Don't miss: Harper's Island
If your idea of the perfect wedding is eloping to a secluded island with a group of your best friends then this series might make you think again. Unless of course your perfect wedding also includes your friends dying off in increasingly grisly ways as the murky past of the island comes to back to haunt you. Gruesome and gripping
CBS Drama
From: Fri 22 Oct
To: Fri 14 Jan
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Fri 12 Nov
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Fri 26 Nov
Wellington: The Iron Duke
BBC Factual
This three part series shows there is much more to this man than the battle and the boots he is most famous for. A hopeless student, terrible with money he emerged as a brilliant soldier, defeater of Napoleon, an eminent parliamentarian and twice Prime Minister of England. At each turn The Iron Duke’s life turned him into a iconic figure of British History. Helped by having a pair of boots named after him.
From:
Wed 03 Nov
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Wed 17 Nov
Lab Rats
BBC Comedy
Chris Addison of Thick of It fame gets a shot on the other side of the shouting in this delightfully off the wall sitcom set in the commercial laboratory of St Dunstan’s University. Expect giant snails.
From:
Thu 28 Oct
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Fri 17 Dec
Vampire Diaries
Warner Drama
Vampires don’t generally make good boyfriends. For a start they’re mostly dead, mostly old enough to be your great-great-great- grandfather and then there’s all that messy neck obsession to deal with. So what happens when two of them fall for you? Two brothers who don’t exactly get on either… well. It’s going to get messy. And romantic. In all the right ways. Available now on WarnerTV Drama…
From:
Fri 12 Nov
To:
Fri 26 Nov
Trawlermen
BBC Factual
At one of the scale fishing entails a leisurely afternoon at the side of a babbling brook with a paper, a thermos, and a pair of very large boots, whiling away the hours. At the other end of the scale are the Trawlermen, facing almost daily violent seas and stormy weather, freezing, dangerous conditions and the minefield of fishing quotas off the unforgiving coast of Peterhead. A generous slice of life in perspective.
From:
Fri 05 Nov
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Sun 27 Mar
30 Rock
TV Box
They always say you should write about what you know. And since Tina Fey was head scriptwriter for Saturday Night Live for years, it should come as no surprise that she stars as the head writer here of a show that is very, very similar to said show in all ways except those that might involve lawsuits. Throw in an arrogant new boss, add a neurotic star and the magic formula is complete