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new and noteworthy tv: 3/15-3/21

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Procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • 20/20 (ABC, 8pm) – Special Bachelor edition for the stories behind the rose, and maybe even behind the behind the rose.
  • Home Rules (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – A life coach helps this family get their home together inside and out (well the out has some remodelers help).
  • Price of Beauty/Transform Me (VH1, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – Jessica Simpson takes us on a tour of beauty, then three transgender hosts do some makeover wonders.

Tuesday

  • Justified (FX, 10pm) Series Premiere – Timothy Olyphant, based on a character by producer Elmore Leonard, and getting good buzz, you can’t keep me away.
  • Marriage Under Construction (HGTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – The series follows a couple through house purchase and remodel.

Wednesday

  • Addicted (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I’m thinking this is more along the lines of Intervention than Celebrity Rehab.
  • Destination Truth (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Looking for ghosts and the seasonally appropriate leprechauns.
  • South Park/Ugly Americans (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – The kids are back and then animated folks bring another spin to integrating werewolves, vampires, and whatnot into regular culture.

Thursday

  • Flash Forward (ABC, 8pm) – Catch Tuesday’s recap if you’re looking to catch up for the return of the season.
  • My First Sale/Selling New York/Tough as Nails (HGTV, 8:30/9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – Selling, selling, fixin’ to sell.

Friday

  • Thin Ice (ABC, 8pm) – Not sure what Elizabeth Hasselbeck is doing with Kurt Browning as they host this two part professional ice skating competition.

Saturday

  • DVR catch up day.

Sunday

  • Life (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – Created by the same team that did planet earth, nature aficionados and appreciators get ready.
  • Gene Simmons Family Jewels/Kirstie Alley’s Big Life (A&E, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – KISS action then Kirstie gets back on the weight loss wagon.
  • Jerseylicious/Kimora (Style, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Following folks in a NJ hair salon then checking out Kimora’s new kid.
  • Breaking Bad (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – What will the new season bring to our meth making cancer man and his cohorts?
  • Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Jamie tries to get America to eat right.
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new and noteworthy tv: 3/8-3/14

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Monday

  • The Bachelor (ABC, 8pm) – For those doubters out there, we have a couple getting married.
  • Gossip Girl (CW, 9pm) – I missed a bunch of these and now folks seem to be hooking up with their partners from three years ago.
  • Trauma (NBC, 9pm) – Did you think this show was canceled?

Tuesday

  • 90210/Melrose Place (CW, 8/9pm) – Trash or trashy goodness? I have given up but if you haven’t they’re back.

Wednesday

  • America’s Next Top Model (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – They’ve dropped the tiny models and are back for another season of bitchiness, I dropped this last season but I’m giving it another go.
  • High Society (CW, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Just what was missing from the schedule, more reality, this time following some Manhattan socialite and her ‘friends’.
  • First Love, Second Chance (TVL, 10pm) Series Premiere – Couples that didn’t happen, give it another go.
  • Billy the Exterminator (A&E, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Billy exterminates.

Thursday

  • Sober House (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Some of the gang new and old gives sober living a shot, including Tom Sizemore, Heidi Fleiss, Dennis Rodman, Seth Binzer, Kari Ann Peniche, Kendra Jade Rossi, and Mike Starr, I still can’t look away.

Friday

  • Numb3rs (CBS, 10pm) Finale – This show hasn’t officially been canceled but if you’re a fan you might get ready to say goodbye.

Saturday

  • The Guard (Ion, 9/10pm) Series Premiere – The Canadian Coast Guard comes to the US.

Sunday

  • Minute to Win It (NBC, 7pm) Series Premiere – What will contestants be asked to do in a minute?
  • The Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another round of ‘celebrities’ compete, who will be fired first? will Brett Michaels be seen without his bandanna?
  • The Pacific (HBO, 9pm) – This ten part miniseries kicks off at Pearl Harbor.
  • Ultimate Recipe Showdown (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Starting the season with comfort foods.
  • Sons of Tucson (Fox, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – The kind of funny guy from Reaper pretends to be a foster parent to some kids.
  • America’s Worst Driver (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Do we really want to focus on bad driving.
  • The Antonio Treatment (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hmm, they are redoing a gym?
  • Hoarding (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – If Hoarders wasn’t enough for you, you can chase it with some Hoarding.
  • Kendra/Pretty Wild (E!, 10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Some girl is followed by a few girls.
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new and noteworthy tv: 3/1-3/7

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The Olympics are done so it’s time to start tuning back into some nonathletic tv watching, procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Today (NBC, 7am) – The cast of Eight is Enough reunite!
  • Bachelor/After the Rose (ABC, 8/10pm) – Will he pick the gal everyone hates? Will it be true love? Who will the new bachelorette be? The two Bachelor fans I know will tell me the answers to those questions.
  • Rules of Engagement (CBS, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – This is one of those shows that isn’t bad, it just isn’t quite good and makes you wonder how Better Off Ted and others don’t get more time.
  • Law & Order (NBC, 9/10pm) – Now that we’re filling up that 10 o’clock hour again we’re just going to fill it with twice as much L&O, but I’m sort of back into this season.

