2008-09 Midseason
The Story of India
73
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
66
Friday Night Lights Season Three
82
The Beast
53
24 Season Seven
72
Howie Do It
37
Damages Season Two
80
13: Fear Is Real
33
Game Show in My Head
34
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The midseason schedule is here!View the networks' midseason primetime schedule. See a listing of premiere dates for each show.
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Season Premiere Friday Night Lights: Season Three NBC | Friday | 9:00p
The football drama based on the movie of the same name returns to NBC for another season (it also premiered on DirecTV in October). |
Series Premiere A&E; | Thursday | 10:00p
Patrick Swayze is a veteran FBI agent training his rookie partner in the art of deep undercover work. |
Season Premiere Fox | Monday | 8:00p
Jack Bauer returns from Africa (24: Redemption) to find himself defending his actions before Congress. |
Series Premiere NBC | Friday | 8:00p
Howie Mandel's latest show sees him pulling pranks on unsuspecting people. |
Series Premiere CW | Wednesday | 8:00p
Contestants try to conquer their fears in the bid to win $66,666 in this Sam Raimi-produced show. |
Series Premiere FX | Wednesday | 10:00p
Ellen seeks revenge by working undercover for the FBI in the second season as someone (William Hurt) from Patty's past returns. |
Series Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 8:00p
The work of officers of the Department of Homeland Security is seen in this documentary series based on a similar show in Australia. |
Season Premiere PBS | Tuesday | 9:00p
The Frontline documentary follows 83-year-old Herbert Gettridge, a carpenter seeking to rebuild his house damaged by Hurricane Katrina. |
Season Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 9:00p
The wacky doctors of Sacred Heart move to a new network. |
Miniseries Premiere PBS | Monday | 9:00p
In the six-hour long series, Michael Wood's guides viewers to the history of the beginning of human settlement in India to the country that exists today. |
Movie Premiere PBS | Sunday | 9:00p
Thomas Hardy's novel is adapted once again with Gemma Arterton as the title character. |
Series Premiere CBS | Saturday | 8:00p
The hidden-camera gameshow involves contestants performing various tasks with strangers on the street to win up to $50,000. |
Series Premiere NBC | Tuesday | 10:00p
The latest dating show has three eligible bachelors looking for love with the help of their mothers. |
Season Premiere CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS | Thursday | 9:00p
Gil Grissom is ready to move on as season nine of the long runing series introduces Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) to the Las Vegas crew. |
Movie Premiere The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice TNT | Sunday | 8:00p
Flynn the librarian is once again trying to find an artifact, this time the Judas chalice, which can bring the dead back to life. |
Miniseries Premiere HBO | Sunday | 9:00p
The four-hour miniseries dramatizes the period from Saddam's coup in 1979 to his capture in 2003. |
Series Premiere TNT | Sunday | 10:00p
Timothy Hutton is an ex-insurance investigator leading a group of specialists to right wrongs caused by a variety of corrupt people and companies. |
Series Premiere Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Sundance | Wednesday | 9:00p
The Sundance channel brings Costello to TV with a new talk show featuring mainly musicians as guests. |
Series Premiere Biography | Tuesday | 10:00p
Shatner returns to television, this time as a TV host for his new talk show on the Biography channel. |
Miniseries Premiere BBC America | Sunday | 8:00p
Two British Pakistani siblings find themselves on opposite sides of the war on terror. |
Movie Premiere Fox | Sunday | 8:00p
Fox's two-hour TV-movie finds Jack Bauer in Africa, hiding from the US government. |
Special Premiere A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! Comedy Central | Sunday | 10:00p
Stephen Colbert welcomes Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Feist, John Legend, Elvis Costello, and Jon Stewart to sing some special carols in his first Christmas special. |
Special Premiere HBO | Saturday | 9:00p
"The Office's" Ricky Gervais returns to TV with this stand-up special filmed in the US last year. |
Series Premiere Animal Planet | Friday | 9:00p
A look at the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts to stop the annual hunt of whales by the Japanese. |
Season Premiere Bravo | Wednesday | 10:00p
Seventeen contestants compete for the title of Top Chef in New York City for the show's fifth season. |
Series Premiere HBO | Sunday | 10:30p
Chris Lilley created and stars in this Australian comedy about high school life. |
