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
Homeland: Season 4 (2014)
7.2/10
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin
Crack CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) plays by her own rules when it comes to protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks. Her uncanny intuiti... Read more
Silicon Valley: Season 1 (2014)
8.6/10
Starring: Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin...
From the offbeat minds of Alec Berg and Mike Judge ('Office Space'), 'Silicon Valley' is a comedy series set in the high-tech gold rush of modern Sili... Read more
The Missing: Series 1 (2014)
8.2/10
Director: Tom Shankland
Starring: James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor, Ken Stott, Jason Flemyng, Arsher Ali, Said Tagh...
When Tony and Emily Hughes (James Nesbitt and Frances O'Connor) travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt), their family holid... Read more
Outlander: Season 1, Volume 1 (2014)
8.5/10
Starring: Graham McTavish, Tobias Menzies, Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix
British combat nurse Claire Randall is reunited with her husband after returning from the battlefields of World War II. While on their second honeymoo... Read more
The Honourable Woman (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Hugo Blick
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal, Eve Best, Lindsay Duncan, Andrew B...
As a young girl, Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal) witnessed the assassination of her father by the armed wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisatio... Read more
Penny Dreadful: Season 1 (2014)
8.2/10
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Billie Piper, Harry Treadaway, Rory Ki...
An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Doria... Read more
Game of Thrones: Season 4 (2014)
4.6/10
Starring: Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Iain...
As Season 4 begins, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact in the wake of the Red Wedding slaughter that wiped out many of their Stark... Read more
The Fall: Series 2 (2014)
5.1/10
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan
All six episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help... Read more
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014 Christmas Special) (2014)
8.7/10
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost
Loyal companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) is once again reunited with the Doctor but the pair run into trouble when they find themselves stranded o... Read more
Downton Abbey: A Moorland Holiday (Christmas Special 2014) (2014)
8.7/10
Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery
It's the grouse season and Rose's father-in-law Lord Sinderby has rented Brancaster Castle in Northumberland and invited the Crawleys to a shooting pa... Read more