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TV
2009-10 Midseason
87
The Pacific 51
Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
59
The 39 Steps
79
Reporter
84
Temple Grandin 83
Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America 52
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
40
Live for the Moment
38
The Pregnancy Pact
55
Sons of Tucson
34
High Society
54
Who Do You Think You Are?
61
Parenthood
77
Southland Season Two
49
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
41
The Marriage Ref
62
The Ricky Gervais Show
59
How to Make It in America
64
Prison Wives
62
Survivors
43
Past Life
56
Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp Season Seven
59
Undercover Boss
44
The Michael Vick Project
44
Kell on Earth
82
Damages Season Three 60
La La Land
72
The Inbetweeners
77
Emma
|   The summer schedule is here!View the listing of premiere dates for each show.
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 | Series Premiere FOX | Sunday | 8:30p
Several of Arrested Development's cast give voices to the characters of Mitch Hurwitz's animated high school comedy. |
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Movie Premiere The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler CBS | Sunday | 9:00p
The story of Irena Sendler (Anna Paquin), a polish Catholic social worker, who hid thousands of Jewish children by placing them with Christian familes during World War Two. |
 | Movie Premiere HBO | Saturday | 8:00p
The 1973 documentary about Little Edie (Barrymore) and her mother, Big Edie (Lange), having been made into an award-winning Broadway play of the same name, is again dramatized as a film for HBO. |
 | Series Premiere TV Land | Wednesday | 10:00p
Vivica A. Fox hosts this dating reality show which has a group of men in their 20s battling for the affections of 40-year-old Stacey Anderson. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Thursday | 8:30p
The mockumentary comedy follows the life of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), a Parks and Recreation employee. |
 | Series Premiere CBS | Sunday | 10:00p
A group of friends at Harper's Island for a wedding are slowly being murdered one by one. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Thursday | 10:00p
John Wells' latest drama for NBC focuses on the lives of the Los Angeles police department. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 10:00p
Vice cop Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) is transferred to a quirky and sometimes unusual homicide squad. |
 | Season Premiere FX | Tuesday | 10:00p
The delayed-by-the-writer's-strike fifth season, which includes a guest appearance of Michael J. Fox, finds 9/11 continues to play a part in the lives of the firefighters at 62 Truck. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Monday | 9:30p
Bob Saget is back on ABC as a father of two kids living in the suburbs with his wife. |
 | Season Premiere HBO | Sunday | 9:00p
Season two finds Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) moved into a new office in Brooklyn after his divorce and with a new batch of patients. |
 | Season Premiere Showtime | Sunday | 9:00p
The third season finds Henry preparing to marry his third wife, Jane Seymour, followed by Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. |
 | Movie Premiere MTV/Logo | Wednesday | 8:00p
Before he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk, Dustin Lance Black wrote this movie about Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive member of the first season of the Real World. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 10:00p
Cupid, last seen in 1998 with Jeremy Piven as the Roman god of love, returns this time with Bobby Cannavale in the title role. |
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Series Premiere The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency HBO | Sunday | 8:00p
Jill Scott leads the HBO adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's detective novels set in Botswana. |
 | Miniseries Premiere PBS | Sunday | 9:00p
The BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' serial novel about Little Dorrit, who lived most of her life in debtors' prison with her family, airs as part of Masterpiece Classic season. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Thursday | 8:00p
The comedy based on a web serial and real life stories; Cheryl Hines, Megan Mullally, and Jessica St. Clair are mothers with very different parenting methods. |
 | Series Premiere Starz | Friday | 10:30p
The Starz comedy explores the lives of six waiters working for a catering company in Los Angeles. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 8:30p
Ted starts having doubts about working in the research and development department of Veridian Dynamics, where anything can happen, from weapons made from pumpkins or employees being used as test subjects. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Sunday | 8:00p
An idealist young farmer turned soldier (Chris Egan) finds himself involved with the royal court of Gilboa when he saves the king's (Ian McShane) son. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Wednesday | 8:00p
