Promoting a culture of violence 2
A survey of
films shown on the terrestrial channels in 2002
FEBRUARY 2003
Concern about violence in our society has reached new heights as a
succession of crimes involving firearms have been given massive publicity in
the weeks following Christmas 2002.
In December 2002 a gang of violent 'carjackers' who styled themselves on
American mobsters were jailed. The gang of seven, who idolised criminals such
as Al Capone, stole up to four luxury cars a night as they toured wealthy
neighbourhoods. They had found heroes in films such as 'The Untouchables',
shown on ITV1 in June 2002, and 'Scarface', shown on BBC2 in June 1997
and February 2001, and the robbery computer game 'Grand Theft Auto'
which they played for hours at a time. One of the defendants even threatened to
kill the Judge!
Boycott this sick Christmas game
A video game
glorifying murder, arson and drug dealing has been blasted by children's
charities, politicians and psychologists. With 500,000 copies of 'Grand
Theft Auto' already in circulation in Britain the game is the fastest
selling title ever making £10million in its first week on sale. Highlights
include running a pizza delivery boy off the road then reversing over his body,
intimidating jurors by smashing up their cars and starting a prison riot.
Players can also pick up a prostitute, engage in a sex act and then beat her to
death to steal her money. Points are awarded for hijackings and contract killings.
Mail on
The latest crime statistics published in January 2003 revealed that
crimes involving firearms had risen dramatically in
The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, declared the rise of
violent crime a "national emergency" and the Home Secretary, The Rt
Hon David Blunkett MP, has introduced new punitive measures, including
parenting orders and child curfews, aimed at curbing social disorder,
particularly among the young.
More recently Mr Blunkett has announced new measures to make possession
of a firearm in a public place a criminal offence incurring a five-year minimum
sentence.
Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner condemned the
view of weapons, in some sections of society, as fashion accessories.
"This culture of mindless violence … and the glorification of gang warfare
must be stopped" he said.
The 'values vacuum' of the teenage gangsters
75 per cent of muggers
are under 17
Three quarters
of muggings are carried out by children under 17, David Blunkett said. The Home
Secretary admitted that teenage thugs lay behind the sharp rise in street crime.
The Daily Mail
Mr Blunkett mounted a conference on 10 January, with leading figures in
law enforcement, and demanded a more co-ordinated approach to firearm crimes.
Ahead of this conference mediawatch-uk wrote to Mr Blunkett enclosing a copy of
our report 'Promoting a Culture of Violence' published in July 2002
which, we are told, has been forwarded on to the Department of Culture, Media
and Sport. We said we agreed with those who suggest that a
"multi-agency" approach is necessary and said we believe that the
film, video and television industries have a role to play as well as others
involved in crime prevention. For far too long the entertainment industry
has denied its responsibility for the state of our society. It is no longer a
credible or rational position to suggest that the media simply reflects society
as it is. Increasingly society reflects the worst excesses of the media.
In a reply
from the Home Office, setting out at length the Government's measures, we were
thanked for the report and assured that: "The Government agrees that
it is important that the media promotes positive and responsible images".
Writing in The Sunday Express,
Street crime soaring by 26%, Home Office figures reveal
Street crime is
"running out of control" with the number of muggings rising by more
than 26% over the past nine months, according to internal Home Office figures.
The increase, which has been accompanied by a sharp rise in the use of guns,
has so alarmed Tony Blair that he has ordered one of his top
Muggings rocket by 26pc
Street crime is
soaring with muggings up by more than a quarter in the past nine months,
official figures reveal. A Home Office survey of the 43 police forces in
The Daily
Mail
Murder rate soars to highest for a century
School plague of under-seven thugs
Parents were
blamed yesterday for the epidemic of hooliganism hitting schools. Ofsted chief
inspector David Bell said many mothers and fathers were hampering efforts to
crack down on unruly behaviour threatening to wreck examination standards. His attack
came as figures showed that more and more children of seven and under are being
expelled for terrorising their teachers. The Daily Mail
In a feature article in 'The Independent' 13 January 2003, Dr Kim
Howells MP, Culture Minister, expressed anger about television programme makers
whose output he blames for creating "a pornography of violence" and
for making icons of killers and junkies. "Any night you can see any amount
of violence on television" he said. "Artists have a responsibility to
society" not to play to the "lowest common denominator, which is a
kind of vicarious pleasure in spilling blood".
Lord Warner, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph,
"The starting point is that all people who are going to produce
music, videos, films and television programmes have some kind of
responsibility. And the more they move to the extreme positions which come
close to inciting violence and dangerous sexual behaviour and influence
vulnerable minds, the more you have to exert public pressure to get them to
desist."
In the light of the rising levels of crime involving firearms it is
extraordinary that the British Board of Film Classification persists with its
lax classification policies. The film 'City of
A shock absorber for film censors
Film censors
are being offered therapy to help them cope with the sex and violence they
watch. The British Board of Film Classification called in a psychotherapist
over fears that its 16 full-time censors could become 'desensitised' by the
shocking content of some movies. Censors, who are paid about £30,000 a year and
spend eight hours a day watching films, can have follow-up sessions if they are
concerned about their mental well-being. The Daily Mail
Censors pass game that glorifies thugs
Censors were
condemned yesterday for allowing the release of a computer game that glorifies
the behaviour of murderous football thugs. Hooligans: Storm Over Europe was
considered so violent and anti-social that the British computer industry
refused to sanction its release. But the Dutch manufacturers have been given an
18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification. The Daily Mail
Violence takes
A film
portraying extreme sexual violence is about to become the first controversial
offering at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Those who have seen Irreversible,
a film by Gaspar Noi, say that it is more shocking than Crash, which
caused outrage six years ago at the festival. Noi's tale of murder and
vengeance, rape and sadomasochism, will have its premiere at the festival.
"The sexual violent scene in Irreversible is almost too painful to
watch," one viewer said. "It's incredibly shocking and will cause
more of a sensation than Crash, which was not as graphic as this." The
Times
The unremitting portrayal of firearms in films and drama on television
remains the easiest facet of 'gun culture' to be eradicated. The fact that
figures for gun crime soared by 35% in a year should surely require that all
possible steps be taken to reduce the glorification of guns in the media. Just
as film and television have contributed to the culture of violence and gun
culture in the past, it is surely not unreasonable to expect them to help in
future undo the damage they have inflicted.
Majority of TV violence is screened before
Television
violence has increased sharply over the past four years and particularly at
times when children are likely to be watching, according to research published
yesterday. For the first time since monitoring began in 1997, there are now
more violent scenes before the
On
It is not without significance, therefore, that a viewer's Poll
conducted by ITV's Teletext service found, 20/1/2003, that a massive 98% of
2,765 voters thought standards were slipping on terrestrial TV. This indicates
a general loss of public confidence in the TV regulators.
