilst visiting the circus, MacLeod is reunited with the Immortal Amanda. |
| Tracker | Cloud Nine | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole must track and stop an alien drug dealer whose wares have a deadly effect on humans. |
| The New Statesman | Let Them Sniff Cake | Sitcom about an outrageous MP. Alan's plans to relieve Lord Penistone of a chunk of his wealth are disrupted by the death threats he receives as result of his controversial views on animal exploitation. |
| Highlander | The Eye of the Beholder | Swashbuckling adventure series about rival time-travelling warriors. Richie meets a beautiful young woman who leads him into the world of haute couture. |
| Tracker | Roswell (aka Area 51) | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. The capture of a telepathic alien leads Cole to Roswell and the wreckage of a crashed ship. |
| The New Statesman | Keeping Mum | Sitcom about an outrageous MP. Alan's typically strident views on the abolition of social security for the elderly look set to backfire on him. |
| Doctor Who | Logopolis | The Doctor needs some work done to the TARDIS. In his quest to get the job done, he stumbles upon a plot by the Master to rule the universe via mathematics. |
| The New Statesman | Natural Selection | Satirical comedy series about an unscrupulous MP. During the annual cocktail party at his country residence, Alan's demonstration of contempt for his constituents leads to the worst crisis of his career. |
| Doctor Who | Castrovala | What are the dangers of Event One? |
| Highlander | Avenging Angel | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. An immortal vigilante becomes obsessed with the idea that he has been chosen to wage a crusade against perversion. |
| The New Statesman | Profit of Boom | Political comedy series. Alan spreads the gospel of capitalism to the Russians. |
| The Young Ones | Bomb | Ben Elton's anarchic sitcom about student misfits. Not much going on at breakfast time - except that someone has left an atomic bomb in the kitchen. |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Globe Trekker | Russia | The budget traveller's guide to the world. Ian Wright takes an inspiring trip to Russia where he visits Moscow, taking in the Kremlin, Red Square and Lenin's Tomb. He also visits Star City, where Russian cosmonauts are trained for space travel. |
| Pub Guide to the Universe | Craig Charles and his guests at the Amazing Space pub discuss a variety of out-of-this-world topics. | |
| Highlander | Nowhere to Run | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod must protect a young man and his family from the Immortals. |
| Tracker | The Beast | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole fights a super-strong alien canine hybrid unleashed by evil Dr Zin. |
| Real Vampires... Exposed! | Self-proclaimed vampires discuss the myths and rituals surrounding their cryptic world. | |
| Yes, Minister | 4/7 - The Greasy Pole | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker finds himself in the middle of a major row over the British Chemical Corporation. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| Red Dwarf | Tikka to Ride | Cult space sitcom. Lister travels back in time to an Indian takeaway when he discovers that the ship's curry supplies have been destroyed. Unfortunately, he ends up in Dallas in November 1963, where he accidentally pushes a gunman out of a fifth-storey window. |
| Highlander | The Hunters | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A mysterious group of mortals band together to stalk Immortals... and even holy ground is no protection. |
| Tracker | Without a Trace | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. An old passion is rekindled when Cole transforms himself into Mel's shady ex-boyfriend. |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Red Dwarf | Nanarchy | Cult sci-fi sitcom. The crew catch up with Red Dwarf and meet an old friend. |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Highlander | The Watchers | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod discovers a secret organisation, the Watchers, who record the lives of Immortals and pass the information on down through the ages. Now some have become Hunters - using the information to seek out and kill Immortals. |
| The New Statesman | Back from the Mort | Political sitcom. After two years as a prisoner in a Russian gulag, Alan B'Stard flies in to RAF Lyneham and a hero's welcome only to discover that Britain is in the grip of a recession, Sarah is in the arms of a British count, Piers is about to become Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Greville Eager is making inroads into the European money mountain. It's time for B'Stard to make his move. |
| Highlander | Studies in Light | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A friend and fellow Immortal invites MacLeod to his photography exhibition, revealing a cynical and disturbed outlook. Mac is forced to make him face the truth - or die. |
| The New Statesman | HASH | Political sitcom. As the European Parliament prepares to legalise marijuana, Alan B'Stard seizes the opportunity to line his own pockets - but the Mafia has other ideas. |
| Virtual Democracy? | Will the internet expand democratic involvement, or is it just a plaything for the elite? Videoplus: 39073 | |
| Doctor Who | Four to Doomsday | Classic sci-fi. Who is Monarch? Videoplus: 93738528 |
| 10 Things You Didn't Know About... | Technology | Justin Lee Collins explores some of life's more unusual, bizarre and amazing facts. He tries out some amazing internet spectacles, demonstrates a hand-held lie detector and explains why the Channel Tunnel was designed to leak. Videoplus: 3667696 |
| Tru Calling | The Getaway | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. A reporter on Tru's tail is killed during a robbery but when the day plays again, Tru finds herself in a position to save his life. |
| The New Statesman | Speaking in Tongues | Political sitcom. Newly elected MEP for the German constituency of Obersaxony, Alan B'Stard, sniffs out bribery and corruption in Brussels. |
| The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow | Animated story of two friends who invoke the Headless Horseman, but their supernatural experiment goes awry when the mysterious phantom begins wreaking havoc. Based upon the classic story by Washington Irving. Features the voices of Eric Myers and Joanna Ruiz. Videoplus: 1710178 | |
| The New Statesman | Heil and Farewell | Political sitcom. With refugees and riots in his German constituency, Alan joins a group of neo-Nazis. Meanwhile Sarah and Krimhilde are determined to get even with B'Stard. |
| Highlander | Turnabout | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The evil Immortal Quentin Barnes escapes from the tomb that has held him captive for several decades, and pursues MacLeod's old friend Michael Moore. It soon transpires that some trickery has been afoot, for Barnes and Michael are one and the same. |
| The New Statesman | A Bigger Splash | Political sitcom. Alan ships in emergency relief supplies to war-torn Bosnia at his own expense. While Piers pursues his peace plan, Alan pursues his own pension plan and Robert Maxwell's missing millions. |
| The Young Ones | Interesting | Ben Elton's anarchic sitcom about early 80s student life in North London. The boys have a party, and one of the guests brings a mysterious present for Rik. With musical guests Rip, Rig and Panic. |
| The Young Ones | Flood | The anarchic exploits of four students sharing a squalid North London house. Disaster looms as riots sweep the country, the economy collapses and the threat of nuclear conflict grows - but the question is, will Cliff survive? |
| Highlander | The Darkness | Sci-fi adventure series about ancient immortal warriors. A renegade Watcher kidnaps Tessa in an attempt to lure MacLeod to him. |
| Tru Calling | Two Pair | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous 24 hours, thus enabling her to prevent murders and other deaths. When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes night-shift work at a morgue. Harrison helps Tru investigate two deaths - a promising young student and a businessman in debt. Videoplus: 21661 |
| Yes, Minister | 5/7 - The Devil You Know | Classic political sitcom. The minister is upset by rumours of a cabinet reshuffle and decides to take drastic action to keep his post. Videoplus: 32241 |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Videoplus: 4418241 | |
| Red Dwarf | Stoke Me a Clipper | Cult space sitcom. Rimmer's much more dashing alter ego, Ace Rimmer, arrives on Starbug terminally wounded and with an extraordinary request. Videoplus: 9717384 |
| Empire | Why Britain? | Professor Niall Ferguson presents a six-part series charting the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. This opening programme asks why it was that Britain built the biggest empire the world has ever seen, tracing the transition from piracy to power and discovering how trading patterns throughout the world created the first age of globalisation. Videoplus: 1446948 |
| Highlander | An Eye for an Eye | Swashbuckling adventure series about rival time-travelling warriors. Richie attempts to be a hero after witnessing a terrorist attack. |
| The New Statesman | Happiness is a Warm Gun | Sitcom about a loathsome London MP. B'Stard manages to push through a special bill allowing the Force to carry guns. |
| Femme Fatale | One of suspense stylist Brian De Palma's best over-the-top doodles on the B-movie film noir form, this cool, erotically-charged déjà-vu Euro-thriller is a sumptuously elegant treat from its wordless lesbian encounter beginning at the Cannes Film Festival to its cleverly twisted end. Can reclusive French Ambassador's wife Rebecca Romijn-Stamos hide her former identity as a jewel thief when secret snaps taken by paparazzi photographer Antonio Banderas alert her former partners in crime into reclaiming stolen diamonds? Complete with a mind-bending last-act shift in reality that many will find a complete cheat, De Palma's audaciously seductive deception is a transcendent, bold and imaginative exercise in dazzling film-making craft and devious sleight-of-hand audience manipulation, laced with his usual tongue-in-chic trademarks. And Romijn-Stamos makes a perfect, icy, duplicitous blonde heroine in the best Hitchcock tradition. Videoplus: 250384 | |
| Highlander | The Zone | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. The Zone is being taken over by Canaan, a charismatic leader, who urges his followers to steal the material that has been denied them. |
| The New Statesman | Passport to Freedom | Sitcom. A stolen night of passion with a girl from the Sloaney Girl Bureau causes panic for the newly elected Alan B'stard. |
| Karate | A female martial arts expert travels to Japan to train with the masters of Karate, the ancient practice rooted in resistance fighting. | |
| Aikido | Josette Normandeau, a female martial arts expert travels to Japan to train with the masters of this ancient practice. Will she be able to learn this difficult code of Japanese etiquette? | |
| Highlander | The Return of Amanda | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Amanda, the Immortal cat burglar, returns to town and tells MacLeod that she has retired from her life of crime - but Mac is not convinced. |
| The Ring | The words "Hollywood remake" may fill film fans with dread â?? foreign language movies ruined by a refit for the multiplex crowd â?? but Mousehunt director Gore Verbinski's version of Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror classic is a surprisingly good effort that retains much of the unnerving, creepy atmosphere of the original. An unlabelled videotape is in circulation, bringing death after seven days to anyone who watches it. One of its victims is the niece of journalist Naomi Watts, who decides to uncover the source of the tape and find out whether this "curse" is real, a quest that's given added urgency after Watts chooses to view the video herself. Verbinski makes a couple of inventive additions â?? a horse going berserk on a car ferry is a brilliantly surreal innovation â?? and although the spine-chilling terror of the original is muted by the overuse of CGI, this is still a worthy substitute if you're not in the mood for subtitles. Videoplus: 56303 | |
| Doctor Who | Black Orchid | Another adventure for the errant Timelord. What is the secret of the well-furnished cell? Videoplus: 5273412 |
| Highlander | Revenge of the Sword | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. One of Charlie's former students is in danger from a powerful gang. |
| The Young Ones | Bambi | Anarchic sitcom about degenerate North London students in the 80s. The reprobates from Scumbag College test their mental dexterity against Footlights College on a TV quiz show - but not before Vivian loses his head. With guest stars Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Ben Elton. |
| The Young Ones | Cash | Anarchic 80s comedy series about North London students. Drastic measures are called for in a bid to keep warm - will the furniture survive? |
| Lexx | Vlad | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. A deadly, seductive foe is let loose on the Lexx. Videoplus: 3433316 |
| Knights of the Round Table | This 1950s Hollywood retelling of the Arthurian legend finds Lancelot being given the red card by Arthur for his, shall we say, inappropriate affection for Guinevere, but galloping back to rescue the day by overcoming the wicked Modred. Shot in Britain, as MGM's first CinemaScope movie, and starring the good-looking but passionless Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner as the doomed lovers, the finished product is long on pomp and pageantry, though sadly not as stirring as it sounds or should be. Videoplus: 1947749 | |
| Highlander | Run for Your Life | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod encounters a disillusioned Immortal he first met in 1929 when he saved him from a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob. |
| 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure | Animated feature-length adventure for children, a sequel to the 1961 film from Disney. Patch the dalmatian dog, son of Pongo and Perdita, gets lost in London when trying to meet up with his TV hero, the canine star Thunderbolt. Unfortunately, the dog-hating Cruella De Vil is also on the prowl in the city. | |
| Tru Calling | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous day, thus helping her to prevent murders and other deaths. Tru attempts to prevent an actress from dying in a car accident. Videoplus: 48381 | |
| Red Dwarf | Ouroboros | Cult space sitcom. Lister's ex-girlfriend Kristine Kochanski reappears when two realities converge, sending Kryten into a jealous rage. Videoplus: 9953126 |
| Empire | White Plague | Professor Niall Ferguson presents a six-part series charting the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. This episode examines the lessons learned by defeat in the American War of Independence. Other white colonists were given enough freedom to prevent a clamour for independence, but there were many millions who would never enjoy any liberty within the British Empire. Videoplus: 9896010 |
| Highlander | Epitaph for Tommy | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. When an innocent bystander is accidentally killed during a swordfight, MacLeod, who is haunted by the death, tries to find out more about the dead man. |
| Three Colours White | The second film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution is the slightest of the series, yet there is still much to admire in a movie intended as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin. Although a comedy, White is an examination of the aftermath of the Communist regime in Poland under which everyone was supposed to be equal. The picture painted of democratic Warsaw, with its shady deals and run-down streets, is both unflattering and affectionate, providing an animated backdrop to this droll story of love on the rocks. Zbigniew Zamachowski excels as the jilted hairdresser determined never to feel inferior again. Videoplus: 77434121 | |
| Red Dwarf VIII | Back in the Red | Interstellar sitcom. Rimmer is invited to dinner with the captain, and douses himself with a sexual magnetism virus, making himself irresistible to the female crew. Videoplus: 837188 |
| Lexx | P4X | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Xev is exploited in a steamy women's prison. Videoplus: 8076473 |
| Highlander | The Fighter | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. An old friend of Macleod's is a scrappy little Irishman who can charm anyone into anything. |
| The Thirsty Traveller | Vodka in Russia | Kevin Brauch continues his tipple-tasting adventures in St Petersburg and Moscow, visiting Russia's first vodka distillery and the palaces of the Czars. |
| The Brides of Dracula | While Christopher Lee worried about typecasting, Hammer went ahead anyway with this sequel in name only to its huge 1958 hit Dracula. Anaemic David Peel as Baron Meinster is a poor substitute for Lee's more full-blooded undead Count, but that's the only point of contention in a classic Terence Fisher-directed shocker. The marvellous atmosphere drips with a lingering Gothic ghoulishness, the sexuality is remarkably upfront for its time, and the climax set in the shadow of a moonlit windmill is the stuff of fairy-tale nightmare. Videoplus: 46341435 | |
| Highlander | Under the Colour of Authority | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod finds himself torn between doing what it is right and helping a friend. |
| Swimfan | While the over-20s may have seen it all before, this Fatal Attraction for teenagers will have its target audience on the edge of their seats. A tautly paced and sharply executed thriller, it reworks the familiar psychotic cycle of female obsession and revenge played out in such films as Dearly Devoted and The Crush. It's a cautionary tale, apparently unaware of its own clichés, as new girl-in-town Madison Bell (a nail-bitingly vile Erika Christensen) unleashes her fury on handsome high-school swimming champ Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) when she realises her affection for him is unrequited. Despite the obvious plot, what viewers won't anticipate is just how nasty Madison gets â?? Glenn Close's Alex was a mere pussycat compared to this nightmare incarnate. The conclusion, too, is as dark as they come, adding a final twist to an intelligent and non-patronising chiller that treats adolescents like emotionally aware young adults rather than game-fixated children. Videoplus: 87883503 | |
| Lexx | Stan Down | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Stan and the president conspire to overthrow the evil Prince. Videoplus: 5735337 |
| Blood of the Vikings | The Last of the Vikings | Documentary series investigating the impact of the Vikings in Britain. Modern scientific analysis on skeletons found more than 20 years ago reveals astonishing new information about the final battle in 1066 between the Viking warlord Harald Hardrada and the English King Harold, a clash which marked the end of the Viking age in the British Isles. Plus a look at the final results of the nationwide genetic survey. Videoplus: 92384240 |
| Tru Calling | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous day, thus helping her to prevent murders and other deaths. Tru attempts to prevent an actress from dying in a car accident. | |
| Red Dwarf VIII | Cassandra | Interstellar sitcom. Lister joins the `Canaries', a battle-hardened convict army. Videoplus: 9385912 |
| Kings and Queens | Victoria | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. He looks at the life of Queen Victoria, who imprinted her personality on every era of her long reign. Videoplus: 3432738 |
| Three Colours White | The second film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution is the slightest of the series, yet there is still much to admire in a movie intended as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin. Although a comedy, White is an examination of the aftermath of the Communist regime in Poland under which everyone was supposed to be equal. The picture painted of democratic Warsaw, with its shady deals and run-down streets, is both unflattering and affectionate, providing an animated backdrop to this droll story of love on the rocks. Zbigniew Zamachowski excels as the jilted hairdresser determined never to feel inferior again. Videoplus: 4002757 | |
| Red Dwarf VIII | Krytie TV | Interstellar sitcom. Kryten begins his own pirate television station to entertain the prisoners. And, much to Rimmer's horror, Lister's guitar is found among Starbug's debris and delivered to their cell. Videoplus: 3436283 |
| Anne Rice | Profile of the author of the `Vampire Chronicles'. Having an alcoholic mother contributed to a hellish childhood, and losing her own daughter sent her into despair, but Anne Rice learned to cope by creating her own world and sharing it with millions of mesmerised readers. Videoplus: 1819413 | |
| Highlander | Bless the Child | MacLeod and Charlie come to the aid of Sara Lightfoot, a Native American, who claims that Avery Hoskins, a mine owner, is trying to steal her son. MacLeod learns that the boy is is fact Hoskins' son, taken by Sara in retribution after her son was killed in an explosion in one of Hoskins' mines. |
| Lexx | Magic Baby | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The crew join forces with an ageing rock star who claims to be a reincarnated druid. Videoplus: 8302989 |
| Highlander | Legacy | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Amanda is determined to avenge the death of her mentor, even though it means going up against the formidable Immortal Luther. |
| Kings and Queens | Henry V | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. In this edition, the brief but dramatic life of Henry V, the architect of the battle of Agincourt who was immortalised by Shakespeare. Videoplus: 3792618 |
| Kings and Queens | Richard III | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. Was Richard III really the monster that Shakespeare portrayed him to be? Though the victim of Tudor propaganda, he was certainly not a popular monarch, and his death at Bosworth Field caused public rejoicing. Videoplus: 3132786 |
| The Young Ones | Nasty | Anarchic sitcom about North London student life. Mike and Vivian hire a video recorder from Harry the Bastard for the extremely reasonable deposit of 500 pounds. But will they be able to enjoy their evening of gore-filled viewing? Featuring music from punk veterans the Damned. |
| The Young Ones | Time | Anarchic sitcom about North London student life in the 80s. |
| Lexx | Fluffdaddy | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Stan tries his hand at adult entertainment. |
| Highlander | Unholy Alliance | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Xavier St Cloud returns, aided by mortal mercenaries who shoot his prey, making them easier to kill. MacLeod is his next target, but manages to escape and goes after Xavier himself. Meanwhile a CIA agent is on the case, investigating the mercenary angle. |
| Tru Calling | Rear Window | When her medical internship falls through, Tru takes nightshift work at a morgue. There she hears a murdered woman calling to her from the slab. When she wakes the next morning, she finds she's re-living the previous day, giving her the chance to prevent the murder. Tru realises that hew new neighbour may know more about a murder she is investigating. Videoplus: 38901 |
| Empire | The Mission | Professor Niall Ferguson presents a six-part series charting the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. This episode examines missionary David Livingstone's legacy, and learns that the Empire acquired a moral purpose when missionaries worked for the abolition of slavery. However, the later zeal of conversion to Christianity was met with resistance and was fraught with dangers for both British and Commonwealth subjects. Videoplus: 9632814 |
| Lexx | Xevivor | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Nine men compete for a night of love with Xev! Videoplus: 8844876 |
| The Final Curtain | Following his success with Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, screenwriter John Hodge slightly fumbles this satire on TV quiz shows, transient celebrity and the ruthlessness of showbusiness. Director Patrick Harkins, in his debut, is equally culpable for occasionally attempting to make too much of an impression. However, Peter O'Toole is in bravura mood as the veteran UK TV presenter whose decision to allow novelist Adrian Lester to pen his biography coincides with a battle to sell the concept of his family-friendly format to an American network in the face of fierce competition from his grotesque rival, Aidan Gillen. The result is barnstorming, if occasionally unsubtle, fun. Videoplus: 710586 | |
| Hidden | Edinburgh | Documentary looking at the Edinburgh that tourists rarely see. The tale of Burke and Hare is recounted, and a former member of staff from the Royal Yacht Britannia is interviewed. |
| Three Colours Red | Earning Krzysztof Kieslowski Oscar nominations for both script (co-written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz) and direction, the concluding part of his tricolour trilogy has much in common with his earlier The Double Life of Véronique. Not only does it reunite him with Irène Jacob, but it also explores the theme that people are bound together by fraternal ties that they can never anticipate or fully understand. Gloriously shot on location in Geneva by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Piotr Sobocinski, the film's use of colour and sound is unparalleled in 1990s cinema, while the intricate plot linking model Jacob with snooping judge Jean-Louis Trintignant is spellbinding. The concluding sequence is a masterstroke. Videoplus: 5456893 | |
| Marlowe | Raymond Chandler always preferred Dick Powell to Humphrey Bogart as his great private eye, but had he been alive he may well have liked James Garner's quizzical, slightly bemused charm in this skilful adaptation of his novel The Little Sister. Taking on a missing person case, chivalrous Marlowe is once more saddened to find that everyone's as false as the Hollywood in which the story is set as he tries to track down Sharon Farrell's brother. Gayle Hunnicutt and Rita Moreno provide the glamour, while Bruce Lee, in his first American movie, makes a big impression as the heavy who in one memorable scene rearranges the furniture in Marlowe's office. Videoplus: 2276789 | |
| Lexx | The Rock | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Stan claims his crown as King of Newfoundland. Videoplus: 6333180 |
| The True Story of Troy | Documentary which attempts to separate fact from fiction in an investigation of the ancient legend of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. | |
| Highlander | The Vampire | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod faces Ward, an old adversary, who in the 1840s created a vampire myth to conceal his motive behind the murders of the owners of a business he wanted. MacLeod had stopped him killing the heiress but Ward escaped. MacLeod must find Ward and protect the young woman who is now in his sights. |
| Wedding Secrets | Gothic Vows | Series following the trials and tribulations of wedding planners. Leslie is planning a gothic-themed wedding; can she deliver the couple's dream and not a gothic nightmare? Videoplus: 60803093 |
| Highlander | Warmonger | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod is urged to break a promise, made in 1918, that he would not fight the immortal Drakov if Drakov spared the lives of innocent people. |
| James Bond's Gadgets II | A look at the devices used by secret agents over the years, from acid-squirting pens to personalised jet-packs. Videoplus: 3886001 | |
| Life or Something like It | This is not good, absolutely nothing like it, in fact. Finally washing up on these shores almost a year after its US release, this would-be romantic comedy serves as further evidence of Angelina Jolie's post-Oscar career slide. Here she plays Lanie Kerrigan, a has-it-all Seattle TV reporter (great job, great boyfriend, great big hair) who is informed by a tramp known as Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub) that she has a week to live. Cue much re-evaluating of life goals and cod-philosophical musings about "living every day as if it were your last". For Lanie, that includes falling into bed with her hitherto loathed cameraman (Edward Burns) â?? no bad thing if the leads generated any chemistry at all. Sadly, Jolie gives Lanie such a brittle, vain and shallow edge that it's impossible to care. Videoplus: 6600827 | |
| I've Been Watching You | Ever since Dracula first clapped eyes on Jonathan Harker, a homo-erotic undercurrent has simmered under the vampire story. Yet rarely has it been so close to the surface as in this frat boy offering from B merchant, David DeCoteau. Arriving at Drake University for his freshman year, sculpted jock Nathan Watkins is a natural for the Doma Tao Omega clique. But, what is it about president Bradley Stryker that he finds so irresistible and can his loyal roommate, Josh Hammond, save him from a fate worse than death? Elizabeth Bruderman is the nominal love interest, but she's a blood red herring. Videoplus: 2715391 | |
| Lexx | Walpurgis Night | Sci-fi series about a group of intergalactic fugitives and their giant insectile spacecraft. The gang visit Transylvania where they are invited to dine at Lord Dracul's table for the Walpurgis Night feast. Videoplus: 8748117 |
| Doctor Who | Arc of Infinity | Another adventure for the errant Time Lord. The Doctor is chosen as the fall guy when an antimatter creature crosses into normal space and a Time Lord is required to stabalize things. Videoplus: 4576063 |
| Johnny English | Fans of Rowan Atkinson's rubbery-faced brand of physical comedy will know what to expect from this unassuming slice of slapstick. Based on a character portrayed by the Mr Bean star in a series of Barclaycard adverts, it utilises a very British strain of schoolboy humour to send up another home-grown institution â?? the James Bond-style super-spy. Atkinson plays the titular hero, an enthusiastic but bumbling intelligence agent appointed to track down those behind the theft of the crown jewels. In a performance comprised largely of facial tics, childish pratfalls and poo jokes, Atkinson manages to bring the simplistic screenplay to life â??and even gets the girl (Natalie Imbruglia) in the process. Sliding Doors director Peter Howitt aims the movie directly at family audiences, foregoing subtlety for youngster-friendly sight gags, while the actors â?? particularly John Malkovich as a French megalomaniac â?? seem to relish the opportunity to lark around. Videoplus: 19518 | |
| Hook | Purists will shudder at what Steven Spielberg has done to JM Barrie's classic tale, but their protests are likely to be ignored by those children who prefer old-fashioned derring-do to be brightened up with some 1990s trimmings. In this take on Peter Pan, Robin Williams is the grown-up Peter, a ruthless business pirate who has no time for his family and no memory of his magical past. That all changes, however, when his children are kidnapped and he gets a visit from Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts). As good as Williams is, the film is stolen by an almost unrecognisable Dustin Hoffman, whose Hook is suitably pantomimic (he is said to have modelled his performance partly on the larger-than-life screen image of Terry-Thomas) yet oddly sympathetic, a villain lost without his nemesis. The scenes between him and Bob Hoskins as Smee are a delight and, although the sentimentality gets a little sticky at times, this remains rousing entertainment. Videoplus: 83513648 | |
| Kings and Queens | Elizabeth II | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of England's monarchs. He asks how Britain's loss of Empire and her shrinking influence in world affairs have affected the standing of the present royal family. Videoplus: 3198342 |
| Agent Cody Banks | Take the traditional plotline and gadgets of a James Bond movie, add a teen heart-throb from American TV, throw in some cheeky laughs and you've got a tasty recipe for a boisterous and enjoyable family romp. More reality-based and character driven than its closest equivalent, the SPYkids franchise, this action-packed tale focuses on Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz, here playing a high-school student who's also an undercover CIA agent. Grabbing the attention from the outset with a dramatic skateboard chase involving a runaway car, the film continues to pick up pace as Muniz gets his first assignment â?? to befriend class cutie Hilary Duff and spy on her scientist father (Martin Donovan). Though some of the story elements are a little hard to swallow (particularly Lovejoy's Ian McShane as a psychotic villain), there's enough humour and excitement to carry the picture. Videoplus: 48328087 | |
| Highlander | Pharaoh's Daughter | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod feels the buzz coming from an ancient sarcophagus and opens it to find Cleopatra's handmaiden, who has a personal vendetta to pursue. |
| Kings and Queens | William the Conqueror | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the lives of some of England's most significant monarchs. This programme focuses on William the Conqueror, whose victory over Harold at Hastings in 1066 completely changed the course of British history. Videoplus: 3725946 |
| Kings and Queens | Edward I | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. He looks at the warrior king Edward I, who waged a bloody war of conquest to create the United Kingdom. |
| The Young Ones | Sick | Anarchic sitcom about a group of North London students in the 80s. A bout of illness puts a strain on Vivian's usual easygoing approach to communal living. The somewhat delicate matter of Rick's lost virginity raises further consternation. |
| Tru Calling | D.O.A. | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous day, thus helping her to prevent murders and other deaths. Tru attempts to save a promising doctor. Videoplus: 44569 |
| Empire | Heaven's Breed | Six-part series charting the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. In this episode, how the British were able to govern hundreds of millions of Indians with fewer than a thousand civil servants with the consent of the Indian social elite. When the relationship between the elite and the British began to disintegrate, it led to Indian nationalism and the rise of the Independence movement. With Professor Niall Ferguson. Videoplus: 9478618 |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Kings and Queens | Henry VIII | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. This edition looks at the larger-than-life figure of Henry VIII. Although chiefly remembered for his six wives, Henry was in fact an adept leader and diplomat who ensured a period of peace and prosperity in England. Videoplus: 3752090 |
| Kings and Queens | Elizabeth I | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. This edition looks at the life of the `virgin queen'. Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, proved to be an astute ruler despite initial public scepticism, re-establishing the Church of England and consolidating the country's status as a world power. Videoplus: 3109458 |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Kings and Queens | Charles I | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. This edition focuses on Charles I, the `martyr King', who was accused of betraying his people and failing in his duty to rule according to their will - circumstances that led to his execution in 1649. Videoplus: 3656862 |
| Kings and Queens | George III | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. This edition looks at Britain's longest-reigning king, George III. Videoplus: 3096930 |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| The New Statesman | Sitcom about loathsome London MP Alan B'Stard. | |
