New on
M-Net in October, 2008:
NEW SHOWS
The Return Of The Jezebel JamesPremiere date: Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 19h00
The Return Of The Jezebel James is a comedy about Sarah Tompkins who has everything a girl could want in life. She has her own imprint at a nearby children’s division, a great big brownstone in Hoboken, a young and energetic assistant, Buddy and a perfect, no-strings-attached relationship with successful businessman Marcus Sonti.
She’s about to publish the sequel to her successful young adult novel The True Adventures of Jezebel James, she can do the splits, she’s basically a size 2 ... so what on could make this better?
A baby.
When her doctor tells her “You can’t.” - she's stunned. She can adopt, she can consider other options, but she can’t do it by herself herself.
This is where Coco Tompkins come in. Coco is Sarah’s less focused sister. Sarah tracks Coco down and makes her a proposition. She will hire Coco to carry her child. It would be like a job to Coco, with lots of added benefits. Although very reluctant initially, Coco finally agrees to her sister’s insane proposal. She will move in with Sarah and she’ll carry her baby.
The show stars Parker Posey stars as Sarah Tompkins, Lauren Ambrose (Clair in Six Feet Under) as Sarah’s younger sister Coco, Michael Arden as Sarah’ s assistant Buddy and Scott Cohen as Marcus Sonti.
CavemenPremiere date: Friday, 10 October 2008 at 19h00
Cavemen is a comedy about three pre-historic cavemen who've successfully made the move to San Diego and are trying to fit in.
Joel (Bill English) is a sophisticated and intelligent man who has a beautiful girlfriend, a decent job and shares an apartment with his younger brother, Andy (Sam Huntington), and his best friend, Nick (Nick Kroll).
Nick is wary of the world filled with homo sapiens and believes he’s running away from his heritage. Andy, on the other hand, looks at this new world with his eyes wide open and is willing to take risks in order to learn and to live life to the fullest.
Tracey Ullman: State of the UnionPremiere date: Sunday, 12 October 2008 at 22h00
Tracey Ullman’s new comedy sketch show features a collection of irreverent skits that take a satirical look at Americans - from the average person next door to famous Hollywood stars.
The show includes impersonations of celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Renee Zellweger, Helen Mirren and David Beckham.
The show's made by Showtime (Dexter, The Tudors).
Backyard NationPremiere date: Sunday, 19 October 2008 at 17h00
Backyard Nation is makeover show that delivers dream gardens to people who cannot or will not create them themselves.
The show makesover the bakcyards of all sorts of people including a professional Hollywood stuntman who wants a motocross track and skate bowl built in his backyard and homeowners Adam and Athena who request an Alice in Wonderland makeover, complete with giant cement mushroom and a teacup hot tub.
Hosted by Josh Temple, each makeover is worth $100,000 in labour and materials, providing the homeowners with their ultimate fantasy in the show where no dream is too over-the-top for the makeover team.
SPECIALS
You SpectacularOn: Saturday, 4 October 2008 at 20h00
The annual You magazine spectacular is an awards ceremony that gives out celebrity awards to winners as voted for by readers of You magazine.
Award categories include: Female Newcomer of the Year, Male Newcomer of the Year; SA Couple of the Year; Sexiest woman in South Africa; Sexiest Male in South Africa, Radio personality of the Year, Newsmaker of the Year and many more.
This year’s event was held at Emperor’s Palace and featured performances by South African musicians including The Parlotones, Tasha Baxter, Watershed, Freshlyground, InCha, Denim and Loyiso Bala.
South African Sports IllustratedOn: Saturday, 25 October 2008 at 20h00
This year the Maldives was the location for the Sports Illustrated 2008 Swimwear shoot. For three weeks it was the home to 11 of the hottest South African models, plus two international bombshells. This special follows them through the shoot.
RETURNING SHOWS
Without a Trace 6 (episodes 9-18)Premiere date: Saturday 4 October 2008 at 19h00
Without A Trace continues its run. It was paused because of the writers strike earlier in the year.
TVSA's Season 6 Show Page.
Clipz 2Premiere date: Tuesday 14 October at 19h00
Clipz returns for a second season.
TVSA's Clipz Season 1 Show Page.
Weeds 4Premiere date: Tuesday 21 October at 22h30
Weeds returns for Season 4.
TVSA's Weeds 4 Show Page.