In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

The novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune were adapted into a well-received television miniseries entitled Frank Herbert's Children of Dune by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003.

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

In 2003, Brown participated in the PBS American Masters television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by Jeremy Marre.

In retrospect, mainly positive assessments of his chancellorship prevail, not only with the German public, which voted him the " greatest German of all time " in a 2003 television poll, but even with some of today's left-wing intellectuals, who praise his unconditional commitment to western-style democracy and European integration.

The British television station Channel Four commissioned a documentary Leonardo's Dream Machines, for broadcast in 2003.

He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell ( 1977 – 2012 ) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons ( 1989 – present ) and Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present )

Lewinsky was the host of the reality television dating program, Mr. Personality, on Fox Television Network in 2003.

Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).

* Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present ) animated television series.

" Inside the M25 " and " outside the M25 " or " beyond the M25 " are used colloquially to refer to London and the provinces ; the Communications Act 2003 explicitly uses the M25 as the boundary in requiring a proportion of television programmes to be made outside the London area.

Falk also starred in such holiday television movies as A Town Without Christmas ( 2001 ), Finding John Christmas ( 2003 ) and When Angels Come to Town ( 2004 ).

In a 2003 advertisement on British television, a new employee on the production line is fitting Škoda badges on the car bonnets.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).

An animated television series, Stuart Little: The Animated Series, was produced for HBO Family and aired for 13 episodes in 2003.

Three sequels have been produced: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 ), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ( 2003 ), and Terminator Salvation ( 2009 ), as well as a television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ( 2008-2009 ).

* September 20 – Hawaii 5-O debuts on CBS and eventually becomes the longest-running crime show in television history until Law & Order overtakes it in 2003.

* March 20 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host ( d. 2003 )

* September 28 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer ( d. 2003 )

** Gordon Jump, American television actor ( WKRP in Cincinnati ) ( d. 2003 )

* On October 5, 2003, psychological illusionist Derren Brown appeared to take part in a game of Russian roulette on British television Channel 4.

Gelbart-scripted films for television included Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), a true story about the battle for control of the RJR Nabisco corporation starring James Garner that was based on the best-selling book of that name ; Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 1997 ) starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne as rival media moguls and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2003 ) starring Antonio Banderas as the Mexican revolutionary leader.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

State television includes Venezolana de Televisión ( 1964 as a private channel, nationalised in 1974 ), TVes ( 2007 ), ViVe ( cultural network, 2003 ) and teleSUR ( Caracas-based pan-Latin American channel sponsored by seven Latin American states, 2005 ).

In 2003, Cuarón directed the third film in the successful Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* Blackball – a 2003 comedy film about a young bowls player, based upon Griff Sanders.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

* Cleopatra ( 2003 film ), an Argentine film directed by Eduardo Mignogna

It also inspired many of director Mira Nair's shots for the 2003 film The Namesake.

* DIN 4512: A definition of film speed, now superseded by ISO 5800: 1987, ISO 6: 1993 and ISO 2240: 2003.

Gladiator ( 2000 ) is an epic, dramatic film, along with The Last Samurai ( 2003 ).

The noted stage and film actress Rachel Kempson ( 1910 – 2003 ) was born in Dartmouth.

In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

* The Event ( film ), 2003 film directed by Thom Fitzgerald

MGM's special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had disappeared.

UK film production from 1912 to 2003.

The British film This is Not a Love Song ( 2003 ) was the first to be streamed live on the Internet at the same time as its cinema premiere.

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

* 1929 – Jacques Deray, French film director ( d. 2003 )

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

* Love Actually ( 2003 ), another film by Curtis starring Grant

Having lost their academic home in May 2003, they increasingly cross genres and print write-ups of all books and media received, as well as of events that feature creative works that imaginatively challenge gender such as intentional communities, performance events, and film festivals.

* 1926 – John Schlesinger, English film director ( d. 2003 )

The 1973 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( along with the 2003 remake ) claims to be based on true events, but this is not the case.