TV Shows (2011 - 2012)

STATUS: Currently Showing Season 2

Network: CBS
Premiered On: September 20, 2012
Genre: Police Procedural, Mystery, Drama

Who's in it?: Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh, Daya Vaidaya, Kevin Rankin, Michael Gaston

What's it about:
A psychic who helps the police solve crime

STATUS: Currently Showing Season 4

Network: ITV
Premiered On: May 1, 2011
Genre: Crime Drama

Who's in it?: Brenda Blethyn, David Leon

What's it about?
Based on the works of crime author, Ann Cleeves.

Status: Season 3 Returns June 2, 2014

Network: A&E
Who's in it?: Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Bailey Chase, Adam Bartley, Cassidy Freeman, Lou Diamond Phillips

What's it about:
The series follows Walt Longmire, the Sheriff of the fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming, as he returns to work following the death of his wife. With the help of his daughter Cady, his new deputy Vic and his best friend Henry, Walt must investigate a series of major crimes in his jurisdiction while preparing to run for re-election against Branch, a young deputy in the department who wants Walt's

STATUS: Season 4 returns June 24, 2014

Network: TNT
Premiered On: June 19, 2011
Season 3 Premiered: June 9, 2013
Genre: Science Fiction, Post-apocalyptic, Drama

Who's in it?: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Connor Jessup, Seychelle Gabriel, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Carter, Jessy Schram

What's it about?
Falling Skies tells the story of the aftermath of an alien invasion. It follows a group of survivors who must band together in order to fight back against the invading aliens.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4

Network: NBC
Who's in it?: Russell Hornsby, David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee

What's it about?
Set in present-day Portland, the series puts a new twist on the stories of the Brothers Grimm in which a homicide detective learns that he is a descendent of a group of hunters known as "Grimms", who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. Upon learning of his destiny and that he is the last of his kind, he has to protect every living soul from the sinister storybook characters that have infiltrated the real world

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4

Network: The CW
Who's in it?: Rachel Bilson, Scott Porter, Jaime King

What's it about?
A New York doctor finds out she's inherited a share in the practice in Alabama

BUZZ: N/A

STATUS: Currently Showing Season 3
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Tim Allen, Nancy Travis, Alexandra Krosney, Molly Ephraim, Kaitlyn Dever, Christoph Sanders, Hector Elizondo, Amanda Fuller, Flynn Morrison

What's it about?
The series follows Mike Baxter, a director of marketing at an outdoor sporting goods store in Denver, Colorado, whose world is dominated by women – especially at home with his wife and three daughters, one of whom is a single mother.

STATUS: Currently Showing Season 3. Renewed for Season 4
Network: CBS

Who's in it?: Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Kevin Chapman, Sarah Shahi, Amy Acker, Taraji P. Henson

What's it about?
A mysterious billionaire has developed a computer program that predicts future crime victims. He hires a former CIA agent to help stop those crimes.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4
Network: ABC

Who's in it?:

What's it about?
This series is loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a mysterious woman, Emily Thorne, who arrives in the Hamptons seeking revenge on the people who destroyed her family

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4.

Network: CBS
Premiered On: September 19, 2011
Genre: Sitcom

Who's in it?: Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs

What's it about?
Two young women who work in a diner.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4

Network: FX
Premiered On: October 5, 2011
Genre: Horror, Erotic Thriller

Who's in it?: Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Denis O'Hare, Jessica Lange

What's it about?
A family move from Boston to Los Angeles in an attempt to reconcile their past. But the restored mansion they moved into is haunted.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4

Network: BBC
Premiered On: January 5, 2012
Genre: Medical Drama, Period Drama

Who's in it?: Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Ben Caplan

What's it about?
The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, coping with the medical problems in a deprived area of East London in the 1950s.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4.

Network: BBC
Premiered On: October 5, 2011
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy

Who's in it?: Ben Miller, Sara Martins, Danny John-Jules, Gary Carr

What's it about?
The plot centres on the character of strait-laced British policeman Richard Poole who is sent to the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to solve the case of the death of a fellow British policeman and ends up becoming the local police force's new senior detective.

Status: Renewed for Season 4.
Network: HBO

Who's in it?: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver

What's it about?
Follows a close group of twenty-somethings making their way through life in New York City

Status: Renewed for Season 4

Network: AMC
Premiered On: November 6, 2011
Genre: Western, Period Drama

Who's in it?: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott, Tom Noonan, Eddie Spears, Ben Esler, Phil Burke.

What's it about?
Centers on the lives of construction workers who built the first transcontinental railroad.

Status: Renewed for Season 4

Network: Showtime
Premiered On: October 2, 2011
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Serial Drama, Adaptation

Who's in it?: Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Diego Klattenhoff, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor, Mandy Patinkin.

