Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2958 Films to Buy & Rent
Planman, The (2003)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
- Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
Postman Pat (TV Series) (2003)
- Returning to the small–screen are Postman Pat (and his black–and–white cat) in a fresh series of animated episodes. Included here…
QI (TV Series) (Quite Interesting) (2003-2012)
- Feat. Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rob Brydon…
- Stephen Fry hosts this high and low–brow quiz show where celebrity panellists earn points for knowledge and invention and are penalised for…
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (TV Series) (2003-2006)
- Genuinely amusing series in which five gay men (Ted Allen, Thom Filicia, Kyan Douglas, Jai Rodriguez and Carson Kressley) help transform the life of…
Reagans, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. James Brolin, Judy Davis, Zeljko Ivanek
- Biographical drama about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family, spanning the time period 1949–1989, with James Brolin as Ronald Reagan…
Reno 911 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Cedric Yarbrough, Niecy Nash, Thomas Lennon…
- Irreverent and absurd mock–umentary takes us behind the scenes of the Reno police department and spotlights the bungling incompetents who work…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft…
- Reasonably solid telemovie version of Tennessee Williams' only novel, with Mirren here playing the aging actress lured into an affair after the…
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
- Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
Royal, The (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Ian Carmichael, Wendy Craig
- Long–running HEARTBEAT spin–off centred on the moral dilemmas and medical emergencies experienced by the staff at a rural Yorkshire…
Shark Net, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Feat. William McInnes, Angie Milliken, Tim Draxl
- Based on the memoir by Robert Drewe, this Australian mini–series focuses on Drewe's move to Perth as a young, excitable boy and his gradual…