New TV Shows Starting
October 2013

Super Fun Night

Starts 2nd Oct 9:30pm On ABC
Junior attorney Kimmie Boubier and her two best friends, Helen-Alice and Marika, have had a standing date every Friday night for the last 13 years. They even have a motto for what they call "Friday Night Fun Night": "Always together! Always Inside!" However Kimmie's... Selected by 0 Users

Ironside

Starts 2nd Oct 10:00pm On NBC
In the gritty world of the NYPD, no one's tougher than Det. Robert Ironside. He's a fearless cop who won't stop until the guilty are brought to justice. He and his trusted, handpicked team of specialists - Virgil, Holly and Teddy, as well as his former partner Gary and boss... Selected by 0 Users

The Millers

Starts 3rd Oct 8:30pm On CBS
Nathan Miller is a recently divorced local roving news reporter looking forward to living the singles' life until his parents' marital problems unexpectedly derail his plans. After Nathan finally breaks the news of his divorce to his parents, Carol and Tom, his father is... Selected by 0 Users

Welcome To The Family

Starts 3rd Oct 8:30pm On NBC
Parents Dan Yoder and wife Karina find out their daughter Molly is pregnant on the same day that she is graduating from high school with an acceptance to college. Across town in East L.A., Junior Hernandez, in the middle of his high school valedictorian speech, gets a text... Selected by 0 Users

Sean Saves The World

Starts 3rd Oct 9:00pm On NBC
Sean is a divorced gay dad who juggles a lot - his successful but demanding career, offbeat employees, pushy mom Lorna and weekends with his teenage daughter, Ellie. So when she moves in full-time, it's a whole new world. Never one to do anything halfway, Sean's intent on... Selected by 0 Users

The Originals

Starts 3rd Oct 9:00pm On The CW
Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together, always and forever. Now, centuries have passed and the bonds of family are broken. Time, tragedy and hunger for power have torn the Original Family... Selected by 0 Users

Played

Starts 3rd Oct 10:00pm On CTV
"Played" tracks the CIU (Covert Investigations Unit) as it risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of intense, short-term undercover work, each covert "play" is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace.... Selected by 0 Users

Witches of East End

Starts 6th Oct 10:00pm On Lifetime
Based on Melissa de la Cruz's best-selling novel, Witches of East End centers on the adventures of a mother and her two adult daughters - both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches - who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long... Selected by 0 Users

Full Circle

Starts 9th Oct 8:00pm On Audience Network
The series from Neil LaBute aims to examine "the human condition and relationships through a series of conversations between 11 people", whose lives are intertwined, unbeknownst to them. Each episode takes place in a restaurant and is a conversation between two characters.... Selected by 0 Users

The Tomorrow People

Starts 9th Oct 9:00pm On The CW
They are the next evolutionary leap of mankind, a generation of humans born with paranormal abilities - the Tomorrow People. Stephen Jameson stands at the crossroads between the world we know and the shifting world of the future. Up until a year ago, Stephen was a "normal"... Selected by 0 Users

Once Upon A Time In Wonderland

Starts 10th Oct 8:00pm On ABC
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. An invisible cat, a hookah smoking caterpillar and playing-cards that talk are just some of the fantastic things she's seen during this... Selected by 0 Users

The Tunnel

Starts 16th Oct 9:00pm On Sky Atlantic
When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. However, the case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made... Selected by 0 Users

Reign

Starts 17th Oct 9:00pm On The CW
Hidden between the lines of the history books is the story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots. Queen of Scotland since she was six days old, the teenage Mary is already a headstrong monarch - beautiful, passionate, and... Selected by 0 Users

Man Down

Starts 18th Oct 10:00pm On Channel 4
Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult's life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career... Selected by 0 Users

The Birthday Boys

Starts 18th Oct 10:30pm On IFC
"The Birthday Boys" is a scripted original sketch comedy, executive produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller. The series features the Los Angeles comedy group of the same name (UCB Theatre Los Angeles, Just for Laughs Festival) along with Odenkirk and is in the classic... Selected by 0 Users

The Moaning of Life

Starts 20th Oct 9:00pm On Sky1
Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life follows Karl as he attempts to find out how different cultures across the world deal with life's big... Selected by 0 Users

