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Picks of the day for January 8th, 2009

Dexter

ITV1 London at 10:35pm

Start of the second series of the killer drama, previously shown on FX. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is finding it difficult to live a "normal" life and is keen to continue his lethal "hobby". Meanwhile, off the coast of Miami, two scuba divers are about to make an awful discovery...

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Klute

Sky Movies Action/Thriller at 5:30pm

Scary, powerful pyschological adult thriller, starring Donald Sutherland as melancholic small-town cop John Klute, and Jane Fonda, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of neurotic call girl Bree Daniels.

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The Number 23

Sky Screen 2 at 7:10pm

Psychological thriller, starring Jim Carrey. Affable everyman Walter Sparrow is given a second-hand detective novel The Number 23 for his birthday, but grows increasingly obsessed with the parallels he sees between his life and that of the book's protagonist.

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Life of Riley

BBC 1 at 8:00pm

Start of a new sitcom, starring Caroline Quentin. She plays Maddy, who has just remarried and is about to find out what happens when two families collide...

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Hustle

BBC 1 at 9:00pm

The drama series - about a team of con artists - returns. Mickey returns to London and finds it a changed place. His old team have split, and Albert is detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure. But you can't keep a good conman down, and when Albert tips Mickey off about some obnoxious developers, he and Ash spring into action.

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Total Emergency

ITV1 London at 9:00pm

Start of a new six-part series following all three major emergency services as they keep the streets of Sheffield safe. Police raid a flat for drugs, paramedics try to save the life of a man who has taken an overdose, and firefighters tackle a blaze in a flat. And all three services come together to rescue two workmen who are trapped in a well.

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Kursk: a Submarine in Troubled Waters

Military History at 9:30pm

Repeat of documentary about Russia's largest-ever attack submarine, which sank after a series of mysterious explosions. The Russian government ruled that a hydrogen peroxide leak set off a chain of exploding torpedoes. However in this documentary French film-maker Jean-Michel Carré contends that the Kursk was sunk after colliding with a US sub.

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