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new and noteworthy tv: 4/29-5/5

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Monday

  • The Big C (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s next for our protagonist?
  • Red, White & New (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – American ingenuity.

Tuesday

  • Weird or What? (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Hindu mythological creature or spacecraft?
  • Inside Amy Schumer (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Comedian brings more sketches, interviews, and jokes.

Wednesday

  • Family Tools (ABC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Leah Remini returns to sitcom in what promises to have sitcom elements. 
  • The Big Brain Theory (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – The next great innovator.

Thursday

  • The Show with Vinny/Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – A Jersey Shore guy does a talker out of his mom’s house and a comedy about a guy making a reality show out of his life.

Friday

  • Maron (IFC, 10pm) Series Premiere – The life of a comedian and podcaster. 

Saturday

  • America’s Cutest Cat (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Meow.
  • My Haunted House (Bio, 10pm) Series Premiere – Boo.

Sunday

  • Day of rest.

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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new and noteworthy tv: 4/22-4/28

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Another week, maybe it’s time to catch up on Walking Dead…

Monday

  • Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – New beginnings.
  • Rectify (Sund, 9pm) Series Premiere – Their first scripted production shows a man released from Death Row to a changed world.
  • Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Square pizza.

Tuesday

  • Backyard Oil (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A gospel singer’s ranch.
  • Girl Code/Ke$ha (MTV, 10:30/11pm) Series Premieres – Women’s topics and a look at that girl.

Wednesday

  • I Was Murdered (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Told from the victim’s point of view.

Thursday

  • Giving You the Business (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Unwittingly auditioning for a franchise.

Friday

  • NFL Draft (ESPN, 5pm) – Don’t miss the drafts.

Saturday

  • X Games (ABC, 1pm) – Foz do Igaucu from Brazil.

Sunday

  • Good Luck Charlie (Dis, 10pm) Season Premiere – Charlie turns four?

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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new and noteworthy tv: 4/15-4/21

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I’ve still got a good amount of backlog, good thing I don’t need to make room for much more…

Monday

  • Oh Sit! (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – Sitting competition?
  • Defiance (Syfy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Futuristic society on earth following war, will the fragile peace remain?
  • James May’s Man Lab (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let’s get some skills.
  • Scam City (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Scams in Rio.

Tuesday

  • Deadliest Catch (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Who’s up for some fishing?
  • Don’t Be Tardy… (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Real housewives woman…
  • Storage Wars/American Hoggers (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – For some reason a ventriloquist is making a guest appearance and then hoggers.
  • Awkward (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Jenna’s predictable humiliation and family, friend, and romantic drama with wit are back.
  • Who Gets the Last Laugh (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Donald Faison hosts comedians in prank challenges.

Wednesday

  • Hoarding (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I am always trying to winnow my stuff. 
  • Locked Up Abroad (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Telling POW tales.
  • Off Pitch (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Show choir.

Thursday

  • Gigolos (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – There’s a new guy in town.

Friday

  • Sons of Guns (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sometimes you gotta go to Vegas to demo a gun. 
  • I Found the Gown (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – More dresses.

Saturday

  • Four Houses (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Scoring each other’s homes.
  • Spoiled Rotten Pets (NatGeoW, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – These make our pampered pets look tortured.
  • Raising Whitley (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Comedian and friends raise a baby, and yes this is another reality show.

Sunday

  • Dog and Beth/Guntuckly (CMT, 8/9:30pm) Series Premieres – Bounty hunting and family gun range.
  • The Bletchley Circle (PBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A three part murder mystery series of female code breakers.
  • I’m Married to A… (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Unconventional partnerships.
  • What Would Ryan Lochte Do?/Married to Jonas (E!, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premieres – Unwatchable or so bad it’s good and then are they ready to move to New York?

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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new and noteworthy tv: 4/8-4/14

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Monday

  • T.I. and Tiny (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Winter adventure.

Tuesday

  • Counting Cars (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Buy that car. 
  • Ready for Love (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Another slant on dating shows, getting dudes a gal.
  • Find Me My Man (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Matchmaker helps single ladies in Miami.
  • The Kandi Factory (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because Real Housewives needs another spinoff.

Wednesday

  • Toy Hunter (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Gene Simmons and KISS memorabilia.
  • World’s Weirdest (NatGeo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Strange animals.
  • Deep South Paranormal (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because there wasn’t enough paranormal being covered.
  • I Want That (DIY, 11pm) Season Premiere – Stylish home solutions.

Thursday

  • The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Guests and whatnot. 
  • The Killer Speaks (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Examining cases from the killer’s perspective.

Friday

  • Eve of Destruction (Reelz, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – Unlimited energy or the end of the planet. 
  • Swamp’d (AnPl, 8pm) Series Premiere – Swamp store owner, for all your swamp area needs.
  • Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Dramatic Leonardo d Vinci.

Saturday

  • Bet On Your Baby (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Parents pit babies against one another, seriously?
  • Iyanla, Fix My Life/Life With La Toya (OWN, 9/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Iyanla does her thing, then we now get to watch LaToya do hers, whatever that is.

Sunday

  • 2013 Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Rebel Wilson hosts.
  • Nurse Jackie/The Borgias (Show, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Happy birthday to Jackie and unseating the Borgias?
  • Restaurant Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Purchasing fish is different than cooking fish.
  • Veep (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Midterm elections.

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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