Tuesday 1 February – launch
Boardwalk Empire
Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter's prohibition drama, starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald
February
Treme
David Simon's New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina drama, featuring John Goodman, Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters
You Don't Know Jack
Barry Levinson's single drama with Al Pacino as assisted suicide advocate Dr Jack Kevorkian
How to Make It in America
Comedy drama set in New York's fashion scene, from the creative team behind Entourage
Blue Bloods
Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg star as a police commissioner father and his son, a detective, in this New York cop drama
Entourage
Seventh series
Weeds
Fourth series
Also in February
Big Love, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Battlestar Galactica
March
Bored To Death
New York-set comedy featuring Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis
April
Game of Thrones
Medieval fantasy drama based on George RR Martin's novels, starring Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Mark Addy
Temple Grandin
TV movie with Claire Danes, as the eponymous animal welfare campaigner, and Julia Ormond
In Treatment
Second series
June
Mildred Pierce
Mini series from Todd Haynes based on James M Cain's novel, featuring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood
July
The Borgias
Jeremy Irons stars as the head of the notorious Renaissance-era Italian dynasty
This is Jinsy
Full series of UK comedy set on a fictional island, following pilot broadcast on BBC3 last year
August
Hit and Miss
Drama series from Paul Abbott about a pre-op transsexual contract killer
Mad Men
Series five
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