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About Love Bites


Love Bites Premiered on NBC on June 02, 2011



About the Show:
"Love Bites" is an hour-long romantic comedy anthology series featuring three loosely connected modern stories of love, sex, marriage and dating. Each of the multiple vignettes will involve an array of talented guest stars every week, and will illuminate the theme of love with a fresh, irreverent spin.

Anchoring the series and appearing in each episode are stars Becki Newton ("Ugly Betty") as Annie Matopoulos, a single New York City girl looking for "Mr. Right Now"; and Constance Zimmer ("Entourage") and Greg Grunberg ("Heroes") as Colleen and Judd Rouscher, a happily married Venice Beach couple.

Emmy Award-winning producer/director Marc Buckland ("My Name Is Earl") directed the pilot, and will serve as an executive producer. He's joined by executive producers Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally ("Will & Grace," "Ugly Betty"), and Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, and Shelley McCrory of Working Title Television. Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Cindy Chupack ("Sex And The City") is the creator, and will be a consulting producer on the series.

"Love Bites" is from Universal Media Studios and Working Title Television, which is a new division of Working Title Films (the UK production company behind such box office hits as "Love Actually," "Bridget Jones's Diary," and "Four Weddings and a Funeral").

Cast:
Constance ZimmerColleen Rouscher
Greg GrunbergJudd Rouscher
Becki NewtonAnnie Matopoulos


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About Single Ladies


Single Ladies Premiered on VH1 on May 30, 2011



About the Show:
"Single Ladies" is a comedic drama about Val, Keisha, and April - three best friends with different philosophies on sex and relationships.

Val ( Stacey Dash) is an ambitious aspiring fashion mogul who wants to find a true partner. Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy), on the other hand, is a former video dancer just looking for a rich man to keep her in style. April (Charity Shea,) has supposedly found the perfect man and the perfect marriage - but is learning that marriage isn't necessarily a happy ending.

"Single Ladies" is a modern, sexy series set in the world of Atlanta fashion, music, and celebrity that will constantly explore which woman has the right approach to relationships.

Cast:
Stacey DashValerie "Val" Stokes
LisaRayeKeisha Greene
Charity SheaApril Goldberg-Jenkins
Kassandra ClementiChristina Carter
D.B. WoodsideMalcolm Franks


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About Teen Wolf


Teen Wolf Premiered on MTV on June 05, 2011



About the Show:
Scott was just a regular guy until one bite changed his life forever.

Now he struggles to understand who he is and what he might become. Is he more wolf than human - or is it the other way around? Whichever it is, it's not going to be easy. Scott will try to control his urges, but mostly he's scared that it's his urges that could end up controlling him.

TEEN WOLF is the story of Scott as he tries to walk the line between what he wants and what he can't help from wanting. Will the bite end up being a gift? Or will it be a curse? And what will it all mean for his relationship with Allison - the girl he can't get enough of? Only time will tell if he should embrace his newfound powers, or if he should fear them.

Cast:
Tyler PoseyScott McCall
Crystal ReedAllison Argent
Dylan O'BrienStiles Stilinski
Tyler HoechlinDerek Hale
Colton HaynesJackson Whittemore
Holland RodenLydia Martin


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About Necessary Roughness


Necessary Roughness Premiered on USA on June 29, 2011



About the Show:
Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) seems to have it all figured out: she's got a beautiful home, a successful husband, two great kids, and a satisfying career as a psychotherapist. But when she catches her husband cheating, Dani's perfect world begins to unravel, and she is forced to find a way to keep her family, her finances and her sanity intact. Luckily, a chance encounter with the trainer of the local pro football team offers Dani a chance to show off her counseling skills, and before she can say "Hail Mary," Dani has taken on the team's star wide receiver as a patient and become the most sought-after therapist on Long Island.