What's it about?
A former POW returns home after 8 years of captivity by Al-Qaeda. But some in the CIA believe he has been turned and is now an enemy of the state.

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Jennifer Morrison, Jared Gilmore, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Ginnifer Goodwin, James Dornan, Robert Carlyle, Raphael Sbarge

What's it about?
The series is loosely inspired by the classic fairy tale stories except set in the present day. The stories hold a key to the mystery that will draw a bail bonds collector and the son that she gave up for adoption 10 years earlier to a New England town called Storybrooke, Maine. This town is actually a parallel world in which fairy tale characters look like normal people and don't remember their true identities or anything about their true lives

STATUS: Season 2 Ended
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Lennie James, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Gina McKee, Adrian Dunbar, Neil Morrissey

What's it about?
A seemingly perfect cop finds his life and career spiralling out of control

STATUS: Renewed for Season 4.
Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson, Hannah Simone, Damon Wayans, Jr.

What's it about?
The show will star Zooey Deschanel as Jessica Day, a well-liked, bubbly, and adorable woman in her late 20's who is trying to get over her surprise breakup with her model boyfriend. She eventually finds a new place to stay when she moves in with three single guys; Nick, a bartender, Schmidt, a professional and modern-day casanova, and Coach, a former athlete turned trainer. Rounding out this unlikely bunch is Jessica's street-smart model friend Cece. Together, this group of friends try to help Jessica learn a lot about love, life and mostly about herself, while at the same time learn a lot about themselves

STATUS: Renewed For Season 4

Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn, Jeff Perry, Henry Ian Cusick, Columbus Short, Guillermo Diaz, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes

What's it about:
A drama that delves into the behind-the-scenes machinations of a mesmerizing top crisis manager, Olivia Pope

STATUS: Renewed for Season 3
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones, Neil Stuke, Tom Hughes, Natalie Dormer, Nina Sosanya, John MacMillan

What's it about?
The series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as 'taking silk'.

STATUS: Showing Season 3
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Jeremy Sisto, Jane Levy, Cheryl Hines, Carly Chaikin, Allie Grant, Alan Tudyk

What's it about?
The series follows a divorced father who decides to get away from New York City to the suburbs so he can give his 16-year-old daughter a better life. However, the move to 'burbs has the daughter wondering if they just entered the world of The Stepford Wives after they see how 'perfect' their new locale is, right down to the neighbors who welcome them into the cul-de-sac.

STATUS: Cancelled After Season 2
Network: STARZ

Who's in it?: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait, Jessica Marais, Christian Cooke, Elena Satine, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Taylor Blackwell, Danny Huston

What's it about?
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment.

STATUS: Season 2 Ended

Network: BBC
Premiered On: June 5, 2011
Season 2 Premiered: May 19, 2013
Genre: Drama

Who's in it?: Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington, Kirsty Mitchell, Zawe Ashton, Natasha Little, Millie Innes, Gwyneth Keyworth

What's it about?
A series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels

STATUS: Cancelled after Two Seasons
Network: NBC

Who's in it?: Whitney Cummings, Chris D'Elia, Zoe Lister-Jones, Maulik Pancholy, Dan O'Brien, Rhea Seehorn, Beverly D'Angelo

What's it about?
This is an American romantically-themed sitcom.

STATUS: Cancelled after Two Seasons
Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Kiefer Sutherland, David Mazouz, Gug Mbatha-Raw, Danny Glover

What's it about:
A father discovers that his autistic son has the capability to see the connections between people's lives and communicates through numbers.

STATUS: Cancelled after 2 seasons
Network: NBC

Who's in it?: Debra Messing, Brian D'Arcy James, Christian Borle, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Megan Hilty, Anjelica Huston, Raza Jaffrey

What's it about?
The show revolves around a group of characters who come together to put on a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. But before that can happen, the people who will try to bring it all together must deal with their own personal acts.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: ITV

Who's in it?: James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, Tom Riley

What's it about?
The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe

STATUS: SEASON 2 ENDED
Network: CHANNEL 4

What's it about?
The series is described as "a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected which taps into our contemporary unease about our modern world", with the stories having a "techno-paranoia" feel

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Anton Lesser, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Burn Gorman, Anna Chancellor, Joshua McGuire, Lisa Greenwood, Oona Chaplin, Ken Bones, Peter Capaldi, John Bowe, Vanessa Kirby, Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Kelly-Jayne Adams, Jamie Parker

What's it about?
The series centred on a new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Suez Crisis.

