Promoting a culture of violence 3

A SURVEY OF FILMS SHOWN ON TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION IN 2003

Introduction

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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

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