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Monday

• Bachelorette (ABC, 8/9pm) - After the final three go to the Bahamas the ‘Men Tell All’.
• Wimbledon/Update (NBC, 11:35pm) – For those of you who don’t have enough time or channels to watch all the coverage this is the update time that runs through Friday, you can catch NBC and ESPN2 full coverage throughout the week.

Tuesday

• Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Fam, 8pm) Series Premiere – Done by folks of 7th Heaven, Molly Ringwald is mom to what looks like a girl who gets pregnant at band camp.

Wednesday

• 2008 Tour de France Preview (Vs, 1:30pm) – Catch the preview to find out who’s in and who’s out (for drug related and other issues) then catch the tour in nearly 24  hour coverage starting Saturday for Stage 1. 
• Pussycat Dolls Presents (CW, 9pm) – Did you miss this the first time around? Did you care? Check out the fifteen women who started, again.

Thursday

• Burn Notice (USA, 6:30am) - For those of you who missed season one start with the pilot and get a whole marathon of the first season shows through the evening.
• CSI (Spike, 9am) – For an alternate marathon option start with the CSI that started it all (in 2000 if you can believe it) and stay put for a day of crime solving.

Friday

• US Olympic Swimming Trials (NBC, 8pm – Sat 8pm – Sun 7pm) – Lots of events… also shown on USA throughout the previous week.
• 4th Of July Fireworks (NBC, 9pm – CBS, 10pm) – Macy’s on NBC and Boston Pops on CBS and of course check your local listings or actually go outside for some fireworks near you.

Saturday

• Beach Volleyball (NBC, 12pm – Sun 1:30pm) – AVP Crocs tour take us to Boulder for the men’s and women’s finals.
• US Olympic Track Trials (NBC, 2pm – Sun 7pm) – Lots of events here too… also shown on USA throughout the previous week.

Sunday

• Wimbledon (Sat/Sun, 6am) – Breakfast at Wimbledon with the Championship coverage.
• I Love Money (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere - “Stars” of Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, and I Love New York compete for $250k.

Monday

• Middleman (ABC Fam, 8pm) Series Premiere – Based on graphic novels a grad student gets wrapped up in weird occurrences.
• Resolved (HBO, 9pm) – Doc that follows some high school debating.
• Intervention (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – This follows different individuals through their addiction and hope for recovery.
• Weeds (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – I hear she sells pot.
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Show, 10:30) Series Premiere – Follow a london high class call girl through both her working and non working times. 

Tuesday

• AFI’s 10 top 10 (CBS, 8pm) – Showing the 10 best films of 10 different genres.
• America’s Got Talent (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – David Hasselhoff is one of the judges, last year I think they picked a ventriloquist.
• Tori & Dean (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Did they give up on the Inn?

Wednesday

• Black Gold (Tru, 10pm) Series Premiere – This is apparently like the Deadliest Catch, it’s a tough job.

Thursday

• Penn & Teller: Bullshit (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – I think that one guy still doesn’t talk.
• America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – If you like a dance show… 

Friday

• Daytime Emmy Awards (ABC, 8pm) – So why aren’t the daytime emmys shown during the daytime?
• Camp Rock (Disney, 8pm) – This is something along the lines of High School Musical targeting that great tween audience.

Saturday

• AST Dew Tour – Panasonic Open (NBC, 11am also Sun 10am – check your local listings) – The action sports tour kicks up again with skateboards, dirt bikes, fmx and more.  
• US Olympic Gymnastic Trials (NBC, 8pm also sat 1:30pm and Sun 7pm) – Get ready to ramp up for the olympic seasons, as I understand it these strong tiny people just try to stick it.

Sunday

• US Olympic Diving Trials (NBC, 12pm – also sat 12:30pm) – No splash = good.
• Two Coreys (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – From the previews it looks like they keep putting them together and making them fight.
• Inspector Lewis (PBS, 9pm check local listings) Season Premiere – Masterpiece brings some murder investigations.

Times noted are pst, some sporting events are live so check your local listings.

Monday

• Greek (ABC Fam, 8pm) Season Finale – I think they might be going into season three still in the same college year, that’s the way to keep them in school forever.
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (HBO, 9pm) – A doc on the director, his films, and yes his fleeing the US after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old, including a new interview with the victim.
• Nashville Star (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Billy Ray hosts what I can only assume is a country style american idol.

