Promoting a culture of violence 3
A SURVEY OF
FILMS SHOWN ON TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION IN 2003
Introduction
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orty years
ago the late great Mary Whitehouse CBE addressed a packed Birmingham Town Hall and
publicly launched the Clean-Up TV Campaign. Calls were made for the
"ordinary women of Britain" to take matters into their own hands to
make it clear to the BBC that they are prepared to fight to protect their homes
from "exhibitions of sex and violence" on television.
The most quoted
part of Mrs Whitehouse's address that day, 5 May 1964, which we recall for this
report, Promoting a Culture of Violence 3, concerned the portrayal of
violence. She said then: "If violence is constantly portrayed as normal
on the television screen it will help to create a violent society".
Over the years
a great deal of scientific research has been conducted around the world into
the effects of viewing screen violence. Those with a vested interest in the
film and television industries have bedevilled the debate by suggesting that
there is no conclusive proof of any harm associated with screen violence. However,
research conducted from an unbiased perspective concludes, on the balance of
probability, that there is a causal link between viewing violence and
subsequent aggressive behaviour. In is not unreasonable to suppose, given
television's aim to 'educate', that the frequency of showing violent imagery
gives the impression that being violent is quite normal.
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e publish again
the conclusions of Dr Susan Bailey, a forensic psychiatrist, interviewed in a Panorama
programme entitled 'The Killing Screens', screened in February 1995.
Introducing Dr Bailey, Vivian White said: "Amongst the professionals who
work with Britain's young offenders the view that screen violence does help to
cause real life aggression is gaining ground. Susan Bailey has met and
interviewed Britain's most violent young criminals, those who have
killed." Dr Bailey said:
"In the early 80's I encountered, over a 5
year period, 20 youngsters who had murdered. A quarter of that group presented
me with descriptions of how they had watched violent and pornographic films in
the weeks leading up to their offence of murder … they described very vividly
the films they had watched and how that had influenced their final act."
In January 2004
Professor Robert Winston posed this important question in the remarkable BBC1
TV series Child of Our Time:
"The average British 3 year old is glued to a
TV or computer screen for nearly 5 hours a day and almost half of all 3 year
olds have a TV in their bedroom. Suddenly the outside world is coming into
these children's lives. So does what they watch influence their
behaviour?"
The series is
following the progress of a number of children born in 2000 and Professor
Winston examined the external influences that shape the children's lives. He
said:
"Most scientists now think that TV can
encourage violent tendencies. At this age our children's ability to learn from
the world around them is expanding rapidly. Experiments show how dangerous
seeing the wrong kind of lessons on TV could be on a child's developing idea of
how to behave".
Writing in the Daily
Mail, 9/1/2004, he said: "Awareness of the influence of the media
should be an important part of teacher training. Schools should teach how the
media works, what effects it may have, how to reject unhealthy messages and how
to discriminate between fantasy and reality."
Parents in fear of violent children
The extent of violence committed by young people
against their parents is revealed today in a report showing adults how to cope
when their children swear and spit at them or push, kick, punch or threaten
them. The report entitled 'The Hidden War' from the charity Parentline
Plus says that more than a quarter of all calls to its helpline are from
parents concerned about their children's aggressive behaviour. Of these, 80
per cent report aggression and violence towards mothers. The Times
5/3/2003
Why watching violence turns children into angry adults
Watching violent TV shows - even cartoons - makes
children more likely to behave aggressively when they grow up. Disturbing
findings from a 15-year study reveal that programmes affect a child's behaviour
regardless of family background or any natural tendency towards violence. The
survey is one of the most detailed to be carried out on the long-term impact of
viewing. A team led by Dr Rowell Huesmann at the University of Michigan
re-surveyed the original boys and girls, now in their early 30s. The findings
could not be explained by the argument that the more aggressive choose to watch
violent TV shows. It is more plausible that exposure to TV violence
increases aggression, said Dr Huesmann. Daily Mail 10/3/2003
Signs of hope?
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n January 2003
the then Minister of State for Culture Media and Sport, Dr Kim Howells attacked
the savagery of video games. The producers of "blood-spattered" video
games are spreading acceptance of violent crime, he said. Mr Howells, the
father of teenage sons, said: "I don't think a child is going to be a
killer or more violent as a consequence of playing those games, that is not
what I'm saying. But it's the acceptance of that heartlessness that is at
the centre of all those kind of games, the kind of joy of shooting innocent
bystanders or running them over in the car". He called on the game's
manufacturers and film directors to face up to their responsibility to society.
Also in January
2003 it was disclosed that a sweeping review of Britain's censorship laws was
being launched by the Government's adviser on youth crime amid growing concerns
about the influence of violent films, games and rap music on young people. In
an interview with The Daily Telegraph Lord Warner, the chairman of the
Youth Justice Board, said there had been a coarsening of attitudes towards
violence caused by screen images which have a negative impact on teenagers.
"It's very hard to escape the concern that violent videos, violent films,
violent music, violent games do influence some of the more impressionable
minds", he said. "I think there's a case for reviewing whether we
should regulate more rigorously. We are at risk of a gradual acceptance of a
more violent culture in which we take it as given that a proportion of people
will behave like that".
Following
reports in March 2003 that explicit sex and bad language had again prompted a
large number of protests Dr Kim Howells, the Government's minister for
broadcasting, expressed alarm at the findings and accused the television
channels of screening "gratuitous" material which had a
"corroding effect on the soul". He urged television channels to
reassess their content. Overall more than 40 per cent of viewers said that
they had been offended by material screened during the last year.
In December 2003
The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, blamed children’s
television programmes for encouraging bullying in schools. He demanded that
broadcasters investigate whether there was a link between television violence
and bullying. "What goes on television does have an impact on children’s
view of violence" he said. "The main argument I want to challenge,
about which there is too much acceptance, is that violence on television
encourages people to grow up thinking violence is an acceptable way of
operating".
In March 2004
it was reported that the Home Secretary The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP is
proposing another series of punitive measures, in addition to the Anti-Social
Behaviour Orders, to curb the growth in such behaviour, ranging from confiscating
yobs’ mobile phones to banning them from football matches. Mr Blunkett believes
such ‘lifestyle’ punishments would act as more of a deterrent than fines. He
is also seeking powers for ministers to censor what he claims is increasing
violence in films and television programmes that he believes are fuelling a
‘culture of violence’.
Massacre film wins top prize at Cannes
A film about a US school massacre has won the top
prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or went to Elephant which
depicts events in 1999 at Columbine High School, Colorado, where two boys
gunned down 12 fellow students and a teacher. Critics said this year's entries
were the worst for years. Daily Mail 26/5/2003
Channel 4 TV premieres ‘Straw Dogs’
The controversial and extremely violent film Straw
Dogs was shown for the first time on British television on Sunday 10
August. The film, first release in 1971, is a work of unremitting violence,
centring on a brutal double rape scene. This marked the film out three decades
ago and renders it just as appalling today. For five graphic minutes Amy is
raped twice, beaten, brutalised and sodomised – and after the initial shock and
horror of the experience, appears to take erotic pleasure from it. For more
than 30 years Straw Dogs has stood as a dark landmark in cinematic
history. Mail on Sunday 10/8/2003
Mr Blunkett
called a meeting with Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, on February 5 – with
an agenda headed Violence in Society – where, according to press reports, he
told her firm government action was overdue. Apparently, he has been expressing
alarm for sometime at the increasing portrayal of violence on television. Tessa
Jowell, the Culture Secretary was reported to have rejected Mr Blunkett's
suggestions as "unenforceable" and a breach of human rights and was
"preparing if necessary to defend publicly the powers of the British Board
of Film Classification and Ofcom to continue policing on screen violence
independently of Government".
Broadcasters blasted over rising TV violence
Despite increasing concerns about gun crime in
Britain, it is still the most commonly portrayed form of violence on our
television screens, according to a new report. Promoting a Culture of
Violence 2, published by mediawatch-uk. 183 films on the five terrestrial
television channels are analysed, identifying 966 incidents involving firearms,
701 violent assaults and 223 incidents involving knives and other offensive
weapons. John Beyer, Director of mediawatch-uk, said that the media
"should not exclude itself from the multi-agency approach to tackling gun
culture. The findings of our report again show that the broadcasting industry
shamelessly continues to promote a culture of violence and pays no attention to
the damaging influence on our society". Church of England Newspaper
13/3/2003
Worrying trends in violent crime
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he latest
statistics show that violent attacks in England and Wales have shot up by 17
per cent. And the rise in serious violence – including murder and serious
wounding – was even greater at 18 per cent. Criminal damage – offences of
vandalism – was up by 7 per cent. Overall, offences of violence were up by 14
per cent.
Violent crime soars
Violent crime rose an alarming 24 per cent last
year, according to official figures published yesterday. Sex offences also shot
up 17 per cent as the overall number of crimes soared to 5,856,800. The
figures, compiled from police records, underlines fears that crime is
spiralling out of control. The number of violent attacks reported to the
police went up 24 per cent to 790,000. Daily Mail 5/4/2003
Growing 'disease' of gun crime
Gun crime is spreading across Britain 'like a
cancer', police chiefs warned yesterday. Firearms offences rose by 35 per cent
in Britain between 2001 and 2002. Detective Chief Superintendent Phillip Davies
said: "Rival gangs are having shoot-outs in broad daylight in crowded
streets, bullets spraying all over the place." Daily Mail 21/5/2003
Heat on ministers as violent crimes go up by 20pc
Violent crime has soared by 20 per cent in a year,
official figures are expected to show. Despite the Government's pledge to crack
down on criminals, overall offending rates also increased by around 5 per cent,
according to preliminary data. The figures are particularly bleak for some of
the most serious crimes, with sex offences up by 10 per cent and drug crime up
by 18 per cent in the year to April. Daily Mail 26/5/2003
Violent crime soars in 14 out of 15 police forces
Figures show that violent crime has risen
alarmingly across huge swathes of the country over the last year. The reports
from 15 police forces also reveal that 12 of them have seen overall offences
increase. Six of the constabularies saw crime rocket by 10 per cent or more. Daily
Mail 12/7/2003
Rapes soar by
a quarter as violent crime figures rise
Rapes of women rose by more than a quarter to more
than 10,000 annually for the first time in history of police-recorded crime,
according to figures published today. Other serious sexual assaults on men and
women also rose amid an overall increase in violent offences. The rise in
female rape was 27 per cent and indecent assault on women rose by 14 per cent.
Female rapes rose from 8,990 to 11,441, the biggest annual increase, and
indecent assault on women from 21,700 to 24,800. Police-recorded rapes of women
have increased 82 per cent since Labour came to power. The Times 17/7/2003
Retailers see increase in violent crime
Violent crime against shopkeepers is rising,
according to figures published yesterday showing that almost a quarter of
retailers have been attacked. Initial figures from the Home Office also showed
that more than three-quarters of retailers and more than two thirds of
manufacturers had been hit by some type of crime. The Government is to hire
business crime reduction officers for the ten regions of England and Wales. The
Times 14/8/2003
GPs face
growing violence in surgeries
The level of physical and verbal abuse against
doctors working for the National Health Service was "shocking" and
showed no sign of decreasing, the British Medical Association said yesterday.