·
Research
Public
Attitudes?
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ccording to the latest Independent Television Commission annual survey
of public attitudes to television programming, published in March 2002, the
most common cause of offence was swearing and offensive language followed by
violence, then sex/nudity. The report 'Television: The People's View 2000'
also found that "more viewers claimed to have switched off or changed
channels because of violence, followed closely by swearing and offensive
language and then sex/nudity.
Depictions
of Violence
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e note also the findings of a joint report, 'The Depiction of
Violence on Terrestrial Television', published in April 2002 by the ITC,
the BBC and the Broadcasting Standards Commission. It was found that the number
of violent scenes in TV entertainment shows had almost doubled in four years
and that there are now more violent scenes before the
The
Effects of Viewing Violence
A |
ccording to the latest scientific research watching more than an hour of
TV a day makes teenagers more likely to grow up violent. The first study to
investigate the long-term impact of viewing on behaviour has confirmed fears
about a link with aggression. Experts have concluded that rates of violence,
including assaults, fights and robberies, increase dramatically in people in
their late teens and early twenties the longer they spent watching TV as
children. Adults were five times more likely to behave violently and
aggressively if they watched more than three hours of television a day as 14
year olds. One hour was enough to make a significant difference and the effect
was particularly severe for boys.
The researchers, who tracked 700 families for 18 years, said it made no
difference what programmes were watched since an average hour of children's TV
contained between 20 and 25 violent acts. 'Our findings suggest that, at
least during early adolescence, responsible parents should avoid permitting
their children to watch more than one hour of TV a day', said Dr Jeffrey
Johnson, of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. The Daily Mail
·
Findings
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t is difficult to appreciate in a written report the full impact of the
violent fantasy world portrayed by film makers 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.
We recognise that in the course of a typical year around 3000 films are
shown on the five terrestrial channels with even more shown by the subscription
film channels on the cable and satellite networks. All these films represent a
real challenge to those charged with regulating and monitoring TV output and
conducting content research in the public interest.
In this Report, 'Promoting a Culture of Violence 2',
a total of 183 films shown in 2002 on BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4 and C5 are analysed.
The Report is not exhaustive and the findings relate only to the films
monitored.
In the 183 films analysed, including 6 shown twice, monitors identified:
·
966 incidents involving firearms
(255 on BBC1; 65 on
BBC2; 224 on ITV1; 73 on C4; 349 on C5)
·
701 violent assaults
(139 on
BBC1; 59 on BBC2; 113 on ITV1; 114 on C4; 276 on C5)
·
89 incidents of fire raising/causing explosions
(19 on BBC1;
3 on BBC2; 20 on ITV1; 8 on C4; 39 on C5)
·
223 incidents involving knives and other offensive
weapons
(57 on
BBC1; 21 on BBC2; 40 on ITV1; 23 on C4; 82 on C5)
·
17 incidents involving illegal drug abuse
(1 on
BBC1; 1 on BBC2; 4 on ITV1; 2 on C4; 9 on C5)
Of the 183 films monitored (including the 6 shown twice) 42 were shown
on BBC1, 18 on BBC2, 36 on ITV1, 22 on C4 and 65 on C5.
The 6 films shown twice were:
'Best Seller' on BBC1 and ITV1, 'Code of
Silence' on five and ITV1, 'Dog Day Afternoon' on BBC2 and five, 'Something
Wild' on BBC2 and ITV1, 'The Getaway' on five and ITV1, 'The
Terminator' on five and ITV1.
The findings in this report show
that Channel 5's output of films, which increased significantly in 2001,
remained high at 33% of the total number of films shown in 2002 on the five
terrestrial channels. Accordingly the figures for violent incidents on Channel
5 TV are startlingly higher in all categories.
We acknowledge that a number of the films were transmitted after
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
Click here for 'Yob Culture on TV'
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.
Click here
for 'Promoting a Culture of Violence'
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ediawatch-uk believes that violence in entertainment continues to cause widespread
concern mixed with frustration about the lack of any meaningful response from
the film, video and television industries.
Watchdog's warning of rising TV violence
A media
standards watchdog has expressed concern about the normalising of violence on
TV and its impact on society. A new survey has shown that the number of violent
scenes in TV entertainment shows has almost doubled over the past four years,
with a significant increase being in soaps and films shown on TV. This survey,
said John Beyer, director of mediawatch-uk, is enough to show "that the
time has come for the regulators to substantially reduce the level of violence
in the media and this would be something for the 'common good', as our bishops
have put it". Mr Beyer said this "represents a failure on the part of
the regulators to deal with violence in our media". He told the Catholic
Times: "Tony Blair has said that violence on our streets is a national
emergency and some media contribute to normalising it by showing it so
frequently. "Just going for a quick fix in the ratings is wrong. Programme
makers should be far more socially responsible instead of taking the more
selfish approach which just makes sure that the broadcaster's interests are ok.
Catholic Times
The resources available to mediawatch-uk, a voluntary organisation, for
monitoring TV output are small compared to those available to the regulatory
authorities. Nevertheless, the results of this limited monitoring report
indicate that those who are currently charged to secure that programmes do not
"incite to crime or lead to disorder" continue to fail in their
duties.
In the future OFCOM must do more than the present regulators to overcome
the problems that arise from portrayals of violence on television. Politicians
talk of the importance of having "joined-up government" where
different departments co-operate and harmonise application of policy with
others. It is clearly pointless to have stringent law and order policy, for
example, aimed at encouraging good and responsible citizenship if it is
continually undermined by lawlessness and disorder glorified and celebrated in
entertainment.
In drafting its "more
coherent system of objectives and principles" OFCOM really must take into
account public attitudes and the experience of those who have to deal with
violence and aggression in their daily work, for example, police, teachers,
probation officers, nurses, magistrates, transport staff and so on.
mediawatch-uk believes that OFCOM, in order to be effective in these
matters, must embrace a much broader definition of incitement as set out in
Clause 307 of the Communications Bill. The continual portrayal of violence in
film, video and on television should itself be regarded as an incitement to
crime and disorder. The latest scientific research from the
Violence prompts record complaints to TV watchdog
Complaints
about standards on television are running at record levels - just as the
Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) is preparing to be wound up. The BSC's
annual report, published tomorrow, will reveal that it considered more than
7,000 complaints in the year to April 2002. The highest number received in
previous years was 5,100. As part of wide-ranging changes in the supervision of
broadcasters, the watchdog will be wound up next year after 15 years of
policing sex, violence and other issues on television and radio. Lord Dubs, its
chairman and former Labour minister, has expressed his worry about the
"race for ratings" among the soaps, which has led to more violent
plots. Most evening soaps are regularly watched by children as young as 10
years old. The Sunday Times
Scarred by soaps
Four out of
five parents think TV soaps encourage the breakdown of families, a
Government-backed study has found. They worry about too many scenes of sex and
violence, high levels of infidelity, heavy drinking and 'an overall feeling of
negativity' to family life. Concerns are justified and
At the present time there seems to be a complete disregard of public
concern and the accumulated evidence of harm associated with violent
entertainment. On the basis of this report there is no evident desire to have a
positive or beneficial influence on our society. This assertion is
substantiated by the fact that all of the films catalogued in this report, including
the most violent, have been screened three, four or five times in as many
years.
