Fans of high drama are thrilled "Downton Abbey" is back (a record 10.2 million watched the premiere last Sunday) but for those less serious, try "The Spoils of Babylon" from Funny or Die for high comedy.
The spoof series, based on the novel by legendary author Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell), follows the travails of the Morehouse family, a tale of love, lust, greed, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Okay, maybe not that last one. Shot in 93mm Breath-Take-o-Scope, it's a "masterpiece" — just ask Jonrosh, who introduces the series. It all started in West Texas in 1931 with a foundling picked up by Jonas Morehouse, a wildcatter and the family patriarch, and his daughter Cynthia who plans on growing up rich.
Starring are Ferrell, Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Jellybean Howie, Val Kilmer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen and Steve Tom plus a slew of cameos. Catch the premiere with two episodes at 9 p.m. Thursday on IFC, cable 207. Watch a trailer at bit.ly/spoilstv
FRIDAY & SUNDAY: Cinemax, showtime
Returning series
"Banshee," Cinemax's Emmy-winning series from Alan Ball ("True Blood"), returns for a second season with Antony Starr as ex-con and master thief Lucas Hood, who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., while continuing his crimes, ever aware he's being hunted by gangsters he betrayed years earlier. It airs at 9 p.m. Friday on cable 320. Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell are back for the third season premiere of "House of Lies" at 9 p.m. Sunday on Showtime, cable 350. This series takes viewers back into the back-stabbing, cutthroat world of management consultants who feed off of their fat cat corporate clients.
SUNDAY: HBO
'True Detective'
The 2010 Oscar-nominated Woody Harrelson and the potential 2014 Oscar nominee Matthew McConaughey team up for HBO's new drama series "True Detective," premiering at 8 p.m. Sunday on cable 300.
They star as Martin Hart and Rust Cohle, detectives in Louisiana's Criminal Investigation Division assigned to a macabre murder case in 1995. In 2012, a similar case leads back to that first murder, and Hart and Cohle tell their individual stores of the investigation and what it did to their lives.
SUNDAY: NBC
'The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards'
This year's big party thrown by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and hosted for the second year in a row by the great comedy team of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler airs 7-10 p.m. Sunday on NBC, channel 2, cable 9. The awards ceremony, which honors the best in movies and television, will be seen in more than 192 countries. The red carpet special starts at 6 p.m. on NBC.
Catch "The Spoils of Babylon" trailer at bit.ly/spoilstv
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