Now, high-profile clients from athletes to entertainers to politicians are clamoring for Dani's unique brand of therapy during their moments of crisis. But though her career is reenergized, Dani soon discovers that balancing her workload and the new demands of single motherhood won't be easy. With two teenage kids driving her crazy, an obnoxious ex-husband stirring up trouble, and desperate patients constantly showing up on her doorstep, one thing's for sure: from here on out, Dani's going to have plenty of issues to tackle.

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Callie ThorneDr. Dani Santino
Scott CohenNico Careles
Mehcad BrooksTerrence "T.K." King
Marc BlucasMatthew Donnally


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Reply 2244#2244 bala's post

I'm sorry I missed your post.  Have they already been done?  If not, you are welcome to do them.  If so, please feel free to send me a PM if I miss a post like that again.  I check in daily, but obviously some things get missed.
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I have not got time at the moment to do that many guides so I'm only requesting a few of the new shows each time we get them but Jim has become a master at doing Abouts & Episode Guides.
I know how pressed you are for time Adam.  I actually had some positive results today from my acupunture treatment, so am hoping that continues.  If so, I'll be able to do a bit more again.

And Jim, no problem about the episode guides.  I know they'll get done.   

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it's ok normally i would i just been a bit busy this week.

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About Raising hope



About The Show:
Jimmy Chance, who hasn't made the best decisions in life, is trying his best to raise his daughter with the help of his family who didn't do the best job raising him as a child. His family consists of a working mom and dad Virginia and Burt, and an almost never-lucid grandma Maw Maw. Rounding up the cast is Sabrina, a worker at the local store that Jimmy has a crush on, and several recurring stars.

Cast:
Actor’s NameCharacter’s name
Lucas NeffJimmy Chance
Garret DillahuntBurt Chance
Martha PlimptonVirginia Chance
Shannon Marie WoodwardSabrina Collins
Cloris LeachmanMaw Maw


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Raising Hope Season 1 Guide



1. Pilot
Jimmy learns that he is a father and decides to keep the baby girl despite the grumbling of his parents.

2. Dead Tooth
Jimmy tries to find a babysitter when he decides to get a job, only to end up meeting an old fling who complicates his intentions of getting closer to Sabrina

3. Dream Hoarders
When Jimmy "teaches" Hope to crawl, the family must baby-proof the house and find new places to store their belongings. It's soon revealed that Virginia is a hoarder and has been saving junk in the storage shed, which becomes Hope's favorite new hiding place. This leads Virginia to realize that she may have to change her ways. Meanwhile, Jimmy makes frequent unnecessary trips to the grocery store to see Sabrina.

4. Say Cheese
A visit from Sabrina makes Jimmy realize that he doesn't have any photos with Hope, so he organizes a family photo shoot that creates even more chaos in the household.

5. Happy Halloween
Jimmy offers to go to a Halloween party with Sabrina when her boyfriend can't make it. Meanwhile, Burt tries to play tricks on his son, while Virginia takes her grandmother trick-or-treating.

6. Family Secrets
Jimmy is faced with the decision to keep or get rid of the stuff that Hope's mother had in prison. When his own mother suggests that he needs to protect Hope from the truth, Jimmy comes to a realization that his parents must be hiding something from his childhood.

7. The Sniffles
Virginia panics when Hope catches a cold and the rest of the family has no health insurance, so she makes drastic measures to prevent others catching it. Jimmy gets a second job in order to take his daughter to the doctor.

8. Blue Dots
Jimmy decides to put Hope in an expensive daycare center, but meets an obstacle in the form of an old record from Burt's past, so the family decides to take matters in their own hands and deal with the law.

9. Meet the Grandparents
Jimmy decides to change his usual Thanksgiving routine by inviting Hope's other grandparents, Dale and Margine, to Thanksgiving dinner. However, he soon realizes that he made a mistake when the grandparents kidnap Hope.

10. Burt Rocks
Realizing that his father had to give up his dream of becoming a rock star to take care of his family, Jimmy decides to give Burt a chance at reliving his rock days with help from Burt's music idol Smokey Floyd.

