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Tuesday August 9 at 7.30pm on W

One law for two cultures doesn’t equal a fair go. Drew Ellis is the latest lawyer to join the chaotic and challenging world world of the Kimberley Circuit Court The Circuit fo of the Kimberley Circuit Court. The Circuit follows llows a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five-day 2000 kilometre round-trip to dispense justice to the remote communities of north Western Australia. It’s a tough gig for anyone, but for Drew Ellis, a city blackfella, it’s a rude awakening as he quickly comes to realise that one law for two cultures does not always equal a fair go. Cast: Aaron Pederson, Kelton Pell, Gary Sweet.

Monday July 25 at 6.00pm on W

In the season 8 Premiere, Ty Pennington and his design team, including new designers Xzibit and Jillian Harris, travel travel to Baltimore Maryland to surprise the students of Boys Hope/Girls Hope in a unique way and reveal to to Baltimore, Maryland, to surprise the students of Boys Hope/Girls Hope in a unique way and reveal to them that their lives were about to change.

For the first time in the history of the show, the recipients were surprised on live television when the “EM: HE” team greeted the students with the good news. Another first in the show’s 170-plus episode history came unannounced, courtesy of Mother Nature, when an epic rainstorm threatened to knock the 11,000 square foot build off its strict seven-day schedule.

Host: Ty Pennington, Xzibit, Jillian Harris.

Sunday July 24 at 9.20pm on W

Denis Leary returns to W in this a critically acclaimed drama as Firefighter Tommy Gavin. In the Season 6 premiere, a vision of the afterlife leaves Tommy shaken as he attempts to reconnect with his friends and family back on the outside. At the firehouse, the crew’s fate hangs in the balance when the department decides to cut costs.

Cast: Denis Leary, Andrea Roth, Jerry Adler, Lenny Clarke, Robert John Burke.

Sunday July 24 at 7.40pm on W

Toby Logan is a 30-year-old paramedic living with a secret: he can read people’s minds. Until now, he’s kept it to himself, fearing that his telepathic powers were a sign that he’s slowly losing his mind. However, the more he learns how to use it, the more he comes to believe that this telepathy thing can be pretty darn cool. Now that Toby has decided to step out of the shadows, and embrace his fate, he’s got a new perspective on life. Cast: Craig Olejnik, Lauren Lee Smith, Rainbow Sun Francks, Peter Stebbings.

Raw

Thursday, July 21 at 7.30pm on W

Raw follows the friendships, rivalries and passions among the staff of a thriving Dublin restaurant. In the first episode, successful solicitor Shane returns to Dublin with his career and life in tatters and seeks out his wayward sister sister chef , chef Jojo Jojo, atat her place of work her place of work – ‘Raw Raw’. Temperamental Temperamental gay gay sous sous chef chef Geoff (played by Australian actor Geoff (played by Australian actor Damon Gameau) threatens to make public his affair with a local journalist if he publishes a story about the drug sales taking place at ‘Raw’. Raw also stars Keith McErlean, Charlene McKenna, Liam Garrigan, Shelley Conn.

Spirited

Wednesday July 20 at 7.30pm on W

In the highly anticipated second season, dentist Suzy Darling and her rock star ghost Henry Mallet are back together but the course of their love affair can never be straightforward. Suzy’s ex-husband Steve is unwilling to believe she can be happy without him and her apartment building is now home to an entourage of ghosts. Suzy and Henry must fight to find a way to stay together but what price will they ultimately pay for their love. Cast: Claudia Karvan, Matt King, Rodger Corser.

Tuesday July 5, at 10.00pm on W

Cast: James McGowen, Graham Abbey, Sarah Gadon

In the final episode of THE BORDER, a kingpin in Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel is en route to Toronto to meet his new distributors – the ultraviolent street gang, MS-13. Ramon Esteban – the new flame of Kessler’s ex-wife Terri – is a Mexican journalist whose articles on Los Zetas have put him on the cartel’s hit list. When Kessler, Carver, and Gray attempt to transfer Ramon from Terri’s shelter into protective custody, MS-13 launches an all-out attack. Kessler must fight back with an unlikely team of warriors.

Sunday July 3 at 1.40pm on W

Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Derek Phillips

This award-winning season centres on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together — and the drama of small town life threatens to tear it apart.

W presents Season 3 in triple episode blocks.

*Season 5 of Friday Night Lights continues to premier on Fridays at 10.00pm

Saturday May 28, at 8.30pm on W

Jim Longworth (Australia’s Matt Passmore) is an attractive, brilliant, yet hard-to-get-along-with homicide detective from Chicago who is forced into exile after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his former captain’s wife. Using the payout he received from the Chicago PD, Longworth searches for the simple life and moves to the sleepy resort town of Palm Glade, Florida, joining the local bureau of the state police figuring it’ll be an easy piece of time. Longworth prefers to work his cases alone and sharing his theories with other detectives only serves to annoy him. But despite his cocky, annoying self-confidence, people put up with him because he’s too charming to ignore, and damned good at solving murders.

Eps 1 & 2.

*W will air The Glades commercial-free.

Friday, May 27 at 7.30pm on W

The Unit is an action drama that follows a covert team of Special Forces operatives as they risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the home front, protecting their husbands’ secrets. Ep 13. The Spear of Destiny. Mack gets badly wounded while on a mission with Jonas and they must seek refuge in a monk’s monastery.