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new and noteworthy tv: 2/6-2/12

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Intrigued but not overly optimistic about some new offerings…

Monday

  • Smash (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of a musical, some of the critics that I read love this but not all do, def worth a shot.

Tuesday

  • The River (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Creepy drama follows a wife and son, and tv crew, into the jungle to find missing wildlife tv host.
  • Doomsday Preppers (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Profiles of peeps prepping for the end of the world.
  • The Real Housewives of Orange County (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, Orange County.
  • Jersey Couture (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, New Jersey dresses.

Wednesday

  • Person to Person (CBS, 8pm) – Charlie Rose and Lara Logan interview peeps.
  • Maneater Manhunt (NGW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Tiger at large.
  • Restaurant Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Prime Ribs & Spaghetti can apparently go awry.
  • Vegas Stripped (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of sin city.

Thursday

  • Swamp People/Mudcats (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Gators and fishin’.

Friday

  • NFL Characters Unite (USA, 7pm) – For those who are having football withdrawals some NFL peeps do some stuff.

Saturday

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown/A Charlie Brown Valentine (ABC, 8pm) – Unrequited love at its finest.
  • Parking Wars/Billy the Exterminator (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Parking tickets and pythons.
  • The Bronson Pinchot Project (DIY, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Actor as houseflipper.

Sunday

  • The Grammy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – LL Cool J hosts.
  • The Walking Dead/Comic Book Men/Talking Dead (AMC, 9/10/11:59pm) Season/Series Premiere – What now, then behind the scenes of comics, then a chat about what happened.
  • Worst Cooks in America (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Bad cook boot camp begins.
  • Full Metal Jousting (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – The ultimate extreme sport?
  • My Strange Addiction (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And more people in need of therapy.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/30-2/5

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Hmm, maybe it’s a good week to get back to dvds, or streaming, or whatever its called these days…

Monday

  • The Amandas (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – Amanda and her minions organize.
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Elvira guest judges.

Tuesday

  • Sorority Girls/Undercover Princes (TLC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – If I understand these reality shows, US sorority girls and actual Princes go to England to find girls.
  • Tosh.0/Kay & Peele (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – More Tosh and more sketch comedy.

Wednesday

  • Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS, 8pm) – Because there won’t be enough talk about commercials on Sunday.
  • Beast Tracker (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting with gators.

Thursday

  • I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – A sitcom and since its MTV it focuses on a twentysomething slacker, who apparently slept with a chick who stole his pants.

Friday

  • Who Do You Think You Are? (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More celebrity genealogy.
  • Man Caves (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Makeovers dude style.
  • Killer Trials (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at more true crimes.

Saturday

  • Candice Tells All (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – More home transformations.
  • How to Rock (Nick, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Popular no more after braces and glasses, a new band and some heartwarming hijinks will solve that.
  • NFL Honors (NBC, 9pm) – Because being in the NFL has no glory.
  • Unfaithful (OWN, 9pm) Season Premiere – I’m not sure looking at people unfaithful in their marriages hits the tone I think of as Oprah.
  • Renovation Realities (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Renovations are hard.

Sunday

  • Puppy Bowl (AnPl, noon) – I don’t know that the puppies understand the rules but they’re always cute.
  • Superbowl (NBC, 3pm) – Patriots vs. Giants.
  • The Voice (NBC, 7pm) Season Premiere – I kind of liked this last season but after not having watched any X Factor or the current early Idol rounds I may just be music saturated.
  • Jimmy Fallons’s Super Bowl Special (NBC, 10pm) – Apparently it’s a special.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/23-1/29

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I still haven’t figured out the Australian Open coverage but I’m glad I have TiVo…

Monday

  • The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m not totally clear on whether this premise entails trying to make the girls less bad or not.
  • Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting out with a trip to the Twin Cities.
  • Cake Boss (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cakes and the boss.

Tuesday

  • State of the Union (Various, 9pm) – What’s up USA?
  • All Star Dealers (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not just stuff, famous person’s stuff.
  • My First Place (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – House hunting.
  • Joan & Melissa (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – More plastic surgery?