We submit that violence in
entertainment contributes significantly to violence in society and it remains
the one factor that is easiest to deal with.
A more socially responsible approach to programme policy is essential if
social policies elsewhere are to have any hope of succeeding.
It is our hope that this report 'Promoting a Culture of Violence 2',
will lead to a significant and meaningful reduction of violence in
entertainment thought by the Broadcasting Authorities to be suitable for the
nation. We appeal to the Government to
ensure that the Communications Act will give OFCOM the necessary powers and
resources to effect a change of programme policy that will bring real benefits
to the society as a whole rather than perpetuate the present damaging and
harmful influence.
· Analysis
of Films
BBC1
Programme: '83 HOURS 'TIL DAWN'
Date:
13.01.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
22.07.98 BBC1
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: 'THE BEDROOM WINDOW'
Date:
31.01.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
10.12.91
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: 'DANGEROUS INDISCRETION'
Date:
28.02.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
6.08.98 BBC1
Erotic thriller.
When the wife of a corrupt business tycoon embarks on an affair with a young TV
advertising executive, her husband plots a sadistic game of revenge.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'BLOW OUT'
Date:
7.03.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.10.97 ITV
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: 'MURDER IN THE FIRST'
Date:
19.04.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
9.07.98 BBC1
Fact based
prison drama. Half deranged after three years of solitary confinement in an
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'STAGGERED'
Date:
11.05.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown: 26.05.97
BBC1
Comedy. A
hapless toy demonstrator wakes up after his stag night to discover that his
scheming best man has left him stranded, naked, on the beach of a remote
Scottish island. He has three days to get out of his predicament and back to
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RED HEAT'
Date:
14.05.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
19.09.92 ITV
Action
thriller. A Soviet policeman teams up with a wisecracking
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 14
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: '
Date:
2.06.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
10.11.96 ITV
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: 'ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13'
Date:
23.06.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
6.05.90 BBC2
Action
Thriller. A police station in LA comes under siege from a gang of warriors.
Police have to join forces with prisoners on death row to escape.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'CLIFFHANGER'
Date:
29.06.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
24.12.96 BBC1
Action
adventure. A violent gang searching for stolen loot comes up against a
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 15
Violent
Assaults: 1
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DEATH TRAIN'
Date:
29.06.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
28.12.96 BBC1
Action
thriller. A renegade Russian general tries to ship a nuclear missile to
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 16
Violent
Assaults: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DELUSION'
Date:
1.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
15.10.95 BBC2
Thriller. A
yuppie embezzler steals half a million dollars and sets off for a new life in
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent
Assaults: 5
Programme: 'DEADLY PAST'
Date:
8.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
11.10.97 BBC1
Erotic
thriller. A bar tender is persuaded to dispose of the body of his
ex-girlfriend's husband. Film included scenes of bondage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 5
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'LAST EMBRACE'
Date:
10.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
5.4.96
Thriller. A CIA
agent survives a mysterious attempt on his life in a Mexican bar, which leaves
his wife dead. Apparently, an unknown party is determined to kill him.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'THE OUTFIT'
Date:
15.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown: 17.04.92
BBC1
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 GRIFTERS'
Date:
17.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
2.01.94 BBC2
Gangster thriller.
A small-time
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'SNIPER'
Date:
19.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
25.09.98 BBC1
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: 'RUNAWAY TRAIN'
Date:
20.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
23.01.93 ITV
Thriller. Two
escaped convicts try to make a getaway on an out-of-control train.
Incidents involving
Violent
Assaults: 5
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'MURDER IN MIND'
Date:
21.07.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
15.10.99 BBC1
Psychological
drama. A woman suspected of murdering her millionaire husband agrees to visit a
hypnotherapist in order to discover the truth.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 1
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'OUT OF ANNIE'S PAST'
Date:
12.08.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
1.12.99 BBC1
Thriller. After
her lover is murdered in a Mob-related incident a
Incidents
involving:
Firearms: 2
Violent
assaults: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DEATH HUNT'
Date:
23.08.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
28.07.89 ITV
Film based on a
true story of a Canadian trapper framed for murder. He is hunted through the
wilderness by three Mounties and a pack of bounty hunters but eventual escapes.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NARROW MARGIN'
Date: 30.08.2002
Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
15.11.93
Thriller. An
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'FALLING DOWN'
Date:
14.09.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
2.05.97 BBC1
Urban drama. A
highly stressed middle-aged man is pushed over the edge when his journey across
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent
Assaults: 3
Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 2
Programme: '
Date:
15.09.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
4.09.91 BBC1
Comedy
thriller. A bounty hunter hopes to earn $100,000 by capturing and delivering to
the
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent
Assaults: 9
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NEW
Date:
16.09.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
8.08.99 BBC2
Urban drama.
Two teenagers fall foul of a vindictive police lieutenant.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'TOUGH GUYS'
Date:
26.09.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
14.06.96 ITV
Comedy adventure.
Two train robbers leave prison after 25 years only to experience great
difficulty adjusting to the outside.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'HARD TARGET'
Date:
4.10.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
12.07.97 BBC1
Action
thriller. An out-of-work sailor comes to the aid of a woman searching for her
missing father and discovers a group of sadistic hunters who kill human prey
for sport.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 16
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 4
Knives etc: 10
Programme: 'THE FIRM'
Date:
11.10.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.04.98 BBC1
Legal thriller.
Seduced by offers of high pay and perks, an ambitious Harvard law graduate
joins a small
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'NIGHTHAWKS'
Date:
13.10.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.12.96 BBC1
Action
thriller. Seconded for special training in anti-terrorist tactics, two
hard-bitten
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DEATH WISH'
Date:
1.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Vigilante
action drama. A respected
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc 4
Programme: 'COPYCAT'
Date:
2.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
22.08.99 BBC1
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
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'JADE'
Date:
3.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
7.09.98 BBC1
Psychological
thriller. An assistant district attorney investigates the murder of a
millionaire and discovers that one of the suspects is an ex-girlfriend.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 1
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'RAW DEAL'
Date:
13.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Action thriller.
