a mundane entertainment
quite a palpable list
Authors
Henry James, Jane Austen, Daphne du Maurier, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor-Marie Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Laurence Sterne, Graham Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Browning, Virginia Woolf, Ben Jonson, Tom Stoppard, Lord Byron, Umberto Eco, Susanna Clarke, Peter Ackroyd, Robert Graves, Nancy Mitford, Gita Mehta, Tom Holland, J.D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, Tracy Chevalier, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Moore, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Chuck Palahniuck, Anne Rice, Tove Jansson, Franz Kafka, John Bellairs, August Strindberg, John Wilmot, Allan Massie, Alexander McCall Smith, Gerald Durrell, Jeremy Paxman, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Jeanette Winterson, Tennessee Williams, William Blake, James Joyce, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Sophocles, Barry Unsworth, Jumpha Lahiri, R.L. Stevenson
Music
Bjork, Kate Bush, Massive Attack, Portishead, Josh Groban, Yann Tiersen, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Buble, Jamie Cullum, Depeche Mode, Metallica, Zero 7, Travis, Radiohead, Coldplay, George Michael, Manic Street Preachers, Sarah Brightman, Tori Amos, Simply Red, Nat King Cole, The Beatles, Annie Lennox, Air, NIN, Duran Duran, Eric Serra, The Cardigans, Loreena McKennitt, Russell Watson, Judy Garland, Queen, Rossini, U2, Linkin Park, The Redwalls, The Darkness, Shirley Bassey, Patrick Wolf
Television
The Office, Scrubs, Extras, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Grey's Anatomy, The Kumars at No.42, Black Adder, Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Lenny Henry in Pieces, Nigella Forever, Oliver's Twist, Fraiser, The Sketch Show, Little Britain, Black Books
Mini-Series
Gormenghast, Pride and Prejudice, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Merlin, The Way We Live Now, Murder Rooms, The 10th Kingdom, Hornblower, Band of Brothers
Movies
Dog Day Afternoon, Dancer in the Dark, Amelie, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lost in Translation, Neverending Story, Gosford Park, Master & Commander, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), Oscar & Lucinda, Sophie's World, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A Midwinter's Tale, Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Finding Nemo, About Schmidt, The Addams Family, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Delicatessen, Children of Heaven, All About Eve, Louis Malle's Goodbye Children, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Powder, Tea with Mussolini, The End of the Affair, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, The Pianist, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The Witches, Taxi, Leon, In the Name of the Father, The Matrix, Secrets and Lies, The Remains of the Day, The Hours, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Ocean's 11, Malena, Gandhi, City of Joy, I Am Dina, Run Lola Run