New TV Shows Starting
January 2006

Life on Mars

Starts 9th Jan 9:00pm On BBC One
Sam Tyler, a police officer from 2006, is in the middle of a kidnapping investigation involving his girlfriend when he's run over and knocked into a coma. He wakes up in 1973, a world ruled by local gangsters and football yobs. A world where there's still black and white... Selected by 0 Users

Hotel Babylon

Starts 19th Jan 9:00pm On BBC One
Manager Rebecca Mitchell leads a team whose job is to give a superlative service to guests who are often less than five star. We see a series of dramas centering on the problems of the rich and the famous, with the hotel's staff always on hand to help - and keen to make a... Selected by 0 Users

Courting Alex

Starts 23rd Jan 9:30pm On CBS
Alex Rose is a successful, single attorney who works with her father Bill at his law firm. Alex struggles with dating as she looks for love in the big city. Her father would love for her to settle down with her coworker Stephen, who is a star lawyer at the firm and is... Selected by 0 Users

Lewis

Starts 29th Jan 9:00pm On ITV
Inspector Lewis returns to Oxford from a two-year attachment overseas and is immediately imbroiled in the murder of an American student. Soon the bodies begin to pile up as Lewis copes with a very bright assistant and a female boss who plainly doesn't have much respect... Selected by 0 Users

Returning TV Shows in January 2006

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Returns 1st Jan 8:00pm On ITV
Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot lives in London with Captain Hastings. Together, they range about Europe encountering murder mysteries. The series has strong story lines, good production and acting, and an unmistakable flavor of the pre-war... Selected by 0 Users

Wildfire

Returns 2nd Jan 9:00pm On ABC Family
After serving time at a teen detention center, Kris Furillo is given the opportunity to start a new life. Her talent with horses is recognized by a volunteer and local trainer Pablo, who arranges a job for her at the Ritter's family run ranch, Raintree. Thrown into a... Selected by 0 Users

Shameless (UK)

Returns 3rd Jan 10:00pm On Channel 4
Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the... Selected by 0 Users

Scrubs

Returns 3rd Jan 8:30pm On ABC
This half-hour comedy focuses on the bizarre experiences of fresh-faced medical intern John "J.D". Dorian as he embarks on his healing career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients - where humor and tragedy can merge paths at any time.... Selected by 0 Users

The Daily Show

Returns 4th Jan 11:00pm On Comedy Central
Forget the 24 hour biased left wing news media, the best fake news show in the world will provide you with all the news you can handle. If you're tired of the stodginess of the evening newscasts, if you can't bear to sit through the spinmeisters and shills on the... Selected by 6805 Users

Dancing With the Stars

Returns 5th Jan 8:00pm On ABC
Dancing with the Stars is a series that pairs a celebrity with a professional dance partner as they train and then compete in front of a studio audience in a televised dance competition. The pairs will be judged by a panel of experts and also by viewers at home, with one... Selected by 2154 Users

Dog Whisperer

Returns 6th Jan 9:00pm On National Geographic
Dog Whisperer follows well-respected animal behaviorist Cesar Millan as he works to help dogs with behavior problems, and their human families. These problems range from excessive barking to behavior, that if not corrected, could leave the owners little choice but to... Selected by 0 Users

The L Word

Returns 8th Jan 9:00pm On Showtime
The L Word is the intimate story about the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles. The show has received a lot of praise for it's brilliant storylines and the portrayal of the lesbian... Selected by 0 Users

The Bachelor

Returns 9th Jan 8:00pm On ABC
The new Bachelor will get to know the 25 women in a series of fun, exciting and exotic dates that will elicit real and raw emotions. As in the past, women will continue to be eliminated each week, but if, at any point along the way, a woman should decide that she's no... Selected by 2401 Users

The Colbert Report

Returns 9th Jan 11:30pm On Comedy Central
The Colbert Report (the t is silent in both "Colbert" and "Report") is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon... Selected by 0 Users

The Shield

Returns 10th Jan 10:00pm On FX
The Shield breaks the conventional formula of the cop genre. It plays out in a tough, morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed ever day. The series focuses on the tension between a group of corrupt but effective cops and a captain torn... Selected by 0 Users

MythBusters

Returns 11th Jan 9:00pm On Science Channel
Did a Medieval Chinese astrologer make it into space by strapping rockets to his chair and setting them off? Just how hard IS it to find a needle in a haystack? Can you in fact go insane by having water drip on your forehead? These are just a few of the myths, urban... Selected by 0 Users

Beauty and the Geek

Returns 12th Jan 8:00pm On The CW
The producing team of Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg recruited a new group of eight women who are academically impaired and eight men who are brilliant but socially challenged. The second installment will remain true to the series' first season format, pairing up couples... Selected by 0 Users

The Soup

Returns 13th Jan 10:00pm On E!
With this satirical series, the E! Entertainment Network returns to a format they helped create with the popular '90s show Talk Soup. Only this time instead of just poking fun at talk shows, they're setting their sights on all things in entertainment, reality TV, pop... Selected by 0 Users

Foyle's War

Returns 15th Jan 8:00pm On ITV
Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940 - which may seem a strangely remote period in which to place a new detective, but the setting turns out to be a means of adding moral and dramatic depth to the storylines. Christopher Foyle is a police inspector... Selected by 0 Users

24

Returns 15th Jan 8:00pm On FOX
"24" is a TV thriller presented in "real time" with each minute of airtime that corresponds to a minute in the lives of the characters. "24" employs fast-paced and complex stories, and often contains unexpected plot twists. Though each day's events typically revolve... Selected by 0 Users

Bleach

Returns 17th Jan 7:30pm On TV Tokyo
From creator Tite Kubo, comes the story of a world where death lurks impalpable to an everyday human's eyes. Ichigo Kurosaki helps run a local clinic with his family but Ichigo has the unusual ability to see poltergeists but rather than react with surprise he merely sees it... Selected by 1774 Users

American Idol

Returns 17th Jan 8:00pm On ABC
This hit FOX musical reality series follows three judges, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson (II), and Paula Abdul, along with host Ryan Seacrest around the United States in search of the next American Idol, a pop star that truly shines above all the rest. With help from the... Selected by 5422 Users

Mock The Week

Returns 20th Jan 10:00pm On TLC
Mock the Week is a political comedy improv show from the producers of Whose Line Is It Anyway? The series features teams of comedians improvising sketches about current political events in a humorous and satirical manner. Mock the Week stars Dara O'Briain and... Selected by 2236 Users
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