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new and noteworthy tv: 6/28-7/4

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Monday

  • Huge/Make It or Break It (ABCFam, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premiere – The family network brings us kids at weight loss camp and then another season of gymnastics.
  • Intervention/Obsessed (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Stepping in with addicts and psychological issues.

Tuesday

  • Rescue Me/Louie (Fx, 10/11/11:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – Fire drama returns and then cringe worthy Louie plays a version of himself that tries to make us laugh, either with or at him.

Wednesday

  • Locked Up Abroad (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – The season opens with the ‘real’ midnight express.
  • Man Shops Globe (Sund, 10pm) Season Premiere – Thailand markets.
  • The Real World (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Eight strangers, blah, blah, blah… New Orleans.

Thursday

  • Ace of Cakes (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – 100 episodes and a rollercoaster cake.

Friday

  • America Celebrates July 4th (ABC, 9pm) – It may seem weird that this is showing on the 2nd but it was taped June 6. June

Saturday

  • Tour de LanceFrance (Vs, multiple times) – Starts now through July 25, tune in for another year of drama (and let’s hope it’s all in the race).
  • Wimbledon (NBC, 6am) – Saturday and Sunday bring the women’s and men’s finals following a week of network coverage.

Sunday

  • Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (NBC, 9pm); Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular (CBS, 10pm); A Capitol Fourth (PBS, 8pm) – Pick your fireworks spectacular.
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new and noteworthy tv: 6/21-6/27

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Monday

  • Unusual Suspects (ID, 7pm) Series Premiere – Normal people shocking crimes.
  • Saving Grace (TNT, 9pm) Series Finale – Grace has had a bumpy road so let’s see what Earl and his big boss have in store for the end of the show.
  • Ultimate Car Build Off/Heartland Thunder (Disc, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Minivans with oomph and race cars that race.
  • Inedible to Incredible (TLC, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – Questionable culinary creations or delectable dinners?

Tuesday

  • Wipeout/Downfall/Primetime (ABC, 8/9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Game shows where people fall, prizes fall, and then non game show about people who are weird.
  • HawthoRNe/Memphis Beat (TNT, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – The RN that cares but clashes with others series returns (I gave Jada a chance) and then we get a a Southern charmer of a detective (I’ll give Jason Lee a chance).

Wednesday

  • Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, 10pm) – Is it just my imagination or is Kimmel taking over the specials, Lost, then Lakers, and now… Twilight.

Thursday

  • Rookie Blue/Boston Med (ABC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Officers new on the job, looks average but worth a summer shot, and then a real life look at folks in Boston hospitals.
  • Futurama (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – It’s back as the straight to dvd films air as new seasons.
  • Raising Sextuplets (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – They’re two, or is that twelve?

Friday

  • Netflix?

Saturday

  • AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards (TVL, 9pm) – Mike Nichols is honored.

Sunday

  • BET Awards (BET, 8pm) – Queen Latifah hosts the tribute to musicians, actors, and entertainers.
  • Daytime Emmy Awards (CBS, 9pm) – Regis hosts the salute to the the folks that entertain during the daytime, but you’ll have to stay up until nighttime to watch.
  • Ellen’s Somewhat Special Special/Conan’s Writers Live (TBS, 9/10pm) – Comedy hosted by Ellen and then continued by Conan’s writers.
  • Hung/Entourage (HBO, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – The man whoring and entertainment whoring continue.
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new and noteworthy tv: 6/14-6/20

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Well I’ve knocked my dvr down to under 30% filled, should still be safe from being maxed out with this week’s highlights.

Monday

  • Warren the Ape (MTV, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Fictional reality show?

Tuesday

  • Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List/Double Exposure (Brav, 9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Kathy hits L&O:SVU and then a photographing duo start their pics with Eve.

