Television Shows
"As Seen on TV"
A television movie (also TV movie, made-for-TV movie, telefilm, etc.) is a photoplay that does not normally feature in movie theatres but is produced for, and released to, television only. It is commonly considered a type of movie, but some people restrict the latter term to those that play in cinemas only.
The programs listed below have all at one time or another been on the telly. Most of those great old shows are represented here, from "Green Acres" to "Absolutely Fabulous", from "Dallas" to "Six Feet Under", from "The Simpsons" to "Ren and Stimpy".....
Below is an amalgam of Alice's entire collection of "Television Shows". For more precise grazing you may find scrolling within this genre helpful. ie "TV Drama", "TV Comedy", "TV Cult", etc
Supernatural: Season 7 (2011)
7.5/10
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
In Season 7, Sam and Dean fight demons. Real demons, life Lucifer, who tortures Sam with visions of Hell. Private demons, as the brothers face a traum... Read more
The Hour: Series 2 (2012)
5.8/10
Starring: Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw
Rejoining 'The Hour' a year on in 1957, the team are still striving to broadcast the stories they believe in, grappling with the disturbing threat of... Read more
Magic City: Season 2 (Blu-ray) (2013)
7.6/10
Starring: Kelly Lynch, Danny Huston, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait, C...
Ike Evans risks everything in a life and death battle to rid his Miramar Playa Hotel of the mob and Ben "The Butcher" Diamond. Ike's dangerous plan to... Read more
Magic City: Season 1 (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.6/10
Starring: Kelly Lynch, Danny Huston, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait, C...
Miami Beach, 1959. As Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) rings in the New Year at his luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel, Castro's rebels seize Havana. Miami... Read more
Spooks: Series 2 (2004)
6/10
Director: Various
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Kelley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter
The crack team of MI:5 agents are back for more intrigue and suspense in season two, featuring ten episodes of espionage, hidden enemies and foiled te... Read more
The Inbetweeners: Series 3 (2010)
7.6/10
Starring: James Buckley, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison, Emily Head
Will, Simon, Neil and Jay try to navigate their way through sixth form with their hormones running riot and their attempts to be popular backfiring on... Read more
Olive Kitteridge (Blu-ray) (2014)
8.3/10
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins
A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, wh... Read more
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys, Trevor Eve, Matthew Goode, Joanna Scanlan, Nichola Burle...
There is perhaps no greater love story than that between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. But what happened after they w... Read more
Catherine Cookson: A Dinner Of Herbs (2000)
7.5/10
Director: Alan Grint
Starring: Tom Goodman-Hill, Billie Whitelaw, Tim Healy, Kate Magowan
A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware... Read more
The State Within (2006)
7.9/10
Director: Daniel Percival, Michael Offer
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless
The British ambassador to America becomes locked into a tense political firestorm when an airplane explodes while flying over Washington, D.C. in this... Read more