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Seven Sings with Summer Treats

Eli Stone, Ugly Betty, Brittania High help Seven keep summer silly.

Eli Stone premiere's on Seven this summer.

Editorial Review

Channel Seven's summer line-up will include the premiere of Eli Stone, a legal drama with a mix of fantasy that many have likened to Ally McBeal. Co-created by Greg Berlanti, it features Jonny Lee Miller as an attorney with a brain aneurysm, which results in hallucinations, including finding George Michael singing to him in his living room. It's set to air twice weekly.

Also premiering is Holby Blue, a spin-off of BBC's medical drama Holby City, which is itself a spin-off of Casualty. And the first week also includes the much-anticipated telemovie 24: Redemption, in which Jack Bauer finds himself fighting war-lords in the fictional African country of Sangala. It premieres 9:30pm Friday, 5 December, set to tease us before the full seventh season sometime in 2009.

Seven also returns other favourites to screen that have been missed. Ugly Betty resumes, also to air twice a week. Dirty Sexy Money is back along with the (almost forgotten) Las Vegas series. And if you really wanted to see more of the American Kath & Kim, it will be lumbered into the 11pm Monday comedy slot following Scrubs.

Other shows to continue into summer include The Amazing Race, The Unit, Heroes and Prison Break -also winning two slots a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Local productions The Rich List and The Outdoor Room will be joined by the return of Hot Property.

The 7pm weeknight slot is given to repeats of How I Met Your Mothe r.

Bones will also be repeated on Monday nights.

Saturday nights are family night and Seven is planning Brittania High, set in performing arts school with music by Take That's Gary Barlow and Mark Owen, plus Robbie Williams' one-time collaborator Guy Chambers. Australia's Adam Garcia appears in this one. It's followed by Dance Machine, a dance-game show best described as So You Think You Can Dance meets Don't Forget the Lyrics. A Lord of the Rings movie rounds out 6 December.

It all begins from Sunday, 30 November.

David Knox for Citysearch, November 2008

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