Status: Cancelled

Network: HBO
Who's in it?: Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Luke Wilson, Timm Sharp, Amy Hill, Sarah Burns, Mike White

What's it about?
A self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: Starz

Who's in it?: Kelsey Grammer, Connie Nielsen, Martin Donovan, Kathleen Robertson, Hannah Ware, Jeff Hephner

What's it about?: Follows the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: SyFy

Who's in it?: Azita Ghanizada, David Strathairn, Laura Mennell, Malik Yoba, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie,

What's it about?
Five people discover that they have superhuman abilities, which they use to maintain justice. They are called Alphas. They discover that they are not alone, and that the other individuals with those abilities aren't going to use them for good.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall, Lesley Sharp, Antony Sher and Stephen Rea

What's it about?
The Shadow Line is about a murder investigated by both sides of the line – police and criminals – and the opposing methods they use to solve it. But the real line is the morality within each character and how far they will go before they cross it

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Jack O'Connell, Keith Allen, Alan Cumming, Joanna Vanderham, Ken Stott

What's it about?
A drama based on the novel of the same name

STATUS: ENDED
Network: ITV

Who's in it?: Rupert Penry-Jones, Shaun Evans, Genevieve O'Reilly, Claire Keelan, Alexander Karim

What's it about?
A psychological thriller set over a long weekend in East Anglia, the story centres on a rivalrous friendship that spirals out of control as personal revelations force each character to re-assess their views on one another.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: ITV

Who's in it?: James Purefoy, Robert Whitelock, Lisa Diveney, Dervia Kirwan, Nathaniel Parker, Charlie Creed-Miles, Obi Abili

What's it about?
A criminal barrister who has lost faith in the legal system following a traumatic series of events.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Ashley Judd, Cliff Curties, Sean Bean, Adriano Giannini, Nick Eversman, Tereza Voriskova

What's it about?
A widow and retired CIA agent tracks down her missing son but becomes embroiled in an international conspiracy.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Jason O'Mara, Stephen Lang, Shelley Conn, Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott, Alana Mansour, Christine Adams, Allison Miller, Mido Hamada, Rod Hallett

What's it about?
The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction, In an effort to save the human race, scientists develop a portal allowing travel 85 million years back in time to prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. However, they are unaware that the colony is in the middle of a group of carnivorous dinosaurs.

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Zacapa, Eloise Mumford, Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope, Paul Blackthorne, Paulina Gaitan, Shaun Parkes, Thomas Kretschmann

What's it about?
The series will follow the search for a famous television host, a popular explorer/wildlife expert who was last seen traveling down the Amazon River in the middle of South America and disappeared without a trace. Six months later, his wife and son receive a beacon signal from him, indicating that he might be alive. This prompts the two to assemble a television documentary crew to follow his last known whereabouts, unaware that once they reach the location of where he was last seen that they're in for a horrific surprise that they were not expecting.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens

What's it about?
A love triangle develops between the old-fashioned Christopher Tietjens, his vindictive wife Sylvia and young suffragette Valentine Wannop, in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change. As the war drags on, Christopher goes to fight in France, and leaves behind Sylvia, a son who may or may not be his, and Valentine. He must ultimately decide who he is to remain with for the duration of his life: the beautiful yet manipulative Sylvia or the adoring Valentine.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters

What's it about?
A science fiction serial drama that follows a group of people who have colonized another planet.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Matthew Rhys, Rory Kinnear

What's it about?
An adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer, Tom Ellis, Johnny Harris, Daniel Kaluuya, Lily Loveless, Sophie Wu, Daniela Nardini

What's it about?
A supernatural drama about an English teenager named Paul who is haunted by apocalyptic dreams as he is able to see spirits of the dead.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: John Simm, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Timothy West, Shaun Dooley, Claire Goose

What's it about?
A psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Tara Fitzgerald, Keith Allen, Wunmi Mosaku, Finlay Robertson, Mark Bazeley.

What's it about?
A fictional private forensic pathology facility that conducts scientific research to help solve crimes, led by Dr. Eve Lockhart

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC/PBS

Who's in it?: Clemence Poesy, Eddie Redmayne

What's it about?
A drama based on the 1993 war novel by Sebastian Faulks

STATUS: Cancelled
Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill, Parminder Nagra, Robert Forster, Santiago Cabrera, Jonny Coyne, Jason Butler Harner

What's it about?
302 wardens and prisoners of Alcatraz reappear in modern day, after their mysterious disappearance fifty years ago

STATUS: CANCELLED
Network: NBC

Who's in it?: Jason Isaacs, Laura Allen, Steve Harris, Dylan Minette, B.D. Wong, Wilmer Valderrama, Terry Jones, Michaela McManus

What's it about?
After a car crash, a police detective finds himself living two alternate lives. One where his wife is alive and the other where his son is.

STATUS: ENDED
Network: BBC

Who's in it?: Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet

What's it about?
The series focuses on small-time solicitor Harry Venn (Glenister), who is reluctantly drawn back into his dark past