Wednesday

  • Dark Minds (ID, 7pm) Series Premiere – An author, a profiler, and a killer reexamine crimes.
  • Touch (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Keifer is back, this time can his son predict the future?
  • The Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Real World and Road Rules peeps are back at it.

Thursday

  • Winter X Games (ESPN, 6pm, and ESPN2/ABC various times) – Wintertime in Aspen, Colorado.
  • Fat Chef (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at folks in the food industry trying to work on their weight.
  • Russell Simmons Presents (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – Standup and be funny.
  • Inside Comedy (Show, 11pm) Series Premiere – A chat with comedians.

Friday

  • Chuck (NBC, 8/9pm) Series Finale – Sad to see Chuck’s final mission.
  • Spartacus (Starz, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fighting harder than ever.

Saturday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 12am, Sun 12am) – The women’s and men’s finals cap off a week of coverage.
  • UFC (Fox, 8pm) – Evans vs. Davis.

Sunday

  • Luck (HBO, 9pm) Series Premiere – Horse racing and Dustin Hoffman, I’m intrigued.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/16-1/22

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Enough good tv starting that I may not get sucked into the Australian Open…

Monday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, ongoing/various) – The play continues.
  • The Revolution (ABC, 2pm) Series Premiere – Lifestyle experts transform.
  • Alcatraz (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – Always willing to give JJ Abrams shows a shot, a mix of cops and supernatural, and a reason to see Hurley again on another island.
  • Betty White’s 90th Birthday/Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (NBC, 8/9:30pm) Series Premiere – Everybody toasts Betty and then seniors play pranks what could be more hilarious.
  • Being Human/Lost Girl (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – More irregular folks and the new/lost girl is a succubus.

Tuesday

  • Remodeled (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – More businesses get makeovers, this time modeling agencies.
  • Ink Master (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Nobody wants to be tattooed by the losers in this competition.
  • Justified (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – Raylan I missed you.
  • Ragin’ Cajuns (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Shrimp fishing, or should i say fishin’.
  • Southland (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – This cop show tends to not disappoint and this seasn’s guests include Lucy Liu.
  • White Collar (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Who will betray who?

Wednesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm, and Thurs/Sun) Season Premiere – I keep saying I’m out, but depending on scheduling…
  • Mistresses (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Relationship problems?
  • Royal Pains (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – More doctoring.

Thursday

  • Archer/Unsupervised (Fx, 10pm) Season/Series Premiere – The return of the animated government agency followed by high school misfits.

Friday

  • Shark Tank (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Get your inventions ready.
  • On Freddie Roach (HBO, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – A look at boxing trainer and Parkinson patient.
  • Swanderosa (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – The Swan family hosts events on their Texas estate.

Saturday

  • Drew Peterson: Untouchable (Life, 8pm) – I’m only including this because people are talking about how awesomely gross Rob Lowe is in it.
  • Bayou Billionaires/My Redneck Vacation (CMT, 9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – More people out of their elements, with new money or new vacay locals.
  • Idiot Abroad (Sci, 10pm) Season Premiere – More torturing of Karl.
  • Scorned (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Investigating crimes where love has gone awry.

Sunday

  • Prime Suspect (NBC, 9pm) – In case you were following the changing time slots on the remaining eps.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/9-1/15

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The awards season is upon us…

Monday

  • America’s Money Class with Suze Orman (Own, 9pm) Series Premiere – Suze keeps her knowledge going.
  • First Week In/Mobster Confessions (Disc, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – The first week in prison and then what will the mobsters confess?
  • Caged (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cage fighters MTV reality style.

Tuesday

  • Dance Moms (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – More yelling.
  • Shipping Wars (A&E, 9pm) Series Premiere – Who doesn’t want to see which cargo carrier will end up on top?
  • The Game/Let’s Stay Together (BET, 10/11pm) Season Premieres – More relationship foibles.
  • Tabatha Takes Over (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Before the makeover the salon makeover.

