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Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 19 March

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9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
It’s a Sawyer-centric episode (sigh) and his profession in the flashsideways is, to put it mildly, a bit of a surprise, while there is also a back-from-the-dead appearance from a familiar character.

9pm, The Mentalist, Five
In a fab haunted house episode, Rigsby confesses his feelings to Grace as they search the supposedly haunted house after the owner is found dead. Was it a suicide or was he the victim of supernatural forces?

9pm, NCIS, FX & FX HD
The team investigate the shooting of a marine and find out that there is more to his life than anyone would ever have imagined.

10pm, True Blood,  FX & FX  HD
Lafayette finds himself reluctantly pulled back into Eric’s orbit, Bill and Sookie head to Dallas where their limo driver attempts to abduct Sookie.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
British rocker Gavin Rossdale, who we all know better as Mr Gwen Stefani, guests as a Goth rockerwho the BAU link to the murders of several young women. Does his vampire stage act mirror a real-life thirst for blood?

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 12 March

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9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
Tonight we get a Ben-centric episode. Now if Ben wasn’t engimatic enough, in  his flashsideways he is a mild-mannered history teacher who is mentoring a familiar face from the island. Can this show get more mind-boggling?

9pm, The Mentalist, Five
Jane and the team investigate the murder of a powerful defence attorney who represented one of California’s most notorious motorcycle gangs, the Sinner Saints.  Did his affair with the lover of the gang’s lead lead to his demise?

9pm, NCIS, FX & FX HD
An episode not to miss. Veteran actress Gena Rowlands guest as Gibbs’ former mother-in-law Joanne who’s a witness in a murder case. As the show flashbacks to when Gibbs was married to Joanne’s daughter Shannon, the younger Gibbs is played by Mark Harmon’s real-life son, Sean.

10pm, True Blood,  FX & FX  HD
When Sookie is attacked by a mysterious creature, Bill must team up with Eric to save her. Jason begins to have second thoughts about the Light of Day retreat.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
As Morgan heads up the BAU for the first time, the unit is called to Oklahoma City to assist local police track down a particulary gruesome serial killer who removes the eyes of his murder victims and keeps them as souvenirs.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 5 March

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9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
Brace yourself for this intense Sayid-centric episode. In the flash-sideways he is on his way to see his beloved Nadia in LA but, of course, things are more complicated than they first appear. Meanwhile, back at the temple, Dogen has a mission for Sayid.

9pm, The Mentalist, Five
Lisbon is in hot water when fingerprints on a murder weapon connect her to the killing of  a child molester she and Bosco arrested several years earlier. She better not fail the lie detector test!

10pm, True Blood,  FX & FX  HD
Jason - we can’t help liking the poor dumb fool - impresses at the Light of Day conference. But Sookie makes an error of judgement when she helps Jessica revisit her family home.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
The team  travel to New Mexico to try to track down a  particularly nasty serial killer (though aren’t they all?) who kills vulnerable young women after he has made them pregnant, while Hotch has some news for Morgan about the unit’s future.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 26 February

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9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
A Jack-centric episode this week and there are few surprises in store for him in his flash-sideways.  Yep, that’s what they are calling the parallel universe storylines and we like it.

9pm, The Mentalist, Five
Starsky and Hutch’s much-loved Paul Michael Glaser guests in tonight’s episode as the CBI investigate the death of a senator’s aide who was rumoured to have had an affair with the senator’s husband. 

9pm NCIS, FX & FX  HD
After one of the drivers of a shady shipping company is found dead, Gibbs and the team take to the road to bust an illegal trucking operation.

10pm, True Blood,  FX & FX  HD
NEW SERIES Hurrah, the raunchy vampire series is back, but the course of true love does not run smoothly for Sookie and Bill when she learns of his involvement in her uncle’s death.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
Morgan gets close to a victim’s siters when the BAU set out to track down a gang of killers who seem to be targeting rich new residents in a working-class neighbourhood of Washington DC.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 19 February

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9pm, The Mentalist, Five
NEW SERIES
There is something very likeable about this series, not least Simon Baker’s performance as former fake TV psychic turned crime solver Patrick Jane. As the second series opens, Jane is not happy to be taken off the Red John case - the serial killer who murdered his wife and daughter.

