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Dexter: Seeing Red!

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Dexter’s world is shaken tonight when he is called to the crime scene of a massacre unlike any that he’s ever seen before… or so he thinks, until a series of memories comes streaming back that shock him to his core. Expect gore, gore and more gore!

Meanwhile, Rita has to hire a lawyer when Paul brings a surprising case against her to take sole custody of their children. Bat Read More »

TINA O’BRIEN JOINS THE CAST OF BLUE MURDER

n her first role since Coronation Street, Tina O’Brien is to appear in the new series of ITV’s Blue Murder. Tina will guest starring as Amy Kirkland, the girlfriend of a murdered rock star, who becomes a prime suspect for DCI Janine Lewis played by Caroline Quentin.

Titled ‘This Charming Man’, the episode is one of a series of six commissioned by ITV, produced by Mike Dormer and currently being filmed on location in Manchester. Janine’s team come face to face with the seedy late night antics of the music world, its stars, their egos, managers and hangers on.

Ian Kelsey, Paul Loughran and Nicholas Murchie reprise their roles as DI Richard Mayne, DS Butchers and DS Shap. Read More »

ITV Making Law And Order London

ITV are making a UK version of the hit US TV series, Law and Order.

The show will be created by ITV and Kudos Productions, makers of Spooks and Hustle, and will be co-produced by American network NBC.

TV’s director of drama Laura Mackie said: “Although based on the US series, Law & Order: London will absolutely look and feel very British, glossy, dynamic and with the style and energy Kudos bring to all of their drama.”

Patricia Cornwell, Book Of The Dead: Fans To Create TV Advert

Crime writer, Patricia Cornwell is asking her fans to create a twenty second TV advert for her new book, Book of the Dead.

Fans are being asked to submit either a 20-second short film, a script or storyboard. The entries will be shortlisted to six applicants and the winner will be chosen and announced on the 17th of March this year.

The ad will air on Five in April to coincide with the launch of the paperback version of the book.

UNREPORTED WORLD 8/10: Cocaine City

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Friday 2 November 2007
7:35pm

In this week’s Unreported World , reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer James Brabazon travel to one of the strangest, wildest cities on earth: Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast. There is little running water or electricity in Buenaventura and housing is so scarce that people have constructed whole neighbourhoods of shacks built on stilts. Yet, over the last two years violent death has become an everyday fact in this city of around 300,000 people. Everyone is affected, almost everyone has lost someone.

CULT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER: Channel 4

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Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer returns to examine how to fight an enemy that sees martyrdom as the path to heaven. Baer travels from the streets of London to Jerusalem, and on to Afghanistan, both places where suicide bombers have become almost commonplace.

With unique access to intelligence chiefs and failed bombers, plus remarkable, previously unseen footage, this documentary is the definitive guide to understand how the cult of the suicide bomber can ultimately be defeated. Read More »

Kirsty Young To Front Crimewatch

Channel Five newsreader, Kirsty Young will replace Fiona Bruce next year as presenter of BBC One’s Crimewatch show.

The BBC recently sacked Nick Ross as presenter after 23 years and announced that the show would be undergoing a major revamp.

“I’m delighted to be joining a programme with such a respected history. Sadly crime is a fact of life and affects us all,” Kirsty explained. “Being the presenter of a show which does so much to get justice for people affected by it will be a real privilege.” Read More »

Spooks Returns To BBC One - Autumn 2007

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MI5, not 9 to 5

The UK’s favourite spies go global as the complex relationship between the UK, Iran and the US is put under the spotlight … but who can really be trusted under this new world order?

Award-winning spy drama Spooks returns to BBC One this autumn in an exciting new format.

Over the course of 10 hour-long episodes, Adam, Harry and the team are immersed in their most intricate operation to date.

Audiences can expect an exhilarating, high-octane journey with an abundance of dramatic twists and turns as the distinction between friend and foe becomes ever more blurred. Read More »

Shark: LA District Attorney’s Office Is Out For Blood

When a young prosecutor and a prostitute are found murdered in a car, the entire LA District Attorney’s office is out for blood.

Julie and Stark are having a night out. He asks how things are going with her boyfriend Eddie. Just as the conversation is getting a bit awkward, he is called in to work. He joins Isaac and Jessica at a crime scene, where a man and a woman have been shot; no signs of robbery. Jessica’s there; something’s up. It turns out the dead man is Dean Gorman, a Deputy DA. Jessica had hired him right out of law school. She wants whoever did this nailed. The female victim turns out to be Allison Adams, a high-priced call girl. Stark has Raina and Poe interview Dean’s wife Chloe, with Isaac tagging along. He tells them not to let her know about Allison. Chloe says that last night Dean said he had to work late on a case, something he’d been doing a lot since starting his “project.” She shows them Dean’s home office, where he has an elaborate crime board set up. Isaac recognizes a name, Carlo Acampora, as a major drug trafficker. Chloe says Dean wanted to get out of the Domestic Violence unit and move up to the Narcotics unit, but he’d been turned down twice. He wanted to prove himself. Read More »

Law And Order On Five

Star Crossed

An upwardly mobile woman manipulates a loyal but mentally challenged friend to commit heinous crimes, to upgrade her lifestyle.

Saturday 12th May On Five