Wednesday

  • One Tree Hill (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – Getting ready to say goodbye to this series in its final season, if you knew it was still on.
  • Are You There, Chelsea? (NBC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Apparently this new sitcom is a good match for Whitney, which means I’ll hate it but you Whitney likers might feel differently.
  • People’s Choice Awards (CBS, 9pm) – The award seasons are getting in full swing.
  • Amazing Eats (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – First, pork-a-palooza.
  • Ghost Hunters/Face Off (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Ghosts and makeup artists.
  • Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy/American Restoration (Hist, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More travels and restorations.

Thursday

  • 30 Rock (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – They’re back!
  • The Finder (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – The new series from the Bones folks, he can find anything, worth a shot.
  • Critics’ Choice Awards (VH1, 8pm) – These picks might be a bit more indicative than the ‘people’s’ choice.
  • Rob (CBS, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Rob Schneider tries to offend a whole new crop of people.
  • Sins & Secrets (ID, 9pm) Season Premiere – Murder and its investigation.
  • Snakeman of Appalachia (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – The men aren’t snakes themselves.

Friday

  • Sweet Home Alabama (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Giving southern love another chance.
  • Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bill’s back.

Saturday

  • Miss America Pageant (ABC, 9pm) – Just because Chris Harrison is hosting doesn’t mean they’re hooking up.
  • The Fades (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – The latest drama brings a teen to a battle between the living and the dead.
  • Pit Boss (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – More rescues.

Sunday

  • Golden Globes (NBC, 7/8pm) – Arrivals and then will Ricky Gervais be found amusing or insulting?
  • Undercover Boss (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – The bosses go back to work.
  • Napoleon Dynamite (Fox, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – John Heder returns to his role in this animated version.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/2-1/8

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It’s a new year and the new shows are starting up again…

Monday

  • Antiques Roadshow (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – How much for that thing in your attic?
  • The Bachelor/Wife Swap (ABC, 8/10pm) Season Premiere – And the returning bachelor is Ben Flajnik followed by a dose of celebrity swap via Tracey Gold and Carnie Wilson (tomorrow is the Gary Busey episode).
  • Pretty Little Liars/The Lying Game  (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – Will liars never learn.
  • Hoarders/Intervention (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premiere – More people need help.
  • Alaska Wing Men (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting by offering air support to dog racers.
  • It’s a Brad, Brad World (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – If you’ve been missing a little something from Rachel Zoe’s office.

Tuesday

  • The Biggest Loser (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Sweat ’til you cry.
  • Switched at Birth/Jane by Design (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres  – More family fun.
  • Work It (ABC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Rumor has it the worst show of the year, er, the tv year.
  • Jamie’s American Road Trip (BBCA, 10pm) Series Premiere – Jamie starts in East LA.

Wednesday

  • Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E, 10pm) Season Premieres – More bounties.
  • Nova (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – First a look at volcanoes and those who study them.
  • Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Whatever.

Thursday

  • Wipeout (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Winter wipeouts.
  • Project Runway Allstars/24 hour Catwalk (Life, 9pm) Series Premieres – Does your returning favorite make it past first round and can a collection be put together in a day?
  • Jersey Shore (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Must we have another season?

Friday

  • Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Can they find the perfect dress?
  • Merlin (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Get ready for more hocus pocus.
  • Portlandia/The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (IFC, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – Funny folks return.

Saturday

  • Republican Presidential Candidates Debate (ABC, 9pm) – David Gregory moderates.

Sunday

  • Ax Men/Cajun Pawn Stars (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Bring out the ax and bring in the junk.
  • The Firm (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – The series picks up some time after the book and movie leave off, we’ll see.
  • Gator Boys (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – Animal rescue gator style.
  • Downton Abbey (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – People seem to dig this series and now season two.
  • Shameless/House of Lies/Californication (Show, 9/10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Showtime dramedies return including a new one with fave Kristin Bell among others.
  • Absolutely Fabulous (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – The return of Edina and Patsy for those who miss them.
  • Watch What Happens (Brav, 11pm) Season Premiere – Andy Cohen hosts.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/26-1/1

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My resolution might be to watch less tv…

Monday

  • Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (ABC, 8pm) – On a mission from Santa.

