TV Shows (2012 - 2013)

Status: Season 3 Starts End of January 2015

Network: FX
Who's in it?: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Noah Emmerich

What's it about:
Follows a married American couple who are in fact Soviet KGB officers.

Status: Currently Showing Season 3

Network: CW
Who's in it?: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Colin Donnell, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Susanna Thompson, Paul Blackthorne, John Barrowman

What's it about:
Based on the DC comic, Green Arrow, the show follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, who, after five years of being stranded on a hostile island, returns home to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrows.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: Cinemax
Who's in it?: Antony Starr, Ivana Miličević, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison, Hoon Lee, Rus Blackwell, Matt Servitto, Demetrius Grosse, Trieste Kelly, Dunn, Ryann Shane, Daniel Ross Owens, Lili Simmons, Ben Cross

What's it about:
The series is set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: A&E
Who's in it?: Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Nicola Peltz, Olivia Cooke, Ver Farmiga

What's it about:
The series is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and will depict the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2

Network: BBC

Who's in it?: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Vicky McClure, Arthur Darvil, David Bradley, Pauline Quirke, Jonathan Bailey

What's it about?
Aided by local Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller, the newly arrived, out-of-town Detective Inspector Alec Hardyinvestigates the mysterious death of an 11-year-old boy on a beach at the foot of a cliff at the seaside community of Broadchurch. The investigation takes in the boy's parents and the residents of the town who come under the media spotlight - threatening to reveal secrets and betrayals.

STATUS: Currently Showing Season 3

Network: NBC
Who's in it?: Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Charlie Barnett, David Eigenberg, Monica Raymund, Lauren German, Teri Reeves, Merle Dandrige.

What's it about:
Follows the men and women of Chicago Firehouse 51.

Status: Currently Showing Season 3

Network: CBS
Who's in it?: Lucy Liu, Jonny Lee Miller, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill

What's it about:
Drama which envisions Arthur Conan Doyle's literary hero in the present day as a former Scotland Yard consultant who solves crimes for the NYPD alongside Joan Watson, his personal recovery assistant

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2

Network: BBC Two
Genre: Crime, Drama
Who's in it?: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Archie Punjabi, Gerard McCarthy, Emmett J. Scanlan, Karen Hassan, Niamh McGrady, Bronagh Waugh, John Lynch, Simon Delaney, Seainin Brennan

What's it about?
Under the leadershipe of Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, the Belfast police must track down a serial killer

Status: Renewed for Season 3

Network: Fox
Who's in it?: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Jeananne Goossen, Shawn Ashmore, Natalie Zea, Kyle Catlett.

What's it about:
A serial killer escapes from death row and the man who caught before is tasked with bringing him in.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: Netflix
Who's in it?: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara, Corey Stoll, Michael Kelly, Sakina Jaffrey, Kristen Connolly, Constance Zimmer

What's it about:
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district and the House Majority Whip, who after getting passed over for appointment to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him

Status: Currently Showing Season 3

Network: ABC
Who's in it?: Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Clare Bowen, Powers Boothe, Eric Close, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson

What's it about:
A look at the cutthroat world of country music, family and politics.

Status: Renewed for Season 3

Network: History
Who's in it?: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gabriel Byrne, Katheryn Winnick, Jessalyn Gilsig, George Blagden, Gustaf Skarsgard

What's it about:
The show tells the tale of the epic and violent world of the mighty Norsemen who raided, traded and explored during the early medieval period. It follows the exploits of semi-legendary viking figure Ragnar Lodbrok and the gripping sagas of Ragnar's Viking crew and family as he struggles to become 'king' of a large part of modern day Scandinavia and Europe

Status: Renewed for Season 4

Network: TNT
Who's in it?: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Phillip P. Keene, Kearran Giovanni, Graham Patrick Martin

What's it about:
A spin-off of The Closer, Major Crimes follows Captain Sharon Raydor as she takes over from Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2

Network: NBC

Who's in it?: William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine, Gabriella Pession, Tom Wlaschiha, Moon Daily, Richard Flood, Donald Sutherland

What's it about:
A former NYPD officer joins the International Criminal Court's special crime unite that investigates serial crime that crosses European borders.

