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An Idiot Abroad trailer

The first trailer for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new series An Idiot Abroad has been released, which centres on collaborator Karl Pilkington's hilarious adventures in foreign lands.

More Billy Joel music to feature on Glee

More Billy Joel music will pop up in the second season of Glee after the singer agreed to its use. Joel’s Piano Man featured in the first season in a duet sung by guest Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Morrison.

9:30pm Sunday, May 23 on TV One

The executive producers of the hit shows Without A Trace and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, along with Meredith Stiehm (ER and NYPD Blue), explore an equally absorbing facet of law enforcement in the returning drama series Cold Case.

The headstrong and resourceful detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris Resurrecting The Champ) returns this season to work on 'cold cases' for the Philadelphia Police Department, re-opening dormant, unsolved homicides that occurred years or even decades ago. She makes use of today's science and finds fresh clues to crimes once thought to be unsolvable.

American network CBS has gone on a spring cleaning rampage, culling seven shows for the upcoming season.

The network has cancelled several big-name shows which appear in primetime slots in New Zealand as it makes room for new projects for the upcoming American summer.

Headlining the list of cancellations is drama series Cold Case, which has faded in the ratings in recent seasons according to the network. The show has run for seven seasons in total.

Jennifer Love Hewitt vehicle Ghost Whisperer has also been axed despite the show performing relatively well overseas.

Olivia Wilde to leave House

House actress Olivia Wilde will be absent from the hit medical series for much of the next season due to commitments on a movie. Wilde, who plays the role of Dr. “Thirteen “ Hadley, is taking time out to shoot Iron Man director Jon Favreau’s next movie Cowboys and Aliens but will return to House in the future.

New villian for Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives has secured a new villain for the next season in Ugly Betty’s Vanessa Williams. The actress, best known for her role as Wilhelmina, will move to Wisteria Lane as of next season with producers looking to fill the gap left by departed housewife Nicollette Sheridan.

8:30pm Tuesday, January 26 on TV One

Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) returns to take on often forgotten evidence, witnesses with buried memories, uncover fresh clues, dig into old wounds and pursue the truth on the seventh season of Cold Case (tonight at 8.30pm on TV ONE).

Rush is a smart, driven, enigmatic and highly effective detective on the Philadelphia Homicide Squad. Her instinctive understanding of the criminal mind, and her passion for uncovering the truth, makes her the perfect fit for investigating 'cold cases' - crimes that have never been solved. She reopens dormant, unsolved murders that occurred months, years or even decades ago.

Rush and her team use their wits to take on aging evidence and witnesses with buried secrets, discovering new evidence and doggedly pursuing the truth.

VIBE - Saturdays from 11 July, 9.30pm

Hope lives because the evidence never dies.

Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) and the Philadelphia homicide squad are back for a fourth season, working on "cold cases" - crimes that have never been solved - by reopening dormant murders that occurred years or even decades ago.

Music plays a pivotal part in COLD CASE as the flashback scenes that establish the year of the crime typically employ popular music contemporary to the era. This season includes special episodes that contain music solely from one artist/group, including Tim McGraw, U2 and Bob Dylan.

VIBE – Saturdays from 23 August, 9.30pm

The Philadelphia homicide squad continues thier work on crimes that have never been solved in a new season of VIBE’s hit crime drama. Smart, driven Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) reopens dormant, unsolved homicides that occurred years or even decades ago. Previously, Rush had used her instinctive understanding of the criminal mind to crack current murder cases. Now, this experienced detective is intrigued by new challenges, such as interrogating witnesses to old crimes whose lives and circumstances have since changed, making use of today's new science and finding fresh clues to cases once thought unsolvable.

In the landmark 100th episode of Cold Case, the team investigate the murder of a woman who made headlines for vanishing on the night of Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds.

The case is reopened when the woman's remains are discovered in a well. While Lilly and the team members work on solving the woman's murder, they learn that her family was trying to outrun the 'aliens'. Bellamy Young (Private Practice) appears as Audrey Metz, two-time Emmy Award nominee Ralph Waite (Carnivàle) plays Felton Metz and recurring guest star Sonja Sohn (The Wire) appears as Nick's former girlfriend.

Wednesday 12 March, 8.30pm on TV1