While hospital doctors working in accident departments and psychiatry are the
main targets, family doctors are experiencing growing levels of violence in
their surgeries. Daily Telegraph 16/10/2003
The soaring
number of children who turn to crime
The number of criminals aged 11 and under has
soared by 150 per cent over the past ten years, figures revealed yesterday. The
alarming Home Office statistics show child offenders are becoming younger and
more violent. There has also been a 50 per cent increase in the number of girls
involved in crime. Children aged between ten and 17 committed 49,200 crimes
last year. Their crimes included more than 6,000 acts of violence, over 5,600
burglaries, almost 1,500 robberies and more than 17,000 cases of theft or
handling stolen goods. There were nearly 400 sexual offences. Daily Mail
30/12/2003
In April 2004
it was reported that the Police in Cumbria had imposed a 9.00pm curfew in
Wigton because of the high level of crime and delinquency among the town's
teenagers. The results of this action resulted in a substantial fall off in
disorder and criminal behaviour. In the same month it was reported that a
special squad of "yob buster" lawyers was being sent to 12 parts of
Britain plagued by high levels of antisocial behaviour. They are being
appointed by the Home Office to ensure much greater use of the powers to deal
with such behaviour on housing estates and on the streets. New powers under the
Anti-Social Behaviour Act give police and town halls powers to combat nuisance
neighbours, gangs of youths on street corners, vandalism and a range of other
issues. The Government estimates that antisocial behaviour costs Britain £3.4
billion a year.
Public disquiet on violent entertainment
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report
published in July 2003 by the Broadcasting Standards Commission revealed that
more than half the public believe there is too much sex, violence and bad language
on screen. They believe that standards of taste and decency on television are
getting worse. The survey, to be published by the Broadcasting Standards
Commission and the Independent Television Commission, will also disclose that a
third of people think that the quality of programmes is deteriorating. The
prime concern of the 1,100 viewers questioned for the survey was the level of
violence, which was cited by more than half those who complained about
programme content.
Complaints rocket as TV turns up the violence
Television has sunk to new depths with record
complaints about violence and swearing. A damning review shows that public
concern about programmes is the greatest since records began more than thirty
years ago. The survey, called The Public's View, reveals violence is
a huge concern with 58 per cent of viewers saying they thought there was too
much of it on screen. The main causes of offence remain swearing, violence
and sex, in that order, and Channel 4 again caused most offence. Daily Mail
12/3/2003
Conclusions
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nce again
our analysis of film content indicates little doubt that the broadcasters
continue to buy in and repeatedly show films that normalise and glamorise
violence for its own sake. This deliberate policy of promoting a culture of
violence is at variance with the Government's serious attempts to restore law
and order. We again appeal to the broadcasters and regulators to exercise
responsibility and do more to solve the problems associated with social
disorder rather then perpetuate it.
Professor
Robert Winston's conclusion accords with many others that watching violence on
TV can influence children and their subsequent behaviour confirms what the
late, great Mary Whitehouse said 40 years ago. The rocketing statistics for
violent crime bear out the common sense view that normalising violence in the
all-pervasive means of entertainment normalises and validates social violence
and crime.
mediawatch-uk
has consistently warned that this would result if the film and broadcasting
industries continued to portray criminal violence as entertainment. Our
monitoring of films shown on television over the last twelve years shows that
the use of firearms remains the most common form of violence followed by
violent assaults and the use of offensive weapons. In all of these
categories real life is reflecting precisely what is shown on the screen. So
far there has been a deafening silence from the film and broadcasting
industries and no undertaking to take any remedial action.
Ofcom: The Standards Code
mediawatch-uk
has maintained that the Codes and Guidelines should be the primary factors in
securing high standards by being well defined and, above all, well known to the
viewing public. Well-defined Codes provide a firm basis by which programmes can
be judged by everyone. We believe that a well-defined Standards Code,
therefore, must be a crucial part of the overall strategy for improving media
literacy. It is not enough simply to provide improved programme information
either in on-screen guides or newspapers or specialist magazines. Nor is it
enough to make broad assumptions about the 'watershed', invented in the 1960's
when there were just two channels. In the present 24-hour multi-channel
television environment, with video recorders and DVDs, watersheds are largely
an irrelevance and are certainly not effective in protecting youngsters from
unsuitable material, as the Communications Act requires. TV sets in children's
bedrooms is a reality that cannot be ignored.
We were very
encouraged by remarks made by the Chairman of Ofcom, Lord Currie of Marylebone,
(left) in his address to the English National Forum in July 2003. He
acknowledged
"There are certain points beyond which a
broadcaster may not go, without abusing the immense privilege which is implicit
in the right to broadcast. Ofcom will establish where those limits are …".
Whilst we
accept the need to consult widely and welcome such initiatives, we also expect
leadership and this should take into account factors like the state of society.
Much more weight should be attached to the concerns expressed by the public. It
is well known that screen violence is a major public concern. That broadcasters
have done little to remedy this is evident from the fact that portrayals of
violent gun use have been most common for many years - with a startling rise of
gun crime in the same period.
It is
difficult to appreciate in a written report the full impact of the violent
fantasy world portrayed by filmmakers who perpetuate cruelty, killing, maiming,
destruction and all manner of brutal behaviour and sexual aggression in their
productions. As in previous years the most common portrayal of violence
involves the use of firearms.
This report is
compiled from detailed accounts of what monitors actually saw on screen. We
have deliberately avoided the approach adopted by others, which depends upon
people's subjective perceptions. It is intended to be a further contribution to
the urgent debate about violence on television and the causal connection with
social disorder and criminal violence that has reached crisis proportions.
Findings
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verall the
total number of films shown by the five terrestrial TV channels has fallen in
the last five years from 3259 in 1999 to 2880 in 2003. However, the proportion
of films shown by five has remained fairly constant at around one third of the
total. In this report five's output of films, 32 per cent of the 2880 total,
accounted for 44.6 per cent of the 205 films monitored in 2003. Accordingly,
the figures for violent incidents on five are startlingly higher in all
categories.
We acknowledge
that a number of the films were transmitted after midnight. However small the
audiences for these films may have been at these times they still add to the
overall presence of violence transmitted on television. Moreover, because most
households have video recorders, enabling easy time shifting of programmes,
late night/early morning scheduling is not a real obstacle to anyone, including
children, viewing them.
In this
Report, 'Promoting a Culture of
Violence 3', a total of 205 films shown in 2003 on BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4 and five
are analysed. The Report is not exhaustive and the findings relate only to the
films monitored.
In the 205
films analysed, including 11 shown twice, monitors identified:
·
1121 incidents involving firearms
(288 on BBC1; 32 on BBC2; 107 on ITV1; 129 on C4; 565 on five)
·
765 violent assaults
(177 on BBC1; 16 on BBC2; 89 on ITV1; 111 on C4;
372 on five)
·
103 incidents of fire raising/causing
explosions
(18 on BBC1; 3 on BBC2; 15 on ITV1; 10 on C4; 57 on
five)
·
277 incidents involving knives and other
offensive weapons
(85 on BBC1; 4 on BBC2; 20 on ITV1; 47 on C4; 121
on five)
·
17 incidents involving illegal drug abuse
(1 on BBC1; 1 on BBC2; 5 on ITV1; 1 on C4; 9 on
five)
Of the 205
films monitored (including the 11 shown twice) 47 were shown on BBC1, 7 on
BBC2, 25 on ITV1, 34 on C4 and 92 on five.
The 11 films
shown twice were:
'Bad Boys' on C4 and five, 'Dead
Calm' on five, 'Fortress' on fibe and ITV1, 'Heartbreak Ridge'
on five and ITV1, 'Mississippi Burning' on five and ITV1, 'Sleeping
With the Enemy' on ITV1, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' on BBC1 and
five, 'The Fugitive' on BBC2 and five, 'The Getaway' on five, 'The
House on Carroll Street' on five and ITV1, 'The Running Man' on C4
and five.
Firearms shown being used in these films included:
Revolver;
machine pistol; rifle; pump action shotgun; spear gun.
Other offensive weapons shown being used in these films
included:
Flick knives;
hunting knives; sword; axe; scissors; razor; snooker cue; plank of wood;
bottle; iron bar; spade; baseball bat; truncheon; chain saw.
Crimes portrayed included:
Murder; rape;
grievous bodily harm; assault; robbery with violence; robbery; burglary;
vehicle theft.
We draw attention
particularly to the violent acts portrayed against women and against sensitive
parts of the body, for example, the head and genitals. We also draw attention
to the so-called 'hardware violence' against cars, buildings and property
generally.
Principal findings from previous Reports:
In 1994 the
National Viewers' and Listeners' Association analysed 111 films screened on the
four terrestrial television channels. Two reports, 'A CULTURE OF CRUELTY AND
VIOLENCE', and, 'MORE CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE', were published in November 1994
and June 1995 respectively. Our analysis of these films detailed 523 incidents
involving firearms, 492 violent assaults and 81 incidents involving knives of
various kinds and other offensive weapons.
In 1995 the
Association analysed 200 films screened on the four terrestrial television
channels. The Report 'MORE CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE 2' was published in August
1996. Our analysis of these films detailed 835 incidents involving firearms,
689 violent assaults and 232 incidents involving knives of various kinds and
other offensive weapons.
In 1996 the
Association analysed 246 films screened on the four terrestrial television
channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE 3' was published in March 1997.
Our analysis of these films detailed 1076 incidents involving firearms, 706
violent assaults and 376 incidents involving knives kinds and other offensive
weapons.
In 1997 the
Association analysed 265 films screened on the five terrestrial television
channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE 4' was published in May 1998.
Our analysis of these films detailed 1281 incidents involving firearms, 918
violent assaults and 409 incidents involving knives of various kinds and other
offensive weapons.
In 1998 the
Association analysed 269 films screened on the five terrestrial television
channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE 5' was published in May 1999.
Our analysis of these films detailed 1171 incidents involving firearms, 798
violent assaults, 340 incidents involving knives of various kinds and other
offensive weapons.
In 2000
mediawatch-uk analysed 193 films screened on the five terrestrial television
channels. The report 'YOB CULTURE ON TV' was published in March 2001. Our
analysis of these films detailed 1021 incidents involving firearms, 799 violent
assaults, 207 incidents involving knives of various kinds and other offensive
weapons.
In 2001
mediawatch-uk analysed 200 films screened on the five terrestrial television
channels. The report 'PROMOTING A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE' was published in July
2002. Our analysis of these films detailed 987 incidents involving firearms,
667 violent assaults, 318 incidents involving knives of various kinds and other
offensive weapons.
In 2002
mediawatch-uk analysed 183 films screened on the five terrestrial television
channels. The report 'PROMOTING A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE 2' was published in
February 2003. Our analysis of these films detailed 966 incidents involving
firearms, 701 violent assaults, 223 incidents involving knives of various kinds
and other offensive weapons.
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BBC1
Programme: 'BOILING POINT'
Date:
10.01.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.50am
Previously
shown:
31.08.96 BBC1 10.55pm; 6.06.98 BBC1 11.00pm; 1.05.2001 BBC1 11.30pm
Action
thriller. A U.S. Treasury agent swears vengeance on the flamboyant con-artist
behind his partner's death.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NIGHTHAWKS'
Date:
12.01.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.50pm
Previously
shown:
3.12.96 BBC1 10.25pm; 3.11.98 BBC1 10.30pm; 17.03.2000 BBC1 10.25pm; 12.01.2001
BBC1 11.05pm; 13.10.2003 BBC 11.00pm
Action
thriller. Seconded for special training in anti-terrorist tactics, two
hard-bitten New York cops find themselves on the trail of a ruthless
international terrorist.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'KISS OF DEATH'
Date: 4.02.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.15pm
Previously
shown:
19.02.2002 five 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
Betrayed by a group of fellow criminals an ex-convict decides to get revenge
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 15, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE SEVEN-UPS'
Date: 6.02.2003 Channel:
BBC1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
28.09.99 BBC1 12.15am
Action
thriller. A group of New York detectives set out to hunt down two vicious
thugs.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent Assaults: 6
Programme: 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN'
Date: 22.02.2003 Channel:
BBC1 Time: 11.20pm
Horror
thriller. Two bank robbers kidnap a preacher and his two children and demand to
be driven to Mexico to meet a local mobster at a strip club, but there's a
nasty surprise awaiting them.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 5, Knives etc: 8, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE HIT LIST'
Date:
27.02.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
11.09.98 BBC1 10.20pm; 15.11.2000 BBC1 11.35pm
Thriller. A cold-blooded
hit man puts his lethal but well ordered existence on the line when he accepts
as assignment to avenge a murder and protect a young widow.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'
Date: 2.03.2003
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
16.01.92 BBC1 9.40pm; 9.07.93 BBC1 10.30pm; 6.10.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 1.11.98 BBC2
10.50pm; 27.04.2001 BBC1 11.05pm
Action/Drama. A
bank robber escapes from prison and goes to recover stolen loot, only to find
that a building has been erected on the spot where the money was buried.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'JAILBREAKERS'
Date:
17.03.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 1.15am
Previously
shown:
15.09.98 BBC1 12.05am; 4.11.2000 BBC1 12.50am
Teen drama.