Toast of London

Starts 20th Oct 10:40pm On Channel 4
Steven Toast is a middle-aged actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage rather than performing on it. Toast lives with his friend Ed Howzer-Black. The other regular characters are his useless agent Jane Plough, and his acting... Selected by 0 Users

Guy's Grocery Games

Starts 20th Oct 9:00pm On Food Network
Guy Fieri sends four talented chefs running through the aisles in a high stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition. The chefs are hit by real-world challenges like finding workarounds when all the essential ingredients are suddenly "out-of-stock" or having to... Selected by 91 Users

Midnight

Starts 21st Oct 12:00am On Comedy Central
Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate Internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop... Selected by 0 Users

Ravenswood

Starts 22nd Oct 9:00pm On ABC Family
Ravenswood is a town not far from Rosewood, the home base of "Pretty Little Liars", which has suffered under a deadly curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly find themselves connected by this fatal curse and need to dig into the town's mysterious and terrible... Selected by 0 Users

Dracula

Starts 25th Oct 10:00pm On NBC
It's the late 19th century and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night -... Selected by 0 Users

Hinterland

Starts 29th Oct 9:00pm On S4/C
DCI Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look. From the... Selected by 0 Users

Returning TV Shows in October 2013

Republic of Doyle

Returns 2nd Oct 9:00pm On CBC
Jake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John's, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings, not all of them on the right side of the law. Complicating matters on the personal front is Nikki, Jake's soon-to-be... Selected by 0 Users

Top Chef

Returns 2nd 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 4514 Users

The Vampire Diaries

Returns 3rd Oct 8:00pm On The CW
Based on novels of the same name, Vampire Diaries follows Elena, a young heroine, who is the object of passion for two vampire brothers. Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy are... Selected by 0 Users

Scandal

Returns 3rd Oct 10:00pm On ABC
As former White House Communications Director for the president, Olivia Pope has the power to "fix" things for everyone. Now, she is on her own working for herself with a new law firm, dedicating her life to protecting the public images of the nation's elite and making sure... Selected by 0 Users

The Eric Andre Show

Returns 4th Oct 12:15am On Adult Swim
The Eric André Show is a parody of low-budget public access talk shows, hosted by Eric Andre and Hannibal Buress. André is a hyperactive and dysfunctional host who often stutters or otherwise fails to properly maintain his screen presence. He often overreacts during... Selected by 1135 Users

Citizen Khan

Returns 4th Oct 8:30pm On BBC One
Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and daughters Shazia and... Selected by 0 Users

Have I Got News for You

Returns 4th 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 2268 Users

8 Out of 10 Cats

Returns 4th 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

Jessie

Returns 5th Oct 8:00pm On Disney Channel
"Jessie" is a new comedy series about a small-town girl who leaves behind her Texas roots and finds a job in the Big Apple as nanny to a high-flying couple's four precocious kids. Jessie accepts a job as a nanny and moves in with the Ross Family - high-flying couple... Selected by 0 Users

Love/Hate

Returns 6th Oct 9:30pm On RTÉ ONE
He skipped Dublin when a gun was found in his house and he's been living for the past year in Spain but Darren Tracey decides to risk it and come back to Dublin. He's homesick and a party for his brother's release from prison is the perfect excuse. It's only for the weekend... Selected by 0 Users

Heartland

Returns 6th Oct 6:00pm On CBC
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch... Selected by 2538 Users

Hart Of Dixie

Returns 7th Oct 8:00pm On The CW
Fast-talking New Yorker and brand new doctor Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to accept an offer... Selected by 0 Users

Call Me Fitz

Returns 7th Oct 8:30pm On HBO Canada
Set almost entirely in a used car dealership, Call Me Fitz follows a handsome, substance abusing scoundrel, Fitz, who torments his naive co workers, sleeps with any woman who has a pulse and thinks his life is perfect. In an attempt to secure a hold on "Salesman of the... Selected by 0 Users

Beauty and the Beast

Returns 7th Oct 9:00pm On The CW
Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone - or something. Years have passed and while investigating a murder, Catherine... Selected by 0 Users

Supernatural

Returns 8th Oct 9:00pm On The CW
Sam Winchester is a college student bound for law school, determined to escape his family's past - unlike his older brother, Dean. Ever since they were little their father has been consumed with an obsession to find the evil forces that murdered his beloved wife, and... Selected by 0 Users

