It looks like summer is here, if not in weather then in the start of summer series…
Monday
- Basketball Wives/Single Ladies (VH1, 8pm) Season/Series Premieres – Real life wives and then a fictional take with a Sex & the City-esque hang with some gal pals.
- Cake Boss (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the NASA cake fly?
- Platinum Hit (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kara DioGuardi and Jewel bring us the latest singing slant on folks who write their own.
- Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition (ABC 10pm) Series Premiere – Spending a year with one person instead of a couple weeks with a couple dozen contestants.
Tuesday
- NBA Finals (ABC, 6pm) – Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks kick it off.
- America’s Got Talent (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Another season of random talent.
- Deception with Keith Barry (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A ‘mentalist’ looks at the world of deception.
- The Little Couple (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fertility issues continue.
- Love Handles (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – How could a mix of reality, couples, and weight issues be wrong?
- Million Dollar Decorators (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hmm, how far does a million dollars go?
Wednesday
- Franklin & Bash/Men of a Certain Age (TNT, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premiere – Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer offer up another take on unconventional lawyering then more conventional guys.
- Haunted Collector/Hollywood Treasure (Syfy, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Not just places but things can be haunted and this guy takes a look, then a look at items more cinematic.
- Man v. Food Nation/Sand Masters (Trav, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Food challenges hit the road and then sand castles get serious.
- Sweat Equity (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – More home repair.
- Love in the Wild (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Think Survivor as a dating show.
- The World According to Paris (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere – I am not even interested in Hilton in a trashy sort of way.
Thursday
- The First 48: Missing Persons (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Spinoff of The First 48 follows missing persons.
- Love Bites (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I believe this is a summer burn off of a romance anthology that never quite made it into the schedule.
- NY Ink (TLC, 10) Series Premiere – A Miami Ink guys starts up in NY.
- Children’s Hospital (AdSw, 11:59pm) Season Premiere – This is one of those comedies that is so random I kept wanting to like it.
Friday
- French Open (NBC, 11am) – The week on ESPN2 leads up to the men’s semis, with women’s final Saturday at 6am/pst and men’s final Sunday 6am finals.
- Whale Wars (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – More anti-whaling action.
Saturday
- NHL Stanley Cup Finals (NBC, 5pm) – Go hockey, Game 1 is Wed at 5pm/pst, games 3 & 4 head to Vs. and returns to NBC for 5 and on if needed.
Sunday
- Food Network Challenge/The Next Food Network Star (Food, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – 80s cakes and then 15 new chef’s arrive to compete.
- MTV Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Jason Sudeikis hosts the one where they vote for things like ‘The Best Kiss.’
- Ice Road Truckers (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – More ice, more trucking, more truckers.
- Locked Up Abroad (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Crimes in foreign countries strikes me as a bad idea.
- Finding Bigfoot (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – Do you think they find him?
- Freaky Eaters (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m glad these people are getting help even if it is through exploitation tv.
- The Glades (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – I found this fluffy detective out of his element in Florida series not necessarily great but enjoyable.
- Mancations (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Man friendly getaways.
- The Real L Word (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – Reality show lesbian-style.
- Teen Wolf (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – I can’t stop picturing Michael J Fox and Justin Bateman but this is a much more modern take on a high school werewolf.
new and noteworthy tv: 6/6 – 6/12
June 5th, 2011
Monday
- Masterchef (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – A few kitchen dudes look for the next amateur ready to make it big time.
- My Yard Goes to Disney/House Hunters on Vacation/HGTV’d (HGTV, 8/8:30/9pm) Series Premieres – Outdoor spaces Disneyfied, travelers visit homes before selecting one as a vacation stay, and surprise makeovers.
- Switched at Birth (ABCFam, 9pm) Series Premiere – It reads like a Lifetime movie but this latest fictional look at the rare familial entanglements will keep going week after week, this family channel is often too trite but sometimes worth a look.
- Unfaithful/The Dr Laura Berman Show (OWN, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – A look at infidelities and then a camera joins the dr’s radio show.
- Behind Mansion Walls (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Why just look at murders when you can look at murders involving rich people.
Tuesday
- White Collar/Covert Affairs (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Campy spy business back to back, I’m more enamored with the likable hustler than the newest addition to the CIA.
- 19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Please tell me these people aren’t still counting on more kids.
- Love/Lust (Sund, 10pm) Season Premiere – The season starts out with a look at street foods.
Wednesday
- CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8pm) – Country goodness.
- Operation Repo (Tru, 9pm) Season Premiere – More repossessions.
Thursday
- Nightmare Next Door (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – Crimes in your own neighborhood, depending on where you live.
Friday
- My Babysitter’s a Vampire (Dis, 7pm) Series Premiere – Disney’s take on vampires in our midst.
- FBI: Criminal Pursuit (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cops FBI-style.
Saturday
- Color Splash (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – A tranquil bedroom update.
Sunday
- The Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Host Neil Patrick Harris has been teasing me with glorious reviews of broadway’s best, via twitter of course.
- Bridezillas/Amsale Girls (WE, 9/10pm) Season Premiere – Difficult brides from bride and bridal store perspective.
- Finding Sarah (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Folks like Dr Phil and Suzy Ormand help out Sarah Ferguson.
- The Glee Project (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Real life Gleeks compete for a role on Glee, I’m mildly intrigued though don’t think I get this channel.
- Swamp Wars (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – Beheaded pythons and gator killings.
- Keeping Up With the Kardashians/Ice Loves Coco (E!, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Blah, blah, reality, blah, blah.
- The Protector (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – This series introduces us to a divorced homicide detective’s work and home.
The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.
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