When a cheerleader becomes attracted to a motorcycle wild boy they begin a
relationship that escalates into crime and bloodshed.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'LISTEN'
Date:
25.03.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.10am
Previously
shown:
5.06.1998 BBC1 11.05pm
Erotic
thriller. A woman listens in on a porno phone line and discovers that there is
a killer who is killing the other woman on the line. He is also living in her
apartment block...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'BODY HEAT'
Date: 9.04.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.40pm
Previously
shown:
19.08.97 ITV1 10.40pm
Erotic
thriller. A Florida lawyer becomes involved in a torrid love affair with the
young wife of a wealthy businessman. Then she suggests that they murder her
husband.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FATAL BEAUTY'
Date: 11.04.2003
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
1.04.91 BBC1 9.20pm; 1.01.93 BBC1; 3.06.94 BBC1; 15.09.2001 BBC1 10.55pm
A story about a
female police detective and her battle against drug peddlers and barons in the
violent underworld of narcotic dealing.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE HUNTED'
Date:
25.04.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
26.07.99 BBC1 11.00pm; 25.05.2001 BBC1 11.10pm
Thriller. A
businessman visiting Japan has a passionate night with a mysterious woman. Soon
after he witnesses her murder and finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless
ninjas.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 5, Knives etc: 17
Programme: 'THE PLAYERS CLUB'
Date:
30.05.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 1.00am
Comedy drama.
Determined to become a broadcast journalist a single mother takes a job as a
night club stripper to finance her education.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 7
Programme: 'TUNNEL VISION'
Date: 31.05.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.55am
Previously
shown:
16.10.1997 BBC1 12.00m't
Thriller. A
policeman and his female partner are on the trail of a serial killer, but their
investigation gets complicated when he becomes a prime suspect.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'NO ESCAPE'
Date: 6.06.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.25pm
Previously
shown:
4.09.97 BBC1 11.15pm; 19.04.2001 BBC1 11.40pm
Futuristic
prison thriller. A court-martialled soldier sent to an island jail teams up
with the leader of a gang of rebels and plans an escape.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 13
Programme: '83 HOURS 'TIL DAWN'
Date:
13.06.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 1.25am
Previously
shown:
22.07.98 BBC1 12.15am; 28.02.2000 BBC1 12.15am; 13.01.2002 BBC1 12.35am
Thriller. A
disturbed man kidnaps a wealthy business's daughter and keeps her buried alive
while waiting for his ransom demands to be met.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent Assaults:
1
Programme: 'TOTAL RECALL'
Date:
14.06.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.25pm
Previously
shown:
9.11.93 ITV1 10.40pm; 25.02.95 ITV1 10.00pm; 5.11.96 ITV1 10.40pm; 5.12.98 ITV1
9.55pm; 8.04.2000 ITV1 10.15pm; 11.08.2001 BBC1 10.15pm
Sci-fi.
adventure. A man goes to Mars in search of his true identity after realising
that his mind and memory have been tampered with.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'HARLEM NIGHTS'
Date:
25.06.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
27.03.93 BBC1 10.10pm; 12.05.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 24.01.97 BBC1 11.10pm; 31.07.98
BBC1 11.20pm; 18.10.2000 BBC1 11.05pm
Gangster
comedy. Two nightclub owners take on a crime boss trying to muscle in on their
business in Thirties Harlem.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SE7EN'
Date:
10.07.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.10.98 BBC1 9.05pm; 7.01.2000 BBC1 9.30pm; 12.06.2001 BBC1 9.00pm
Thriller. With
only one week to go before his retirement a veteran homicide detective and his
young replacement find the corpse of a man who has apparently been force-fed to
death. After another murder and the uncovering of several cryptic clues, they
begin to suspect that a serial killer is selecting and despatching his victims
in a fiendish homage to the seven deadly sins.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'FIRST BLOOD'
Date:
19.07.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.25pm
Previously shown: 17.09.98 five 10.00pm;
13.05.2001 five 9.40pm; 24.07.2003 five 10.00pm
A Vietnam
veteran looks up an Army friend but finds he died under suspicious
circumstances. The local town sheriff arrests the veteran on a false charge but
lives to regret it. He and his men cannot contain the veteran who goes on the
rampage in fury.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3, Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'THE BOSTON STRANGLER'
Date:
30.07.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.35am
Previously
shown:
4.10.1996 C4 12.45am
Documentary-style
crime drama. Based on the real-life
police manhunt for the notorious killer who terrorised Boston in the early
Sixties.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 4, Knives
etc: 1
Programme: 'RAISING ARIZONA'
Date: 5.08.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.15pm
Previously
shown:
10.02.91 C4 9.45pm; 25.03.96 C4 10.00pm; 21.09.97 C4 10.00pm; 11.01.2000 C4
11.05pm
Offbeat crime
comedy. A childless couple plan to kidnap the infant son of a furniture tycoon.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'COLOR OF NIGHT'
Date:
26.08.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.35pm
Previously
shown:
26.08.99 BBC1 00.15am; 13.03.2001 BBC1 11.20pm
Erotic
Thriller. When a colleague is stabbed in his office a psychologist takes over
the dead man's therapy group, one of whom may be the murderer. As he tries to
unmask the killer he is drawn into a torrid affair with an enigmatic woman.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RED HEAT'
Date:
30.08.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
19.09.92 ITV1 10.55pm; 24.02.96 ITV1 10.00pm; 20.04.2001 BBC1 10.35pm;
14.05.2002 BBC1 10.45pm
Action
thriller. A Soviet policeman teams up with a wisecracking Chicago cop to catch
a gang of drug dealers.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 14, Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'DEADLY PURSUIT'
Date: 4.09.2003
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
16.10.91 ITV1 9.00pm; 4.05.98 five 9.00pm; 29.01.2001 BBC1 11.30pm; 10.06.2001
five 9.50pm
Thriller. An
FBI agent pursues a killer into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, aided by a
rugged mountain guide whose girlfriend is the killer's hostage.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'HEAT'
Date: 7.09.2003
Channel: BBC1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.12.99 BBC1 9.30pm; 12.05.2001 BBC2 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
A burned-out LA police detective is convinced that a professional criminal is
behind the bloody robbery of an armoured car, but he proves an elusive quarry.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 7
Programme: 'CLIFFHANGER'
Date:
14.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
24.12.96 BBC1 9.00pm; 1.05.98 BBC1 9.35pm; 26.06.2000 BBC1 9.50pm; 21.04.2001
BBC1 11.45pm; 29.06.2002 BBC1 9.30pm
Action
adventure. A violent gang searching for stolen loot comes up against a Rocky
Mountains guide.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 15, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DEATH WISH'
Date:
15.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
1.11.2002 BBC1 11.20pm
Vigilante
action drama. A respected New York architect takes the law into his own hands
after his wife and daughter are brutally attacked and left for dead.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'TRUE CONFESSIONS'
Date:
17.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
10.04.96 BBC1 11.30pm; 6.06.99 five 9.00pm; 26.11.2000 five 9.00pm; 27.09.2001
five 9.00pm
Crime drama.
The lives of an L.A. police detective and his Catholic priest brother come
together in surprising ways during an investigation into the murder of a
prostitute.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE OUTFIT'
Date:
21.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.15am
Previously
shown:
17.04.92 BBC1 11.35pm; 14.06.96 BBC1 11.50pm; 18.05.98 BBC1 11.55pm; 29.04.2000
BBC1 12.15am; 15.07.2002 BBC1 1.10am
Crime thriller.
An ex-convict takes on the Mafia to avenge the killing of his brother, with whom
he raided a Mob-run bank
Incidents
involving Firearms: 12, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE COUCH TRIP'
Date:
26.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
19.06.91 10.20pm; 3.03.96 BBC1 11.10pm; 17.06.2001 ITV1 1.00am; 19.11.2002 ITV1
1.25am
Comedy. An
escaped mental patient assumes the identity of his psychiatrist and becomes the
star of a radio advice show. Then he's rumbled by a fellow con-artist who
decides he wants a piece of the action...