| Videodrome | With its subject matter of screen violence, this remains one of David Cronenberg's most personal, complex and disturbing films, even if it doesn't always make a lot of sense. James Woods plays the amoral cable programmer who gets drawn to a sickening sadomasochistic channel called "Videodrome", which turns out to have a much more sinister purpose. Cronenberg uses this framework to explore his favourite themes â?? technology fusing with the human body, voyeurism, the links between sex and violence â?? and, although the plot begins to unravel, the startling imagery and Woods's fierce performance make for a deeply unsettling experience. The supporting cast includes Blondie singer Debbie Harry as Woods's girlfriend. Videoplus: 1093732 | |
| The Banger Sisters | This is a likeable, if unspectacular attempt, to see what happens to groupies after the tours and tequila have dried up. Goldie Hawn plays Suzette, an over-the-hill rock chick who's still reminiscing about the time Jim Morrison passed out on top of her. She's travelling across the country to hook up with former partner-in-crime Lavinia (Susan Sarandon), now a model of suburban respectability, but once the other Banger Sister â?? a title supposedly conferred on the duo by Frank Zappa. Once they meet, the life lessons are trotted out with predictable regularity â?? Suzette teaches Lavinia how to live again, Lavinia teaches Suzette how to move on â?? and the writing fails to deliver on the promising premise. However, Hawn (essentially playing daughter Kate Hudson's character from Almost Famous) and Sarandon make for a winning pairing, and they're ably assisted by Geoffrey Rush as a neurotic writer whisked along for the ride. Videoplus: 87271 | |
| Lilo & Stitch | This warm and wonderful animated fantasy sees Disney continue to move with the times. An innovative and quirky mix of comedy, family drama and fast-paced action, it's as lush and lovely as its Hawaiian setting. Accompanied by a foot-tapping Elvis Presley soundtrack, the film pushes a message of multicultural equality and tolerance so all-encompassing that it even embraces extraterrestrials. In doing so, it turns lonely youngster Lilo's friendship with cute but naughty alien fugitive Stitch into a candy-coloured morality tale. The importance of "Ohana" (family) and the unconditional love and loyalty that accompany it are hammered home continually. Yet, whether it's Lilo's older sister fighting to keep her sibling out of care, or badly behaved Stitch learning the values of a tidy bedroom, the life lessons are sweet and easy to swallow. The only weak points are the thankfully short intergalactic sequences, in which the austere surroundings and creatures appear lifeless in comparison to the vivid characters and gentle watercolour backgrounds of planet Earth. Videoplus: 86769 , Dean DeBlois | |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Shot in bright-as-a-button Technicolor, this swashbuckler is an action picture that, over 60 years on, still delights people of all ages, even youngsters weaned on computer games. It was intended to star James Cagney (oh, yes), but seems tailor-made for Errol Flynn as Sherwood's noblest outlaw. Flynn woos Olivia de Havilland and crosses swords with Basil Rathbone's Sir Guy of Gisbourne and Claude Rains's Prince John, while Erich Wolfgang Korngold's music goes brassily heraldic. A few weeks into production, studio boss Jack Warner thought the rushes lacked sparkle and replaced director William Keighley with Michael Curtiz. The result was a box-office smash and Oscars for the score, editing and interior decoration. Videoplus: 9247740 , William Keighley | |
| The Young Ones | Demolition | Anarchic 80s comedy with the lunatic exploits of four students sharing a squalid house. The foursome discover that their house is about to be demolished - and so decide to do it themselves. |
| Lexx | A Midsummer's Nightmare | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. While trying to resurrect Xev, the crew becomes trapped by fairies during an annual druid feast. Videoplus: 3771528 |
| Highlander | The Samurai | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. After a woman sees her rich industrialist husband murder her lover, she kills him and runs to MacLeod for protection. |
| Tru Calling | Two Weddings and a Funeral | Drama series about a mortuary assistant with the power to re-live the previous 24 hours, thus enabling her to prevent murders and other deaths. As Tru attempts to save the life of a very familiar face, someone sabotages her efforts. Videoplus: 94561 |
| Empire | Maxim Force | Six-part series charting the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. In this episode, a return to the sites of some of Britain's bloodiest imperial conflicts - in the Boer war and the Sudan - to tell the story of how and why European powers competed in the notorious `scramble for Africa'. Videoplus: 9155371 |
| Highlander | The Cross of St Antoine | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Dawson's new girlfriend is murdered when she gets too close to finding out the real truth behind the benefactor of the Thorne Museum of Antiquities. |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | Video | Documentary series looking at the history of pornography, charting the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies. This fifth programme looks at the revolution precipitated by the advent of video. It was cheap and heralded a porn boom that generated four billion dollars annually in revenue for that industry, and saw consumers becoming producers. Videoplus: 93871181 |
| Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation | The Digital Future | Documentary series looking at the history of pornography, charting the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies. This final programme looks at the era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the porn produced today, and how it is consumed. And with the advent of the internet, have the pornographers finally won the censorship battle? Videoplus: 71267075 |
| The Hours | Despite being director Stephen Daldry's follow up to Billy Elliot, much of the initial interest in this drama has focused on Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose as renowned English writer Virginia Woolf, she is virtually unrecognisable. The physical transformation she has undertaken for the role is somewhat distracting at the beginning, but as David Hare's magnificent screenplay unfolds, it is the drama's beauty and eloquence that takes centre stage. Videoplus: 93834 Adapted from Michael Cunningham's complex novel, this poignant exploration of longing, desire and regret interweaves the lives of three women from different eras. Kidman's neurosit Woolf is the most developed and compelling character, but co-stars Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep are also interesting, as a stifled 1950s housewife and a present-day lesbian book editor, respectively. Had Moore and Streep's storylines been made weightier and less clichéd, the feature would have been a masterpiece. As it stands, it's a sophisticated and deeply poetic triumph that marks out Daldry as a talent to watch. | |
| Repli-Kate | Sci-fi comedy in which an unlucky-in-love scientist clones a girl and, along with his moronic pal, trains her to like beer, football and all things masculine. However, he soon realises that a blokeish girl is not quite as ideal as he had imagined. Videoplus: 693964 | |
| Highlander | Rite of Passage | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod's friends are devastated when their rebellious teenage daughter dies in a car crash. |
| Britain AD | 1/3 | The tale of King Arthur has thrilled people for centuries and, with yet another Hollywood film version currently in our cinemas, it would be easy to dismiss it as a fairytale. However, pre-historian and presenter of this new series, Francis Pryor believes that the noble Arthur can tell us much about the barbaric Dark Ages. And, he says, what he has found supports his controversial view that British culture survived the withdrawal of Roman rule intact and this was, in fact, a vibrant period of cultural diversity. Computer graphics and expert opinion bring Pryor's ideas to life. Videoplus: 6457 |
| Lexx | Bad Carrot | Sci-fi series about a group of likeable rogues and their giant insect-like spacecraft. While the President and First Lady have a picnic on the bridge, an alien mechanical probe is let loose in the passages of the Lexx. Videoplus: 3798194 |
| Highlander | Courage | Fantasy adventure. An old friend of Macleod's, who has turned to drugs and drink to find the courage to keep playing the Game, believes MacLeod is working against him. |
| Mutant X | The Shock of the New | Sci-fi action series about a mysterious billionaire who has created a sanctuary for New Mutants - humans whose strange powers are a side effect of genetic experiments. Adam and his team set out to identify the mutant subjects of a genetic experiment before they are captured and their special powers exploited. |
| Shadowlands | After the sweeping, noble scale of Gandhi and Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough directed this more intimate drama, set far from the world stage, which remains one of his best pictures to date. Based on William Nicholson's play, it charts the tragic love affair between the author CS Lewis, creator of the Narnia Chronicles, and Joy Gresham, an American poet. Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger give performances that you dream about but rarely see in a word, perfection. The tone is set by Winger's entrance into Oxford's Randolph Hotel: "Anyone here named Loowis?" she rasps upsetting the decorum of academe and rattling Hopkins's tea cup and thereafter, Hopkins's life as an emotionally frigid bachelor is transformed. With its immaculate fifties setting, the film creates a totally convincing world and Attenborough gets beneath the skin of his characters like never before. You'll be gripped, you'll laugh and, be warned you'll cry. Videoplus: 84399674 | |
| Dracula Has Risen from the Grave | A weak priest provides the blood that revives the evil Count Dracula and becomes his servant in a typical dose of vampire flesh-creeping from the Hammer House of Horror. A minor triumph of style over content, the third sequel to Hammer's 1958 classic succeeds by virtue of Freddie Francis's adventurous direction and his ability to extract religious irony from the formulaic script. Moody red filters are used to enhance the sanguinary motifs, while the ever-reliable Christopher Lee evokes the customary chills and supernatural menace. Dracula not dying after being gorily staked by an atheist is this iconoclastic pictures's most striking â?? if ludicrous â?? scene. Videoplus: 5466587 | |
| Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | The Patient's Eyes | The first of four murder mysteries in which Dr Joseph Bell, the Victorian forensic doctor widely recognised as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, teams up with the young doctor and budding author Dr Arthur Conan Doyle to form a formidable detective duo. A young woman comes to Doyle's surgery having witnessed a number of terrifying visions which seem more real than imagined. Videoplus: 316137 |
| Yanks for Stalin | The extraordinary story of the thousands of Americans who left during the Depression to work in Russia as Stalin tried to implement his five year plan. Videoplus: 8072069 | |
| Stalin: The Myth | A psychological study into the making of a tyrant. Iosif Vissarionovich came from a middle-class background, and his mother hoped that he would become a priest. Instead, he killed 20 million people during his despotic rule, and unleashed a terror that would engulf the Soviet Union. Videoplus: 1788408 | |
| Welcome to Hard Times | A hard-to-watch, grim and slow allegorical western, originally shown in British cinemas in a truncated form and "X" certified as Killer on a Horse. It's somewhat of a surprise coming from a director better known for his comedy westerns such as Support Your Local Sheriff!, Burt Kennedy: perhaps the real influence behind this bleak piece is writer EL Doctorow, of Ragtime fame. Aldo Ray is the vicious killer, forced into confrontation with mayor Henry Fonda, and the supporting cast is marvellous, with great performances from western regulars Warren Oates, Edgar Buchanan and Elisha Cook Jr. The women Janice Rule, Janis Paige, Fay Spain couldn't be bettered, but the whole leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth, and the symbolism doesn't really come off. Videoplus: 4247779 | |
| A - Z: Angelina Jolie | Everything you need to know about the eccentric actress. Videoplus: 71001156 | |
| The Fabulous Life of Angelina Jolie | A look at the glamorous life of some of the biggest stars in showbusiness. Tonight's programme looks at Hollywood A-lister and international VIP Angelina Jolie. Videoplus: 71087576 | |
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| Pale Rider | This handsome mystical western, virtually a reworking of Shane, is one of director/star Clint Eastwood's more sombre offerings. A small community of prospectors struggle to scrape a living in the shadow of a strip-mining company that is intent on driving them out, by any means necessary. A young girl (Sydney Penny) prays for deliverance from the violence â?? cue Eastwood's entrance as the enigmatic "Preacher" who arrives on a pale horse (one of the film's many ponderous biblical references) and begins to mete out his own brand of justice. We are in classic "man with no name" territory here â?? with added religious symbolism â?? but despite a reliably good performance from Eastwood and excellent support from Penny and Carrie Snodgress, this takes itself a little too seriously to be on a par with the Sergio Leone collaborations or Eastwood's own superior efforts such as The Outlaw Josey Wales. Videoplus: 43557408 | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Community Spirit | Ecclesiastical sitcom. Vicar Geraldine hopes to better the previous year's takings for the Autumn Fayre by finding a huge star to open it - but instead she lands herself in a pickle. And that is all before the competition for Most Misshapen Vegetable - eventually won by a carrot in the shape of David Mellor. Videoplus: 4434977 |
| Guns for San Sebastian | Already pretty heavy going, this uncomfortable blend of social theology, coarse comedy and bruising action is made all the more intolerable by the sloppy dubbing. Not that the dialogue would have benefited much from a slicker job, as James R Webb's adaptation of William Barby Faherty's novel A Wall for San Sebastian is full of bombastic pronouncements and glib posturings. Anthony Quinn is at full throttle as a mid-18th-century Mexican drifter posing as a priest. But Henri Verneuil handles the fighting with aplomb, and there's a brooding dignity about Charles Bronson's misguided loyalty. Of course, Ennio Morricone's score helps too. Videoplus: 4101923 | |
| Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Despite studio tinkering, this near-masterpiece from director Sam Peckinpah is almost on a par with The Wild Bunch. It's a brooding meditation on violence, honour and loyalty in the last days of the Old West, as gunman-turned-sheriff Garrett (James Coburn) relives the past before taking on his one-time partner Billy (Kris Kristofferson). It becomes an elegy for the father/son relationship that figures in so much American literature, as both men try to live up to the legend their lives have imposed upon them. Singer Bob Dylan makes an acting appearance but, thankfully, with all his tics and twitches, is soon sidelined. Instead, Peckinpah concentrates on a pioneer world in which the cattle barons are the true villains and the outlaws the only real heroes. Videoplus: 92821300 | |
| Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey | A profile of martial-arts supremo Bruce Lee, who battled against cultural and professional bigotry, including a look at how he survived his near-crippling back injury to go on and develop a radically new approach to martial arts. Featuring footage shot by Lee himself. | |
| U2 | A profile of the Irish band who formed in the 1970s after an advert was placed on a noticeboard at their school, and who have remained at the forefront of rock for almost 30 years. Videoplus: 7446657 | |
| ET the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg's ode to aliens could also be seen as a tribute to all the loners of the world, as little ET, abandoned by his pot-bellied extraterrestrial pals, has to cope on Earth until they can come back and rescue him. Luckily, he's befriended by an equally lonely little boy named Elliott, played by Henry Thomas, who proceeds to teach his alien chum how to talk, dress up in women's clothes and guzzle beer. Much has been made of the changes and additions to the anniversary edition, but this is no extended director's cut; the alterations are minimal. Some of ET's facial expressions have been enhanced with computer animation, there are five additional minutes of footage that were left out of the original and â?? significantly in the current political climate â?? the guns carried by the government agents have been digitally replaced by walkie-talkies. However, changes or not, this is still a special, delightful adventure, in which Spielberg manages not only to entertain young children but also reach out to the child in all of us. Videoplus: 71556299 | |
| Highlander | Blackmail | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. A lawyer videotapes MacLeod fighting and killing an evil Immortal, and tries to blackmail him. |
| Lexx | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Videoplus: 3534998 | |
| Ultimate Sci-Fi Top 10: Moments | Here's a series guaranteed to get all you buffs arguing. Videoplus: 22348 Moments from science-fiction films are the subject of the first programme (robots and aliens are among the remaining five shows in the series), and contenders include the chest-bursting scene from Alien, the explanation of the Matrix and Darth Vader's revelation to Luke in Star Wars Episode V: the Empire Strikes Back. Tune in to find out if your favourite makes an appearance. | |
| Girl 6 | A light-hearted tale that is free from the preachy philosophising often associated with film-maker Spike Lee. Theresa Randle gives the performance of her life as a struggling actress who decides to join a phone-sex agency after being asked to strip for casting director Quentin Tarantino. In the event, she becomes addicted to the buzz she gets from her conversations as she takes on a variety of characters in order to feed the fantasies of her callers. This film lays itself wide open to every politically incorrect charge you could level at it, yet Lee manages to comment on society's dual standards regarding sexploitation without detracting from the humour of the piece. And, above it all, the poignancy and sheer exuberance of Randle's performance really shine through. Videoplus: 2568931 | |
| Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | The Photographer's Chair | Murder mystery featuring the detective duo Dr Joseph Bell and Dr Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Mutilated corpses have been found washed up on a beach in Portsmouth, and initial investigations point to the brother of one of the victims. However, the case takes a strange twist when Bell and Doyle meet a photographer whose working methods appear rather unorthodox. Videoplus: 29021375 |
| In Search of Shakespeare | A Time of Revolution | Historical documentary on the life of the great writer. Michael Wood investigates the turbulent times of the reign of Elizabeth I, uncovering spies' reports, archives and prison diaries. The story of William's shotgun marriage, which left his career prospects looking slim, is revealed. Videoplus: 66162627 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Gliders | An exciting episode as winners from previous challenges face-off in an attempt to construct a flying machine launched by a winch and cable. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Naval Warfare | Scrapheap mania with two teams attempting to design a torpedo launch system that will sink their rival's vessel using only junk materials. |
| Globe Trekker | World History: UK | Continuing the budget traveller's guide to the world. Justine Shapiro explores the wealth of history and culture that abounds in the United Kingdom. Highlights include a visit to Whitby - the Yorkshire coastal town that inspired Bram Stoker to write `Dracula' - and a chance meeting with a Roman centurion along Hadrian's Wall. Justine also pays homage to the Beatles in Liverpool and joins a pagan celebration in Glastonbury. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. Presenter Chris Crudelli challenges a group of tough builders to knock him down, sees how a sledgehammer can crack bricks on a man's head and watches a van pulled by a penis. Videoplus: 4328264 | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Building Bashers | Robert Llewellyn presents a series in which two teams have to construct a machine using junk from a scrapheap. The challenge here is to build the best demolition vehicle. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Videoplus: 3979239 | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. Videoplus: 4565351 | |
| Bang, Bang, You're Dead | Provocative drama in which a teacher helps a bullied student who once threatened to bomb the school to make a short film about playground revenge. Videoplus: 368239 | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Jumbo Trucks | Another action-packed Scrapheap Challenge sets two teams against each other in a bid to construct big trucks using only scrapyard junk. |
| Conspiracies | Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? | Series examining a number of conspiracy theories. In this episode, presenter and author Danny Wallace takes an in-depth look at the Titanic disaster, assessing whether it could have actually been the famous cruiser's crumbling sister ship the Olympic which hit the iceberg on that fateful day. |
| The Enforcer | Weatherview | An early attempt by Jet Li to move on from the historical martial arts epics which made his name into more western-friendly action roles, this is a proficient but unconvincing thriller. Playing a Beijing cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a Hong Kong crime syndicate, Li's dazzling fight skills are well to the fore. However, the dubbing is atrocious and the amount of screen time given over to the precocious Tse Miu, who plays his adoring son, introduces an unwelcome dose of sentimentality into the proceedings. Videoplus: 419272 | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers introduce the popular junkyard contest in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using scrap materials. The Irn Cru from Glasgow tackle Maximus from Bath in a contest to create devices that can pitch projectiles across water and destroy the Scrapheap Challenge dams. Videoplus: 38286760 | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Paintball Tanks | Series in which two teams try to build fully-working machines using only what they can find in a scrapheap's towering pile of junk. This time it's a splatter fest as the contestants battle to create paintball-firing tanks which outrun and outgun their enemies. |
| Futurama | I Dated a Robot | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. Fry downloads Lucy Liu, starring as herself, into a robot from nappster.com, but his friends discover a sinister plot and try to save Lucy Liu's head. Videoplus: 40008741 |
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue | This elegy for the Old West about an itinerant prospector who "found water where there wasn't" is a beautifully crafted and very funny film. Like director Sam Peckinpah's earlier and more explicitly violent The Wild Bunch, it leaves an audience with nostalgic pangs for a lifestyle that perhaps only existed in motion pictures. Tender and ironic by turns, it contains marvellous performances from a whimsical Jason Robards (arguably a career best) in the title role as Hogue and sexy Stella Stevens (definitely a career best) as the hooker who becomes his lady. It was severely truncated for release in Britain, where it ignominiously supported The Alf Garnett Saga, but the fabulous two-hour version, replete with its lilting ballad link Tomorrow Is the Song I Sing, is sublime. Videoplus: 62348741 | |
| James and the Giant Peach | For a writer of children's stories, Roald Dahl undoubtedly had a dark imagination. Here, though, there will only be squeals of delight as James and his insect allies escape from a killer shark, skeleton pirates and a couple of awful aunts as they ride a giant peach to the city where dreams come true. It took three years to combine the live-action sequences with state-of-the-art model animation, and the latter is greatly assisted by the personality-packed voices of Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Simon Callow and David Thewlis. However, it's Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes as the ghastly Spiker and Sponge who steal this wonderfully pantomimic show. Videoplus: 73966449 | |
| Futurama | Spanish Fry | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry tries to retrieve his nose from thieving aliens. Videoplus: 1079 |
| Futurama | Bend Her | Cartoon comedy set in the 31st century. It's the 3004 Olympics, and there's all kinds of cheating going on. Bender is so determined to win gold that he happily has a sex change. Videoplus: 3906 |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. Videoplus: 4436895 | |
| The Wild Bunch | This is, arguably, one of the greatest westerns ever made. And argument is what Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece has always caused for its slow-motion spurting of blood, its surrealistically choreographed gunfights and its portrayal of Pike Bishop's amoral Texas outlaws as heroes. Yet William Holden's laconic Bishop, however violent, is one of a truly romantic breed as he leads his bunch to their deaths in a defensive revenge on revolutionary guerrilla forces. Lucien Ballard's photography gives a funereal hue to this elegy to the passing of a certain breed of chivalry. You can see why John Wayne is said to have hated the film; Peckinpah was practically reinventing a genre, with no place left for false nobility. Videoplus: 18750012 | |
| Doctor Who | The Awakening | Another adventure for the errant Time Lord. On Earth in Little Hodcombe, a civil war re-enactment appears to be a little too earnest. Hidden away, an alien force is feeding off these negative emotions. The Doctor needs to stop the war games before they threaten the planet. Videoplus: 4470242 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Portable Bridge | Challenged with building a portable bridge to transport team members, the brave contestants take on the task - but will it be a success? |
| Futurama | Obsoletely Fabulous | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Bender, suffering from robot envy when a new machine makes him look inadequate, seriously considers an upgrade, even though it would also change his personality. Videoplus: 6074 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Heavy Artillery | Scrapheap madness with two teams slugging it out to build the best cannon and hit the bullseye. |
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Woody Allen is in nostalgic mood for this handsome tribute to the 1940s crime B-movie. But he not only misses the timbre of hard-boiled argot, but also allows his pastiche plot to meander in a manner unthinkable in the bad old days of the 60-minute programme-filler. Yet, what really prevents a potentially diverting project from taking off is the love-hate mismatch between Allen's hapless gumshoe and Helen Hunt's efficiency expert, who have been hypnotised into doing the bidding of nefarious showman David Ogden Stiers. Dan Aykroyd and Charlize Theron gamely boost underwritten supporting roles, but nothing disguises the lethal lack of inspiration. Videoplus: 17469 | |
| Angel Heart | In Alan Parker's unpleasant, tense thriller set in 1950s New Orleans, Mickey Rourke plays the New York private detective who's trying to locate a missing person for sinister client Robert De Niro. The trail leads towards voodoo rites and other "gumbo"-jumbo. Rourke's naked romp with Lisa Bonet, as blood drips from the ceiling, caused considerable controversy and received attention from the censors, though you might think the things that really need a good snip are De Niro's fingernails. The story is utter nonsense, dressed up by Parker with much visual hype, and with Rourke, De Niro and Charlotte Rampling contributing performances just the right side of self-parody. Videoplus: 31479594 | |
| Battle beneath the Earth | Now here's an idea. The Red Chinese have dug a series of tunnels beneath the United States, and it isn't just for delivering takeaway chop suey. In go Chinese H-bombs and lasers, and in after them goes Kerwin Matthews, the Harrison Ford of British cinema back in the 1960s, to do a job even 007 might have found taxing. Everyone takes it very seriously and, as a result, it's hugely enjoyable rubbish. 26107334 | |
| What If? | Battle of Britain | Colonel John Hughes-Wilson takes a counterfactual look at the evacuation of Dunkirk, asking what would have happened had the Germans won the Battle of Britain. How would Churchill have reacted and what would life have been like under the Nazis? 50320131 |
| What If? | Dunkirk | Series in which leading historians consider possible alternative outcomes of key moments in British history. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson reveals how the Germans' decision to halt their tanks 15 miles short of Dunkirk was the miracle that allowed the evacuation. But what if the Germans had pushed on and taken Dunkirk? |
| Medieval Lives | The Peasant | History series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. The popular image of a medieval peasant is a person dirty, diseased and downtrodden, little more than a slave. However, Terry discovers that the medieval peasant was in fact literate, emancipated, highly political, legally savvy, house-proud and healthy (albeit with terrible breath). 38494247 |
| Medieval Lives | The Monk | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages, destroying old myths and discovering extraordinary stories of real people. This week, Terry investigates the truth behind the cloistered medieval monk, whose ideal of giving up the world for a life of prayer and isolation was all too often undermined by an ability to make money out of almost anything, from sheep to iron smelting. 73891266 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Power Raft | Testing their Scrapheap skills to the max, NASA scientists take on a team of house builders to make a power-raft to ride over whitewater rapids. |
| Highlander | Methos | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Kalas and MacLeod race to be the first to find Methos, the oldest Immortal. |
| The Simpsons | Special Edna | When Bart gets Mrs Krabappel nominated for Teacher of the Year, the family heads to Orlando for the ceremony. But Skinner fears he'll lose Edna and asks Bart for help. With the guest voice of Little Richard. 4044 |
| The Simpsons | The Dad Who Knew Too Little | Homer hires a shady private investigator to trail Lisa when he realises he doesn't know very much about her. With the guest voice of Elliot Gould. 3044 |
| The Simpsons | Today I Am a Clown | Homer fills in on Krusty's show while he has a belated Bar Mitzvah, and becomes an overnight success. Guest-starring Mr T. 3792 |
| Medieval Lives | The Damsel | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast, Terry Jones, takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages, destroying old myths and discovering extraordinary stories of real people. A look at the world of the medieval damsel; not the shy, demure creatures we imagine today but strong independent women who ran businesses, led armies and, when they felt like it, even abducted the lovers of their choice. |
| Medieval Lives | The Minstrel | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. He reveals that minstrels were medieval spin doctors and could be warriors, political movers and shakers and even spies, playing a key and often dangerous role in history. |
| Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | The Kingdom of Bones | The third of four murder mysteries featuring the detective duo Dr Joseph Bell and Dr Conan Doyle. When the curator of the local museum in Southsea discovers a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, Doyle invites Bell down from Edinburgh to exhume the ancient relic. But when the casings are cut open, the mummy reveals a secret that even Bell couldn't have predicted. 423532 |
| What If? | Boudicca | Series considering possible alternative outcomes of key events in British history. In AD61 Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni tribe, was defeated in a final crucial battle with the Romans. Previously, Boudicca's army had ransacked three Roman towns, including London, and wiped out an entire legion. Carenza Lewis explores Boudicca's revolt and considers the independent Britain that could have emerged had she defeated the invaders. 21071735 |
| What If? | 1066 | Counterfactual history series which considers possible alternative outcomes of key events in British history. The Battle of Hastings was an epoch-making moment, ending 500 years of Saxon rule in an instant. Military historian John Hughes Wilson explores how things might have developed differently had Harold Godwinson, the last of the Saxon kings, defeated William. 50397803 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Gliders | An exciting episode as winners from previous challenges face-off in an attempt to construct a flying machine launched by a winch and cable. |
| What If? | The Reformation | In this series of counterfactual history, leading historians look at what could have happened at key moments in British history. This programme considers what might have happened had Henry VIII been granted a divorce by the Pope, and thus the Church of England, the dissolution of the monasteries and the accession of Elizabeth I had never occurred. 36935209 |
| What If? | The Spanish Armada | Leading historians look at what could have happened at key moments in British history. This programme explores the possible outcomes had the Spanish Armada of 1588 succeeded, sketching a new time line in which Elizabeth I loses her head and the country becomes a Catholic nation once more. 36914716 |
| The New Statesman | Fatal Extraction | Sitcom about the loathsome MP Alan B'Stard. In this episode, he has a golden idea for making money. |
| Medieval Lives | The Philosopher | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. He looks at the medieval scientist, or philosopher as they were known then, showing how they experimented on a huge scale and made key scientific discoveries. But most of them had a more ethical approach than that to be found in today's commercialised world of science. 73869667 |
| Medieval Lives | The Knight | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. Knights were more interested in the fine art of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry. |
| Angelina Jolie | Profile of the actress. The daughter of an Oscar-winner, she was destined for stardom - but it's her private life that keeps her in the headlines. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. Master Presas in the Philippines reveals the martial arts techniques hidden in simple dance steps. Chris meets his match on the Great Wall of China, as the Chinese Master of ancient Tai Qi uses him for target practice. Back in the UK, we see life saving techniques on a beach in Cornwall and self-defence tricks on the streets of Brixton. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. A deserted village in China is the setting for a Daoist sect to invoke spirits that protect against blades, blows and fire. In the Philippines the protective power of amulets is machete-tested on a man's stomach. Chris meets Ushiro, master of the original Okinawan karate, in Japan. | |
| The Pirate | A picturesque and largely enjoyable MGM musical swashbuckler that was a commercial flop in its day but has since picked up a considerable following. Its latter-day popularity stems more from the Cole Porter songs, opulent sets and lavish choreography than from the story about a sheltered young woman who dreams of escape and adventure with a glamorous pirate. Vincente Minnelli (Liza's dad) directs his wife Judy Garland (Liza's mum) and Gene Kelly with gusto and panache. Yes, that's entertainment. | |
| Casualty | Ambulance Chaser | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby City. When Josh and Finlay undertake an urgent patient transfer, Josh is forced to confront some painful memories, while Finlay gets involved with some star-crossed lovers. |
