Sci Fi channel will premiere, in January, a mini-series never transmitted before in the Portuguese television: “The Andromeda Strain”. Based on Michal Crichton’s novel and produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, it got six nominations in the latest Emmy Awards. The story tells how a team of scientists succeeds in stopping an extremely dangerous and deadly virus that haunts the United States and seems to be of alien origin.

AXN – ‘Criminal Minds’ T4. Premiere Monday 19, at 9:30 PM. Aired: Mondays, at 9:30 PM

Criminal Minds shows the daily work of a brigade of top criminal profilers, who work for the FBI, and whose specialty is the in-depth analysis of the minds of the country’s most malevolent serial killers. At the start of this fourth season, one of the vehicles of the Behavioral Analysis Unit is attacked. The remaining elements of the team fight against time to save their colleagues hit by the bomb and work hard to capture the terrorists responsible for the assault.

Sony Entertainment – ‘Becker’ T2. Premiere Friday 23, at 9:30 PM. Aired: Fridays, at 9:30 PM

 ‘Becker’ is a comedy classic, produced and directed by the same people responsible for hits such as ‘Frasier’ or ‘Seinfeld’. ‘Becker’ joins thus other TV-series transmitted on Comedy Night at Sony Entertainment Television. The most mordacious and politically incorrect doctor is interpreted by Ted Danson, the mythical Sam Malone, the barman from ‘Cheers’, winner of several Emmy Awards.

FOX – ‘Malcolm in the Middle’. Premiere Saturday 24, at 2:15 PM. Aired: From Monday to Sunday, at 2:15PM

Having won seven Emmy Awards, this TV-series turns around an original middle-class family, composed of four brothers and their parents, who try to withstand adolescent

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confusion until the last one turns 18. This emotional and comic journey is conducted by Malcolm (Frankie Muniz, “The Fairly Odd Parents”), the second youngest boy, a strangely normal boy in spite of his extraordinary IQ.

Sony Entertainment – ‘Family Law’ T2. Premiere Saturday 24, at 8:05 PM. Aired: Saturdays, at 8:05 PM

The second season of drama series “Family Law” has Kathleen Quinn (Apollo 13) as protagonist with two episodes aired every Saturday. “Family Law” tells us the story of Lynn Holt (Kathleen Quinn), a tenacious and successful lawyer, a Family Law specialist who has been severely hit.

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FOX Next – ‘Conviction’. Premieres Monday, 26, at 9:30 PM. Aired: Mondays, at 9:30 PM

This is a lawyer TV series with a strong human, sentimental and relational component. The story follows a group of young, good-looking assistant district attorneys, exploring the emotion and complexity of the cases they defend as well as each one’s individuality.

FOX – ‘The Unit’ T4 - Premiere, Wednesday 28, at 9:30 PM. Transmission: Wednesdays, at 9:30 PM

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 ‘The Unit’ is a dramatic action series following a team of Special Forces operatives risking their lives in far-flung locations, while their wives keep up appearances and their homes in good order, keeping their husbands’ secrets. This show, whose third season had an average audience of 10.7 million viewers in the United States of America per episode, is based on producer Eric Haney’s work ‘Inside Delta Force’ and reinforces the action programming on Wednesdays on FOX. In its fourth season now, action rises in intensity and, more than ever, the lives of the brave warriors are exposed to the danger.

Meo VideoClub – ‘The incredible Hulk’ - Available on 14.01.09

Scientist Bruce Banner lives in the shadow, searching the planet for an antidote. But the military artillery, dreaming of abusing his power, will not leave him in peace – or his need of

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being with the only woman that he has ever loved, Betty Ross. Our brilliant doctor is cruelly chased by an abomination, a nightmare animal made up of pure adrenaline and aggressiveness whose powers are similar to those of Hulk’s, as a combat with the proportions of a comics magazine follows, menacing total destruction of New York City.

With: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
From: Louis Leterrier

Meo VideoClub – ‘Superhero Movie’ – Available on 14.01.09

How many superheroes are needed to save the world? The creators of ‘Scary Movie’ answer this question, in accordance with David Zucker’s hilarious style.

With: Leslie Nielsen, Christopher McDonald, Drake Bell, Tracy Morgan, Pamela Anderson, Regina Hall
From: Craig Mazin

Meo VideoClube – ‘Tinker Bell’ – Available on 20.01.09

Based on the famous adventures of Peter Pan, from Disney Studios, this film discloses the charms of Peter Pan in ‘The Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand’

From: Bradley Raymond

Meo VideoClube – ‘What happens in Vegas’– Available on 22.01.09

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Two unknown people wake up together, in a Las Vegas hotel, to find out that they got married the night before. 

With: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher
From: Tom Vaughan
 
Meo VideoClube – ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ – Available on 27.01.09

In “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’, Indy tries to outsmart a beautiful and brilliant agent on a quest for Akator’s mythical and almighty crystal skull. Together with a young rebel moto rider and Marion, the indispensable love of his life, Indy takes you into an action-laden adventure in the always thrilling style of an Indiana Jones classic.

With: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
From: Steven Spielberg