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'BLOW OUT'
Date:
27.09.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
3.10.97 ITV1 10.45pm; 7.03.2002 BBC1 11.35pm
Political
thriller. A movie soundman accidentally records a car crash in which a leading
politician is killed. But the crash was no accident.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 3, Knives
etc: 3
Programme: 'MIDNIGHT RUN'
Date: 8.10.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.15pm
Previously
shown:
4.09.91 BBC1 10.00pm; 28.02.97 BBC1 10.55pm; 15.10.2000 BBC2 10.00pm;
15.09.2002 BBC1 10.55pm
Comedy
thriller. A bounty hunter hopes to earn $100,000 by capturing and delivering to
the L.A. police an embezzler who has cheated a Mafia gangster out of more than
$10 million. But as he and his prisoner travel across the USA, it becomes
apparent that there are many others who are trying to stop him.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 9, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NARROW MARGIN'
Date:
11.10.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously shown: 15.11.93 9.00pm;
8.11.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 20.05.2001 BBC1 11.00pm; 30.08.2002 BBC1 11.10pm
Thriller. An
L.A. district attorney accidentally reveals the whereabouts of a witness to a
Mob killing. It is then a race against time for him to reach the woman and
protect her from hired hit men.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'DEATH TRAIN'
Date:
12.10.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
28.12.96 BBC1 9.15pm; 22.12.97 BBC1 10.00pm; 28.12.2000 BBC1 11.15pm; 29.06.2002
BBC1 11.10pm
Action
thriller. A renegade Russian general tries to ship a nuclear missile to Iraq on
board a hijacked train travelling across Europe as part of a plot to restore
the Soviet Union to superpower status.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 16, Violent
Assaults: 1, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FALLING DOWN'
Date:
26.10.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
2.05.97 BBC1 10.00pm; 7.01.2001 BBC1 10.15pm; 19.06.2002 BBC1 10.35pm;
14.09.2002 BBC1 11.00pm
Urban drama. A
highly stressed middle-aged man is pushed over the edge when his journey across
L.A. is hampered by traffic jams, criminals and obstructive shopkeepers.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'NORTH DALLAS FORTY'
Date: 7.11.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
1.00am
Previously
shown:
10.11.96 ITV 11.45pm; 2.06.2003 BBC1 11.45pm
American
football drama. A veteran player clashes with his dictatorial coaches when he
refuses to play the game by their rules.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'THREE FUGITIVES'
Date: 9.11.2003
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
16.04.94 8.30pm; 28.12.97 ITV1 11.15pm; 25.06.2001 BBC1 11.10pm
Comedy. An
inept bank robber who has turned to crime to support his mute daughter takes
hostage a tough ex-con. When the police refuse to believe that he's an innocent
bystander, he is forced to aid the robber's escape.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 9, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'PERFECT PREY'
Date:
10.11.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.35pm
Psychological
thriller. A troubled Texas Ranger investigates the case of a serial killer who
preys on young professional women.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'A BRONX TALE'
Date:
19.11.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown: 11.01.2003 BBC2 12.25am
Crime drama. In
sixties New York a boy is torn between the influence of his honest bus driver
father and a local crime boss
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'L.A. CONFIDENTIAL'
Date:
22.11.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
30.12.2002 BBC2 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
In early 1950s L.A., an ambitious police detective reluctantly joins forces
with a brutal cop to solve a murder case involving police corruption, heroin
deals and a string of prostitutes.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE LAST SEDUCTION'
Date: 1.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.15pm
Previously
shown:
8.06.97 C4 10.00pm; 18.03.2002 C4 12.00m't
Thriller. A
scheming woman runs off with the proceeds of a drug deal carried out by her
husband.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 8
Programme: 'THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES'
Date:
10.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.15pm
Previously
shown:
10.01.2000 five 10.45pm; 16.03.2002 five 10.55pm
Comedy drama. A
Wall Street bond trader takes the blame when his mistress accidentally runs
over a black youth in the Bronx. But the plan backfires and triggers off a
bizarre chain of events.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'TO PROTECT AND SERVE'
Date:
11.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
21.04.99 BBC1 11.35pm; 13.07.2001 BBC1 11.15pm; 20.11.2002 BBC1 11.35pm
Someone starts
executing a group of corrupt police officers after a black man is beaten to
death.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'COPYCAT'
Date: 14.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
22.08.99 BBC1 9.30pm; 24.03.2001 BBC1 10.25pm; 2.11.2002 BBC1 11.05pm
Thriller. A
criminal psychologist who is an expert on serial killers becomes an agoraphobic
recluse after being attacked by one of her patients. When a murderer begins
imitating the crimes of notorious killers, a San Francisco policewoman realises
she need help to catch the true culprit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'SNIPER'
Date:
19.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
25.09.98 BBC1 10.20pm; 8.06.2001 BBC1 11.05pm; 19.07.2002 BBC1 11.15pm
Action
Thriller. A mismatched pair of assassins is sent into the Panamanian jungle to
eliminate a rebel leader.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FOOTLOOSE'
Date:
29.12.2003 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
26.11.89 BBC2 10.20pm
In a mid-west
town where discos are banned a Chicago teenager shows his friends what they are
missing. A lot of music and dance depicted.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 4, Knives
etc: 2
BBC2
Programme: 'CLOCKERS'
Date:
11.04.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.35pm
Previously
shown:
18.04.99 BBC2 10.30pm; 17.11.2001 BBC2 11.50pm
Crime Thriller.
A teenage drug dealer unwittingly draws his law abiding elder brother into his
violent world.
Incident
involving Firearms: 2,
Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'EXOTICA'
Date:
26.07.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown:
29.06.97 BBC2 10.20pm; 12.10.2002 BBC2 12.10am
Offbeat
Canadian drama set in a strip club. The lives of five strangers become
intertwined.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: '2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY'
Date:
15.08.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.35pm
Comedy
thriller. A double-crossed assassin is left for dead while his partner intends
to collect the money from a recent hit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS'
Date:
22.08.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 1.30am
Previously
shown:
27.04.97 BBC2 12.30am; 9.12.2001 BBC2 12.35am
Australian
black comedy. In an Outback settlement the locals make a living deliberately
causing car accidents and then salvaging the wreckage.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE COTTON CLUB'
Date:
29.08.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 12.15am
Previously
shown:
8.12.90 10.30pm; 9.12.95 BBC2 12.00m't; 9.06.2001 BBC2 12.20am; 13.12.2002 BBC2
12.15am
Harlem 1928. A
picture of gangland warfare in 20's Harlem where the Cotton Club is the meeting
place for the jazz age, mobsters and racketeering of the Prohibition era.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE FUGITIVE'
Date: 3.11.2003
Channel: BBC2 Time: 1.50pm
Previously
shown:
16.04.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 31.10.98 ITV1 10.25pm; 5.05.2001 ITV1 9.00pm
Action
thriller. After being wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, a doctor is
sentenced to death. But a freak accident on the way to jail enables him to escape
and go in search of the real killer.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE FUNERAL'
Date:
14.11.2003 Channel: BBC2 Time: 1.20am
Crime thriller
set in the 1930s. A gangster has to decide whether to take revenge against a
rival mobster for the murder of his brother.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
ITV1
Programme: 'SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY'
Date: 3.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.00m't
Previously
shown:
31.03.94 ITV1 9.00pm; 9.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 10.04.98 ITV1 9.35pm; 10.06.2002
ITV1 11.45pm
Thriller. A
woman fakes her own death in order to start a new life away from her violent
domineering husband. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a drama
teacher. But her husband realises that she is alive and tries to track her
down.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'TEQUILA SUNRISE'
Date: 4.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
11.50pm
Previously
shown:
7.08.95 9.00pm; 12.12.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 13.04.2001 ITV1 10.50pm
Romantic
thriller. Two old high-school friends - a cop and a drug dealer trying to go
straight - find their loyalties pushed to the limit when they end up on
opposite sides of a drugs bust, and fall in love with the same woman.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'COLORS'
Date:
10.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
2.10.94 BBC2 10.30pm; 21.12.95 BBC2 11.20pm; 24.10.98 ITV1 11.25pm; 19.07.2000
ITV1 11.30pm
Thriller.
Highlighting U.S. racial tensions. Two mismatched policemen take on Los Angeles
murderous street gangs. Film includes scenes of youths spraying church with
automatic gunfire while a funeral was in progress. There was continuous use of
obscene language throughout the film.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 7, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'MEAN STREETS'
Date:
11.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
17.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 21.05.95 C4 9.55pm; 17.10.98 C4 10.00pm; 6.06.2001 ITV1
11.35pm
Crime drama. A
small-time hood and his wild friend fall foul of the Mafia and a loan shark.
Failure to pay up can only mean severe punishment or death.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'FORTRESS'
Date:
17.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
4.12.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 3.01.2000 ITV1 1.15am
Sci-fi
thriller. A former army captain and his wife are incarcerated in a hi-tech
maximum security prison after breaking the USA's strict population laws.
Inmates are implanted with a device that will explode if they attempt to
escape.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 9, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3
Programme: 'HEARTBREAK RIDGE'
Date:
24.01.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
19.02.94 ITV1 9.15pm; 31.05.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 31.07.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 15.08.2001
ITV1 11.30pm; 12.04.2002 ITV1 12.30am
Military drama.
A battle-hardened sergeant takes on a platoon of army misfits and tries to turn
them into a crack fighting unit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE HOUSE ON CARROLL STREET'
Date: 2.02.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.50am
Previously
shown:
3.01.96 BBC1 11.35pm; 9.08.2000 ITV1 11.30pm; 2.09.2001 ITV1 1.20am
Political
thriller set in Fifties New York. A blacklisted magazine journalist stumbles
across a sinister government conspiracy to smuggle Nazis into the U.S.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 4, Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'PRETTY WOMAN'
Date: 4.02.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
5.09.93 ITV1 9.00pm; 6.04.96 ITV1 10.05pm; 22.12.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 19.12.98 ITV1
9.35pm
Romantic
comedy. A multi-millionaire businessman pays a young prostitute to be his
escort for a week.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'AMERICAN GRAFFITI'
Date:
21.04.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.50am
Previously
shown: 8.06.96
ITV1 11.05pm; 24.01.98 ITV1 11.50pm; 11.10.2000 ITV1 11.35pm
Coming-of-age
drama set in the early Sixties. Four friends plan a night of fun as they
prepare to go their separate ways after high school.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent Assaults:
1
Programme: 'TERMINAL VELOCITY'
Date:
26.04.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
8.06.98 ITV1 9.00pm; 20.05.2000 ITV1 10.45pm; 6.07.2002 ITV1 10.30pm
Action
Thriller. A skydiving instructor unwittingly plunges into the world of international
espionage after a new pupil makes her first jump and apparently falls to her
death...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE PACKAGE'
Date: 9.05.2003
Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
22.10.93 9.30pm; 16.05.95 9.30pm; 21.01.97 BBC1 11.00pm; 2.01.2002 ITV1 11.45pm
Thriller. An
army sergeant becomes embroiled in a military conspiracy.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 11, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'MISSISSIPPI BURNING'
Date:
31.05.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.30am
Previously
shown:
1.11.92 BBC2 10.10pm; 9.10.94 BBC2 10.20pm; 29.05.96 BBC1 10.50pm; 1.01.2002
ITV1 11.55pm
Racial drama.
Two F.B.I. agents arrive in a small Mississippi town in 1964 to investigate the
disappearance of three civil rights activists and find themselves up against
the local Ku Klux Klan.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 8, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE DEAD POOL'
Date: 6.06.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.05am
Previously
shown:
17.12.94 ITV1 9.15pm; 17.08.2002 ITV1 12.00m't
Thriller. When
a police inspector investigates a series of celebrity murders he is in danger
of becoming a victim.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'SEA OF LOVE'
Date:
20.06.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.12.92 BBC1 9.45pm; 21.05.94 BBC1 9.10pm; 28.07.95 BBC1 10.25pm; 17.05.98
BBC1 10.25pm; 9.02.2002 ITV1 12.15am
Erotic suspense
thriller. A divorced New York detective is on the trail of a serial killer
whose victims have all answered lonely-hearts ads. But he gets out of his depth
when he falls in love with the prime suspect...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2
Programme: 'TEQUILA SUNRISE'
Date:
27.06.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.45am
Previously
shown:
7.08.95 9.00pm; 12.12.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 13.04.2001 ITV1 10.50pm
Romantic
thriller. Two old high-school friends - a cop and a drug dealer trying to go straight
- find their loyalties pushed to the limit when they end up on opposite sides
of a drugs bust, and fall in love with the same woman.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'STAKEOUT'
Date: 28.06.2003
Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.20pm
Previously
shown:
27.03.93 ITV1 9.15pm; 31.05.94 ITV1 9.00pm; 18.07.97 BBC1 9.30pm; 7.09.2000
BBC1 10.50pm; 27.12.2001 BBC1 11.25pm
Comedy
thriller. A cop falls in love with the ex-girlfriend of a psychotic escaped
convict while staking out her apartment.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY'
Date:
30.07.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.10am
Previously
shown:
31.03.94 ITV1 9.00pm; 9.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 10.04.98 ITV1 9.35pm; 10.06.2002
ITV1 11.45pm
Thriller. A
woman fakes her own death in order to start a new life away from her violent
domineering husband. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a drama
teacher. But her husband realises that she is alive and tries to track her
down.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'BULL DURHAM'
Date: 1.08.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.50am
Previously
shown:
6.02.94 BBC2; 12.08.95 BBC1 9.55pm; 18.11.2000 ITV1 11.25pm; 9.3.2002 ITV1
12.00m't
Comedy drama. A
veteran catcher and a team groupie coach a talented but wild youngster in a
minor league baseball team.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'DIE HARD'
Date: 6.08.2003
Channel: ITV1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.10.92 ITV1 9.00pm; 16.01.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 27.01.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 1.01.97 ITV1
9.00pm; 12.05.2001 ITV1 9.00p; 2.01.2002 ITV1 9.00pm
Action
thriller. A ruthless terrorist gang hijack a vast L.A. company building at
Christmas, planning a heist of over $600 million. But a New York cop - whose
estranged wife is one of those being held hostage - also happens to be in the
building and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE COLOR OF MONEY'
Date:
23.08.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.50pm
Previously
shown:
29.05.93 ITV1 10.20pm; 17.07.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 5.08.2000 ITV1 11.20pm; 7.11.2001
ITV1 11.40pm
Drama. A
retired pool hustler discovers a talented but innocent young player and teaches
him to use his skill to make money from the shady world of pool-room gambling.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'BAD COMPANY'
Date:
30.08.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown: 8.12.99
ITV1 12.35am; 27.12.2000 five 9.00pm; 23.05.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. When
an ex-CIA agent joins a private espionage firm that carries out the dirty work
for big corporations he plunges deeper into a world of blackmail, murder and
deceit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4
Programme: 'THE KRAYS'
Date:
23.09.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
14.03.93 C4 10.10pm; 25.04.95 C4 10.00pm; 15.06.96 C4 10.30pm; 6.11.2001 C4
10.00pm
Drama based on the
lives of the notorious gangster brothers who had a criminal empire in the East
End of London in the 50's and 60's.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS'
Date:
24.09.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 9.00pm
Action
thriller. A reformed car thief finds him self reluctantly back in the game when
his hot headed younger brother gets into trouble.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'MARRIED TO THE MOB'
Date: 4.10.2003 Channel: ITV1
Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
21.01.96 BBC1 11.25pm; 5.02.2000 ITV1 10.55pm; 26.01.2002 ITV1 11.45pm
Crime comedy.
