new and noteworthy tv: 7/11-7/17

The summer stuff keeps rolling out…

Monday

  • Eureka/Warehouse 13/Alphas (Syfy, 8/9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – A bevy of oddities with an isolated beyond science town, a place that stores odd objects and the people who fetch them, and a new group of specially-abled folk investigating crime.
  • Anthony Bourdain (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kicks off in Cuba.
  • The Closer/Rizzoli & Isles (TNT, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More detecting, some better than others, as we prepare to say goodbye to Brenda Leigh Johnson.
  • HGTV Design Star (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Competitors start by designing their temporary home, and by home I mean Penthouse.
  • Man vs Wild (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Jake Gyllenhaal tags along with Bear.
  • Surprise Homecoming (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Billy Ray Cyrus hosts this feel good welcoming.

Tuesday

  • Food(ography)/United Tastes of America (Cook, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More food.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – Kicks off in Vietnam.
  • I Hate My Kitchen (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – I assume they make them better.
  • Chopped (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Four British chefs face off.

Wednesday

  • Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Baseball Peanuts style.
  • Ghost Hunters International/Legend Quest (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Ghosts and legendary artifacts across the globe.
  • Roseanne’s Nuts/Dance Moms (Life, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – More reality as we see if Roseanne Barr is crazy or just a nut farmer and then stage moms dance style.
  • Sons of Guns/One Man Army (Disc, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Gun works and then four compete.
  • Damages (DirTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – I couldn’t quite stick with this show.
  • Rescue Me (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – The final season commences.
  • Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry/I Married a Mobster (ID, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Not really a doctor and then really a mobster.
  • The Franchise (Show, 10pm) Series Premiere – A season with the San Francisco Giants.

Thursday

  • Sweet Home Alabama/Texas Women (CMT, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Bachelorette southern style and then following four ladies of Texas.
  • The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Guests.

Friday

  • Friday Night Lights (NBC, 8pm) Series Finale – My plans to catch up to the final season haven’t manifested so I’ll get this at some point.
  • Haven (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Another season of odd occurrences in this small town series.

Saturday

  • Home by Novogratz (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Home makeovers from husband and wife design team.
  • Pit Boss (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – More rescues and in this ep homeless learn how to keep their pits well behaved.

Sunday

  • Zen (PBS, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Rufus Sewell stars as Italian detective looks to solve personal and professional situations.
  • Big Rich Texas (Styl, 9pm) Series Premiere – Dallas socialites and their daughters.
  • Auction Hunters/Bar Rescue (Spike, 9:30/10pm) Season Premieres – Hunting at auctions and trying to rescue bars, I like a descriptive title.
  • Breaking Bad (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I just couldn’t take this show anymore, it’s good, but they all became too unsympathetic.
  • Heat Seekers (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at spicy foods.
  • My Strange Addiction (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Strange doesn’t quite describe it.

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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