Status: Renewed for Season 3

Network: ABC Australia
Who's in it?: Craig McLachlan, Nadine Garner, Rick Donald, Cate Wolfe, Joel Tobeck

What's it about:
Set in 1959, Doctor Lucien Blake returns to his home town to take over his deceased father's general medical practice.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2

Network: ITV
Who's in it?: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Jake Laskey, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Jack Bannon, Caroline O'Neil

What's it about:
A prequel of the Inspector Morse series

STATUS: RENEWED FOR SEASON 3
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Mark Williams, Hugo Speer, Sorcha Cusack, Nancy Carroll

What's it about?
Set in the early 1950s a Roman Catholic priest is a master at solving crime

STATUS: RENEWED FOR SEASON 3
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire, Nicola Walker, Tony Gardner, Nina Sosanya

What's it about?
A romantic drama series

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: ITV/PBS

Who's in it?: Jeremy Piven, Frances O'Connor, Katherine Kelly

What's it about?
A period television drama series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his London department store Selfridge's

STATUS: Ended after 2 seasons
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham, Elaine Cassidy, Sarah Lancashire, Matthew McNulty, Peter Wright, David Hayman, Stephen Wright, Sonya Cassidy, Ruby Bentall, Finn Burridge, Patrick Malahide

What's it about?
A period drama about the lives and loves of the people that work, shop and trade in and around the first department store in the North of England.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3 on Netflix
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg

What's it about?
A mystery drama set in Whitechapel in London's East End, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3
Network: BBC One

Who's in it?: Douglas Henshall, Alison O'Donnell, Steven Robertson, Alexander Morton

What's it about?
A crime drama television series set in Shetland.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2
Network: QVF Inc, M6, RTL, The Movie Network, Movie Central, HBO/Cinemax

Who's in it?: Chris Vance, François Berléand, Andrea Osvárt, Delphine Chanéac, Charly Hübner

What's it about?
The continuing adventures of Frank Martin, a professional freelance courier driver for hire who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price, and lives by three, unbreakable rules... which he constantly breaks.

STATUS: Season 1 Ended

Network: ABC Family

Who's in it?: Avan Jogia, Madelaine Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Kimberly Quinn, Denise Richards, Sam Robards

What's it about:
A teen with a troubled past reconnects with his two female best friends from childhood. He becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is surprisingly found dead in her home.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 2

Network: Channel 4

Who's in it?: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford and Neil Maskell

What's it about?
The story follows a small group of people who find themselves in possession of the manuscript sequel of a cult graphic novel called "The Utopia Experiments" which is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century. This leads them to be targeted by an organisation known as 'The Network', which they must avoid to survive. Using the manuscript, they must uncover the meaning hidden in its pages before the disasters depicted become reality

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: STARZ/BBC Worldwide
Who's in it?: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock

What's it about:
A drama about Leonardo da Vinci's early life

Status: Season 3 Ended

Network: Showcase

Who's in it?: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo, Brian Markinson, Richard Harmon, Jennifer Spence

What's it about:
A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future.

Status: Currently Showing Season 3

Network: TNT
Who's in it?: Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo, Brenda Strong, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, Mitch Pileggi, Emma Bell, Kuno Becker

What's it about:
A continutation of the long-running soap opera, Dallas.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: BBC America
Who's in it?: Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce

What's it about:
A streetwise hustler witnesses the suicide of a girl who looks just like her and falls headlong into a deadly mystery.

Status: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: CTV
Who's in it?: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger R. Cross, Lauren Holly

What's it about:
Feisty lead detective Angie Flynn is on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. This cat-and-mouse series is a twist on the everyday whodunit.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3
Network: Showtime

Who's in it?: Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson, Jon Voight, Eddie Marsan, Katherine Moennig, Dash Mihok, Kerris Dorsey, Pooch Hall, Steven Bauer, Devon Bagby

What's it about:
The show takes place in Los Angeles, California and stars Liev Schreiber as the title character. He plays a "fixer" for the rich and famous, but experiences his own personal problems when his father, played by Jon Voight, is unexpectedly released from prison.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: Netflix
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Who's in it?: Taylor Schilling, Jason Biggs, Laura Prepon

What's it about:
About woman adapting to new environment after she gets busted and thrown into detention in a federal penitentiary due to old relationship with drug dealing boyfriend back in college

STATUS: Season 2 Ended.

Network: ABC
Genre: Drama
Who's in it?: Alyssa Milano, Brett Tucker, Cameron Bender, Eric Stocklin, Jason George, Jes Macallan, Rochelle Aytes, Yunjin Kim

What's it about:
Drama which follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships

STATUS: Season 2 Ended

Network: USA
Who's in it?: Stephen L. Cohen, Vanessa Ferlito, Brandon Jay McLaren, Manny Montana, Jenn Proske, Daniel Sunjata, Aaron Tveit

What's it about:
A FBI rookie is sent live in a house with other undercover agents of the FBI, DEA and U.S. Customs

Status: Season 3 Ended

Network: TNT
Who's in it?: Eric McCormack, Rachael Leigh Cook, Arjay Smith, Kelly Rown

What's it about:
A crime drama about a neuroscientist who assists the FBI on some of their most complex cases.

STATUS: Season 2 Ended

Network: Syfy
Who's in it?: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Tony Curran, Graham Greene, Mia Kirshner, Fionnula Flanagan

What's it about:
A sci-fi series about humans and an alien species known as the Votans who fight for survival on a transformed Earth.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3.