The wife of a hit man tries to break her connections with the Mafia after her
husband is killed - but reckons without the lecherous attentions of his former
boss.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE GLIMMER MAN'
Date:
31.10.2003 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
27.12.2002 ITV1 11.30pm
A former CIA
agent is now working as a private detective. But when he joins up with an L. A.
policeman on the trail of a killer, he realises that he has not left his past
behind.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 8, Knives etc: 2
C4
Programme; 'FREEWAY'
Date: 10.01.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 1.30am
Previously
shown:
13.12.2000 C4 12.55am
Offbeat comedy.
A teenage girl runs away from home, her prostitute mother and drug addict
stepfather. When she hitches a ride with a social worker things get worse.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 7, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MANHUNTER'
Date: 1.02.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 10.05pm
Previously
shown:
7.08.93 BBC2 11.15pm; 21.04.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 19.02.2001 C4 10.00pm
Thriller. An
ex-F.B.I. agent with a gift for understanding murderers comes out of retirement
to track down a serial killer.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'GLORY'
Date: 8.02.2003 Channel: C4 Time:
2.00am
Previously
shown:
22.01.96 C4 10.00pm
Historical
drama. In 1862, an idealistic young white colonel takes command of the first
unit of black troops raised in the North to fight in the American Civil War.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'SLEEPERS'
Date:
16.02.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
7.11.99 C4 10.00pm; 24.06.2001 C4 10.00pm
Fact based
drama. Four young men seek revenge on guards who once abused them at a brutal
reform school.
Incidents
involving: Firearms: 4, Violent assaults:
5, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BITTER MOON'
Date:
26.02.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 11.35pm
Previously
shown:
4.07.97 C4 11.05pm
Psychological
drama. A man in a wheelchair on a cruise ship relates his love life and
tempestuous relationship with a younger woman, to a slowly fascinated and then
involved male passenger.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'BLACK WIDOW'
Date:
16.03.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
6.08.94 ITV1 9.25pm; 18.02.96 ITV1 11.40pm; 21.08.97 C4 10.30pm; 18.06.2001
five 9.00pm
Thriller. When
two wealthy men both die of the same rare disease, a Justice Department
investigator's suspicions are aroused.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'JUMPIN' JACK FLASH'
Date:
16.03.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 2.00am
Previously
shown:
3.03.93 ITV1 8.00pm; 12.07.95 ITV1 8.00pm; 19.04.98 BBC1 10.35pm; 6.06.2001
five 8.00pm
Comedy spy
thriller. A bored computer operator is longing for excitement and romance when she
receives an electronic cry for help from a British spy trapped behind the Iron
Curtain.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'SEXY BEAST'
Date:
30.03.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
An ex-crook's
new life is threatened when a career criminal turns up intent on signing him up
for a robbery.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'BLUE STEEL'
Date: 7.04.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown: 8.09.96
C4 10.00pm; 19.04.98 C4 10.00pm; 21.07.2002 C4 11.05pm
Thriller. After
shooting an armed robber, a rookie New York cop is suspended from duty when the
police cannot find the criminal's weapon. But when the city is hit by a string
of motiveless murders, the only clue is the cop's name scratched on a bullet
beside one of the victims.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE RUNNING MAN'
Date: 8.04.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
29.10.94 ITV1 9.00pm; 16.09.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 3.05.97 ITV1 10.15pm; 16.03.98 five
9.00pm; 9.03.99 five 9.00pm; 18.04.2000 five 9.00pm; 21.05.2001 five 9.00pm
Sci-fi
adventure. A convict in 21st century America is forced to participate in a
deadly game show in which the contestants are hunted to their deaths by a team
of fearsome gladiators.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD'
Date:
21.04.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
6.02.2000 BBC2 10.00pm; 15.07.2001 C4 10.00pm
Thriller. A
retired gangster is persuaded to commit one last crime.
This film
characterised by continual use of obscene language.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'HEATHERS'
Date: 23.04.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.15am
Previously
shown:
13.08.95 C4 10.00pm; 24.11.96 C4 10.00pm; 4.08.98 C4 10.00pm; 1.10.2001 C4
11.50pm
Black comedy.
Two high-school misfits exact revenge on a trio of girls who form the school's
tyrannical ruling clique.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE PIANO'
Date: 4.05.2003 Channel: C4 Time:
12.30am
Previously
shown:
14.7.96 C4 9.00pm; 7.06.98 C4 10.00pm
Period drama set
in 19th century New Zealand. A mute Scottish woman married to a landowner
enters an erotic pact.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RAGING BULL'
Date: 5.05.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
24.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 16.12.95 BBC2 12.15am; 1.08.98 BBC2 11.10pm; 8.05.2001 C4
12.35am; 5.01.2002 ITV1 11.35pm
A bio-picture
of the boxer Jake la Motta. The rise and fall of the Middleweight boxing
champion. An angry, violent and not
very likeable man.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 6
Programme: 'ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK'
Date:
17.05.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 9.05pm
Previously
shown:
12.7.92 BBC2 9.40pm; 28.07.94 BBC1 10.55pm; 27.09.96 BBC1 10.20pm; 27.02.2000
C4 10.00pm
Futuristic
action adventure. A war hero-turned-convict is offered a reprieve if he can
rescue the US President, who is being held hostage on New York's Manhattan
Island - now a vast maximum-security prison.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 7, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'ALIEN 3'
Date:
22.05.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.40pm
Previously
shown:
25.09.95 ITV1 9.00pm
Sci-fi.
thriller. After escaping from her battle with a deadly army of alien creatures,
Warrant Office Ripley crash lands on a mining planet occupied by an all-male
prison colony. The convicts are suspicious of their female visitor but they and
Ripley soon discover that there is an even less welcome intruder in their
midst.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'PATRIOT GAMES'
Date:
24.05.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.12.95 BBC1 9.20pm; 7.04.97 BBC1 10.00pm; 30.10.2000 BBC1 10.35pm
Action
thriller. A retired CIA agent foils an IRA assassination attempt on a member of
the British royal family, killing one of the terrorists in the process. His
family subsequently becomes a target for the dead terrorist's vengeful brother.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 14, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RESERVOIR DOGS'
Date: 1.06.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 11.15pm
Previously
shown:
31.05.97 C4 10.30pm; 19.11.2001 five 10.00pm
Crime thriller.
When a big jewel heist goes horribly wrong, the gang hide out in an empty
warehouse with a cop hostage - and the suspicion that they have an informer in
their midst....
Incidents
involving Firearms: 11, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CITY SLICKERS'
Date:
14.06.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 9.35pm
Previously
shown:
12.05.96 C4 10.00pm
Comedy Western.
Three friends, all facing a mid-life crisis, make unexpected discoveries on a
cattle-driving holiday.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1
Programme: 'FATAL ATTRACTION'
Date:
19.06.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown: 22.9.91
ITV1 9.05pm; 31.7.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 2.11.96 ITV1 10.30pm; 22.01.98 ITV1 10.40pm
Thriller. A
happily married New York lawyer has a casual fling while his wife and daughter
are out of town. But his one-night stand has terrifying consequences...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BAD BOYS'
Date:
28.06.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
8.11.98 C4 10.00pm; 25.06.2000 C4 10.00pm; 8.12.2002 C4 10.00pm
Action comedy
thriller. After $1 million dollars worth of heroin is stolen from a Miami
police station two black undercover police officers are forced to switch
identities. Film includes obscene language throughout.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 17, Violent
Assaults: 7, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'ROMEO IS BLEEDING'
Date:
12.07.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 2.35am
Previously
shown:
6.09.98 C4 10.30pm
Black comedy
thriller. A corrupt New York police officer meets his match when a Mobster
orders him to kill a hiy-woman.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'FARGO'
Date:
28.07.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.40pm
Comedy
thriller. A car salesman in a doomed bid to raise cash from his rich
father-in-law, hires two incompetent thugs to kidnap his wife.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 5
Programme: 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN'
Date: 7.08.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
12.09.92 ITV1 9.15pm; 15.07.95 ITV1 9.45pm; 6.03.99 ITV1 11.00pm; 11.11.2000
ITV1 10.35pm; 26.09.2001 ITV1 12.25am
Action
adventure fantasy. Set in a mythical primitive era, a young man seeks revenge
on the tribe who brutally murdered his parents.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2, Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'STRAW DOGS'
Date:
10.08.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 11.15pm
Thriller. A
young American leads a quiet life in Cornwall with his wife. The locals have
different ideas.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE BEDROOM WINDOW'
Date:
18.08.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.30am
Previously
shown:
10.12.91 9.30pm; 11.01.95 BBC1 10.25pm; 21.08.2000 BBC1 11.25pm; 31.01.2002
BBC1 11.35pm
Thriller: A
married woman witnesses an attack in the street below her lover's apartment.
Her boyfriend lies to the police, pretending that he was the one who saw the
incident but he becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders. He has to
find the killer to prove his innocence. Film includes a scene where a man fires
a gas spray in the face of another man.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 7
Programme: 'KALIFORNIA'
Date:
21.09.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
9.11.97 C4 10.30pm; 20.08.2001 C4 10.30pm
Thriller. A
young couple takes a trip through the American South to research a book on
serial killers - and unwittingly encounter the real thing.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 8
Programme: 'ANGEL HEART'
Date: 5.10.2003 Channel: C4 Time:
1.15am
Previously
shown:
13.07.96 ITV1 12.10am
Occult
thriller. A private detective is drawn into a world of voodoo and satanism when
he is hired to find a missing stranger in New Orleans.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA'
Date:
27.10.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 10.40pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.96 ITV1 10.00pm; 17.11.98 ITV1 10.40pm; 10.12.2001 C4 10.00pm
Chiller.
Devastated by the death of his wife, a 15th century Romanian prince lives on
through the ages as a vampire until, in late-Victorian England, he sees a woman
who looks just like his long-dead bride....
