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BBC Entertainment in August 2009:
The VisitPremiered: Monday 3 August at 20h00
Number of episodes: 7
The Visit is a comedy series about a group of banged-up petty crooks and the family, friends - and fiends - who visit them each week in their natural environment: a low-security prison.
Set almost entirely in the prison visiting room, the comic tension flows from a three-way dynamic between the prisoners, their family and friends, and the under-valued prison officers.
New Tricks 3Premiere date: Tuesday 4 August 2009 at 13h10 and 22h30
Series continues every weekday at 13h10 and 22h30Number of episodes: 8 episodes
Back on the case again, Lane, Standing, Halford and boss Pullman return for a third season.
During the season: the team investigates the death of a member of a witches‟ coven. Did black magic play a part in the murder? There‟s also a chill in the air as two families are busy reigniting a feud which may threaten their livelihoods as ice-cream vendors. Both families are convinced of the other‟s guilt over a shooting in the past at the hands of the „ice-cream bandit‟.
After You’ve Gone 3Premiere date: Tuesday 4 August at 20h00
Number of episodes: 8
Season 3 continues to follow the trying times of Jimmy Venables, the only man in Britain to have divorced his wife and ended up with his mother-in-law.
In this season, Jimmy finds that, with his ex-wife staying in Africa, what he thought of as the temporary domestic arrangement of looking after the kids in tandem with his mother-in-law is likely to become permanent.
Shocked by the idea of spending the rest of his natural life with mother-in-law Diana, Jimmy resolves to be a 'proper' Dad and takes on the running of the house. He sets out with all good intentions, but before long work suffers, social life suffers, and ultimately Jimmy suffers.
As Molly and Alex struggle for more freedom, Diana struggles to tighten her grip on the family, and Jimmy just struggles on.
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Lab RatsPremiere date: Wednesday 5 August 2009 at 20h00
Number of episodes: 6
Somewhere in St. Dunstan's University sits The Arnolfini Research Laboratory - a lab for hire, meant for flashy projects which will bring the college kudos and money.
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My Hero 6Premiere date: Thursday 6 August at 20h00
Number of episodes: 8
Taking on the role of George following the departure of Ardal O'Hanlon after Season 5, James Dreyfus dons the orange and red spandex tights to become the bumbling superhero.
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Dalziel and Pascoe 11Premiere date: Monday, 17 August 2009 and Tuesday, 18 August 2009 at 20h30
Series continues every Monday and Tuesday at 20h30 Number of episodes: 10
The blunt-talking, politically incorrect Andy Dalziel and his younger, fast-tracked side-kick, Peter Pascoe, retrun for another collection of murder cases.
In this eleventh season the duo investigate more difficult cases, including that of a woman whose mummified remains emerge from the water during a cave rescue operation. As their investigation comes under increasing attack, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves battling harder than ever to learn the truth about a murder that happened over twenty years ago.
The pair also investigate the murder of an up-and-coming jockey at a race-track, and Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves forced to examine the dark underbelly of horse-racing. They find the rural setting of their latest murder inquiry anything but idyllic, as their search for clues takes them deeper into the murky world of the sport.
Red Dwarf Premiere date: Friday 21 August 2009 at 19h30
Series continues every weekday at 19h30 Number of episodes: 6
Red Dwarf is a comedic paradoy of the sci-fi genre. Set on board the Jupiter mining ship Red Dwarf, Dave Lister ranks 169 out of 169, lower than the Skutters - the maintenance robots. His boss/room-mate is Arnold Rimmer, an obsessive, incompetent, nerdy smeghead who has failed his astronavigation exam 16 times.
Lister has recently been dumped by officer Kristine Kochanski and is still in love with her, but by the end of the first episode, all the crew except Lister are dead from a radiation leak caused by a badly sealed drive plate.
Imprisoned in stasis before the radiation leak, Lister is released millions of years in the future with the accolade of being the only surviving member of the human race - and what a representative he is.
The inventor of the fried-egg-and-chillipickle sandwich, Lister is the scruffiest, smelliest individual ever to slob around the universe. Holly, the ship‟s senile computer, decides Lister needs company to keep him from going insane.
Enter Arnold Rimmer, now a hologram, but with all the neuroses and failings of the original model, and Cat, a descendant of the ship‟s cat who has evolved over millions of years into a self-obsessed humanoid creature who sleeps, eats and fawns over his appearance.
Aimlessly roaming the universe, this ramshackle crew of space bums encounter alien pods, mutated viruses and distorted time. And if that doesn‟t keep Lister amused, there is always the question of why Rimmer‟s last words were „Gazpacho soup‟…
BBC Entertainment is on DStv Channel 120.