Tuesday

  • Texas Multi Mamas (WE, 8pm) Series Premiere – If you live in Texas and have had multiple births, this is the group for you.
  • Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9pm) – Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins and Meryl Streep are honored.
  • Extreme Couponing (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Head to head bargain hunting.

Wednesday

  • Felipe Esparza (Show, 10pm) – Comedy special of Don’t Worry They’re Not Going to Laugh at You.

Thursday

  • Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Time to set some resolutions.
  • NY Ink/Hook, Line & Sisters (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Success comes with problems and then fishing family fun.
  • Alaska: The Last Frontier (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Is it really the last frontier, follow a family and decide for yourself.

Friday

  • Infested!/Confessions of a Hoarder (AnPl, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Yuck and yuck.

Saturday

  • New Year’s Rockin’ Eve/Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest (ABC, 8/10/11:30pm) – Let the rockin’ begin.
  • New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly (NBC, 10/11:30pm) – Waiting for the ball to drop.
  • American Country New Year’s Eve (Fox, 11pm) – Please let me not ring in the music with country.

Sunday

  • Mob Wives (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – Plastic surgery anyone?
  • Hoarding (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Oh and yuck.
  • Oprah’s Next Chapter/Extreme Clutter (OWN, 9/11pm) Series/Season Premiere – Stephen Tyler is the first celeb we look at and then well, yuck.
  • Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-off (Food, 9pm) Series Premiere – Eight celebs compete on teams hosted by Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri.
  • Angry Boys (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – Chris Lilley plays six characters in a mockumentary series.
  • Finding Bigfoot (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – Is a baby bigfoot just a mediumfoot?

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/19-12/25

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As we head into the holiday season my focus is on catching up the TiVo backlog…

Monday

  • Who’s Still Standing? (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Quizzing you this week while threatening to drop you through the stage.
  • Kung Fu Panda Holiday/A Chipmunk Christmas (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – Ho ho ho.

Tuesday

  • SNL: A Very Gilly Christmas (NBC, 9pm) – Bring on the holiday sketches.
  • Chopped (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let the marmalading begin.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Christmas (BBCA, 10pm) – For those of you who want to associate Ramsay with a holiday.

Wednesday

  • A Home for the Holidays (CBS, 8pm) – Adoption inspiration with Martina McBride and friends.
  • A Michael Buble Christmas (NBC, 9pm) – In case seeing Michael on SNL made you sad you missed this special.

Thursday

  • Disney Prep & Landing/Prep & Landing 2/I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown (ABC, 8/8:30/9) – Ho ho ho.
  • X Factor (Fox, 8pm) – The results show tonight follows the final performances Wednesday, I was never able to give this show a real shot due to scheduling conflicts, is anybody on board?

Friday

  • Shrek the Halls/Phineas and Ferb/Prep & Landing 2/Kung Fu Panda Holiday (ABC, 8/8:30/9/9:30) – In case you missed any of this ho ho ho.
  • Olive the Other Reindeer/Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (CW, 8/9pm) – Next year I’m creating a new holiday special.
  • Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me (BBCA, 8pm) – A new special sharing one of NPR’s fave radio shows gone visual.

Saturday

  • The Sound of Music (ABC, 7pm) – Music to your ears?
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (NBC, 8pm) – Wonderful?
  • A Christmas Story (TBS, 8pm) – A marathon that runs through Christmas Day.

Sunday

  • Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade (ABC, 12pm) – It’s an extravaganza.
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – First the animated and then the Jim Carrey live action version.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/12-12/18

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Winding down for the year…

Monday

  • I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Snoopy and Spike make an appearance.
  • Fear Factor (NBC, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – Joe Rogan hosts some dares that are even crazier than the previous seasons.
  • Rollin’ with Zach (OWN, 8pm) Series Premiere – A travel show with Oprah show winner Zach Anner who checks things off his list of travels, the rollin’ refers to his wheelchair.

