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Watch out for it: Series of hit shows lined up

April 16 - 22, 2008
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Dubai One, a 24 hour free-to-air English entertainment channel, is rolling out a series of hit TV shows as well as debuting two brand new and exclusive programmes, never before seen.

Hit family saga Everwood was back on April 7 for a third instalment on Mondays at 9pm - carrying on where it left off, and continuing to entertain the whole family with the latest incidents that the Brown family face.

Everybody's favourite friend Joey Tribbiani reprises his "Friends" role as the charming and still single Joey, who has struck out on his own and moved to Hollywood, hoping to truly make it as an actor. Season 2 now showing every Thursday at 5.30pm

New and exclusive to Dubai One is the exciting Dresden Files, a crime drama based on the Jim Butcher Classics about Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Showing Saturdays at 12.30 pm, the show revolves around Chicago-based Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne); a regular-guy private detective with extraordinary abilities.

While most people see assaults, kidnappings or murders as the work of people with a depraved indifference for human pain, Harry is as likely as not to see the work of supernatural villains. That's because he's a wizard. Whether consulting for the police on seemingly inexplicable crimes or following his own cases, he battles dark forces with a wry sense of humour.

Fasten your seatbelt for a fabulously funny and heartbreakingly dramatic fifth season of Gilmore Girls, starting Friday at 9pm. Gone are the freshman-year anxieties for Rory and in their place were more grownup concerns. The show's trademark eccentricities are all in place - including a Pulp Fiction party and an elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof, among other things, keeping the best drama of its run for the season's last four episodes, which will find Rory's confidence shaken to the core. To give any of the proceedings away would spoil the drama, but suffice it to say you will be glued to the TV for this season's final four hours.

A marriage, a murder, and a mole all play relevant roles in the fourth season of CSI: Miami, airing its fourth season on Saturday at 9pm. Season 4 promises 25 episodes full of riveting and shocking mysteries. The evidence leads into the privileged suburbs and explosive family secrets, making the stakes higher than ever before and this time it's personal! Join lead criminalist Horatio Caine (David Caruso) and his state-of-the-art forensics team as they investigate hot and steamy Miami crimes using cold hard facts.

Also starting on Saturday is Cold Case Season 2 at 8pm. It is a drama about Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), a dedicated female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad, who finds her niche 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 interrogating witnesses whose lives and circumstances have since changed, making use of today's new science and finding fresh clues to solve cases that were previously unsolvable.

Rush sees her new assignment as a turning point in her career, when she decides to make it her business to make sure that no victim is ever forgotten.







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