Tuesday

  • Parenthood (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I too am tired of the previews but who can resist a peek at Lorelai Gilmore and Nate from Six Feet Under being in the same family?
  • Southland (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – By season premiere what they mean is they’re actually going to air the episodes NBC didn’t bother with.

Wednesday

  • Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9/10pm) – Back to back drama with Mischa Barton and Kathy Griffin.
  • Ghost Hunters (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – The 100th episode heads to Alcatraz for an ‘interactive event’.
  • The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special (ABC, 10pm) – Stars interview stars and Oprah may be sealing the deal on taking over Barbara Walters spot on Oscar night next year.
  • The Locator (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – There’s locating, and then there’s reuniting.
  • Nip/Tuck (Fx, 10pm) Series Finale – I haven’t watched an episode but I hear the six year run was an uneven but good one.

Thursday

  • The Office (NBC, 9/9:30pm) – Babies apparently take an hour to deliver.
  • The Real Housewives of New York City (Brav, 11pm) Season Premiere – They live in New York and I think they drink and argue.

Friday

  • Who Do You Think You Are (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Genealogy celebrity style.
  • Independent Spirit Awards (IFC, 11pm) – Eddie Izzard hosts.

Saturday

  • Last chance to go out and catch an Oscar nod before they tell you what was the best.

Sunday

  • Barbara Walters Special (ABC, 8:30pm pst) – Barb is cutting this one off after 29 years, because 30 would be too predictable, so tune in for Sandra Bullock and Mo’Nique, note this is before the Oscars East Coast and whenever they end West Coast.
  • Oscars (ABC, 5/5:30pm pst) – Countdown, then the real deal, here’s to winning my Oscar pool…
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new and noteworthy tv: 2/22-2/28

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So the Olympics have another week in them, and to get your full fix on curling and hockey check out msnbc, CNBC, and USA.

Monday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35am, 3/8pm) – Speedskating, figure skating, bobsledding; Cross-country skiing; Figure skating, freestyle skiing, ski jumping.
  • The Bachelor (ABC, 8pm) – It’s the special women tell all edition, will we get some new dirt?

Tuesday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35/2am, 3/8pm) – Figure skating; Figure skating, freestyle skiing, ski jumping; Speedskating , biathlon, freestyle skiing; Figure skating, bobsledding, skiing.
  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) – We’re finally into the semis where people sing a whole song and we can pick out who we hate like, ladies Tuesday, gents Wednesday, and the painfully dragged out results show Thursday.
  • WWE NXT (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – WWE newbies are shown the robes by the veterans.

Wednesday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35/2am, 3/8pm) – Men’s hockey; Figure skating, bobsledding, skiing; Men’s hockey; Freestyle skiing, bobsledding, speedskating, alpine skiing.
  • Inbetweeners (BBCA, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – The schoolmates get into some fix or another.

Thursday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:05/1:30am, 3/8pm) – Speedskating; Freestyle skiing, bobsledding, speedskating, Alpine skiing; Cross-country skiing; Figure skating, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined.
  • Police Women of Maricopa (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Looks like we’re moving from Broward County to Maricopa County, Arizona.

Friday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35/2am, 3/8pm) – Figure skating highlights; Figure skating, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined; Men’s hockey; Speedskating, Alpine skiing, bobsledding.
  • NAACP Image Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Tyler Perry gets the Chairman’s Award and lots o’ others are honored.
  • Live From Abbey Road (Sund, 8pm) Season Premiere – Modern stars perform a tribute to the Beatles Abbey Road Album.
  • Four Weddings (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Not three but four weddings are shown.

Saturday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:05/1:30am, 1/8pm) – Biathlon, snowboarding; Speedskating, Alpine skiing, bobsledding; Speedskating, snowboarding, cross-country skiing; Snowboarding, Alpine skiing, bobsledding, figure skating.

Sunday

  • Olympics (NBC, 1:02am, 12/7/11:35pm) – Snowboarding, Alpine skiing, bobsledding, figure skating; Men’s hockey, cross-country skiing; Closing Ceremony.
  • The Marriage Ref (NBC, 10:30pm) – It’s a ‘preview’ version of the latest from Seinfeld where celebrities judge a couple’s problem.
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new and noteworthy tv: 2/15-2/21

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For those of you wondering where to catch curling, among other things, additional Olympic coverage can be found on msnbc, CNBC, and USA. Check your local listings or http://www.nbc.com/schedule/ for more info.

Monday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:05am, 1/8pm) – Figure skating, freestyle skiing, luge, Alpine skiing; Snowboarding, cross-country-skiing; Figure skating, speedskating, snowboarding.