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 7
Programme: 'JAGGED EDGE'
Date:
29.10.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
24.3.95 BBC1 9.30pm; 22.6.96 ITV1 11.15pm; 7.11.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 26.02.2001 C4
10.00pm
Courtroom
thriller. A wealthy San Francisco publisher is accused of murdering his heiress
wife. He wants a top woman lawyer to defend him - but first he must convince
her of his innocence...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE HITCHER'
Date:
31.10.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.45am
Previously
shown:
26.10.98 five 9.00pm; 21.04.2000 five 9.00pm; 8.02.2001 five 9.00pm; 28.04.2002
C4 10.00pm
Thriller. A
teenager driving across Texas picks up a hitch hiker but his passenger turns
out to be a psychotic killer who engages him in a sadistic game of cat and
mouse.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 1, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'PEEPING TOM'
Date: 1.11.2003
Channel: C4 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
23.11.97 C4 10.00pm; 9.06.2001 C4 3.40pm
Psychological
thriller. A film studio technician takes to murdering women and filming the
fear on the faces of his victims, just before they die.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'A MA SOEUR!'
Date: 7.11.2003 Channel: C4 Time:
12.45am
While on
holiday with her parents and younger sister in the south of France, a teenage girl
meets an insistent older Italian boy.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 1, Knives
etc: 1
Programme: 'THE GRIFTERS'
Date:
15.12.2003 Channel: C4 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
2.01.94 BBC2 10.00pm; 21.06.95 BBC1 10.00pm; 26.04.98 BBC2 11.00pm; 18.08.2001
BBC2 10.45pm; 17.07.2002 BBC1 11.35pm
Gangster
thriller. A small-time L.A. con artist finds himself out of his depth when his
Mafia-connected mother reappears in his life.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 6
five
Programme: 'SUSPECT'
Date: 4.01.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
7.11.92 ITV1 9.05pm; 28.06.99 five 9.00pm; 11.05.2001 five 9.00pm
A lawyer in
Washington discovers secrets in high places when she defends a homeless deaf
and dumb man accused of murder.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
assaults: 3, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'CONAN THE DESTROYER'
Date:
13.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
3.04.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 2.12.2001 five 9.00pm
Fantasy
adventure. Comic book hero Conan the Barbarian joins a young princess on a
quest to find a magic key.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 1, Knives
etc: 11
Programme: 'DECEIVED'
Date:
16.01.2003 Channel: five Time:
8.00pm
Previously
shown: 13.02.95
ITV1 9.00pm; 18.05.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 17.09.2001 five 9.00pm; 28.11.2002 five
8.00pm
Thriller. A New
York art restorer's life is thrown into turmoil after her husband of six years
is killed in a car accident. As evidence of his real identity slowly emerges,
she finds her own life in deadly peril as she gets closer to the truth.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 5, Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS'
Date:
20.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
24.10.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 8.11.2000 five 10.15pm; 20.11.2001 five 10.00pm
Prison drama.
An American college-student is arrested at Istanbul airport for possession of
drugs and sentenced to four years in a Turkish prison.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 9, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BREATHLESS'
Date:
21.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
6.08.95 BBC2 9.45pm; 18.08.96 ITV1 10.45pm; 27.12.97 ITV1 10.50pm; 23.12.99
ITV1 12.50am; 2.12.2000 five 10.00pm
Thriller. On
the run after shooting a cop, a car thief tries to persuade his former lover to
come with him to Mexico.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'GET CARTER'
Date:
23.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.03.96 BBC1 11.45pm; 7.03.98 BBC2 10.30pm; 28.03.2001 five 10.00pm
Gangster
thriller. A tough London racketeer travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to avenge his
brother's murder.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 7, Knives etc: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'COMA'
Date:
24.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.10pm
Previously
shown:
10.7.92 10.20pm; 27.10.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 18.10.2001 five 9.15pm
A doctor's life
is threatened when she investigates a sinister medical conspiracy.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'THE LAST BOY SCOUT'
Date:
26.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
20.06.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 7.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 29.09.98 ITV1 10.40pm
A private eye
teams up with an ex-football player to investigate a murder.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 7
Programme: 'TANGO & CASH'
Date:
27.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
27.02.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 1.02.97 ITV1 10.00pm; 4.04.98 ITV1 10.05pm; 12.10.98 five
9.00pm; 27.03.2001 five 9.00pm; 17.03.2002 five 9.00pm
Action
Thriller. Two Los Angeles policemen, who have become rivals, are forced to
overcome their differences when they are sent to prison after being framed by a
drugs baron.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3
Programme: 'BLUE HEAT'
Date:
31.01.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
29.12.94 ITV1 9.15pm; 6.02.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 15.06.98 ITV1 11.40pm; 4.04.2000 C4
9.00pm; 21.04.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. An undercover
narcotics squad raids a drugs ring. But the mission goes wrong when the back-up
does not arrive and they realise they have stumbled upon something much bigger
than they had first thought.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'LETHAL WEAPON'
Date: 9.02.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
5.10.91 ITV1 9.35pm; 1.03.93 ITV1 9.00pm; 8.10.94 9.00pm; 2.01.96 ITV1 9.00pm;
16.12.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 18.01.2000 five 9.00pm
Police
thriller. A psychopathic cop is partnered with a family man and together they
attempt to bust a nasty drugs ring.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'DIRTY HARRY'
Date: 12.02.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
1.07.95 ITV1 10.05pm; 9.01.99 C4 9.00pm; 11.07.2000 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A San
Francisco policeman throws away the rulebook to nail a psychotic sniper who is
holding the city to ransom.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 5, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE STONE KILLER'
Date:
13.02.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.05pm
Previously
shown:
18.04.95 ITV1 1.25am; 20.12.97 five 10.50pm; 27.09.98 five 9.00pm; 10.03.2000
five 9.00pm; 14.06.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A New
York detective transfers to the West Coast where he becomes involved in trying
to unravel a chain of mystery that leads to the elaborate plan of a Mafia don
using Vietnam veterans to stage an underworld massacre.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 5
Programme: 'DONATO AND DAUGHTER'
Date:
19.02.2001 Channel: five Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
5.02.98 ITV1 10.40pm; 21.06.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A Los
Angeles police officer and his daughter, also a police officer, try to put
aside personal differences when they become involved in the hunt for a
psychopathic serial killer.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BASIC INSTINCT'
Date: 27.02.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.11.94 ITV1 10.40pm; 23.9.95 ITV1 10.00pm; 8.10.97 ITV1 ; 21.04.99 five
10.00pm; 25.10.2000 five 10.15pm; 31.10.2001 five 10.15pm
Erotic
thriller. A detective investigates the brutal murder of a rock star and finds
himself sexually attracted to the prime suspect.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'A WOMAN SCORNED'
Date:
28.02.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.40pm
Previously
shown:
20.10.98 five 10.00pm; 2.11.2001 five 10.50pm
Erotic Drama.
After her husband commits suicide a young woman decides to find out the reasons
why. When she uncovers the truth she sets out on a trail of revenge.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent Assaults:
1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DEAD CALM'
Date: 3.03.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.08.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 7.02.2000 five 9.00pm; 17.07.2001 five 9.00pm
Suspense
thriller. A couple sailing their yacht in the Pacific pick up the sole survivor
of a sinking ship. The sailor's story of disaster doesn't ring true, so the
husband decides to investigate - leaving his wife alone with the stranger on
the yacht....
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'DEMOLITION MAN'
Date: 5.03.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
17.08.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 10.11.2000 ITV1 9.00pm
Sci-fi action
thriller. In 1996, a disgraced policeman and his deadly enemy, a psychotic
criminal, are both sentenced to cryogenic freezing. When the criminal escapes
36 years later, the pacifist police of the future are unable to cope and so the
policeman is released to try and track him down.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 9
Programme: 'WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP'
Date: 9.03.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
20.07.97 C4 10.00pm
Basketball
comedy. Two street playground players team up in concealed partnership to con
other players out of money by gambling on the outcome of games. Complications
with loan sharks, a wife and a girlfriend arise.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5
Programme: 'HEARTBREAK RIDGE'
Date:
12.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
19.02.94 ITV1 9.15pm; 31.05.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 31.07.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 15.08.2001 ITV1
11.30pm; 12.04.2002 ITV1 12.30am
Military drama.
A battle-hardened sergeant takes on a platoon of army misfits and tries to turn
them into a crack fighting unit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CADILLAC MAN'
Date:
15.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 2.10am
Previously
shown:
4.04.94 BBC2 9.55pm; 7.12.96 BBC2 11.50pm; 10.09.97 five 9.00pm; 26.11.97 five
9.00pm; 15.11.98 five 9.00pm
Comedy. A
philandering New York car salesman is forced to deliver the sales pitch of his
career when a crazed, cuckolded husband crashes into his showroom brandishing a
shotgun.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'RISING SUN'
Date:
16.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 15.09.96
C4 10.00pm; 26.04.98 C4 10.00pm
Mystery
thriller. An L.A. cop and a veteran police detective investigate the murder of
a young woman at a Japanese corporation's U.S. headquarters.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'STRIKING DISTANCE'
Date:
17.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.09.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 17.03.2001 ITV1 12.20am
Action
thriller. A fifth-generation Pittsburgh cop is determined to catch the serial
killer who claimed the life of his policeman father.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 15, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'BLACK RAIN'
Date:
19.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.09.93 BBC1 9.30pm; 24.01.95 BBC1 9.30pm; 24.05.96 BBC1 10.20pm; 13.06.98
BBC1 10.20pm; 17.01.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
hard-boiled New York homicide detective and his partner are assigned to deliver
a Japanese gangster to the Osaka police. But as the cops are still reeling from
culture shock their charge escapes, leaving them to chase him on his own turf.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'GUNMEN'
Date:
20.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.10pm
Previously
shown:
1.11.97 ITV1 10.35pm; 3.01.2000 ITV1 3.00am; 3.08.2002 ITV1 1.20am
Action
thriller. A US agent teams up with a drug runner's brother to track down a
narcotics baron.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 21, Violent
Assaults: 7, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE GETAWAY'
Date:
24.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.07.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 20.11.99 ITV1 10.30pm; 15.07.2001 ITV1 12.25am;
25.06.2002 five 9.00pm
Action Thriller.
To get her husband out of a Mexican jail, a femme fatale strikes a deal with a
crime boss to take part in a robbery. It goes smoothly, but the couple soon
realise they have been double-crossed by their partners in crime. Film included
scenes of hanging.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 18, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'GOODFELLAS'
Date:
28.03.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 2.06.96 C4 10.05pm; 25.08.98 C4 10.00pm; 5.02.2001 five
10.00pm; 24.04.2002 five 10.00pm
Gangster drama
based on the memoirs of a real-life Mafia hood.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'BUSTER'
Date:
29.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
28.9.91 ITV1 9.35pm; 11.05.98 five 9.00pm; 13.12.2000 five 9.00pm; 12.01.2002
five 9.10pm
Comedy drama
about the infamous Great Train Robbery. In 1963, small-time crook Buster
Edwards hears a rumour that a Royal Mail train will be carrying a fortune in
used bank notes over a Bank Holiday weekend.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 3, Knives
etc: 1
Programme: 'GUN CRAZY'
Date:
29.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 2.00am
Previously
shown:
14.10.93 C4 10.00pm; 11.03.96 C4 10.00pm; 30.03.97 BBC2; 24.10.98 five 10.00pm;
14.09.2000 five 3.30pm
Crime drama. A
teenager goes on the run with her recently paroled pen friend.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'ON DEADLY GROUND'
Date:
31.03.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.98 ITV1 10.40pm; 26.07.2000 ITV1 11.30pm; 10.11.2001 ITV1 11.30pm;
7.02.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. An
oil rig fire fighter who lives life on the edge has his loyalties tested when
his unscrupulous employer prepares to drill for oil on land that belongs to a
native Inuit.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 10, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'PINK CADILLAC'
Date: 5.04.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.55pm
Previously
shown:
24.08.96 ITV1 9.30pm; 27.07.2001 five 9.00pm
Action comedy.