An ex-FBI agent gets a chance to win his old job back by going under cover to
bring down the ruthless Chicago gangsters who killed his former boss's son.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'TO PROTECT AND SERVE'
Date:
20.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
21.04.99 BBC1
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: 'ROADRACERS'
Date:
24.11.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
6.10.96 BBC2
Teen drama. A
guitar-playing small-town rebel clashes with the vindictive local sheriff and
his wayward son.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 3
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'WHITE MISCHIEF'
Date:
1.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
29.12.91 BBC2
Fact based
murder mystery set in Forties colonial
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Programme: 'PRIMAL FEAR'
Date:
4.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
29.08.99 BBC1
Thriller. Eager
for publicity, an arrogant
Incidents
involving:
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'UNDER SIEGE'
Date:
11.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
24.01.97 BBC1
Action
thriller. When a team of trained saboteurs take over a
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent
Assaults etc: 4
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 2
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BEST SELLER'
Date:
12.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.05.95 BBC1
Thriller. A
ruthless hit man persuades a cop-turned-best-selling-author to write the story
of his life.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'SOMMERSBY'
Date:
17.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
26.12.96 BBC1
Romantic period
drama. Seven years after leaving to fight in the American Civil War, a man
returns home to his wife - but so different is he from his former crude and
ill-tempered self that she is not convinced he is her husband.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'BLACK SUNDAY'
Date:
20.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
29.12.95 1.20am; 2.11.96 ITV 1.45am
Thriller. An
Arab terrorist group enlists the aid of an embittered Vietnam War veteran to
carry out an attack on the US Super Bowl stadium.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent
Assaults: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 5
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FAMILY BUSINESS'
Date:
22.12.2002 Channel: BBC1 Time:
Previously
shown:
28.10.94 BBC1
Comedy
thriller. The son of a small-time criminal is anxious to keep his own son out
of trouble.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 4
BBC2
Programme: 'LEAVING
Date: 5.01.2002
Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
26.4.97 BBC1
Road movie. A
bored cocktail waitress and a battered wife join forces as travelling
companions and head for
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'MAD DOG AND GLORY'
Date:
13.01.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.11.96 BBC2
Offbeat
comedy-drama. A meek
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'SOCIETY'
Date:
22.03.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
22.06.97 BBC2
Surreal horror.
A teenager suspects a dark secret lurks behind his family's respectable image.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 8
Knives etc: 1
Programme: '
Date:
24.03.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
9.12.91 ITV
Big business
drama. An ambitious young stockbroker makes illegal deals to persuade a top
dealer that he's got what it takes to reach the highest level.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'
Date:
17.05.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
21.10.90 C4
Docudrama. The
story of Melvin Daemar who allegedly gave a lift to Howard Hughes in 1968 and was
left a fortune in his will.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'COUPE DE VILLE'
Date:
9.06.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
12.02.95 C4
Three estranged
brothers are persuaded by their father to drive a Cadillac to
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE GRISSOM GANG'
Date:
15.06.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
16.07.89 BBC2
Crime thriller.
In Thirties Kansas, an heiress is kidnapped by a violent gang - whose leader
falls in love with her.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 14
Violent
Assaults: 6
Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'BOYS ON THE SIDE'
Date: 12.07.2002
Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
14.03.98 BBC2
Comedy drama. A
lesbian singer, an estate agent with AIDS and a pregnant woman, who may have
killed her boyfriend, share an off-the-wall car journey across
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN
Date:
14.09.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
1.5.94 & 2.5.94 C4
Gangster epic
shown in two parts exploring 45 years in the life of a Jewish-American hoodlum.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions; 1
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'SOMETHING WILD'
Date: 15.09.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
9.06.91 BBC2
Offbeat thriller.
A kooky woman who takes him on an unpredictable journey to the wild side of
life seduces a strait-laced tax consultant.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'TIN MEN'
Date:
28.09.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
13.06.93 C4
Comedy drama.
In early-Sixties
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'EXOTICA'
Date:
12.10.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
29.06.97 BBC2
Offbeat
Canadian drama set in a strip club. The lives of five strangers become
intertwined.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'COOL AND THE CRAZY'
Date:
15.11.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
17.11.96 BBC2
Teen drama. A
newlywed teenager is drawn into a risky affair with a womaniser.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 6
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DOG DAY AFTERNOON'
Date:
16.11.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
10.07.94 C4
Offbeat thriller.
A bisexual bank robber stages an ill-fated heist in
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: '
Date:
30.11.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
4.11.94 BBC1
Thriller. A
psychopathic criminal is released from jail after 14 years determined to get
revenge on the lawyer who failed to keep him out of prison.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE COTTON CLUB'
Date:
13.12.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Previously
shown:
8.12.90
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 4
Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'FIGHT CLUB'
Date:
22.12.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time:
Premiere
Satirical
comedy. An insurance executive and a salesman form and underground bare-knuckle
fight club. But as it gains popularity, they begin to undertake random acts of
terrorism.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults 7
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'L. A. CONFIDENTIAL'
Date:
30.12.2002 Channel: BBC2 Time
Crime thriller.
In early fifties 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
ITV1
Programme: '
Date:
1.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
1.11.92 BBC2
Racial drama.
Two F.B.I. agents arrive in a small
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent
Assaults: 8
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DIE HARD'
Date:
2.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
14.10.92 ITV
Action
thriller. A ruthless terrorist gang hijack a vast
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent
Assaults: 4
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 3
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE PACKAGE'
Date:
2.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
22.10.93
Thriller. An
army sergeant becomes embroiled in a military conspiracy.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 5
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'RAGING BULL'
Date:
5.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
24.04.94 C4
A biopic of
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: 'THE HOT SPOT'
Date:
11.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
5.11.95 C4
Thriller. A
drifter talks himself into a job and gets seduced by his boss's wife. But the
girl he really wants is being blackmailed.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'MARRIED TO THE MOB'
Date:
26.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
21.01.96 BBC1
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: 'PREDATOR'
Date:
29.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
5.09.92 ITV
Sci-fi action
thriller. Crack
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS'
Date:
30.01.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
15.12.96 ITV
True-life-thriller.
After a brutal murder in
Incidents
involving
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE BIG EASY'
Date:
2.02.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
10.4.93 BBC2
Crime thriller.
