New shows and seasons starting on M-Net Series in January, 2008:
Nip/Tuck 5Premiere date: Wednesday, 9 January 2008 at 21h00
Sean and Christian are back in a new city. Having relocated their business to Los Angeles the plastic pair struggle for success in a city where they are professionally unknown, and where residents yearn for fame.
The Bachelor 9Premiere date: 11 January, 2008 at 20h00
Prince Lorenzo Borghese, a 34-year-old cosmetics entrepreneur, will try to meet his own Grace Kelly when he romances 25 American women in the city of Rome.
Prince Borghese is an American citizen who's resided in Manhattan since 1997. Born in Milan, he lived in Rome and outside Paris before moving to Connecticut when he was 5 years old. Born of the Borghese's parents, Prince Francesco and Princess Amanda Borghese, Lorenzo is hoping to find that type of long-lasting, happily-ever-after relationship.
Wife Swap 6Premiere date: 11 January, 2008 at 23h00
Wives return to swap lives for a sixth season of the show.
America's Got TalentPremiere date: Saturday, 12 January, 2008 at 19h00
From Simon Cowell and the producers of American Idol comes the search for the hottest variety and novelty acts from across the USA.
With acts ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, the quest is on to find the best talent on offer. At stake - a life changing opportunity. Magicians to jugglers, strippers to fire eaters, singers to dancers - anything goes. All entertainers are given the chance to win the hearts of America and the cash prize of $1,000,000.
With the audience crammed with performers, everyone is hoping to be called for their shot at stardom. As they take centre stage for the "open auditions" of a lifetime, they have only a precious few seconds to impress the hardened panel of judges - David Hasselhoff (Baywatch), Grammy award-winning singer and actress Brandy (Moesha) and U.K. television/media personality Piers Morgan - whose decision is final.
The season's hosted by US talkshow host Regis Philbin.
Boston Legal 3Premiere date: 14 January, 2008 at 21h00
Boston Legal returns for it's third season. In the season premiere: Denise and Schmidt defend Daniel Post (Michael J. Fox) after he's arrested for trying to buy a lung.
Meanwhile, Shore reunites passionately with Marlene (Parker Posey) and defends his pal, Jerry "Hands" Espenson (played by Christian Clemenson), after he's caught driving in the carpool lane with a life-sized sex doll.
Three Moons Over MilfordPremiere date: Monday, 14 January, 2008 at 23h00
Three Moons Over Milford is set in a small town that reflects the world's reaction to a cosmic explosion threatening Earth's existence.
The residents of Milford have taken their lives to the extreme: quitting jobs, indulging vices and basically living as if today were their last. The Davis family is no exception.
The series chronicles the life of the Davis family as Laura Davis’ husband abandons his family to travel the world while her daughter Lydia practices witchcraft and her 17-year-old son Alex gets romantically involved with an older next door neighbour.
Top Chef 2Premiere date: 25 January, 2008 at 19h00
The chefs dive straight into the heat in the premiere episode of this second season of Top Chef. The season cooks off with a quickfire challenge where they have 30 minutes to shop for ingredients, flambé their dish and present it to the panel of judges that includes Top Chef season one winner Harold Dieterle.
The winner of this flambé challenge will have immunity for the elimination challenge, where the competing chefs will face their toughest critics.
New to the judges’ table this season is host Padma Lakshmi, who joins Head Judge, Chef Tom Colicchio of New York City’s Gramercy Tavern and Craft Restaurants, and Gail Simmons of Food and Wine Magazine.
Harold Dieterle, who plans to open his Manhattan restaurant Perilla later this year, will guest judge and help determine who stays and who must pack their knives to go home.
The winning chef will receive $100,000 in seed money to help encourage their culinary career, be featured in Food & Wine magazine, and earn the title of Top Chef.
Men In Trees 2Premiere date: Wednesday, 30 January, 2008 at 20h00
Men In Trees returns for it's second season. In addition to getting better acquainted with the characters we came to know in the first season - this second season features a wedding that doesn't happen, another that does, two divorces, one baby, a pack of angry wolves, an arctic cyclone, two "little people" and a puppy.
Amidst it all Marin Frist really settles in to the man-centric town of Elmo, Alaska. She starts pursuing what she thinks will make her truly happy: a relationship and completing her book - only to find things are far more complicated than she thought.
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