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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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new and noteworthy tv: 4/1-4/7

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Monday

  • The Real Housewives of Orange County (Brav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Whatevs.
  • The Gossip Game/Master of the Mix (VH1, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Challenging DJs and aspiring superstars.

Tuesday

  •  19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – They’re back from Asia. 

Wednesday

  • Rogue (Dir, 9pm) Series Premiere – Thandie Newton leads the undercover detective first original series from DirecTV.
  • Spies of Warsaw (BBCA, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Spies before WWII.
  • How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (ABC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Sarah Chalke and some extended family might not be fresh but perhaps a bit of funny.
  • Forever Young (TVL, 10pm) Series Premiere – The under 30s and the over 70s are forced to hang out.
  • Best Ink (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Skin art competition.
  • My Crazy Obsession (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Crazy is right.

Thursday

  • Casino Confidential/America’s Worst Tattoos/NY Ink (TLC, 8/9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Casinos and tattoos and tattoo artists.
  • Hannibal (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Just another serial killer, or a fresh look at a bit of an origin story, I’m game to see.
  • Tabitha Takes Over (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – More hair salon help.
  • Men at Work (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – This dudes sitcom is getting another season.

Friday

  • Vice (HBO, 11pm) Series Premiere – Docuseries newsmag.

Saturday

  • My Cat From Hell (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – Too allergic to watch.

Sunday

  • WTA Tennis (ESPN2, 10am) – Family Circle Cup final.
  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 8pm) Season Premiere – Let them eat…
  • Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton host.
  • Mad Men (AMC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I might be ready to start diving into this show.
  • River Monsters (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – The fish did 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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new and noteworthy tv: 3/25-3/31

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Monday

  • The Voice (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – At least a season with Usher and Shakira replacing Aguilara and Cee Lo.

Tuesday

  • Here Comes Peter Cottontail (CW, 8pm) – Peter oversleeps and must go back in time to fulfill his Easter Bunny duties.
  • Hardcore Pawn (Tru, 9pm) Season Premiere – Security problems.
  • The Game/Let’s Stay Together (BET, 10/11pm) Season Premieres – Draft night and more drama.

Wednesday

  • Bomb Girls (Reelz, 8pm) Season Premiere – A surprise visit, basically I have no idea what’s going on on Reelz.
  • Operation Repo (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – Business luck in Vegas.
  • The Real World (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Portland.

Thursday

  • NCAA Basketball (CBS, 6:30pm) – Regional semifinal, basically nothing new tonight.

Friday

  • Happy Endings (ABC, 8pm) – Friday night’s gonna be alright.
  • XIII (Reelz, 10pm) Season Premiere – Darkest impulses.

Saturday

  • ATP Tennis (CBS, 9am/Sun 8:30am) – Sony Open, women’s final on Sat and men’s on Sun.
  • Doctor Who/Orphan Black/The Nerdist (BBCA, 8/9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – The doctor is back, then a clone takes another’s place, and more geek chat.

Sunday

  • Call the Midwife/Mr Selfridge (PBS, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – Jenny celebrates her birthday and Jeremy Piven brings a department store to life.
  • Game of Thrones (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – Whatever’s happening on this show keeps happening.

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: 3/18-3/24

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A little delayed this week, good thing there’s not much to see….

Monday

  • Dancing with the Stars (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Boogie down.
  • Storage Wars (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – What’s in that unit?
  • Bates Motel (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – What happened before Psycho?

Tuesday

  • Splash (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Diving celebrity style.
  • How We Invented the World (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting with the mobile phone.
  • Urban Tarzan (Spike, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Relocating animals lost in the wild.

Wednesday

  • Rip the Runway (BET, 10pm) – Fashion and music meet. 

Thursday

  • NCAA Basketball (CBS, 7pm) – Go team.

Friday

  • Tanked (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Fish in a square bowl. 

Saturday

  • Kid’s Choice Awards (Nick, 8pm) – Josh Duhamel hosts.
  • Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (Syfy, 9pm) – Ponch fights a crazy thing.

Sunday

  • Phil Spector (HBO, 9pm) – You know, a fictionalized account
  • Married to Medicine (Brav, 9pm) Series Premiere – Atlanta’s chick docs and chicks who marry docs, really?
  • My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Teens from different clans marry.