| The Simpsons | Barting Over | Bart is furious to discover that not only did he appear in an embarrassing TV advert as a baby, but Homer spent all his earnings. |
| What If? | The Civil War | Series considering the possible alternative outcomes of key moments in British history. In 1645, Charles I was defeated at the Battle of Naseby, perhaps his last realistic chance of winning the English Civil War. Had he not sent General Goring and his 3,000 cavalry south, the result of Naseby might have been very different, allowing Charles to reclaim power and dramatically change the future of the country. |
| What If? | Jacobite Rebellion | Counterfactual history series which considers possible alternative outcomes of key events in British history. Historical novelist Philippa Gregory reveals how the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion could have succeeded if Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army had continued to march south, rather than retreating after reaching Derby. |
| Conspiracies | The Illuminati: Our Secret Masters | Presenter and author Danny Wallace examines the theory that Shakespeare, Bin Laden and Eminem are part of a secret world order. |
| Medieval Lives | The Outlaw | Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. He discovers that medieval sheriffs, unlike the myth of the Sherriff of Nottingham, were actually pen-pushing bureaucrats and the greatest threat to law and order in the middle ages were gangs of upper-crust outlaws terrorising the country for the sole purpose of getting rich quick. |
| Medieval Lives | The King | Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. He asks just how much we know about our medieval kings, taking the three king Richards as a sample. He finds that `Good' King Richard I (Lionheart) was anything but; `Bad' King Richard II seems to have been actually rather admirable; and `Ugly' King Richard III was savagely disfigured by William Shakespeare. |
| Lolita | "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" asked the posters for this brilliant Stanley Kubrick film. Well, in Vladimir Nabokov's adaptation of his own famous novel about the professor and the 12-year-old girl, there are added layers of black comedy and only slight compromise: James Mason seems to love Sue Lyon rather than lust after her, and Lolita's age is increased to 15. As time goes by, Lolita gets better and funnier. Shelley Winters's hilarious and sad portrayal of Lolita's mother is American momism incarnate, while Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty is like a creepy chameleon. Only one quibble: for economic and censorship reasons the picture was made in England, and because of this Nabokov's nightmare vision of urban America and its seedy motels is reduced to obvious back projection and even more obvious Elstree locations. This apart, a perfect movie that gets better as time goes by. | |
| Casualty | Scent of the Roses | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby City. A & E is thrown into chaos by the Major Incident Exercise, while Charlie has to make the most difficult choice of his life. Holly is unnerved by a stalker, and Duffy's pregnancy takes a turn for the worse. |
| What If? | 1914: The German Plan | In this series of counterfactual history, leading historians look at alternative possible outcomes of key moments in British history. This programme reveals how close the German army came to winning World War I in 1914. Had the generals stuck to their original plan, they could have defeated France in 12 weeks, avoiding the horror of the trenches and transforming the history of the 20th century. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. Chris has a bone to pick with meat packers at Smithfield Market in London. In Japan the ancient art of horseback archery is uncovered in a Shinto temple, while in a busy Hong Kong kitchen, the Living Treasure of China teaches Kung Fu cooking. Back in the UK, pizza delivery boys learn how to dish it out when it cuts up rough and we reveal the secrets of Philippine machete fighting. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. In Japan, two men fight with swords on a deserted beach. When Chris follows them into their dojo the Master finger wrestles him on the ground. Also, how animal moves inspired the Chinese Lion Dance, and in Wales rugby players are effortlessly converted to Kung Fu drinking games. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese anti-terrorist SWAT team engage in some real life martial mayhem. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Frontios | Classic sci-fi drama with the eccentric time-traveller. The TARDIS lands on one of Earth's last remaining colonies - Frontios. The planet has a last few surviving humans who are being terrorised by the Tractators - giant woodlouse-like creatures who have the ability to control gravity. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Collapsible Racers | Sparks fly as two teams compete in a unique and fearsome battle for automotive supremacy. |
| Forbidden Planet | What unknown terror roams the planet Altair-4 killing everyone apart from tormented scientist Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter Altaira (Anne Francis)? Starship commander Leslie Nielsen (long before he turned Airplane! comedian) finds out in one of the finest science-fiction films ever made. Loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, which explains its overall intelligence, this is an enthralling eye-popper. The super monster effects (created by Disney animators) and outstanding technology include the unforgettable Robby the Robot, the subterranean Krell city, Morbius's futuristic home and an impressive array of space vehicles. The 2001 of the 1950s. | |
| Jack the Ripper | Two-part drama about the serial killer who terrified Victorian London with his grisly murders. The Ripper is still at large, with a desperate Inspector Abberline on his trail. | |
| Against All Flags | Errol Flynn is on top late-career form as a British naval officer who gets involved with beautiful buccaneer Maureen O'Hara in a Madagascan pirate stronghold ruled over by the scowling Anthony Quinn. This rollicking costume adventure is generally good fun, with rich 1950s Technicolor that's particularly well deployed, giving O'Hara's red hair and green eyes an even greater lustre. Though the credited director is George Sherman, it is a little-known fact that Douglas Sirk actually undertook most of the work behind the camera. Remade, utterly pointlessly, as The King's Pirate with Doug McClure, using footage from this original. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Planet of Fire | Another adventure and a new companion for the maverick Time Lord, as the Fifth Doctor meets up with Peri. On the planet of Sarn, the Master's experiments with Numismaton gas lead to a heating of tempers. |
| Jack the Ripper | Two-part drama about the serial killer who terrified Victorian London with his grisly murders. The Ripper is still at large, with a desperate Inspector Abberline on his trail. | |
| Futurama | I Second That Emotion | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. After Bender flushes Nibbler down a toilet, Fry, Leela and Bender journey through a sewer system inhabited by mutants. |
| Futurama | Brannigan, Begin Again | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension into the year 3000. After being court-martialled, Zapp Brannigan joins the Planet Express team. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | Damage | Prequel Star Trek series, set 100 years before the time of Captain Kirk when interstellar travel is in its infancy. While dissention among Xindi ranks festers, the Enterprise tries to recover from a devastating attack. |
| The Simpsons | The Fat and the Furriest | Homer becomes the laughing stock of the town when a wild bear humiliates him. When he seeks a rematch, Homer bonds with the animal and tries to save its life. |
| Jackie Chan | A profile of the martial arts star, beginning with his early days as a ballet student called Chan Kwong-Sang and charting his rise to international stardom. | |
| Casualty | Breaking Point | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby City General Hospital. Tempers fray as Charlie and Dan go head-to-head over the closure of the department. Meanwhile, Duffy's health is on the mend, but what about her marriage? |
| Stargate SG-1 | Prometheus Unbound | Sci-fi drama series. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Eye | Sci-fi drama series. Major Sheppard pits himself against soldiers who have captured Weir and McKay. |
| The Simpsons | Helter Shelter | When the Simpson house undergoes fumigation, the family is forced to seek shelter on the set of a reality TV programme recreating the 1800s. |
| The Simpsons | Tall Tales | While on holiday in Delaware, the Simpsons encounter a singing hobo who enchants them with tall tales from American folklore. |
| Britain AD: King Arthur's Britain | History documentary series. Writer and archaeologist Francis Pryor continues to challenge our perception of early post-Roman Britain, concluding the series with the impact of the Anglo-Saxon invasion. It was thought that political change in Britain took place as a result of this event, but Pryor argues that shifting allegiances were already taking place before the foreigners arrived. | |
| Lexx | Prime Ridge | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The crew of the Lexx settle down in small-town America. |
| Casualty | Lost and Found | Medical drama series. Dan hits the roof when he discovers Charlie has closed the department. And when Amy's son is involved in an accident it makes her take stock of her own situation. |
| Mutant X | Interface | Sci-fi action series about a billionaire who helps mutants. Emma finds herself in grave danger when she is reunited with an old high school friend, now a GSA trainee. |
| The Simpsons | Bart of War | After the police discover Bart and Milhouse ransacking Flanders's collection of Beatles memorabilia, Marge decides to place her son in a supervised activity group, the Pre-Teen Braves. |
| The Simpsons | Moe Baby Blues | Maggie and Moe develop a special bond, to the point that Marge and Homer start to feel excluded and put a stop to the friendship. |
| Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | The White Knight Strategem | Four-part murder mystery series featuring detective duo Dr Joseph Bell and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle. Bell summons Conan Doyle to Edinburgh to assist him in the investigation of a brutal murder. But with Bell and the investigating police officer forming rather different opinions of the case, Conan Doyle attempts to maintain the middle ground and finds his relationship with Bell tested to the full. |
| Best Kept Secrets | Money | A look at the work of cyber cops to stop the illegal activities of hackers. |
| Casualty | Kindness of Strangers | Medical drama series. The identity of Holly's stalker is finally revealed, and Amy's love life takes a turn for the better. |
| The Simpsons | Margical History Tour | Marge gives the kids an unforgettable history lesson with tales about Henry VIII, American explorers Lewis and Clark, and the bitter rivalry between Mozart and Salieri. |
| The Truth about Charlie | Expectations are automatically lowered for remakes of Hollywood classics â?? in this case, the classic is Stanley Donen's effervescent Hitchcock-homage Charade â?? but this is far worse than imagined. From the insipid, spark-free pairing of Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton (not the obvious replacements for Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn) to the restless hand-held camerawork, this is a film with a fatal disregard for audience involvement. It's a real underachievement for Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, who at least stays fairly close to the original's Paris-set story about the pursuit of a dead man's hidden fortune. However, all of the most suspenseful sequences have been stripped of intrigue or removed completely. Demme clearly isn't playing it safe, bringing in an international supporting cast and adding touches of surrealist humour, but there isn't a single scene or performance that doesn't feel awkward or misjudged. | |
| Casualty | Only You | Medical drama series. After an exhausting day at work, Tom offers Holly a drink back at his flat to help her unwind, where she relays her continuing fear of the stalker. And when Dan arrives claiming to have tracked down the sender of Holly's flowers, her suspicions are raised again. |
| Highlander | Homeland | Swashbuckling adventure that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. Macleod returns to the land of his youth and visits Debra's grave. |
| Shanghai Knights | Jackie Chan's Chinese sheriff and Owen Wilson's slacker outlaw reteam and relocate to what is meant to be Victorian London (actually Prague) for this spry sequel to the immensely successful action comedy Shanghai Noon. After a brisk intro involving the theft of an Imperial seal and the murder of Chan's father, the action slows a little so they can plod through some unimaginative gags about the English (they drive on the wrong side of the road, have bad teeth and give strange names to food). However, Chan's action sequences are as spectacularly inventive and meticulously choreographed as ever â?? a fight scene that pays tribute to Singin' in the Rain is the real crowd-pleaser â?? while Wilson's trademark surf dude-ish dialogue remains pleasingly off-beam. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Flying Machine | Series in which two teams have to construct a fully working machine using junk from a scrapheap. They must build a flying machine, with the winner being the one that stays in the air longest. |
| Casualty | Allied Forces | Medical drama series. Holly has a hard time coping with the stress of police questioning and rumour-mongering and leaves work early, worried that she might be punished for hitting Tom. Rob's stag night leads to a serious injury and jeopardises the wedding. Barney and Anna waste no time in winding up cocky new receptionist Jack. |
| Evelyn | Triumph-over-adversity stories don't come much more manipulative than in this syrupy, true-life drama set in 1950s Ireland. A warm, if contrived, account of paternal love, this movie sees Pierce Brosnan put 007 on hold to play Desmond Doyle, a charismatic single father struggling to bring up a trio of cutesy kids after his wife abandons them. Doyle is devastated when the authorities force his brood into care and what follows is a poignant, albeit predictable, courtroom battle to get them back. Endearing performances from Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn and, in particular, Alan Bates as Doyle's legal team add colour and weight to an essentially simplistic tale, and Brosnan's winning charm is in full effect. However, it's Sophie Vavasseur as Doyle's young daughter, the titular Evelyn, who steals the show. Her bright-eyed and earnest character is a cliché, yet she plays it so beautifully that all but the hardest hearts will melt. | |
| The Life of David Gale | Had Dead Man Walking been written by the sleazy murder mystery specialist Joe Eszterhas, it would probably turn out something like this. Director Alan Parker's previous attempts to merge social commentary with thriller elements have been excellent, but here the story — about the fictional David Gale, a respected academic and opponent of the death penalty who's awaiting execution — never quite catches fire. It does, however, benefit from the astute casting of Kevin Spacey as the intellectual on death row who agrees to give an exclusive interview to tenacious reporter Kate Winslet. The events leading up to his conviction for murder are related via flashback, while Winslet uncovers evidence that Gale has been set up. Audiences are more likely to enjoy the climactic twists and turns than the bulk of the movie, which fails to provide the tension or high drama we'd expect from this talented cast and director. It's worth a look, but this ends up less than worthy. | |
| Conspiracies | Bible Code Warnings | Series delving into the murky area of conspiracy theories. In this episode, presenter and author Danny Wallace examines whether the bible contains a hidden message predicting the end of the world. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. | |
| Germany Inside Out | Guides to German travel, people and culture that explores Germany from Munich, Cologne and Berlin to Hamburg and Leipzig. | |
| Doctor Who | The Caves of Androzani | The Doctor and Peri arrive on the apparently deserted planet of Androzani Minor, but they soon discover strange tracks leading off across the sand into the caves. The intrepid Time Lord investigates. |
| Charmed | Imaginary Friends | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Cannon | Robert Llewellyn presents a series in which two teams have to construct a machine using junk from a scrapheap. In this edition, a team of army brothers and three scientists from Hull compete to build a cannon capable of accurately firing a weighty projectile. |
| The Simpsons | Kamp Krusty | Bart adjusts his school report when Homer says he has to average a `C' if he wants to go to Kamp Krusty for the summer. |
| From Stargate to Atlantis: Lowdown | A behind-the-scenes look at new spin-off series Stargate Atlantis. | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Easter Special | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. The villagers decide to give up something they love for Lent, and a debate rages over the Dibley bunny - is it real or just a figment of Alice's sad imagination? |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | The Twin Dilemma | Classic sci-fi as the maverick Time Lord embarks on another adventure. The sixth Doctor proves to be erratic and highly unpredictable. He takes the TARDIS to Jaconda to team up with an old Time Lord friend who is at the mercy of the slug-like Mestor. |
| Treasure Island | Animated version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate adventure. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Amphibious Vehicle | Robert Llewellyn introduces the technological challenge series from a scrapyard where two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk and rubbish. In this programme, the teams are challenged to build an amphibious vehicle. |
| The Simpsons | My Big Fat Geek Wedding | Cartoon comedy. When Mrs Krabappel calls off her wedding to Principal Skinner, Marge and Homer step in with some relationship advice. |
| The Simpsons | Wandering Juvie | When Bart is sent to the Springfield Correctional Facility he befriends tough inmate Gina. Features the guest voice of Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar. |
| Normal | Jane Anderson directs this polished adaptation of her stage play Looking for Normal in this TV-movie comedy drama about transsexuality. However, in striving to de-sensationalise Tom Wilkinson's decision to end his 25-year marriage to Jessica Lange and undergo gender realignment, Anderson overcompensates by suppressing his inner turmoil and highlighting, instead, the prejudice of his family and friends. Consequently, Wilkinson is rarely allowed to explore emotions outside responding to other people's hostility, while Lange's sense of betrayal is all too conveniently channelled into the closing of domestic ranks. | |
| Casualty | Heroes and Villains | Medical drama series. Duffy is off on maternity leave, but Patrick is in no mood to celebrate when a retired doctor arrives and puts him through his paces. |
| Lexx | Mort | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Stan, Kai and Xev are given shelter by a mortician with a bizarre obsession. |
| Casualty | The Long Road Home | Medical drama series. Penny Hutchens is determined to confront her estranged father at his farm and bring about a reconciliation, and is grateful when Finlay Newton offers her a lift in his new car. Meanwhile, Chloe Hill is thrown into a life-threatening situation when she acts as medic at a wrestling match. |
| Stargate SG-1 | New Order | Sci-fi drama series. As they travel in search of the Asgard, Carter and Teal'c make a horrifying discovery. Back at the Stargate base, the System Lords seek an alliance with Earth against a common enemy. |
| Casualty | Mix and Match | Medical drama series. Chloe celebrates some unexpected good news with Barney and new receptionist Jack. And Holly is trying to put her stalker ordeal behind her while avoiding Patrick. Colette and Josh are becoming closer, much to their colleagues' delight. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. In Japan, Master Tanaka and his daughter excel in the art of the sword. Chopping down arrows in mid flight can only be done `when you and the sword are one'. The same intuitive relationship allows Master Presas in the Philippines to stick fight whilst blind folded, and improving intuition is what drives the acolytes of Master Aoki in Japan to stand under freezing cold waterfalls. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. In the Philippines a weapon maker mixes deadly spiders with steel, whilst in Japan Chris narrowly escapes a Ninja pole head trap. Animals continue to provide inspiration as Chris eats scorpions in a Beijing market and the energy of the snake and leopard are harnessed in the Hong Kong docks. | |
| Casualty | Breaking the Spell | Medical drama series. Holly's continuing indifference to Patrick finally provokes an outburst from him. A surprise inheritance from a patient leads Chloe to go on a spending spree. Barney is faced with a dilemma when a leukaemia sufferer gets personal. |
| Great Britons: Shakespeare | A series of programmes looking at the achievements of influential British figures. Actress Fiona Shaw explores the life of William Shakespeare, Britain's famous playwright and poet. | |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Love and Marriage | Sitcom about a female vicar in a country parish. Geraldine is busy preparing for Alice and Hugo's wedding, but she is totally unprepared for Alice's shock revelation the night before, or for her first meeting with David's dashing brother. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Casualty | Breaking the Spell | The second of a two-part episode of the medical drama series. The department struggles to cope as both Holly and Colette vanish. Then Patrick returns with some disturbing news. |
| Futurama | A Head in the Polls | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. When the price of titanium skyrockets, Bender pawns his titanium-rich body and lives the good life - until Richard Nixon's head uses the robot's torso to stage a political comeback. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. From samurai decapitation skill in Japan to the legendary death touch, Chris Crudelli gets in the firing line of the most dangerous martial artists alive. A Southend tattoo parlour becomes the venue for some serious `Chi' work, and while engaging in river fighting in the Philippines Chris learns how to invoke the spirits from the dead and to protect himself with amulets. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary series examining the world of martial arts. In the Philippines, stick fighting has never been so fast and in Taiwan, Chris Crudelli uncovers unbelievable physical feats involving bottle openers and fingers, steel rods and eyeballs, cleavers and toes. | |
| Doctor Who | Attack of the Cybermen | The Doctor meets up with an old adversary - Commander Lytton. But why is a former enemy in the London sewers? |
| Witchblade | Nailed | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. A psychotic serial killer, with a fetish for the fingernails of young girls, becomes obsessed with Danny's niece. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Aristotle | Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras to Plato to Aristotle. Filmed at the Parthenon and across Athens, Mark reveals the Aristotle that history has forgotten - the one that liked a pretty girl, a shop full of beds and a KFC, and just maybe a drink as well. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | Azati Prime | Prequel series to Star Trek, set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. Archer sets off on a dangerous mission to destroy the Xindi superweapon before it can be used to eliminate Earth from the galaxy. |
| Futurama | Jurassic Bark | Bender grows jealous when Fry attempts to clone his beloved fossilised dog. |
| Casualty | A Life Lost | Comfort's anger turns to worry when Fin fails to come home all night. Ellen tells Abs about what she's running away from. Luke can't shake his concerns for Kate despite her insistence that he is a killer. |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Vengeance of Varos | Science fiction series. On the planet Varos, the Doctor learns that too much television can be bad for you. |
| The Simpsons | Simple Simpson | Homer becomes an anonymous vigilante, shaming local miscreants by splatting them with pies. But can Mr Burns blackmail The Pie Man into targeting the Dalai Lama? |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Land Yachts | Robert Llewellyn introduces the technological challenge series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. The teams are challenged to build a yacht capable of carrying the entire team in a race across land. |
| Casualty | Holding the Baby | Medical drama series. Life hangs in the balance for Josh and Finlay. The arrival of Duffy's baby is imminent. Patrick's new love makes an arresting entrance. |
| Lexx | Moss | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The crew of the Lexx are caught up in the post-Waco politics of a band of obsessed patriots. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Mileage Marathon | Host Robert Llewellyn challenges two teams to build a vehicle to travel as far as possible on one coffee cup's worth of petrol. |
| Casualty | Dirty Laundry | Medical drama series. A distraught Josh turns to Colette for comfort - but Colette is preoccupied with her teenage daughter, Natalie, who is now pregnant and does not want any more contact with her mother. Patrick is pushing Max for a reference to support his application for a consultant's post. Jack cannot believe his luck when he lands two dates for one evening. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Rising | Sci-fi drama series. The discovery of an amazing city left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there, the new team encounters a planet of primitive humans being decimated by a terrible alien race - the Wraith. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Marine Salvage | Robert Llewellyn introduces the technological challenge series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. The challenge is to build a salvage machine capable of raising a Mini from the murky waters of a lake and then park it safely in a car park. |
| Casualty | All's Fair | Medical drama series. New doctor Lara Stone is thrown straight into a crisis over a patient who is not quite what he seems. Charlie meets the new chief executive in unexpected circumstances. Patrick becomes involved in a domestic dispute with a chilling twist. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Walking Machines | Competition in which teams of engineers take up the challenge to conceive and create fantastic contraptions using only junk from a scrapyard. Host Robert Llewellyn challenges two teams to create a walking machine, which will then be put through its paces on an obstacle course. |
| Casualty | Crash Course | Medical drama series. Comfort and novice paramedic Nikki are confronted with a collapse on a building site. As Nikki wonders whether she is up to the job, a confession from an unexpected source leaves Comfort questioning her beliefs. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Autumn | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. The vicar is caught in a dilemma when David's handsome brother comes to stay, and risks the wrath of the villagers when she gives in to temptation. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Winter | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. Alice miraculously solves the problem of the Christmas show by proposing a promenading Nativity, in which she and Hugo will play Mary and Joseph. However, when Alice goes into labour mid-performance and gives birth at the pertinent moment, she has to check with Geraldine whether or not she has actually given birth to the baby Jesus. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Teacher's Pet | Sitcom about two flatmates who have nothing in common apart from their outrageous attitude to life and their taste in men. Tom's acting career is in the doldrums, so he decides to set up his own acting school. The only problem is finding his first client. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Hot Rods | The series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. |
| Casualty | Bringing Up Baby | Medical drama series. Lara ignores warnings to observe hospital protocol when the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn child hang in the balance. Chloe is convinced that a frightened teenage babysitter is to blame when a six-month-old baby is rushed in. Patrick's fate is in Max's hands as he attends his interview for a new consultant's position. |
| Futurama | Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love | Futuristic cartoon comedy. When Zoidberg runs amok during mating season, Fry sets out to teach him how to woo a mate. |
| Green Wing | 7/9 | Comedy-drama series following the surreal adventures of the staff at a hospital. Caroline is broody, but confused whether to put her trust in Guy or Mac. Martin gets his exam results. Guy hires a hitman to destroy Mac's good looks, and Statham falls for the attractive chaplain, Cordelia. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | The Mark of the Rani | Classic sci-fi. The Doctor arrives on Earth as the Luddites riot. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers introduce the popular junkyard contest in which fans of engineering create contraptions from scrap materials. The Hairy Hogs from Northern Ireland face Team Ragbo from Todmorden in the latest challenge which involves building jet boats for an offshore contest. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Ballistic Missiles | Robert Llewellyn presents a series in which two teams have to construct a machine using junk from a scrapheap. A field expert guides the teams through the hazards and design dilemmas involved in constructing ballistic missiles. |
| Casualty | When the Devil Drives | Comfort is finding it difficult to cope with the strain of Fin's disappearance. Luke gets into trouble when he tries to be charitable. Nina accuses Ellen of lying to Abs. |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | The Two Doctors | Patrick Troughton's 1960s Doctor teams up with one of his 1980s incarnations in an adventure that also features a return of some of the Time Lord's old enemies. With the help of a former incarnation of himself, can the Doctor manage to prevent Dastari's illegal experiments from reaching fruition? |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Off-Road Vehicles | Host Robert Llewellyn challenges two teams to build a machine out of scraps found in a junkyard. |
| Futurama | Xmas Story | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry and Leela are targeted by a murderous robot Santa Claus, and Bender volunteers at a shelter for homeless robots. Guest voices John Goodman and Conan O'Brien. |
| The Simpsons | The Way We Weren't | Marge is shocked to discover that she was not the first girl that Homer kissed. He first smooched with a girl at summer camp and pined for her after he was transferred to fat camp, although they did meet again years later. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Boats | Competition in which teams of engineers take up the challenge to conceive and create fantastic contraptions using only junk from a scrapyard. |
| Casualty | White Lies | Medical drama series. The paramedic team begin to feel the pressure as Josh's inquest beckons, while Max has to face up to some painful memories. |
| Battlestar Galactica | In updating this wagon-trains-in-space opera, the makers have reinvented the entire genre. It's the most exciting development in science fiction for years. Instead of removing all points of relatability, as many sci-fi series do, this one is intensely human. Essentially it's a man-versus-machine saga in space: Cylons have turned murderously against their human creators, and are blocking all escape routes for the survivors seeking a new home. But there's so much more going on here: politics, romance, sex, religion. Plus among the best, most realistic-looking special effects ever to grace a TV show. Sensational. | |
| Spooks | 2/10 | What's happened to super-spy Tom (Matthew Macfadyen)? After his recent upheavals, he's back at work, but seems to be taking an unhealthy relish in the plight of a reactivated MI5 "sleeper" scientist who is, effectively, blackmailed into becoming the bait to catch a terrorist cell. The man's family is consistently lied to as he's dragged deeper into a murky plot to lead these terrorists to believe he has discovered the so-called "Holy Grail of terrorism" - red mercury. Red mercury doesn't actually exist. But MI5's quarry has to be made to believe quite the opposite. As the poor scientist faces increasingly intolerable pressures, Tom begins to question the moral (or should that be immoral?) implications of what he, and the security services, ask such people to undertake. It leads him to make a difficult, and life-changing, decision. BBCi: interactive spy training exercises are available after the show via the red button. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | Who's That Boy? | Sitcom about two flatmates and their search for the ideal man. Linda and Tom awake to find a half-naked man in their flat. The pair attempt to piece together the events of the night before and work out which one of them got lucky. |
| The New Statesman | The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard | Political sitcom. With Alan's shares at an all-time low, he decides it's time for the great British people to choose a new leader. Naturally, he elects himself. |
| Jack the Ripper | The infamous Whitechapel murderer's life story, including a look at the theories surrounding his identity. Interviewees include historians and authors who are confirmed 'Ripperologists'. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Hovercraft | The series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. A team of garage mechanics with a penchant for judo take on a group of go-karters - and both have to build a hovercraft of sorts. |
| Casualty | Facing the Future | Medical drama series. Dillon is forced to expose details of Patrick's relationship with Rachel when Lara reveals she is keen on Patrick. Meanwhile, Dillon receives an unwelcome blast from the past in the shape of a smarmy former colleague. Chloe, exhausted by the effort of holding down two jobs, is beginning to make dangerous mistakes. And Josh's defeatist attitude frustrates Colette, who tries to talk him out of leaving. |
| Highlander | Deliverance | Swashbuckling adventure series that pits ancient time-travelling warriors against one another. MacLeod arrives in France, leaving a trail of hate and destruction in his wake. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Lockdown | Sci-fi drama series. The crew is under quarantine after a Russian officer is infected with a mysterious illness. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Deep Sea Drive | Competition in which teams of engineers take up the challenge to conceive and create fantastic contraptions using only junk from a scrapyard. |
| Casualty | For My Next Trick | Medical drama series. A group of friends cause havoc at their annual firework display. Jack's practical joke backfires, but the arrival of a wounded magician provides the chance for him to make amends. Max faces the ultimate temptation. |