11. Toy Story
Jimmy finds out about his father's annual Christmas scheme where he sells the most wanted toy for a lot of money, which always left Jimmy disappointed when he was a child. Virginia wants the family to be a part of the living nativity scene at their church to gain the respect of the members.

12. Romeo and Romeo
Jimmy makes friends a single dad and they set up a play date, but Virginia doesn't like the idea because she is the man's housekeeper. However, Jimmy and the guy set out to have a dinner at the Chance household to make peace.

13. A Germ of a Story
When Sabrina reveals to Jimmy just how unsanitary his house is, the entire Chance family starts getting obsessed with cleaning, even going so far as to moving Maw Maw because she is never clean for too long. However, a family secret is soon revealed that changes everything.

14. What Up, Cuz?
Virginia's world is thrown for a loop when her cousin Delilah comes to visit with intentions of claiming her share of Maw Maw's fortune, thinking that Maw Maw has passed away, and to make things worse - she still has feelings for Burt. Jimmy panics when he loses Maw Maw while babysitting her.

15. Snip Snip
Sabrina and Virginia learn secrets about each other, prompting Sabrina to blackmail Virginia into keeping quiet. The family votes in favor of Burt getting a vasectomy, and Jimmy is in charge of getting Burt there.

16. Cultish Personality
Mike returns after going through a spiritual quest with a wife and her other three husbands in tow. Burt attempts to fix the relationship between his brother and Mike.

17.Mongooses
The Chance family goes to see a lawyer to get their wills done, and Burt is insulted when Jimmy chooses Sabrina over him. Meanwhile, Sabrina is overcome with emotion by the news, while Maw Maw thinks mongooses are infesting the household.

18. Cheaters
Maw Maw has a crush on a man she meets at Shelley's daycare. Jimmy takes Sabrina to see Wyatt after she suspects he might be cheating on her, and he results to drastic measures to win her back

19. Sleep Training
Virginia and Burt try out a sleep-training book on Hope, while a whole new worlds opens up to Jimmy when his new girlfriend introduces him to an a special beverage

20. Everybody Flirts... Sometimes
The Chance family tries their luck at flirting when Burt's flirtatious manner is revealed. Sabrina and Jimmy compete tot become Barney's favorite employee, Virginia is being stalked by a coffee shop employee and Maw Maw starts giving away her possessions.

21. Baby Monitor
When Hope's baby monitor picks up a conversation between their neighbors, Virginia and Burt decide to meet the troubled couple. Meanwhile, Howdy's Market has a commercial competition with their rival store.

22. Don't Vote For This Episode
The Chance family flashes back to Jimmy's 18th birthday when Maw Maw kicked them out of the house, causing Jimmy to take solace at the grocery store and forcing Virginia and Burt to finally learn how to be adults.

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About Chaos



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Threats to national security are investigated by a group of rogue CIA spies in the division of Clandestine Homeland Administration and Oversight Services (CHAOS), also trying to keep their jobs from being eliminated due to budget cuts. New agent Rick Martinez (Freddy Rodriguez) joins the team as an in-house mole for CIA National Clandestine Service Director H.J. Higgins (Kurtwood Smith). However, Martinez is quickly found out by the ODS (Office of Disruptive Services) team, who "turn" him for their own use.

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Actor’s nameCharacter’s name
Freddy RodriguezRick Martinez
Eric CloseMichael Dorset
Tim Blake NelsonCasey Malick
James MurrayBilly Collins
Carmen EjogoFay Carson
Christina ColeAdele Ferrer
Kurtwood SmithH.J. Higgins


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Chaos Season 1 Episode Guide



1. Pilot
Amidst bureaucratic gridlock and rampant incompetence, a group of rogue CIA spies combat threats to national security as part of Clandestine Administration and Oversight Services (CHAOS).