A streetwise and slightly crooked male homicide detective in
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 4
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: '
Date:
9.02.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
24.12.92 BBC1
Erotic suspense
thriller. A divorced
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Programme: 'THE TERMINATOR'
Date:
12.02.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
24.06.90
Thriller. A
robot assassin is sent from the 21st Century to present-day
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 3
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE
Date:
20.02.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
8.12.95 ITV
Fantasy
adventure. A tough truck driver and a female lawyer are caught up in a
supernatural gang war beneath the streets of
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'BEST SELLER'
Date:
6.03.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
3.05.95 BBC1
Thriller. A
ruthless hit man persuades a cop-turned-best-selling-author to write the story
of his life.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN'
Date:
8.03.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
31.8.92 BBC1
A student tries
to persuade his college professor to kill his domineering mother - with
disastrous consequences.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE OWL'
Date:
13.03.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
6.12.98 ITV 12.55am
Crime drama. A man
becomes a vigilante after the murder of his wife and daughter.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'BACK OF BEYOND'
Date:
24.03.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
12.01.2000 ITV 12.35am; 14.02.2001 ITV1
Thriller. A
garage owner finds his life in the Outback disrupted when a car carrying a gang
of jewel thieves breaks down nearby.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE ENEMY WITHIN'
Date:
3.04.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
29.11.98 ITV 12.55am; 1.04.2000 ITV 1.30am
Thriller. When
a
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE GETAWAY'
Date:
5.04.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
22.07.97 ITV
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 realises that 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: 'HEARTBREAK RIDGE'
Date:
12.04.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
19.02.94 ITV
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: 'MALONE'
Date: 18.05.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
8.07.93 BBC1
Action Drama.
An ex-CIA contract killer has a violent encounter with a right-wing extremist
in a small
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 2
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE MEAN SEASON'
Date:
20.05.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
30.03.93 BBC1
Thriller. After
reporting the apparently motiveless murder of a young woman, a hard-bitten
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Programme: 'SOMETHING WILD'
Date:
21.05.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown:
9.06.91 BBC2
Offbeat
thriller. A kooky woman who takes him on an unpredictable journey to the wild
side of life seduces a strait-laced tax consultant.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY'
Date:
10.06.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time:
Previously
shown: 31.03.94
ITV
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: 'THE UNTOUCHABLES'
Date:
15.06.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.45pm
Previously
shown:
6.05.91 BBC1 9.20pm; 5.11.94 BBC1 9.10pm;
Thriller. A
team of uncorrupted agents set out to bring down Al Capone.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'YOUNG GUNS'
Date:
29.06.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.10am
Previously
shown:
16.11.91 ITV 9.05pm; 10.12.94 ITV 9.20pm; 31.03.2001 ITV 11.30pm
Six young
gunslingers embark on a killing spree to avenge the murder of their paternal
employer. They become the objects of the biggest manhunt in frontier history.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent
Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'TERMINAL VELOCITY'
Date:
6.07.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
8.06.98 ITV 9.00pm; 20.05.2000 ITV 10.45pm
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 BLUES BROTHERS'
Date:
31.07.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
14.08.92 ITV 11.10pm; 6.07.96 ITV 11.10pm; 7.11.98 ITV 10.30pm; 14.07.2001 ITV1
11.10pm
Described as
cult comedy adventure of the 80's. Two blues musicians re-form their band to
raise money for their old orphanage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'GUNMEN'
Date:
3.08.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.20am
Previously
shown:
1.11.97 ITV 10.35pm; 3.01.2000 ITV 3.00am
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: 'OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE'
Date:
14.08.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
28.12.90 C4 10.15pm; 11.12.96 C4 9.30pm; 20.09.98 C4 10.00pm
Comedy
thriller. Two actresses discover that they have been seeing the same man - but
only after he's apparently been killed in an explosion. Convinced that he's
still alive, they follow his trail to New Mexico.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent
Assaults: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE DEAD POOL'
Date:
17.08.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
17.12.94 ITV 9.15pm
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
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'LICENCE TO KILL'
Date:
21.08.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
3.01.94 ITV 8.00pm; 1.04.95 ITV 7.50pm; 30.07.98 ITV 8.30pm; 24.08.98 ITV
8.30pm; 2.09.2000 ITV 7.25pm
James Bond
adventure. Stripped of his special agent's status, 007 pursues a vendetta
against a drugs baron who maimed his friend, the head of the Drug Enforcement
Agency.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 5
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CODE OF SILENCE'
Date:
31.08.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
16.03.91 BBC1 9.50pm; 2.01.95 BBC1 12.10am; 15.11.97 ITV 11.15pm; 28.04.2001
ITV1 11.25pm
Action
thriller. A tough Chicago cop has to tackle warring Mob families and corrupt
police officers when a drugs bust goes wrong.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 3
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 2
Programme: 'CHASERS'
Date:
2.10.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
17.01.98 ITV 10.35pm; 17.11.2001 ITV1 11.45pm
Action comedy. Two
UK navy officers are told to escort a prisoner to Charleston naval base, but
discover that their female charge has no intention of being incarcerated.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE COUCH TRIP'
Date:
19.11.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.25am
Previously
shown:
19.06.91 10.20pm; 3.03.96 BBC1 11.10pm; 17.06.2001 ITV1 1.00am
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: 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'
Date:
20.12.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
25.3.96 11.45pm; 29.04.97 BBC1 12.30am
Urban drama. A
country boy arrives in New York to sell his services as a stud to rich women.
But all he finds is a cold winter and a seedy friend.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE GLIMMER MAN'
Date:
27.12.2002 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Premiere
A former CIA
agent is now working as a private detective. But when he joins up with a 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: 'SCANNERS'
Date:
3.01.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.15am
Previously
shown:
15.05.92 C4 11.55pm; 14.04.95 C4 12.00m't; 15.02.2000 C4 11.30pm
A rogue psychic
- who kills people by making their heads explode with his ESP Powers - is
hunted down by a doctor. A Science Fiction shocker, one of the 'Chilling Out'
season.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 3
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'NIGHT AND THE CITY'
Date:
8.01.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
12.11.95 C4 10.00pm
Thriller. A New
York lawyer gets drawn into the shady side of the boxing world.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 8
Programme: 'CRONOS'
Date:
14.01.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 1.30am
Previously
shown:
30.12.97 C4 12.20am
An alchemist in
the 16th Century creates a device that bestows eternal life. An antique dealer
rediscovers it in the 19th Century but a rival also wants it to stop his
failing health - and he has the alchemist's memoirs. But the price of use of
the device turns the user into a vampire.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE BASKETBALL DIARIES'
Date:
12.02.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
18.09.99 C4 10.00pm
True life
drama. A New York teenager with a promising career as a basketball player falls
into a life of drugs.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 7
Programme: 'FUN'
Date:
23.02.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 1.15am
Previously
shown:
15.08.97 C4 11.05pm
Drama. A reporter
and a psychiatrist try to learn why two teenage girls decided to kill an old
woman for kicks.