| The Simpsons | The PTA Disbands | Principal Skinner and Mrs Krabappel escort their students on a trip fraught with danger to the Fort Springfield Civil War site. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Rising | Sci-fi drama series. The crew look for a new fuel source when they come across a settlement where the villagers live in fear of the enemy. |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. Cassie is an A-grade student who joins a posh boarding school called Medenham Hall, built on the back of the slave trade. As term begins, she is subjected to the usual round of humiliating experiences by her peers but this is the least of her worries. Tormented by violent images and pursued by a mysterious man, she realises that she has developed powers that will change her life. | |
| Spooks | Drama series about the Security Service. An unscheduled visit by the President of the United States becomes a power struggle as MI5 are forced to work with the CIA and the White House security team. | |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Sky Rockets | Competition in which teams of engineers take up the challenge to conceive and create fantastic contraptions using only junk from a scrapyard. |
| Casualty | Distant Elephants | Medical drama series. After breaking up a fight, Comfort finds she has put herself in grave danger. Meanwhile, a young student forces Josh to face the implications of his resignation. |
| The Simpsons | Team Homer | Homer decides to start up his own bowling league, and Bart causes a student riot. |
| Battlestar Galactica | 33 | Sci-fi drama series in which survivors of destroyed planets reunite under the leadership of the giant warship Galactica and begin the search for a new and peaceful place to live. After Cylons destroyed the universe, mankind's survivors are looking for Earth. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Casualty | It's a Family Affair | Medical drama series. Duffy becomes involved with a bereaved father and son on her first day back at work. Meanwhile, Spencer finds himself having to play referee between a warring couple. |
| Cold War | After Stalin 1953-56 | Kenneth Branagh narrates an epic study of the globally divisive conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This programme chronicles the uprising of Germans, Poles and Czechs against Soviet rule. But as a coup in Budapest is ruthlessly suppressed by Russian tanks in 1956, Khrushchev consolidates Soviet power. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. Presenter Chris Crudelli challenges a group of tough builders to knock him down, sees how a sledgehammer can crack bricks on a man's head and watches a van pulled by a penis. | |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. Presenter Chris Crudelli visits a Taipei fight club and visits a film set in Beijing, where he is taught how to fly in the `Crouching Tiger' style. In the UK, two female show wrestlers take Chris through their paces and in Hong Kong the spirit of Bruce Lee is invoked by a sprightly 80- year old. | |
| Green Wing | Comedy-drama series following the surreal adventures of the staff at a hospital. Love is in the air but confusion still reigns. Martin loves Caroline, Caroline loves Mac, but Mac has a girlfriend. Guy pretends to love Caroline but he really loves himself. All becomes clear at a charity slave auction. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Timelash | Another adventure in the fourth dimension for the maverick Timelord. On Karfel, the Borad rules - but all is not well. |
| Brainiac: History Abuse | Charlotte Hudson presents incredible historical facts. This programme reveals the revolting food people have eaten through the ages, and aims to find out if modern devices can withstand the force of an old-fashioned battering ram. | |
| Holby City | The Private Sector | Hospital drama series. The atmosphere between lovers Chrissie and Owen becomes tense, and Owen immerses himself in the case of a pregnant schizophrenic who is reluctant to take medical advice. Ric finds himself in hot water after performing drastic surgery on a budding teenage sportsman in an effort to save his life. |
| Futurama | 30 Per Cent Iron Chef | Futuristic cartoon comedy about a pizza-delivery boy who, after being cryogenically frozen, wakes up in the fourth millennium. Bender competes against the pretentious, but popular, chef Elzar in the Iron Cook chef contest. And Dr Zoidberg is struck with remorse after framing Fry for his own misdeed. |
| Futurama | Put Your Head on My Shoulders | Futuristic cartoon comedy series. Valentine's Day turns into a nightmare for Fry, when his head is surgically attached to Amy's body. |
| The Simpsons | Smart and Smarter | After some notoriously wobbly series in recent years, The Simpsons is back on vintage form - this brand-new episode is a zinger. When Maggie wins a place at a highly selective pre-school and is hailed as a prodigy, Lisa suffers an identity crisis and leaves home. This basic plot is well worn, but it still works thanks to a storm of mercilessly funny one-liners and a nifty guest spot by Simon Cowell - who even has a go at the show's end credits. |
| Spooks | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. Danny and the team must uncover the truth behind an assassination attempt on a famous novelist. | |
| Lexx | Texx Lexx | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Xev pours on the hot sauce at a Texas trailer park, Kai becomes involved in a doomsday cult, and Stan is taken prisoner by the ATF. |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Time and the Rani | Another adventure for the maverick Timelord. The Doctor meets an old adversary on the planet of Lakertya, inhabited by serpentine humanoids and, until recently, utterly peaceful. |
| Futurama | The Lesser of Two Evils | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry fears the worst when Bender's exact duplicate joins the crew on a mission to deliver a valuable atomic tiara to the Miss Universe pageant. |
| Virtual History | The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler | A documentary following the activities of Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill on July 20th, 1944, using a combination of CGI, historical footage and recreations. |
| Virtual History | The Making Of | A documentary exploring how filmmakers achieved the look, feel and texture of 'Virtual History - The Bomb Plot Day', which recreates the 24 hours of July 20, 1944. |
| Casualty | The Morning After | Medical drama series. Max and Amanda face an emotional dilemma as Ben is brought in to Accident and Emergency. Patrick makes a difficult decision when he discovers Max is more involved with Ben than he is letting on. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Water | More heart-pounding drama from the first-class new series, getting its world premiere on Sky One. Out of billions upon billions of people, fewer than 50,000 have survived an enemy attack and are now hiding out in a convoy of vessels led by the Galactica, a single warship. On board, Sharon wakes up covered in red stains and drenched with water. Where has she been - and why can't she remember anything about it? And why are there explosives missing? |
| Spooks | 3/10 | There's a bit of a change of style and pace in tonight's Spooks, which is far from its usual frenetic self. In fact, everyone seems a lot more thoughtful since the demise of Tom, the spy with a conscience, last week. Tonight, Danny is detailed to protect a controversial author living under the threat of a fatwa. As a consequence, Danny gets to know a bookseller and develops what you'll realise is a rather unwisely close relationship. As ever, great fun and brilliantly done. BBCi: interactive spy training exercises available after the show via the red button. |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | I Do, I Do, I Do | Sitcom about flatmates Linda and Tom and their search for the ideal man. Linda appears on an episode of `The Terry Clinger Show', while Tom announces that he is getting married. |
| Lexx | Dutch Treat | Sci-fi series about a group of likeable rogues and their giant insect-like spacecraft. The President and First Lady attempt to hijack the Lexx. |
| Century City | A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Loose | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. Hannah and Lee May represent a man who has been cured of retardation, but may now die from the cure itself. |
| Casualty | Best Intentions | Medical drama series. Spencer falls ill and has to be rushed into resuscitation. Against advice, Jack tries to contact Spencer's family. Patrick has to deal with a man whose injuries are not as straightforward as they seem. Max faces the consequences of his actions. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Zero Hour | Sci-fi drama series. General O'Neill faces his biggest crisis yet in his new job when SG-1 is captured by Goa'uld. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Hide and Seek | Sci-fi drama series. One of the children opens a unit whilst playing a game and lets loose a dark entity which looks harmless but turns out to be quite the reverse. |
| Casualty | Someone to Watch Over Me | Medical drama series. Anna's brutal attack leaves Chloe with a lot of questions to answer, while a young man's suicide attempt forces Dillon to come clean about his extra-curricular activities. |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. An A-grade student, Cassie, joins a posh boarding school called Medenham Hall, built on the back of the slave trade. Cassie learns more about the school's past and Azazeal is closing in, but Cassie has eyes only for Troy. | |
| Spooks | Drama series about the Security Service. The French Intelligence Service wants to work in partnership with MI5 to catch an arms expert they suspect of selling Eurofighter technology to the highest bidder. The British Government, however, wants MI5 to acquire the information for themselves. Soon an operation of European unity is soured by lies and mistrust. | |
| Casualty | Happily Ever After | Medical drama series. Josh and Colette prepare to take their wedding vows. Meanwhile, Dillon steps in to help an abused wife, and a touching father-and-daughter case reminds Chloe of the immense value of her job. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Casualty | Life and Soul | Medical drama series. Josh and Colette's wedding plans seem a million miles away as they anxiously wait to see if Natalie pulls through. Patrick has an unhappy Christmas when he and Rachel break up, but there is another unpleasant surprise in store. |
| Timewatch | 5/6 - The Secrets of the Mary Rose | Over 20 years after the Tudor ship Mary Rose was lifted from Portsmouth harbour, maritime archaeologists attempting to complete the jigsaw return to the wreck site. It tells of not only the artefacts discovered - cooking utensils, prayer books, weapons - but also reveals the stories of the sailors themselves. Dramatic reconstruction and detailed graphics provide a picture of what life would have been like on a Tudor warship. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Mindwarp | Another adventure in the fourth dimension for the errant Time Lord, edited from the 14-part story `Trial of a Timelord'. The Doctor and Peri arrive on Thorus-Beta where an old enemy awaits. But why is the Doctor behaving so strangely, and has he betrayed his friends? |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers introduce the popular junkyard contest in which fans of engineering create contraptions from scrap materials. Rickshaw manufacturers Maximus face the Anoraks, a group of 4x4 enthusiasts, in a contest to build the fastest motorised rowing boat. | |
| Casualty | Little White Lies | Ellen has a surprising proposition for Abs. Comfort desperately hopes that the body she is asked to identify won't be Fin's. Bex is astonished when she discovers that Luke has let Kate move in. |
| Spooks | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. The latest round of Middle East peace talks are abruptly halted when a key delegate is killed. With the peace process derailed MI5 start to investigate a newspaper mogul and renowned Israeli extremist, and a group he's associated with called the November Committee. Can MI5 prevent an assassination attempt on a pro-Palestinian British MP? | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Terror of the Vervoids | Another adventure for the errant Time Lord, from the epic story `Trial of a Time Lord'. The Doctor finally presents his evidence - in the future with a new companion. But as the Hyperion III continues its journey, more mysterious deaths occur. |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. An A-grade student, Cassie, joins a posh boarding school called Medenham Hall, built on the back of the slave trade. Azazeal has plans for Troy, while Cassie is reeling following a string of impossible revelations. | |
| Casualty | Consequences | Medical drama series. Comfort and Nikki have to pick up the pieces when a coach load of football fans makes an unexpected entrance into a rival pub. Meanwhile, Patrick faces the wrath of a vengeful husband. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Bastille Day | This radical re-imagining of the sappy 70s sci-fi series is an absolute revelation. The pulse-quickening, drum-driven music, the edgy, newsreel quality of the effects, the fleshing out of the characters - nearly everything about it is good. In this episode, Captain Adama tries to replenish the fleet's dwindling water supplies by sending prisoners to a remote moon. Fans of the original series will smile when they see Richard Hatch, who is now a regular guest star in the update. |
| Spooks | 4/10 | Smooth spy Adam (Rupert Penry-Jones) is proving a more than worthy replacement for the now departed Tom, who flounced out of MI5 after an attack of conscience. Tonight we meet Adam's wife, the lovely Fiona (Olga Sosnovska), who also works for the security services and is a bit of a Mata Hari. Adam drafts her in to get information from creepy newspaper baron David Swift (Corin Redgrave). Swift is in the midst of a feud with left-wing MP Nicholas Ashworth (Anton Lesser), thanks to their wildly differing views on Middle Eastern politics. There's a shock in store for the head of the counter-terrorism department, Harry (Peter Firth), when his wayward daughter makes an appearance (be warned - he cries). And Zoe (Keeley Hawes) has to make a decision about her enthusiastic boyfriend. |
| Kings and Queens | Charles II | Historian Nigel Spivey examines the life and times of some of England's most significant monarchs. This edition focuses on Charles II (1660-1685), who represented and embodied the triumphant return of the monarchy following Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 and with it the effective defeat of English republicanism. An affable, flamboyant monarch, Charles was just what the nation then wanted. |
| Century City | To Know Her | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. Lukas and Lee May are asked to represent a woman who has been virtually raped through the use of nanotechnology. |
| Casualty | Playing with Fire | Medical drama series. When Lara finally discovers Patrick, he is rushed back into the department where Max risks suspension by attempting to treat him. Philippa ropes Lara into dealing with a patient who is suffering from a snake bite. |
| Futurama | Raging Bender | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Bender's popularity soars when he becomes a successful pro-wrestler, but when he is instructed to lose a fight, Leela steps in to help him defeat an opponent trained by her old master. Guest voice is Rich Little. |
| Futurama | A Bicyclops Built for Two | Animated series about a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension in the year 3000. Leela finally encounters another member of her race, a handsome male. But when he turns out to be a jerk, she fears that leaving him will mean the extinction of her species. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Icon | Sci-fi drama series. SG-1's arrival on another planet sparks a civil war between the Rand Protectorate and the Caledonian Federation. Daniel tries to stop the fighting but ends up trapped. |
| Stargate Atlantis | 38 Minutes | Sci-fi drama series. The team's ship gets lodged in the Stargate when it flees from an encounter with the Wraith. Sheppard is paralysed by an alien symbiote feeding off his life force. |
| Mark of the Vampire | Bela Lugosi is on chilling form in this stylish horror from Tod Browning. Originally to be called Vampires of Prague, it is a remake of Browning's own silent classic London after Midnight (which starred Lon Chaney Sr, whose death in 1930 left vacant the role of Dracula that made Lugosi a star). Lionel Barrymore is top-billed as the vampire hunter, and his over-the-top performance prompted critics to acclaim the film as an astute parody. Carol Borland, still a drama student at the time, looks bemused as Lugosi's accomplice, which is hardly surprising since her part had been slashed after the censors detected references to incest. | |
| Casualty | Checking In, Checking Out | Medical drama series. Chloe finds herself out of her depth when she treats a convicted killer with a fear of anaesthetic and an interesting family history. Anna and Nikki's plans for a double date with the Vincent brothers go awry. |
| Futurama | How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Hermes becomes despondent when he misses an opportunity for promotion. |
| Three Colours: Blue | A meditation on the theme of loss, focusing on a young woman who loses her composer husband and their daughter in a car crash. While she searches for a way forward, she grapples with the question of whether to allow the completion of her husband's last piece and with media interest in the extent to which she collaborated with him on his work. The first of the `Three Colours' films, each of which is complete in itself. | |
| Spooks | Drama series about the Security Service. MI5 is monitoring a resurgence of trade union militancy which threatens widespread disruption in the public sector. The stakes are raised when it becomes clear that a section of the British Army is planning a strike action of its own. | |
| Casualty | Blowing the Whistle | Medical drama series. Patrick returns to A & E feeling bruised by his experiences, which are brought back to him by a particularly stubborn patient. Anna is being bullied by Philippa, but a medical crisis offers the potential for revenge. |
| Futurama | A Clone of My Own | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. The Professor chooses his clone, Cubert, as his successor, only to find that he has dreams of his own. |
| Yes, Minister | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. | |
| Igby Goes Down | Writer/director Burr Steers's bittersweet comedy takes the first of many strange turns in an uncomfortable opening sequence: the asphyxiation of Susan Sarandon by sons Kieran Culkin and Ryan Philippe. Dark moments such as these permeate this offbeat coming-of-age tale, with acid-tongued Culkin often outshining his more experienced co-stars. It may take a while to tune in to the script's coldness of heart and the savage cynicism bursting from alienated teen protagonist "Igby" (a childhood nickname), who runs away from military school to hang out in New York. Yet, despite a contemptuous attitude towards familial relationships and romance, the film elicits sympathy via flashbacks to his unhappy childhood (featuring Culkin's brother Rory as his younger incarnation). Steer's amusing, barbed dialogue is another prime asset, adding bite to fine supporting turns from Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum and Amanda Peet. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Lexx | 769 | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. 790 gets equipped for love. |
| Casualty | You're Going Home in the Back of an Ambulance | Medical drama series. Chloe is convinced that Jason has deserted her and that she will be arrested for Lewis's escape. When the true details of the escape emerge, she turns to Comfort and Nikki for help. |
| Highlander | Money No Object | MacLeod has to ride to the rescue when Amanda is reunited with Cory Raines, a smooth-talking adventurer who had gone on a five-state crime spree with her in the 1920s. |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Depending on your disposition towards quirky American comedies, this is either a truly original gem or a complete folly. Fans of director Paul Thomas Anderson's previous films Magnolia and Boogie Nights will be stunned ù and as for fans of Adam Sandler, well, they won't know what's hit them. Sandler plays Barry Egan, the head of a bathroom novelties company who collects air-mile coupons in his spare time, is prone to uncontrollable rages and is mercilessly bullied by his seven sisters. In the first five minutes of the movie a car flips over outside his office, an old harmonium is abandoned and Emily Watson appears from nowhere and asks him to look after her car. Then things start to get really strange. Much has been made of low-brow favourite Sandler teaming up with art-house darling Anderson, but the curious combination works. Sandler's antisocial persona is given a surprising, touching twist, that makes the volatile Egan entirely plausible, if still off-kilter, and he handles the movie's moments of slapstick and pathos with equal ease. It might take two viewings to make sense of this surreal, ingenuous romance, and even then that might not help ù but it doesn't matter. This is a film you just experience ù it's illogical and beautiful, just like falling in love. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | The Ultimate Foe | Can the Doctor's friends from the past and future save him from a charge of genocide? And can he defeat an evil incarnation of himself? |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | A special weekend to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Richard Curtis/Paul Mayhew Archer comedy that quickly became a national favourite. To honour this occasion, UKTV Gold is hosting an unforgettable weekend dedicated to the funniest vicar in Britain and her flock of Dibley villagers. Featuring interviews with cast members, the production team and famous fans, we also hear from the residents of the REAL Dibley. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | Gary Waldhorn (David Horton) and other cast and crew of The Vicar Of Dibley help profile of Dawn French's character, Geraldine Grainger. | |
| Vicar of Dibley | When the 102-year-old vicar of Dibley village dies suddenly, the locals are shocked to discover that his replacement is a woman. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | Comedienne Mel Gydroic (Mary Tinker) plays Alice Tinker's sister in The Vicar Of Dibley and, along with other contributors, we take a close up look at Alice's quirky character. | |
| Casualty | Dangerous Games | Fin's death is starting to look suspicious but that's not the only shattering news that Comfort has to deal with. Guppy has a bad day and begins to doubt that he has what it takes. |
| Ring | This adaptation of Koji Suzuki's bestseller has rightly gained an international cult following. Structured like a diary, the plot resembles an old-fashioned detective story, propelled by chance clues and gradual realisations. Yet its emphasis on the paranormal recalls both David Cronenberg's brand of body horror and The X Files. Artfully mixing footage formats to achieve a visual texture commensurate with both the tone of the story and Kinji Kawai's eerie score, director Hideo Nakata inexorably builds the suspense right up to the moment when he springs the cursed video cassette's hideous secret. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | Vicar Of Dibley Producer, Jon Plowman and other guests tell us about how the series challenged the preconceptions about female ordinations. More insights into the series tomorrow. | |
| Vicar of Dibley | Geraldine turns Cupid when she brings Alice and Hugo together - and then receives a marriage proposal from a most unexpected source. | |
| Ring 0 | It doesn't match the clever conceit, haunting atmosphere or visual chill of Ring, but director Norio Tsuruta's second sequel to that Japanese horror sensation is far better than Ring 2. This spookily atmospheric, if confusing, episode charts the reasons why the demon Sadako (Japan's answer to Freddy Krueger) now terrorises Tokyo teens' videotapes. Flashing back 30 years, this shows the adolescent Sadako joining an amateur theatre group. She is viciously ignored when she attempts to make friends and sublimates her tortured rejection by becoming one with the body of her older sister. The slow-building suspense does test the patience at times but two set pieces — the bone-cracking sequence and the frightening forest climax — match the shiver-inducing power of the classic original. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Avenger 2.0 | Sci-fi drama series. Chaos hits when SG-1 wannabe Dr Felger develops a program designed to shut down any gate in the stargate network, but which proves to act as a virus, spreading through the network to shut them all down. |
| Futurama | The Deep South | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. Fry meets a beautiful mermaid, and the Planet Express team discovers the lost city of Atlanta. |
| Casualty | Professionals | A woman who has been raped and badly beaten is rushed into Holby with her small son, who has been sexually abused. |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Sentinel | Sci-fi drama series. The team work with a pair of criminals to save a world from annihilation by the Goa'uld. |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | UK Gold's celebration of The Vicar of Dibley at10 Weekend continues today with more complete episodes from the series plus exclusive shorts featuring interviews with cast members, famous fans and Dibley co-writer, Paul Mayhew Archer. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | With the help of The Vicar Of Dibley writers and crew, actor Gary Waldhorn tells us how he developed and played the snobbish character of David Horton. | |
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| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | The `will they, won't they' relationship between Alice Tinker and Hugo Horton in The Vicar Of Dibley is explored by celebrity guests and cast and crew. | |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. Having rejected Troy, Cassie has a steamy encounter with Azazeal. | |
| Vicar of Dibley | Specially made shorts for Comic Relief with the maverick female vicar. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | The famous Vicar Of Dibley Christmas where Gerladine has to accept lots of Christmas lunches is remembered by the cast, the crew and a real Vicar. | |
| Vicar of Dibley | Geraldine agrees to attend three Christmas lunches, in order not to hurt anyone's feelings. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | Producer, Jon Plowman and Director Dewi Humphreys talk about the real Buckinghamshire village they used for filming the series and we catch up with some of those real villagers. | |
| Vicar of Dibley at 10 Weekend | Producer, Jon Plowman and Director Dewi Humphreys talk about the real Buckinghamshire village they used for filming the series and we catch up with some of those real villagers. | |
| Casualty | Only the Lonely | Medical drama series. Max takes no prisoners on the first day back after his suspension. Nikki and Jack's romance is put to the test when she forces him to confront a very personal issue. And Patrick becomes jealous when Lara lets slip that she will be spending the weekend with a mysterious friend. |
| Futurama | Bender Gets Made | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Bender gets involved with the Robot Mafia and takes part in a cigar heist. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Act of Contrition | This superlative space opera shows no signs of compromising on quality. The taut action sequences, heart-rending human dilemmas and novel special effects are as gripping as they were at the start of the series. For those who remember the characters in the 70s version, Starbuck (originally a man) is just one of many surprises in this slick reinvention. In tonight's story, Lt Kara Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) gets into trouble when she leads a training exercise. |
| Spooks | 5/10 | Crikey, what on earth has happened to Spooks? Everyone is so terribly introspective these days. Tonight's very odd episode sees Danny and Zoe dispatched on a mission to get a rogue British scientist back "on side" before he sells potentially deadly secrets to the North Koreans. But the aim of their journey, aboard a ferry, is dramatically altered when new information comes to the attention of their bosses back at Thames House. The scientist is more immediately dangerous than anyone previously imagined, and smooth Adam Carter has to break the worst possible news to his two operatives. Meanwhile, back home, there's a peculiar subplot involving nice Ruth, who's become smitten with some bloke she's been spying on. BBCi: interactive spy exercises available after the show via the red button. |
| Monkey Dust | 3/6 | Animated comedy series written by Harry Thompson and Shaun Pye, satirising targets across the entire spectrum of British society. |
| Lexx | Haley's Comet | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The crew of The Comet plot to gain the key to Lexx, with the lure of intimate favours. |
| Century City | The Face Was Familiar | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. Marty and Hannah fight for a father's right to give his son a mind-altering drug to rid him of past nightmares. |
| Casualty | In the Heat of the Night | Medical drama series. Patrick and Lara find themselves working a steamy night shift when the heating system goes haywire. Jack realises that he is going to have to put pride aside and talk to Max about his illness. |
| Futurama | The Problem with Popplers | Futuristic cartoon comedy. The whole world becomes addicted to little creatures that the Planet Express team brings back from a remote planet. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Avatar | Sci-fi drama series. Teal'c is trapped in a virtual reality simulation, in which he must defend the base from a Goa'uld incursion. O'Neill joins the game in order to help extricate his friend. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Suspicion | Sci-fi drama series. Relationships are torn apart and tensions run high when Dr Weir suspects the Athosians are harbouring a spy. |
| The Whitechapel Murders: Jack the Ripper | An investigation of one of the most baffling mysteries in the history of crime - the identity of Jack the Ripper. The programme uncovers new evidence about the man believed to have been Scotland Yard's prime suspect in 1888. For over a century his name has remained a secret, suppressed by the Scotland Yard detectives who once had him in their sights. | |
| The Wild One | "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?" asks waitress Mary Murphy. "What've you got?" snarls Marlon Brando, his leather-clad biker entering the iconography of the decade. Long-banned in Britain, and shown famously only at a Cambridge cinema turned into a film club for the purpose by manager Leslie Halliwell (yes, he of the Film Guide), this is the first, the best, the quintessential motorbike movie, actually based on a 1947 incident when a cycle gang terrorised the small town of Hollister, California one desperate Fourth of July. OK, the back projection is a joke, Lee Marvin's far too old and the direction's often inadequate (as is the budget), but Brando is simply brilliant and the film still retains its unique power to astound. | |
| Casualty | Acceptance | Medical drama series. When Jack receives some life-threatening news, he chooses to ignore the truth, but Tony becomes concerned by his unusual behaviour. Meanwhile, Patrick receives some extraordinarily good news and plans a celebratory dinner with Lara beside a secluded swimming pool. |
| Futurama | Mother's Day | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Mother's Day in the year 3000 honours the owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company. Unfortunately, Mom wants to celebrate this year by taking over the world - and only some romantic moves from the Professor can stop her! |
| Spooks | Drama series about the Security Service. MI5 come up against the Chala Cartel, Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, when eight customs and excise officers are murdered. Surveillance reveals a link between the cartel and one of Britain's leading oil companies, and Tom and his team must expose the corruption. | |
| Casualty | Nobody's Perfect | Medical drama series. Lara makes a serious medical mistake the day after her encounter with Patrick. And Jack has some heartbreaking news for Nikki. |
| Futurama | Anthology of Interest #1 | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry, Leela and Bender find out what would happen if their fondest wishes were fulfilled. With the guest voices of Al Gore, Stephen Hawking and Nichelle Nichols. |
| Yes, Minister | Party Games | Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. The seasonal festivities at the Department of Administrative Affairs are overshadowed by rumours of a cabinet reshuffle. But a leadership election and the Eurosausage affair could lead to great things for Jim Hacker. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Lexx | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Kai plays chess with Prince in a surreal high-stakes game. | |
| Casualty | What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? | Medical drama series. After her break-up with Jack, Nikki swears she's through with love, but a call to the home of an elderly couple restores her faith. Dillon defies hospital policy by getting dangerously involved with a vulnerable young woman. |
| Ripley's Game | Following in the footsteps of Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper and Matt Damon, John Malkovich portrays charming sociopath Tom Ripley in this entertaining adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel — previously brought to the screen by director Wim Wenders as The American Friend in 1977. Ripley is now living a cultured, comfortable life in Italy, procuring rare art for collectors by rather dubious methods. When a boorish British associate (Ray Winstone, in an undemanding performance) asks him to bump off a troublesome rival, Malkovich sets himself a diverting challenge: to recruit terminally ill picture-framer Dougray Scott to be the assassin. Despite Malkovich's silky smooth performance as the unflappable manipulator, the film doesn't completely succeed due to implausible plotting and the ineffectual direction of Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter) — her handling of the suspenseful moments renders them funny for all the wrong reasons. Malkovich may be at the top of his game, but he's the only one who is. | |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo is possibly the most easily distracted genius who ever lived. Comedian and author Mark Steel gets close to some of his greatest works, discovering what The Last Supper has in common with EastEnders and why the Mona Lisa could never have appeared in Renaissance Men Only magazine. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Paradise Towers | Paradise Towers won a lot of awards back in the 21st century. It might even be a nice place to live now - if it wasn't for the Kangs, the Caretakers and the strange behaviour of the Mark 7 Megapodic Cleaners. |
| MacGyver | The Escape | Action adventure series. MacGyver faces one of his most dangerous and strenuous adventures when he's imprisoned in order to help a woman's brother escape, but soon finds his own life on the line. |
| Casualty | Horses for Courses | There is an unwelcome mourner at Fin's funeral. Abs has an answer for Ellen, and Bex is perplexed by Sam's behaviour. |
| Spooks | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. Zoe is caught up in the deadly fallout of an abortive mission and must stand trial for conspiracy to murder. Can an MI5 officer be culpable for the death of an undercover police officer, killed by a member of a Turkish gun-running gang? | |
