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BBC Entertainment in July, 2009:
Silent Witness 12Premiere date: Monday, 6 July 2009 at 20h30
Season 12 begins with Leo arrested for drink driving and finding himself doing community service on a rough London estate where gang violence among kids is common.
When Nikki investigates the murder of a young girl from the same estate, Leo finds himself in the midst of a turf war.
Elsewhere Harry mentors an eager medical student who seems more interested in the media frenzy over his latest case than pathology, and Nikki investigates an armed raid on a terrorist cell, facing increasing police hostility to her investigation as she begins to suspect the victims are innocent.
Spooks 6Premiere date: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 at 20h30
After detonating a bomb in Tehran, Zaf and Adam unwittingly bring back a plague virus to the UK. They are infected by it and are captured by a group of radicals.
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Ashes To AshesPremiere date: Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 20h30
Swapping his Ford Cortina for an Audi Quattro, DCI Gene Hunt rolls up his sleeves and embraces the 80s in this sequel to Life On Mars.
Set in 1981, everyone's favourite politically-incorrect cop, flanked by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling and Chris Skelton, turns his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum in London. But he doesn’t reckon on meeting DCI Alex Drake, who is battling with her own sense of dislocation.
Ripped from the modern world of sexual equality and respect, she finds herself faced with the boorish Gene in a two-tone, New Romantic, 80s London with a soundtrack of Adam Ant, Roxy Music and The Human League ringing in her ears.
Where is Alex really from and what does she have to do with Sam Tyler? Frustrated by each other's stubbornness, the friction between Alex and Gene steadily increases.
However, as the two titans collide, it becomes apparent there is more than just a professional tension emerging.
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps 7Premiere date: Friday, 10 July 2009 at 20h00
20-something's Jonny, Janet, Donna, Gaz and Louise return for a seventh season of life in a northern UK town.
Coming up in the season: Jonny wins a competition to go shark-jumping in Hawaii, pregnant Louise moves in with Janet, Munch turns up again, and Gaz discovers he’s a father. Plus, there’s a funeral, and one of the characters goes through the five stages of grief in record time.
PrimevalPremiere date: Sunday, 26 July 2009 at 18h40
Primeval’s evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and his team return for a second season to do battle with more savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes, as unexplained anomalies continue to rip through the fabric of time, causing havoc in the present day.
In the season: Claudia reappears, looking exactly the same, but with no memory of the past, or Nick. It seems he altered the present when he went back in time, but how?
Also, bizarre creatures from the future materialise. Connor (Andrew Lee Potts) still has a penchant for Abby (Hannah Spearritt) but will they ever get it together?
Meanwhile Helen (Juliet Aubrey, Criminal Justice) is acting suspiciously, and Stephen (James Murray) doesn't know whom to trust. One thing' everyone's certain of is that there is definitely a traitor in their midst.
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