 | | Breaking Bad: Season 2 | | Release: Feb 10, 2010 | | · out now · |  | Breaking Bad details the extremes of behaviour men are capable of in a lawless space, as juxtaposed against moments of breathtaking redemption, making it a quality series to rank alongside The Sopranos and Deadwood. This absorbing drama stars Bryan Cranston, formerly of... more |
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|  | | The Wire: Season 5 | | Release: Feb 03, 2010 | | · out now · | | | HBO's The Wire – arguably the best US drama never to win a prime-time Emmy (it was nominated in both 2005 and 2008) – further finds its niche during its fifth and final season. Its visceral dissection of the media’s circle of influence on politics, power and the accumulation... more |
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 | | Doctor Who: Waters of Mars | | Release: Feb 04, 2010 | | · out now · | | | The beginning of the end for current Doctor David Tennant is a moody piece set on the red planet, where a small group of humans, led by the formidable Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan), have established a colony. When several of the colonists begin to exhibit spooky symptoms... more |
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|  | | Life on Mars: Complete Series (US) | | Release: Nov 18, 2009 | | | | A car accident sends detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) from the present day back into the seventies. Based on the acclaimed BBC series of the same name, this US remake riffs from the same template for a distinctive
and equally compelling crime series. Beginning with culture... more |
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 | | Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy | | Release: Nov 05, 2009 | | | | Three stories from Season 20 of Doctor Who – originally broadcast in 1983 – are linked by the presence of the Doctor's nemesis, The Black Guardian, who was last seen attempting to steal the Key to Time from Tom Baker's Doctor. This time it's Peter Davison's Time Lord who's... more |
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|  | | Generation Kill | | Release: Nov 25, 2009 | | | | David Simon creator of The Wire turns his scrupulous eye to the second invasion of Iraq in this exceptional HBO Films mini-series. Adapted from the book by Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright, Generation Kill rides shotgun alongside the Ist Recon Marines to dramatise the... more |
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 | | The Tudors: Season 3 | | Release: Nov 25, 2009 | | | | This season on the life of King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) will see him take on three wives, beginning with Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis). It's a union of significance as it results in the birth of Prince Edward, the future Edward VI, though Jane dies of complication... more |
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|  | | Monty Python | | Release: Oct 30, 2009 | | | | Commemorating 40 years since the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on the BBC, this is a revealing and thorough look at one of Britain's most beloved comedy troupes. Six hour-long programmes chronicle the life of Python, from their early years to the TV series,... more |
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 | | Heroes: Season 3 | | Release: Sep 02, 2009 | | | | After confronting their greatest enemy of all – the 9 month writers strike that derailed Season 2 – Tim Kring’s sci-fi series is back on track and gathers momentum in its third season as characters shift allegiances and the world is threatened with destruction once more.... more |
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|  | | True Blood: Season 1 | | Release: Jul 01, 2009 | | | | HBO’s southern gothic vampire series, created by Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, is a sexy, bloody suckerpunch and distinctly adult flip side to the teen romantic fantasy of Twilight. Based on a series of books by Charlaine Harris, featuring southern gal and telepathic waitress... more |
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 | | Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 6 | | Release: Jun 03, 2009 | | | | The high life observed from the cheap seats. LD returns, this time taking in an African- American family (real name Black) left homeless by a hurricane. Manufacturing comical misunderstandings from his confrontations with the virtuous, Larry David, who propels each episode... more |
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|  | | The Big Bang Theory: Season 1 | | Release: Jun 04, 2009 | | | | If you've ever swung a lightsabre or know what a Klingon is, chances are you will not only love to this new US sitcom which champions the geek but you'll also find it uncomfortably close to home. Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) play student geniuses and... more |
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