New TV Shows Starting
September 2008

Raising the Bar

Starts 1st Sep 10:00pm On TNT
A group of young lawyers, all former classmates, find themselves going up against one another as public defenders trying to help the down and out.... Selected by 0 Users

Rush (AU)

Starts 2nd Sep 8:30pm On Ten
Rush follows the lives of members of the prestigious Tactical Response team (TR), which is based on the real life Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team, a highly mobile unit that fills the operational gap between general duties police and the SWAT-like Special... Selected by 0 Users

90210

Starts 2nd Sep 8:00pm On The CW
The series revolves around the three-generational Wilson family who have recently moved to Beverly Hills, California after the father Harrison Wilson accepts the position of being the principal of West Beverly Hills High... Selected by 0 Users

Sons of Anarchy

Starts 3rd Sep 10:00pm On FX
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, and the various rivals and associates who undermine or... Selected by 0 Users

True Blood

Starts 7th Sep 9:00pm On HBO
Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid finds comfort in the company of vampires since they have no brainwave activity for her to read. She and her brother Jason were raised by her grandmother after losing their parents in a flood and she tries to keep her telepathic... Selected by 0 Users

Fringe

Starts 9th Sep 9:00pm On FOX
Fringe follows the casework of the Fringe Division, a Joint Federal Task Force supported primarily by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which includes Agent Olivia Dunham; Dr. Walter Bishop, the archetypal mad scientist; and Peter Bishop, Walter's estranged son and... Selected by 0 Users

Privileged

Starts 9th Sep 9:00pm On The CW
Megan Smith has just graduated from Yale University ready to take on the world of journalism despite her current dead-end job for a tabloid magazine. Her plan is thrown into a tailspin when, all in one day, she gets fired, meets Laurel Limoges, a cosmetics mogul, and... Selected by 0 Users

Only Connect

Starts 15th Sep 8:30pm On BBC TWO
Only Connect is a game show hosted by Victoria Coren. Patience and lateral thinking are just as important as general knowledge in the game. Connections have to be made between things which as first seem to have no connection at... Selected by 573 Users

Merlin

Starts 20th Sep 6:30pm 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

Worst Week

Starts 22nd Sep 9:30pm On CBS
Worst Week follows the life of a young couple as they make their way through married life and deal with their soon-to-be in-laws.... Selected by 0 Users

The Mentalist

Starts 23rd Sep 9:00pm On CBS
The Mentalist follows Patrick Jane, a consultant for the police who aids the California Bureau of Investigation in solving intriguing cases. Working with Patrick are leading agent Teresa Lisbon, agents Grace Van Pelt, Wayne Rigsby and Kendall Cho. As the agents... Selected by 0 Users

Knight Rider

Starts 24th Sep 8:00pm On NBC
Years later, Michael and KITT have vanished, but their legacy has not been forgotten. Now the wayward lost son of Michael joins F.L.A.G., with a new team and as the driver of the all-new Knight Industries Three Thousand, seeks to continue the fight begun by the original... Selected by 0 Users

Gary Unmarried

Starts 24th Sep 8:30pm On CBS
A newly divorced father of two balances life with his new girlfriend and his ex-wife to whom he was married for fifteen... Selected by 0 Users

The Life and Times of Tim

Starts 28th Sep 9:00pm On HBO
Everybody makes mistakes, but for Tim - a self-conscious young guy living in New York - just getting out of bed in the morning could be the worst decision he makes all day. No matter the situation, life's little challenges always manage to demand the most offensive... Selected by 0 Users

Little Britain (USA)

Starts 28th Sep 10:30pm On HBO
Based on the humor of UK comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams, this BBC sketch comedy transplant will make its home at HBO.... Selected by 0 Users

Returning TV Shows in September 2008

Gossip Girl

Returns 1st Sep 8:00pm On The CW
The Upper East Side is thrown for a loop when Gossip Girl reports that Serena van der Woodsen, Manhattan's most notorious party girl, has arrived back in town after a mysterious absence where no one knows where she was or why she left. Not even Serena's closest friend... Selected by 0 Users

One Tree Hill

Returns 1st Sep 9:00pm On The CW
Aside from a love for hoops, it would seem that Lucas and Nathan are two young men with little in common, but they are bound by the dark secret that they share the same father. Arrogant and assured, Nathan is the star of the high school basketball team and hails from a... Selected by 0 Users

