Heart-stopping battles on Axn Beyond

MANILA, Philippines - AXN Beyond celebrates triumphs in adversity with its line-up of shows this month.

Witness life-and-death battles on the operating table as Beyond brings Combat Hospital, a fictional medical procedural set in 2006 at the only war zone military hospital providing advanced surgical care in all of Southern Afghanistan, the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield. The series charts the frantic lives of the hospital’s international team of doctors, nurses and medics from Canada, America, the UK and other coalition countries as they deliver the best battlefield surgical care to wounded soldiers, civilians caught in the crossfire, and even the enemy. Combat Hospital airs Thursday nights at 10:40.

Continue to follow high-profile cases in Damages Season 4 as Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) prepares for a class action suit against a multinational pharmaceutical company and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) returns to Hewes & Associates to pursue her own lawsuit against military contractor High Star Security and its powerful CEO, Howard Erickson (John Goodman). Ellen plunges into a side of the war on terror that’s rife with torture and deceit, as she turns to an ex-employee for information about a secret High Star mission gone awry in Afghanistan. Don’t miss an episode of Damages Season 4 every Friday night at 11:30.   

Join the discussion in the second season of The Marriage Ref, a funny and revealing panel talk show where real-life married couples take center stage as their quirky, funny and relatable disputes are explored, examined and ultimately judged.

At the end of each episode, the studio audience will vote to make one of the winners The Rightest of the Right. The winners will receive $25,000 and their very own billboard in their hometown, declaring they are right. The series airs every Tuesday night at 8:10.

AXN Beyond also adds sparkle to your holidays with the marathon airing of your favorite series. On Dec. 25, enjoy the complete Top Chef Masters Season 2 beginning at 11:50 a.m. and three back-to-back episodes of Sherlock from 8:10 p.m. and on Dec. 26, catch non-stop episodes of Drop Dead Diva Season 3 from 11:50 a.m. to 9:50 p.m. Meanwhile, enjoy the best episodes of Chaos and Chuck Season 3 on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, 2012 at 1:30 p.m.