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TRUST ME (TNT, Jan. 26) Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as best friends and ad executives. Sounds like a cross of “Mad Men” and “Nip/Tuck.”

MEDIUM (NBC, Feb. 2) Season 5 of the spookiest show on television.

HEROES (NBC, Feb. 2) Not a new season, but a new “volume” of the comic-book superhero show, titled “Fugitives.”

DOLLHOUSE (Fox, Feb. 13) Joss Whedon’s much anticipated techno-mystery, with Eliza Dushku.

CASTLE (ABC, March 9) Murder he wrote: Nathan Fillion as a crime novelist who helps out the N.Y.P.D.

BREAKING BAD (FX, March 15) Season 2 for a show that made many 2008 Top 10 lists.

REAPER (CW, March 17) The last of the 2007-8 strike babies finally gets its second season.

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