2. Song of the North
In order to get a North Korean diplomat to defect, the Chaos agents must also smuggle his entire family out of the Communist country. Posing as anti-capitalism entrants, the agents use the Pyongyang Film Festival as cover to accomplish the mission.

3. Love and Rockets
Complications and distractions abound when the CHAOS agents infiltrate an arms dealer's Russian compound with the intent to capture him. Posing as lawyers, the agents must put their improv skills to work.

4. Two Percent
Casey's off his game when the team heads to China to extricate a compromised female spy who just happens to have been his former girlfriend. The team decides to finish her assignment and continue on the trail of a major terrorist.

5. Mole
The CIA offices go on lockdown when the director suspects a mole, putting a foreign operative in danger. The agents' must figure out how to get the operative the support needed for a drug cartel operation already in play.

6. Eaten by Wolves
The agents head to Russia pretending to be tourists looking for brides, but are really trying to find a scientist selling nuclear secrets. When Rick becomes entangled with one of the women, his cover story starts to unravel.

7. Remote Control
The CHAOS team, in Paris to capture a terrorist, is discovered by French intelligence and forced to shut down their operation. Now the team must find a way to continue the mission without creating an international incident.

8. Core Fortitude
The ODS's latest unauthorized activities puts Rick in a dilemma about whether to report their activities to the director.

9. Defending Sofia
The agents' latest job is to protect a European political leader after she fakes her death.

10. Glory Days
A legendary retired agent is called upon by the ODS to help them investigate a private security contractor. It seems the contractor is trying to infiltrate US embassies with "spies" of their own.

11. Deep Cover Band
While in Germany to take down a rogue spy, the agents find a very different scenario which requires their expertise.

12. Mincemeat
The CHAOS agents head to the Middle East to influence a dictator's choice in naming his successor. With the current dictator on his deathbed, their goal is to keep his violent son from assuming power.

13. Proof of Life
A former team member who was thought to be dead is actually being held hostage in Panama. Risking their careers and lives, the ODS head out, on another rogue mission, to bring him back.

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About Outcasts



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A group of courageous pioneers face a unique opportunity: the chance to build a new and better future on another planet.Created by one of the writers on Spooks, Outcasts is a new sci-fi drama set in 2040. With Earth doomed, a group of pioneers has settled on a new, life-sustaining planet. The settlers plan to create a better world, but bring their human frailties with them

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Actor’s nameCharacter’s name
Langley KirkwoodRudi
Liam Cunningham
Richard Tate
Hermione NorrisStella Isen
Amy MansonFleur Morgan
Daniel MaysCass Cromwel
Jamie BamberMitchell Hoban
Michael LeggeTipper Malone

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Outcasts Season 1 Episode Guide



Episode One
Ten years after the first Earth colonists arrived on Carpathia, they anxiously await the arrival of the last known transporter from the doomed home planet. The leader of the Expeditionaries, meanwhile, plans to break away from the regime at Forthaven.

Episode Two
An Expeditionary force sets out to look for survivors from the crashed transporter CT9. One survivor accuses another, Julius Berger, of murder. A group of Advanced Cultivars (ACs), led by Rudi, have kidnapped Stella's daughter Lily and will release her only if the people of Forthaven save a critically-ill AC baby.

Episode Three
Stella discovers that a scientist had predicted that planetary storms would continue to grow in strength, and that a super whiteout would one day threaten the settlement. She asks Tipper to help calculate when this might happen.

Episode Four
A rogue AC enters Forthaven and surrenders himself to the authorities. When he escapes from custody and injures a citizen, PAS launch a manhunt. Jack discovers a hominid fossil.

Episode Five
A man claiming to be one of the first Carpathian settlers arrives in Forthaven carrying a large number of diamonds. He leads Cass and Fleur to the coast, claiming to be able to show them bodies.

Episode Six
Three XPs, assigned a mission to assassinate Rudi, are reported missing. One of them returns to Forthaven, but she is not the woman she was. A couple of ACs sabotage Forthaven's power station, threatening the life of a woman in labour.