Season Premiere Showtime | Sunday | 9:00p
The Caffee brothers return for their third season, with Tommy thinking of leaving his job on the Hill and Michael slowly losing control of his life in crime. |
Series Premiere Syndicated | Saturday | Varies
The producers of syndicated hits "Hercules" and "Xena" look for a hat trick with its latest fantasy show based on Terry Goodkind's books. |
Season Premiere NBC | Thursday | 9:30p
Oprah and Jennifer Aniston are among some of the guests set to appear on the Tina Fey comedy's third season. |
Series Premiere Oxygen | Tuesday | 10:00p
The latest of famous parents raising children reality programming looks at the life of rapper Coolio and his four children. |
Series Premiere CW | Wednesday | 9:00p
Contestants work to win their dream of an editorial job at Elle magazine. |
Series Premiere Starz | Friday | 10:00p
Dennis Hopper is a record producer in Starz's new series based on the movie Crash. |
Series Premiere Comedy Central | Wednesday | 10:30p
David Alan Grier's latest sketch comedy show targets news programs. |
Season Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 10:00p
Eli's visions continue, as do musical guest appearances, this time from Seal and Katie Holmes. |
Series Premiere USA | Friday | 9:00p
The miniseries becomes a series, as Molly (Debra Messing) continues to juggle life in Hollywood. |
Series Premiere NBC | Thursday | 8:30p
Molly Shannon and Selma Blair are mother and daughter in this American remake of the hit Australian comedy. |
Series Premiere CBS | Thursday | 10:00p
A scientist (Rufus Sewell) consults for the FBI about unusual crimes in this American remake of a British series. |
Series Premiere ABC | Thursday | 10:00p
Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) finds himself transported to the 1970s after a car accident in this remake of the award-winning British drama. |
Series Premiere FX | Thursday | 10:30p
Two friends experience odd side effects from the different products they test. |
Series Premiere CW | Sunday | 8:00p
A family of Greek gods help mortals find their soulmates. |
Series Premiere CW | Sunday | 9:00p
A look into the lives of the Buffkins who run a short-term loan company. |
Series Premiere CBS | Friday | 9:00p
A remake of a hit Israeli show about a woman who is told she must find her soul mate among her exes in the next year or she will never be in love again. |
Series Premiere Cartoon Network | Friday | 9:00p
The battle for the Republic continues in Lucas' animated series with Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, and a new character by the name of Ahsoka Tano. |
Series Premiere Sci-Fi | Friday | 10:00p
Dr. Helen Magnus is in charge of a sanctuary for some of nature's unusual creatures in this new series for Sci Fi that utilizes virtual sets. |
Season Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 8:00p
The second season of the show about the pie maker and his childhood sweetheart finds Chuck under threat of discovery of her secret. |
Season Premiere Friday Night Lights: Season Three 101 (DirecTV) | Wednesday | 9:00p
The football drama based on the movie of the same name returns with the help of DirecTV. |
Season Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 9:00p
No more dancing in a towel for Addison as the show's creator promises the show will be more serious. |
Season Premiere ABC | Wednesday | 10:00p
Lucy Liu joins the cast as the newest troublemaker to cross the path of the Darling clan. |
Series Premiere IFC | Tuesday | 10:00p
The imported British comedy about a group of help-desk workers is to be remade for NBC. |
Season Premiere NBC | Monday | 8:00p
Chuck's life may be in danger now that The Intersect 2.0 may be in the works. |
Season Premiere NBC | Monday | 10:00p
Charlie (Damian Lewis) is still solving crimes with his partner Reese while trying to find who set him up back in 1995. |
Series Premiere HBO | Sunday | 10:30p
The award-winning sketch comedy comes stateside with its creators/stars on board. |
Series Premiere HBO | Sunday | 11:00p
The adult animated series about a guy in New York who keeps getting himself in weird situations. |
Season Premiere SHO | Sunday | 9:00p
Dexter's back with more blood on his hands and may have found a friend in the new Assistant District Attorney (Jimmy Smits). |
Season Premiere Desperate Housewives: Season Five ABC | Sunday | 9:00p
We jump forward five years in the lives of the Wisteria Lane residents. |
Season Premiere HBO | Sunday | 10:00p
Hank's got his girl back, but he tries her patience with his many mistakes. |
Season Premiere ABC | Thursday | 8:00p
The doctors of Seattle Grace return for its fifth season and it includes guest Kevin McKidd as the newest doctor on the block. |
Series Premiere NBC | Wednesday | 8:00p