Network: Sundance
Who's in it?: Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, Adelaide Clemens, Clayne Crawford, Sean Bridgers, J. Smith-Cameron,
Luke Kirby, Hal Holbrook, Allie Hughes

What's it about:
Daniel Holden is released after emergence of new DNA evidence for a rape/murder charge after 19 years on death row and returns to his hometown of Paulie, Georgia, where he must readjust to a new life

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: Netflix
Who's in it?: Famke Jansse, Bill Skarsgard, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Lili Taylor, Dougray Scott, Aaron Douglas, Amazon Eve, Tiio Horn, Kandyse McClure

What's it about:
A young girl is brutally murdered and found near the former Godfrey steel mill. As rumors mount, two of the suspects in her killing decide to find the killer themselves

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: Hallmark Channel
Genre: Drama

Who's in it?: Andie MacDowell, Katharine Isabelle, Jesse Moss, Dylan Neal

What's it about:
Deals with the lives of residents of the small town of Cedar Cove. Based on book series by Debbie Macomber

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: CBS

Who's in it?: Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Colin Ford, Natalie Martinez, Alex Koch, Britt Robertson, Nicholas Strong, Jolene Purdy, Aisha Hinds, Dean Norris

What's it about:
Based on the novel by Stephen King, Under the Dome tells the story of the residents of the small town who suddenly find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious, impenetrable barrier that surrounds the town.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: ABC Family
Genre: Comedy
Who's in it?: Jake T. Austin, Teri Polo, Maia Mitchell, Madisen Beaty, Cierra Ramirez, David Sullivan

What's it about:
A multi-ethnic family mix of foster and biological kids are being raised by two moms.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: CW
Who's in it?: Austin Basis, Brian White, Jay Ryan, Kristin Kreuk, Max Brown, Nicole Gale Anderson, Nina Lisandrello

What's it about:
Drama about a police detective who teams with a genetically altered Afghanistan war veteran to solve crimes in New York City

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3

Network: NBC
Who's in it?: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Lawrence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Lara Jean Chorostecki

What's it about:
The series is based on the series of novels by Thomas Harris and will focus on the budding relationship between FBI criminal profiler Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.

Network: FX
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Who's in it?: Diane Kruger, Demian Bichir, Ted Levine, Annabeth Gish, Thomas M. Wright, Matthew Lillard

What's it about:
Based loosely on the Danish / Swedish TV series of the same name, The Bridge follows two police detectives – one Mexican, one American – as they and their joint effort stop a serial killer menacing both nations along the Texas-Mexico border.

STATUS: Ended After Season 2
Network: ITV

Who's in it?: Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Sophie Rundle, Julie Graham

What's it about?
A mystery drama series, set in 1952, about four women who used to work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. A series of murders takes place that seems to have a pattern to it; the police seem to overlook the pattern, so they start investigating themselves

STATUS: CANCELLED AFTER TWO SEASONS

Network: NBC
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Who's in it?: Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, Zak Orth, Anna Lise Phillips, Graham Rogers, J.D. Pardo, Tim Guinee, Daniella Alonso, Elizabeth Mitchell

What's it about:
15 years after electricity stopped, the world has returned to a pre-industrial lifestyle. One girl goes on a coming-of-age journey to find answers about the past and could be the hope for bringing the world out of the dark.

Status: CANCELLED AFTER TWO SEASONS
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Jami Gertz, Lenny Venito, Clara Mamet, Ian Patrick, Isabella Cramp, Max Charles, Simon Templeman, Tim Jo, Toks Olagundoye

What's it about:
A comedy about a family who moves into a gated community only to learn that their neighbors are aliens.

STATUS: CANCELLED AFTER TWO SEASONS

Network: CW
Who's in it?: AnnaSophia Robb, Austin Butler, Brendan Doolin, Chloe Bridges, Ellen Wong, Freema Agyeman, Katie Findlay, Matt Letscher, Stefania Owen.

What's it about:
"Sex and the City" prequel series about the high school years of Carrie Bradshaw

STATUS: Cancelled

Network: HBO
Genre: Comedy, Documentary

Who's in it?: Chris O'Dowd, Tom Bennett, Nina Conti, Jim Piddock, Michael McKean, Christopher Fairbank

What's it about:
A mockumentary from Christopher Guest

BUZZ:

Status: Cancelled. To be renamed as Sam Hunter for a miniseries

Network: BBC/Cinemax
Who's in it?: Melissa George, Adam Rayner, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Stephen Dillane, Morven Christie, Lex Shrapnel, Ben Bailey-Smith, Uriel Emil, Patrick Malahide, Stephen Campbell Moore, Oscar Kennedy, Dhafer El Abidine

What's it about
After an attempt on her life, a spy goes undercover to find out why members of her own squad are out to kill her.