TV Show Releases by Genre
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The Tudors: Season 2
March 30, 2008
Heads will roll in the second season of The Tudors. Henry and Anne are king and queen, but this stops neither Henry's roving eye nor his suspicion of those closest to him.
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The Riches: Season 2
March 18, 2008
The Molloys' find their identies as the Rich's threatened not only by cousin Dale but by Dahlia's urge to leave their scheme.
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John Adams: Season 1
March 16, 2008
The seven-part miniseries on the life of the second US president is based on the book by David McCullough.
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Canterbury's Law: Season 1
March 10, 2008
Julianna Margulies returns to serial television as a lawyer who fights for justice even as her personal life is a mess.
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New Amsterdam: Season 1
March 4, 2008
A New York detective seeks his true love to break the curse of immortality.
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Oprah's Big Give: Season 1
March 2, 2008
Contestants are given 1 million dollars and are challenged to use it to help as many people as they can.
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quarterlife: Season 1
February 26, 2008
The MySpace show about 20-somethings moves up to network television.
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Jericho: Season 2
February 12, 2008
The townspeople try to rebuild after the nuclear war as the show returns from the ashes of cancellation.
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Lipstick Jungle: Season 1
February 7, 2008
This adaptation of Candace Bushnell's book of the same name treads the same familiar grounds of her other big hit, "Sex in the City."
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Eli Stone: Season 1
January 31, 2008
A San Francisco lawyer begins seeing things including George Michael.
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Lost: Season 4
January 31, 2008
After a peek at the future last year, season four aims to show how our lost passengers find their way off the island.
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In Treatment: Season 1
January 28, 2008
The remake of a hit Israeli show airing 5 days a week looks into therapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) practice along with his own sessions with a psychologist.
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Breaking Bad: Season 1
January 20, 2008
A chemistry teacher decides to start a Meth lab.
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Torchwood (UK): Season 2
January 16, 2008
Captain Jack and his crew return for their second season, with James Marsters and Alan Dale among the guest stars.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1
January 13, 2008
The Terminator franchise arrives on TV with this serial drama. The series picks up a year after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor hiding from the government. After two years in one place Sarah decides they need a change of scenery and in doing so they expose themselves to FBI Agent James Ellison and Skynet's army of Terminators including Cameron Phillips a reprogrammed Terminator sent to protect John. She informs them that Judgment Day was not stopped and will take place in 2011. John convinces Sarah to stop hiding and fight so Cameron takes them to a time machine the resistance has set up to take them to the year Skynet was created 2007.
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Mistresses (UK): Season 1
January 8, 2008
The drama focusing on four friends who are tempted into affairs with other people is already on season two in the UK, and an American remake is in the works.
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Cashmere Mafia: Season 1
January 6, 2008
Kevin Wade & Darren Starr's latest series stars Lucy Liu, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville as powerful business women who remain best of friends.
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The Wire: Season 5
January 6, 2008
The crime drama returns in its final season with the hot seat applied at creator David Simon's previous occupation (journalist).
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Oliver Twist : Season 1
December 18, 2007
Masterpiece focuses more on Oliver's family in this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about the orphan (William Miller) who joins a gang of pickpocketers led by Fagin (Timothy Spall).
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Tin Man: Season 1
December 2, 2007
The Sci Fi channel reimagines "The Wizard of Oz" as a three-part miniseries.
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Nip/Tuck: Season 5
October 30, 2007
Miami's favorite plastic surgeons, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, move their practice to Beverly Hills.
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Women's Murder Club: Season 1
October 12, 2007
Angie Harmon and her friends solve crime without the boys in blue in this adaptation of James Patterson's books.
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Life is Wild: Season 1
October 7, 2007
Life's a jungle, literally, in this remake of BBC's "Wild at Heart."
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Pushing Daisies: Season 1
October 5, 2007
Ned brings life and death with a touch in this fresh-as-a-daisy fantasy show.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 2
October 5, 2007
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, football is everything. The team to beat is the Panthers, who are coached by newbie Eric Taylor. Coming back after winning the State Championship, the Panthers will need all the help they can get once the next football season arrives, amidst all the personal dramas and injuries.
This series is based on the book and movie Friday Night Lights. Season two of Friday Night Lights was cut from twenty two to just fifteen completed episodes because of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. In order to save the show and produce a new season, DirecTV stepped up and will air new episodes of season three on DirecTV's "The 101" during the fall, and then they will premiere during the winter on NBC. Both seasons can be found on DVD, as well as repeats on Bravo.