9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
After last week’s Kate’s story, this week we find out what Locke’s life would have been like if the plane hadn’t crashed on the island. Okay, he would still have been paralysed, but it isn’t all bad.

9pm NCIS, FX & FX  HD
A terrorist group threatens to detonate a dirty bomb on a bus in Washinton DC and the team are in a race against time to avert disaster.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
Rossi reluctantly returns to his home town in Long Island as the unit tries to track down a serial killer who has murdered three people, mutilating each victim in a different manner.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 12 February

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9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
How much more of this can we take and the series has just started? The bomb did go off. The bomb didn’t off. Oceanic Flight 815 never crashed. It did crash and the survivors are on the island. Confused? Yep and don’t we love it.  Tonight it’s a Kate-centric episode and in the post-815 world, she and Claire find each other in unusual circumstances.

10pm, Life on Mars USA, FX & FX HD
SERIES FINALE  In the series finale, Sam finally receives a call telling him that he can return to 2008, but first he must do three things which include saving his younger self who has been kidnapped by his father.

10pm, Criminal Minds, LivinG
Back on the team - but still traumatised - after his stabbing by the Reaper, Hotch leads the BAU as they try to catch a disturbed man who killed several people at a pharmacy before fleeing the scene.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 5 February

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9pm & 10pm, Lost, Sky1 Sky1 HD
NEW SERIES At last it’s back, the show that mystifies us, shocks us and, of course, enthralls us. What has happened to Kate and co since Juliet detonated the nuclear bomb at the end of the last series and who is the ‘fake’ Locke? Brace yourselves for one helluva shock in this double bill.

9pm NCIS, FX & FX HD
Tony and Ziva are on a flight from Paris when they realise that their task to protect the star witness in an embezzlement case has suddenly got a lot more dangerous - the hit man is on the same plane as them.

10pm, Life on Mars USA, FX & FX HD
Ray and Chris are shot by Irish mobster Jimmy McManus whose gang Sam had gone undercover with. But when McManus is killed, Sam becomes the prime suspect in his murder and finds himself behind bars.

10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
NEW SERIES Picking up from the last series’ cliffhanger which saw serial killer the Reaper pointing a gun at Hotch, the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Unit search for their missing colleague. Meanwhile, Rossi, Morgan and JJ profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 29 January

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10pm, Life on Mars USA, FX & FX HD
Sam goes undercover to infiltrate a vicious criminal gang as part of an investigation into a series of truck hijackings. But when he is ordered to shoot a woman, how far he will go in order to avoid blowing his cover?


Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 22 January

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9pm, NCIS, FX & FX HD
Tonight is the show’s 150th episode and what better way to mark it than to have a guest star of the calibre of Hart to Hart’s Robert Wagner who plays Tony’s father. But when the globetrotting Anthony Snr  is linked to the NCIS’ latest investigation - an assassination attempt on a Saudi prince who was undergoing pilot training in the US - Gibbs questions whether Tony should be on the case.

10pm, Life on Mars USA, FX & FX HD
A Pan Atlantic air hostess is found dead, prompting Annie, who bears an uncanny resemblance to her, to volunteer to go undercover to find the killer. The case takes an unexpected turn, however, when Sam joins her undercover.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 15 January

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9pm, NCIS, FX & FX HD
The team investigate the murder of a Navy test pilot whose burnt body is found attached to a jet pack in the forest.  But their investigation is hampered by a tough female lawyer who clashes with Gibbs.

10pm, Life on Mars USA, FX & FX HD
A group of violent radicals begins to target police officers and it looks like Gene Hunt is next on their list. The case gets more complicated when it seems that the group has connections to a professor of political science.