Tuesday

• Independent Lens: Cool School (PBS, 11pm – check local listings) – Looking back on story of curator Walter Hopps and the Ferus Gallery art scene launching artists in the 50-60s.

Wednesday

• Celebrity Circus (NBC, NBC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Seven ‘celebrities,’ including now famous for being on reality tv Christopher Knight among others, learn some fine circus tricks.
• Men in Trees (ABC, 10pm) Series Finale – Looks like the gang sends off the series with a talent show, can’t wait, ok won’t watch. 
• Top Chef (Bravo, 10pm) Season Finale – I guess we pick the chef who is tops.

Thursday

• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List (Bravo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Rolling into season four we follow Kathy Griffin and her D list adventures in this unscripted show.
• Bill Engvall Show/My Boys (TBS, 9/9:30pm) Season Premieres – A guy and his family/a girl, four guys, and a sports bar - let the humor begin. (They are replaying one of last season’s eps of BES on CBS on Mon/8pm)

Friday

• Battlestar Galactica (SciFi, 10pm) Season Finale – I’m only on season one on dvd so who knows what’s going on at this point with the space caravan and the cylons.

Saturday

• Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies (HBO, 10pm) – Carvey’s first HBO special in a while has him making the jokes and doing the impressions.

Sunday

• Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) -  Whoopi Goldberg hosts, and she’s supposed to be wearing something designed by Runway’s Christian, I haven’t hit the NY Broadway scene this year so can’t comment on the plays.
• TV Land Awards (TVLand, 9pm) – If you don’t want to watch the Tonys but you still want an award show…

Aside from continued reality and game shows, is there anything new coming this summer? Well if you have cable you’re not without hope, and there’s even one or two for you network kids… Here’s a couple of things I’m mostly looking forward to:

Sunday, June 1
In Plain Sight (10 p.m., USA) Series Premiere – This premiered last night though I have yet to watch, and it does repeat throughout the week (yeah for cable repeats), but I miss a good fresh procedural so I’m excited to see Mary McCormack as a US Marshall dealing with folks in witness protection.

Tuesday, June 3
30 Days (Fx, 10pm) Season Three – I actually have yet to catch this show but I’m intrigued by the premise, ‘Supersize Me’ guy (and other designated folks) walks the walk in this reality take on 30 days in the life of people from minimum wage workers to white supremacists to coal miners.

Thursday, June 5
Swingtown (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – I’ve read some good and bad of this show about a couple who moves into a swinging 70s neighborhood, it’s either an interesting look at the 70s sexuality and politics or it’s just trashy and superficial, either way could be worth a look.

Fear Itself (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – This could be as dreadful as last season’s ‘Masters of Science Fiction’ but they’ve got some good talent lined up to do standalone episodes, and perhaps they might even be scary, so probably inconsistent but maybe some gems.

Thursday, July 10
Burn Notice (USA, 10pm) Season Two – I’ve been catching up on this in repeats and though I initially dismissed this ex spy guy as a stiff and predictable, I found the camp and the characters grew on me, fluffy is fine for summer.

Thursday, July 11
Flashpoint (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – I have no reason to expect this to be any more than a burned off summer series but I give network stuff a chance during the summer, so this Emergency Task Force drama is worth a shot.

Monday, July 14
The Closer/Saving Grace (TNT, 9/10pm) Seasons Two – Here are a couple of leading ladies who know how to entertain, Kyra Sedgewick is a deputy chief running a special unit cracking down on crime making things happen with her interrogation skills while Holly Hunter is a cop who won’t stop fighting crime unless she’s getting drunk, sleeping with inappropriate men, or talking to her special guardian angel, I can’t wait.

Sunday, July 27
Mad Men (AMC, 10pm) Season Two – I initially skipped this show as the thought of watching a show about advertising… lets just say I get enough of that in my day job, but folks they are a raving, so much that I’m tempted to check it out. Fortunately they’re doing a season 1 marathon 7/20 12pm.

Tuesday, July 29
Eureka (Sci Fi, 9pm) Season Three – I caught this show in the first season and was entertained by this secret super scientist community, it’s quirky characters, and the hijinks that ensue, while of course the not super scientist sheriff needs to help keep it all together.