Episode Seven
Cass receives a note threatening to expose his true identity, then becomes implicated in a missing person investigation. Tate has become convinced that there is a host force on Carpathia and is determined to discover how to communicate with it.

Episode Eight
A new virus - C24 - hits Forthaven. Berger seizes his opportunity, blaming the virus on the ACs, and exposing Fleur's true origins in an attempt to undermine confidence in President Tate.

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About King


King Premiered on Showcase on April 07, 2011



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As a Homicide Detective, Jessica King (Amy Price-Francis) sees things that everyone else misses: in crime scenes, in evidence, in the motivations and drives of the suspects. A fearless and imaginative lateral thinker, her unique eye for detail turns cases around. And she has a rare quality: Jess doesn’t need to be liked. That quality gets her into trouble.

Almost two years ago, the former Chief of Police sent Jess to the call centre - the Police Service equivalent of Siberia - for an act of gross insubordination. She went public about corruption on the Force. Some of her colleagues haven’t forgotten, let alone forgiven her. After the shuffle, Jess struggled to accept that the “career” part of things had run its course. She started thinking about something that she’d avoided for a long time. Family. A new life.

So, Jess dove into a third marriage with fellow officer and Guns and Gangs team member Detective Daniel Sless (Gabriel Hogan). Danny adores Jess. But their rigorous efforts to get pregnant haven’t panned out so far. And that’s putting a strain on things.

When Detective Sergeant Derek Spears (Alan Van Sprang) has a public, televised meltdown, Jessica King is called in to lead the Major Crimes Task Force (M.C.T.F.) – a police squad that is parachuted in to take over cases in crisis. Murder, rape, robbery, gang violence, serial and predatory crime – everything’s fair game.

The unit takes over cases already in progress and in crisis. A cop or the courts screw up, or another squad drops the ball and Jess and her team have to work fast, take big risks and probably piss some people off to get it back on track. Like Jess, the M.C.T.F. doesn’t have many boundaries.

Spears is less than gracious about the fact that King is now in charge of what was ‘his’ unit. He was a good cop once, very good, and he will be again. But, it’ll take Jessica King to help him get his mojo back. There's chemistry between them and Jess will be tempted - Spears is a lot like the guys she swore off years ago. Besides, she's determined to make her marriage with Danny work. Colleagues may resent her but King’s fierce intelligence, passion for her job, disarming honesty and wicked sense of humour overrides their doubts. King is a lateral, imaginative thinker whose rare eye for detail gives her a critical edge. And, she’s tough. King has survived eight years in Homicide, two marriages and multiple stab wounds. Off duty, King is a wife, a lover and a friend, who struggles with issues of infertility, intimacy and trust – and like most women, she can’t pass up a good shoe sale.

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Actor’s nameCharacter’s name
Amy Price-FrancisJessica King
Gabriel HoganDanny Sless
Alan Van SprangDerek Spears


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Episode 1: Lori Gilbert
Detective Jess King must find a missing girl and prove to Chief Graci that she can handle her new job as head of the Major Crimes Task Force…and her new squad.

Episode 2: T-Bone
Homicide is trying to convict two major drug traffickers, the Barrata Brothers, of murder. But when the Drug Squad nails a wise guy named DeMarco for possession, they unwittingly take Homicide's only lead off the streets. Graci hands the mess to Jess, ordering her to solve the murders and bring peace to the cop shop. At the Don Jail, Jess identifies DeMarco's unlikely confidante, a biker named T-Bone, and promises him a break on his own assault sentence if he agrees to act as an undercover agent for the police. Jess puts her trust in her volatile informant, but when T-Bone goes AWOL, he jeopardizes the case and Jess’ reputation.