| The Core | Having exhausted the more traditional threats to human existence (asteroids, volcanos, large boats sinking), the Hollywood disaster movie now moves on to positively esoteric cataclysms: in this case the Earth's core ceasing — for reasons just barely explained — to rotate. While international landmarks explode and surface-dwellers face terminal sunburn, a secret team of top scientists builds a burrowing machine designed to penetrate the core and set it spinning again. Best described as Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Armageddon, this is by-the-numbers movie-making, but it has enough excitingly staged set pieces to offset the daft plot. Aaron Eckhart — on sabbatical from the more sober likes of In the Company of Men — puts in a pleasing turn as a boffin recruited to save the world, while the excellent Stanley Tucci is amusingly slimy as his duplicitous colleague. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Delta and the Bannerman | The Doctor and Melanie arrive at Disneyland in 1959, expecting to find rock 'n' roll, beehive hairdos and Mickey Mouse. Of course, it's all far more sinister. |
| MacGyver | Prisoner of Conscience | Action adventure series. MacGyver infiltrates a Russian mental institution in order to save the life of a political prisoner. |
| Futurama | War Is the H-Word | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry and Bender face an army of aliens on a far-off planet, after joining the army to qualify for military discounts. |
| The Simpsons | Bart-Mangled Banner | Cartoon comedy. The Simpson family is thrown in prison after Bart moons the American flag but there might be hope when an old fogey hatches an escape plan. |
| Brainiac: Science Abuse 2 | Charlotte Hudson, Jon Tickle and Richard Hammond present another episode of the irreverent science show which aims to push the boundaries of taste and decency with its outrageous experiments. | |
| Hex | "You're a witch, I'm a ghost and he's a fallen angel," Thelma tells Cassie as teen traumas collide with a biblical curse in the series finale. And this is a soap, a supernatural chiller and a teen drama in one enjoyably leaky package that will provoke a few laughs, intentionally or not. Just don't expect a big finish. | |
| Chicago | It took more than a quarter of a century to bring the 1975 musical Chicago to the screen, but it was worth the wait to get it right. Renée Zellweger plays Roxie Hart, the ambitious newcomer who dreams of singing and dancing in one of the city's jazz clubs, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is Velma, the established star. After the shootings of a lover and a faithless husband, they end up in prison, where the pair find that the publicity surrounding a capital murder case can be a boon to a career in showbusiness. Director Rob Marshall licks the problem of how to film a musical that was presented as vaudeville on stage — it's closer to that style of short scenes and "turns" than to conventional musical comedy — by re-creating the musical numbers as fantasies in Roxie's head. He loses none of the energy of the stage version nor its dark subtext on the corrupting nature of stardom. Zellweger is perfect casting despite — or perhaps even because of — her inexperience in the genre, while Zeta-Jones sings and high-kicks as if born on Broadway. | |
| Casualty | Life Incognito | Medical drama series. Dillon's relationship with Gemma threatens his work. A group of bag snatchers target the department. Lara questions the future of her relationship with Patrick when she discovers that his new job is in London. And Colette finds herself in the middle of a family feud. |
| Futurama | The Cryonic Woman | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. A woman from Fry's past thaws out, but when she feels out of place, she and Fry journey a further thousand years into the future. |
| Battlestar Galactica | You Can't Go Home Again | This riveting remake is light years away from its vapid 1970s progenitor. It'd be a shame if it only attracted genre junkies - it's gutsy, tautly scripted drama that just happens to be set in space. And it must be said the FX have really raised the bar for what's achievable on a small screen. |
| Spooks | 6/10 | There's an almighty conflagration tonight. Besides your everyday saga of murder, Turkish gangland crime, gunrunning, terrorist links and the death of an undercover police officer, there's a government versus MI5 face-off with a crucial general election in the air, and, at the core of the whole shebang, Zoe finds herself on a charge of conspiracy to murder. The word "scapegoat" comes readily to mind. The trial is intercut with flashbacks, building up evidence that supports the point of view from the perspective of different characters (as Danny says to Zoe, "the truth is very elastic"). The outcome is shocking for more than one of them, both physically and emotionally. BBCi: interactive spy mission available after the show via the red button. |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Classic comedy in which minister Jim Hacker MP has been surprisingly elevated to Number Ten. | |
| Empire | Urban dramas don't get any more derivative than this hackneyed debut from writer/director Franc Reyes. Starring John Leguizamo, who also acts as co-producer, it tells the story of a South Bronx drugs dealer who teams up with a Wall Street hotshot (a slimy Peter Sarsgaard) to try to escape the ghetto. While Leguizamo runs rings around his co-stars in the central role, the mediocrity of the plot does him no favours. It's full of holes and entirely predictable, with an unimaginative reliance on stereotypes instead of fully-fleshed characters. Ultimately, for all its slick cinematography, there's just no heart in Reyes's film, making it hard to empathise as violent and tragic events unfold. | |
| Dilbert | The Return | Adult animation about an office everyman who struggles to keep up in the corporate rat race. Dilbert takes part in a competition to see whether humans or computers are superior. Featuring the voices of Jerry Seinfeld and Jon Favreau. |
| Casualty | You Can't Take Them All Home with You | Medical drama series. Lara and Patrick continue to argue over his new job in London. The day offers further torment for Lara when a patient lashes out and gives her a black eye. Tony and Charlie try to help, but Lara brushes away their concern. Dillon is concerned that Gemma is becoming more and more dependent on him. Charlie makes Dillon ignore a cry for help. |
| Futurama | Parasites Lost | Futuristic cartoon comedy. A miniature version of the Planet Express crew tries to rid Fry's body of parasitic worms. |
| Dilbert | The Virtual Employee | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. An imaginary employee called Todd causes trouble for Dilbert. |
| Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets | The main mystery regarding the Walking with Dinosaurs team's re-creation of space travel is why it's on at 9:00pm. Much like British Isles: a Natural History, Space Odyssey seems pitched at a younger audience. In this second half, the spaceship Pegasus leaves Mars behind and heads for the solar system's outer reaches. There are amazing facts and special effects, and some wondrous imagery: Jupiter's volatile moons, Saturn's rock-strewn rings, Pluto's snowy wilderness. It's just a shame that more kids won't be tuned in to witness it. | |
| Lexx | Viva Lexx Vegas | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The King Tut hotel is host to the Lexx crew, where Xev adopts the wrestling persona of Cleopatra, and an ancient Mummy causes murder for a mobster clan and mayhem for Stan. |
| Captain Sindbad | With ingenious effects and vigorously directed by Byron Haskin, this is a hugely enjoyable Arabian Nights adventure, despite its dark undertones. Gnarled Mexican veteran Pedro Armendáriz steals the show as the villainous sultan whose indefatigability depends on his heart remaining outside his body! But American lug Guy Williams makes a serviceable hero as he delivers the inanimate Heidi Brühl from Pedro's castle. On a more sombre note, writers Ian McLellan Hunter and Guy Endore had to adopt the pseudonyms Samuel B West and Harry Relis to bypass the Hollywood blacklist. | |
| Casualty | Past, Present, Future | Medical drama series. Lara still has not given Patrick an answer to his proposal, but a major accident makes them both re-evaluate and realise that work is not everything. |
| Futurama | Amazon Women in the Mood | Futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry and the others find themselves trapped on a planet of Amazonian women, ruled by a man-hating computer. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Childhood's End | Sci-fi drama series. Sheppard and the team visit a place where no one seems to reach the age of 24 and soon discover that ritual suicide is an integral part of the local culture. |
| Dilbert | Pregnancy | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. Dilbert is impregnated with hillbilly, robot, cow and engineer DNA when his rocket is accidentally launched by Ratbert. |
| Lexx | Trip | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Xev and Stan eat mood-altering berries, taking them on a `high' ride through the Lexx. |
| Casualty | Memories | Medical drama series. The emotions of a patient's wife force Lara to confront her own feelings about Patrick, but a near-fatal mistake finally persuades her that she is not as strong as she thought. Her life is made even harder by the arrival of Dr Simon Kaminski, who is bursting with energy and charm. Meanwhile, Finlay and Comfort share a cuddle - but is there more to it than just grief? |
| Futurama | Bendless Love | Animated comedy series about a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension in the year 3000. Bender is full of pent-up frustration, but will working at a bending factory quell or further ignite his passions? |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Dilbert | The Delivery | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. Dilbert tries to sell his story and a custody battle is staged, with Judge `Stone Cold' Steve Austin presiding. |
| Casualty | Hearts and Minds | Medical drama series. Comfort feels guilty after kissing Finlay and vows to keep her distance - however, when they find themselves in a dangerous situation, they turn to each other once more. Jack is back, and Gilly makes a dramatic exit when Spencer finally believes Anna's claims. |
| Futurama | The Day the Earth Stood Stupid | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. When Fry becomes Earth's only hope against invading brain spawn, he is forced to use the one thing that has held him back all his life - his mind. |
| Dilbert | Company Picnic | Adult animation about an office everyman who struggles to keep up in the corporate rat race. It's company picnic time again and the engineering department is desperate to beat marketing in the annual softball game. Featuring the voice of Camryn Manheim. |
| Century City | Without a Tracer | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. A couple demand an extreme pre-nup, and a child fitted with a faulty tracking device is abducted. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Mary Shelley | Mark Steel continues his series of comic monologues. This edition follows Mary Shelley from London to Switzerland to Oxfordshire and back. Featuring the story of Frankenstein in four minutes, wifeswapping, and new uses for an electric kite. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Dragonfire | Time-travelling drama series. The Doctor and Mel can expect a cool reception when they meet the proprietor of the trading colony Iceworld - he has a body temperature of 193 degrees below zero. |
| MacGyver | The Assassin | Macgyver races against the clock to capture a professional killer who has the job of eliminating an archbishop. |
| Jumanji | It was dismissed by many critics as a noisy, scary and utterly worthless excuse for some ingenious computer effects, but as empty experiences go this fantasy adventure is absolutely exhilarating. Toddlers, as well as pre-teens, will be been held spellbound by the marauding wildlife that is unleashed when Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce rescue Robin Williams from the sinister board game in which he's been trapped for 26 years. Any film where the action is determined by a roll of the dice is bound to be episodic, but this hardly detracts from the enjoyment as one spectacular set piece follows another. The result is wonderful, escapist family entertainment. | |
| Casualty | Past Imperfect | Ellen's pursuit of Abs is getting incredibly irritating. However, although her manipulative nagging is part of tonight's episode, the major storyline is connected to Fin's death. A man is brought in after attempting suicide. The staff don't recognise him at first, but viewers will: it's Karl Ackerman (Christopher Timothy), the man whose wife died while Fin was rescuing those children from a fire. |
| Spooks | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. MI5 are alarmed when they discover a group is hacking into computer systems - tampering with ingredients in painkillers, wiping bank balances and disrupting traffic lights systems. Ruth investigates the possibility that Islamic terrorists might be behind the threat and tries to trace the hackers behind the chaos that is now spreading across the country. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | The Happiness Patrol | Behind the unsettling facade of Terra Alpha lies an even more disturbing reality. |
| MacGyver | The Human Factor | Action adventure series. A computer malfunctions during a test of its security systems, trapping Mac and the computer's designer. |
| Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets | 2/2 | Drama-documentary about the possibility of a manned mission around the solar system. It combines stunning special effects and drama, and follows the lives of five astronauts on a six-year odyssey on board the spacecraft Pegasus. A daring descent to the unstable surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon is followed by a spacewalk in the ice- and-rock filled rings around Saturn. They then return to Earth after a three- year space trek to Pluto. BBCi: digital viewers can press the red button to access mission reports. |
| The Simpsons | Margical History Tour | Marge gives the kids an unforgettable history lesson with tales about Henry VIII, American explorers Lewis and Clark, and the bitter rivalry between Mozart and Salieri. |
| Lexx | Lyekka vs Japan | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Kai battles an oversized Lyekka. A hesitant Stan destroys the alien mother ship with the Lexx, saving Earth from its imminent demise - temporarily. |
| Casualty | Dominoes | Medical drama series. Comfort tries to ignore Finlay. A woman's sacrificial act of love for her husband reminds Lara of Patrick. A killer bug places the emergency department under great pressure. |
| Futurama | That's Lobstertainment | Animated comedy series. Bender and Zoidberg travel to Hollywood in search of stardom. |
| Dilbert | The Fact | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. When Dilbert writes a bestseller, his boss sees it as a marketing opportunity. |
| The Mephisto Waltz | An under-rated occult thriller blending the urban Gothic trappings of Rosemary's Baby with the psychological insights of The Innocents. Dying concert pianist Curt Jurgens uses black magic to possess journalist Alan Alda's body in director Paul Wendkos's unnerving shocker. It's when Alda's wife, Jacqueline Bisset, finds out what's going on that things start getting really scary. Wendkos uses soap-opera clichés and dazzling psychedelic colours to distort the boundary between reality and fantasy in this diabolical tale of enigmatic paranoia. Peyton Place star Barbara Parkins only adds more fun to the harrowing exploits. | |
| Casualty | Waving Not DrowningXXX | Medical drama series. Student nurse Roxanne Bird joins the emergency department in the middle of a crisis. The killer virus infecting the wards is getting worse. Max and Jan are at loggerheads as he tries to close the department. Meanwhile, Dillon develops disturbing symptoms. |
| Futurama | The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz | Animated comedy series set in the future. Leela fights to save the lives of penguins after the Planet Express ship is involved in an oil spill on Pluto. |
| Dilbert | Ethics | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. While most of the company attend mandatory ethics training, Dilbert faces some moral dilemmas of his own. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Poisoning the Well | Sci-fi drama series. The hotly anticipated spin-off from Stargate SG-1. The team meets a human civilisation that are recovering from an attack and wonder if they have the knowledge to create a weapon. |
| Lexx | Yo Way Yo | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Prince visits the Lexx to warn that the Earth has a date with destiny. begins to feel again, and the Lexx's health begins to decline. |
| Casualty | Big Rocks and Very Hard PlacesXXX | Medical drama series. Max faces an emotional decision when a sick teenager highlights the crisis in the hospital. A breakdown in communications means that a local MP makes a tragic discovery in one of the department's corridors. |
| Futurama | Luck of the Fryrish | Animated comedy series set in the future. Fry searches the ancient ruins of New York for his beloved lucky clover, only to conclude that his older brother stole not only his clover, but also his life. |
| Dilbert | The Name | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. Dilbert is asked to find a name for the company's new product. Unfortunately, no one yet knows what the product is. |
| Lexx | Little Blue Planet | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. The inhabitants of a familiar-looking planet are justifiably annoyed when a hungry Lexx devours a chunk of their planet. |
| Casualty | Scapegoat | Medical drama series. Jan finds herself at the centre of a scandal as the local MP pushes for her resignation. The pressure is on for Jack as he prepares for his big night with Nikki. And Comfort has explosive news for her husband. |
| Futurama | The Cyber House Rules | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. Tired of feeling like an outsider, Leela has a second eye grafted onto her face, and Bender adopts 12 children to benefit from a government grant. |
| Tube Tales | A fantastic premise gives rise to disappointing results in this original project about tales from the London Underground. The film is a combination of nine mini-featurettes and provides directorial debuts for Amy (This Life) Jenkins, Ewan McGregor and Jude Law. Its stars are equally impressive — Daniela Nardini, Denise Van Outen, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone and Kelly Macdonald — but the problem is, like eating tapas, some of the shorts are very tasty morsels while others stink. The end result is uneven and all the films would be best served shown separately rather than bundled into this morass of mediocrity. | |
| Dilbert | The Competition | Adult animation about an office everyman caught up in the insanity of the corporate rat race. Changes are implemented when the company discovers there is a leak in the firm. |
| Casualty | Too Close for Comfort | Medical drama series. Comfort finds herself torn between two men. Finlay's day off doesn't go according to plan. Back in the emergency department, tension is mounting, and Jan finally loses her cool. |
| Futurama | Insane in the Mainframe | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. When Fry and Bender are mistaken for bank robbers, they are sentenced to time in an insane asylum for robots. |
| Dilbert | The Prototype | Adult animation about an office everyman trapped in the insanity of the corporate rat race. Dilbert finds out that nice guys do not always finish last. |
| Century City | The Haunting | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. The firm takes on the case of a woman fighting for possession of her dead husband's computerised likeness. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Thomas Paine | Mark Steel continues his series of comic monologues. This edition looks at the life of Thomas Paine, Britain's greatest unknown international revolutionary best-selling author. Mark uncovers this hobbyist bridge builder and corset-maker's son who wrote the Rights of Man and helped inspire the American War of Independence. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. | |
| Doctor Who Omnibus | Silver Nemesis | Another chance to see the 25th anniversary edition first shown in 1988. |
| Treasure Planet | Disney continued its literary plundering with this animated take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island. Slickly revamped for today's more sophisticated youngsters, the swashbuckling pirate adventure now unfolds in space. This allows creative imaginations to run wild, as teen tearaway Jim Hawkins joins the crew of a space galleon to cross the universe in search of a fabled treasure trove. Such artistic abandon does result in some stunning intergalactic landscapes, but it also leads to a hotch-potch of flat alien characters. Aside from pony-tailed human Jim (voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and the cyborg cook John Silver, all are underdeveloped. It doesn't help that, other than an impressive spaceboarding sequence, there are insufficient set pieces to really hold the attention. Considering directors John Musker and Ron Clements were the men behind Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, you would expect better. | |
| Battlestar Galactica | Litmus | Updated version of the popular 1970s sci-fi adventure series. The 12 colonies of man have been virtually destroyed by the Cylons. Now President Roslin and Commander Adama have gathered together the remaining humans and are preparing to embark on a lengthy journey in search of the mythical thirteenth colony - a planet called Earth. When a Cylon suicide bomber infiltrates the Galactica the crew's loyalty is tested. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Covenant | Sci-fi drama series. A businessman threatens to expose the secrets of alien life to the world, forcing Stargate Command to bring him into the loop. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | The Best of Scrapheap Challenge | Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers review the latest series to present the best examples of engineering innovation revealed by the various competing teams. In celebration they award `The Rusties' to mark the highs and lows of the junkyard action seen this time around. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Covenant | Sci-fi drama series. A businessman threatens to expose the secrets of alien life to the world, forcing Stargate Command to bring him into the loop. |
| Secondhand Lions | Child star Haley Joel Osment (who proved what a fine if disconcertingly remote actor he is in The Sixth Sense and AI: Artificial Intelligence is joined by two masters of screen acting in this charming period comedy drama. He plays a teenager who is sent to stay with his yarn-spinning great-uncles (Michael Caine and Robert Duvall) — two cranky old men who, rumour has it, have a legendary stash of loot hidden on their remote Texan homestead. Caine and Duvall succeed in creating a sense of mystery and mischief, but this is unfortunately dissipated each time director Tim McCanlies flashes back to their all-action past (their younger selves are played by Kevin Michael Haberer and Christian Kane). The comedy is corny and the suspense is rarely sustained, but this is still an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. | |
| Casualty | The Sting | Medical drama series. Jan finds that she is no longer in the hot seat when Max's past is dragged through the press. Meanwhile, Max finds himself performing emergency surgery when a patient is attacked in the department. |
| Futurama | Bendin' in the Wind | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. Fry and Bender salvage a vintage Volkswagen bus from the 1960s and return it to its tie-dyed glory. With the guest voice of Beck. |
| Century City | Only You | Provocative legal drama set in Los Angeles in 2030. A husband-kills-wife murder case becomes complicated when a rock solid alibi conflicts with the DNA evidence. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Six Degrees of Separation | Updated version of the popular 1970s sci-fi adventure series. The 12 colonies of man have been virtually destroyed by the Cylons. Now President Roslin and Commander Adama have gathered together the remaining humans and are preparing to embark on a lengthy journey in search of the mythical thirteenth colony - a planet called Earth. Number six appears on the ship, posing as someone else, and accuses a baffled Baltar of being the traitor. |
| Spooks | 8/10 | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. A celebrity couple whose careers are on the wane are terrified when their baby is kidnapped. The woman, a glamorous supermodel, demands MI5 handle the investigation but MI5 soon realises that there's more to the kidnap than at first appears. BBCi: interactive spy mission available after the show via the red button. |
| Casualty | Denial | Medical drama series. Locum consultant Harry Harper arrives in the department and finds himself interviewing Simon and Lara for the registrar's job. But Lara gets off to a bad start when he criticises her for becoming emotionally involved with a rape victim. |
| Futurama | Time Keeps on Slipping | Animated comedy series set in the year 3000. When the Professor creates a team of mutant players to take on the might of the infamous Harlem Globetrotters (guest-starring as themselves), he inadvertently disrupts the time/space continuum. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Sacrifices | Sci-fi drama series. Teal'c plans a rescue mission when Ishta is captured by the Goa'uld Moloc. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Underground | Sci-fi drama series. The spin-off from Stargate SG-1. Trade relations with the Genii come to a halt when their intentions appear to be somewhat dubious. |
| Casualty | Taking It All Back to the Streets | Medical drama series. A double shooting brings Det Insp David Collier back into the hospital. Still convinced that he raped his wife, Lara threatens to tell his staff, leading to a confrontation in the car park. |
| The 4400 | The New and Improved Carl Morrissey | Drama series. A giant ball of light hits the earth, leaving behind 4,400 people, all previously reported missing. Carl has returned stronger than before his abduction, and uses his powers to become a vigilante, a fatal decision. |
| Casualty | Broken Hearts | Medical drama series. Lara fights for her life at the hands of David Collier. Roxy's plans to accompany Simon to his brother's wedding are dashed by a fight in reception, where Simon's love life finally catches up with him. And Roxy's mother finally forces Roxy to take responsibility for her daughter. |
| Futurama | The Honking | Futuristic cartoon comedy. The death of Bender's rich uncle Vladimir unleashes an evil curse upon the robot. |
| Yes, Prime Minister | The Smoke Screen | Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker threatens to deter people from smoking by threatening them with tax rises. In reality, it's just a ploy to get the Treasury to support his tax cuts. |
| Casualty | Code RedXXX | Medical drama series. Nikki and Finlay's lives are put in danger when they are called to the scene of a violent domestic dispute. Harry is confirmed as the new consultant. Lara faces an uncertain future as David Collier fights for his life. |
| Futurama | Space Pilot 3000 | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry wakes up to find himself in a world filled with heads in jars and Stop 'n' Drop suicide booths. Featuring the guest voices of Dick Clark and Leonard Nimoy. |
| Conspiracies | 9/11 and the Evil in America | Presenter and author Danny Wallace examines the work of the US government and checks o see if there is any truth to the rumour that the previous governments conspired to kill millions to achieve global domination. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Sylvia Pankhurst | Mark Steel dips into the pioneering life of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex. |
| Doctor Who | Battlefield | The Doctor and Ace join Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in a future England and engage in a battle against warriors from another dimension. |
| Casualty | Love Bites | Everyone is surprised and intrigued by Ellen's announcement but Claire warns Abs that if he marries Ellen, he'll never have a chance with Nina. Ruth has even more bad news for Comfort. |
| Spooks | 9/10 | Drama series about the British Security Service. MI5's suspicions are aroused when a known mercenary, who has recently been linked to a new player on the arms smuggling circuit, is seen visiting a secret old Soviet arms dump. MI5 pull him in for questioning where he reveals that a missile attack on London is imminent. Adam must go to extremes to thwart this latest threat. |
| Doctor Who | Ghost Light | Ace tells the Doctor about her worst nightmare, and he promptly takes her there. |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | This thoroughly enjoyable mix of swashbuckling action and Arabian Nights-style fantasy from DreamWorks demonstrates that there's still plenty of mileage in good old-fashioned storytelling. The adventure follows scallywag Sinbad (voiced by Brad Pitt) and his crew as they try to retrieve the powerful Book of Peace from conniving goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer). Although some of the animation, like the plotline, can be a tad basic, the stops are pulled out for the set pieces that include a glorious sea sequence with seductive sirens and an exciting escape from a giant bird of prey. However, for all the film's Boys' Own ambience, it's the two women characters who dominate — Pfeiffer makes a fabulously sinister villain while Catherine Zeta-Jones's stowaway, Marina, sets a strong and sassy example to young female viewers. | |
| Nicholas Nickleby | The actors in any film of a novel by Charles Dickens have to guard against caricature — so extreme in vice or virtue are his characters. However, there's not a hint of parody in this bustling, personality-packed account. Young Nicholas (Charlie Hunnam) is the innocent at large in a world controlled by Uncle Ralph Nickleby (Christopher Plummer), one of the most evil men in English literature. First there is the tour to the lower depths of educational hell at Dotheboys Hall, run by Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent) and his wife (Juliet Stevenson). But then there is light at the end of the tunnel in the shape of the charitable Cheeryble brothers (Timothy Spall and Gerard Horan), the hope of love with Madeline Bray (Anne Hathaway) and acting with a touring company that has the astonishing Dame Edna Everage as co-proprietor Mrs Crummles. Nicholas's protection of the abused Smike (Billy Elliott's Jamie Bell) is still as noble an act as we're likely to see while the undermining of Uncle Ralph by his alcoholic servant, Newman Noggs (Tom Courtenay), is a disloyalty we can cheer. Adapted and directed by Douglas McGrath, the original tale has been slightly — and necessarily — truncated, but this is still a treat. | |
| Tracker | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. | |
| Casualty | Deja Vu | Staff at Holby A&E are interrogated when management investigate a sexual harassment complaint against Charlie. An escaped prisoner causes chaos in the department. Matt takes Jude to hospital for her operation. |
| Futurama | Episode Two: The Series Has Landed | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension in the year 3000. Fry travels to the moon but is dismayed by what he finds there. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Flesh and Bone | You can dip into any episode of this tremendous drama, but it's very difficult to dip out again: once you're in, you're in for good. It's the TV equivalent of a page-turner and in this particularly gripping episode, Kara Thrace (aka Starbuck) is required not just to question a prisoner, but to use torture. Her stomach turns as much as yours will, but you'll also feel every inch of the absolute necessity of the job: it's compelling, challenging drama. |
| Spooks | 9/10 | When a known mercenary is spotted at a top-secret disused Soviet arms dump (of which, apparently, there are several in this country), he obviously has to be brought in for questioning. Especially as the powers that be soon realise that a missile has gone missing. It seems that someone - a terrorist group, presumably - is planning a devastating strike on a London target. And the mercenary (played by Owen Teale) knows who it is and when it's going to happen, so it's up to MI5 to get him to talk. While their investigation methods are startlingly clever, their interrogation methods are far more back-to-basics (sleep deprivation and that sort of thing). Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) doesn't actually beat the suspect up, but he's just half a step away from torture. It's a story that throws up some difficult ethical dilemmas about how far agencies should go to protect the public. Is it all right to blackmail innocent people to get the information you want? Is it acceptable to threaten the lives of a suspect's family? BBCi: interactive mission available after the show via the red button. |
| Monster's Ball | The complexities of the heart are examined against a background of bigotry, despair and redemption in this blistering Deep South drama from German-born director Marc Forster. Anchored by the compelling and provocative performances of Billy Bob Thornton and Oscar-winner Halle Berry, the story focuses on the relationship between a recently widowed black woman and the white prison guard who, unknown to her, presided over her convict husband's execution. This is a film of rare emotional depth and power, which is so immersed in the irrationalities of human sentiment that many of the plot's implausibilities can be forgiven. What you have here is a powder keg of rage, passion and loneliness, with each of the key protagonists struggling to come to terms with the injustices of their world. The ultimate resolution may be far too convenient, but there's no denying that this is a brave and honest attempt to tackle some really difficult social issues. | |
| Casualty | Protection | Medical drama series. Lara takes the stand charged with manslaughter. Duffy's mother is admitted after what appears to be an epileptic fit - but the truth is far more sinister. A new face in the department puts Simon and Dillon in a spin. |
| Futurama | I, Roommate | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry and Bender become a futuristic odd couple when they decide to share an apartment. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Endgame | Sci-fi drama series. The team has to carry out one of the hardest rescue missions when the Stargate is stolen. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Home | Sci-fi drama series. The hotly anticipated spin-off from Stargate SG-1. After harnessing the energy from an alien planet, the crew have enough for only one trip to Earth which means they may not be able to return to Atlantis. |
| Casualty | Judgement Day | Medical drama series. Harry and Duffy appear as character witnesses in Lara's trial, and then she has an agonising wait for the verdict. Dillon takes the law into his own hands, while Josh and Nikki are forced to use a life-threatening procedure on a patient. |
| Futurama | Love's Labours Lost in Space | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Leela becomes the object of a starship captain's amorous advances. |
| The 4400 | Becoming | Drama series. A giant ball of light hits the earth, leaving behind 4,400 people, all previously reported missing. A returnee is suspected to be a serial killer who last struck 25 years ago. However, the suspect does have an alibi. |
| Casualty | Thicker than Water | Medical drama series. Simon gets into hot water when he becomes too involved with a patient and her sister. Josh is not himself and his relationship with Colette is feeling the strain. Nikki receives a medal for bravery. Lara receives her sentence - to Dillon's disbelief. |
| Futurama | Fear of a Bot Planet | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension in the year 3000. Fry and Leela find themselves trapped on a planet ruled by human-hating robots. |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Classic comedy in which minister Jim Hacker MP has been surprisingly elevated to Number Ten. | |
| What If? | President Martin Luther King | A look at what America would be like today if Martin Luther King had become the country's president. Would his dreams have been realised? |
