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new and noteworthy tv: 3/12-3/18

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I’m finally making a dent in my backlog…

Monday

  • The Bachelor (ABC, 10pm) – After the final rose.
  • Navajo Cops (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cops Indian reserve style.

Tuesday

  • Fashion Star (NBC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Jessica Simpson, John Varvatos, and Nicole Richie mentor the latest fashion designers, the new feature is you can buy the winning clothes.

Wednesday

  • South Park/Ugly Americans (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Animation amusement.
  • Monster Man (Syfy, 11pm) Series Premiere – Creating monsters is the family business.

Thursday

  • Community (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ok so it’s sort of a midseason return but I am happy to have it back.
  • Missing (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Ashley Judd isn’t a CIA agent, she’s just a mom looking for her son! I’ve seen this preview a bunch and will tune in but have low hopes.
  • Behind the Music (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – But wait there are more stories to tell.
  • The First 48: Missing Persons (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – People are missing.
  • Sweet Genius (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Chocolaty treats.

Friday

  • Fairly Legal/In Plain Sight  (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – A couple of feisty gals return.
  • Four Weddings (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And a hookah lounge.

Saturday

  • Tennis (ABC, Sat/Sun, 11am, ESPN2 earlier in the week) – ATP tennis from Indian Wells, Ca.

Sunday

  • Frozen Planet/Unchained Reaction (Disc, 8/10pm) Series Premieres – Artics and creating chain reaction contraptions.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/5-3/11

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Is it time to tune into Idol again?

Monday

  • Bachelor (ABC, 8pm) – Women tell all…
  • Love Broker (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another matchmaker reality show.

Tuesday

  • Breaking In (Fox, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – What happens when they sell the biz to Megan Mullally?
  • Decision 2012 (NBC, 8pm) – Returns and analysis of Super Tuesday.
  • American Digger (Spike, 11pm) Series Premiere – Excavation team.

Wednesday

  • Doomsday Bunkers (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Company that builds underground bunkers.
  • Million Dollar Listing New York (Brav 10pm) Series Premiere – A few real estaters sell some property.
  • My Crazy Obsession (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – More obsessions, too many cabbage patch kids?
  • Happily Divorced (TVL, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – The return of Fran.

Thursday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) – Another one bites the dust.

Friday

  • Ghost Adventures (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Shanghai tunnels of Portland.
  • Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Experimental?

Saturday

  • Game Change (HBO, 9pm) – Does Julianne Moore do a better Palin than Tina Fey.

Sunday

  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 8pm) Season Premiere – Happy anniversary Girl Scouts.
  • Bob’s Burger (Fox, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Taffy tour.
  • Coming Home (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – Raiders reunion.
  • Restaurant Stakeout (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hidden cameras try to uncover the root of the restaurant problems.
  • Shahs of Sunset (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Persian pals.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/27-3/4

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And the midseason shows keep trickling out…

Monday

  • The Haney Project (Golf, 8pm) Season Premiere – Adam Levine is apparently adding golf to his repertoire.

Tuesday

  • My Ride Rules (Speed, 10pm) Season Premiere – Car owners compete either with or for cars.

Wednesday

  • ANTM (CW, 9pm) Season Premiere – Brits vs. Yanks, will it entertain like allstars?
  • Sons of Guns (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Modify an armored car.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fake psychic is back on the case.

Thursday

  • When Vacations Attack (Trav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Attack a vacation or be attacked by a vacation?
  • Awake (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Falling asleep leads to two different versions of life, one where his wife survives a car crash and one where his son does, what’s real and does it matter?

Friday

  • The Cat in the Hat-A-Thon (PBS, 8am) – The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that!

Saturday

  • Deadly Sins (ID, 9pm) Series Premiere – Particularly sinful crimes?
  • Bizarre ER (Health, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bizarre.
  • Q’Viva! The Chosen (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – JLo and MarcA continue with their show together at least, a look at Latin musicians.
  • Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show (BBCA, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Sketch comedy Brit style.