Other summer series:
Charlie Jade (June 6, SciFi, 8pm), Army Wives (June 8, Life, 10pm), The Bill Engvall Show/My Boys (June 12, TBS, 9/9:30pm), The Middleman (June 16, ABC Fam, 8pm), Monk/Psych (July 10, USA, 9/10pm), Stargate Atlantis (July 11, Sci Fi, 10pm), The Cleaner (July 15, A&E, 10pm), Weeds/Secret Diary of a Call Girl (June 16, Show, 10/10:30pm), Primeval (Aug 9, BBC, 9pm)

For most of the rest you’ll have to wait ’til fall but for those of you who asked: Dexter season three premiere is currently scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 28, with season two now available for download on iTunes and on dvd Aug. 19. And Flight of the Conchords isn’t scheduled until 2009 though the dvd for season one is out. And of course these dates may change, I’ll continue to check in on premire dates on ‘next week’ posts.

Monday

• Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – I assume this is like where they looked for the new leads in Grease.
• The Mole (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – It’s reality, it’s a competition, does anyone care?

Tuesday

• 30 Days (FX, 10pm) Season Premiere – Morgan Spurlock returns to 30 days in the lives of others starting with coal mining.

Wednesday

• She’s Got the Look (TVLand, 10pm) Season Premiere - Ladies over 35 do their own version of ANTM.

Thursday

• NBA Finals (ABC, 6pm/pst) – The series starts tonight.
• Fear Itself (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere - A host of directors, actors, and writers create episodes for this series of suspense and horror shows.
• Swingtown (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new couple moves to a Chicago suburb where the 70s are in full swing.

Friday

• French Open (NBC, 10am/pst and s/su 6am/pst) - Wrapping up another fortnight of tennis following ESPN2 coverage throughout the week. 
• Charlie Jade (Scifi, 8pm) Series Premiere – A rogue PI deals with mysteries and parallel universes.
• Meerkat Manor (Animal, 9pm) Season Premiere – Last season’s posters made the meerkats look like the sopranos, I haven’t seen any this season.

Saturday

• America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 2/4:30pm) – The casting special is followed by some performances, the real competition starts on Thursday.
• Sybil (CBS, 8pm) – Not sure that Sally Field’s multiple personalities need to be revisited in an update but here it is.

Sunday

• When We Left the Earth: The Nasa Missions (Disc, 9pm) – This special presentation kicks off the multi part series.
• L&O: Criminal Intent (USA, 9pm) – Returning from strike hiatus as Vincent D’Onofrio returns from a break, probably because Big is promoting Sex and the City.
• Army Wives (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – I got the impression this was wives of people in the army, but maybe it’s women in the army who are wives… maybe it’s both.
• This American Life (Show, 10pm) Season Finale – Ira’s talking to guys named John Smith.

Monday

• House (Fox, 9pm) – Back after the strike hiatus and our favorite curmudgeon is back diagnosing and annoying those around him.

Tuesday

• Shark (CBS, 9pm) – Back from strike I sometimes catch this abrasive celebrity attorney as he continues trying to convict and keep his personal life together.
• The Riches (Fx, 10pm) – Last ep due to the strike, I dig this show but so far have this season all backlogged on tivo.
• Women’s Murder Club (ABC, 10pm) – Returning from strike is this light yet enjoyable procedural show with each of the gals bringing cop, coroner, da and journalist pov.

Wednesday

• Secrets of the Dead (PBS, 8pm) – Documentary that shows the story of two men who escaped Auschwitz to try to warn the world.
• The Farmer Wants a Wife (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – This is what it sounds like, a version of The Bachelor on a farm, personally I pass.
• Boston Legal (ABC, 10pm) – This show gets a new time slot though I’m not sure what the old time slot was as I could never quite get into this crazy legal show.

Thursday

• My Name is Earl/Scrubs/The Office/30 Rock (NBC, 8-10pm) – The second week of the new order of the lineup.

Friday

• Man vs. Wild (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Bear Grylls returns to the wild to show how he can keep getting out.

Saturday

• Nascar (Fox, 7pm) – They go round and round I think.
• The Shell Seekers/A Teacher’s Crime (Hallmark/Lifetime, 9pm) – How could a person decide which movie of the week to watch?