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Dexter: Season 2
September 30, 2007
Based on Jeff Lindsay's novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter this crime thriller follows Dexter Morgan. Dexter is a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department. He is the main support for his sister. He has a steady girlfriend, with two kids who adore him. He also has an active "night life". Based on a code instilled in him by his foster father, Harry, he hunts down people who have escaped justice and makes sure they don't get away with a crime again.
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Moonlight: Season 1
September 28, 2007
CBS rehashes the formula with a vamp PI named Mick (not Nick or Angel eh?), but will it have bite or just bite?
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Big Shots: Season 1
September 27, 2007
These big-time CEOs talk shop and complain about their love lives.
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Dirty Sexy Money: Season 1
September 26, 2007
Peter Krause finds himself in more dirty business as a lawyer for a very powerful but dysfunctional family.
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Life (2007): Season 1
September 26, 2007
Charlie's back after being falsely held in in prison for twelve years. Like a fish out of water, will he (and the show) flop or swim?
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Bionic Woman: Season 1
September 26, 2007
There's no $6 Million Man or cheesy sound effects in this new, darker Bionic Woman.
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Private Practice: Season 1
September 26, 2007
Addison trades Seattle and her love triangle for California, Taye Diggs, and Tim Daly.
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Cane: Season 1
September 25, 2007
Jimmy Smits lands in a sugar-cane dynasty. Will there be cat fights?
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Chuck: Season 1
September 24, 2007
From a retail hack who sells computers to a hunted man with a computer in his brain. Chuck's life changes when an old college friend sends him an e-mail that chucks him into the world of spies.
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Journeyman: Season 1
September 24, 2007
After witnessing the end of ancient "Rome," Kevin McKidd finds himself time-traveling in modern-day San Francisco.
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Gossip Girl: Season 1
September 19, 2007
The O.C. moves to New York City's Upper West Side with a dash of gossip in the guise of Kristen Bell.
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K-Ville: Season 1
September 17, 2007
Post-Katrina, the Big Easy and its people find it's not so easy to return.
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Nashville: Season 1
September 14, 2007
Fox brings a reality drama for Friday, this one set in Nashville.
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Tell Me You Love Me: Season 1
September 9, 2007
HBO courts controversy with sex and couples therapy.
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As You Like It
August 21, 2007
Kenneth Branagh's fifth screen adaptation of Shakespeare.
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Californication: Season 1
August 13, 2007
Duchovny returns to series television as a writer trying to drink and fornicate his way to happiness.
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Weeds: Season 3
August 13, 2007
This series is a single-camera comedy about a single mother who makes ends meet by selling marijuana in the fictional suburb of Agrestic, California. The series exposes the dirty little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns and shiny closed doors of homes in the of this gated community. Mary Louise Parker stars as the suburban mom who resorts to selling weed to support her family after her husband unexpectedly dies. Jenji Kohan executive produces and writes the series.
Beginning with the premiere of the fourth season, the show shifted it's premise in almost it's entirety by relocating the cast to the fictional border town of Ren Mar after Agrestic burned to the ground. From here Nancy gave up her green thumb and began trafficking drugs over the border. Airing Information:
First Season:
Preview of pilot aired on Sunday, August 7, 2005 on Showtime at 10 PM EST with repeats on the following Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10PM EST.
From then on episodes aired first on Mondays at 10PM EST with repeats on Mondays right after the episode premiere and on Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:00PM EST and approximately 10:30PM EST and Sunday at 10:30PM EST.
Second Season:
The season premiere will air on Monday, August 14, 2006 on Showtime.
Third Season:
The season premiere will air on Monday, August 13, 2007 on Showtime at 10 PM EST.
Production Information:
Produced by Lions Gate Television in association with Titled Productions. Weeds has received a 10-episode commitment for it's first season. It was renewed after Weeds received a Golden Globe Nomination and the two leading ladies received nominations also. The 13 episodes of the second season were filmed. Theme Song:
"Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds
Awards and Nominations:
63rd Annual Golden Globes in 2006
1. Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Weeds (Showtime - Lions Gate Television, Inc.)
Nomination
2. Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy:
Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin)
Won
3. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
Elizabeth Perkins (Celia Hodes)
Nominated
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Flash Gordon: Season 1
August 10, 2007
Flash Gordon returns--uh oh. This savior of the universe may not survive sci-fi's biggest enemy--the critics--to return for episode two.
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The Company: Season 1
August 5, 2007
Chris O' Donnell and Michael Keaton as spies during the Cold War.
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Mind Control with Derren Brown: Season 1
July 26, 2007
Like it says on the tin, the British sensation uses the power of suggestion to control unsuspecting people.
