Well the Olympics are kicking off and as always I have to decide how much I want to watch and how much I can take. Noted below are NBC events but there’re plenty of cable selections like msnbc, CNBC, and USA if you want to catch more triumphs, defeats, and heartwarming stories from the cold.
Monday
- Celebrity Fit Club (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kevin Federline is the latest of the crop of ‘celebrities’ trying to lose some lbs, though who is watching his kids?
Tuesday
- Past Life (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting here and then hitting regular timeslot on Thursday, I’m willing to give some creative license, but really how many people can help solve crimes from past lives?
- Jay Leno Show (NBC, 10pm) – Scheduled to clock out of the 10pm hour.
Wednesday
- Charlie Brown Valentine (ABC, 8pm) – Can’t argue with the classics.
- Inside Nascar (Show, 10pm) Series Premiere – One can only assume this is like ‘Inside the NFL’.
Thursday
- Survivor (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Returning competitors are categorized as Heroes and Villains when they hit Samoa for another round.
Friday
- Olympics (NBC, 7:30pm) – The Opening Ceremonies kick things off in Vancouver with a dash of ski jumping qualifying rounds.
- Famous Crime Scenes (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – Investigations into celebrity deaths, with reenactments and everything.
Saturday
- Olympics (NBC, 2pm, 8pm) – Speed skating, ski jumping, biathlon, freestyle skiing, and alpine skiing.
- Survivors (BBCA, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not to be confused with ‘Survivor’, this drama imagines a world where most are wiped out by a deadly virus.
Sunday
- Olympics (NBC, 1pm, 7pm) – Speed skating, skiing, luge, biathlon, figure skating, freestyle skiing, alpine skiing.
- The Amazing Race (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Eleven teams kick off the new season starting in LA.
- Ruby (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – Highlights include a new therapist and the search for repressed memories as Ruby deals with her food addiction.
- Tool Academy (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Apparently men aren’t the only tools, this season adds two tool-ettes.
- How to Make it in America (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – In this comedy you can see if these two Brooklyn entrepreneurs make it, prison loans and all.
- Peak Season (VH1, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Unscripted twenty somethings, woo hoo.