Tuesday

  • William and Kate (NBC, 8pm) – Cuz its been too long since we talked about them.
  • Dirty Jobs (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Mike does more dirty jobs.
  • Cops & Coyotes (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – Protecting the borders.

Wednesday

  • Barbara Walters Presents the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011 (ABC, 9:30pm) – Maybe this needs to be renamed something other than ‘fascinating’.
  • 24/7 (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – The Flyers and the Rangers get all NHLish.
  • America Caught on Camera (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Clips from random videos on vacay.

Thursday

  • Charlie Brown Christmas/The Year with Katie Couric (ABC, 9pm) – Holiday fun then all things 2011.
  • Impractical Jokers (Tru, 10pm) Series Premiere – I hate hidden camera practical joke shows.

Friday

  • Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown/Ice Age: Mammoth Christmas (Fox, 8/9pm) – More holiday fare.
  • The Life & Times of Tim (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – Awkward animated Tim returns to more endeavors.

Saturday

  • Winter Dew Tour (NBC, 1:30pm, Sun  11am) – The Nike Open from Breckenridge Colorado.
  • Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/The Story of Santa Claus (CBS, 8/8:30/9pm) – More ho ho ho.
  • WWE Tribute to the Troops (NBC, 9pm) – Because I watch the WWE for feel good moments.

Sunday

  • Survivor (CBS, 8/10pm) Finale – May the person who played best win, and of course the reunion episode.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/5-12/11

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Ho to the ho.

Monday

  • American Country Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Trace Adkins and Kristin Chenoweth host.
  • A Sing-off Christmas (NBC, 8pm) – You say Christmas, I say a capella group.
  • Charlie Brown Christmas/Prep & Landing (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – Ho ho ho.
  • The Mortified Sessions (Sund, 8pm) Series Premiere – Celebrities share past moments, mostly embarrassing we believe.
  • T.I & Tiny (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – More following people reality style.
  • Candy Queen (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because there aren’t enough dessert and event shows.
  • Lizard Lick Towing (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – So I didn’t watch this show but apparently one of them got stabbed so they’re bringing in some new blood.
  • Love Games (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Dating competition bad girl style.
  • Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets/Stalked (ID, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Crimes revisited.

Tuesday

  • A Michael Bublé Christmas (NBC, 8pm) – I was thinking we needed a holiday variety show.
  • Eureka/Warehouse 13/Haven (Syfy, 8/9/10pm) – It’s the syfy holiday season.
  • Hidden City (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Crime novelist Marcus Sakey digs up some real life untold stories.
  • Moonshiners (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – If you were moon-shining in Appalachia or law enforcing moonshine I bet you thought there wouldn’t be a reality series about you.
  • Teen Mom 2 (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – I think this is the second season about the second set of teen moms.
  • Storage Wars (A&E, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – What’s in your unit?

Wednesday

  • State of Play (BBCA, 10pm) Series Premiere – Murder and politics kicks off this miniseries.
  • Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I hate the idea of this show.

Thursday

  • The First 48/Beyond Scared Straight (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – A look at stuff and youngster gangsters.
  • The Great Big American Auction (ABC, 10pm) – Ty Pennington takes another step away from Trading Spaces.
  • Grimm (NBC, 10pm) – A special night and time investigating another fantastical criminal.

Friday

  • Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/Yes, Virginia/The Elf on the Shelf (CBS, 8-10pm) – Ho, ho, ho.
  • Invention USA (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Science experts check out amateur inventions.

Saturday

  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/The Flight Before Christmas (CBS, 8/9pm) – Ho, ho, ho.
  • The American Giving Awards (NBC, 8pm) – Bob Costas hosts an award show honoring charities.
  • Republican Presidential Candidate Debate (ABC, 9pm) – Stephanopoulos and Sawyer moderate.

Sunday

  • Celebrity Rehab (VH1, 9pm)  – Season 4 revisited.

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