A 'skip-tracer' whose job is to track down escaped criminals and bail-jumpers
is hired to find a young woman and an eight-month-old baby.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10, Violent Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'OUT FOR JUSTICE'
Date: 7.04.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.02.2002 five 10.05pm
Action Thriller.
When a policeman is gunned down his Italian partner relentlessly pursues the
killer.
Incident
involving Firearms: 13,
Violent Assaults: 13, Illegal Drug Abuse: 2
Programme: 'THE GAUNTLET'
Date: 9.04.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously shown: 4.04.97 ITV1 10.40pm;
6.06.98 ITV1 10.45pm; 22.01.2001 ITV1 11.30pm
Action
thriller. A police officer is sent to Las Vegas to escort a call girl to court
to testify against the Mob. But certain corrupt officials are determined to
stop them at any cost.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 12, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'BILLY BATHGATE'
Date:
18.04.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
28.11.96 ITV1 10.50pm; 2.12.2000 ITV1 11.25pm; 29.11.2001 five 9.00pm
Drama set in
Thirties New York. An impressionable young man becomes involved with a
notorious gangster who is in the twilight of his criminal career.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 5
Programme: 'THE ASSASSIN'
Date:
20.04.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
23.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 7.02.98 ITV1 10.00pm; 17.05.2001 five 9.00pm
Action
thriller. A street punk is sentenced to death after killing a cop. However,
instead of being executed, she is recruited to a top-secret government agency
and trained as an assassin.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'FORTRESS'
Date:
24.04.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.10pm
Previously
shown:
4.12.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 3.01.2000 ITV1 1.15am
Sci-fi
thriller. A former army captain and his wife are incarcerated in a hi-tech
maximum-security prison after breaking the USA's strict population laws.
Inmates are implanted with a device that will explode if they attempt to
escape.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 9, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3
Programme: 'AGAINST ALL ODDS'
Date:
26.04.2003 Channel: five Time: 11.15pm
Previously
shown:
11.03.94 ITV1 10.40pm; 17.05.99 five ; 7.12.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
sleazy bookmaker aiming to track down his missing girlfriend hires an
unemployed American football player.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'POINT BREAK'
Date: 5.05.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown: 19.03.95
C4 10.00pm; 27.07.96 C4 10.05pm; 21.06.98 C4 10.00pm
Action
thriller. An FBI agent goes undercover to join a gang of surfers who have been
pulling off daring bank robberies.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DOUBLE IMPACT'
Date:
11.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.10.95 ITV1 10.00pm; 22.02.97 ITV1 10.00pm; 9.05.98 ITV1 11.05pm; 19.03.2000
five 9.00pm; 15.01.2001 five 9.00pm
Action drama.
Twins are separated at the age of six months following the murder of their
parents. They are reunited 25 years later in Hong Kong, and team up to take
revenge on their parents' killers.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 13, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'FEDS'
Date:
11.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 5.25pm
Previously
shown:
20.09.95 ITV1 8.30pm; 1.01.97 ITV1 5.35pm; 16.02.98 five 9.00pm; 24.04.2000
five 9.00pm; 28.07.2003 five 6.15pm
Comedy. Two
women, one an ex-marine, the other a lawyer, help each other survive gruelling
training and the pranks of their chauvinistic colleagues as recruits at the FBI
academy.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'JUST CAUSE'
Date:
12.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously shown: 11.08.98 ITV1 9.00pm;
5.05.2001 ITV1 11.30pm
Legal thriller.
A lawyer turned academic is asked to investigate the case of a young man on
Death Row who has appealed against his rape and murder conviction. As he probes
the crime he suspects that the authorities have got the wrong man.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'RAPID FIRE'
Date:
16.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.3.96 ITV1 10.05pm; 25.10.97 ITV1 10.05pm; 12.02.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
student who falls foul of mobsters after witnessing a murder relies on his
martial arts skills to survive.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 8
Programme: 'NADINE'
Date:
18.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 1.10pm
Previously
shown:
31.01.96 ITV1 10.40pm; 2.03.2002 five 10.55pm
Romantic comedy
thriller set in Fifties Texas. A beautician sees a murder while trying to
recover some compromising photographs and escapes with photos that a local mobster
wants back at any cost.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'UNIVERSAL SOLDIER'
Date:
18.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.95 ITV1 10.00pm; 29.10.96 ITV1 10.40pm; 24.01.98 ITV1 10.00pm; 22.07.2000
ITV1 11.20pm; 19.04.2001 five 9.00pm; 16.06.2002 five 9.00pm
Sci-fi action
adventure. A soldier killed in Vietnam is brought back from the dead as a
state-of-the-art killing machine. But flashbacks prompt him to question his
role as a government-controlled killer and lead him to clash with his former
platoon leader, who is also now a cyborg.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 12, Violent
Assaults: 9, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'INTERNAL AFFAIRS'
Date:
26.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.01.94 BBC2 10.00pm; 21.05.97 BBC1 10.35pm; 29.01.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. When
a newly promoted detective investigates a respected cop for corruption, he
finds himself playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 12, Violent
Assaults: 9, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SHINING THROUGH'
Date:
29.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.9.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 26.05.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 1.10.2001 five 9.00pm
Romantic
espionage drama set during World War Two. A New York secretary persuades her
spy master lover to send her on a dangerous assignment to Berlin. Once there,
she succeeds in infiltrating the home of a top Wehrmacht officer - but can she
accomplish her mission before a Gestapo double-agent betrays her?
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE MECHANIC'
Date:
29.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
7.12.94 BBC1 10.25pm; 19.02.96 BBC1 11.15pm; 8.09.97 BBC1 12.00m't; 3.11.97
BBC1 12.00m't; 21.03.2002 five 9.00pm
Action
thriller. A cold-blooded assassin takes on an apprentice but their first job
together proves messy and the hit-man's Mob bosses begin to question his
competence.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 3, Illegal Drug Abuse: 2
Programme: 'DAMIEN'S SEED'
Date:
30.05.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.40pm
Previously
shown:
26.04.2002 Five 10.55pm
Erotic
thriller. A private detective is hired by a rich woman to find her missing step
sister. But the detective is kidnapped by a group of all-female devil
worshippers with whom the missing girl has become involved.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SOUTHERN COMFORT'
Date: 4.06.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
15.01.91 BBC1 10.55pm; 25.02.2000 five 9.00pm; 9.08.2001 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
group of National Guardsmen on manoeuvres in the Louisiana swamps become involved
in a tense cat-and-mouse game with murderous Cajun hillbillies.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'DEATH WISH II'
Date:
12.06.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.10pm
Action thriller
sequel. After moving to Los Angeles, architect Paul Kersey is drawn into a
bloody vendetta against muggers.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'BEAR ISLAND'
Date:
20.06.2003 Channel: five Time: 3.35pm
Previously
shown:
10.02.95 ITV1 10.40pm; 5.04.2001 five 3.35pm
Adventure
Thriller. On an Arctic Island, a team of meteorologists discover the rusting
hulk of a World War II German submarine, containing skeletons and gold bullion.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'ADRIFT'
Date:
21.06.2003 Channel: five Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
13.01.98 ITV1 10.40pm; 30.06.99 ITV1 11.50pm; 24.07.2000 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
couple set sail on an anniversary cruise in an attempt to save their
floundering marriage. But their dream voyage turns into a nightmare when they
rescue a couple of strangers whose story of survival doesn't quite ring true.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 7, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA'
Date:
25.06.2003 Channel: five Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
8.12.95 ITV1 10.40pm; 16.09.2000 ITV1 10.25pm; 1.08.2001 ITV1 12.30am;
20.02.2002 ITV1 12.25am
Fantasy
adventure. A tough truck driver and a female lawyer are caught up in a
supernatural gang war beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'ROBOCOP'
Date:
29.06.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.05pm
Previously
shown:
19.3.94 ITV1 10.15pm; 18.2.95 ITV1 10.15pm; 13.04.96 ITV1 10.05pm; 8.05.99 ITV1
10.00pm; 15.04.2000 ITV1 10.20pm; 31.07.2000 ITV1 1.30am; 18.10.2000 five
10.15pm; 15.09.2001 five 10.15pm
Science Fiction
thriller. A murdered policeman is transformed into an indestructible cyborg
policeman - but retains some human spirit and seeks revenge against the men who
killed him.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 12, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'UNHOLY MATRIMONY'
Date: 9.07.2003
Channel: five Time: 3.35pm
Previously
shown:
25.11.96 ITV1 11.10pm; 7.07.98 ITV1 11.40pm; 14.03.2001 five 3.30pm
Fact based
crime thriller. In the sleazy underworld of San Antonio in Texas, a car mechanic-turned-psychologist
and a pimp-turned-minister join forces to commit the perfect crime - murdering
a young woman for 300,000 dollars in accident insurance.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 6
Programme: 'THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES'
Date: 18.07.2003 Channel: five Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
10.01.2000 five 10.45pm; 16.03.2002 five 10.55pm
Comedy drama. A
Wall Street bond trader takes the blame when his mistress accidentally runs
over a black youth in the Bronx. But the plan backfires and triggers off a
bizarre chain of events.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'NOWHERE TO RUN'
Date:
25.07.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 30.06.2000 ITV1 11.30pm; 9.07.2002 five 9.00pm
Romantic action
thriller. An escaped convict seeks refuge with a young widow and helps defend
her ranch from an unscrupulous property developer and his evil henchmen.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 9, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'SEX, LOVE AND COLD HARD CASH'
Date: 3.08.2003
Channel: five Time: 1.45pm
Previously
shown:
3.03.98 BBC1 00.20am; 6.04.2001 BBC1 1.05am
Crime thriller.
When her manager absconds with her life savings, a high-class call-girl teams
up with an ex-con to get the money back. But the pair soon find themselves on
the wrong side of the Mob.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'QUICK CHANGE'
Date: 4.08.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.30pm
Previously
shown:
20.10.96 C4 10.00pm; 17.03.98 C4 10.00pm; 15.11.2000 five 9.00pm; 25.02.2002
five 9.00pm
Comedy. A
disgruntled New Yorker stages an ingenious bank robbery disguised as a clown.
His plan runs smoothly - until he and his two accomplices try to make their
getaway.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE GETAWAY'
Date: 8.08.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.07.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 20.11.99 ITV1 10.30pm; 15.07.2001 ITV1 12.25am;
25.06.2002 five 9.00pm
Action
Thriller. To get her husband out of a Mexican jail, a femme fatale strikes a
deal with a crime boss to take part in a robbery. It goes smoothly, but the
couple soon realise they have been double-crossed by their partners in crime.
Film included scenes of hanging.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 18, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MURPHY'S LAW'
Date:
13.08.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.06.92 ITV1 11.40pm; 7.05.2002 five 10.00pm
A detective sets
out to prove his innocence after being framed for murder.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 7, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CITY HEAT'
Date:
20.08.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
27.11.91 ITV1 9.00pm; 18.12.99 ITV1 11.45pm; 23.06.2000 ITV1 11.30pm;
30.12.2000 ITV1 1.10am; 16.04.2002 five 9.00pm
Comedy
thriller. After a private eye's partner is murdered by mobsters and he's left
to pick up the pieces. However, a keen police lieutenant also gets on the case.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 10, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'BONE DADDY'
Date:
24.08.2003 Channel: five Time 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. After
getting a bone in the post, a pathologist turned novelist realises that a
serial killer is back in action.
Incident
Involving Firearms: 1,
Violent Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'DEAD CALM'
Date:
24.08.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
4.08.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 7.02.2000 five 9.00pm; 17.07.2001 five 9.00pm
Suspense
thriller. A couple sailing their yacht in the Pacific pick up the sole survivor
of a sinking ship. The sailor's story of disaster doesn't ring true, so the
husband decides to investigate - leaving his wife alone with the stranger on the
yacht....
