New and returning shows on M-Net Series in October:
Are you smarter than A 5th Grader?Premiere date: 26 October at 21h00
In this contemporary reality series, Ordinary adults must try their luck at a series of questions targeted at the fifth-grade level. The adults are asked questions from elementary school textbooks. There are five children as classmates that can help the adults throughout the process. The contestants have the opportunity to answer 10 subject questions for 500,000 and one additional question to win a million dollars.
The adults have three cheats that they can use during the game Peek, Copy and Save. Peek is where the contestant looks at the child's answer and decides whether or not they want to use it. Copy is when the contestants must use the child's answer. Save is used when the contestant guesses wrong and the child guess right and therefore saves the contestant. All helps are only available once through out the game. Each child is only available for a maximum of 2 questions in a row.
Contestants can drop out at any time through out the game and leave with the money they have won. They must look into the camera and state, " I am not smarter than a fifth grader."
The program is hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy and is produced by Mark Burnett.
Wife Swap 3Premiere date: 12 October at 23h00
Wife Swap returns for a third season of spending two weeks wife swapping.
In the first week of the swap, the wives move in with their new family and adopt their very different lifestyle. They agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that sets out the rules of their new household - how they parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and their social life. But then, in the second week, everything changes. The new wives take charge with their own set of rules to run the new household their way.
Love My WayPremiere date: 25 October at 21h00
Love My Way is an Australian series about a 30-something woman negotiating the web of contemporary relationships, juggling the priorities of family obligations, being successful at love while fulfilled professionally and the hope that "happiness" might occur if all the other things fall into place.
Designing Women 3Premiered date: 25 October at 23h00
Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts and Jean Smart, are back in this third season of Designing Women, a contemporary half-hour comedy series which exposes the views of today's women.
The four women, with completely different personalities, are friends and also partners in the interior decorating firm - Sugarbaker. All of them have a little touch of the Southern belle, some a large touch. But as they try to build a successful business they also push to create fulfilled personal lives.
Delta Burke is Suzanne Sugarbaker, the much-married femme fatale of the quartet, who tends to think of her own. Dixie Carter is Julia Sugarbaker, Suzanne's elder sister and the founder of Sugarbaker's Design Center. Julia is a widow with a sharp wit and a dramatic flair that never leaves her with a loss for words.
Annie Potts stars as Mary Jo Shively, a struggling single parent who has great talent as a decorator but little belief in her abilities. Jean Smart is Charlene Frazier, the sharp, literal-minded office manager who has a distinct talent for attracting the wrong men.
Gilmore Girls 7Premiere date: 28 October at 23h00
Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated with an eclectic mix of everyday folks and lovable lunatics, Gilmore Girls returns for its seventh season.
Thirtysomething Lorelai Gilmore has made her share of mistakes in life, but she has been doing her best to see that her college-bound daughter--and best friend in the world--Rory, doesn't follow in her footsteps. That may be easier said than done, considering that the two share the same interests, the same intellect, the same coffee addiction and the same eyes.
After a painful emotional separation, Lorelai and Rory are once again turning to each other for support as they navigate their respective complicated romances.
Lincoln HeightsPremiere date: Wednesday 31 October at 20h00
The Sutton family is thrown for a loop when Eddie Sutton, an ambitious police officer, decides to move his wife and three kids to the inner-city neighbourhood where he was raised.
With hopes of cleaning it up and making a difference, Eddie convinces his wife Jenn and their kids to give the move a chance. But when the neighbourhood proves to be uninviting and dangerous, Eddie finds himself constantly second guessing whether his decision was a selfish one.
Though the neighbourhood is filled with drugs, gang violence and crime, together the Suttons deal with the trials and tribulations of living in the inner-city.