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Sunday, December 19, 2010

M-NET STARS

Dragnet and Home for the Holidays coming up on M-Net Stars (Channel 105).

Dragnet will be screened on December 19 at 19h30. Giving the classic TV show Dragnet, the modern treatment, Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd are at their comic best as they investigate a strange series of robberies! Filled with outrageous gags, witty one-liners, and capped by a shocking twist ending, Dragnet promises to handcuff viewers to their seats! The series stars Starring Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan and Dan Aykroyd and was directed by Tom Mankiewicz in 1987.

Home for the Holidays will be screened on December 20 at 19h30. Claudia Larso usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent's place in Baltimore for Thanksgiving, she is more apprehensive than usual. Claudia has just lost her job, she's not feeling at all well, and her teenage daughter, Kitt, who is staying behind, informs Claudia on the way to the airport that she plans to use the weekend to lose her virginity with her boyfriend. Home for the Holidays stars Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jnr and was directed by Jodie Foster in 1995.