Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling three series being released this week.
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The third season of Damages once again follows a single case in which high-powered attorney Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) goes after the billions of dollars that investor Louis Tobin (Len Cariou) has allegedly stolen from his clients. Even after Tobin's suicide, she goes after his heirs, wife Marilyn (Lily Tomlin) and son Joe (Campbell Scott), convinced they must have been in on the scheme. Leonard Winstone (Martin Short), the Tobin's family attorney, blocks Patty's moves at every step of the way.
The series also stars Tate Donovan as Tom Shayes and Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons.
Damages: Season Three is available on DVD, Amazon Instant, and iTunes (click on the icons displayed for more details), and consists of 13 episodes that originally aired on FX Networks from January through April, 2010.
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MI-5, which airs as Spooks in the UK, opens its penultimate season with a largely new cast.
Relations between the CIA and MI-5 reach breaking point over mysterious hackers. And a horrific truth about Lucas North's (Richard Armitage) past is uncovered by Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) when they come face to face in a compelling interrogation. Friendships are tested to the limit, Harry and Ruth Evershed's (Nicola Walker) bond intensifies and the depth of deceit leads to the ultimate game of cat and mouse.
MI-5 (Spooks): Volume Nine is available on DVD and Amazon Instant (click on the icons displayed for more details), and consists of 8 episodes that originally aired on BBC from September through November, 2010.
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David Suchet reprises his role as Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot in three new adaptations of the Queen of Crime's mysteries in Agatha Christie: Poirot.
The novels adapted for this set are: Three Act Tragedy, in which deadly dinners whet Poirot's investigative appetite; The Clocks, in which Poirot identifies a man whose time ran out; and Hallowe'en Party, in which Poirot looks for ghosts from a young girl's past.
Poirot: The Movie Collection 6 is available on DVD and Blu-ray disc (click on the icons displayed for more details), and consists of these three made-for-television adaptations that originally aired on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery! during June and July, 2011.
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