Incidents
involving
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE LAST SEDUCTION'
Date:
18.03.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.00m't
Previously
shown:
8.06.97 C4 10.00pm
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: 'PACIFIC HEIGHTS'
Date:
14.04.2002 Channel: C4 Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
15.1.94 9.05pm; 14.12.95 9.00pm; 20.12.97 ITV 9.10pm
Thriller. A
young Californian couple buy a dilapidated mansion and rent out the lower
floors to help pay the mortgage. But one of the tenants isn't all that he
seems...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE HITCHER'
Date:
28.04.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.98 C5 9.00pm; 21.04.2000 C5 9.00pm; 8.02.2001 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. A
teenager driving across Texas picks up a hitchhiker 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: 'MAN BITES DOG'
Date:
29.04.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 11.35pm
Premiere
Drama. Mock
documentary made by trailing film crew recording everyday atrocities of a
happy-go-lucky serial killer. But the filmmakers gradually become involved...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent
Assaults: 7
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'WHORE'
Date:
11.05.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.40am
Social Drama. A
Los Angeles prostitute reflects on her life.
Incident
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE MODERNS'
Date:
6.07.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 1.35am
Previously
shown:
19.07 96 BBC2 12.00m't; 14.01.2000 C4 2.30am
Set in 1926
Paris. A struggling artist agrees to paint copies of three French
Impressionists with surprising consequences.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 5
Programme: 'BLUE STEEL'
Date:
21.07.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
8.09.96 C4 10.00pm; 19.04.98 C4 10.00pm
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: 'S.F.W.'
Date:
4.08.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 3.35am
Previously
shown:
16.08.99 C4 11.45pm
Satirical
drama. A young man becomes a reluctant celebrity after surviving a televised
hostage ordeal.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'KIDS'
Date:
3.09.2002 Channel: C4 Time 1.15am
Documentary
style drama. Life for a bunch or well-off teenagers in New York means drugs,
underage sex and AIDS.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Illegal drug
abuse: 1
Programme: 'SCRUBBERS'
Date:
7.09.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 2.30am
Previously
shown:
12.9.95 10.00pm; 21.06.97 C4 10.25pm
Prison drama.
Set inside a harsh borstal and about a single mother who is desperate to be
reunited with her baby.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 5
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'SCUM'
Date: 14.09.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.30am
Previously
shown:
30.09.95 C4 11.10pm; 20.06.98 C5 12.15am; 22.02.2000 C4 11.35pm
Prison drama
about life among the inmates of a British borstal school. Film includes scenes
of violent multiple buggery.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 12
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE HOWLING'
Date:
16.09.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
28.04.95 C4 11.40pm; 28.08.98 C4 11.35pm
Chiller. Set in
an isolated clinic a TV reporter is convalescing with a consciousness-raising
group but it turns out to be a very hairy werewolf experience.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'CASINO'
Date:
22.09.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
18.10.98 C4 10.00pm; 23.04.2000 C4 10.00pm
Crime drama.
Picked by the Mob to run a casino in Seventies Las Vegas, a gambler ensures
that the money keeps coming in. But his drug-addicted wife and his psychotic
best friend threaten his position. Film includes continuous stream of obscene
language.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 16
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE'
Date:
13.10.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Premiere
Futuristic
satire. Violent teenage gang runs amok, but in a sanitised suburban future the
main character changes his sadistic outlook after he is jailed and singled out
for brainwashing treatment.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 12
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'VERY BAD THINGS'
Date:
17.11.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Premiere
Offbeat comedy.
When an accident occurs at a wild bachelor party, five pals land in deep
trouble.
Incident
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 2
Illegal Drug
abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE DEVILS'
Date:
25.11.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 12.15am
Previously
shown:
19.10.98 C5 10.55pm; 26.02.2000 C5 10.40pm
Historical
drama. In 17th Century France a hunchbacked nun's obsession with a charismatic priest
leads to hysteria in her convent. Accusations of witchcraft flow and the Church
reacts with ferocious severity.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'BAD BOYS'
Date:
8.12.2002 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
8.11.98 C4 10.00pm; 25.06.2000 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
five
Programme: 'THE STAR CHAMBER'
Date:
7.01.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.04.90 ITV 10.45pm; 19.02.99 BBC1 10.25pm; 18.02.2001 BBC1 10.55pm
Thriller.
Sickened by seeing criminals escape justice through legal loopholes, an
idealistic judge joins the Star Chamber, a secret society of judges who take
the law into their own hands.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'BUSTER'
Date:
12.01.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.10pm
Previously
shown:
28.9.91 ITV 9.35pm; 11.05.98 C5 9.00pm; 13.12.2000 C5 9.00pm
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 banknotes over a Bank Holiday weekend.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DOG DAY AFTERNOON'
Date:
12.01.2002 Channel: five Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
10.07.94 C4 10.00pm; 10.01.98 C4 11.05pm; 13.06.98 C5 9.55pm; 10.01.98 C4
11.05pm; 1.02.2000 C5 9.55pm
Offbeat
thriller. A bisexual bank robber stages an ill-fated heist in Brooklyn to raise
money for a sex-change operation for his transvestite lover.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'BLACK RAIN'
Date:
17.01.2002 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
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: 'THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE'
Date:
19.01.2002 Channel: five Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
22.03.97 ITV 11.50pm; 31.01.98 ITV 00.05am; 20.06.98 C5 10.00pm; 29.05.2000 C5
9.00pm
Thriller.
During the Depression, a drifter finds work at a roadside diner and begins a
passionate affair with the owner's young wife. Soon their thoughts turn to
murder...
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'INTERNAL AFFAIRS'
Date:
29.01.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.01.94 BBC2 10.00pm; 21.05.97 BBC1 10.35pm
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: 'ON DEADLY GROUND'
Date:
7.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.98 ITV 10.40pm; 26.07.2000 ITV 11.30pm; 10.11.2001 ITV1 11.30pm
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: 'RAPID FIRE'
Date:
12.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.3.96 ITV 10.05pm; 25.10.97 ITV 10.05pm
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: 'KISS OF DEATH'
Date:
19.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 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: 'OUT FOR JUSTICE'
Date:
21.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.05pm
Premiere
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: 'QUICK CHANGE'
Date:
25.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
20.10.96 C4 10.00pm; 17.03.98 C4 10.00pm; 15.11.2000 C5 9.00pm
Comedy.
