New TV Shows Starting
October 2006

The Game

Starts 1st Oct 8:30pm On BET
Being the wife or girlfriend of a pro-football player might sound like a glamorous and stress-free existence, but Melanie Barnett is about to discover the truth. When her boyfriend Derwin Davis is chosen as the new third-string wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers, she... Selected by 0 Users

Dexter

Starts 1st Oct 9:00pm On Showtime
Once an abused and abandoned child, Dexter is now a successful forensics pathologist... but lurking just beneath his charismatic personality is a terrible truth. Dexter has corralled his innate homicidal urges into a closely guarded second career: He hunts down and brutally... Selected by 0 Users

The Business

Starts 1st Oct 11:00pm On IFC
The plot of the show centres on Vic Morgan, an adult film director of a low-budget softcore pornographic series similar to Girls Gone Wild. He attempts to become a legitimate film maker after having converted to Judaism to be successful in the entertainment industry. Season... Selected by 0 Users

Friday Night Lights

Starts 3rd Oct 9:00pm On The 101
Expanding on the themes from the hit feature film "Friday Night Lights", this series centers on the small rural town of Dillon, Texas, where the vaunted 2006 state football championship rings are held in the highest regard. The town's promising high school team, its... Selected by 0 Users

The Nine

Starts 4th Oct 10:00pm On ABC
So much in life is beyond your control. Each day can change the rest of your life. Today 9 people face just such an unexpected twist when they are caught in a bank robbery gone wrong and have to endure a 52-hour hostage standoff that will leave two persons dead and 7... Selected by 0 Users

Not Going Out

Starts 6th Oct 9:30pm On BBC One
Not Going Out follows the misadventures of a slacker named Lee. He hasn't had much success in his life and usually performs various odd jobs to make a living, though he's fortunate to have a kind landlady and friends who actually care about him. Lee has a lot of problems in... Selected by 1527 Users

Robin Hood

Starts 7th Oct 6:00pm On BBC One
Fun, modern and intelligent, Robin Hood sets out to entertain a whole new generation and stars newcomer Jonas Armstrong in the lead role. Robin Hood's striking new look, coupled with Dominic Minghella's sharp scripts, updates the popular legend for a sophisticated... Selected by 0 Users

20 Good Years

Starts 11th Oct 8:30pm On NBC
This high-energy comedy follows two New Yorkers who have finally realized that life doesn't last forever. Mismatched buddies John Mason, an impulsive, thrice-divorced surgeon who has been forced into retirement - and Jeffrey Pyne, a widower judge who agonizes over every... Selected by 0 Users

30 Rock

Starts 11th Oct 9:30pm On NBC
Single Liz Lemon is living every comedy writer's dream. She's head writer on a demanding, live TV program in New York City whose life is jolted when a brash new network president interferes with her show and bullies Liz into convincing Tracy Jordan, a wild and unpredictable... Selected by 0 Users

Torchwood

Starts 22nd Oct 5:00pm On Starz
Torchwood follows Captain Jack Harkness, a man from the 51st century trapped in the past. Finding himself drawn into alien conspiracies he works for Torchwood, a top secret British government agency whose job it is to investigate alien goings on in the world, and to act as... Selected by 0 Users

Returning TV Shows in October 2006

Everybody Hates Chris

Returns 1st Oct 8:00pm On The CW
Motivated by his childhood experiences, Emmy Award-winner/actor/comedian Chris Rock, narrates this very hilarious & touching story of a teenager growing up as the oldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a neighborhood and bused... Selected by 0 Users

The Bachelor

Returns 2nd Oct 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

Horizon

Returns 3rd Oct 9:00pm On BBC TWO
Horizon is BBC Two's flagship 50-minute science documentary series. Recognised as the world leader in its field, it regularly wins a sweep of international science, medical and environmental film accolades, and has recently won the Royal Television Society Award and the... Selected by 3424 Users

Veronica Mars

Returns 3rd Oct 9:00pm On Hulu
Veronica Mars is set in the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, where the rich and powerful make the rules, own the town and the high school and desperately try to keep their dirty little secrets just that secret. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart... Selected by 0 Users

Lost

Returns 4th Oct 10:00pm On ABC
Out of the blackness, the first thing Jack senses is pain. Then burning sun. A Bamboo forest. Smoke. Screams. With a rush comes the horrible awareness that the plane he was on tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island. From there it's a blur, as his doctor's... Selected by 0 Users

Battlestar Galactica

Returns 6th Oct 10:00pm On Syfy
In a distant part of the universe, a civilization of humans live on planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies have been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. 40 years after the first war the Cylons launch a devastating attack on the... Selected by 0 Users

Strictly Come Dancing

Returns 7th Oct 6:30pm On BBC One
The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through telephone voting, viewers vote for whom they would like... Selected by 774 Users

What About Brian

Returns 9th Oct 10:00pm On ABC
Brian is the guy everyone wants as a best friend. He's the guy who'll stand by you at your wedding, drive you to the hospital, cheer your kids on at their little league game... the guy who every wife dotes on and every husband wants to either grab a beer with or live... Selected by 0 Users

Ghost Hunters

Returns 11th Oct 9:00pm On Syfy
Ghost Hunters is an hour documentary-type show that follows a team of Paranormal investigators in the field of researching ghostly activities. The show follows a group of paranormal investigators from a well known organization/society known as TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal... Selected by 0 Users

Have I Got News for You

Returns 13th Oct 9:00pm On BBC One
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been regularly broadcast since 1990. The show has cultivated a reputation for sailing close to the... Selected by 2269 Users

Top Chef

Returns 18th Oct 10:00pm On Bravo
Top Chef is a reality show unlike any other while it searches for the world's next top chef. Each week this talented group of chefs, professionally trained and self-taught, will be challenged and judged by some of the best known chefs in the industry. Over the course of the... Selected by 4525 Users

8 Out of 10 Cats

Returns 20th Oct 10:00pm On Channel 4
A comedy panel game hosted by Jimmy Carr with team captains Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea. The teams are asked questions relating to opinion polls and statistics based on the week's... Selected by 0 Users

Dog Whisperer

Returns 23rd Oct 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

Holby City

Returns 24th Oct 8:00pm On BBC One
This series is a spin-off from the long running BBC medical drama Casualty. Set in the same hospital as its sister series, this show follows the everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the... Selected by 0 Users

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Returns 26th Oct 10:00pm On BBC TWO
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is the quiz show where musicians try to be funny and comedians try to be musical. Two teams of celebrities answer questions about pop music, guess songs after hearing their teammates sing the intros, and try to find the former popstar hidden in a... Selected by 0 Users

Las Vegas

Returns 27th Oct 10:00pm On NBC
This fast-paced, sexy drama follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of Sin City's largest resorts and casinos. Big Ed Deline is the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. With his protege... Selected by 0 Users

Masters of Horror

Returns 27th Oct 10:00pm On Showtime
Showtime has amassed some of the greatest horror film writers and directors to bring to you the anthology series, "Masters of Horror". For the first time the foremost names in the horror film genre have joined forces for the series consisting of 13 one-hour... Selected by 0 Users
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