Arrow

Returns 9th Oct 8:00pm On The CW
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While he... Selected by 0 Users

American Pickers

Returns 9th Oct 9:00pm On History Channel
This isn't your grandmother's antiquing. Pickers like Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are on a mission to recycle America, even if it means diving into countless piles of grimy junk or getting chased off a gun-wielding homeowner's land. Hitting back roads from coast to coast... Selected by 975 Users

American Horror Story

Returns 9th 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 34961 Users

Grand Designs Australia

Returns 10th Oct 8:30pm On ABC
A truly unique brand and a massive undertaking with a shooting period of over 12 months, Grand Designs Australia tells the stories of new homes and perhaps more importantly the Aussies who are building them. Based on the award-winning UK series, Grand Designs Australia is... Selected by 1096 Users

Pawn Stars

Returns 10th Oct 10:00pm On History Channel
Pawn Stars is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business operated by patriarch Richard Harrison (or "The Old Man"), his son Rick Harrison (who opened the shop with his father... Selected by 2349 Users

The Graham Norton Show

Returns 11th 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 3958 Users

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Returns 12th Oct 11:00am On Nickelodeon
The turtles emerge from their hidden lair in the sewers for the very first time, ready to confront the wondrous and hostile world of New York City and face enemies more dangerous and pizza more delicious than anything they could have imagined. Along the way, they gain a... Selected by 0 Users

The Jonathan Ross Show

Returns 12th Oct 9:20pm On ITV
The Jonathan Ross Show is a weekly talk show broadcast on ITV1. The show sees the popular host talking to different celebrity guests each... Selected by 1084 Users

The Walking Dead

Returns 13th Oct 9:00pm 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

Comic Book Men

Returns 13th Oct 10:00pm On AMC
Comic Book Men is a show that is for Fanboys by Fanboys. Set in uber-geek Kevin Smith's iconic comic shop Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the show explores every nook and cranny of Fanboy culture from A to Z. Endless circular debates about the technical accuracy of the... Selected by 0 Users

Talking Dead

Returns 13th 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 2079 Users

Holby City

Returns 15th 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

The Biggest Loser

Returns 15th Oct 8:00pm On NBC
The simple idea of The Biggest Loser, familiar to dieters the world over, is that "whomever loses the most... wins". Losing weight will be difficult, though, as the 12 contestants (six male and six female) will be faced with "real-life temptations" that their new "approved... Selected by 0 Users

White Collar

Returns 17th Oct 9:00pm On USA Network
White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffrey, an incredibly charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, G-Man extraordinaire Peter Stokes. When Neal... Selected by 0 Users

Pokemon

Returns 19th Oct 7:00am On Cartoon Network
A young boy named Ash Ketchum embarks on a journey to become a "Pokemon Master" with his first Pokemon, Pikachu. Joining him on his travels are Brock, a girl-obsessed Rock Pokemon Trainer, and Misty, a tomboyish Water Pokemon Trainer who may have a crush on him. Ash and Co.... Selected by 1659 Users

The Paradise

Returns 20th Oct 8:00pm On BBC One
Denise Lovett is a young country girl with only her wits to live on after showing up in a Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. She soon finds out though that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have... Selected by 0 Users

Lilyhammer

Returns 23rd Oct 9:40pm On NRK1
Frank Tagliano, is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was intrigued by Lillehammer when he saw television images... Selected by 0 Users

Misfits

Returns 23rd 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

Project Runway All-Stars

Returns 24th Oct 9:00pm On Lifetime
Project Runway: All Stars is a spin-off series based on Project Runway. It features 13 designers from seasons 1-8 of the original series with a new host, new judges and a new mentor. In this special show, thirteen former fan favorites and Project Runway superstars are... Selected by 0 Users

The Carrie Diaries

Returns 25th Oct 8:00pm On The CW
Carrie Bradshaw is in her senior year of high school in the early 1980s. She asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while navigating the worlds of high school and... Selected by 0 Users

Grimm

Returns 25th 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

Gold Rush

Returns 25th 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 3309 Users

Ripper Street

Returns 28th Oct 9:00pm On Amazon Prime Video
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division - the police precinct from hell - which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street... Selected by 0 Users
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