The show was cancelled on 21 August 2003 with Stern turning it into a 45-minute segment at the end of his live broadcast that day by having WXRK program director Robert Cross aka Chuck Roast come in and break the bad news on the air to John.

With the outbreak of warfare in Iraq in 2003, ITV replaced the ITV News at Ten with a special 45-minute long ITV News at Nine every Monday to Friday, hosted by Trevor McDonald in Kuwait City and John Suchet in the ITV News studio in London.

An original 45-minute modern chamber opera based on " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " was completed in 2003 by David Volk, a University of Georgia music doctoral student, as part of his dissertation requirements in composition.

Turner appeared in Gettysburg as Colonel Waller T. Patton in 1993 and reprised the role in the 2003 prequel Gods and Generals ; he produced both films.

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

McKean had a regular role as the brassy, heavily made-up bandleader Adrian Van Horhees in Martin Short's Comedy Central series, Primetime Glick, and in 2003, he guest starred on Smallville, the Superman prequel in which his wife stars as Martha Kent.

In the 2003 prequel Gods and Generals, Billy Campbell portrayed Pickett.

Super Techno Arts produced an English adaptation of both, the original series and the prequel series, releasing all thirteen episodes in North America as a six-volume DVD series between 2003 and 2005, with the episodes in order of its fictional chronology.

The only exceptions to this rule occur in the comic strip origin story, " In the Beginning ", the 1996 short story collection Cobra Trap, the final Modesty Blaise book, which contains five stories that take place where Modesty's age moves from 20 to 52 ( approximately ), and the 2003 film My Name Is Modesty which is a prequel depicting Modesty in her late teens.

* Gods and Generals ( 2003 ) — This film, based on a historical novel of the same name, is a prequel to Gettysburg.

* Lineage II, a 2003 prequel to Lineage

On October 25, 2003, Watase began releasing a prequel to the manga series, Fushigi Yûgi Genbu Kaiden.

Cube is followed by the sequel Cube 2: Hypercube ( 2003 ) and the prequel Cube Zero ( 2004 ).

Due to its commercial and critical success, Infernal Affairs was followed by a prequel, Infernal Affairs II, and a sequel, Infernal Affairs III, both released in 2003, as well as a 2006 American remake by Martin Scorsese entitled The Departed.

Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, a " prequel " set 150 years before the time of Lineage, was released in 2003.

In 2003, Schrader made entertainment headlines for being fired from Exorcist: Dominion, a prequel film to The Exorcist ( 1973 ).

The 2003 film My Name Is Modesty was produced as a prequel to the comic strip and novels ; as such it is the only Modesty Blaise adventure in which Willie Garvin does not appear.

Herbert and Anderson followed with a second prequel trilogy called the Legends of Dune, consisting of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad ( 2002 ), Dune: The Machine Crusade ( 2003 ), and Dune: The Battle of Corrin ( 2004 ).

A prequel, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, was filmed back-to-back with Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed and was released in 2003.

First released in Japan in 2003, it is the first game in the Baten Kaitos series, and takes place after Baten Kaitos Origins, a prequel released in 2006.

* Marley's Ghost is a 2003 play which is a prequel to A Christmas Carol.

Writer John Sullivan had the idea for a prequel to the sitcom Only Fools and Horses in 1997 ; its commission was announced in 2003 and the premise for the series was established in the final Only Fools and Horses episode " Sleepless in Peckham " in 2003.

The film was followed by an original prequel not based on any of the novels, Mors Elling ( 2003 ), and a sequel, Elsk meg i morgen ( 2005 ) based on the fourth and last book in the series.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

In a more detailed 2003 Fortune article, Buffett proposed a tool called Import Certificates as a solution to the United States ' problem and ensure balanced trade.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

In 2003, the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF ) introduced a set of basic exercises using a bokuto called Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

* Government forces, the National Army ( FANCI ), also called loyalists, formed and equipped essentially since 2003

In 2003, distributions started to include metadata files, called META. yml, indicating the distribution's name, version, dependencies, and other useful information ; however, not all distributions contain metadata.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

In 2003, some of the members from Devo were alleged to have partaken in a side project called The Network, which featured Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Jason White of Green Day.

In 2003, Time Magazine called the Academy, " The School of Cool.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.

In 2003, its National Research Council published a report whose conclusions called into question 30 years of FBI testimony.

In 20 April 2003, chancellor Schröder announced massive labor market reforms, called Agenda 2010, that cut in unemployment benefits.

In July 2003, the Jueves Negro demonstrations rocked the capital, forcing the closing of the US embassy and the UN mission, as supporters of Ríos Montt called for his return to power.

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

In 2003 a University of California, Los Angeles research team inserted genes into the brain using liposomes coated in a polymer called polyethylene glycol.

The United States-led occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2011 has since been called the Second Persian Gulf War.

* Pierre Efratas wrote a sequel called Le Destin d ' Ivanhoe ( 2003 ), published by Éditions Charles Corlet.

A media blitz accompanied the single capped off by the VH-1 special called A Kid Rock Christmas, which aired on December 14, 2003.

* He has his own clothing line called Made in Detroit which he purchased from its creator, Detroit designer Robert Stanzler, in 2003.

Writing in the New Statesman ( UK ) in 2003, Ted Kessler called it, "... one of the Sixties ' most magical, enigmatic albums.

A referendum on the issue was called in March 2003 for which the Nationalists and the Democratic Alternative campaigned for a " yes " vote while Labour campaigned heavily for " no " vote, invalidate their vote or abstain.

* Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ( 2003 ) by Kenji Kamiyama ( 26 25-minute episodes ; also called Alone on Earth or GitS: SAC )

In 2003, Milken launched a Washington, D. C .- based think tank called FasterCures, which seeks greater efficiency in researching all serious diseases.

New Hampshire was home to the rock formation called the Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like profile in Franconia Notch, until the formation fell apart in May 2003.