| Casualty | What Little Girls Are Made Of | Medical drama series. A father threatens legal action against the hospital when his son is the victim of a misdiagnosis. Heather enjoys a night out on the town with Simon when Dillon cancels their date to visit Lara in prison. Roxanne struggles to cope with the demands of motherhood. And Duffy resolves to move on after the death of her mother. |
| Futurama | A Fishful of Dollars | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry discovers that a small amount of money left in his old bank account has matured into a fortune. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | 6/6 - Albert Einstein | Mark Steel continues his series of comic monologues. This edition finds him in Switzerland, grappling with the fundamental nature of the Universe and Einstein's dislike of socks. Mark reveals the great themes of Einstein's life - the violin, determination, and an inability to remember where he lived. |
| Tracker | Love, Cirronian Style | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Sparks fly between Cole and Mel after they go undercover to stop alien con artists. |
| Doctor Who | 12/13 - Bad Wolf 1 | The Doctor and his companions have faced terrible foes down the years, but tonight he faces the most fearsome of all: Anne Robinson. Or ôAnne Droidö (robo-voiced by Robinson herself), the Game StationÆs deadly quizmistress of a barbaric Weakest Link. A dreadful fate awaits the losers, and it looks as if Rose Tyler may be one of them. The Doctor is in a Big Brother house where eviction, announced by ôDavina Droidö, is fatal. And Captain Jack faces an extreme makeover delivered by Trinny and Susannah, who look like robots but sound eerily like themselves. Writer Russell T Davies has lots of self-referential fun with contemporary TV (ôCall My Bluff with real guns..... Stars in Their Eyes ù if you donÆt sing, you get blindedö). But in this penultimate episode thereÆs a corker of a cliffhanger as the most deadly enemy of all marshals its forces. |
| Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand | 4/8 | Billy Connolly presents an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. Billy boards the ferry and heads for the North Island, arriving in the capital, Wellington. He visits an architect friend of his, then on to a New World supermarket-cum-art gallery. Billy then takes a train to New Plymouth, on the way passing the site of the worst railway disaster in New Zealand's history. Finally, Billy muses on what it's like to be on stage. |
| Doctor Who | Enlightenment | Another adventure for the maverick Timelord. Will the White Guardian be able to help the Doctor? |
| Scrapheap Challenge | The Fast and the Furious | A special edition of the junkyard engineering show to conclude this series, featuring the top ten fastest moments from the history of Scrapheap Challenge. Viewers have been voting via the programme's website and the countdown will highlight the dragsters, jet cars and grand prix vehicles assembled over the years. But which spectacle will prove the most popular? |
| The 4400 | Trial by Fire | Drama series. A giant ball of light hits the earth, leaving behind 4,400 people, all previously reported missing. When journalist prints the names and addresses of the returnees, their lives are threatened by a series of firebombings. |
| Casualty | What's Love Got to Do with It | Medical drama series. Roxanne finds it increasingly difficult to juggle work and motherhood. Both Duffy and Comfort are surprised to learn that they each have an admirer. Dillon competes with Simon for Heather's attention. |
| Futurama | My Three Suns | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry finds himself the ruler of an alien world after he accidentally consumes the planet's emperor. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Secrets and Lies | This wonderful space saga neglects none of its regular characters. Even grizzled, alcoholic second-in-command Colonel Tigh (Michael Hogan) gets a turn tonight. Tigh is stunned when his wife miraculously turns up in the fleet, having escaped the Cylon attack and now hoping for a reconciliation. Interestingly, it's directed by Edward James Olmos, who plays Tigh's superior, Commander Adama. And those of you getting restless waiting for a decent space-battle episode, fear not. It's coming soon - after a break for Christmas! |
| Spooks | 10/10 | This series has been patchy, with some episodes lacklustre and others downright daft, but it's ending with a horribly topical heartstopper that deals with hostage-taking in Iraq. As we saw in the trailer last week, Danny and Fiona are on a routine operation when they're snatched by terrorists who appear to have links to al-Qaeda. Initially it seems likely that our clever little spies will outwit their captors - they usually do, after all - but then it turns very nasty indeed and Adam (Rupert Penry-Jones) has an appalling decision to make. It's a particularly powerful episode, so steel yourself for some shocking scenes. BBCi: interactive mission available after the show via the red button. For a backstage look at the series, including cast and crew interviews, tune in to Spooks: Access All Areas at 10:30pm on BBC3. |
| Casualty | The Ties that Bind | Medical drama series. When Roxy calls the Samaritans for help after abandoning her baby, she gets more than she bargained for. Lara is forced into treating an inmate to hush up a beating, and romance blossoms for Duffy. Harry reads Simon and Dillon the riot act over their punch-up, but it's Heather who has the final word. |
| Futurama | A Big Piece of Garbage | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy as he emerges from cryogenic suspension and finds himself in the year 3000. A colossal chunk of stinking garbage threatens to engulf New New York. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Gemini | Sci-fi drama series. The Prometheus ship is stolen and Daniel Jackson is being held captive. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Storm | Sci-fi drama series. The hotly anticipated spin-off from Stargate SG-1. Atlantis is evacuated after a storm warning. However, the enemy makes the most of the situation and moves closer in. |
| Tracker | Fever of the Hunt | Series in which an intergalactic security officer hunts alien fugitives who have taken over the bodies of people on Earth. Cole and Mel go to London to track down an alien who is copying notorious serial killers. |
| Casualty | It's a Boy Thing | Medical drama series. Duffy tries to get Melanie to tell the truth. Josh is not feeling well, which puts his relationship with Colette under strain. Comfort misses the staff drinks, leaving Finlay to hide his disappointment. Anna plays detective to uncover a patient's illness and her flirting with Harry threatens to spiral out of control. |
| Futurama | Hell Is Other Robots | Animated series which follows the adventures of a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Bender turns to religion after becoming addicted to electricity. |
| Casualty | Innocence | Medical drama series. It is the day of Lara's appeal. Will Melanie admit she lied in court? A suspected overdose patient brings Roxy face to face with her past. Nikki's picture is published and makes its way on to the staff notice-board, so Jack must put up with his colleagues staring at his girlfriend in her underwear. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Summer | Ecclesiastical sitcom about the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger. The committee agree that they should celebrate millennium year by erecting a statue on the green, but are hard pushed to find a heroic figure from Dibley's past. And a water shortage is making village life difficult. |
| Futurama | A Flight to Remember | Futuristic cartoon comedy. The gang go for a space cruise aboard a ship captained by Zapp Brannigan. |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Classic comedy in which minister Jim Hacker MP has been surprisingly elevated to Number Ten. | |
| Casualty | Return of the Native | Medical drama series. It's Lara's first day back, and Harry has to distract the attention of the press waiting outside the hospital. When Heather's incompetence lands her in trouble, Simon and Dillon unite to wreak revenge. Jack takes Nikki to meet his Dad, but when a tabloid photographer flirts with her, the evening turns into a disaster. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down | An updated version of the popular 1970s sci-fi adventure series. Adam finds Tigh's wife alive and emotions run high as everyone is a suspect. |
| Lexx | Apocalexx Now | Sci-fi series about galactic fugitives who crew a powerful insectile spacecraft. Kai and Xev rescue the President and Stan from kidnappers, while humans become a delicacy when hungry Lyekka returns to Earth. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | The Hard and the Hardy | A special edition of the junkyard engineering series with the results of a vote conducted via the Scrapheap Challenge website. Viewers have been asked to nominate their choice for the best mechanical monster seen on the show, but which one tops the poll? The infamous car flinger edition was popular, but various car crushers and power pullers are also in with a chance. |
| Casualty | Who Knows Best | It may be almost Christmas, but there's very little evidence of comfort and joy in Casualty. Well, Comfort is on duty, but she's not joyful and is taking out her grief on her new ambulance partner, Woody. He, by the way, is like a child at a pick 'n' mix counter where the female staff are concerned. He simply can't decide which sweet thing he wants. Jim is bad-tempered, too. He's returned from the States in such a grumpy mood that I think we can assume his medical court hearing didn't go well. Selena's pretty snappy as well, at least where Bex is concerned, but she has her mind taken off such squabbles when she finds evidence that a hatchet-faced woman with a broken arm is abusing her elderly parents. |
| Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand | 5/8 | Billy Connolly presents an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. Billy trikes from Wellington to Palmerston North by the Forgotten Highway, a small road that weaves through stunning scenery, then takes a helicopter ride to show us Lake Taupo, created by the biggest volcanic explosion ever. Next stop is Napier, destroyed by an earthquake in 1931 and rebuilt in the Art Deco style, and the nearby Bay of Plenty. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Specially made sketches for Comic Relief with the unconventional Rev Geraldine Granger aka Dawn French. | |
| Futurama | Mars University | Animated series about a pizza-delivery boy who has emerged from cryogenic suspension to find himself in the year 3000. Fry enrols in Mars University, only to discover that his roommate is a superintelligent monkey. Bender teaches a fraternity of robots how to be cool. |
| Billy Budd | Co-writer/director Peter Ustinov's adaptation of Herman Melville's unfinished allegorical novel about life aboard an 18th-century British warship has a cannonade of powerful performances. One of the best is from Ustinov himself as the indecisive captain, but Robert Ryan as the sadistic master-at-arms and an Oscar-nominated Terence Stamp as the innocent Billy also do well. The film backs off from the fable that Melville intended, but it's a rather plodding treatment compared with Benjamin Britten's intense opera version. | |
| Casualty | Forsaking All Others | "We can only help cure people's physical problems!" Harry tells young Guppy, who's determined to meddle in one patient's personal life. Now, anyone who's seen even a handful of episodes from this drama will know that the staff of Holby City's A&E department have always spent more time sticking their noses into other people's business than dispensing medical care. Casualty's other tradition is to give us a Christmas storyline that involves the death of at least one staff member, or a major explosion, or a wedding or a birth. This year is no exception, as not only do we have an explosive two-part Casualty @ Holby City story starting on Boxing Day, but we also have tonight's extra episode featuring, you guessed it, the wedding of Abs and Ellen. |
| The 4400 | This crazy mix of The X-Files, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Twilight Zone and the kitchen sink reaches a climax (it returns next year). Good cops Bishop and Skouris fret when bad cop Lyttel arrests Bishop's son Kyle. But is Kyle really Kyle? And is he the key to the whole puzzle? Leave your disbelief at the door and prepare for a slightly baffling finale. | |
| Futurama | When Aliens Attack | Futuristic cartoon comedy. When the Fry of 1999 accidentally interrupts a Fox broadcast, it has repercussions for the whole planet a millennium later. |
| Prince Charming | Modern Manhattan fairy tale in which a prince and his squire are both turned into revolting toads. They search Central Park for beautiful maidens to kiss them and turn them back into men. | |
| Red Dragon | In this remake of Michael Mann's revered Manhunter (the first version of Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon filmed in 1986), which starred Brian Cox as Dr Lecter before Anthony Hopkins took over the role, ex-FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) investigates a series of killings committed by Francis Dolarhyde (a tattooed Ralph Fiennes), known only as "The Tooth Fairy". To get inside the killer's head, Graham has to consult his arch-nemesis — and the man he put behind bars — Dr Lecter. Closer to The Silence of the Lambs than Hannibal in tone and tension, this is a classier, less campy outing for the gourmet doctor, who is well matched in the psycho stakes by Fiennes's dentally challenged killer. With this prequel/remake, the people behind the film series seem to have taken to the idea of cannibalism a bit too literally. A crass idea, maybe, but despite a more literal interpretation of the book than Mann's version, it's done with class by director Brett Ratner and The Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally. | |
| Jack the Ripper | Dramatisation of the classic murder tale. A series of brutal killings of prostitutes in the East End shocks Victorian London. On the trail of the murderer is one of Scotland Yard's finest detectives, Inspector Frederick Abberline. | |
| The 4400 | White Light | Drama series. Agents Tom and Diana finally discover the truth about the 4400 but questions still linger. |
| Stuart Little 2 | Despite lacking the wit that distinguished Stuart's first film outing, this amusing sequel will still appeal to those who were delighted by the original. In this adventure, Stuart (expertly voiced by Michael J Fox) falls for a flighty little bird, Margalo (Melanie Griffith), but doesn't realise that she's under the control of a villainous falcon (James Woods) and is actually after Mrs Little's wedding ring. Directed by Rob Minkoff (who co-directed The Lion King), this blend of live action and animation is technically superb — the scenes of Stuart whizzing through New York on a skateboard or in a tiny bi-plane are both exciting and convincing — but its real charm lies in the balance it maintains between enchantment and the everyday. | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Classic comedy in which minister Jim Hacker MP has been surprisingly elevated to Number Ten. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Charmed | Once upon a Time | Drama series about three sisters who have inherited powers of witchcraft. Phoebe comes to the aid of a young girl who is being terrorised by trolls. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Merry Christmas | 2004 is an important year in the village of Dibley. Not because the Messiah is being reborn there, or because, as Jim hopes, Carry On Camping might feature in the TV schedules. No, it turns out it's because Geraldine Granger (Dawn French) has been Dibley's popular but unorthodox vicar for ten years. We're treated to Dibley's carol-composing competition (also known as their "God-o-Vision Song Contest"), dippy Alice's inspired attempt at interior decoration (as well as her complete misunderstanding about Geraldine's sexuality), and a couple of surprise guest appearances. Emma Chambers is sublime as Alice, but the top comic moment comes when Geraldine gets really stuck in to the gift the villagers have bought her. Look out for another special episode of The Vicar of Dibley at new year. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| Investigating History | Captain Kidd | History series in which the latest DNA and ultrasound technologies are deployed to challenge accepted fact and uncover the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. Under the microscope in this programme is the Captain Kidd: commissioned to catch pirates by King William III, the hunter became the hunted. |
| The Real Pirate of the Caribbean | Documentary looking at the inspiration for Captain Hook and the Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan was born a Welsh farmer's son but fled the country and became the most notorious pirate to ever sail the high seas. | |
| Battlestar Galactica | First of a two-part adaptation of the popular sci-fi television series. The crew of a starship fight back against Robot Cylons, who have turned against their former masters and obliterated Earth. | |
| Wild Rovers | Although Blake Edwards is famous for the Pink Panther series, he also made some fine dramas, including this western starring William Holden, Ryan O'Neal and Karl Malden. It's very much a film made in the wake of The Wild Bunch (in which Holden also starred), telling the story of an ageing cowboy and his adoring younger partner who dream of getting rich by robbing a bank. It's as if the boy in Shane grew up and fell in with bad company. Beautifully shot and with a fine Jerry Goldsmith score, this is a rarely seen, exciting and often touching study of honour, heroism and changing times. O'Neal is perfectly cast, for once, and Holden is as craggy and magnificent as the Rocky Mountains scenery. | |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| MacGyver | Eraser | Action adventure series. Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, a man being hunted by the government and the mob. |
| Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand | 6/8 | Billy Connolly presents an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. He visits Mount Tarawera, a volcano that blew up in 1886 destroying all the surrounding area, including he Pink Terraces nearby, widely regarded as the eighth wonder of the world. Next is the Waitomo caves and their famous stalagmites, followed by a trip round a kiwi reserve where the national bird is reared in safety before being released into the wild. |
| Mad Mad House | Shocking US reality TV show in which ten contestants compete to win $100,000 by living in a house with a vampire and a witch. | |
| MacGyver | Twice Stung | Action adventure series. Mac and Thornton look for a con artist who swindled an old friend out of his savings. |
| Black Narcissus | Winner of Oscars for art design and cinematography, this adaptation of Rumer Godden's simmering novel by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is one of the most striking examples of studio-controlled artifice in film history. Jack Cardiff's lush colour images not only enhance the beauty of the stylised Himalayan scenery, but also bring a certain grandeur to the melodramatic events at a remote mountain mission where the visit of English agent David Farrar is causing passions to run dangerously out of control. Kathleen Byron's eye-rolling jealousy awakens the occasionally sleepy plot and her scene with Deborah Kerr on the bell-tower is a true classic. Sabu as a wealthy local general and Jean Simmons as the nubile native girl he's trying to seduce provide a little eastern spice. | |
| MacGyver | The Wish Child | MacGyver gets more than he bargained for when he offers to pick up a friend's little brother from a birthday party. Finding the boy involved in a dangerous scam, MacGyver has to battle Chinese thugs and powerful superstitions to save him from the ominous fate of a centuries-old legend. |
| MacGyver | Final Approach | MacGyver is sent to supervise four teenage gang leaders trying to settle their differences on a camping trip. It becomes a struggle for survival when their plane crashes in the wilderness. |
| MacGyver | Jack of Lies | Action adventure series. Jack Dalton needs help freeing a `botanist' being held by drug smugglers, who turns out to be an old friend of Mac's. |
| MacGyver | The Road Not Taken | Action adventure series. MacGyver travels to South-East Asia to rescue a nun, a group of orphans and an old sweetheart from an oppressive regime. |
| Behind the Scenes: Bruce Almighty | A look behind the scenes of the hit comedy Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. | |
| Casualty | Secrets That We Keep | It's the early hours of New Year's Day and everyone's struggling to come to terms with recent tragic events. Ellen gets some bad news and ruins a tender moment for Abs and Nina. Sam's behaviour is increasingly worrying. An old colleague pays the team an unexpected visit. |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Happy New Year | Special edition of the ecclesiastical sitcom. At the start of the New Year, Geraldine is determined to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and not to celebrate her own 40th birthday. Nothing goes well - the villagers decide to write to the Prime Minister - and speed-dating was perhaps not the best birthday surprise for Geraldine. |
| Bruce Almighty | In director Tom Shadyac's comedy fantasy, Jim Carrey plays professionally wacky TV news reporter Bruce Nolan, who is passed over for promotion, vents his anger live on air, is sacked and curses God for doing a lousy job. Rising to the bait, the Almighty — a coolly majestic Morgan Freeman — gives the sceptical Bruce the chance to see if he can do any better. Bruce is none too bothered with world peace or any of that stuff; he does what you might expect a Carrey character to do when given divine powers — enlarge girlfriend Jennifer Aniston's boobs, perform a Red Sea-style parting of his tomato soup and pull the Moon out of its usual orbit to create a romantic moment. This wastes no time on deep theological questions; it's a return to Carrey the clown after public indifference to Carrey the actor. It has a neat premise and plenty of laughs, but it's not a film to stay long in the memory. | |
| MacGyver | Eagles | Action adventure series. Mac runs afoul of a escaped felon, who shot and wounded a rare eagle and now wants to kill Mac. |
| Ned Kelly | An examination of the Ned Kelly legend. The son of emigrant Irish parents, his death by hanging at the age of 24 made him an icon. But was he a martyred hero, a failed revolutionary or simply a common criminal? | |
| Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand | 7/8 | Billy Connolly presents an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. Billy arrives in Auckland, seeing the penguins at the Kelly Tarlton Aquarium, and then visits the Richard Pearse Museum which commemorates an early flight pioneer of New Zealand. After doing a sky jump, Billy visits a tattoo parlour that specialises in Maori designs and then on to the Connells Bay Sculpture Garden on the island of Waiheke. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Children of the Gods | Sci-fi drama series about the mysteries of an ancient portal which permits instantaneous travel to other galaxies. The SG-1 team is set the task of tracing a group of aliens who are using the Stargate to wage war and wreak havoc throughout the universe. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Egg Shooter | Robert Llewellyn introduces the technological challenge series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk and rubbish. The competing teams have to build a device capable of shooting eggs. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Hand of God | This pleasingly ambitious sci-fi series follows the intense psychological dramas of recent episodes with what promises to be an all-out actionfest, as Adama Sr (the magnificent Edward James Olmos, right) decides to attack the dreaded Cylons. Cue the coolest FX on TV. |
| Red Dwarf | Backwards | Cult space comedy. Lister and Rimmer finally arrive back on Earth - only to discover time is behaving rather strangely. |
| The Mark Steel Lecture | Ludwig van Beethoven | Mark Steel travels to Vienna to investigate the great composer Beethoven. He unflinchingly exposes the virtuoso's anger management issues and his dependence on Ceefax's 888 subtitle service, revealing the quirks of his character the history books gloss over. |
| Casualty | Charity | Hospital drama series set in Holby General's emergency department. Valerie tries to raise funds for the hospital at a posh ball. |
| Casualty | Up to Your Neck in It | Medical drama series. Josh jumps into a river to save a young boy, the victim of a kidnapping, from drowning. Colette, impressed by Josh's heroics, congratulates him with a kiss, but the romantic mood is cut short when she discovers he wants to start a family. |
| Witchblade | Lagrimas | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. Sara experiences love at first sight when she meets the perfect man. But the affair goes awry when Irons returns from the grave with knowledge of the man's true identity. |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great | 1/4 - Son of God | Michael Wood retraces the route taken by the Macedonian warrior king on his epic conquests, a journey spanning almost 20,000 miles and 16 countries. This programme takes in the Lebanese city of Tyre, the scene of Alexander's most desperate battle, and the Palestinian legend of Alexander the two-horned devil. Plus the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, where Alexander was proclaimed Pharaoh and son of God. |
| Stargate SG-1 | It's Good to be King | Sci-fi drama series. SG-1 step in to help when the Goa'uld try to enslave a planet for the second time. Only then do they discover that the 'king' is actually former NID colonel Harry Maybourne. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Defiant One | Sci-fi drama series. Sheppard's team find themselves stranded on a planet with a lone survivor when they come to the rescue of struggling ship. |
| Casualty | Victim of Circumstances | Hospital drama set in Holby General's emergency department. An Asian shopkeeper is brought in with serious head injuries, a young boy has an emergency appendix operation and Duffy is upset about her pregnancy. |
| Casualty | Banking for Beginners | More medical melodrama from the emergency unit at Holby General. Valerie's day starts off badly when she oversleeps with devastating consequences. An over-the-hill soccer player thinks he'll get priority treatment. |
| Casualty | Hanging On | Medical drama set in a hospital accident and emergency unit. A surprise party is interrupted when the hospital is put on yellow alert following a city centre explosion. |
| Witchblade | Hierophant | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. A killer known only as V tries to take over New York's crime syndicates, and evidence found includes the fingerprints of Sara's long-dead father. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Thor's Hammer | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill and Teal'c become trapped in an underground labyrinth when SG-1 go to a planet which the Goa'uld dare not visit. |
| First Knight | Ghost director Jerry Zucker focuses on another doomed romance in this retelling of the spiciest of Arthurian myths. If Kevin Costner can play Robin Hood with an American accent, then what's to stop Richard Gere giving Lancelot a Philadelphia twang? Gere is suitably dashing as the most independent knight of the Round Table, while Julia Ormond is ravishing as the constantly imperilled Guinevere. Stealing every scene, however, is Sean Connery, who, as a legend in his own lifetime, has no difficulty conveying the regal bearing of the once and future king. It's very 1990s, yet curiously and unashamedly old-fashioned. | |
| Casualty | Feuds and Fury | Medical drama series. Jack silences a victim of his father's empire, Lara spends an evening with Harry's kids unaware of Beth's feelings and Roxy's moonlighting doesn't go to plan. |
| Casualty | Taking Stock | Hospital drama set in Holby General's accident and emergency department, where a career is under threat. |
| Casualty | Blame | Medical drama series. There are problems for Lara when a police officer who helped put her in jail is brought into the department. A horrific road accident stirs up painful memories for Josh, causing friction between him and Colette. |
| Witchblade | Veritas | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. A man on the run from two mysterious men is killed after sending a message to Gabriel accusing the same men of a major murder and detailing evidence he had. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Torpedo | Robert Llewellyn introduces series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk and rubbish. The competing teams must build re-usable surface-running torpedos which are capable of sinking the opposition. |
| Witchblade | Parabolic | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. Mysterious tattoos on murder victims lead Sara and Jake to investigate hate crimes that are occurring across the city. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Street Cleaner | Robert Llewllyn presents the series in which two teams have to construct a fully-working machine from scrap. In this edition, the challenge is to construct a four-man machine which can clean up litter. |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Enemy Within | Sci-fi drama series based on the blockbuster movie. Doctors discover a foreign body has attached itself to Kawalsky's brain and the soldier must undergo a risky operation. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Emancipation | Sci-fi drama series. Captain Samantha Carter fights for equality and true love on the Planet Simarka, where women are treated as property. |
| Casualty | A Reasonable Man | Hospital drama series. Megan's life is at risk when she is held at gunpoint in the crash room. |
| Casualty | Humpty Dumpty | Drama series about a Bristol hospital. Charlie is back at work but still recovering from his accident. Julian and Duffy take part in a dramatic mountain rescue. Beth faces an ethical dilemma when she discovers an overdose victim has left instructions that he does not want to be saved. |
| Doctor Who | Robot | A group of dissident scientists programme a robot to steal the plans for a disintegrator gun as part of a treacherous plot to take over the world. It is then up to the newly reincarnated Doctor to destroy the metal monster which, thanks to an infusion of energy from the gun, has grown to an enormous size. |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia | Michael Wood continues his quest to retrace the route taken by the Macedonian warrior king on his epic conquests. Here he travels across Iran and towards the Caspian Sea. Nomads tell the story of Alexander's tryst with an Amazon queen, and people who live today in the Persian empire tell the legend of Alexander the Accursed. |
| Timeline | Despite the distinguished alliance of director Richard Donner and writer Michael Crichton, this time-travelling fantasy is almost too daft to laugh at. Lesser talents might have treated it more lightly and successfully, but Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Donner (Lethal Weapon) press too heavily on the significance of events, leaving the absurdities to take over. Not that all is negligible here, thanks largely to Billy Connolly, who plays a professor leading an archaeological dig in the Dordogne Valley. When the professor gets thrust back in time by the shady corporation sponsoring the dig, his son (Paul Walker) and fellow students follow to try and rescue him and find themselves in a 14th-century war in which the villainous English are browbeating the saintly French. Despite the clunky dialogue and outrageous situations, the momentum maintains our interest, while the plot keeps us amused if not bemused. Even so, there comes an exasperating moment when you are grateful for Aldous Huxley's famous assertion that time must have a stop. | |
| Casualty | Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Brothers | Ellen receives some worrying news. Bex takes a shine to Claire's brother. Sam's behaviour threatens to drive a rift between Tess and Comfort. |
| Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand | 8/8 | Billy Connolly concludes an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. He travels up the Coromandel peninsula to Russell, where wife Pamela's family come from. He visits the famous public toilets in Kavakava, then sees Waitangi where a treaty between the British and the Maori was signed. On his way to the northern tip of New Zealand, on a giant beach Billy digs for some TuaTua, a shellfish that makes delicious soup and fritters. |
| Doctor Who | The Ark in Space | The Tardis materialises on a fully automated space station that appears to be deserted. In fact, it is holding the entire population of Earth in deep freeze until the planet has recovered from the effects of solar flares. But the Doctor soon makes a gruesome discovery - the station has been invaded by giant insect-like creatures. |
| Arthur's Quest | Fantasy adventure in which the young King Arthur is transported by Merlin to modern-day America to escape the clutches of the evil sorceress Morgana. Ten years later, Merlin returns to take Arthur back to Camelot, but finds that he has become a typical American teenager. Merlin faces a race against time to convince Arthur of his duty before Morgana seizes control of the world. | |
| Knight in Camelot | Family comedy about a computer researcher whose experiments transport her back to the year AD 589, leaving the very modern woman to battle against magic, sorcery and medieval prejudices. As she uses her charms and technology to win favour with the court, she is made Sir Boss and takes King Arthur on a journey that could change history. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Brief Candle | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill begins to age at an alarming rate. |
| Witchblade | Palindrome | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient supernatural weapon. Jake and Danny pose as hot-headed fighters to investigate a murder in an underground fight club. |
| Casualty | First Do No Harm | No-one's letting Charlie's 50th birthday go by unnoticed, but by the time the party comes around not everyone's in the mood to celebrate. Ellen's feeling the pressure as her dad pays her a visit, and things can't get much worse for Comfort as her fragile world is blown apart once more. |
| Casualty | Some Comfort, No Joy, Little Peace, Bit Too Much Love | Medical drama series. On the night of the Christmas party, Jack is desperate to win back Nikki, while Anna's bid for a new boyfriend backfires. Colette turns Josh's absence to her advantage, putting her marriage in jeopardy. |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Broca Divide | Sci-fi drama series. On their return from a newly discovered planet of primitives, O'Neill and the SG-1 team undergo a startling transformation. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Colonial Day | The maternal heart of this fascinating stellar drama, President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), is the focus of tonight's story, in which an ex-con makes an unwelcome bid for vice presidency. Fans of the 1970s forerunner will recognise him as the original Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch). |
| Alexander the Great | Documentary about the legendary Macedonian warrior who, in just 32 years of life, became one of the greatest generals ever known and changed the course of civilisation forever. | |
| Casualty | Beggars Can't Be Choosers | Hospital drama series. Events take a dramatic turn in Beth's negligence case, and a young boy falls victim to an elderly drug pusher. |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great | To the Ends of the Earth | Michael Wood retraces the route taken by the Greek warrior king on his epic conquests, a journey spanning almost 20,000 miles and 16 countries. The final leg takes him from the Khyber Pass through Pakistan to the Punjab, where Alexander's army mutinied and he was forced to return across the Makran Desert to Babylon, where he died at only 32 years of age. |