Sunday

  • Hollywood Girls Night Out (TVG, 8pm) Series Premiere – Celebrity ladies eat and chat.
  • Army Wives (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the army base families disband?
  • Breakout Kings (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Criminals help catch criminals as only a cheesy show can show.
  • Las Vegas Jailhouse (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – What happens in vegas…
  • GCB (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – These good christian bitches starts with the return of one of their own to Dallas, this is talked about as Desperate Housewives-ish, worth a shot.
  • Stevie TV (VH1, 11pm) Series Premiere – Sketch comedy mash up.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/20-2/26

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Time to catch up on TiVo backlog, I’m at 25% full…

Monday

  • Basketball Wives (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – Blah.
  • Bethenny Ever After (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah.

Tuesday

  • It Gets Better (Logo/MTV, 11pm) – User videos and celebrity messaging targeted to support LGBT youth.

Wednesday

  • Ghost Hunters International (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ghosty Peru.
  • American Weed (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry.

Thursday

  • Lifeguard! (Weath, 9pm) Series Premiere – Baywatch reality style.
  • Project Runway: After the Runway (Life, 10pm) – All-stars kicks off the post show chit chat.
  • MMA Junkie Live (Spike, 11pm) Series Premiere – Well it doesn’t look like I get Spike but for those who do…

Friday

  • Car Warriors (Speed, 10pm) Season Premiere – And does anyone get this channel?

Saturday

  • Being Human (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – I am confused by both the British and US versions being on at the same time.
  • The Independent Spirit Awards (IFC, 10pm) – Seth Rogan hosts.

Sunday

  • Academy Awards (ABC, 4/5:30pm) – The red carpet gets rolled out early but the real question is who will win my Oscar pool.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/13-2/19

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At lease Cougar Town is coming back…

Monday

  • Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (USA, 8pm) – Doggies.
  • American Chopper/World’s Toughest Trucker (Disc, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Choppers and trucks.
  • Undercover Boss: Abroad (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – They’ve run out of domestic companies.

Tuesday

  • The Ring Leader (Brav, 7pm) Series Premiere – Wedding planning.
  • Cougar Town (ABC, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – It’s back, watch it.
  • 19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Big family doing stuff.
  • Top Gear/Top Shot (Hist, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Driving explosives and shooting at stuff.

Wednesday

  • Survivor: One World (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Men vs. women.
  • Oprah’s Oscar Special (OWN, 9pm) – Nominees speak.
  • The Slap (DirTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Apparently DirectTV has original programming, a mom or something.
  • South Beach Tow (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – Towing in South Beach.

Thursday

  • Exporting Raymond (HBO, 8pm) – Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal goes to adapt Ray for Russia.
  • Hook, Line & Dinner (Cook, 8pm) Season Premiere – Hook it, grill it, eat it.

Friday

  • Curious and Unusual Deaths (Health, 5pm) Series Premiere – I’m not that curious.
  • NAACP Image Awards (NBC, 8pm) – Recognize.

Saturday

  • SAP Open (CSN, 1pm, Sun 3pm) – Localish tennis.

Sunday

  • The Amazing Race (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Where to?
  • Jerseylicious/Big Rich Texas (Style, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – Reality peeps return.
  • The Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – A new crop of ‘celebrities.’
  • The Shadow Line (DirTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – This one’s a cop show.
  • Eastbound & Down/Life’s Too Short (HBO, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Carolina baseball comedy and the start of a new mockumentary.
  • Khloe & Lamar/Ice Loves Coco (E!, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – I’m sure they’re very happy.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/6-2/12

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Intrigued but not overly optimistic about some new offerings…

Monday

  • Smash (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of a musical, some of the critics that I read love this but not all do, def worth a shot.

Tuesday

  • The River (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Creepy drama follows a wife and son, and tv crew, into the jungle to find missing wildlife tv host.
  • Doomsday Preppers (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Profiles of peeps prepping for the end of the world.
  • The Real Housewives of Orange County (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, Orange County.
  • Jersey Couture (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, New Jersey dresses.

Wednesday

  • Person to Person (CBS, 8pm) – Charlie Rose and Lara Logan interview peeps.
  • Maneater Manhunt (NGW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Tiger at large.
  • Restaurant Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Prime Ribs & Spaghetti can apparently go awry.
  • Vegas Stripped (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of sin city.

Thursday

  • Swamp People/Mudcats (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Gators and fishin’.

Friday

  • NFL Characters Unite (USA, 7pm) – For those who are having football withdrawals some NFL peeps do some stuff.

