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- DirectorVince GilliganStarsBryan CranstonAnna GunnAaron PaulDiagnosed with terminal lung cancer, chemistry teacher Walter White teams up with former student Jesse Pinkman to cook and sell crystal meth.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles CioffiAgent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.
- DirectorMark PiznarskiStarsKristen BellPercy Daggs IIITeddy DunnDuring the day, Veronica negotiates high school like any average teenage girl. At night, she helps her father's struggling, new private investigator business.
- DirectorBryan GordonStarsChad Michael MurrayJames LaffertyHilarie Burton MorganNathan Scott is Tree Hill High's biggest basketball star and is dating Peyton, a cheerleader. Nathan's half brother, Lucas, joins the team - and threatens to take both Nathan's spot in the lineup and his girl.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsTom WellingKristin KreukMichael RosenbaumBaby Clark (Kal-El) arrives on Earth. Teen Clark starts high school, saves Lex's life after a car accident, and finds out about his past and birth parents.
- DirectorTom GreenStarsAntonia ThomasRobert SheehanLauren SochaFive young adolescents begin community service under the watchful eye of their probation officer when a freak storm strikes them, granting them supernatural abilities.
- DirectorPeter BergStarsKyle ChandlerConnie BrittonGaius CharlesNew head coach Eric Taylor finds his every move scrutinized as he takes over leadership of Texas's No. 1 high school football team.
- DirectorLesli Linka GlatterStarsLauren GrahamAlexis BledelMelissa McCarthyRory is accepted into the elite Chilton prep school. Bad news for Lorelai: she must make amends with her parents to borrow the money for Rory's tuition. The money is available--with strings attached.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsGinnifer GoodwinJennifer MorrisonLana ParrillaEmma Swan is taken to a strange town by her son Henry, who she gave up for adoption years ago, and tells her of a curse cast by the Evil Queen.
- DirectorMichael CuestaStarsMichael C. HallJulie BenzJennifer CarpenterDexter's world is rocked when a rival serial murderer, dubbed the Ice Truck Killer by the media, privately contacts him and reveals that he knows Dexter's grisly secret. Meanwhile, Dexter's sister Debra is transferred to Homicide.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsJared PadaleckiJensen AcklesSarah ShahiSam and Dean Winchester were trained by their father to hunt the creatures of the supernatural. Now, their father has mysteriously disappeared while hunting the demon that killed their mother, 22 years ago.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsPeter GallagherKelly RowanBen McKenzieA troubled teen boy's life is forever changed when, upon landing in jail for a crime his brother committed, a public defender from Orange County, California decides to take him into his home.
- DirectorTimothy Van PattenStarsSean BeanMark AddyNikolaj Coster-WaldauEddard Stark is torn between his family and an old friend when asked to serve at the side of King Robert Baratheon; Viserys plans to wed his sister to a nomadic warlord in exchange for an army.
- DirectorBrett RatnerStarsDominic PurcellWentworth MillerRobin TunneyMichael Scofield is imprisoned in Fox River State Penitentiary. He finds his brother, Lincoln Burrows, who is a death row prisoner, and tells him that he is going to break them both out of the prison.
- DirectorScott WinantStarsBess ArmstrongWilson CruzClaire DanesAngela Chase begins a friendship with Rayanne Graff and Rickie Vasquez. At home there is tension between her and her mother.
- DirectorDavid SemelStarsSantiago CabreraTawny CypressNoah Gray-CabeyIn Manhattan, Peter Petrelli is the younger brother Nathan Petrelli an overly ambitious and unscrupulous candidate for the next New York congressman, and he dreams and believes that he can fly. He decides to prove his theory and jumps from the roof of a building in an alley and his brother flies and saves him. In Texas, cheerleader Claire Bennet learns that she is literally indestructible and can not harm herself or die. She saves a fireman in a fire in a train, but does not take the credit. In Tokyo, Hiro Nakamura believes he can control time and space continuum. In India, Mohinder Suresh moves to the Brooklyn, New York, where his father, that was researching a secret project called Genesis about genome and DNA, is killed in a taxi cab. In Lower Manhattan, the painter Isaac Mendez paints pictures of the future. In Las Vegas, stripper Niki Sanders borrows $30,000 from a powerful local mobster to get her young son into school, and does not have the money to pay her loan. She sees a different image of her in the mirror, and when two gangsters come to her house to collect the money, one of them hits her and she faints. Later Nikki wakes up, and the two thugs are dead... literally torn apart by her evil alter ego.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsAndrew LincolnJon BernthalSarah Wayne CalliesDeputy Sheriff Rick Grimes awakens from a coma, and searches for his family in a world ravaged by the undead.
- DirectorMarcos SiegaStarsNina DobrevPaul WesleyIan SomerhalderReeling from the death of her parents, 17-year-old Elena becomes interested in a handsome new student named Stefan, who's hiding a dark secret.
- DirectorJohn T. KretchmerStarsShannen DohertyHolly Marie CombsAlyssa MilanoThree sisters reunite after the death of their beloved grandmother, and learn they have inherited much more than the family manor.
- DirectorChristopher ChulackStarsRobert TaylorKatee SackhoffLou Diamond PhillipsSheriff Longmire runs a small department in rural Wyoming. When the body of a man is found in the woods the investigation leads to tension between Longmire and the local Indian Reservation, as well as between Longmire and his Indian friend who runs a local bar.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsEliza DushkuShawn ReavesZach GalifianakisTru Davies starts working on a morgue before she can start studying Medicine. The first night she's working at the morgue, a dead woman, Rebecca, asks her for help. Suddenly the day goes forward and Tru repeats her previous day. Tru knows she must help Rebecca and prevent her from being killed. But how can do that if nobody's going to believe she has the power to go back in time and save people?
- DirectorJoss WhedonStarsDavid BoreanazCharisma CarpenterGlenn QuinnAngel relocates to Los Angeles, where he encounters a stranger who experiences visions of those in need, and a woman who lives in fear of a vampire.