New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.
Monday
- Intervention/Obsessed (A&E, 9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Returning real life interventions are followed by a look at folks with extreme anxiety disorders.
- John & Kate Plus 8/Cake Boss (TLC, 9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Tabloid mags showing possible infidelity are bringing these folks that much more notoriety and then a little more reality as we follow a baker.
- Here Come the Newlyweds (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Real life couples live in a house and compete in challenges as a pair is kicked out each week.
- In Treatment (HBO, 10pm) Season Finale – How’s the therapy going?
Tuesday
- Tv’s Funniest Phrases (NBC, 8pm) – I should use a clever catchphrase here…
- Reaper (CW, 8pm) Season Finale – Well Reaper won’t be back next year so enjoy Sam’s final bout with the devil.
- Hitched or Ditched (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Plan a wedding in a week, then decide whether you want to get married.
- I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant (Health, 9pm) Series Premiere – This docuseries looks at a new case each week.
- Mental (Fox, 9pm, repeats Friday) Series Premiere – This latest series about a rebellious guy brings us in with the new psychiatric director of a hospital.
- Science of the Movies (Sci, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at specific movie scenes.
- The Little Couple (TLC, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – Follow newlyweds who are under four feet tall.
- Tori & Dean (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – More of the real Donna Martin and her hubby.
- Beautiful People (Logo, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – UK dramedy following a show tunes loving kid.
Wednesday
- George Strait (CBS, 8pm) – Some country folks honor this Artist of the Decade.
- Wipeout (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – The game show where the people fall while competing on strange obstacles.
- Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – Back to hunting fugitives.
- The Goode Family (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – King of the Hill may not be coming back but here’s another animated series from its creator showing a politically correct family.
- Your Worst Animal Nightmares (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – I have a lot of animal nightmares.
- Tattoo Highway (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Take a ride on the tour bus tattoo parlor.
- Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Following Tyler Perry’s House of Payne we meet a new family.
Thursday
- Scripps National Spelling Bee (ABC, 8pm) – Let the spelling begin, or continue, or finish…
- Surfing (ESPN2, 10:30pm) – Billabong XXL Big Wave Challenge.
Friday
- Un-Broke: What You Need to Know About Money (ABC, 9pm) – I’m going to say spend less, save more, still contribute to retirement…
- What Not to Wear (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – The season kicks off with Blossom.
Saturday
- French Open (Sat/Sun, NBC, 10:30am/noon) – Men’s and Women’s third and fourth rounds follow a week of ESPN2 coverage.
- Pushing Daisies (ABC, 10pm) – This delightful show was canceled but there were a couple more unaired eps.
Sunday
- Ice Road Truckers (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – New routes, new truckers.
- MTV Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Andy Samberg hosts this year with lots of noms for Twilight and Slumdog.
- Breaking Bad (AMC, 10pm) Season Finale – I’m behind so I don’t know what sort of mess Walt is into now.
- $250,000 Challenge (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – A neighborhood competes in design challenges.
- Jesse James is a Dead Man (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – This guy does action stuff that I suppose could kill him.
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