Gordan Ramsey's former boss Marco Pierre White gets into the cooking reality TV business with a team competition to win $250,000 to open a restaurant. |
 | Series Premiere ABC | Monday | 10:00p
A mystery novelist (Nathan Fillion) seeks inspiration for his next book by shadowing NYPD detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). |
 | Season Premiere AMC | Sunday | 10:00p
Walter (Bryan Cranston) and his ex-student Jesse (Aaron Paul) find their drug dealing threatened by Walter's DEA brother-in-law and the local druglord. |
 | Series Premiere BBC America | Saturday | 9:00p
The American remake of Life on Mars only made it to one season, but the original spawned a sequel with DI Alex Drake waking up in 1981 (with many of the people Sam Tyler met in 1973) after being shot in 2008. |
 | Season Premiere CW | Tuesday | 8:00p
Sam is still hunting souls for the devil with the help of his friends Ben and Sock. |
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Series Premiere NBC | Weekdays | 12:35a
Jimmy Fallon takes over for Conan O'Brien as NBC shuffles its late night talk show roster in 2009. |
 | Movie Premiere CBS | Sunday | 9:00p
The fifth in a series of movies based on Robert B. Parker's book series about a small town New England police chief (Tom Selleck). |
 | Movie Premiere Lifetime | Saturday | 9:00p
In the movie based on E.R. Frank's novel, Dr. Brennan (Rosie O'Donnell) helps 17-year-old America (Philip Johnson) come to terms with his past before he is "aged out" of the foster care system. |
 | Special Premiere HBO | Thursday | 8:00p
HBO returns with another volume of the Black List, wherein a variety of famous black people speak about their experiences in this world. |
 | Movie Premiere HBO | Saturday | 8:00p
In this movie based on the real events, Kevin Bacon is Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a marine faced with the duty of escorting the body of a killed-in-action soldier back home to the United States. |
 | Series Premiere BBC America | Friday | 8:00p
The drama focusing on four friends who are tempted into affairs with other people is already on season two in the UK, and an American remake is in the works. |
 | Miniseries Premiere PBS | Sunday | 9:00p
Masterpiece focuses on Oliver's family in this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about the orphan (William Miller) who joins a gang of pickpocketers led by Fagin (Timothy Spall). |
 | Series Premiere HBO | Sunday | 10:30p
Will Ferrell coproduces this comedy about a baseball player returning to North Carolina who finds a job as a gym teacher. |
 | Series Premiere Fox | Friday | 9:00p
Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her fellow "actives" are implanted with temporary personalities and hired out by rich clients. |
 | Special Premiere PBS | Wednesday | 9:00p
Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts this documentary that looks beyond what we have learned in history class about president Lincoln. |
 | Series Premiere Important Things With Demetri Martin Comedy Central | Wednesday | 10:30p
The Daily Show's Demetri Martin debuts his own sketch-comedy show. |
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Special Premiere The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln PBS | Monday | 9:00p
The documentary about the assassination of the 16th president of the United States based on James L. Swanson's book, "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer," airs as a part of PBS' American Experience series. |
 | Miniseries Premiere NBC | Sunday | 9:00p
In this miniseries, based on the graphic novel by Jean Van Hamme, a man with no memory (Stephen Dorff) is the prime suspect in the assassination of the first female American president. |
 | Movie Premiere Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story TNT | Saturday | 8:00p
The life of the Presidential Medal of Freedom neurosurgeon and author Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is explored. |
 | Series Premiere A&E | Wednesday | 10:30p
Billy Bretherton and his family run a pest control business in the Louisiana bayou. |
 | Season Premiere NBC | Monday | 10:00p
Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) continues to see visions and tries to stop the deaths she sees as the fifth season begins. |
 | Special Premiere HBO | Thursday | 8:00p
Alexandra Pelosi follows up on Colorado pastor Ted Haggard's life after he was kicked out of his church for buying drugs and being involved with a male prostitute. |
 | Series Premiere TNT | Monday | 10:00p
When their boss (Jason O'Mara) dies, best friends and ad executives Mason (Eric McCormack) and Conner (Tom Cavanagh) find their friendship becomes more uneasy in light of Mason's promotion. |
 | Miniseries Premiere NBC | Sunday | 9:00p
The theft of an artifact related to the Templars brings archaeologist Tess (Mira Sorvino) and FBI Agent Reilly (Scott Foley) together as they search for the item. |
 | Movie Premiere CBS | Sunday | 9:00p
Based on the stage play of the same name, Jake (Adam Kaufman) returns home when his brother dies unexpectedly. He meets his brother's wife (Lauren Ambrose) and they fall in love. |
 | Movie Premiere Lifetime | Saturday | 9:00p
