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Friday Night Lights: Season 1
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn rural Texas, there isn't much in life that matters more than high school football -- a point this series drives home searingly as it chronicles the ups and downs of a team that carries the heart and soul of its town on its players' backs.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 12
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis season, DCI Barnaby and his colleagues investigate art forgery, murders near a safe house connected to Cold War British spies, the murder of a man staked out in a model village like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels and more.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 11
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsDetective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his colleagues investigate a death at an upper-crust wedding, a murder involving a cult and more in this 11th season of the series. The sharp sleuths fight deadly crime amid otherwise peaceful rural villages.
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Ripper Street: Series 1
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsCharged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of London's East End, Inspector Edmund Reid and his men fight to uphold justice and the rule of law, but always in the background lurks the fear of the era's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper.
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Ripper Street
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn April 1889 -- six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing -- East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that the murderer's reign of terror might have finally run its course.
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Mad Men: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBrilliant, hard-drinking advertising exec Don Draper is back for more drama in this critically acclaimed show's long-awaited fifth season, which charts the volatile ups and downs Draper and his colleagues endure at their Manhattan-based ad agency.
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Touch
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsKiefer Sutherland stars as the father of an autistic boy who appears to be able to predict future events -- despite not being able to speak. Danny Glover also stars, as an academic who works with gifted children, in this dramatic series.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 2
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe team's future hangs in the balance as coach Eric Taylor prepares to leave Dillon for a college-level coaching job at Texas Methodist University. Unchanged in her thinking, his pregnant wife, Tami, holds firm to her decision to stay behind.
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Masterpiece Mystery!: Inspector Lewis: Series 4
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsNo-nonsense sleuth Inspector Lewis and his brainy partner DS Hathaway investigate a murder in Oxford's last all-women's college in Series 4. Other baffling cases include the murder of a bishop and the deaths of participants in a clinical drug trial.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 4
2001 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe fictional English county of Midsomer is shaken by more grisly killings in Series 4 of the procedural drama. DCI Barnaby and crew investigate a murder with extraterrestrial undertones, and struggle to solve the murder of a philandering postman.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 3
1999 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Series 3 of the crime drama series, DCI Barnaby and his murder-solving colleagues face a supernatural threat when a 17th-century painting is defaced. Meanwhile, a widely hated man in the village of Midsomer Mallow is skewered with a pitchfork.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 5
2002 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBased on Caroline Graham's novels, set in the rustic villages of Midsomer, this series finds DCI Barnaby and his colleagues investigating homicides involving a book club, a farmer's wife and a student killed on the same day that his grandfather dies.
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The Unit: Season 3
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsSeason 3 finds the covert Special Forces team known as the Unit facing annihilation from a mysterious source. Leader Jonas tries to keep his team together while working to uncover the identity of the deadly assassin.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 6
2003 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn the small villages of Midsomer, DCI Barnaby and his crew investigate when an arrogant actor dies in an explosion, a couple are clubbed to death and other cases in this crime drama series based on Caroline Graham's novels.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 7
2003 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsA new sargeant accompanies DCI Barnaby to solve homicides involving church officials being burned to death, the shooting of a barman at the local pub and other cases in this crime drama which takes place in the rustic villages of Midsomer County.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 8
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsStill unearthing dark crimes in beautiful Midsomer County, DCI Barnaby and Sgt. Scott investigate homicides relating to the local regatta, orchid smuggling, a racehorse, a relish factory and more in Series 8 of this long-running drama.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 9
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Series 9 of this long-running crime series, DCI Barnaby and his keen colleagues solve homicide cases involving a beauty queen, a haunted house, blackmail and the construction of a supermarket in the rural county of Midsomer.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 2
1999 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe villains of Midsomer face a tough adversary as DCI Barnaby and his colleagues solve murders in the beautiful but deadly villages of Midsomer. In Series 2, a shady real estate developer, a surly landlord and a Brazilian woman are among the dead.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 1
1997 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this series based on the novels of Caroline Graham, DCI Barnaby solves small-town murders in the villages of Midsomer County, where the cop is confronted with deaths involving a new-age commune, a community theater, a writers' club and others.
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Covert Affairs: Season 2
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPeter Gallagher joins the regular cast of this action-drama as director of the CIA's Clandestine Services Department, overseeing assignments for fledgling operative Annie Walker -- who's getting good at leading a double life.
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Derek (Trailer)
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn his new comedy-drama series about people living on the sidelines of life, creator Ricky Gervais stars as an offbeat retirement-home helper whose best defense against a cold-hearted world is his affection for his charges.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 10
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBarnaby and his reliable team sniff out criminals in the rustic English villages of Midsomer, this time involving an old World War II base, a glassware firm, a rock band, a hit-and-run accident and a B-movie director who is beheaded by a prop.
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The Big C
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis dark comedy series finds unassuming housewife Cathy Jamison, recently estranged from her husband and just diagnosed with terminal cancer, at last deciding to live life on her own terms -- consequences be damned.
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Bones: Season 3
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsForensic anthropologist "Bones" Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth return in this crime drama about solving decades-old murder mysteries. Bones applies her ability to find clues in victims' remains, while Booth uses the people skills Bones lacks.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 3
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of this critically acclaimed series, former star running back Brian "Smash" Williams works to recover from a serious knee injury, while coach Eric Taylor tries his best to hold the squad together and grab gridiron glory.
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