Prison Break

Returns 1st Sep 9:00pm On FOX
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the... Selected by 0 Users

The Shield

Returns 2nd Sep 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

Bones

Returns 3rd Sep 8:00pm On FOX
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with murder investigations... Selected by 0 Users

America's Next Top Model

Returns 3rd Sep 9:00pm On VH1
Created by Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model follows a group of young women of various backgrounds, shapes and sizes who live together in a loft and vie for a modeling contract. The show exposes the transformation of everyday young women into potentially fierce... Selected by 0 Users

8 Out of 10 Cats

Returns 4th Sep 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

Kitchen Nightmares

Returns 4th Sep 9:00pm On FOX
Gordon Ramsay's British series gets made over for America. In this series, Ramsay will hit the road to help many a struggling restaurant find the path to success in just one... Selected by 5656 Users

Cops

Returns 6th Sep 8:00pm On SPIKE
Called the original reality show, Cops is a gritty and unfiltered look at the seamier parts of our society as seen through the eyes of the men and women who struggle to keep the peace. Since 1989, camera crews have traveled across the nation and into other countries... Selected by 1085 Users

Entourage

Returns 7th Sep 10:00pm On HBO
Vince Chase is a sexy young actor whose career is on the rise. To share the fun of his ride to the top of Hollywood and keep him grounded, Vince looks to Eric, Drama and Turtle, his childhood buddies from Queens. Together, they'll navigate the highs and lows of Hollywood's... Selected by 0 Users

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Returns 8th Sep 8:00pm On FOX
In a continuation of the first two Terminator films, The Sarah Connor Chronicles follows the lives of Sarah and John Connor as they struggle to survive and prevent judgment day, the destruction of mankind by Skynet computers. The Connors have allies in their fight:... Selected by 0 Users

Til Death

Returns 10th Sep 9:00pm On FOX
A comedy about middle-aged Eddie and Joy, who are on day 8,743 of their marriage and have the battle scars to prove it. Their new next-door neighbors are young newlyweds Steph and Jeff - idealistic, passionate, adorable and married for all of 12 days. It's a show about new... Selected by 0 Users

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Returns 11th Sep 10:00pm On ITV2
To her parents she's Hannah, the legal secretary. Hannah has a responsible job that involves working lots of unsocial hours in the evening. To her clients Belle is... whatever they want her to be. She can be the quiet girl-next-door. Or she can be the high-heeled dominatrix... Selected by 0 Users

Wizards of Waverly Place

Returns 12th Sep 4:00pm On Disney Channel
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers. But when they turn 18, only one... Selected by 0 Users

Strictly Come Dancing

Returns 13th Sep 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

Casualty

Returns 13th Sep 8:50pm On BBC One
Casualty is the world's longest running and most successful medical drama series on television. It depicts the private and working lives of the patients, doctors, nurses and all others attending a small but frantically busy accident and emergency department of the large... Selected by 664 Users

Saturday Night Live

Returns 13th Sep 11:30pm On NBC
Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is... Selected by 9870 Users

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Returns 14th Sep 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

House

Returns 16th Sep 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

Lincoln Heights

Returns 16th Sep 8:00pm On ABC Family
When police officer Eddie Sutton packs up his family and moves back to the inner-city neighborhood where he grew up, he faces the struggle to balance the safety and happiness of this family with his desire to change the... Selected by 0 Users

The Biggest Loser

Returns 16th Sep 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

Ultimate Fighter

Returns 17th Sep 10:00pm On Fox Sports 1
Eighteen of the best Mixed Martial Arts fighters, nine Heavyweights and nine Welterweights, have come from around the world to Las Vegas with one dream - to be named the Ultimate Fighter and to be given a contract in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization.... Selected by 3510 Users

Smallville

Returns 18th Sep 8:00pm On The CW
Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman. It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks. Clark must deal with a... Selected by 0 Users

Supernatural

Returns 18th Sep 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

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Returns 18th Sep 10:00pm On FX
Five egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable... Selected by 19471 Users

Heroes

Returns 22nd Sep 8:00pm On NBC
As a total eclipse casts a shadow across the globe, a genetics professor, Mohinder Suresh, is motivated by his father's mysterious disappearance to delve into his missing father's secret theory - there are people with unique and special abilities among us. They thought... Selected by 0 Users

