Published on Wednesday 9 September 2009 .
We’ve got lots of extremely non-American comedy in the mag this week, but all the shows promise to be top-notch:
• There’s the cringe-tastic Peep Show, featuring TV & Sat favourites Mitchell and Webb
• The people who brought you Gavin & Stacey may have struck comedy gold again with Home Time, about a 29-year-old woman forced to move back in with her folks
• The embarrassment continues with the return of How Not to Live Your Life, with rising star Dan Clark as the self-absorbed man-boy with a knack for putting his foot in it.
• Strictly Come Dancing returns to bring some glamour to the weekend, with a new batch of famous faces preparing to keep the world’s sequin producers in business for several years.
• All this, plus David Hasselhoff as you’ve never seen him before, farmers looking for love (those items aren’t connected), France’s answer to The Wire, and all the latest news in TVSpy.
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9pm, 24, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
Renee is under pressure to locate Tony and the canister, while President Taylor realises she may have to offer wily old Jonas Hodges a witness protection agreement in order to get the information out of him.
9pm, 90210, E4
Navid gives Adrianna the cold shoulder as her pregnancy becomes the main topic of conversation in West Beverly High. Meanwhile, Annie tells Ethan a secret about Rhonda’s past.
9pm, UC: Undercover, FX
Jake infiltrates a gang of bank robbers but, as usual, things don’t go according to plan. Just how good are Alex’s hostage negotiation skills?
11.30pm, The Wire, BBC2
Another chance to see series two of the gritty US drama, as the action moves from the streets to the ports when McNulty is reassigned to harbour control. But he gets more than he bargained for when the bodies of 13 prostitutes are discovered in a shipping container.
11pm, The Shield, Five USA
Vic secures an immunity deal for him and Ronnie in exchange for helping ICE bring in Beltran. Barn investigates a murder case that links a member of the Strike Team.
Published on Wednesday 25 March 2009 .
This week, TV & Satellite Week discovers an unlikely link between Lost star Naveen Andrews and the Peter Pan of Pop, Cliff Richard; reveals how you can watch all five series of The Wire without having to buy a single boxset; and previews the brand new series of David Duchovny’s eye-poppingly raunchy Californication.
Plus, of course, our weekly TV Spy round-up of all the comings and goings in your favourite US dramas, and listings for more TV channels than any other TV mag!
You can’t miss it - it’s the one with the cherub-faced girl trying to hypnotise you on the cover…
Published on Tuesday 20 January 2009 .
You wait all winter for the return of some decent US dramas, and then six come along at once!
In this week’s edition we start getting all knock-kneed about Lost’s long-awaited fifth series, Sam and Dean’s Supernatural series four, the second run of quirky drama Pushing Daisies AND Alan and Denny reunited one last time in Boston Legal.
As if that isn’t exciting enough, there’s also the brand new 90210, the revamp of the 1990s classic with its very own line-up of hot young things showing off their good looks in the LA sunshine.
If you’re of the opinion that there’s more to life than cars and girls then you’ll prefer our article on Generation Kill, the new war drama from the makers of The Wire.
All this, plus of course our weekly round-up of all your favourite US dramas in TV Spy, more listings pages than you could shake a stick at, and films, soaps and sport. You’ll be lost without it!
Published on Wednesday 5 November 2008 .
1. A trailer for the new Heroes webisodes has been unveiled.
2. Eriq La Salle, formerly Dr Peter Benton, will be returning to direct an episode of ER.
3. Singer-songwriter M.I.A. has sampled the theme tune to The Wire.
4. Lost will return earlier than expected in January, though it won’t be the usual double-bill return.
Published on Friday 24 October 2008 .
• Jeremy got curious about the whereabouts of the stars who appeared in some of our favourite shows of yore, so he did some detective work and tracked down most of the cast of Ally McBeal and then he did the same for the actors who made their name on Saved by the Bell. Give that man a deerstalker hat!
• Jonathan realised that the main star of Fringe isn’t heart-throb Joshua Jackson or stunning newcomer Anna Torv - it’s John Noble, with his fantastic performance as mad-as-cheese scientist Walter Bishop. Now can we get him to explain the Large Hadron Collider to us, please?