Saturday

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown/A Charlie Brown Valentine (ABC, 8pm) – Unrequited love at its finest.
  • Parking Wars/Billy the Exterminator (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Parking tickets and pythons.
  • The Bronson Pinchot Project (DIY, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Actor as houseflipper.

Sunday

  • The Grammy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – LL Cool J hosts.
  • The Walking Dead/Comic Book Men/Talking Dead (AMC, 9/10/11:59pm) Season/Series Premiere – What now, then behind the scenes of comics, then a chat about what happened.
  • Worst Cooks in America (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Bad cook boot camp begins.
  • Full Metal Jousting (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – The ultimate extreme sport?
  • My Strange Addiction (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And more people in need of therapy.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/30-2/5

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Hmm, maybe it’s a good week to get back to dvds, or streaming, or whatever its called these days…

Monday

  • The Amandas (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – Amanda and her minions organize.
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Elvira guest judges.

Tuesday

  • Sorority Girls/Undercover Princes (TLC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – If I understand these reality shows, US sorority girls and actual Princes go to England to find girls.
  • Tosh.0/Kay & Peele (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – More Tosh and more sketch comedy.

Wednesday

  • Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS, 8pm) – Because there won’t be enough talk about commercials on Sunday.
  • Beast Tracker (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting with gators.

Thursday

  • I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – A sitcom and since its MTV it focuses on a twentysomething slacker, who apparently slept with a chick who stole his pants.

Friday

  • Who Do You Think You Are? (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More celebrity genealogy.
  • Man Caves (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Makeovers dude style.
  • Killer Trials (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at more true crimes.

Saturday

  • Candice Tells All (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – More home transformations.
  • How to Rock (Nick, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Popular no more after braces and glasses, a new band and some heartwarming hijinks will solve that.
  • NFL Honors (NBC, 9pm) – Because being in the NFL has no glory.
  • Unfaithful (OWN, 9pm) Season Premiere – I’m not sure looking at people unfaithful in their marriages hits the tone I think of as Oprah.
  • Renovation Realities (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Renovations are hard.

Sunday

  • Puppy Bowl (AnPl, noon) – I don’t know that the puppies understand the rules but they’re always cute.
  • Superbowl (NBC, 3pm) – Patriots vs. Giants.
  • The Voice (NBC, 7pm) Season Premiere – I kind of liked this last season but after not having watched any X Factor or the current early Idol rounds I may just be music saturated.
  • Jimmy Fallons’s Super Bowl Special (NBC, 10pm) – Apparently it’s a special.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/23-1/29

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I still haven’t figured out the Australian Open coverage but I’m glad I have TiVo…

Monday

  • The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m not totally clear on whether this premise entails trying to make the girls less bad or not.
  • Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting out with a trip to the Twin Cities.
  • Cake Boss (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cakes and the boss.

Tuesday

  • State of the Union (Various, 9pm) – What’s up USA?
  • All Star Dealers (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not just stuff, famous person’s stuff.
  • My First Place (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – House hunting.
  • Joan & Melissa (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – More plastic surgery?

Wednesday

  • Dark Minds (ID, 7pm) Series Premiere – An author, a profiler, and a killer reexamine crimes.
  • Touch (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Keifer is back, this time can his son predict the future?
  • The Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Real World and Road Rules peeps are back at it.

Thursday

  • Winter X Games (ESPN, 6pm, and ESPN2/ABC various times) – Wintertime in Aspen, Colorado.
  • Fat Chef (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at folks in the food industry trying to work on their weight.
  • Russell Simmons Presents (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – Standup and be funny.
  • Inside Comedy (Show, 11pm) Series Premiere – A chat with comedians.

Friday

  • Chuck (NBC, 8/9pm) Series Finale – Sad to see Chuck’s final mission.
  • Spartacus (Starz, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fighting harder than ever.

Saturday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 12am, Sun 12am) – The women’s and men’s finals cap off a week of coverage.
  • UFC (Fox, 8pm) – Evans vs. Davis.

Sunday

  • Luck (HBO, 9pm) Series Premiere – Horse racing and Dustin Hoffman, I’m intrigued.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/16-1/22

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Enough good tv starting that I may not get sucked into the Australian Open…

Monday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, ongoing/various) – The play continues.
  • The Revolution (ABC, 2pm) Series Premiere – Lifestyle experts transform.
  • Alcatraz (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – Always willing to give JJ Abrams shows a shot, a mix of cops and supernatural, and a reason to see Hurley again on another island.
  • Betty White’s 90th Birthday/Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (NBC, 8/9:30pm) Series Premiere – Everybody toasts Betty and then seniors play pranks what could be more hilarious.
  • Being Human/Lost Girl (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – More irregular folks and the new/lost girl is a succubus.

