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Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman, 42, is to feature as a guest star on the rising TV drama Smash. The actress, plays RebeccaDuvall, a movie star brought in to headline the Marilyn Monroe musical on the show.
Investigation Discovery is growing fast with an old trick for luring its predominantly female viewers: scaring and titillating them with stories of shocking crimes, then making them feel like they can help catch the perpetrators, writes Tim Molloy.
A rebellious and unconventional medical genius, Dr Gregory House, specialises in diagnostic medicine in New Jersey. Although witty and arrogant, he is given puzzling cases and does whatever it takes to solve them. He often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. His flouting of hospital rules frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, Dr Lisa Cuddy.
Set in the fictional Yorkshire county of Downtown Abbey, the series follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early 1900s. Lord Crawley has just lost his son aboard the Titanic, which makes his distant cousin Matthew Crawley next in line to the family fortune. Soon after, Matthew moves into the estate with his mother but not everyone is happy about it.
A young girl nicknamed ‘Babydoll’ is institutionalised after she is blamed for the death of her sister. The asylum’s orderly is bribed into forging the signature of a psychiatrist to have Babydoll lobotomised. As a coping strategy, she finds herself retreating to a world where the line between reality and fantasy blurs as she envisions a plan to escape the facility.
After graduating from high school, Moose decides to grow up and quit dancing. He becomes an engineering student at New York University but quickly finds himself involved in a dance battle on the street. Luke, the leader of the House of Pirates Dance Crew notices Moose and convinces him to team up with his group to compete in a dance competition with the world’s best hip hop dancers. The Samurais, led by Luke’s nemesis Julien, are their main competition at the event.
Annie Walker is a talented young trainee working for the CIA. She is sent out on a job at the Domestic Protection Division where she meets August Anderson, a blind tech operative who later becomes her new life guide. Covert Affairs focuses on the double life of a single woman.
In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires, a warrior priest receives word that his daughter has been abducted. In order to save her he must break his sacred vows to find her before she’s turned into a vampire. His daughter’s boyfriend joins him on his mission alongside a former warrior priestess who has unearthly fighting skills.
Griffin Keyes is a kindhearted zookeeper who is loved by the animals he cares for at the Franklin Park Zoo. In order to find love, he decides to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals are left with no choice but to break their code of silence and reveal that they can talk to keep Griffin from leaving. All they have to do now is teach him how to win a woman’s heart.
