New TV Shows Starting
October 2011

Homeland

Starts 2nd Oct 10:00pm On Showtime
CIA agent Carrie Mathison gets a promotion and returns to the front lines overseas. She is assigned to one of the CIA's most volatile and dangerous stations in the Middle East, where she is in the heart of battle in the war on terror. Years later, after being disillusioned... Selected by 0 Users

American Horror Story

Starts 5th Oct 10:00pm On FX
Described as an anthology series, each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle and end". In the first season, a family that moves to a house Los Angeles... Selected by 34945 Users

Hidden

Starts 6th Oct 9:00pm On BBC One
When the mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself caught up in a much bigger... Selected by 0 Users

Enlightened

Starts 10th Oct 9:30pm On HBO
Enlightened focuses on a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening after a meltdown. Determined to live a more enlightened existence, the former career executive's new lifestyle wreaks havoc both at home and at... Selected by 0 Users

Last Man Standing

Starts 11th Oct 8:00pm On FOX
Men may have built civilizations, invented the locomotive and created ESPN, but they're about to find out that it's not a man's world anymore. You can't get manlier than Mike Baxter. He's the marketing director for an iconic outdoor sporting goods store, he loves to have... Selected by 0 Users

Threesome

Starts 17th Oct 9:00pm On Comedy Central UK
Threesome is a comedy about three inseparable friends on the verge of 30. Alice lives with her boyfriend Mitch and their gay best friend Richie. Together they form three points of an unlikely triangle, living, laughing and larging it up together. After one particularly... Selected by 0 Users

Talking Dead

Starts 17th Oct 10:00pm On AMC
"Talking Dead", the network's first live after-show that serves as a platform for discussion for AMC's series, "The Walking Dead". The half-hour episodes are produced by Michael Davies' Embassy Row and are hosted by Chris Hardwick. "Talking Dead" features Hardwick... Selected by 0 Users

Man Up!

Starts 18th Oct 8:30pm On ABC
Meet Will. His evolved, sensitive nature is why his awesome wife, Theresa, married him. But Will and his friends find themselves wondering - in a world of Axe ads and manscaping - what does it really mean to be a guy anymore? Will is more interested in finding the... Selected by 0 Users

Boss

Starts 21st Oct 9:00pm On Starz
Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, has recently been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder. Determined to remain in charge, Kane conceals the disease from everyone around him except his own physician, Dr Ella Harris. Those around Kane are too busy with their own... Selected by 0 Users

Once Upon a Time

Starts 23rd Oct 8:00pm On ABC
Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She's a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who's been on her own ever since she was abandoned as a baby. But when the son she gave up years ago finds her, everything will change. Henry is 10 years old now and in desperate need of... Selected by 0 Users

Death In Paradise

Starts 25th Oct 9:00pm On BBC One
British detective Richard Poole is assigned to investigate the murder of a British police officer on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. After he finds the murderer, he is ordered by his supervisors to replace the victim and stay on as the detective inspector... Selected by 4392 Users

Grimm

Starts 28th Oct 9:00pm On NBC
Detective Nick Burkhardt thought he was ready for the grim reality of working homicide in Portland, Oregon. That is, until he started to see things... things he couldn't quite explain. Like a gorgeous woman suddenly transforming into a hideous hag, or an average Joe turning... Selected by 0 Users

Allen Gregory

Starts 30th Oct 8:30pm On FOX
When he looks in the mirror, Allen Gregory De Longpre doesn't see a child. He sees a young man who is intelligent, sophisticated, worldly, artistic and romantic-characteristics he inherited from his doting father, Richard. The pair share an extraordinary father-son bond-a... Selected by 0 Users

Top Boy

Starts 31st Oct 11:59pm On Netflix
A thrilling and raw drama about young lives lived on the edge in east London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang... Selected by 0 Users

Returning TV Shows in October 2011

Merlin

Returns 1st Oct 7:50pm On BBC One
Merlin is a young warlock who arrives in the kingdom of Camelot after his mother arranges for him to stay with the court physician, Gaius. He discovers that the king, Uther Pendragon, has outlawed magic and imprisoned the last great dragon deep under the kingdom. The... Selected by 0 Users

Dexter

Returns 2nd 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

Hung

Returns 2nd Oct 10:00pm On HBO
Years ago in high school, Ray Drecker was athletic, popular, and destined for success. Now, as a high-school teacher and bascketball coach, he's underpaid, uninsured, and embittered that his wife of 20 years has left him for her dermatologist. After a fire damages the... Selected by 0 Users

How to Make It in America

Returns 2nd Oct 10:30pm On HBO
How to Make It in America follows two enterprising Brooklyn twenty-somethings as they hustle their way through New York City, determined to achieve the American Dream. Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend... Selected by 0 Users

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Returns 3rd Oct 4:35pm On CBBC
The Sarah Jane Adventures features the previous companion of the Third and Fouth incarnation of the Doctor from the original series of Doctor Who, Ms. Sarah Jane Smith! Elisabeth Sladen reprises her role once again and is back in action, discovering alien plots to take over... Selected by 0 Users

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Returns 3rd 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