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Damages: Season 1
July 24, 2007
Newly hired Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) enters the cutthroat world of New York attorney Patty Hewes (Glenn Close).
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Saving Grace: Season 1
July 23, 2007
An angel named Earl (Rippy) tries to save an Oklahoma City detective (Hunter) from self-destruction.
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Mad Men: Season 1
July 19, 2007
In the 1960s, Don Draper is the man in charge at one of the top advertising agencies in New York.
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Side Order of Life: Season 1
July 15, 2007
After her best friend is diagnosed with cancer, Jenny decides she needs to change her outlook in life.
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The Bronx Is Burning: Season 1
July 9, 2007
The New York Yankees during the time when the Son of Sam was killing, blackouts were common and a bitter election cycle.
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Burn Notice: Season 1
June 28, 2007
A former spy works as a private investigator in Miami while he attempts to learn why the CIA terminated his services in this darkly-comic original drama.
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Heartland: Season 1
June 18, 2007
Everwood's Treat Williams once again plays a doctor--this time a heart transplant surgeon--in TNT's new original drama. We should warn you, though, that he's also a member of the ever-growing clique of television characters who speak to ghosts.
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Meadowlands: Season 1
June 17, 2007
This eight-episode British drama import focuses on the inhabitants of a planned community in the suburbs--residents who all happen to be part of a witness-protection program.
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Rescue Me: Season 4
June 13, 2007
From the creators and executive producers of The Job comes Rescue Me, a dramedy that centers on the inner workings of Engine 62, a New York City firehouse, and the personal and emotional battles of its members in a post-9/11 world.
The show focuses on Tommy Gavin, the senior firefighter whose life is in turmoil as he copes with the stresses and fears of his job as well the separation from his wife Janet. Tommy moves into a house across the street from her to stay close to their three children and keep an eye on her. The stresses and fears of his job are manifested through conversations with his dead cousin Jimmy Keefe, a former firefighter, as well as the haunting memories of people he has watched perish on the job.
The remaining heroes of Ladder 62 include Chief Jerry Reilly who, despite being called "The Good Chief," has a serious gambling problem and bets on everything, even Tommy's divorce. Sean Garrity is a young, handsome guy who is easier to look at than hold a conversation with. Franco Rivera, a cocky, Puerto Rican ladies man, is Tommy's confidant who lives life in the fast lane. Lt. Kenny "Lou" Shea is a man's man who secretly writes poetry and uses it as a way to release his emotional frustrations. Mike Silletti, "the probie," is subject to numerous initiation pranks as he starts his career as a firefighter.
Theme Song:
"C'Mon C'Mon" by The Von Bondies
Awards & Nominations:
2005 Golden Globe Award Nominee - Best Actor in a Drama Series: Denis Leary
2005 TCA Award Nominee-Outstanding Achievement in Drama & Outstanding New Program of the Year
2005 Satellite Award Nominee- Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama
Denis Leary, Outstanding DVD Release of a Television Show, Outstanding Television Series, Drama
2005 Satellite Award- Best Ensemble: Television
2005 Visionary Award- Jim Serpico
2006 Satellite Award Nominee- Best Actor in a Series, Drama Denis Leary & Best Television Series, Drama
2006 Prism Award Nominee- Performance in a Drama Series Storyline Denis Leary
2006 Emmy Award Nominee- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Denis Leary
2007 Satellite Award Nominee- Best Actor in a Series, Drama Denis Leary
2007 Prism Award Nominee- Performance in a Drama Series, Multi-Episode Storyline Denis Leary
2007 Golden Reel Award Nomiee- Best Sound Editing in Sound Effects and Foley for Television - Short Form
Eileen Horta (supervising sound editor) Mark Cleary (sound designer) James Bailey (foley artist) Damien Smith (foley artist) Kevin McCullough (sound editor) Ashley Harvey (sound editor) For episode "Devil".
2007 Gracie Allen Award- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Marisa Tomei
2007 Emmy Nominee-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Denis Leary
2007 Artios Award-Best Dramatic Episodic Casting Julie Tucker
2008 Prism Award Nominee- Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline Tatum O'Neal
2008 Emmy Nominee- Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Charles Durning
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Big Love: Season 2
June 11, 2007
Utah's Henrickson family--all one husband, three wives and seven children of them--return for a second season, where they must deal with the aftermath of being outed as polygamists.
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John from Cincinnati: Season 1
June 10, 2007
The lives of three generations of a dysfunctional surfing family residing near the California-Mexico border are impacted by the arrival of a mysterious (and ambiguously supernatural) stranger in the latest series from "Deadwood" creator David Milch.
