MUMBAI: Star World will unfurl its bouquet of new shows for the month of October with the much awaited Dark Angel, the science-fiction adventure series set in the near future. The series, the television debut of academy award-winner James Cameron (director of Titanic and The Terminator) will premiere on the channel on 3 October 2002, at 6:30 pm and 10 pm.

The series are set in the year 2019 and begins by showing how the US has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. The story revolves around Max, a genetically engineered soldier who is on the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past. A revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place, she eventually joins forces with the idealistic cyber-journalist .

Max is being played by Hollywood actress Jessica Alba , a recipient of the 2001 TV Guide Awards' Breakout Star of the Year and 2001 Saturn Awards' Best Actress on Television. She plays the role of a genetically enhanced human prototype with attitude to spare. She is aided in her quest -- both to avoid capture and to reunite with her surviving "siblings" -- by Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly), an idealistic cyber-journalist, who battles corruption and the oppressive establishment in this futuristic landscape.

Dark Angel also stars John Savage as Lydecker, the military operative hunting Max and her "siblings" through this future world.