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PRIME SUSPECT I
STARTS 3 SEPTEMBER 22:30

Prime Suspect stars Maria Bello as Detective Jane Timoney, struggling to be accepted in a male dominated homicide squad in New York.

Although she's tough, smart and perceptive, Timoney is confronted by more than just hostile suspects when she is transferred to the Manhattan South Task Force. Despite having the wary support of her boss Lieutenant Sweeney, the respect of her colleagues will be much harder to win.

Determined to prove herself, Prime Suspect follows Timoney as she deals with the brutal realities of inner city crime, battles her team’s misconceptions and balances her personal relationships with her ex-cop father and long-term boyfriend.

NECESSARY ROUGHNESS I
STARTS 4 SEPTEMBER 21:30

Necessary Roughness focuses on a tough, sexy Long Island divorcée who gets a job as the therapist for a professional football team in order to make ends meet.

Underestimated at every turn, she succeeds beyond all expectations and soon finds herself a sought-after therapist to high-profile clients. Athletes, musicians, politicians and others living in the spotlight – all in a moment of crisis – clamor for her unique brand of tough-love therapy.

As a newly single mom raising two teenagers, her start-up practice wreaks havoc on her life. But recognising that she's changing people's lives for the better, she is determined to make her new career work by striking a balance between her personal and professional worlds.

Pan Am
STARTS 14 SEPTEMBER 22:30

Pan Am is a drama series that transports viewers to 1963 and the dawn of the Jet Age. As a fast, new luxury airliner takes to the skies, the passengers and crew face a voyage whose landscape is shaped by romance, shifting societal values and even international espionage.

Head stewardess Maggie mentors rookie flight attendant Laura, while first officer Ted turns on the charm. Excitement awaits every traveler on Pan Am.

CHARLIE’S ANGELS
STARTS 19 SEPTEMBER 19:30

Charlie’s Angels is an action drama series about three women with criminal pasts who are given a second chance in this update of the original series.

Thanks to mysterious billionaire Charlie Townsend, three beautiful women get a chance to escape their checkered pasts.

Under the watchful eye of their handler, Bosley, Kate, Eve and Abby work for the exclusive Townsend Detective Agency and tackle cases that take them from the dangerous drug dens to the glamorous beachfront mansions of Miami.

Based on the original television series, Charlie's Angels.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE III (Season 2 aired on M-Net but Season 3 will air exclusively on M-Net Series)
STARTS 25 SEPTEMBER 22:30

Winner of eight Emmy Awards, the hit HBO drama series returns for its 3 Season.

Season 3 begins on New Year’s Eve 1922-23. The Roaring ‘20s are about to start; though the economy is booming, alcohol has become scarce, competition is fierce, and gangster violence is heating up.

Amidst this backdrop, Nucky, whose marriage to Margaret has become a sham after she signed away his highway windfall to the church, faces new competition in the person of Gyp Rosetti, who builds a new strategic bulkhead between New York and Atlantic City in an effort to siphon off Nucky’s alcohol business.

The conflict brings out the best and worst in Nucky, who proves his brutal mettle in a series of violent encounters.

New and familiar faces also undergo compelling metamorphoses as the 12 new episodes of Boardwalk Empire unfold.

REVOLUTION I
STARTS 27 SEPTEMBER 20:30

Revolution is about a family who struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology - computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights - has mysteriously blacked out ... forever.

A grand romantic saga with sweeping scope and intimate focus, this drama is also about family - both the family you're born into, and the family you choose. This is a swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth, seen through the eyes of one strong-willed young woman, Charlie Matheson, and her brother, Danny.

When Danny is kidnapped by militia leaders for a darker purpose, Charlie must reconnect with her estranged uncle Miles, a former Marine, living a reclusive life. Together, with a rogue band of survivors, they set out to rescue Danny, overthrow the militia and ultimately re-establish the United States of America.

All the while, they explore the enduring mystery of why the power failed, and if or how it will ever return.

Final season!

BREAKING BAD V
STARTS 27 SEPTEMBER 21:30

This fifth and final season consists of 16 episodes, split into two parts - each consisting of eight episodes. The first eight episodes air this year and the second will be released in 2013.

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, research chemist turned high school teacher Walter White decides to provide for his wife and disabled teenage son by using his considerable skills to start a meth lab. His new business becomes a ticket into a shady criminal underworld - and to a much-needed new lease on life.

UP ALL NIGHT
STARTS 29 SEPTEMBER 17:30

Up all Night is an irreverent look at modern parenthood. Christina Applegate stars as Reagan Brinkley: loving wife, successful career woman, life of the party and, most recently, mom.

Determined not to compromise her career or cool reputation to the clichés of motherhood, Reagan adjusts to life with a baby and returns to work with the support of her stay-at-home husband, Chris.

The series is created by Emily Spivey (NBC's "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live") and executive produced by Lorne Michaels (NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock"),

BENT
STARTS 29 SEPTEMBER 22:30

Bent is a romantic series about a recently divorced lawyer now raising her eight-year-old daughter as a single mom. When she decides to redo her kitchen, she hires a contractor who is a recovering gambling addict, avid surfer and unapologetic womanizer. Sparks fly.

From writer Tad Quill comes this irreverent romantic comedy about two people who may be Bent, but are definitely not broken


Some popular shows that premiere on M-Net (channel 101 on DStv) are repeated on M-Net Series to suit the viewing needs of DStv subscribers.

GOOD WIFE III
STARTS 2 SEPTEMBER 17:30

The Good Wife is a gripping blend of courtroom, politics and steamy personal relationships drama series. In Season I a political wife whose world was shattered when her husband was caught in a sex and corruption scandal.

Forced to support her family, Alicia returned to work at a Chicago law firm headed by Diane Lockhart and Will Gardner, a driven attorney with a passion for justice.

While the staff at Lockhart/Gardner adjust to new realities and relationships, Alicia must put aside distractions in her personal life to defend a Muslim student accused of murdering a Jewish classmate, on the third season premiere.

Final season!

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVE VIII
STARTS 2 SEPTEMBER 20:30

All good things eventually come to an end, and in the final season of this landmark show, the stakes are at an all-time high. Winner of both the 2005 and 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy -“Desperate Housewives” is a primetime soap with a truly contemporary take on “happily ever after.”

The series, which takes a darkly comedic look at suburbia - where the secret lives of housewives aren’t always what they seem - began with Mary Alice Young inside her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, taking her own life. Commenting from her elevated point of view, she took us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbours.

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M-Net Series is on DStv, Channel 110.

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