Episode 3: Amanda Jacobs
When Detective Jenny Hicks refutes Melissa Jacobs’ claim that she was brutally raped by the Riverdale Rapist, Amanda sues the Police Services. Enter Jess King, ordered to investigate the Amanda Jacobs case while the Sex Crimes Unit continues to investigate the Riverdale Rapist. Jess believes Amanda and takes over both cases, to the ire of Hicks, who quits the Service. And new evidence suggests Amanda's rapist is far more sinister and much closer to home. The Major Crimes Task Force is pushed to its limits in bringing a serial predator to justice.

Episode 4: Eleni Demaris
When Detective Eleni Demaris interrupts a home invasion in progress, she’s beaten into a coma, and Jess will stop at nothing to avenge her friend. But according to Graci, she’ll have to work with Detective Ray Arnold – a member of Toronto's notorious Robbery squad – to do it. Robbery squad members are known for their violent tendencies and sloppy work ethic, and Ray is no exception. Ray zeroes in on an ex-con with an eerily similar modus operandi, but Jess fears Ray’s tunnel vision is compromising the investigation. As victims pile up, Jess and Ray must find a way to work together to catch a ruthless criminal with nothing to lose…

Episode 5: Farah Elliot
Jess King is aghast when she discovers her nemesis, Seymour Keegan, a vicious serial predator, is back in town and targeting a new victim. Jess knows Seymour killed a teen girl five years ago but she didn't have enough evidence to convict. Jess tries and fails to trap her Moby Dick in a sting, but when she turns up nothing but circumstantial evidence, Graci takes Jess off the case. Or so he thinks. Jess goes rogue and tracks Seymour on her own using her team and some questionable tactics. Seymour loves the attention, and that’s when Jess makes the connection - he's a clinical narcissist and he’s taunting her. When another girl goes missing, Jess must rein in her obsession in order to save her before it's too late.

Episode 6: Ahmad Khan
Ahmad, the bright star of the University’s Bio Chem department, was also an observant Muslim, and his violent murder has all the makings of a hate crime. But when Jess discovers Ahmad was secretly gay, the case becomes more complicated. To make matters worse, the murderer seems to delight in misleading the police, leaving Jess to wonder: is this a hate crime at all, or an elaborate cover up? Jess navigates the ambitious and cutthroat world of academia, squaring off with a brilliant sociopath who just might have committed the perfect murder.

Episode 7: Cameron Bell
When a video of Danny's partner, Jim Perry, beating his Confidential Informant is caught on tape and televised, Danny and Perry are suspended. Graci has Jess take over their ongoing investigation: the shooting of Scott Flanigan, an innocent bystander caught in gang crossfire at a skating rink. But when Jess discovers that Flanigan was actually the target of the shooting, the case blows open. Digging deeper to find a motive, Jess suspects the killer used the gang's notorious rivalry as a decoy for a crime of passion.

Episode 8: Scout Winter
When Trevor Winter, an anti-racist activist, provokes a white supremacist group, he is beaten in his own house, which prompts Child Protection Services to take away his kids. The media makes the Police Force look bad for not making any arrests and tearing a family apart. To improve optics, Graci puts King on the case. But when Jess' prime suspect, a skinhead leader, turns out to be an undercover federal agent, Jess is stumped. New evidence emerges, and Jess discovers the true perp has a more personal motive for keeping the family apart.

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About Endgame


Endgame premiered on Showcase on March 14, 2011



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He was born in the Soviet Union but escaped when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. He rocketed to international chess stardom after winning a string of tournaments, all played at blitz speed. Arkady Balagan soon became World Champion and one of the most legendary chess players of all time.

Balagan came to Vancouver, the hometown of his fiancée, Rosemary, to take part in a tournament. Rosemary was going to lunch with an old friend. As they waved goodbye, a vehicle drove up. He watched as Rosemary died in a hail of bullets.

The local police said it was a case of mistaken identity. Balagan became traumatized; convinced he was the real target. It was Vladimir Putin's revenge for Balagan having given millions to the pro-democracy forces in Russia.