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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watch this: arrested development

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Is there a new model for television, and does it involve an old television series? Netflix seems to think so. I have yet to get on the House of Cards bandwagon (the first original with full season posting exclusively to Netflix) something about it all being available may encourage binging but it makes it a little daunting and a little less pressing for me to get started. And without a start the rest of my TiVo queue is just more imminent.

But what I will tune in for immediately is the long awaited fourth season of Arrested Development. After much hope for a possible flick a new season is in the works and will be posted exclusively to Netflix in May. Full season all at once, however will I pace myself!? And to prepare myself for this I have been rewatching the initial seasons. And I must say, they hold up well. The docu-style format is aptly utilized with the voice over and artful cutaways and inserts.

And truly a well-drawn dysfunctional family. They all are created as unique characters and yet are all clearly versions of this irregular family raised by somewhat parental figures played by Jessica Walter and Jeffrey Tambor. Jason Bateman as the ‘normal’ one adds just enough of his own quirks to keep him in the picture along with twin sis Portia de Rossi with somewhat husband David Cross, elder bro Will Arnett, and younger Tony Hale. Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera show how the dysfunction keeps going into the next generation. And the guest stars, they can’t all be as good as Liza Minelli but they’re mostly pretty darned good.

What have our characters been up to since last we saw them? Rumor has it each episode focuses on differing directions that they’ve gone and you know they’ll have to all end up together. Because if luck holds out a movie will follow. Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It’s Arrested Development. 

Details: Arrested Development, Netflix streaming, the current season is also available on Hulu.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/11-3/17

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Nothing to see here, keep it moving…

Monday

  • Catfishin’ Kings (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – Competition in Texas.

Tuesday

  • Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Restaurateurs compete.
  • Preacher’s Daughters (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – More reality fare.
  • World’s Worst Tenants (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – More random housing endeavors.

Wednesday

  • Jim Rome on Showtime (Show, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sports talk.
  • Restaurant Stakeout (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Covert food surveillance.

Thursday

  • Braxton Family Values (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – Toni, Trina, Traci, Towanda, Tamar…
  • Funeral Boss (Health, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, funeral home style.

Friday

  • Flea Market Flip (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Competing on the best find and sell.

Sunday

  • Trip Flip (Trav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ready to travel.
  • Playing with Fire (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, culinary scene style.
  • Wicked Single (VH1, 11pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, Boston bar scene style.

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: 3/4-3/10

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Monday

  • Are You Tougher Than a Boyscout (NGC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Challenges based on the handbook.
  • LA Shrinks (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – A psychologist, a therapist, and a life consultant walk into a reality show…
  • The World of Jenks (MTV, 11pm) Season Premiere – Documentarian takes a look at stuff.

Tuesday

  • Treasure Detectives/The Car Chasers (CNBC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Is the treasure genuine, and will the car be a treasure?

Wednesday

  • Haunted Collector (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Stalkers and spirits.
  • Rachel Zoe Project/It’s a Brad, Brad World/Dukes of Melrose (Brav, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Style, style, and boutique owners.

Thursday

  • Battleground (AnPl, 9pm) Minseries Premiere – Rhino wars start.

Friday

  • Fashion Star (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Aspiring designers return to woo Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos.
  • Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Wedding white.

Sunday

  • You Live in What? (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’ve always wanted to live in a firehouse or a lighthouse.
  • Army Wives/The Client List (Life, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – This show is apparently still on and this show was apparently renewed.

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: 2/25-3/3

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Monday

  • Burning Love/After Lately (E!, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premiere – If you haven’t caught this Bachelor spoof online it garners a laugh and then more Chelsea.

Tuesday

  • Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Child services may need to be called when Kate Gosselin and Kendra Wilkinson swap places.
  • Parade’s End (HBO, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Five part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novels set in early 20th century.
  • Golden Boy (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following past and future story lines as our fresh detective makes his way to police commissioner, worth a look.
  • Robot Combat League (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think there was a movie like this with Wolverine where people fight using giant robots.

Wednesday

  • Boston’s Finest (TNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Reality cop show.
  • Rescue My Renovation (DIY, 9pm) Series Premiere – Unqualified contractor?
  • Duck Dynasty (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – More reality duck-style.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – More fake psychic detecting.
  • Stranded (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Real peeps left in haunted locations.

Thursday

  • The Ben Show/Nathan for You (Com, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – Sketches and then comedic marketing advice.

Friday/Saturday

  • Catch up or leave the house?