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Army Wives: Season 1
June 3, 2007
Based on Tanya Biank's book "Under Sabres," this soapy drama explores the impact of military life on family life by focusing on the spouses of soldiers stationed at a South Carolina Army base.
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The Starter Wife: Season 1
May 31, 2007
The miniseries becomes a series, as Molly (Debra Messing) continues to juggle life in Hollywood.
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Hidden Palms: Season 1
May 30, 2007
Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson returns with a darker soap that follows troubled teens (and their troubled parents) living in Palm Springs.
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Traveler: Season 1
May 10, 2007
Two graduate students are framed for a terrorist attack in New York (by a third student, the roommate they believed was their friend) and must fight to prove their innocence while fleeing the federal agents who pursue them.
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Durham County: Season 1
May 7, 2007
The Canadian series follows the life of former Toronto homicide cop, Mike Sweeney (Hugh Dillon) who has moved to the suburbs for a new start after his partner was killed in the line of duty and his wife recovers from cancer.
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Drive: Season 1
April 15, 2007
A group of contestants--some of them coerced--compete in an illegal, mysterious, cross-country road race for a $32 million prize.
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The Tudors: Season 1
April 1, 2007
This Showtime original series is set in England during the reign of perhaps its most infamous ruler, King Henry VIII (played here by Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
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'Til Death Do Us Part: Season 1
March 19, 2007
John Waters (as "The Groom Reaper") acts as a guide for this anthology of dramatizations of true crime stories about husbands who kill their wives, and wives who kill their husbands.
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October Road: Season 1
March 15, 2007
A young novelist (Unscripted's Bryan Greenberg) returns to his small hometown a decade after he left, only to find that his former friends there resent being used as source material for his book. Think of it as a CW drama for 20-somethings.
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Addiction
March 15, 2007
Part of HBO's multi-pronged effort to highlight substance abuse in America, this feature-length documentary is composed of nine short films dealing with the causes, costs, and treatments of drug and alcohol addicition.
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Raines: Season 1
March 15, 2007
Jeff Goldblum stars as a homicide detective who solves cases through the usual grunt work... and the not-so-usual conversations with ghosts of the victims. (We assume they're only talking to him because Jennifer Love Hewitt was busy.)
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Kings of South Beach: Season 1
March 12, 2007
This based-on-a-true-story mob movie--penned by Nicholas Pileggi ("Goodfellas")--is set in the Miami club scene in the 1990s.
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The Riches: Season 1
March 12, 2007
A family of Irish gypsies in Louisiana goes on the lam after a big score, taking on the identity of a wealthy family after the real Riches are killed in an accident.
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Life Support
March 10, 2007
This topical, made-for-HBO movie deals with AIDS in the African-American community, centering on Queen Latifah as a wife, mother and AIDS activist who is HIV-positive herself. It's not the downer you'd think it would be.
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The Wedding Bells: Season 1
March 7, 2007
This David E. Kelley dramedy centers on three sisters who run a wedding-planning business.
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Robin Hood: Season 1
March 3, 2007
This new 13-episode series represents the BBC's attempt at a fresher, hipper take (complete with modern pop culture references) on the classic Robin Hood legend. It was a hit when it aired in Britain.
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The Black Donnellys: Season 1
February 26, 2007
From "Crash" director and writers Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco comes this organized crime drama centering on an Irish-American family in New York City.
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Life on Mars (UK): Season 2
February 13, 2007
In the final season of Life on Mars, Sam Tyler (John Simms), a modern day detective who woke up from a car crash in 1973 Manchester, tries to determine if he's dreaming or not.
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Primeval: Season 1
February 10, 2007
After being contacted by the government to investigate strange happenings in the forest, a group of scientists discover that dinosaurs are coming to Earth.
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The State Within: Season 1
January 29, 2007
This 7 1/2-hour British terrorism miniseries--which recalls "24" in its pacing, twists, and subject matter--is actually set mainly in Washington, D.C.
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The Dresden Files: Season 1
January 27, 2007
This supernatural detective procedural about a Chicago P.I. with ties to the spirit world is based on a series of books by Jim Butcher.
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Skins: Season 1
January 25, 2007
The Brits import their sometimes racy and edgy nighttime drama about a group of young teens in Bristol to our shores.
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Five Days: Season 1
January 23, 2007
The reason for the mysterious disappearance of Leanne (Christine Tremarco) is slowly uncovered with glimpses of five days of the search.