The Big Bang Theory

Returns 22nd Sep 8:00pm On CBS
The Big Bang Theory is a comedy series about four young scientists who know all about the world of physics, and one girl, who gives the physics world a real spin. Leonard Hofstadter is a smart guy who tries his best to complete his research and become famous for his... Selected by 0 Users

Dancing With the Stars

Returns 22nd Sep 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 2153 Users

How I Met Your Mother

Returns 22nd Sep 8:30pm On CBS
Ted is a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from his college years; Marshall Eriksen, a law student, and Lily Aldrin, a kindergarten teacher and aspiring artist. Lily and Marshall have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall finally... Selected by 0 Users

Two and a Half Men

Returns 22nd Sep 9:00pm On CBS
"Two and a Half Men" was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake. Charlie's free-wheeling life is complicated when his brother gets divorced and moves, along with his son, into Charlie's... Selected by 0 Users

Boston Legal

Returns 22nd Sep 10:00pm On ABC
Boston Legal tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and darkly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.... Selected by 0 Users

CSI: Miami

Returns 22nd Sep 10:00pm On CBS
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation took television by storm in 2000 with its innovative and cutting-edge updating of a standard series concept - in this case, the cop show. Suddenly, instead of simply whodunit, solving crimes was a matter of howdunit, and with what size shoe... Selected by 0 Users

NCIS

Returns 23rd Sep 8:00pm On CBS
Leading this team that operates outside of the military chain of command is NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a skilled investigator and interrogator who is smart, tough and willing to bend the rules to get the job done. Working under Gibbs is Agent Anthony Dinozzo... Selected by 26820 Users

Law & Order: SVU

Returns 23rd Sep 10:00pm On NBC
The drama follows Det. Elliot Stabler, a seasoned veteran of the unit who has seen it all, and his partner, Olivia Benson, whose difficult past is the reason she joined the unit. Overseeing the team is Capt. Donald Cragen. Cragen's tough but supportive approach to the... Selected by 10991 Users

Without a Trace

Returns 23rd Sep 10:00pm On CBS
Without a Trace is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the... Selected by 0 Users

Old Christine

Returns 24th Sep 8:00pm On CBS
The New Adventures of Old Christine is a new comedy about a 35-year-old divorced mom w ho runs a 30-minute female-only gym with Ali, trys to keep pace with everyone around her. That includes the judgmental stay-at-home moms at her son's private school and her ex-husband... Selected by 0 Users

Criminal Minds

Returns 24th Sep 9:00pm On CBS
Criminal Minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyse the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next move before they strike again. David Rossi comes out of retirement to help the the Behavioral Analysis Unit lead by Aaron... Selected by 28404 Users

CSI: New York

Returns 24th Sep 10:00pm On CBS
Det. Mack "Mac" Taylor, a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story, is a decorated Marine who served in Desert Storm and dabbled in war photography. The job is his life; he focuses on cases until they... Selected by 0 Users

Lipstick Jungle

Returns 24th Sep 10:00pm On NBC
Lipstick Jungle tracks three powerful career women who are willing to do almost anything for success in the business world: Wendy Healy, president of Parador Pictures, Victory Ford, a high profile fashion designer, and Nico Reilly, editor-in-chief of a hot selling fashion... Selected by 0 Users

My Name Is Earl

Returns 25th Sep 8:00pm On NBC
Earl Hickey's life has been full of poor choices and mistakes, and upon discovering that he is the holder of a winning lottery ticket, Earl is hit by a car and the ticket blows out of his hand as he lies unconscious in the street. While recovering in the hospital and... Selected by 0 Users

Survivor

Returns 25th Sep 8:00pm On CBS
The rules of this game are simple: average Americans are abandoned in the middle of some of the most unforgiving places on earth. Divided into teams, they particiapte in challenges and every three days, the losing tribe must trek to Tribal Council to vote out one of their... Selected by 8129 Users

Ugly Betty

Returns 25th Sep 8:00pm On ABC
Image is everything, and in the high fashion world it's more true than anywhere else! Could Betty fit in? This young, intelligent, sweet and hard-working girl has only one dream! Working in the fashion industry, but is there a place for a less than pretty... Selected by 0 Users

Greys Anatomy

Returns 25th Sep 9:00pm On ABC
Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible. Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year... Selected by 51915 Users

The Office (US)

Returns 25th Sep 9:00pm On NBC
Based on the popular British series of the same name, this faster-paced American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees via a documentary film crew's cameras. Regional manager Michael thinks he's the coolest, funniest, best... Selected by 0 Users