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: 'QUICKSAND: NO ESCAPE'
Date:
27.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
18.12.96 ITV 9.00pm; 24.06.98 ITV 11.15pm; 24.03.2000 ITV 12.35am; 16.10.2000
C5 9.00pm
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: 'ROBOCOP 2'
Date:
27.02.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
9.12.95 ITV 9.45pm; 31.03.97 ITV 10.25pm; 13.05.2000 ITV 11.10pm; 28.07.2001
ITV1 10.45pm
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: 'NADINE'
Date:
2.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
31.01.96 ITV 10.40pm
Romantic comedy
thriller. Set in Fifties Texas. A beautician witnesses 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: 'BIRD'
Date:
9.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 1.20am
Previously
shown:
1.06.96 BBC2 12.10am; 12.10.2001 C5 12.35am
Biopic of jazz
saxophonist Charlie Parker.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES'
Date:
16.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
10.01.2000 C5 10.45pm
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: 'TANGO & CASH'
Date:
17.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
27.02.95 ITV 9.00pm; 1.02.97 ITV 10.00pm; 4.04.98 ITV 10.05pm; 12.10.98 C5
9.00pm; 27.03.2001 C5 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: 'A KISS BEFORE DYING'
Date:
18.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.03.96 BBC1 10.10pm; 19.11.97 BBC1 11.40pm; 24.07.2000 C5 3.30pm
Thriller. A
young psychopath marries the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Then he murders
her when she falls pregnant and sets his sights on her twin sister.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE MECHANIC'
Date:
21.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
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
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: 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'
Date:
25.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.11.95 ITV 9.00pm
Suspense
thriller. After a burglary, a 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 PELICAN BRIEF'
Date:
26.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.03.97 ITV 9.00pm; 28.11.98 ITV 9.55pm; 12.01.2000 ITV 10.15pm
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 ACCUSED'
Date:
27.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.05pm
Previously
shown:
21.01.92 BBC1 10.00pm; 5.03.96 BBC1 10.30pm; 6.06.97 BBC1 10.25pm
Award winning
drama. When a waitress is gang-raped in a poolroom 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: 'MESSENGER OF DEATH'
Date:
28.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Premiere
Action
Thriller. A veteran newspaper reporter investigates a case of multiple murder
in a community of Mormon fundamentalists.
Incidents
involving:
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 1
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MIKE'S MURDER'
Date:
29.03.2002 Channel: five Time: 1.25am
Previously
shown:
17.07.93 BBC2 12.10am; 25.07.95 BBC1 11.50pm; 17.08.2001 C5 1.15am
Thriller. A
woman finds her boyfriend dead and her investigations into the cause reveal a
secret dark side to his life.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 2
Programme: 'A FEW GOOD MEN'
Date:
2.04.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.03.96 ITV 9.05pm; 5.08.97 ITV 9.00pm; 13.01.2001 ITV1 10.10pm
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: 'THE MORNING AFTER'
Date:
13.04.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown: 4.05.92
BBC1 9.20pm; 20.03.2000 C5 10.50pm
Mystery
Thriller. A woman wakes up with a terrible hangover, no memory of the night
before and a dead man lying beside her with a knife buried in his heart.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CITY HEAT'
Date:
16.04.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
27.11.91 ITV 9.00pm; 18.12.99 ITV 11.45pm; 23.06.2000 ITV 11.30pm; 30.12.2000
ITV 1.10am
Comedy
thriller. After mobsters murder a private eye's partner, 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: 'THE PRESIDIO'
Date:
18.04.2002 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
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: 'UNFORGIVEN'
Date:
23.04.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.09.96 ITV 9.00pm; 17.12.97 ITV 9.00pm; 19.08.2000 ITV 10.50pm
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: 'GOODFELLAS'
Date:
24.04.2002 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 C5
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: 'THE BODYGUARD'
Date: 6.05.2002 Channel: five Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.11.95 ITV 9.00pm; 24.02.97 ITV 9.00pm; 11.05.98 ITV 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: 'MURPHY'S LAW'
Date:
7.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.06.92 ITV 11.40pm
A detective
sets out to prove his innocence after being framed for murder.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent
Assaults: 7
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'REVENGE'
Date:
13.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.12.93 BBC1 10.00pm; 16.01.95 BBC1 10.40pm; 4.05.96 BBC1 11.00pm; 12.06.97 C5
9.00pm
Thriller. A
navy pilot begins an affair with the wife of a wealthy friend after paying a
visit to their estate in Mexico.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 5
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BLOWBACK'
Date:
15.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Premiere
Thriller. A
policeman tracking an escaped killer he once helped to put behind bars is taken
off the case but decides to pursue the criminal on his own.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent
Assaults: 8
Knives etc: 8
Programme: 'A PASSION FOR MURDER'
Date:
17.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 11.20pm
Previously
shown:
13.01.96 BBC1 9.15pm; 17.09.97 BBC1 10.45pm; 1.12.2000 C5 11.30pm
Mystery
thriller. A young woman flees for her life after her affair with a high-ranking
politician ends in her lover's accidental death.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'THE TERMINATOR'
Date:
21.05.2002 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 ITV 10.40pm; 1.09.2000 ITV1 10.30pm
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: 'BAD COMPANY'
Date:
23.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
8.12.99 ITV 12.35am; 27.12.2000 C5 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: 'NO WAY OUT'
Date:
28.05.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.12.91 BBC1 9.30pm; 29.10.93 BBC1 9.30pm; 7.02.95 BBC1 9.35pm; 3.12.97 ITV
10.40pm; 25.11.2000 ITV 10.55pm; 31.12.2001 ITV1 12.05am
Thriller. A
naval officer is sucked into a Pentagon conspiracy after he embarks on an
affair with the mistress of his powerful boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defence.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BLIND DATE'
Date:
5.06.2002 Channel: five Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.11.92 BBC1 9.25pm; 18.12.96 C5 9.00pm; 29.11.98 C5 9.00pm; 14.05.2001 C5
9.00pm
Romantic
comedy. Desperate for a date to take to a company dinner, a harassed executive
is set up with his sister-in-law's cousin, but is given a word of warning - on
no account should he let her drink alcohol...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'COCKTAIL'
Date:
9.06.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.10.92 ITV 9.15pm; 10.02.96 ITV 11.00pm; 3.01.2000 ITV 11.20pm
Romantic drama.