| Witchblade | Ubique | Drama series about a young woman who discovers an ancient living weapon. Sara awakens from a nightmare to find the Witchblade gone - and New York in the grip of a bizarre homicidal spree. |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great | Son of God | Michael Wood retraces the route taken by the Macedonian warrior king on his epic conquests, a journey spanning almost 20,000 miles and 16 countries. This programme takes in the Lebanese city of Tyre, the scene of Alexander's most desperate battle, and the Palestinian legend of Alexander the two-horned devil. Plus the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, where Alexander was proclaimed Pharaoh and son of God. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Cold Lazarus | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill is knocked out and replaced by an alien double while on a mission. |
| Stargate SG-1 | The First Commandment | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill and the SG-1 team make a startling discovery when they investigate the disappearance of SG-9. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Full Alert | Sci-fi drama series. Relations are strained between the US and Russia when Colonel Chekov visits his American counterpart to report a security breach. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Hot Zone | Sci-fi drama series. The hotly anticipated spin-off from Stargate SG-1. The city is locked down after residents are infected with a deadly virus. |
| Casualty | Collision Course | Medical drama series. Jack drives the getaway car for Eddie's heist but is left in a compromising position when things go badly wrong. Colette admits to Comfort that she is bored with her marriage to Josh. Simon is intrigued by Jane's coolness towards him. |
| Casualty | Joy Ride | Hospital drama series. Duffy's love life may be going well but her relationship with Kelly is definitely on the rocks. Three teenagers learn the hard way that joyriding doesn't live up to its name. |
| Casualty | Helping Hands | Medical drama series. Simon's flirting with a new arrival annoys Colette. Josh's surprise for Colette backfires. Lara uncovers the cause of a sick baby's odd symptoms. Harry uses blackmail to save a patient's arm. Anna is stood up on a blind date, while Ryan has a proposal for Duffy. |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Nox | Sci-fi drama series. The team learn a lesson in harmony. |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great | Across the Hindu Kush | Tracing the routes of the Greek conqueror, with Michael Wood. He travels through war-torn Afghanistan, crosses the Oxus River into Central Asia and the Silk Road city of Samarkand. It was in Samarkland that Alexander, in a drunken brawl, killed the friend who had previously saved his life. |
| Casualty | Sins of the Father | Medical drama series. Jack ends up in casualty and lies to the police about how he came to be injured. While looking after a young autistic boy, Dillon's quick reflexes are tested. Roxy realises she has feelings for Dillon. |
| Charmed | The Bare Witch Project | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited powers of witchcraft. After a Magic School mishap, the Charmed Ones must prevent the murder of the infamous Lady Godiva. Phoebe has doubts about new guy Leslie's writing qualifications. |
| Casualty | Living in Hope | Hospital drama series. The team have to perform an emergency amputation on a young cyclist injured in a road accident. And there's emotional trauma for Duffy and Kelly as they both come under pressure to give up nursing. Julian is relishing his new role. |
| Casualty | Making the Break | Hospital drama series. The pressures of being a student nurse finally take their toll on Kelly. Trish is faced with a harrowing case. Charlie, as always, is there to give comfort. |
| Ned Kelly | Adapted by John McDonagh from Robert Drewe's book Our Sunshine, Gregor Jordan's film about Australia's famous outlaw casts as rosy a light as possible on the outback legend. Heath Ledger gives a growling performance as Ned, while the oppressive nature of the world in which he lived is evocatively presented. Misjudged and set up by the police, especially Superintendent Hare (Geoffrey Rush), he is forced to go on the run and form a gang. The outback is filmed in tones as sumptuous as any tourist brochure, but, in the end, the idolisation of Kelly rings only as true as the stature accorded to Billy the Kid. | |
| Casualty | Sins of Omission | Hospital drama series. Duffy feels partly to blame for Kelly's tragic suicide, a test-drive in a fast car has disastrous consequences, and one of Ash's elderly patients dies while under observation. |
| Casualty | The Last Word | Hospital drama series. A new member of the nursing team has problems dealing with an HIV-positive patient. Julian performs an emergency operation. An anorexic dancer is rushed in when she collapses during a rehearsal. |
| Doctor Who | The Revenge of the Cybermen | The maverick Time Lord becomes involved in a life-and-death struggle to rid the universe of the terrifying Cybermen. |
| Doctor Who | Terror of Zygons | A disaster in the North Sea brings the Doctor to Scotland where some aliens are causing havoc from their spaceship at the bottom of Loch Ness. |
| Intolerable Cruelty | This is by far Joel and Ethan Coen's most expensive film and also their first working from an existing script. That it turns out to be their weakest to date may not be unconnected. A slick, colourful screwball comedy (like their own Hudsucker Proxy without the period setting), it follows the quest of ultra-successful divorce lawyer Miles Massey (George Clooney) to marry professional gold-digger Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) using his own cast-iron "pre-nup". This being a Coen brothers film, it's populated with wonderful, often grotesque supporting characters including Edward Herrmann's philandering millionaire, Billy Bob Thornton's dozy oilman and Jonathan Hadary's eccentric trial witness. But when these turns distract from rather than add to the central plot, you're in dangerous territory. There are moments of inspired, slapstick brilliance (not least those featuring an asthmatic hitman), and Clooney works his socks off, but it lacks a hard centre and plot keeps racing ahead of character. It's neither as unhinged as their Raising Arizona nor as warm as Fargo; let's hope this is an isolated blip on the Coens' graph. | |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Pierce Brosnan stars here as the millionaire who steals art in his spare time, with Rene Russo as the sultry insurance investigator who shows an unusually close interest in his extracurricular activities. This is a loose remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway caper, which is now probably best remembered for spawning Noel Harrison's Oscar-winning theme song The Windmills of My Mind. It's considerably steamier than the original, yet it's very stylishly done by Die Hard director John McTiernan. The fact that Brosnan and Russo are a sexy and believable match is just one of the factors — along with a taut script and good support from Denis Leary and Dunaway herself — that make this cat-and-mouse thriller well worth catching. | |
| Casualty | A Hard Day's Night | Medical drama series. Harry returns to work after the death of his wife. Simon takes an unprofessional interest in Jane's operation. When Colette is attacked by a patient's relative, she is forced to reveal her pregnancy. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Torment of Tantalus | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team find themselves without a way home when they attempt to rescue the one person who successfully travelled through the Stargate over 50 years earlier. |
| Casualty | Spiteful God | Medical drama series. Fin's daughter is taken into hospital while he's out on call. Charlie is shocked that Duffy is leaving, but is touched when she asks him to give her away at the wedding. |
| Charmed | Charrrmed! | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Paige encounters a cursed 18th-century pirate. Leslie finds ways to spend more time with Phoebe and a federal agent begins investigating the Halliwells. |
| Battlestar Galactica | Kobol's Last Gleaming | The first of a two-part series finale sees the fugitives nearing the mythical planet of Kobol, from which all the tribes of mankind are said to have originated. But is it Kobol? In this sparkling sci-fi, which just has to be recommissioned, nothing is certain. |
| Red Dwarf | Polymorph | Cult space sitcom. A genetic mutant is set loose aboard Red Dwarf and submits the crew to a gruesome 24-hour nightmare. |
| Casualty | Pressure! What Pressure? | Medical drama series. The emergency team has to deal with a battered wife, and Julian clashes with Charlie over the ethics of organ donation. |
| Casualty | Facing Up | Medical drama series set in an emergency department. Josh risks life and limb to rescue a father and son from a fire, and Mark lets the cat out of the bag. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Bloodlines | Sci-fi drama series. Teal'c returns to Chulak in an attempt to stop Rya'c from becoming a slave to the Goa'ulds. |
| Casualty | Flight | Medical drama series. A day off for Harry turns into a busman's holiday when he discovers a sinking boat. Duffy prepares to leave the hospital to embark on her new life with Ryan. Jack becomes increasingly desperate as the police close in on him after the robbery. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Golf Ball Gatling Gun | The series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. A group of dustcart engineers take on some sailing fanatics in a bid to build a gun to fire golf balls at a high velocity. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Citizen Joe | Fans of The Simpsons are in for a treat tonight, as Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer) plays the eponymous hero of tonight's episode - Citizen Joe. He shows up at Jack O'Neill's house with a gun, claiming the general has ruined his life. D'oh! |
| Stargate Atlantis | Sanctuary | Sci-fi drama series. The hotly anticipated spin-off from Stargate SG-1. The team find an ideal sanctuary from the Wraith, but the local people think their goddess will be displeased. |
| Casualty | Allegiance | Medical drama series. A member of the paparazzi causes a tragic accident while hounding a disgraced MP, and a rock guitarist's career is threatened by injury. |
| Casualty | Cascade | Medical drama series. Beth's farewell party comes to a halt when news arrives of an airline accident. Meanwhile, the threat of redundancies and redeployment still hangs over the hospital. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Fire and Water | Sci-fi drama series. Daniel is presumed dead after an alien abducts him and sends the rest of the SG-1 team home. |
| Casualty | Love Hurts | Medical drama series. Duffy's new life with Ryan turns from dream to nightmare. Dillon and Colette fight it out for Duffy's old job. Lara deals with the fallout from a family breakdown. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Car Jousting | Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rogers present the series in which teams of engineers take up the challenge to conceive and create fantastic contraptions using only junk from a scrapyard. In this edition, the challenge is to convert a car into a remote-controlled fighting machine. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Hathor | Sci-fi drama series. A Goa'uld, who has taken on the persona of the Egyptian goddess Hathor, casts her deadly spell over all the men on the Stargate base. |
| Casualty | Hitting Home | Medical drama series. The first of two episodes that deal with the powerful issue of domestic violence. Jenny returns home from honeymoon to find mother-in-law Sheila covered in bruises. |
| Charmed | Cheaper by the Coven | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. A spell cast for the children misses its target and instead transforms the sisters into bickering teenagers. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Singularity | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team travels through the Stargate to planet P8X987, where another SG team has been making preparations to observe a black hole. But when they get there, they discover that a strange disease has wiped out everyone on the planet - everyone, that is, except a little girl named Cassandra. |
| Casualty | Hitting Home | Medical drama series. Second part of a specially developed storyline dealing with domestic violence. This time Jenny is the victim, and when Comfort and Fin intervene the former is attacked by Bill. Sheila finally reports the situation to the police. |
| Doctor Who | The Planet of Evil | The Doctor and Sarah are drawn to the farthest limits of the Universe when they receive a Mayday call from a planet on the edge of creation. |
| Casualty | Thrown Out | Abs is forced to take dramatic action to get Ellen out of his life forever. It looks like romance is blossoming for Bex, whilst Woody and Luke plot to improve other love lives. Tess helps Comfort find a way to get over her loss. |
| Doctor Who | The Brain of Morbius | Sinister foes menace the Doctor from the moment he sets foot on the storm-lashed planet of Karn. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Cor-ai | Sci-fi drama series. Teal'c is put on trial by the son of a man he killed when he served the evil Goa'uld Apophis. |
| Casualty | Dire Straits | Medical drama series. An old flame of Harry's arrives to carry out drug trials. Jeff lands Nikki in big trouble when they attend a call-out. Colette discovers that Simon has been unfaithful to her with a prostitute. |
| Red Dwarf | Body Swap | Cult sitcom set in space. Rimmer proposes a novel way for Lister to lose weight. |
| Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves with Chris Crudelli | Documentary examining the world of martial arts. Presenter Chris Crudelli visits a Taipei fight club and visits a film set in Beijing, where he is taught how to fly in the `Crouching Tiger' style. In the UK, two female show wrestlers take Chris through their paces and in Hong Kong the spirit of Bruce Lee is invoked by a sprightly 80-year-old. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Enigma | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team rescues a group of highly advanced aliens from a collapsing world but must risk a court martial to prevent the aliens' technology from falling into the wrong hands. |
| Casualty | Fool for Love | Medical drama series. Josh and Fin clash over the treatment of a cardiac patient. Ben treats Tony to a romantic dinner, but things turn ugly when an old flame crashes the party. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Snowmobile | Robert Llewllyn and Cathy Rogers present the series in which two teams have to construct a fully-working machine from scrap. In this edition, the challenge is to construct snowmobiles and race them around a specially designed course. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Reckoning | Sci-fi drama series. Will the Jaffa unite and capture the holy city of Ta'kara from Baal? Issac Hayes amd Jeff Judge guest star. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Before I Sleep | Sci-fi drama series. The spin-off from Stargate SG-1. Dr Weir is found in suspended animation and tells the team about her trip 10,000 years into Atlantis' past. |
| Spooks | Drama series set behind the scenes of the modern British Security Service. Tom Quinn and his team at MI5 realise that they are looking for an extremely dangerous pro-life terrorist when 20 bombs go astray between Ireland and the UK and a family-planning doctor is killed by a car bomb. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Solitudes | Sci-fi drama series. A Stargate malfunction leaves O'Neill and Carter stranded in an icy crevasse on an unknown planet. |
| Casualty | Keep It in the Family | Medical drama series. Harry is out to dinner with Selina when Beth and Tally are involved in a serious car crash. Jane has a scan that reveals a brain tumour. Merlin decides to find his real mother. |
| Investigating History | The Holy Grail | History series which uses the latest technologies to challenge accepted fact and uncover the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. Under the microscope in this programme is the small French village of Rennes le Chateau: does it really hold the secrets protected for centuries by the Knights Templar? |
| Tony Robinson's Romans | Nero | Four-part series in which Tony Robinson chronicles the lives of three legendary Romans - Caesar, Caligula and Nero. Nero is the final Roman to be scrutinised, he came to power via a well-connected childhood at the age of 16, cutting quite a dash in the court. But behind his glamorous appearance and mass adulation, his private life read like a soap opera. His gravest mistake was to upset his military leaders, culminating in his downfall. |
| Stargate SG-1 | There but for the Grace of God | Sci-fi drama series. Daniel Jackson is pulled into an alternative reality, where he sees Earth being invaded by the Goa'uld. |
| Casualty | Side Effects | Medical drama series. Jack finds himself in custody. Jane's operation has left her paralysed on one side. When Harry fails to resuscitate a patient, his repressed feelings about his wife's death are unleashed. |
| Casualty | Getting Through | Medical drama series. Lara's skills are tested when she finds herself in a potentially life-threatening situation. Anna drops a bombshell on a devastated Merlin. And Harry and Tally finally bury the hatchet. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Mobile Crane | Host Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rogers challenge two teams to construct a machine which is capable of lifting and moving scrap objects. |
| Doctor Who | The Seeds of Doom | The Doctor comes up against a demented botanist who threatens to turn Earth's plant life against the human population. |
| Casualty | The Cost of Honesty | Isn't it great when a new member of the Holby City A&E team arrives for their first day? They hardly ever just turn up, hang their coat in their locker, get a cup of tea and get on with it. There's always a drama. Tonight it's the turn of a new registrar Maggie Coldwell (Susan Cookson). She just happens to be doing her food shopping (as you do just minutes before starting a new job), when there's a hit and run accident in the supermarket car park. Before you can yell, "I'm a doctor," she's treating the poor lad where he's fallen. And it doesn't end there. As soon as she's got past the mighty Bex (whose sneer really does need to be surgically removed now), she's up to her armpits in patients, from a so-called "foreign language student" to an elderly man with angina. But while this is going on, take a look at Tess's young son Sam. He's beginning to behave in a very strange way indeed. |
| Dracula: Dead and Loving It | Horror spoof in which a clumsy, accident-prone incarnation of Bram Stoker's famous vampire count leaves Transylvania for London in pursuit of a young Englishwoman. Well-versed parody director Mel Brooks stays close to the plot of the original tale of terror. | |
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights | Comic spoof starring Cary Elwes and Roger Rees in which Mel Brooks sends up the Robin Hood legend. The dashing Robin teams up with the not-so-small Little John and the wise Moor Asneeze to tackle the evil Sheriff of Rottingham and his cronies. Robin finds an ally in the form of Maid Marian, who wears an Everlast chastity belt, but he faces an equally fearsome female foe in the form of the royal witch Latrine. | |
| Doctor Who | The Masque of Mandragora | The Doctor is dragged into a time vortex where he picks up some Mandragora helix energy which he unwittingly transfers to a brotherhood in 15th-century Italy, setting them on a course of destruction. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Hill Climber | Series in which two teams have to construct a fully working machine using junk from a scrapheap. The challenge is to build a one-man hill climber. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Chimera | Sci-fi drama series. Samantha Carter begins a relationship with a detective, but she must conceal her role at Stargate command. Daniel comes face to face with the Goa'uld who has taken his former girlfriend as a host. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 5/14 - Potato People | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Jonny and Louise get into trouble with some rampaging kids. Donna and Kelly team up to give Gaz a sexual surprise. Janet tries to get Donna to forgive her for sleeping with Gaz. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. Plus Jed Cake - a computer-generated and relentlessly cheerful alter ego of the comedian. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the deadpan comedian. Jack considers Mo Mowlam, drugs, crime, musical chairs, change and naturism. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the deadpan comedian. Jack considers Mo Mowlam, drugs, crime, musical chairs, change and naturism. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. Plus Jed Cake - a computer-generated and relentlessly cheerful alter ego of the comedian. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. Plus Jed Cake - a computer-generated and relentlessly cheerful alter ego of the comedian. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | In the Line of Duty | Sci-fi drama series. Samantha Carter's body is taken over by an alien who is being hunted by a rival. |
| Investigating History | D-Day - The Secret Massacre | History series in which the latest DNA and ultrasound technologies are deployed to challenge accepted fact and uncover the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. Events in the French town of Graignes towards the end of WWII are recalled as survivors of a brutal massacre by the Nazis return to the scene of the crime. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Politics | Sci-fi drama series. A powerful US senator vows to shut down the Stargate project, despite Daniel Jackson's warnings of an imminent Goa'uld invasion. |
| Casualty | An Act of God | Medical drama series. Jack is released from custody. When the hospital is plunged into darkness during a power cut, Colette is forced to exert her authority. Duffy is shocked by an unexpected visitor. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Submarine Racers | Continuing the series hosted by Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rogers, in which two teams have to construct a fully-working machine using junk from a scrapheap. In this edition, they have just ten hours to build a craft able to carry them around an underwater obstacle course. |
| Charmed | Styx Feet Under | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. The Charmed Ones have to answer to the Angel of Death when they inadvertently cast a spell that stops people dying. Phoebe's feelings for Leslie deepen. |
| Investigating History | Napoleon's Mass Grave | History series which uses latest technologies to the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. In March 2002, construction workers in Lithuania uncovered 2000 skeletons - the remains of Napoleon's defeated Grand Army. How did the soldiers perish? |
| Tony Robinson's Romans | Julius Caesar | Four-part series in which Tony Robinson chronicles the lives of three legendary Romans - Caesar, Caligula and Nero. In part one, he looks at Julius Caesar, one of the most monumental figures in history. When in 44BC he was stabbed to death by 23 assassins, it changed the face of western civilisation. Sifting throught the fact from the fiction, Robinson reveals that Caesar was in fact enormously popular in Rome. |
| The True Curse of the Mummy | Documentary following the attempts of scientists to learn more about the Egyptian sarcophagus believed to have inspired Bram Stoker to write the book which launched the genre of `mummy horror'. Can modern techniques reveal the name, sex and rank of the coffin's occupant? | |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Potato People | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Jonny and Louise get into trouble with some rampaging kids. Donna and Kelly team up to give Gaz a sexual surprise. Janet tries to get Donna to forgive her for sleeping with Gaz. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Within the Serpent's Grasp | Sci-fi drama series. As the government prepares to shelve the Stargate project, O'Neill and the SG-1 team take an unauthorised trip through the gate in an attempt to stop the Goa'uld invasion. |
| Casualty | The Point of No Return | Medical drama series. Les Dennis guests stars as a sadistic boss who drives one of his employees to suicide. Duffy must make a momentous decision. Merlin uncovers evidence that one of his friends is a rapist. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Brotherhood | Sci-fi drama spin-off from Stargate SG-1. The team searches for a valuable zero point module which is rumoured to be on the planet Dagan. |
| Tripping the Rift | Mutilation Ball | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. The crew take a job to kidnap Mutilation Ball superstar Malak. They even succeed - at first. |
| Spooks | Drama series set behind the scenes of the modern British Security Service. Tom and Helen's safety is compromised when an undercover operation on a man suspected of involvement in race riots spirals out of control. The agents try to infiltrate Robert Osborne's social network by befriending Osborne's wife - but Osborne smells a rat and orders his henchmen to bring Tom and Helen in. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Serpent's Lair | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill and the SG-1 team find themselves on a suicide mission in an attempt to stop the Earth's destruction by Goa'uld. |
| Casualty | Stuck in the Middle with You | Medical drama series. Luke's skills are tested as he's thrown in at the deep end on his first day. The team have reason to doubt whether Harry should have come back to work so soon. And Anna is in turmoil, which could spell the end of her relationship with Merlin. |
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon continues to pry into the psyche of the vulnerable in this teasingly ambiguous study of creative angst and sexual tension. Yorick Le Saux's cinematography is key to establishing the contrast between the drab frustration of London and the scorching temptation of the southern French hideaway of Luberon. This in turn serves to reinforce the differences between Charlotte Rampling's emotionally repressed crime writer and publisher Charles Dance's carefree daughter, Ludivine Sagnier ù the two encounter each other when Rampling takes a working break to gain inspiration for her next book. But it's the skill with which Ozon and his stars explore clashing attitudes and universal urges that ensures this knowing melodrama compels right up to its mischievous conclusion. | |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Dick Turpin | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Reeves travels back to the early 18th Century to meet the most famous highwayman of them all, Dick Turpin. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Enemy Within | Sci-fi drama series. Doctors discover a Goa'uld larvae has attached itself to Kawalsky's brain and the soldier must undergo a risky operation. |
| The First Wives Club | Olivia Goldsmith's bestselling novel is turned into a hilarious film by Police Academy director Hugh Wilson. Hollywood divas Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton give sparkling performances as the three wealthy New Yorkers who have been deserted by their husbands in favour of much younger women (including Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker and Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley). Instead of sitting back and taking it, the trio unites to exact revenge and gain financial control, with Midler stealing the show from her two co-stars as the most deliciously vicious of them all. Terrific stuff. | |
| Tony Robinson's Romans | Caligula | Four-part series in which Tony Robinson chronicles the lives of three legendary Romans - Caesar, Caligula and Nero. In part three, he looks at Caligula and tries to get beyond the popular perception of the power-mad, sadistic tyrant. He commanded respect, but never loyalty, and t took the defeat of the Barbarians for him to win the hearts and minds of his army. But plans to invade Britain signalled the beginning of the end for his reign. |
| Casualty | Hurt the One You Love | Medical drama series. Eddie has contracted septicaemia, and is only kept alive by a ventilator. After a routine scan of her baby, Colette worries that it may be developing abnormalities. Merlin does not cope well with Anna's revelation, and at first suggests they stop working together. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Prisoners | Sci-fi drama series. After helping a murderer, the SG-1 team is banished to a penal world, where an unusual ruler holds the key to their return home. |
| Tripping the Rift | Sidewalk Soiler | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. Chode faces a death sentence after littering the planet Snozzle. |
| Doctor Who | Hand of Fear | A criminal executed 150 million years ago on the planet of Kastria regenerates himself when Sarah finds his fossilised hand on 20th-century Earth. The Doctor is then forced to take him back to Kastria to stop him wreaking havoc on Earth. |
| Abrafaxe | Swashbuckling pirate adventure in which teenagers Abrax, Brabax and Califax find a magical golden bowl in a city museum that transports them back in time to the 18th century. | |
| Casualty | Truth Will Out | Tess finally acknowledges what's wrong with Sam but it may be too late. Abs makes a decision which could lead him back to prison. Guppy and Nina join forces to tackle an unpopular consultant. |
| Frida | The extraordinary life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is told in fierce style here by Titus director Julie Taymor, who cleverly fuses the vivid events of Kahlo's turbulent existence with the stark images of her uncompromising self-portraits. Salma Hayek gives a career-best performance as the bisexual bohemian Marxist, whose physical suffering — a near-fatal tram accident in 1925 left her in constant pain — infused her challenging work. Charting her many affairs — with Josephine Baker and Leon Trotsky, among others — but mainly her stormy marriage to womanising artist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), Taymor's visually inventive narrative is both a riveting history lesson and a celebration of the artistic revolution in which Kahlo participated. With excellent support from Valeria Golino (as Rivera's first wife) and Edward Norton (as Nelson Rockefeller), this is a stunning exploration of artistic agony and ecstasy. | |
| Doctor Who | The Deadly Assassin | The Doctor foresees the assassination of the president of his home planet, Gallifrey, and returns to warn him. There he discovers that his old enemy the Master is behind a plot to regenerate his weakening power and destroy Gallifrey. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Moebius | Sci-fi drama series. SG-1 travels back in time in a daring plan to steal a piece of Ancient technology from Ra, the powerful Goa'uld who ruled ancient Egypt. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Message in a Bottle | Sci-fi drama series. While exploring a dead planet, SG-1 bring back an alien orb that takes O'Neill and SG Command hostage. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Death Knell | Sci-fi drama series. When the Alpha Site is attacked by Anubis's drones, Carter and Jacob get their first chance to test a new weapon in battle conditions. Jacob is injured and Carter goes missing. |
| Abrafaxe | Swashbuckling pirate adventure in which teenagers Abrax, Brabax and Califax find a magical golden bowl in a city museum that transports them back in time to the 18th century. | |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 6/14 - Antlers | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Gaz gets into trouble when his plans for Jonny's stag night go seriously wrong. Louise tries to make Janet's hen party into the wildest ever. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. This week's targets include the Census, Marks and Spencer and the international space station. And Jack answers questions from the public and goes out and about in an attempt to discover how normal people have fun. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery in the company of celebrity guest Tony Blackburn. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery in the company of celebrity guest Tony Blackburn. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. This week's targets include the Census, Marks and Spencer and the international space station. And Jack answers questions from the public and goes out and about in an attempt to discover how normal people have fun. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. This week's targets include the Census, Marks and Spencer and the international space station. And Jack answers questions from the public and goes out and about in an attempt to discover how normal people have fun. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Gamekeeper | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team members are pulled into a virtual-reality loop where Daniel and Jack relive terrible moments in their lives. |
| Casualty | An Accident Waiting to Happen | Medical drama series. Colette receives some terrible news, but gets no sympathy from Simon. Bex and Luke's secret is revealed. Jack and Tony say goodbye to Eddie. |
| Investigating History | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | History series in which the latest DNA and ultrasound technologies are deployed to challenge accepted fact and uncover the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. Under the microscope in this programme are the lives and deaths of Butch and Sundance. |
| Casualty | Getting to Know You | Medical drama. Holly gives too much away over dinner with a journalist while Reuben has something important to say to Adam. Meanwhile, Charlie's worries about his son's future in Canada are growing. |
| Investigating History | The Mystery of Jesse James | History series in which the latest DNA and ultrasound technologies are deployed to challenge accepted fact and uncover the truth behind some of history's most intriguing and controversial topics. Under the microscope in this programme is the mysterious death of Jesse James. |
| And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself | Drama based on the true story of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's attempt to lose his murderous image and acquire much-needed funds by convincing Hollywood to film his progress in his war against the military-run government. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Need | Sci-fi drama series. While exploring what appears to be a Goa'uld planet, the team are captured. When Daniel Jackson is hurt, the planet's princess heals him in a Goa'uld sarcophagus, and manipulates him into using it again and again. |
| Casualty | Out on a Limb | Medical drama series. Bex spreads the word when she overhears Jack say he's planning to propose to Nikki. Josh joins Colette to hear the test results. A Holby United player is brought in for treatment. |
| Tremors 4: the Legend Begins | Horror prequel in which the workers in a 19th-century Nevada silver mine are threatened when a hot spring causes giant worm eggs to hatch. The mine's owner hires a mercenary gunslinger to destroy the creatures but the worms aren't for turning. | |
| This Year's Love | Writer/director David Kane tries hard to evoke the spirit of mid-1990s "Cool Britannia" zeitgeist in this breezy romantic comedy, set in and around London's trendy Camden Lock and bursting with British stars of the future. However, while Catherine McCormack, Douglas Henshall and Dougray Scott deliver spunky, dynamic performances, the episodic script gives them little to work with. Charting three years in the lives of six London dropouts, the film recalls La Ronde with its constant swapping of sexual partners. Sadly, the plot soon becomes yawningly predictable. Kathy Burke's chirpy "fat bird" and Ian Hart's damaged loner come off best, though Jennifer Ehle beggars belief as a dreadlocked single mother. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Thor's Chariot | Sci-fi drama series. The team must help to stop a Goa'uld invasion on a planet whose main defence - Thor's hammer - was destroyed by the team on an earlier visit. |