Sunday

• Cold Case (CBS, 8pm) Season Finale – This procedural, that I usually miss, solves old cases as it wraps up another season.
• Family Guy (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – This family gets a pet or something, and Amanda Bynes guests.
• This American Life (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – This NPR show starts its second series of televised stories.

Monday

• Bones (Fox, 8pm) – Post strike return for our favorite squints and fbi agents, this week Bones and Booth go on a double date with Dr Sweets!
• The Paper (MTV, 10:30) Series Premiere – I almost always ignore MTV reality but this show about a high school paper got at least one good review.
• New Amsterdam (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – If there’s only one more left maybe I’ll watch this guy and his past.
• One Tree Hill (CW, 9pm) – Post strike return as the gang deals with some drama undoubtedly.
• Rules of Engagement (CBS, 9:30pm) – Post strike premiere as the gang vacations at a time share.

Tuesday

• According to Jim (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – Post strike return as Jim probably does something dumb.
• Biggest Loser (NBC, 8pm) Season Finale - The losers have lost, and one has lost the most.  
• L&O: SVU (NBC, 10pm) – Post strike return as Olivia goes under cover.

Wednesday

• Democratic Debate (ABC, 8pm/pst) – Gearing up for the Penn primary on the 22nd.
• Til Death/Back to You (Fox, 8/8:30pm) - Post strike premiere for these ‘laughers’.  
• The Real World: Hollywood (MTV, 10pm) – If you can believe it this is the 20th season, I think I only caught NY and then what LA?

Thursday

• Smallville (CW, 8pm) – Post strike premiere as Lex and Clark are at odds.
• Eli Stone (ABC, 10pm) Season Finale – Will Eli live? I would assume they didn’t kill him off, but then again I don’t know for sure.

Friday

• Doctor Who (Sci Fi, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – I wanna say there’s time travel involved.
• Canterbury’s Law (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – Does she defend the right people?

Saturday

• Torchwood (BBC, 9pm) Season Finale – Crime fighters and aliens and whatnot.

Sunday

• John Adams (HBO, 9pm) Series Finale – And Paul Giamatti moves on…
• Brothers and Sisters (ABC, 10pm) – Post strike return as the Walkers keep up with making a mess of perfectly good messy relationships.
• Sweet Nothing in My Ear (CBS, 9pm) – It’s a Hallmark Hall of Fame with Marly and Jeff Daniels dealing with their child’s ability to hear.
• Rock of Love (VH1, 9pm) – It’s the reunion show!

Monday

• Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Drew Lachey joins two of the judges from Dancing With the Stars to create two singing and dancing teams to compete in this six week series, I didn’t get Dancing with the Stars either.
• Medium (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Things were shook up employment-wise for Allison and her husband, with her out of the DA’s office how will she solve her creepy vision mysteries?

Tuesday

• Bones/House (Fox, 8/9pm) – See where it all began with the pilots of these two fun shows.
• One Tree Hill (CW, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – The fifth season moves forward four years to try to beat the high school turned college show crisis and get the cast to about their appropriate ages.
• People’s Choice (CBS, 9pm) – The people, they pick their picks for tv and movies as Queen Latifah hosts, nobody really cares what the people think do they?

Wednesday

• Law & Order: CI (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere - The show banished to cable returns in reruns for its 7th season to the network where it started, this is the one L&O that bugs me, mostly D-Onofrio who I used to like.
• Cashmere Mafia (ABC, 10pm) – The show stops off in its regular timeslot.

Thursday

• My Name is Earl/30 Rock (NBC, 8/8:30pm) - Ok these are the last ones we get for who knows how long, enjoy.
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9pm) – Ditto on last in the queue.

Friday

• Catch up on some repeats (Grey’s/Cashmere Mafia on ABC) or catch some new eps of shows (Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numb3rs on CBS or Friday Night Lights and Las Vegas on NBC) or maybe just go out and see a movie.

Saturday

• If you didn’t get away from the television last night definitely get away tonight, unless you’ve got some netflix stacking up there’s nothing on.