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24: Season 6
January 14, 2007
The sixth season of the Emmy-winnning series finds hero Jack Bauer in far worse shape than we left him last year, thanks to serving 20 months in a Chinese prison. Fortunately, a new terrorist threat arrives to distract him from his troubles. There's also a new President (D.B. Woodside's Wayne Palmer), but look for previous First Couple Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart to return mid-season.
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Rome: Season 2
January 14, 2007
The second and final season of this joint production of HBO and the BBC picks up where season one left off: in the ancient Roman Empire, immediately after the death of Julius Caesar.
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Dirt: Season 1
January 2, 2007
Courteney Cox (in her first post-"Friends" series) stars in an FX original drama about the staff of a celebrity tabloid.
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A Perfect Day: Season 1
December 18, 2006
An author learns how to stop being a jerk in this "A Christmas Carol"-esque holiday telefilm adapted from Richard Paul Evans' novel.
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The Lost Room: Season 1
December 11, 2006
Peter Krause stars as a detective who stumbles upon a portal to an alternate universe in a motel room filled with magical objects in this quirky Sci-Fi Channel original miniseries.
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Sleeper Cell: Season 2
December 10, 2006
The second season of Showtime's terrorism drama once again finds an undercover FBI agent attempting to thwart an attack in Los Angeles.
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My Boys: Season 1
November 28, 2006
TBS' original sitcom centers on a female sportswriter (Jordana Spiro) who covers the Chicago Cubs and hangs out with her male sportswriter pals.
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Day Break: Season 1
November 15, 2006
Replacing "Lost" in ABC's Wednesday night lineup (until February) is this Groundhog Day-esque drama about a cop (Taye Diggs) who keeps re-living the same day over and over again. And what a bad day it is: among other things, his girlfriend is killed, and he is framed for a murder he didn't commit.
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3 Lbs.: Season 1
November 14, 2006
Stanley Tucci stars as brilliant neurosurgeon Doug Hanson in this House-ian medical drama.
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Longford
October 26, 2006
This telefilm is based on the true story of British Lord Frank Pakenham (the Earl of Longford), whose lifelong campaign for prison reform--and especially, his dealings with a convicted serial killer--cost him his seat in Parliament. The screenplay comes from Peter Morgan ("The Queen").
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Torchwood (UK): Season 1
October 22, 2006
This spin-off from the producers of the new Doctor Who has Captain Jack Harkness in charge of a secret government organization with the mission to protect the world from alien threats.
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30 Rock: Season 1
October 11, 2006
Like NBC's new drama "Studio 60," this comedy from SNL alum Tina Fey is set behind the scenes of a network sketch comedy program.
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 3
October 6, 2006
The 20-episode third season of the acclaimed series picks up where season two unexpectedly ended: pitting humans against Cylons on the planet of New Caprica.
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The Nine: Season 1
October 4, 2006
Nine one-time strangers are now linked by a 52-hour period when they were held as hostages during a bank robbery. The show begins after the event occurred, and each week an additional ten minutes of the robbery will be revealed in flashbacks. At least there's no hatch.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 1
October 3, 2006
This drama about high-stakes high-school football is based on the movie of the same name (itself based on the book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger). The film's director, Peter Berg, returns as an executive producer on the show.
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Dexter: Season 1
October 1, 2006
Six Feet Under's Michael C. Hall is still dealing with death, just in a different way. In this adaptation of Jeff Lindsay's novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," Hall stars as a forensics pathologist who moonlights as a serial killer. (He's not all evil, though; he only murders bad guys.)
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The Game: Season 1
October 1, 2006
Don't call this "Girlfriends" spinoff "Footballers Wives," since there is already an Americanized version of that British soap heading to our shores. But if you prefer watching women date pro football players in a comedic, half-hour format, "The Game" is your show.
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Ugly Betty: Season 1
September 28, 2006
Salma Hayek is an executive producer for this English-language adaptation of the Colombian telenovela about an "ordinary" girl (America Ferrera) who works for a fashion magazine.
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Heroes: Season 1
September 25, 2006
What would you do if you suddenly realized that you had superpowers? Better still, what would Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, and a bunch of actors you've probably never heard of do when they discover the same? Will they save the world? Or at least NBC's Monday night lineup?
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Runaway: Season 1
September 25, 2006
Donnie Wahlberg has his family on the run after he is wrongly accused of a crime in the CW's lone new fall drama.
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Jane Eyre
September 24, 2006
The oft-filmed Charlotte Bronte novel is re-imagined once again as a BBC-produced Masterpiece Theatre miniseries.
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Coming Soon
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The Westies: Season 1
- Start date: Jul 17, 2026
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The Crow Girl: Season 2
- Start date: Jul 20, 2026
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 4
- Start date: Jul 23, 2026
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