An ambitious young man realises that working as a barman allows him to rub
shoulders with some of Manhattan's wealthiest women.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'UNIVERSAL SOLDIER'
Date:
16.06.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.95 ITV 10.00pm; 29.10.96 ITV 10.40pm; 24.01.98 ITV 10.00pm; 22.07.2000
ITV 11.20pm; 19.04.2001 C5 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: 'BONE DADDY'
Date:
24.06.2002 Channel: five Time 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: 'THE GETAWAY'
Date:
25.06.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.07.97 ITV 9.00pm; 20.11.99 ITV 10.30pm; 15.07.2001 ITV1 12.25am
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 realises that 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: 'NOWHERE TO RUN'
Date:
9.07.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 2.09.96
ITV 9.00pm; 30.06.2000 ITV 11.30pm
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: 'BEST REVENGE'
Date:
13.07.2002 Channel: five Time: 3.00am
Previously
shown:
28.04.94 BBC1 12.05am; 8.08.95 BBC1 11.50pm
Action
adventure. A pair of ageing hippies team up to pull off a $4 million drugs deal
in order to free a kidnapped friend.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'CAPTIVE'
Date:
22.07.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.50pm
Previously
shown:
19.03.97 BBC1 12.55am; 14.10.98 BBC1
Thriller. A couple
running a small motel in a quiet midwestern town is taken hostage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent
Assaults: 4
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'FIRST BLOOD'
Date:
24.07.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
17.09.98 C5 10.00pm; 13.05.2001 C5 9.40pm
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: 'LOCK UP'
Date:
1.08.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
13.07.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 6.01.98 BBC1 10.25pm; 6.02.2000 C5 9.00pm; 18.01.2001 C5
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: 'BLUE JEAN COP'
Date:
15.08.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.91 9.05pm; 5.02.94 10.45pm; 20.05.95 ITV 10.45pm
2.04.2001 C5
9.00pm
A lawyer and a
detective team up to find the killers of an undercover cop.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 5
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 3
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TRUE STORY'
Date:
19.08.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
17.2.96 11.00pm; 12.07.97 ITV 11.35pm
Crime drama
about the early years of America's notorious outlaws, Bonnie Parker and Clyde
Barrow.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE JANUARY MAN'
Date:
25.08.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.06.92 ITV 9.15pm; 18.12.93 ITV ; 27.06.95 ITV 9.00pm; 21.09.99 C5 9.00pm;
11.10.2000 C5 9.05pm
A disgraced
policeman attempts to track down a serial killer. He also has romantic problems
with his sister-in-law and the Mayor's daughter.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'THE LOST BOYS'
Date:
8.09.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
3.01.91 BBC1 10.15pm; 25.05.96 BBC1 11.00pm; 23.01.98 BBC1 11.15pm; 8.08.2000
BBC1 11.20pm
Horror. Two
teenage brothers get involved with vampire bikers when their mother moves to a
Californian town.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent
Assaults: 3
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE ROOKIE'
Date:
11.09.2009 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.12.93 ITV 9.30pm; 9.10.95 ITV 9.00pm; 29.03.97 ITV 9.05pm; 7.03.98 ITV
10.20pm; 16.05.2000 C5 9.00pm; 26.04.2001 C5 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: 'NEXT OF KIN'
Date:
23.09.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
12.11.93 BBC1 9.30pm; 5.05.95 BBC1 10.35pm; 18.02.97 BBC1 10.55pm; 10.12.97
BBC1 00.05am; 9.03.98 C5 9.00pm; 27.03.2000 C5 9.00pm; 3.05.2001 C5 9.00pm
Comedy
thriller. A hillbilly cop vows to bring his younger brother's gangster killer
to justice but his older brother is set on violent confrontation with the Mob.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent
Assaults: 7
Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME'
Date:
24.09.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.25pm
Previously
shown:
30.10.91 ITV 9.00pm; 22.05.93 ITV 9.30pm; 30.01.95 ITV 9.00pm; 2.02.98 C5
9.00pm; 20.07.2001 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. A New
York cop is assigned to protect a socialite who has witnessed the murder of one
of her friends. However, on a museum visit, he cannot prevent the killer from reaching
her...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent
Assaults: 1
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FINAL ANALYSIS'
Date:
25.09.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.01.95 ITV 9.00pm; 3.01.96 ITV 9.00pm; 23.08.97 ITV 10.10pm; 5.06.2001 C5
9.00pm
Psychological
thriller. A San Francisco psychiatrist falls in love with the sister of one of
his patients. When her violent husband is murdered, he becomes the prime
suspect.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'IN THE LINE OF FIRE'
Date:
30.09.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
12.11.97 ITV 9.00pm; 18.11.2000 ITV 9.05pm; 20.10.2001 ITV1 10.05pm
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: 'THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS'
Date:
1.10.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.10.94 ITV 10.00pm; 3.10.95 ITV 10.40pm; 12.10.96 ITV 10.00pm; 28.01.98 ITV
10.40pm; 12.02.2001 C5 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: 'PASSENGER 57'
Date:
4.10.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.09.96 ITV 9.00pm; 10.03.2000 ITV 12.00m't
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: 'PERFORMANCE'
Date:
5.10.2002 Channel: five Time: 1.35am
Previously
shown: 7.07.91
BBC2 10.15pm; 3.10.93 BBC2 10.45pm; 28.05.95 BBC2 2.30am; 3.07.98 C5 00.25am
A gangster on
the run hides out in a rock star's house.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent
Assaults: 4
Programme: 'CODE OF SILENCE'
Date:
24.10.2002 Channel: five Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.03.91 BBC1 9.50pm; 2.01.95 BBC1 12.10am; 15.11.97 ITV ; 28.04.01 ITV 11.25pm
Action
thriller. A tough Chicago cop has to tackle warring Mob families and corrupt
police officers when a drugs bust goes wrong.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent
Assaults: 6
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 3
Illegal Drug
Abuse: 2
Programme: 'CHERRY, HARRY AND RAQUEL'
Date:
15.11.2002 Channel: five Time 2.40am
A border guard
spends his time running drugs and organising his corrupt sheriff's love life as
well as his own with two girl fiends.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Knives etc: 1
Illegal Drug
abuse 1
Programme: 'RENEGADES'
Date:
26.11.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
6.05.94 BBC1 10.20pm; 7.10.95 BBC2 11.15pm; 17.04.98 C5 11.10pm; 22.05.2001
five 9.00pm
Action
thriller. When a maverick cop teams up with a Lakota Indian to track down a
crooked policeman, the unlikely pair end up on the run from enemies on both
sides of the law....
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent
Assaults: 2
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'DECEIVED'
Date:
28.11.2002 Channel: five Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
13.02.95 ITV 9.00pm; 18.05.96 ITV 9.00pm; 17.09.2001 C5 9.00pm
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: 'HUDSON HAWK'
Date:
2.12.2002 Channel: five Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
29.4.95 ITV
Off-beat action
comedy. A cat burglar is blackmailed into attempting a spectacular art heist
from the
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent
Assaults: 9
Fire
Raising/Explosions: 1
Knives etc: 2
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