• After all the hype, we finally tracked down a proper clip of little Katie Holmes’ star turn in Eli Stone. She’s got the older hubby, she’s got the high-kicking down to a fine art - Look out, Catherine Zeta Jones, there’s a new kid in town!
• Talking of new kids in town, Ben and Gareth were back with another fine Heroes vodcast. I can almost guarantee this is the only place you will find Heroes and The Chuckle Brothers mentioned in one breath… And have you seen Sylar’s latest incarnation?
• The comparisons don’t stop there - apparently there are some uncanny similarities between characters in The Wire and Premier League players.
• Always save the best to last…. we found a trailer for SERIES FIVE OF LOST!
‘Nuff said. See you all next week!
Published on Monday 22 September 2008 .
10pm, The Wire, Fx
It’s the last ever episode of the police drama, so don’t miss out! McNulty and Freamon must face the music over the fake serial killer case. While Carcetti has to map out a plan for damage control after a startling revelation from Pearlman and Daniels.
10pm, Lipstick Jungle, Living
This is a new glossy drama set in New York, written by Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell. Brooke Shield, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price are best friends who meet regularly over a glass of champagne to discuss their turbulent lives and careers.
9pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hallmark
Logan has a tough case to deal with when a journalist friend of his turns up wanting the police to investigate his own murder. It turns out the journalist has been poisoned by deadly Polonium-210 and does not have long to live. But for some reason the unlucky individual is reluctant to reveal the whole story of how and why he was poisoned.
Published on Wednesday 17 September 2008 .
1) Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter, Rumer Willis, has landed a part in CSI: New York as one of several victims of a serial killer who share the same name with Gary Sinise’s character.
2) Fringe actress Anna Torv was previously the face behind the character of Nariko in the Playstation 3 game Heavenly Sword.
3) HBO shows such as Sex and the City and The Wire are now available to buy from the UK iTunes store.
4) Duran Duran bassist John Taylor will guest in Samantha Who?.
5) The Wire’s David Simon is working on a new drama about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Published on Monday 15 September 2008 .
9pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hallmark
Detectives Logan and Wheeler have to decipher whether the murder of a young pregnant Muslim women was down to a racist attack or that the bad blood between her family and that of her Italian boyfriend had more to do with the incident.
9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
OTH episodes are usually packed to the rafters with shocking and entertaining moments and this one is no different. Jamie has his birthday party that involves a scary clown that Deb flirts with, Brooke and Peyton struggle to cope with their newfound parenthood and Dan reveals his ever so important secret. That’s without even mentioning Lucas trying to get back with Lindsey. This really is the show where if you blink you will miss it.
10pm, The Wire, FX
Chief of Staff Steintorf visits Rawls and Daniels at police headquarters and demands more arrests on the streets so a drop in crime figures can be seen by the public. Soon afterwards the department have the chance to take down Marlo’s crew and $16million worth of Heroin, which they indeed do. But although there is cause for celebration at first, repercussions from these arrests are right around the corner…
Published on Monday 8 September 2008 .
9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Nathan and Haley are all loved up again, and decide to hire a nanny so they can both work on getting their careers back on track - you’ll never guess who they plump for. Meanwhile, Lucas is back in town, still living in cloud cuckoo land thinking he can get Lindsay back, and Brooke is somehow allowed to foster a seriously ill baby from abroad who has been brought to the US for specialist treatment. If there was a competition for programmes most needing suspension of disbelief, OTH would definitely beat the rest - even Prison Break!
9pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hallmark
The one and only Liza Minnelli guest-stars in this episode, in a storyline that strongly resembles the JonBenet Ramsey murder case from the 1990s. Minnelli plays the mother of a child pageant star who was murdered several years earlier, and takes a shine to Goren when he reinvestigates the case after new evidence comes to light.
10pm, The Wire, FX
McNulty finally cracks under the pressure of maintaining his manufactured serial killer case and spills all to Kima and Beadie. Probably for the best, since the FBI’s profile of the alleged killer comes up a lot like Jimmy! He is developing a touch of the psycho about him… Meanwhile Sydnor is hours away from cracking the clocks code, Carcetti makes some dangerous political deals, and Omar’s attempts to smoke out Marlo come to a head.
