The Shadow Line (BBC)

The Shadow Line is a sophisticated conspiracy thriller in seven parts that brings to life a cinematic world of blurred morality and the conflicted characters who inhabit it, it features a star-studded cast, including: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Sir Antony Sher and Stephen Rea. [VIDEO]

The Walking Dead (AMC)

Based on one of the most successful and popular comic books of all time, written by Robert Kirkman, AMC’sThe Walking Dead captures the ongoing human drama following a zombie apocalypse. The series follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, Teachers,Strike Back), who are traveling in search of a safe and secure home. However, instead of the zombies, it is the living who remain that truly become the walking dead. Jon Bernthal (The Pacific, The Ghost Writer) plays Shane Walsh, Rick’s sheriff’s department partner before the apocalypse, and Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), is Rick’s wife, Lori Grimes. Additional cast include: Laurie Holden, Steven Yeun, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey DeMunn, Chandler Riggs, Iron E. Singleton and Melissa McBride. Guest stars include: Lauren Cohan, Scott Wilson and Pruitt Taylor Vince. [VIDEO]

Game Of Thrones (HBO)

It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men…all will play the ‘Game of Thrones.’ [VIDEO]

Breaking Bad (AMC)

Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White’s releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade. [VIDEO]

Strike Back: Project Dawn (Sky1)

Strike Back Project Dawn bursts back onto our screens as agent John Porter is kidnapped by Pakistani terrorist Latif. The rest of his team from Section 20, the Military Intelligence Unit, have to race against the clock to find him. Col. Eleanor Grant enlists the help of former US Delta Force operative and serial lothario Damien Scott, to help identify Latif. Back in London, the team is watching footage of Porter when he is executed live on TV. Scott decodes a message from one of Porter’s hostage transmissions that warns of a terrorist plot known as Project Dawn, which the unit has been tracking for some time. The intelligence is proved correct when terrorists seize a hotel with hostages, including Scott and Stonebridge, trapped inside… [VIDEO]

Honorable Mentions

The Killing
Scott & Bailey
Nurse Jackie
New Girl
Luther
The League
Justified
Homeland
Hell On Wheels