 | | Dexter: Season 5 | | Release: Aug 18, 2011 | |  | Forensic specialist cum serial killer Dexter continues to hone his nefarious skills in the latest installment of the hit series. Whilst season four was notable for the casting of John Lithgow as a deranged and formidable nemesis to Michael C. Hall’s Dexter, the highlight... more |
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|  | | Lip Service: Season 1 | | Release: Aug 26, 2011 | | | | Comparisons with The L Word are inevitable, and while this British-produced lesbian relationship drama has much in common with its US counterpart, it's also largely reminiscent of nineties BBC series This Life. Lip Service follows three lesbian women... more |
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 | | CSI Season 10 | | Release: Aug 03, 2011 | | | | Celebrating a double figure innings, procedural crime series CSI underscores its enduring appeal. And though it’s the first full season without pivotal link man William Petersen, the landmark Tenth Season managed to win a People’s Choice award Stateside, with Laurence... more |
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|  | | Sons of Anarchy: Season 1 | | Release: Aug 24, 2011 | | | | If you've watched digital channel One over the last few months, you will have noticed the aggressive promotion of this new US series. The show follows the titular Californian biker club and its constant clashes with the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
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 | | Downton Abbey: Season 1 | | Release: Aug 04, 2011 | | | | Downton Abbey has proved to be an unexpected success for Channel Seven this year, given that British period drama doesn't tend to rate well on commercial networks. Created by Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes, this family saga, set in 1912, focuses on class... more |
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|  | | Entourage: Season 7 | | Release: Jul 13, 2011 | | | | The boys are back, but things are changing for the Hollywood gang. Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle have grown up and are starting to grow apart as new career opportunities – and new girlfriends – present themselves. Following an accident on the set of an action film, Vince... more |
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 | | An Idiot Abroad | | Release: Jul 21, 2011 | | | | The perennially miserable but wonderfully deadpan Karl Pilkington has been Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's favourite punchbag since their groundbreaking podcasts. And while this travelogue puts him in the limelight to a degree, it also provides plenty of fresh opportunities... more |
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|  | | True Blood: Season 3 | | Release: May 18, 2011 | | | | Season 3 is not only the best series of the HBO vampire show to date, but it’s also an exercise in how far you can push the limits of television in terms of graphic violence and sex. True Blood rips the throat out of the wimpy Twilight, but its gratuitous excess... more |
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 | | Incendiary | | Release: May 04, 2011 | | | | This story of an al-Qaeda terrorist atrocity in London, this is based on Chris Cleave’s novel of the same name, which spookily was published the day before the suicide attacks in London in 2005. Incendiary centres on a young London mother (Michelle Williams) whose... more |
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|  | | Being Human: Series 3 | | Release: May 05, 2011 | | | | A sort of British sibling to True Blood, minus the gratuitous gore and nudity, Being Human focuses on three supernatural pals: werewolf George (Russell Tovey), vampire Mitchell (Aidan Turner) and ghost Annie (Lenora Crichlow) who share a house and struggle... more |
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 | | Doctor Who: Revisitations 2 | | Release: May 05, 2011 | | | | A trio of classic Doctor Who stories originally released in the early days of DVD have now been newly remastered and packaged together in this 6-disc boxed set, complete with all-new bonus materials. There's a good cross section of Doctors and classic foes represented:... more |
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|  | | Human Planet | | Release: May 05, 2011 | | | | For many of us in the developed world, used to a lifestyle of convenience and access to takeaway food of many varieties, it's easy to forget we live on a planet where many families still gather and harvest food first-hand. In a flooded grassland in Asia, a young father and... more |
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