9pm, The Good Wife, More4
With layoffs looming, Alicia is given a make-or-break case representing the daughter of absent lawfirm partner Stern, and finds herself trying to iron out the complexities of Jewish Sabbath labour restrictions with maverick young lawyer Ryan (Rescue Me’s Chris Bowers).
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Against their better judgement, Saul and Holly enter the recession-busting ‘plonk’ they’ve created into a wine festival, and are stunned when it actually does rather well. Could this mark a turning point for Ojai? Don’t count on it. Things are also looking a bit too good to be true with Nora’s latest love interest, bike-boy Simon.
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
One of the hospital’s lab technicians discovers he has an apparently inoperable tumour, and challenges Derek to take on his case. The Chief tries to put the stops on the procedure, forcing Derek to lead a surgical mutiny. The final showdown between those two can’t be far off now.
Published on Friday 26 February 2010 .
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.
Published on Thursday 25 February 2010 .
9pm, The Good Wife, More4
Alicia’s assigned the appeal of a man on death row who’s accused of killing a police officer. When she realises her client was convicted under Peter’s regime as state’s attorney, she twigs that he has information that may help her case, and the only way she can talk to him privately is by agreeing to a conjugal visit.
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Kitty’s devastated when her hair begins to fall out as a result of the chemotherapy, while Robert gets all fired up when he realises the full extent of a rival’s bigotry. Nora meets an intriguing new love interest, who fans of The Closer will recognise as Jon Tenney, and Scotty’s dad drops a bombshell.
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
There’s pandemonium at Seattle Grace after a fire at a local hotel and, in all the confusion, a patient with apparently minor injuries dies. The Chief instigates a full-on inquisition, and the Mercy West interns show their full colours as they try to cover their tracks.
10.45pm, Hung, Channel 4
You may already have seen this on More4, but just in case… It’s a comedy drama about a down-on-his-luck teacher who realises he’s going to have to come up with a quick way of making more money, and a chance encounter makes him realise he’s got a future as an escort, owing to his being, ahem, well hung. Thomas Jane (aka Mr Patricia Arquette) takes the title role, and Anne Heche adds to the mirth.
Published on Friday 19 February 2010 .
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.
Published on Friday 12 February 2010 .
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.
Published on Thursday 11 February 2010 .
8pm, Modern Family, Sky1
Minnie Driver guest stars as one of Claire’s former work colleagues who manages to give her an inferiority complex, Phil comes up with an intriguing new sales method, and Mitchell has a conflict of interest when Gloria asks for his legal advice.
9pm, The Good Wife, More4
Alicia faces another dilemma when she thinks she’s found evidence of jury tampering during a high-profile case against a pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, Peter’s defence team ask her to testify in his appeal hearing.
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Hunky Frenchman Luc ensconces himself at Nora’s house, and soon has the whole Walker clan drooling over him. Scotty and Kevin find a potential surrogate mum, and Holly gets some shocking news…
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
Lexie and Meredith run the full gamut of emotions when their alcoholic dad shows up at the hospital in need of a new liver, and Cristina starts getting desperate about finding a surgery to take part in.
Published on Friday 5 February 2010 .
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.
Published on Thursday 4 February 2010 .
8pm, Modern Family, Sky1
The guest stars keep on coming when Chazz Palminteri turns up as an old pal of Jay who sets off Mitchell’s gaydar, much to the annoyance of Jay. Meanwhile, Gloria gives Manny’s date a makeover, and Claire wages war against a remote control.
9pm, The Good Wife, More4
Alicia has to swallow her pride yet again when she’s asked to represent the son of a family who snubbed her after Peter’s fall from grace. It means a return to her old neighbourhood, and some painful memories of happier times…
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
The newly returned Sarah tries to distract Kitty from her chemotherapy by giving her ALL the details about her steamy romance with a dashing Frenchman - guest star Gilles Marini, who’s also cropping up right about now on Nip/Tuck.
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
The redundancy axe is hanging ominously over all the residents, who respond by pushing themselves even harder than usual and refusing to leave the hospital for fear of being seen as weak. Izzie feels the pressure too, returning to work in a fetching red wig, but will it be enough to hoodwink HR about her condition?
Published on Friday 29 January 2010 .
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?
Published on Thursday 28 January 2010 .
8pm, Modern Family, Sky1
Phil lets Luke take the blame when Claire finds a pornographic picture on their computer, Gloria has an understandably strong reaction to Jay’s latest love - a life-sized dog butler statue, and Mitchell is annoyed by Cameron when he becomes more interested in the new Hispanic gardener’s troubles than his own.
9pm, The Good Wife, More4
After its debut on Monday on Channel 4, The Good Wife’s first-see episode moves to Thursdays on More4, with repeats on C4 on Monday. Julianna Margulies’s resolve holds fast as steely but compassionate lawyer Alicia as she takes on the case of a prostitute crying rape - even though the woman may have had a dalliance with wayward husband Peter.
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Kitty plucks up the courage to tell the whole clan about her condition, but it leaks out in the usual Walker fashion, and it’s not long before Nora and Robert are at loggerheads over the best course of action. Elsewhere, Saul bumps into an old business acquaintance who seems set on causing trouble for Ojai.
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
The docs try to cope with their grief over George in different ways. Callie has taken up her new position at Mercy West, where she ends up treating a most unexpected patient; Alex becomes emotionally distant from Izzie; Cristina and Owen undergo tough-love couple therapy; and the Chief has some shocking news for everyone.