Wednesday

  • TV’s Greatest Surprises (CBS, 8pm) – Jeff Probst hosts moments that I can only assume are thought to be surprising.
  • Top Chef (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Chef Eric Ripert joins the judges for another season.
  • Bert the Conqueror (Trav, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – An adventurer starts seeing Utah sites.
  • Hot In Cleveland (TVL, 10pm) Series Premiere – Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick join Betty White in Cleveland.

Thursday

  • Better Off Ted (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – A couple more chances to enjoy this funny but canceled show.

Friday

  • Miley Cyrus (ABC, 8pm) – Isn’t she retired yet?
  • Battle of the Wedding Designers (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Three teams compete to create a couple’s magical day.

Saturday

  • Last Chance Highway (AnPl, 5pm) Series Premiere – Saving doggies.

Sunday

  • Leverage (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – This campy caper show returns for another season of fighting the good fight.
  • Scoundrels/The Gates (ABC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – These two show’s previews look on the campy side, but maybe not good campy, a family of criminals and a community of, vampires?
  • The Tudors/The Real L Word (Show, 9/10pm) Series Finale/Premiere – The series wraps up as a new begins, following six lesbians.
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new and noteworthy tv: 6/7-6/13

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Looks like I’ll have more time to finish off Six Feet Under…

Monday

  • Last Comic Standing/Persons Unknown (NBC, 8/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Comic competition, and then a series being plugged as a miniseries so perhaps it won’t get canceled mid-mystery.
  • Behind the Music (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – Haven’t you always wondered if there was more to DMX than meets the eye?
  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Premiere – More pregnancy?
  • American Pickers/Pawn Star$ (Hist, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Studebaker, motorcycle, and Ford truck among other finds.
  • Last American Cowboy (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – The latest reality starts with Montana ranchers.
  • Neighbors from Hell (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – This new animated series finds a family visiting from Hell posing as a normal suburban family.
  • Dance Your Ass Off (Oxy, 11pm) Season Premiere – Mel B takes over as host as folks try fitness to the beat.

Tuesday

  • Pretty Little Liars (ABCFam, 8pm) Series Premiere – The posters make me want this to be like a Heathers, but I doubt it will be.

Wednesday

  • CMT Music Awards (CMT, 7/8pm) – Kid Rock hosts, I forgot he was country now.
  • Man v. Food (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – I don’t know why if you are going to eat a lot of steak you’d want to do it fast.
  • You’re Cut Off/Bridal Bootcamp (VH1, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Watch the real life privileged suffer, then watch brides suffer for their goal: dream weddings.
  • The Singing Bee (CMT, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Karaoke competition anyone?
  • Work of Art (Brav, 11pm) Series Premiere – Fourteen rising artists compete for art stuff.

Thursday

  • Bethenny’s Getting Married (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Spinning off from housewives means this is another show I can just skip.
  • Penn & Teller/The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Show, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – First mocking of cheerleaders and then more general mocking with a round table of comedians.

Friday

  • Fifa World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert (ABC, 8pm) – Alicia Keyes, Black Eyed Peas… more music.
  • Dual Survival (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – This reality series starts with a couple folks shipwrecked.
  • The Whitest Kids u’ Know (IFC, 11pm) Season Premiere – Sketch comedy anyone?
  • Glenn Martin DDS (Nick, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Brett Michaels continues his overbooking with a voice over on this show.

Saturday

  • The Jaquie Brown Diaries (Logo, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – New Zealand celebrity plays herself.

Sunday

  • Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Sean Hayes hosts.
  • Unnatural History (Cart, 8pm) Series Premiere – Live action mystery in DC.
  • True Blood (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – There’s blood, and its true.
  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Not sure this needs much elaboration, although lest you think it’s an actual war, it’s just a cupcake making competition.
  • HGTV Design Star/Color Splash (HGTV, 10/11pm) Season Premieres – Goes from white to color.
  • Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami/Holly’s World (E!, 10pm) Season Premiere – Enough with the reality stars already…
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