Sunday

  • The Bible/Vikings (Hist, 8/10pm) Series Premieres – In the beginning and viking action.
  • The Celebrity Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Returning ‘celebrities.’
  • Red Widow (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Death of a husband causes a woman to dive back into the gangster underworld, this looks dumb but I’ll give it a look.
  • Oprah’s Master Class (OWN, 10pm) Season Premiere – Alicia Keys.
  • Welcome to Myrtle Manor (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality trailer park style.

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: 2/18-2/24

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I gotta get my Oscar ballot in…

Monday

  • Fast n’ Loud/The Devils Ride (Disc, 9pm) Season Premieres – Cars and clubs. 
  • La La’s Full Court Life (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let’s go to the summer Olympics, again.
  • Teen Mom 2 (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Pregnant again?

Tuesday

  • Cult (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – I don’t have high hopes for this TV show within a show about cults investigating crimes, though that won’t stop me from watching. 
  • Body of Proof (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I didn’t know this show was still on, but it’s back.
  • Ultimate Soldier Challenge (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Combat challenges.
  • The Jeselnik Offensive (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – More comedian mocking.

Wednesday

  • Weed Country (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another oddly seemingly not legal show. 

Thursday

  • Auction Kings (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Pick-off special.
  • American Greed (CNBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Madoff behind bars.

Friday

  • Yukon Men (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Feast or famine. 
  • Out There (IFC, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Teen angst come to life in an animated monster form.

Saturday

  • Joan & Melissa (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – Does Joan still know best?
  • Renovation Realities (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Fix ups and the real world.
  • Independent Spirit Awards (IFC, 10pm) – Andy Samberg hosts.

Sunday

  • The Academy Awards (ABC, 8:30pm) – May the red carpet reviews and Oscar pools begin!
  • A Bryk at a Time (DIY, 9pm) Series Premiere – Design project delays.

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As the shows keep rolling in here’s what has come in and will be coming. So far I’m mostly glad there’s not much to add to my queue.

  • 1600 Penn (NBC) – I almost like this crazy family in the White House, and although some funny notes, not quite enough.
  • The Americans (Fx) – So far so good for this 80’s Russian Spy drama, though admittedly I’ve only watched the first and curious where it will go.
  • Banshee (Cin) – Alas no Cinemax for me but probably campy, sexy fun.
  • Bates Motel* (A&E) – Prequel to Psycho, could go either way.
  • The Carrie Diaries (CW) – Carrie lite in the 80s, as long as you think of it as a CW show and not a Sex prequel you might be happy, I can’t decide if I am.
  • Continuum (Syfy) – Very Terminator time travelesque as rebels and a cop end up farther back in time than intended to in order to change the future, too syfy for me.
  • Cult* (CW) – TV cults and crimes in a CW drama could be the terribly bad but possible good bad.
  • Deception (ABC) – An alt take on the Revenge-ish feel with undercover cop and a very drama filled family is a little too dopey for me.
  • Defiance* (Syfy) – Aliens settling on earth, hmm?
  • Do No Harm (NBC) – Split personality doc cancelled after two episodes, I deleted without a watch.
  • The Family Tools* (ABC) – Getting into the family handyman business.
  • The Following (Fox) – The creepy drama about a killer psycho and his ‘cult’ of followers and the personal relationship to ex-FBI Kevin Bacon, I am so about to stop watching.
  • Golden Boy* (CBS) – New cop, old cop.
  • House of Cards (Netflix) – Kevin Spacey leads this Netflix only release, I really need to check it out.
  • How To Live Without Your Parents* (ABC) – Sarah Chalke returns to tv as a single mom returning to her parents’.
  • Legit (Fx) – An offbeat comedy about a terrible guy trying to be a not terrible guy, it’s a little too Larry David-ish for me.
  • Monday Mornings (TNT) – I feel like this premiered and I missed it.
  • Newsreaders (AdSw) – A spin-off of Children’s Hospital, for whatever that means to you.
  • Out There* (IFC) – Animated monsteresque kids in action.
  • Red Widow* (ABC) – Russian mafia for a newly single mom.
  • Ripper Street (BBCA) – Set following the murders of Jack the Ripper the cops try to deal with the latest crimes, I tried the first of this but just wasn’t that into it.
  • Vikings* (Hist) – The first scripted series from the historians, and it’s about vikings.
  • Washington Heights (MTV) – Twenty-somethings, blah blah.
  • Zero Hour (ABC) – Chasing conspiracies keep our protagonists busy.

* Still to come, stay tuned to ‘next week’s for premiere dates.

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