ER

Returns 25th Sep 10:00pm On NBC
ER follows the medical personnel and patients in the emergency room of Chicago's fictional County General Hospital. As the doctors and nurses of County's ER confront the daily challenges of a busy urban hospital, including overcrowded waiting rooms, staffing shortages... Selected by 0 Users

iCarly (2007)

Returns 27th Sep 8:00pm On Nickelodeon
Carly hosts her own home-grown web show, iCarly. She lives with her twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer and produces her Web casts from a makeshift third-floor loft studio. Grappling with adolescence, she never aimed to gain fame as a rising star/underground celebrity... Selected by 0 Users

The Amazing Race

Returns 28th Sep 8:00pm On CBS
The Amazing Race is an adventure reality show hosted by Phil Keoghan that pits 10, 11, or 12 teams of 2 or 4 people against each other in a race around the world for approximately 40 days. In a leg, they go to destinations where they will complete a roadblock, a task where... Selected by 7070 Users

The Simpsons

Returns 28th Sep 8:00pm On FOX
The Simpsons focuses on a family of five. There is the father, Homer, a dull-witted, alcoholic, lazy, but lovable man. He often gets his family into crazy situations but always manages to fix things. The mother, Marge, is a stay at home mom who keeps the family together.... Selected by 37006 Users

King of the Hill

Returns 28th Sep 8:30pm On FOX
King of the Hill is another animation hit from Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge, who also voices the starring character Hank Hill, a propane gas salesman in the fictional town Arlen, Texas. Hank is often besieged by the idiosyncrasies of society, but he finds (some)... Selected by 1884 Users

American Dad!

Returns 28th Sep 9:00pm On tbs
The show revolves around C.I.A. Agent Stan Smith, and his not so average family. Stan is constantly fighting off terrorists who threaten the safety of the United States, sometimes causing more harm than good. His wife Francine is your average house wife. She juggles... Selected by 25698 Users

Cold Case

Returns 28th Sep 9:00pm On CBS
Lilly Rush, the lone female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad who finds her calling when she's assigned to "cold cases" - crimes that have never been solved. Previously, she used her instinctive understanding of the criminal mind on current murders. Now, she's... Selected by 0 Users

Desperate Housewives

Returns 28th Sep 9:00pm On ABC
The series began with Mary Alice Young leaving her perfect house in the loveliest of suburbs - and ending it all. Now she takes us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V. Her circle of girlfriends on Wisteria Lane include... Selected by 0 Users

Family Guy

Returns 28th Sep 9:00pm On FOX
Sick, twisted, politcially incorrect and freakin' sweet, the animated series features the adventures of the Griffin family. Peter and Lois have three kids - the youngest is a brilliant, sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and destroying the world. Their talking dog... Selected by 41673 Users

Dexter

Returns 28th Sep 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

Brothers & Sisters

Returns 28th Sep 10:00pm On ABC
Brothers & Sisters set in Los Angeles, follows the ups and downs of the Walker family after their father William dies unexpectedly. The siblings each face new challenges after the safety net of their father is gone. Charlie and Nora must find a way to work together as... Selected by 0 Users

The Unit

Returns 28th Sep 10:00pm On CBS
A covert team of Special Forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their families maintain the home front, protecting their husbands' secrets. Jonas Blane, leads the Unit on missions out in the field and is responsible for taking... Selected by 0 Users

Californication

Returns 28th Sep 10:00pm On Showtime
Californication is the story of Hank Moody. Hank is a novelist who has recently moved to Los Angeles, which complicates his relationship with Karen, his ex-girlfriend, whom he still has feelings for and Becca, his 12-year-old... Selected by 0 Users

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Returns 29th Sep 4:00pm 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

Chuck

Returns 29th Sep 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

The Border

Returns 29th Sep 9:00pm On CBC Canada
In this post-9/11 world the once "undefended border" that divides Canada and the U.S. is no longer considered soft. This CBC program lifts stories from the headlines to fuel an action-packed, dramatic series about maintaining security in today's world. The series follows... Selected by 0 Users

Life

Returns 29th Sep 10:00pm On NBC
Detective Charlie Crews has spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now Crews must face the world that he left behind and that left him behind. Dealing with the changes that occurred while he was away, and while trying to put the past behind him, Charlie returns... Selected by 0 Users
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