Tuesday

  • Remodeled (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – More businesses get makeovers, this time modeling agencies.
  • Ink Master (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Nobody wants to be tattooed by the losers in this competition.
  • Justified (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – Raylan I missed you.
  • Ragin’ Cajuns (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Shrimp fishing, or should i say fishin’.
  • Southland (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – This cop show tends to not disappoint and this seasn’s guests include Lucy Liu.
  • White Collar (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Who will betray who?

Wednesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm, and Thurs/Sun) Season Premiere – I keep saying I’m out, but depending on scheduling…
  • Mistresses (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Relationship problems?
  • Royal Pains (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – More doctoring.

Thursday

  • Archer/Unsupervised (Fx, 10pm) Season/Series Premiere – The return of the animated government agency followed by high school misfits.

Friday

  • Shark Tank (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Get your inventions ready.
  • On Freddie Roach (HBO, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – A look at boxing trainer and Parkinson patient.
  • Swanderosa (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – The Swan family hosts events on their Texas estate.

Saturday

  • Drew Peterson: Untouchable (Life, 8pm) – I’m only including this because people are talking about how awesomely gross Rob Lowe is in it.
  • Bayou Billionaires/My Redneck Vacation (CMT, 9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – More people out of their elements, with new money or new vacay locals.
  • Idiot Abroad (Sci, 10pm) Season Premiere – More torturing of Karl.
  • Scorned (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Investigating crimes where love has gone awry.

Sunday

  • Prime Suspect (NBC, 9pm) – In case you were following the changing time slots on the remaining eps.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/9-1/15

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The awards season is upon us…

Monday

  • America’s Money Class with Suze Orman (Own, 9pm) Series Premiere – Suze keeps her knowledge going.
  • First Week In/Mobster Confessions (Disc, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – The first week in prison and then what will the mobsters confess?
  • Caged (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cage fighters MTV reality style.

Tuesday

  • Dance Moms (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – More yelling.
  • Shipping Wars (A&E, 9pm) Series Premiere – Who doesn’t want to see which cargo carrier will end up on top?
  • The Game/Let’s Stay Together (BET, 10/11pm) Season Premieres – More relationship foibles.
  • Tabatha Takes Over (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Before the makeover the salon makeover.

Wednesday

  • One Tree Hill (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – Getting ready to say goodbye to this series in its final season, if you knew it was still on.
  • Are You There, Chelsea? (NBC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Apparently this new sitcom is a good match for Whitney, which means I’ll hate it but you Whitney likers might feel differently.
  • People’s Choice Awards (CBS, 9pm) – The award seasons are getting in full swing.
  • Amazing Eats (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – First, pork-a-palooza.
  • Ghost Hunters/Face Off (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Ghosts and makeup artists.
  • Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy/American Restoration (Hist, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More travels and restorations.

Thursday

  • 30 Rock (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – They’re back!
  • The Finder (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – The new series from the Bones folks, he can find anything, worth a shot.
  • Critics’ Choice Awards (VH1, 8pm) – These picks might be a bit more indicative than the ‘people’s’ choice.
  • Rob (CBS, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Rob Schneider tries to offend a whole new crop of people.
  • Sins & Secrets (ID, 9pm) Season Premiere – Murder and its investigation.
  • Snakeman of Appalachia (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – The men aren’t snakes themselves.

Friday

  • Sweet Home Alabama (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Giving southern love another chance.
  • Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bill’s back.

Saturday

  • Miss America Pageant (ABC, 9pm) – Just because Chris Harrison is hosting doesn’t mean they’re hooking up.
  • The Fades (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – The latest drama brings a teen to a battle between the living and the dead.
  • Pit Boss (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – More rescues.

Sunday

  • Golden Globes (NBC, 7/8pm) – Arrivals and then will Ricky Gervais be found amusing or insulting?
  • Undercover Boss (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – The bosses go back to work.
  • Napoleon Dynamite (Fox, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – John Heder returns to his role in this animated version.

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