The potent combination of guilt, grief and fear made Balagan unable to leave the hotel. And so he was stuck inside for months, eventually running out of money. A boy is missing and Balagan makes an off-hand observation that turns out to be true. Soon one of the fathers, under suspicion from the police, is pleading with Balagan to help solve the crime. Bored with his life in the hotel, broke, and eager to help, Balagan agrees and to his own surprise, he soon figures out who has the boy.

Thus he earns a reputation for solving mysteries and figuring out the impossible. Each week, people come with problems that have stymied the police, or problems that they cannot even bring to the authorities.

He has two confederates who do his leg work - Sam, a grad student and chess fanatic, and Alcina, a hotel maid from Guatemala. Danni, the hotel bartender, is his source for information and contacts, as well as an ear for his theories.

But the trick is that though Balagan cannot leave the hotel, he solves the puzzles in his head. Literally. He can imagine events, interview the living and the dead, go over every permutation and combination of events. He imagines it one way, then another; and we have the privilege of entering his mind and seeing it all with him, until finally he figures it out.

During all of this Balagan is also trying to figure out who killed Rosemary and why. With the assistance of her sister, Pippa, he explores many theories, but to no avail

Cast:
Actor’s nameCharacter’s name
Shawn DoyleArkady Balagan
Patrick GallagherHugo Lum
Torrance CoombsSam Besht
Katharine IsabelleDanni
Carmen AguirreAlcina Albeniz
Melanie PapaliaPippa Venturi
Veena SoodBarbara Stillwell


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Episode 1: Opening Moves
Balagan's first case is launched when Danni pleads with him to find a missing boy and, in a race against time, he enlists Sam and Alcina to help.

Episode 2: Turkish Hold'em
A daring robbery during a high-stakes poker game forces Hugo to ask Balagan for help, prompting the chess master to create his own complex plot to trap the culprit.

Episode 3: The Caffeine Hit
Hired by a desperate amnesiac, Balagan begins to unravel the man's complicated identity while battling with Pippa over the investigation into his fiancée's murder.

Episode 4: The Other Side of Summer
In order to help his former mentor on the police force, Hugo is forced to ask Balagan for help in solving a baffling decades -old cold case about a missing teenage girl.

Episode 5: I Killed Her
A mysterious doctor tells Balagan that he is responsible for the murder of a woman found in the hotel pool during a Psychiatric Conference, drawing Balagan into a complex and dangerous game.

Episode 6: Fearful Symmetry
Enlisted by a terrified family to help solve the inexplicable bombing of their car, Balagan is sidetracked by an unexpected match with a 16-year-old world chess champion.

Episode 7: Gorillas in our Midst
Smitten by a beautiful Chinese cryptologist, Sam convinces Balagan to try to solve an intricate puzzle involving a vital secret and an attractive, conniving female journalist.

Episode 8: The White Queen
When the imperious heiress of the Huxley Hotel empire descends for an inspection, she coerces Balagan into helping her find her son, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Episode 9: Huxley, We Have a Problem
A boisterous reunion between Balagan and his longtime buddy, a Russian cosmonaut, is interrupted when an aerospace engineer plunges to his death and Balagan's friend is accused of the murder.

Episode 10: Bless This Union
When the hotel safe is robbed during an extravagant Indian wedding celebration, the distraught couple asks Balagan to help recover their stolen gifts- but is it an inside job or the work of professionals?

Episode 11: Mr. Black
Balagan is forced to match his chess skills against a computer when his anonymous online opponent reveals that he is playing for lethally high stakes - the lives of a group of innocent hostages.

Episode 12: Polar Opposites
A rock star rock star hires Balagan to find $200,000 stolen from him - a mystery that also involves colourful groupies, a missing polar bear, and the kidnapped grandmother of Danni's estranged husband.

Episode 13: Deadman Talking
After Balagan investigates the sudden death of a hotel security guard, he is forced to face his worst nightmare.

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