New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.
Monday
- Tour de France (Vs, 5:30am and various) – Stage 9 starts out our week in Saint-Gaudens, who will be in yellow?
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – The chef heads to Chile.
Tuesday
- MLB All-Star Game (Fox, 8pm) – The stars, and I believe they mean baseball stars, play.
- Miami Social (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Yet another reality show following folks.
Wednesday
- Extreme Loggers (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ice bridges and subarctic forests.
- Leverage (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will Nate get the team back together to continue their Robin Hood type cons?
- Dark Blue (TNT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Dylan McDermott is back and this time he’s an undercover cop.
- Verminators (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Rodents and rats and bees, oh my, though I guess a rat is a rodent.
- Michael & Michael Have Issues (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The Michaels, Ian Black and Showalter, sets them as characters who host a sketch comedy show.
Thursday
- Joan of Arcadia (Syfy, 8am) – It’s not new but it was a fun series if you missed it the first time catch the marathon today starting with Joan meeting God.
- Stoked (Cart, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – The animated cast of surfers work at a surf resort.
Friday
- Catch It Keep It (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Using science to win a game show.
- Martin Lawrence Presents (Starz, 11pm) Season Premiere – It’s some stand-up.
Saturday
- The Bill Engvall Show (TBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another season of another series with an average and immature hubby with a hotter than he wife.
- Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, 10pm) – I remember really enjoying the cheese factor of this show, at least early on.
Sunday
- Action Sports (NBC, 11am) – The boarders and bikers hit Costa Mesa for the Maloof Money Cup.
- Labor Pains (ABCF, 8pm) – It’s just nice to hear Lindsey Lohan’s name in conjunction with something related to acting.
- ESPYs (ESPN, 9pm) – Samuel L Jackson hosts the sporting awards.
- AFI Life Achievement Award (TVL, 9pm) – The honoring of Michael Douglas.
- Ace of Cakes (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Duff and the gang are back to baking, they look good but I wonder how they taste.
- HGTV Design Star (HGTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Design star wannabes hit LA.
- Most Popular (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Graham Norton hosts this game show where being popular now equals money.
- Pawn Star$ (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – What industry don’t we have a reality insight into?
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