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Enter the cut-throat world of tabloid journalism, where writers will go to any length to get the scoop to satisfy the hunger of a celebrity-obsessed culture, in Dirt, making its Middle Eastern debut on Showseries 2 on Thursday at 11pm.
Starring Courteney Cox, Dirt is an edgy drama that exposes the truth behind the faade of show business image making, and reveals the lives of those determined to do so.
Dirt, chronicles the life of Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox), the ruthless, powerful editor-in-chief of the celebrity tabloid magazines Dirt and Now. A genius at the art of manipulation, Lucy possesses a maniacal dedication to exposing the truth about Hollywood's luminaries, for reasons even she has yet to fully fathom.
As steadfast photographer Don Konkey (Ian Hart) constantly provides exclusive, shocking pictures of the rich and famous for Lucy's magazines, the glossy, perfect veneer created by Hollywood is shattered, often to tragic results.
The cast of characters is rounded out with Brent Barrow (Jeffrey Nordling), the magazines' publisher, who is frequently at odds with Lucy; Lucy's promiscuous younger brother, Leo Spiller (Will McCormack), whose private life intersects with his sister's magazine; Julia Mallory (Laura Allen), a beloved A-list movie and television star whose recreational habits spin out of control; and Holt McLaren (Josh Stewart), a struggling actor who will stop at nothing to regain his star status.
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Star Movies brings you the X-Men Trilogy - with all star casts of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen - to round off the year, starting with X-Men at 8.30pm on Saturday.
Based on the classic Marvel Comics series, the X-Men are outcasts from society, born with a unique genetic mutation that gives them superhuman powers. While the X-Men work to harness their special abilities for the greater good, they know that most humans reject and fear their powers. Battling against prejudice and agents of intolerance, the X-Men will either establish a peaceful co-existence between mutants and mankind, or perish.
Coming across a dangerously wild mutant named Wolverine, a creature whose bones have been fused with steel, the X-Men must train the new recruit and assimilate him into their ranks.
In the mean time, Magneto (McKellan), a powerful mutant who can control the magnetic and gravitational forces of the earth, plans to destroy the human race because of the contempt they have shown his kind. Can he and his followers be stopped in time?
X2: X-Men United follows on Sunday at 8.30pm
The X-Men continue their struggle against a society that fears and mistrusts them.
After a mutant named Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) reportedly tries to kill the US President, humans become even more suspicious of the group. The shocking attack renews the political and public outcry for a Mutant Registration Act.
Forming an uneasy alliance with Magneto's Brotherhood, the X-Men face their most dangerous mission ever.
The trilogy is rounded off with X-Men: The Last Stand on Monday at 8.30pm.
Tensions between humans and mutants have eased. A mutant-tolerant President has been elected to the White House, a blue furry mutant named Beast (Kelsey Grammer) heads up the Department of Mutant Affairs, and Magneto's shape-shifting femme fatale, Mystique, is in prison. But the peace is soon shattered.
Worthington Laboratories, using a powerful mutant boy, develops a serum that eliminates the "mutant X gene" permanently. This so-called "cure" quickly divides the mutant community. Professor Xavier and his school are willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt, but Magneto - aided by resurrected super-mutant Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) - and his mutant Brotherhood see the serum as a vile threat to their way of life and form an army of mutants to march on the fortified Worthington Laboratories on Alcatraz Island.