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'NO MERCY'
Date: 5.09.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.11.91 ITV1 9.05pm; 8.05.93 ITV1 ; 25.08.98 five ; 29.03.99 five 9.00pm;
7.03.2000 five 9.00pm; 21.03.2001 five 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
A Chicago policeman travels to New Orleans to avenge his partner's murder. His
only lead to the killer is the Cajun mistress of a local gang boss.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'THE TERMINATOR'
Date:
12.09.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.90 10.40pm; 23.07.94 BBC1 10.10pm; 4.01.96 BBC1 10.00pm; 1.11.96 BBC1
10.20pm; 11.11.97 ITV1 10.40pm; 1.09.2000 ITV1 10.30pm; 21.05.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. A
robot assassin is sent from the 21st Century to present-day L.A. to kill a
woman who holds the key to the future of humanity.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent
Assaults: 3, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE FUGITIVE'
Date: 14.09.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.04.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 31.10.98 ITV1 10.25pm; 5.05.2001 ITV1 9.00pm
Action
thriller. After being wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, a doctor is
sentenced to death. But a freak accident on the way to jail enables him to
escape and go in search of the real killer.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'PASSENGER 57'
Date:
22.09.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 10.03.2000 ITV1 12.00m't; 4.10.2002 five 9.00pm
Action
thriller. As a terrorist is flown to Los Angeles to stand trial, his
accomplices take over the plane, killing his F.B.I. guards. But the hijackers
have not reckoned on the presence of an anti-terrorist expert as one of the
passengers.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 7, Violent
Assaults: 7, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE RUNNING MAN'
Date:
26.09.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 29.10.94
ITV1 9.00pm; 16.09.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 3.05.97 ITV1 10.15pm; 16.03.98 five 9.00pm;
9.03.99 five 9.00pm; 18.04.2000 five 9.00pm; 21.05.2001 five 9.00pm
Sci-fi
adventure. A convict in 21st century America is forced to participate in a
deadly game show in which the contestants are hunted to their deaths by a team
of fearsome gladiators.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE HOUSE ON CARROLL STREET'
Date:
28.09.2003 Channel: five Time: 3.15pm
Previously
shown:
3.01.96 BBC1 11.35pm; 9.08.2000 ITV1 11.30pm; 2.09.2001 ITV1 1.20am
Political
thriller set in Fifties New York. A blacklisted magazine journalist stumbles
across a sinister government conspiracy to smuggle Nazis into the U.S.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 4, Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'IN THE LINE OF FIRE'
Date:
29.09.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
12.11.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 18.11.2000 ITV1 9.05pm; 20.10.2001 ITV1 10.05pm;
30.09.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. Still
haunted by his failure 30 years earlier to save President Kennedy from
assassination, an ageing secret service agent finds himself taunted by a
professional assassin who threatens to kill the current President.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'COMMANDO'
Date: 2.10.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.09.92 ITV1 10.35pm; 6.01.94 ITV1 10.40pm; 13.11.98 BBC1 10.25pm; 11.02.2000
BBC1 10.25pm; 24.07.2001 BBC1 9.10pm
Action
adventure. A retired commando tries to rescue his daughter, kidnapped by a gang
of ruthless renegades employed by a deposed central American dictator. The aim
is to coerce the father into assassinating their leader's successor. Film
includes a scene where a serrated knife is held at a child's throat.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 6, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'A FEW GOOD MEN'
Date: 3.10.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 16.03.96
ITV1 9.05pm; 5.08.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 13.01.2001 ITV1 10.10pm; 2.04.2002 five
9.00pm
Courtroom
drama. A slick young U.S. navy lawyer is assigned to defend two marines accused
of murdering a colleague at a U.S. military base in Cuba. But as he delves deeper
into the case, he runs up against the outpost's no-nonsense commanding officer.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 1
Programme: 'BAD BOYS'
Date: 5.10.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.05pm
Previously
shown:
8.11.98 C4 10.00pm; 25.06.2000 C4 10.00pm; 8.12.2002 C4 10.00pm
Action comedy
thriller. After $1 million dollars worth of heroin is stolen from a Miami
police station two black undercover police officers are forced to switch
identities. Film includes obscene language throughout.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 17, Violent
Assaults: 7, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS'
Date: 8.10.2003
Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.10.94 ITV1 10.00pm; 3.10.95 ITV1 10.40pm; 12.10.96 ITV110.00pm; 28.01.98
ITV1 10.40pm; 12.02.2001 five 10.00pm; 1.10.2002 five 10.00pm
Thriller. A
novice FBI agent is assigned to help track down a serial killer. To develop a
profile of the killer, she has to collaborate with one of the most dangerous
murderers ever brought to justice - a cannibalistic psychiatrist.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'LOCK UP'
Date: 9.10.2003 Channel: five
Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
13.07.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 6.01.98 BBC1 10.25pm; 6.02.2000 five 9.00pm; 18.01.2001
five 9.00pm; 1.08.2002 five 9.00pm
Thriller. With
only six months left to serve of his prison sentence, a tough convict finds
himself transferred to a brutal, high-security prison run by a sadistic warden.
His only recourse is to fight back.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 14, Knives
etc: 1
Programme: 'UNFORGIVEN'
Date:
17.10.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.09.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 17.12.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 19.08.2000 ITV1 10.50pm; 23.04.2002
five 9.00pm
Western. A
gunfighter-turned-farmer is forced by poverty to come out of retirement and
seek the bounty placed on the heads of two cowhands who brutally assaulted a
prostitute. He teams up with his former partner and an aspiring, young
gunfighter in order to track down the pair, but they must first deal with the
sheriff and his men.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 10, Violent Assaults: 3, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE ACCUSED'
Date:
22.10.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.01.92 BBC1 10.00pm; 5.03.96 BBC1 10.30pm; 6.06.97 BBC1 10.25pm; 27.03.2002
five 10.05pm
Award winning
drama. When a waitress is gang-raped in a pool room bar, her assailants are
prosecuted under the lesser charge of 'reckless endangerment'. Outraged by the unfairness
of the ruling, she confronts a district attorney who decides to fight for
justice.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'ROBOCOP 2'
Date:
29.10.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
9.12.95 ITV1 9.45pm; 31.03.97 ITV1 10.25pm; 13.05.2000 ITV1 11.10pm; 28.07.2001
ITV1 10.45pm; 27.02.2002 five 10.00pm
Sci-fi action
sequel. The robotic law enforcer continues his fight against crime in Detroit,
but finds himself up against two powerful adversaries - a corrupt corporation and
an insane drug dealer who plans to flood the market with a devastating new
designer drug.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 9, Violent
Assaults: 4, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE ROOKIE'
Date:
31.10.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously shown: 4.12.93 ITV1 9.30pm;
9.10.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 29.03.97 ITV1 9.05pm; 7.03.98 ITV1 10.20pm; 16.05.2000
five 9.00pm; 26.04.2001 five 9.00pm; 11.09.2002 five 9.00pm
Police
thriller. When his partner is killed in a shoot-out with a car thief, a veteran
cop is teamed with a rich kid trying to escape his background.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 13, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'TEQUILA SUNRISE'
Date: 3.11.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 7.08.95
9.00pm; 12.12.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 13.04.2001 ITV1 10.50pm
Romantic
thriller. Two old high-school friends - a cop and a drug dealer trying to go
straight - find their loyalties pushed to the limit when they end up on
opposite sides of a drugs bust, and fall in love with the same woman.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 2, Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'PREDATOR 2'
Date: 5.11.2003 Channel: five
Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.10.95 ITV1 10.40pm; 18.02.98 ITV1 10.40pm; 16.11.2001 five 10.00pm
Sci-fi action
fantasy sequel. In L.A. a bloodthirsty alien exploits the conflict between
drugs dealers and the police, killing indiscriminately. It's left to a
streetwise cop to fight the creature to the death.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 5, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'CAPTIVE'
Date: 7.11.2003 Channel: five Time:
1.05am
Previously
shown:
19.03.97 BBC1 12.55am; 14.10.98 BBC1 ; 22.07.2002 five 10.50pm
Thriller. A
couple running a small motel in a quiet mid-western town are taken hostage.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 6, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE PELICAN BRIEF'
Date: 7.11.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown: 26.03.97
ITV1 9.00pm; 28.11.98 ITV1 9.55pm; 12.01.2000 ITV1 10.15pm; 26.03.2002 five
9.00pm
Conspiracy
thriller. When a young law student writes a speculative brief connecting the
recent murders of two Supreme Court judges, she unwittingly stumbles upon the
truth and puts her life in grave danger.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'THE PRESIDIO'
Date: 9.11.2003
Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
18.04.92 BBC1 10.15pm; 14.02.95 BBC1 10.00pm; 11.05.97 BBC2 9.20pm; 18.04.2002
five 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
Two old enemies, a military policeman and a civilian cop join forces to
investigate a murder on a San Francisco army base.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 5, Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'
Date:
12.11.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.11.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 25.03.2002 five 9.00pm
Suspense
thriller. After a burglary, an L.A. couple befriend the helpful policeman who
answers their call - but he has a dangerous ulterior motive....
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 6, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE BODYGUARD'
Date:
26.11.2003 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.11.95 ITV1 9.00pm; 24.02.97 ITV1 9.00pm; 11.05.98 ITV1 9.00pm; 6.05.2002
five 9.00pm
Romantic
thriller. A freelance bodyguard reluctantly agrees to work for a
superstar-singer-turned-actress, who has been receiving hate mail and has had
an attempt made on her life. His professional code requires him to remain
detached from his clients, but gradually the pair fall in love...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 3, Violent
Assaults: 2, Fire Raising/Explosions: 1, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MISSISSIPPI BURNING'
Date: 3.12.2003 Channel: five Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
1.11.92 BBC2 10.10pm; 9.10.94 BBC2 10.20pm; 29.05.96 BBC1 10.50pm; 1.01.2002
ITV1 11.55pm
Racial drama.
Two F.B.I. agents arrive in a small Mississippi town in 1964 to investigate the
disappearance of three civil rights activists and find themselves up against
the local Ku Klux Klan.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 8, Fire Raising/Explosions: 2, Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'QUICKSAND: NO ESCAPE'
Date: 3.12.2003 Channel: five Time:
3.40pm
Previously
shown:
18.12.96 ITV1 9.00pm; 24.06.98 ITV1 11.15pm; 24.03.2000 ITV1 12.35am;
16.10.2000 five 9.00pm; 27.02.2002 five 8.00pm
Thriller. A
struggling architect believes his luck has finally changed when his firm wins a
lucrative contract. Then he learns that his partner secured the contract
through bribery - and suddenly finds himself in danger.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 2, Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'TRUE LOVE'
Date: 5.12.2003 Channel: five Time:
1.30am
Previously
shown:
14.08.97 C4 10.35pm
Romantic Drama.
A young couple from an Italian neighbourhood in New York's Bronx suffer
pre-marriage jitters on the eve of their wedding.
Incidents
involving Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'MIAMI BLUES'
Date:
12.12.2003 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
8.08.97 ITV 10.45pm; 16.04.2000 five 9.00pm; 16.04.2001 five 9.00pm
Offbeat
thriller. A devious criminal arrives in Miami, steals a policeman's badge and
gun, and goes on a crime spree...
Incidents
involving Firearms: 8, Violent
Assaults: 4, Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BETRAYED'
Date:
17.12.2003 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.92 ITV 9.00pm; 29.06.2000 five 3.30pm; 28.06.2001 five 3.35pm
Thriller. An
undercover FBI agent investigating a racist group in the Deep South falls for
her main suspect.
Incidents
involving Firearms: 4, Violent
Assaults: 1