Schedule Update

Damages premieres on BBC1 on Sunday January 6th at 10.20pm.....Brothehood shows up the same night, season starting at 10pm repeating on Tuesday at the same time on FX.....UK Gold will screen the remaining 12 new episodes from season two of the New Adventures of Christine beginning January 2hnd at 6pm. The show continues in double bills daily for a week.....ER starts at 10pm on 10th January on More 4, repeated on Channel 4 at 8pm on the 12th.....CSI starts on 8th January at 9pm on Five and CSI:NY 4 days later, on the 12th at 9pm.

Stewart and Leno return

Despite the writers strike continuing, America's talk show hosts are preparing to return to work. Jay Leno and Conan O Brien (both screened here by CNBC) will be back behind the desk on January 2nd, but without their writers. This is likely to mean more guests, less jokes. David Letterman is yet to confirm he will also be back.
Comedy Central announced The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will be back on January 7th, returning to More4 the next day. Jon Stewart's statement said "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."

USA wields the axe

The USA cable network has axed the 4400 after four seasons. The SKY One show ended this summer with a not quite conclusive finale. After a terrific mini-series and a great first run the show never quite fufilled its potential. The Dead Zone has also been chopped. It returned for a sixth season this year, to be screen in '08 on the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK.

Lost Trailer II

If you thought the 30 second tease was exciting, here is the two minute cinema trailer now showing in US cinemas.

Lost returns

Lost returns to ABC in the US on Thursday January 31st at 9pm with SKY One likely to screen the opening episode on Sunday February 3rd. Only eight episodes of the planned 16 have been filmed however as a result of the writers strike so nobody knows quite what will happen after these eight are done. Here's a rather exciting preview.

Breaking News

NBC have cancelled Journeyman. The sci-fi series starring Kevin McKidd is currently airing on SKY One. It will ends after its initial 13 episode run. The Bionic Woman looks likely to join it, the ITV2 purchase has still not been ordered for a full season.

The NBC spy drama Chuck which has been given a full season has been picked up for a UK showing by Virgin 1.

Damages arrives

Damages will premiere on BBC1 in the second week of January.The acclaimed FX drama stars Glenn Close and Ted Danson and was a critical hit in the US last year. Although low rated, the series has been renewed for a further two seasons. BBC1 will screen the first thirteen episodes in a presumably post-news slot.....In other news the US version of The Office returns to ITV2 in January alongside Entourage....

Dexter, Channel 4, and more sex

ITV1 have purchased Showtime's Dexter for a terrestrial screening. The series which stars Michael C Hall as a killer handing out justice of his own, has already been shown on the FX network. FX are quick to point out they will show season two first, and they have not lost the show entirely. ITV1 need to plug a hole with their new purchases Bionic Woman and Cane heading for cancellation and both Pushing Daisies and Life held up by the writers strike......The strike means that Channel 4 will hold back shows like Desperate Housewives and Reaper until their full seasons are available.....Keifer Sutherland is in jail, his 48 day sentence means even the strike ends tomorrow, a new series of 24 is still some way off....No good news then, but this might cheer you up, the first trailer for the Sex and the City movie.