KITT gets a makeover as well as a new driver in the form of Michael's son (Justin Bruening). |
Series Premiere CBS | Wednesday | 8:30p
Jay Mohr is Gary, a single father trying to juggle raising his children and start dating again. |
Series Premiere ABC | Tuesday | 8:00p
How much one knows about their own family is the premise behind this gameshow produced by Ashton Kutcher and host J.D. Roth. |
Series Premiere CBS | Tuesday | 9:00p
Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) is a former TV psychic who tries his hand at real police work. |
Mini-Series Premiere You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story PBS | Tuesday | 9:00p
The history of the studio that gave us Casablanca and brought Batman to the big screen is explored in this three-part documentary. |
Season Premiere NBC | Monday | 9:00p
The future is in danger, and the gang must race to stop the end of the world as we know it. |
Series Premiere CBS | Monday | 9:30p
In this remake of a British comedy, everything that can go wrong will go wrong in the life of Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer). |
Season Premiere It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season Four FX | Thursday | 10:00p
The laughter continues as the gang at Paddy's Pub return in season four of the FX comedy. |
Season Premiere Fox | Tuesday | 8:00p
As season five begins, Wilson prepares to leave as the emotions from Amber's death continue to cause tension between him and House. |
Movie Premiere Lifetime | Saturday | 8:00p
The life and loves of the famous fashion icon Coco Chanel (Shirley MacLaine) is explored in this TV movie from Lifetime. |
Movie Premiere Nickelodeon | Friday | 8:00p
Christopher Meloni is an ex-Olympic-star-turned-gym-teacher who is encouraged by his students to compete for the title of best gym teacher in the US. |
Series Premiere Fox | Wednesday | 9:30p
Jerry O' Connell stars in a new comedy set in a small boutique hotel in LA. |
Series Premiere Fox | Tuesday | 9:00p
J.J. Abrams' sci-fi drama investigates the conspiracy behind the mysterious deaths on an airplane. |
Series Premiere CW | Tuesday | 9:00p
JoAnna Garcia is Megan Smith, a writer who ends up with a job as a tutor for two rich girls in this adaption of the book "How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls." |
Series Premiere BET | Tuesday | 10:30p
The BET comedy about college life is based on the indie film of the same name and stars its creator/writer as the main character. |
Season Premiere Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season Two Fox | Monday | 8:00p
Sarah, John and Cameron continue their run from robots sent to kill John, this time with his uncle from the future (Brian Austin Green) joining the family full-time. |
Series Premiere HBO | Sunday | 9:00p
Sookie Stackhouse comes to television in the Alan Ball adaptation of Charlaine Harris' Southern vampire series. |
Season Premiere HBO | Sunday | 10:00p
After "Medellin" bombed at Cannes, Vince and Turtle party in Mexico while the other guys help Vince regain his standing in Hollywood. |
Miniseries Premiere ABC Family | Friday | 8:00p
Heaven (Jamie Chung) learns the way of the Samurai to avenge the attack on her family. |
Series Premiere FX | Wednesday | 10:00p
The lives of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club are explored in Kurt Sutter's new drama. |
Season Premiere Fox | Wednesday | 9:00p
The fourth season begins with Bones and Booth investigating a murder while in England to speak about their specialties. |
Series Premiere CW | Tuesday | 8:00p
A new generation at West Beverly Hills High includes a family from Kansas and alumnus Kelly Taylor returns as a guidance counselor. |
Season Premiere FX | Tuesday | 10:00p
The end is near for Vic Mackey as he fights for his badge and his life in the final season. |
Season Premiere CW | Monday | 8:00p
The boys and girls of Constance Billard and St. Jude's School for Boys meet up again in the East Hamptons before the school year begins. |
Season Premiere Fox | Monday | 9:00p
Michael is reunited with Lincoln and couple of familiar faces as they seek to rid themselves of The Company once and for all. |
Series Premiere TNT | Monday | 10:00p
Bocho returns with a new legal drama set in the criminal justice system. |
Movie Premiere HBO | Monday | 9:00p
This Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell documentary interviews 20 African-Americans about interesting moments in their lives. |
Series Premiere NBC | Monday | 9:00p
Contestants try out some of the jobs seen on the Discovery and History Channel's popular documentaries, including crab fishing and driving trucks on ice. |
Note: All times are ET unless otherwise noted.
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