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• Shiri Appleby (Roswell, ER) stars
in the CW midseason series Life
Unexpected as a radio personality who
gets a shock when the teenage daughter
she gave up for adoption — and the
high-school beau who got her pregnant
— come back into her life. Appleby is
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Mark Your Calendars
A healthy mix of televisions shows featuring Jewish characters and
themes will air this fall — and not just on PBS as often is the case. Here is
a list of those scheduled to date.
Our Disappeared/Nuestro Desparecidos, 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, on many
NCIS, beginning 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, on CBS. Mossad agent on loan
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• Julianna Margulies, 43, plays a wife
and mother who re-enters the workforce
as an attorney after her husband (Chris
Noth) lands in jail following an embar-
rassing political corruption scandal
on The Good Wife, premiering 10 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 22, on CBS.
PBS stations. Director Juan Mandelbaum returns to his native Argentina in
search of friends and loved ones (many of them Jewish) who disappeared
1976-1983, during the years of the brutal right-wing military dictatorship.
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• Looking ahead to midseason, Dave
Franco (Superbad, Privileged), younger
brother of actor James Franco, will play
an inept medical student whose rich
father donates a wing to the med school
in the reboot of ABC's Scrubs, which will
air 9 p.m. Tuesdays after Dancing with
the Stars wraps. Franco, 24, was raised
Jewish by his mother, whose ancestors
emigrated from Russia.
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Enthusiasm, which premieres 9 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 20, on HBO."You will
get an idea of what happened 11 years
later," says David, 62, who co-created
the classic sitcom. "The cast members
will be playing themselves on epi-
sodes scattered through the season!'
Seinfeld also will be Jay Leno's first
guest on his new nightly variety/talk
show, debuting 10 p.m. Monday, Sept.
14, on NBC.
Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) will not be recalled to Israel and will play an
increasingly important (and some say romantic) role this year.
Numb3rs, beginning 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, on CBS. The Eppes family,
FBI agent Don and little brother/math genius Charlie, team up to catch
bad guys using equations and games.
Herb & Dorothy, 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, on many PBS stations.
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story of Herb and Dorothy Vogel who, on two civil servants' salaries,
amassed a multimillion-dollar art collection, largely by recognizing qual-
ity works by then unknown artists.
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, on HBO. The
story of the New York City garment industry, for generations a road
leading to the American Dream.
The People vs. Leo Frank, 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, on many PBS sta-
tions. Explores one of the most sensational murder cases in American
history. It ended, of course, with a lynching.
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The Jazz Baroness, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, on HB02. A member
of the rich French banking family, Baroness Pannonica Rothschild's life
changed when she heard a recording of "'Round Midnight." Known as
Nica and raised in a religious household, she left her family and five chil-
dren, went to New York and had a 10-year relationship with jazz master
Thelonious Monk, the man who wrote the song. Among other oddities,
drug addict Charlie Parker died in her apartment.
WWII in HD November (dates and times to be announced), on the History
Channel. A 10-part series; one of the soldiers interviewed is Jack Werner,
an immigrant from Vienna, who served in the Pacific Theater.
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