Sunday

• Golden Globes (NBC, 8pm) – Many thanks will be given out to the Hollywood Foreign Press for tv and movies this evening.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – I haven’t heard anything about this but am intrigued and glad that Summer Glau from Firefly is going to protect them.
• Commanche Moon (CBS, 9pm, also Tues/Wed) Miniseries – Prequel to the Lonesome Dove miniseries though I hear this one doesn’t live up to the previous.
• Rock of Love 2/Scott Baio 46… and Pregnant (VH1, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – I got hooked on these shows last season, not good but I was truly addicted to Rock of Love.
• Masterpiece: Persuasion (PBS, Check Your Local Listings) – This starts off a little Jane Austen theme for the now Masterpiece/Masterpiece Theater I always mean to watch them and this is supposed to be good.

Monday

• Dick Clark’s Primetime/New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (ABC, 10pm/11:35pm) – Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest count it down with Mylie Cyrus and Fergie among others.  
• New Year’s Eve Live (Fox, 11pm) – Cat Deely counts it down with some partiers and performers.
• New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly (NBC, 11:35) – Carson counts it down with Lenny Kravitz and Alicia Keys.

Tuesday

• Tournament of Roses Parade (8/11am, Check Your Local Listings) – The floats they are a covered with flowers…
• Bowl Games (Check Your Local Listings) -  I went to a college without a football team so I didn’t even care then.
• The Biggest Loser (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ok we did just have one of these but this one is apparently pairs.
• Just for Laughs (ABC, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – This is the second season of this hidden camera prank show.
• According to Jim (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Is this show still on?

Wednesday

• Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More family care bordering on child abuse as pageant family and feminist family collide.
• Law & Order (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere - The gang returns with another cast shuffle and more cases ‘ripped from the headlines.’
• Super Nanny (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – The nanny saves a family caring for 3 year old twins.
• Late Night Talk Shows (Check Your Local Listings) – As it stands the gang will be back on the air, so far with only Letterman’s company (that owns his and Craig Ferguson’s shows) negotiating a deal with the writers while the rest of the crews will be winging it.

Thursday

• Celebrity Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Fourteen ‘celebrities’ take their turn getting fired.

Friday

• 1 vs 100 (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – I don’t really get this show but Barry Williams from the Brady Bunch and Dawn Wells from Gilligan’s Island are stopping by.

Saturday

• New Hampshire Presidential Debates (ABC, 7pm) – Back to back debates showcase the republican and democratic candidates.

Sunday

• American Gladiator (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere - Ok there is a part of me that really wants a ridiculous remake of this show about regular folks competing against ‘gladiators’ to be a success but I won’t watch.
• Cashmere Mafia (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Lucy Liu and three successful gal pals deal with work and life, I’m sure whilst sipping cocktails and wearing good clothes.

Monday

• Clash of the Choirs (NBC, 8pm – m-th) Premiere - Some songsters take some choirs and get them geared up to let loose like only a choir can do.
• Duel (ABC, 8pm – m-f and sun) Premiere – Six part series of game shows where people compete against each other in some sort of trivia.

Tuesday

• The Biggest Loser (NBC, 9pm) Season Finale – The final weigh in will tell us who has won the most by losing the most.
• Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm) Season Finale – Didn’t I just write about this show coming back?

Wednesday

• A Holiday Celebration at Ford’s Theater (ABC, 10pm) – Apparently this is an annual event where the first family watches some folks like Wynonna perform.
• Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns (CBS, 8pm) – Just can’t get enough of that snowman.

Thursday

• CSI (CBS 8/9pm) – On a night of mostly repeats you can get reacquainted with this season’s opener of the miniature killer taking Sara.

Friday

• Home for the Holidays (CBS, 8pm) – This one has Fergie, James Blunt and Sheryl Crow singing to raise awareness for foster care.
• The Next Great American Band (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – No matter what, those Clark Brothers have a great career ahead of them!

Saturday

• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (ABC, 8pm) – Jim Carey helps bring this children’s book to life.
• Elf (CBS, 8pm) – Will Farrell is endearing and funny in this fish out of water tale of an elf hitting the real world.

Sunday

• Elmo’s Christmas Countdown (ABC, 7pm) – Celebs and muppets, how could that be bad?
• Story of Santa Claus (CW, 8pm) – An animated telling of Nicholas Claus.