Based on true events, the suicide of her gay son spurs Mary (Sigourney Weaver) to change and become a LGBT advocate. |
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Series Premiere PBS | Friday | Varies
The 1970s children's show returns for a new generation. |
 | Season Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 8:00p
The answers to when/where did the island go and how Locke died are to be revealed this season as the show approaches the end of the series (slated for 2010). |
 | Series Premiere Fox | Wednesday | 9:00p
Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his fellow specialists help discover if suspects are lying. |
 | Movie Premiere PBS | Sunday | 9:00p
The latest adaptation of the doomed romance between Catherine (Charlotte Riley) and Heathcliff (Tom Hardy). |
 | Season Premiere HBO | Sunday | 9:00p
The Henricksons return for a third season, and Bill (Paxton) may be ready for wife number four. |
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Season Premiere Flight of the Conchords: Season Two HBO | Sunday | 10:00p
The Conchords struggle in New York as their manager forms a new band. |
 | Series Premiere Showtime | Sunday | 10:00p
Tara (Toni Collette) and her family try to cope with her dissociative identity disorder (formally called multiple personality). |
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Season Premiere Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season Two Showtime | Sunday | 10:30p
Billie Piper returns for a second season in the life of Belle, the London call girl. |
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Season Premiere Friday Night Lights: Season Three NBC | Friday | 9:00p
The football drama based on the movie of the same name returns to NBC for another season (it also premiered on DirecTV in October). |
 | Series Premiere A&E | Thursday | 10:00p
Patrick Swayze is a veteran FBI agent training his rookie partner in the art of deep undercover work. |
 | Season Premiere Fox | Monday | 8:00p
Jack Bauer returns from Africa (24: Redemption) to find himself defending his actions before Congress. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Friday | 8:00p
Howie Mandel's latest show sees him pulling pranks on unsuspecting people. |
 | Series Premiere CW | Wednesday | 8:00p
Contestants try to conquer their fears in the bid to win $66,666 in this Sam Raimi-produced show. |
 | Series Premiere FX | Wednesday | 10:00p
Ellen seeks revenge by working undercover for the FBI in the second season as someone (William Hurt) from Patty's past returns. |
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Series Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 8:00p
The work of officers of the Department of Homeland Security is seen in this documentary series based on a similar show in Australia. |
 | Season Premiere PBS | Tuesday | 9:00p
The Frontline documentary follows 83-year-old Herbert Gettridge, a carpenter seeking to rebuild his house damaged by Hurricane Katrina. |
 | Season Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 9:00p
The wacky doctors of Sacred Heart move to a new network. |
 | Miniseries Premiere PBS | Monday | 9:00p
In the six-hour long series, Michael Wood's guides viewers to the history of the beginning of human settlement in India to the country that exists today. |
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Movie Premiere PBS | Sunday | 9:00p
Thomas Hardy's novel is adapted once again with Gemma Arterton as the title character. |
 | Series Premiere CBS | Saturday | 8:00p
The hidden-camera gameshow involves contestants performing various tasks with strangers on the street to win up to $50,000. |
 | Series Premiere NBC | Tuesday | 10:00p
The latest dating show has three eligible bachelors looking for love with the help of their mothers. |
 | Season Premiere CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS | Thursday | 9:00p
Gil Grissom is ready to move on as season nine of the long runing series introduces Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) to the Las Vegas crew. |
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Movie Premiere The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice TNT | Sunday | 8:00p
Flynn the librarian is once again trying to find an artifact, this time the Judas chalice, which can bring the dead back to life. |
 | Miniseries Premiere HBO | Sunday | 9:00p
The four-hour miniseries dramatizes the period from Saddam's coup in 1979 to his capture in 2003. |
 | Series Premiere TNT | Sunday | 10:00p
Timothy Hutton is an ex-insurance investigator leading a group of specialists to right wrongs caused by a variety of corrupt people and companies. |
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Series Premiere Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Sundance | Wednesday | 9:00p
The Sundance channel brings Costello to TV with a new talk show featuring mainly musicians as guests. |
 | Series Premiere Biography | Tuesday | 10:00p
Shatner returns to television, this time as a TV host for his new talk show on the Biography channel. |
Note: All times are ET unless otherwise noted.
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