House

Returns 3rd Oct 8:00pm On FOX
As an infectious disease specialist, Dr. Gregory House is a brilliant diagnostician who loves the challenges of the medical puzzles he must solve in order to save lives. House solves the inexplicable cases that other doctors cannot understand. House isn't alone in this... Selected by 0 Users

InSecurity

Returns 3rd Oct 8:30pm On CBC
InSecurity is an action comedy about the men and women of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA). Each week special agent Alex Cranston and her team of espionage misfits take on a mission vital to national security. They go where others can't go. They do what... Selected by 0 Users

Onion News Network

Returns 4th Oct 10:00pm On IFC
The Onion News Network" is the most popular 24-hour cable news network in America, delivering hard-hitting, up-to-the-minute reporting to more than 100 million households nationwide. The network boasts more attack satellites than any other news organization and no other... Selected by 0 Users

Rab C Nesbitt

Returns 5th Oct 10:00pm On BBC TWO
Rab C. Nesbitt is a drunken, string vested lay about who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanizing Jamesie Cotter. He's offering... Selected by 0 Users

The League

Returns 6th Oct 10:30pm On FX
Set in Chicago, the series revolved around six friends who participated in a fantasy football league. The show followed the friends, who would do anything to win, while also dealing with a variety of situations that occurred in their everyday... Selected by 0 Users

A League of Their Own

Returns 7th Oct 10:00pm On Sky1
The show takes its cue from sporting obsession and sets two teams of comedians, celebrities and sports stars against each other in a test of their sporting knowledge. From record breaking feats to headline grabbing events, the show is stuffed with the kind of sensational... Selected by 0 Users

Sanctuary

Returns 7th Oct 10:00pm On Syfy
Dr. Helen Magnus is one of the first female doctors in the Royal College during Victorian England. She was engaged to Jack the Ripper, and also has a daughter from him, Ashley. However, Ashley does not yet know that her father is Jack. Dr. Magnus' father started a sanctuary... Selected by 0 Users

Bored to Death

Returns 10th Oct 9:00pm On HBO
Following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, a struggling thirtysomething writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and... Selected by 0 Users

Bleach

Returns 11th Oct 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 1782 Users

Psych

Returns 12th Oct 10:00pm On USA Network
Shawn Spencer, brought up by his cop father, Henry, was trained, given powers of acute observation and other skills needed to solve mysteries in Henry's hopes that Shawn would one day join the long line of cops in the family. However, Shawn soon strayed from Henry's vision... Selected by 0 Users

Fifth Gear

Returns 14th Oct 7:30pm On Quest
Motoring magazine with Tiff Needell, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Jason Plato and Tom Ford. A weekly hour long show featuring car reviews, shoot outs, scientific safety tests and amazing... Selected by 0 Users

Have I Got News for You

Returns 14th 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 2277 Users

The Walking Dead

Returns 16th Oct 10:00pm On AMC
The Walking Dead tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The comic goes on to explore the challenges of life in a... Selected by 0 Users

Holby City

Returns 18th 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

Rules of Engagement

Returns 20th Oct 8:00pm On CBS
Rules of Engagement is a comedy about different phases of the male/female relationship as seen through the eyes of a newly-engaged couple Adam and Jennifer, a long-married pair Jeff and Audrey, and a single bachelor on the prowl, Russell. However, Russell obtains a... Selected by 0 Users

The Graham Norton Show

Returns 21st Oct 10:35pm On BBC One
Graham Norton returns to the format he's most comfortable with since his Channel 4 days, briefly on BBC2 and now on prime time BBC1. Each week celebrity guest(s) join Graham to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their... Selected by 3940 Users

House of Payne

Returns 21st Oct 8:00pm On TBS
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is a comedy series about a multigenerational, working class family who experiences all of life's struggles with faith, love and most importantly humor. Pops, the uncle and head of the household, has his life and home turned upside down when an... Selected by 546 Users

The Universe

Returns 25th Oct 8:00pm On History Channel
From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in this epic exploration of the Universe and its mysteries. It's a very old universe. Yet just 50 years since man first ventured into outer space, the heavens are yielding their... Selected by 0 Users

Beavis and Butt-Head

Returns 27th Oct 10:00pm On MTV
It started as a clip on MTV's "Liquid Television" - a show that featured brilliant and unusual animation. Beavis and Butt-head debuted as its own series in March of 1993 on MTV, introducing the world to their own special brand of humor. This is a world where parents are... Selected by 0 Users

Chuck

Returns 28th Oct 8:00pm On NBC
Meet Chuck Bartowski. He's your run of the mill computer whiz working for Buy-More with his equally nerdy friends all while longing for the woman of his dreams. But Chuck's average life is suddenly turned upside down when an old friend, who happens to work for the CIA... Selected by 0 Users

Gold Rush

Returns 28th Oct 9:00pm On Discovery Channel
GOLD RUSH is a documentary series for Discovery Channel about a group of unemployed men from Oregon who have set out for Alaska in search of GOLD. In a last ditch effort to provide for their families, they've sold everything they can and invested in a gold claim and the... Selected by 3300 Users

Misfits

Returns 30th Oct 10:00pm On E4
Misfits follows five early-20s delinquents on community service in Wertham (a fictional borough in London), who are caught outside during an electrical thunder storm and acquire special powers. After the storm is over they soon discover that they have developed superpowers... Selected by 0 Users
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