| Casualty | Baby Blues | Medical drama series. Colette tells Simon that he's responsible for the genetic abnormalities of their unborn child, and talks through with Comfort whether or not she should keep the baby. Everyone warns Nikki off sacrificing her job for her relationship's sake. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Threads | Sci-fi drama series. Daniel is faced with a difficult decision. O'Neill hits it off with Carter but has doubts about Pete. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Spunk | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five 19-year-olds. Jonny tries to be horrible to Janet and fails miserably. Donna is after as much sex with as little commitment as possible. Flo, however, has other plans. Louise discovers that dieting can damage the buttocks. |
| Casualty | Last Man Standing | Medical drama series. Josh swallows his pride and finally faces Colette, who is finding it very hard working with both him and Simon. Preparations for the wedding are well under way, but Jack's buoyant mood is spoilt by an unwelcome visitor. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Blackbeard | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Reeves travels back to meet the infamous pirate Blackbeard who was beloved by his crew and many women including his 14 wives! |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 3/6 - Bone with the Wind | Sitcom about a group of 19-year-olds. When Gaz finds Donna's toothbrush in his flat, he realises he has to stop her 'merging'. Janet's plan to make Jonny fancy her backfires. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Family | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team mount a rescue mission when Teal'c's son is taken by Apophis. |
| Casualty | Three in a Bed | Medical drama series. Josh and Simon's feud starts affecting their jobs, with serious consequences for Simon's future. Bex revels in the latest titbit of gossip, to Lara's disgust. And as Jack tries desperately to protect Nikki from his past, she unwittingly tells his enemies just what they need to hear. |
| The Frighteners | A dark farcical comedy spins out of control in Kiwi director Peter Jackson's deliciously brash tale that explores the shockingly unhealthy paranormal bond between two lovers with record-breaking murder in mind. The director of BRAINDEAD and HEAVENLY CREATURES hits exactly the right balance between black comedy and jet-black chills in this cross between CASPER and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The result is a ghoulish masterpiece that showcases a dazzling array of computer-generated ghosts and blood-freezing poltergeist activity, with Michael J Fox ingeniously cast against type as a pseudo psychic up to his neck in all the nasty hereafter horror. | |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Antlers | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Gaz gets into trouble when his plans for Jonny's stag night go seriously wrong. Louise tries to make Janet's hen party into the wildest ever. |
| Doctor Who | The Face of Evil | The Doctor meets the Tribe of Sevateem - and finds himself hunted as the Evil One. |
| Ned Kelly | One of the unfortunate temptations of hiring a rock star to carry a film is for the director to rely rather lazily on that star's in-built charisma instead of trying to mould him into a character. Witness Mick Jagger, here cast as Australia's most memorable outlaw, who is so similar to his stage image that you half expect him to start shrieking, "It's great to be Down Under!" or "Thank you, Sydney, you've been a great audience!". Realistically, though, the blame has to be laid at the door of director Tony Richardson, whose handling sometimes obscures the message and buries the drama. The songs of Shel Silverstein, however, help to give the film a certain focus. | |
| Flesh + Blood | Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's first Hollywood movie is a medieval epic which delivers the titular ingredients in proverbial buckets. It also boasts sumptuous music and splendid camerawork by Verhoeven regulars Basil Poledouris and Jan De Bont, who directed Speed. Much tougher and wittier than its rival Highlander, the film stars Rutger Hauer as a guerrilla warrior and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the virgin he kidnaps and rapes. (Naturally, she falls head over heels in love with him.) Shot in Spain (fans of El Cid will delight in revisiting Belmonte Castle), it's a spectacle that anticipates Verhoeven's later films (RoboCop, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers) by pushing back the boundaries of sex and violence. | |
| Doctor Who | Robots of Death | The Doctor uncovers foul play aboard a floating ore factory, involving a saboteur scientist and a crew of killer robots. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery, featuring a celebrity guest and a wry look at the week's current affairs. Topics this week include the General Election, Britney's book, Harry Potter and Mother's Day. And his guest is Peter Stringfellow. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery, featuring a celebrity guest and a wry look at the week's current affairs. This week's rants include old blokes becoming fathers and John Prescott. And taking his place in the grilling chair is Countdown's Richard Whiteley. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery, featuring a celebrity guest and a wry look at the week's current affairs. This week's rants include old blokes becoming fathers and John Prescott. And taking his place in the grilling chair is Countdown's Richard Whiteley. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery, featuring a celebrity guest and a wry look at the week's current affairs. Topics this week include the General Election, Britney's book, Harry Potter and Mother's Day. And his guest is Peter Stringfellow. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery, featuring a celebrity guest and a wry look at the week's current affairs. Topics this week include the General Election, Britney's book, Harry Potter and Mother's Day. And his guest is Peter Stringfellow. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Secrets | Sci-fi drama series. Daniel Jackson learns that his wife is pregnant with Apophis's child. O'Neill discovers a reporter is ready to expose the whole top secret Stargate project. |
| Casualty | A Special Day | Medical drama series. It's the big day for Nikki and Jack, but the bride has disappeared, leading Jack to fear that she's got cold feet. Dillon is rushed into casualty. Simon's career is placed in the balance. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 7/14 | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. The day of Jonny and Janet's wedding has arrived. Unfortunately, they're trapped in a van with only dressed crab and baked beans for company. |
| Joey | Pilot | Friends spin-off series featuring the further adventures of Joey Tribbiani as he attempts to make it as an actor in Los Angeles. Joey makes a huge mistake when he turns down a part in a hit show about male nurses. |
| Joey | Joey and the Student | Friends spin-off series featuring the further adventures of Joey Tribbiani as he attempts to make it as an actor in Los Angeles. Joey decides to take his nephew out to teach him how to meet women. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Bane | Sci-fi drama series. Teal'c is stung by a giant insect whose venom causes a terrifying transformation. |
| Casualty | Phoenix | Medical drama series. Following Charlie's collapse, the emergency department is having to function without him. Duffy is under pressure from the new hospital administrator. |
| Stargate Atlantis | Letters from Pegasus | Sci-fi drama series. The team find a way to send messages back home, but they do not know whether the messages will arrive or not. |
| Tripping the Rift | The Devil and a Guy Named Webster | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. The ship is heading for a black hole and instant destruction. Unless Chode can sell his soul in time. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Angry Wangry | Sitcom about five 19-year-olds. Janet is keen to improve her mind, but realises that neither poetry nor biscuits are the answer. Gaz is desperate to feel attractive, and thinks that the best way to accomplish this is to flash his rather underdeveloped chest. |
| Spooks | Drama series set behind the scenes of the modern British Security Service. Anti-capitalist demonstrations are growing in intensity as President Bush prepares to visit the UK. MI5 hero Peter Salter, in a joint operation with MI6, aims to infiltrate a known anarchist's group - but is he really working for the sake of his country, or has he fallen under the spell of an entirely different cause? | |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Tok'ra | Sci-fi drama series. Samantha Carter has a vision that leads to a meeting with the Tok'ra, a powerful group of Goa'ulds who are rebelling against the System Lords. |
| Casualty | Accidents Happen | Medical drama series. It's Charlie's first day back at work and Duffy is worried about the effects of the job on his health. Meanwhile, an explosion involving a car and a motorbike leaves a woman in a critical condition, prompting her to share a guilty secret. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Lard | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five 19-year-olds. Jonny falls for Janet's friend Louise, until his obsession is cured in a revolting manner. Janet decides to become a stand-up comedian. Gaz attempts to manipulate Donna. |
| Judge John Deed | 6/6 - Popular Appeal | Drama series about an uncompromising High Court judge. During a reality TV show a contestant kills another on camera. Deed hears the trial of the producers, who are charged with manslaughter. He's also pushing for a police enquiry into the death of Rufus Barron. An attempted assassination leaves Jo in a coma. Armaments manufacturer Listfield is arrested, but Jo only recovers after Deed makes a firm commitment to her. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Ugly Babies | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five 19-year-olds. Jonny wants some excitement in his life, and when Janet reveals some remarkable news, he gets rather more than he bargained for. Gaz and Donna have a communication problem - she wants to talk and he wants sex. Louise is simply desperate to prove that she is not an idiot. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Jonathan Wild | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Reeves travels back to the 18th century to meet the infamous gangland boss Jonathan Wild. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Captain Kidd | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Reeves investigates the life of Captain Kidd, the man who almost brought down the British Empire. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Spirits | Sci-fi drama series. Plans to mine a planet are interrupted by the mysterious spirits who protect the people and the planet. |
| Casualty | Too Tight To Mention | Hospital drama. Holly is anxious after mistakenly revealing Adam's HIV status to a journalist, but can she stop the secret getting out? And Spencer gets caught up in a patient's marriage breakdown. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 2/6 - Bungle | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Louise copes with a new boyfriend who is desperate to have sex with her, Janet's dinner party goes awry when Gaz and Donna abuse her trifle, and Jonny finds an unusual way to spend his scratchcard winnings. |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Too Tough to Die | Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. Investigating with Grissom and Nick, Sara gets too involved in a case in which a woman was sexually assaulted, shot twice in the head and left for dead. Warrick and Catherine help the DA with a murder case involving two neighbours arguing over a motorcycle. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five 19-year-olds. | |
| In Search of Myths and Heroes | Jason and the Golden Fleece | Documentary series in which historian Michael Wood goes in search of the world's greatest myths. He looks at the Greek myth of Jason's mission to sail into the unknown and bring back the Golden Fleece, travelling from Greece to the wild mountains of the Caucasus to find the truth behind the legend. |
| Veronica Guerin | The age of the newspaper reporter as crusading hero is given an excellent treatment in this biographical drama. Veronica Guerin (emphatically played by Cate Blanchett) was assassinated after writing a series of revelatory stories exposing the drug overlords who battled for control of Dublin in the mid-1990s. Like Erin Brockovich, Guerin pursued a moral goal. Unlike Brockovich, she paid the ultimate price for championing the truth. Her courageous story has already provided the inspiration for the 2000 film When the Sky Falls, which starred Joan Allen, but director Joel Schumacher's retelling is a superior affair thanks to Blanchett's star appeal. Colin Farrell also offers a sly portrait of a druggie informer and Brenda Fricker a poignant cameo as Veronica's mother, while Schumacher carries through the ripples of tension to terrific effect. This is certainly a headline-worthy report. | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | The Finger | Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. A kidnapper instructs Catherine to accompany a man delivering a million dollar ransom in order to prevent the death of the man's abducted mistress. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. Plus Jed Cake - a computer-generated and relentlessly cheerful alter ego of the comedian. | |
| Doctor Who | Talons of Weng Chiang | The Doctor's plans for an evening at a Victorian music hall with Leela are spoiled by a murder and a sinister marionette. |
| Casualty | Hoping, Wishing, Longing | A Valentine's party ends in horror for Bex. |
| Charmed | Someone to Witch over Me | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Paige joins forces with Agent Brody against the demon Sarpedon, while Piper and Phoebe try to help Leo battle with his own inner demons. |
| Doctor Who | Horror of Fang Rock | Curiosity could prove fatal for the Doctor when he becomes intrigued by a lighthouse with no light. |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Got Murder? | US drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. A car salesman dies twice, and a woman thought to be dead turns up in the flesh following some shady discoveries about her family. |
| The Real Pirate of the Caribbean | Documentary looking at the inspiration for Captain Hook and the Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan was born a Welsh farmer's son but fled the country and became the most notorious pirate to ever sail the high seas. | |
| Casualty | Marking Time | Medical drama series featuring the staff of Holby General's emergency department. On Remembrance Day, Finlay deals with a patient who would rather forget the past. And Duffy acknowledges her 40th birthday - but she would rather forget that as well. |
| The Crimson Pirate | This is a gorgeous swashbuckler, with Burt Lancaster and his diminutive former circus colleague Nick Cravat swinging through the rigging with sharpened blades clamped between their perfect teeth. Encouraged by the success of The Flame and the Arrow, Lancaster and his partner Harold Hecht persuaded Warner Bros to agree to a big budget, and shooting got under way on European locations without a finished script. Most of the praise goes to Lancaster, who designed the terrific action sequences and puts in a mesmerising star turn. Christopher Lee, who has a supporting role, said: "I don't think I've ever seen a better co-ordinated man. He moved remarkably well, immensely strong and quite fearless." The Disneyland ride "Pirates of the Caribbean" was inspired by this film. | |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Rob Roy | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Reeves travels back to 18th century Scotland to meet Rob Roy McGregor. |
| Joey | Joey and the Party | Continuing the Friends spin-off comedy. This week, Joey is having trouble meeting people in LA, so Gina suggests that he and Michael (Paulo Costanzo) throw a party at their apartment and invite all the other residents of the building. Michael invites his old friend and fierce rival Seth, thinking he won't show up. When Seth accepts the invitation and says he'll be bringing a girlfriend Michael sets to work on finding a lady of his own. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 8/14 - Fat | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Jonny gets a job in the pub and invents a new cocktail. Janet becomes a slob. In a bid to win Donna back, Gaz finds a shocking way to lose weight quickly. Louise has trouble with some teenage girls. |
| Tripping the Rift | Totally Recalled | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. Chode's ancient grandfather pays a visit, and Gus is replaced by an evil upgrade. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. Jack once again seeks inner happiness as he becomes involved in the interests of another group of enthusiasts - a Bhangra evening in Southall. And celebrity guest Jonathan Ross is given a grilling. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery in the company of celebrity guest Jimmy Saville. Jack also takes part in an art class. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery in the company of celebrity guest Jimmy Saville. Jack also takes part in an art class. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Touchstone | Sci-fi drama series. While trying to return a stolen weather device to the planet Madrona, O'Neill and the SG-1 team uncover a government agenda that has sinister implications. |
| Casualty | Choked, Part 1 | Meanwhile at Holby General's emergency department, chaos reigns after Adam's HIV status is revealed in the press. Chloe has to deal with an old enemy, and Josh risks his life on a cliff face. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Torpedos | Robert Llewellyn introduces the series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. The teams have to build a surface-running torpedo capable of knocking down their opponent's launch platform. |
| Casualty | Choked, Part 1 | Meanwhile at Holby General's emergency department, chaos reigns after Adam's HIV status is revealed in the press. Chloe has to deal with an old enemy, and Josh risks his life on a cliff face. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Out of Mind | Sci-fi drama series. O'Neill awakens in a futuristic world where he is told that he has been frozen for eight decades. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Serpent's Song | Sci-fi drama series. The presence of SG-1's enemy Apophis unleashes an ancient spirit, whose wrath threatens to destroy everyone. |
| Casualty | Sympathy for the Devil | Medical drama series. Josh and Finlay become embroiled in a fatal family situation involving a local councillor. And Mel and Penny play at matchmaking for an elderly pair of friends. |
| Stargate SG-1 | A Matter of Time | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team and planet Earth come under threat from a black hole's potentially fatal gravitational pull. |
| Casualty | Choked, Part 2 | Medical drama series about the staff at Holby General's emergency department. Adam makes a shocking decision, and Charlie receives two surprise visitors. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Learning Curve | Sci-fi drama series. SG-1 arrange an exchange of information with a civilisation which has made remarkable strides in the past few decades, but are puzzled when they are told to give their information to the society's solemn, brilliant children, rather than to the adults. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Moebius | Sci-fi drama series. The alternative SG-1 attempts to set right the time shift created by the history-changing actions of the original team. |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Gift | Sci-fi drama spin-off from Stargate SG-1. Teyla discovers that she's a descendant of humans who were experimented on by the Wraith. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | On the Blob | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Gaz runs naked through the streets of Runcorn but still has to face up to Donna's pregnancy. And Louise's psychic powers inspire Jonny to make an unusual career move. |
| Spooks | Drama series set in the heart of the action and intrigue of the modern British Security Service. The memoirs of disgraced MP Hampton Wilder, written while he was in prison, could create a scandal big enough to bring down the government - and now the manuscript has gone missing. As Tom and his team try to distinguish fact from fiction, the manuscript is mysteriously leaked to the press. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | The Fifth Race | Sci-fi drama series. When O'Neill looks into an alien viewer he becomes a receptacle for ancient knowledge which could help some of life's deepest mysteries. |
| Casualty | Travelling Light | Max goes beyond the call of duty when a family of asylum seekers reveals a terrible secret. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 3/6 - Dirty Girls | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Janet rediscovers a love letter from her gorgeous ex and resorts to deception to prevent Jonny becoming jealous. Flo asks Donna to move out so she can set up a massage parlour in her old room. And, unable to decide how to handle her boyfriend, Louise experiments with gay sex. |
| Casualty | No More Mr Nice Guy | Dr Patrick Spiller rises to a challenge to spend a day on the road with the paramedics, but his insensitivity nearly gets them into trouble when he riles a group of drunks who are concerned about the health of one of their friends. He eventually learns the importance of a reassuring bedside manner when he has to comfort a man trapped in the wreckage of his car. |
| Casualty | If You Go Down to the Wards Today | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby General Hospital. The Accident and Emergency staff are presented with an unusual challenge in the form of a group of teddy bears and their owners. |
| Stargate SG-1 | One False Step | Sci-fi drama series. SG-1's presence in an alien community causes a wave of illness, which threatens to wipe out an entire civilisation. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Holiday | Sci-fi drama series. Daniel falls victim to an invention that swaps his body with that of a dying man. |
| In Search of Myths and Heroes | 4/4 - Arthur: The Once and Future King | Michael Wood concludes his historical detective work, this week probing the myths around King Arthur. His is clearly a legend that still resonates with people because the layers keep being added, from Monty Python to Indiana Jones to Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code. But before them, before Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the medieval legends, were there some real-life versions of the round table, the Holy Grail and Excalibur? Travelling around the Celtic world, Wood tries to find out, and uncovers the roots of the story in the Dark Ages with a shadowy Welsh freedom fighter. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the deadpan comedian. Jack considers Mo Mowlam, drugs, crime, musical chairs, change and naturism. | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Primum Non Nocere | Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. Grissom and Sara investigate the death of an amateur ice-hockey player with a heart condition. Nick and Warrick look into the death of a drug-addicted casino-lounge musician. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Fat | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Jonny gets a job in the pub and invents a new cocktail. Janet becomes a slob. In a bid to win Donna back, Gaz finds a shocking way to lose weight quickly. Louise has trouble with some teenage girls. |
| Doctor Who | The Invisible Enemy | The Doctor becomes the victim of a malignant virus when it strikes the Titan space station. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 5/6 - Crusty Curtains | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Jonny isn't speaking to Janet and taking Gaz's advice only makes things worse. While Louise tries to affect a reconciliation, Donna and Gaz lay down some ground rules for the flat, much to Donna's regret. |
| Casualty | Naming Names | Bex's ordeal continues as she faces the harsh reality of the night's events. Ellen finally gets the message when Nina tells her a few home truths. Tess is still struggling to come to terms with Sam's condition, but finds little comfort in Mike's return from the oil rig. |
| Charmed | Charmed Noir | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Paige and Agent Brody are pulled into the dangerous world of an unfinished gangster novel set in the 1930s were they find themselves searching for the `Burmese' Falcon. |
| Doctor Who | Image of the Fendahl | The discovery of a human skull eight million years older than man, a hole in time and a series of bizarre deaths in the English countryside mark the start of a nerve-racking adventure for the Doctor and Leela. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Resurrection | Sci-fi drama series. Sam and Daniel search an empty warehouse for evidence of the NID's involvement in genetic research. They find Anna, who can draw pictures of her dreams. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | The Xindi | Prequel series to Star Trek, set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. Captain Archer leads Enterprise into the unknown when he is given the green light to travel into the uncharted Delphic Expanse in search of the Xindi. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | Anomaly | Prequel series to Star Trek, set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. Enterprise starts experiencing effects of the spatial distortions pervading the Delphic Expanse, and falls victim to predatory aliens. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Claude Du Vall | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. In this edition, Vic discovers that the model English highwayman, Claude Du Vall, was in fact French. |
| Joey | Joey and the Book Club | Friends spin-off series featuring the further adventures of Joey Tribbiani as he tries to make it as an actor in Los Angeles. Joey joins Michael's book club in order to meet women but is soon vying with his nephew for the attentions of a particularly attractive girl. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 9/14 - Stot or Pronk | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Janet shows off at the pub quiz. Gaz spanks his monkey. And Donna tries to impress Gaz with a facelift. |
| Tripping the Rift | 2001 Space Idiocies | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. When a mysterious figure persuades Chode to put a monolith on the planet Kubrickia, the crew soon realises he's made a terrible mistake. |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Recipe for Murder | US drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. A chef ends up as part of the meat in a meat-packing plant, and a disturbed young woman is a perfect candidate for murder or suicide. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Stot or Pronk | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Janet shows off at the pub quiz. Gaz spanks his monkey. And Donna tries to impress Gaz with a facelift. |
| Casualty | States of Shock | Medical drama series about the staff and patients at Holby General's emergency department. When a patient's purse is stolen, the impoverished Chloe finds that she is the prime suspect. |
| T4:Star Trek: Enterprise | Extinction | Prequel series, set aboard Starfleet's first interstellar ship. Archer, Reed and Hoshi catch a strange virus that mutates their DNA. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Show and Tell | Sci-fi drama series. In a war of attrition against the Goa'ulds, a race of invisible aliens plots to kill all of mankind. |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Zero Hour | Sci-fi drama series. Captain Archer has tried every trick in the book to thwart the Xindi plot to destroy Earth. Has he succeeded? |
| Stargate Atlantis | The Siege | Sci-fi drama series. The Wraith ships are on a mission to kill the team and take the lost city. Is reprogramming Atlantis to self-destruct really the only solution? |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 4/6 - Vomit | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Gaz looks after an unwell Jonny, although Donna is worried that his `illness' is just an excuse to avoid her now that she has moved in. Meanwhile Janet goes too far with her old flame Andy, and Louise discovers there's more to owning a dog than tickling its tummy. |
| Spooks | Drama series about the modern British Security Service. Patrick McCann, the leader of an Irish splinter group, promises Tom information on a planned Middle-Eastern terrorist attack on a British nuclear power station - in return, MI5 must allow McCann's group to go unwatched for 30 hours. | |
| Casualty | Starting Over | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Duffy is less than pleased when her husband, Dr Andrew Bower, makes a dramatic entrance on their first day working together. Charlie is forced to accept the fact that he can't keep Louis for ever. |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. An A-grade student, Cassie, joins a posh boarding school called Medenham Hall, built on the back of the slave trade. | |
| Stargate SG-1 | 1969 | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team travel back in time and find their fate resting in the hands of a much younger General Hammond. |
| Charmed | There's Something about Leo | Seventh series of the supernatural drama about three sisters who have inherited the power of witchcraft. Leo has a confession to make to Piper. Meanwhile, Paige and Phoebe need Kyle's help. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Deacon Brodie | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Vic becomes infatuated with Deacon Brodie, the establishment figure-turned-arch criminal who terrorised Edinburgh in the late 18th Century. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | George Ransley | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Vic tells the story of hugely successful smuggler George Ransley. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 6/6 - Mo Mo and Pigsy | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. In a far from ideal scenario, Donna is living with Jonny, and Janet is living with Gaz. But Jonny thinks Janet has gone to live with Andy and, after being nudged by Donna, goes to get her back. Meanwhile, Louise believes astrology is the answer to everyone's problems. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five 19-year-olds. | |
| Casualty | Coming Clean | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby General Hospital. The staff are on alert due to an unusual visitor to the department. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Into the Fire | Sci-fi drama series. Imprisoned on Hathor's planet, SG-1's only hopes are General Hammond and Teal'c. |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. This week's targets include the Census, Marks and Spencer and the international space station. And Jack answers questions from the public and goes out and about in an attempt to discover how normal people have fun. | |
| Jack Dee's Happy Hour | Topical comedy series from the master of deadpan delivery. This week's targets include the Census, Marks and Spencer and the international space station. And Jack answers questions from the public and goes out and about in an attempt to discover how normal people have fun. | |
| Doctor Who | Sunmakers | The Doctor makes a bizarre discovery when he arrives on Pluto. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Seth | Sci-fi drama series. The SG-1 team pursues an ancient Goa'uld lord who is hiding on Earth and posing as the leader of a religious cult. |
| Scrapheap Challenge | Manic Mud Racer | Series in which two teams must create a piece of machinery using junk from a scrapyard. Clean-cut engineers are pitted against three big guys who muscle cars for fun in a race to construct the best mud buggies. |
| Casualty | Boys Don't Cry | Amid all the usual overheated nonsense, there's occasionally a germ of a good plot in Casualty. Currently there's an affecting strand involving teenager Sam's descent into mental illness, to the despair of his mum Tess, and a good stand-alone story tonight involving an apparently violent young man and his girlfriend, though frankly Charlie et al are slow on the uptake when it comes to working this one out. Elsewhere, Bex calls in sick at work after her ordeal at the hands of Pete, who's been arrested. But will Bex's Holby colleagues be sympathetic? |
| Doctor Who | The Underworld | The Doctor and Leela are trapped when their spaceship crashes on a newly-formed planet. |
| Vic Reeves' Rogues Gallery | Ann and Mary | Series in which comedian Vic Reeves uncovers the truth about charismatic villains from the past. Ann Bonny and Mary Read were pirates who showed their breasts to their victims, so that they would know they had been killed by a woman. |
| Father of the Pride | What's Black and White and Depressed All Over? | The makers of Shrek present a new animated series, set amongst the lions of Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas magic show. Larry and Kate hope to play matchmaker between shy panda Foo-Lin and a new panda arrival. |
| Joey | Joey and the Perfect Storm | Friends spin-off series featuring the further adventures of Joey Tribbiani as he tries to make it as an actor in Los Angeles. Joey and Michael are worried that Gina may move into their apartment complex and cramp their style, so they invent an elaborate scam to put her off. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 10/14 - Who's the Daddy? | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Janet is rushed to hospital, helped by Louise. Gaz lets slip to Jonny that the baby might be his. Donna finally forgives Gaz. |
| Tripping the Rift | Power to the Peephole | Computer-animated comedy with adult themes, following the Jupiter 42 on its interstellar journey. The crew find themselves in the middle of an election scam on Florida 7. |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Who's the Daddy? | Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings in Runcorn. Janet is rushed to hospital, helped by Louise. Gaz lets slip to Jonny that the baby might be his. Donna finally forgives Gaz. |
| Casualty | Chinese Whispers | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Andrew tackles a bizarre case of mistaken identity, and Barney finds himself in deep trouble after a team night out goes drastically wrong. |
| Casualty | A Turn of the Scrooge | Medical drama series set in the emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Not everyone in Holby is entering into the Christmas spirit. And Duffy must decide how to break her news to Andrew. |
| Stargate SG-1 | Fair Game | Sci-fi drama series. Rivalries between the Go'auld system lords put Earth's future in jeopardy. |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Storm Front | Enjoy it while you can, Trekkers. This rather tortured tale, which plunges Captain Archer (Scott Bakula) into an alternate history full of alien Nazis, launches the fourth and probably final season. It's all good, cheerful hokum, but nowhere near maximum warp. |
| Hex | Series blending teenage drama with the supernatural. Cassie learns about Medenham's history. Azazeal closes in, but Cassie has eyes for Troy. | |
| Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | 1/10 - Munch | Sitcom about five twentysomething friends. Jonny's job hunt is thwarted by a |