Tuesday

  • Olympics (12:35/2am, 3/8pm) – Luge; Figure skating, speedskating, snowboarding; Biathlon, Figure skating, snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing.
  • Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (USA, 8pm) – Woof.
  • 16 & Pregnant (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – And this week we meet a young girl who is pregnant…

Wednesday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35/2am, ) – Luge, Figure skating, snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing; Cross-country skiing; Snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing.

Thursday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:05/1:30am, 3/8pm) – Speedskating, luge; Snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing; Snowboarding, biathlon; Figure skating, snowboarding, speedskating.
  • LA Ink (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Apparently there’s a long-standing feud.

Friday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:35/2am, 3/8pm) – Skeleton, biathlon; Figure skating, snowboarding, speedskating; Cross-country skiing; Figure skating, skeleton, Alpine skiing, ski jumping.
  • The Ricky Gervais Show/The Life & Times of Tim/Real Time with Bill Maher/Funny or Die Presents (HBO, 9/9:30/10pm) Series/Season Premiere – Let’s hope this lineup gives some funny starting and ending with some new tricks.
  • Comedy Central Presents (Com, 11/11:30pm) Season Premiere – Tony Rock and Doug Williams perform.

Saturday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12:05/1:30am, 1/8pm) – Awards; Figure skating, skeleton, Alpine skiing, ski jumping;  Freestyle skiing, ski jumping, cross-country skiing; Speedskating, bobsledding, Alpine skiing.

Sunday

  • Olympics (NBC, 12/1am, 12/7/11:35pm) – Speedskating; Speedskating, bobsledding, Alpine skiing; Men’s hockey, freestyle skiing, biathlon; Speedskating, figure skating, skiing, bobsledding; Biathlon.
  • BAFTA Awards (BBCA, 8pm) – Will it be Hurt Locker over Avatar?
  • The Family Crews (BET, 9pm) Series Premiere – Terry Crews of Everybody Hates Chris shares his real-life family.
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new and noteworthy tv: 2/8-2/14

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Well the Olympics are kicking off and as always I have to decide how much I want to watch and how much I can take. Noted below are NBC events but there’re plenty of cable selections like msnbc, CNBC, and USA if you want to catch more triumphs, defeats, and heartwarming stories from the cold.

Monday

  • Celebrity Fit Club (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kevin Federline is the latest of the crop of ‘celebrities’ trying to lose some lbs, though who is watching his kids?

Tuesday

  • Past Life (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting here and then hitting regular timeslot on Thursday, I’m willing to give some creative license, but really how many people can help solve crimes from past lives?
  • Jay Leno Show (NBC, 10pm) – Scheduled to clock out of the 10pm hour.

Wednesday

  • Charlie Brown Valentine (ABC, 8pm) – Can’t argue with the classics.
  • Inside Nascar (Show, 10pm) Series Premiere – One can only assume this is like ‘Inside the NFL’.

Thursday

  • Survivor (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Returning competitors are categorized as Heroes and Villains when they hit Samoa for another round.

Friday

  • Olympics (NBC, 7:30pm) – The Opening Ceremonies kick things off in Vancouver with a dash of ski jumping qualifying rounds.
  • Famous Crime Scenes (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – Investigations into celebrity deaths, with reenactments and everything.

Saturday

  • Olympics (NBC, 2pm, 8pm) – Speed skating, ski jumping, biathlon, freestyle skiing, and alpine skiing.
  • Survivors (BBCA, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not to be confused with ‘Survivor’, this drama imagines a world where most are wiped out by a deadly virus.

Sunday

  • Olympics (NBC, 1pm, 7pm) – Speed skating, skiing, luge, biathlon, figure skating, freestyle skiing, alpine skiing.
  • The Amazing Race (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Eleven teams kick off the new season starting in LA.
  • Ruby (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – Highlights include a new therapist and the search for repressed memories as Ruby deals with her food addiction.
  • Tool Academy (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Apparently men aren’t the only tools, this season adds two tool-ettes.
  • How to Make it in America (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – In this comedy you can see if these two Brooklyn entrepreneurs make it, prison loans and all.
  • Peak Season (VH1, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Unscripted twenty somethings, woo hoo.
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new and noteworthy tv: 2/1-2/7

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A smattering of new things coming up this week, but what everyone is really focused on is Lost. Since they’ve tortured us with weirdness for the last five seasons… if I’ve come this far I’m going to finish it out even if I have to do it kicking and screaming. Oh and of course the Super Bowl, go team!

Monday

  • The BET Honors (BET, 9pm) – I think honors are sort of like awards…
  • Rupaul’s Drag Race (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – A new crop of ladies (?) compete.
  • Kell on Earth (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – And yet there are more ‘real’ people to follow around.
  • Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – Belle is apparently attending her book release party.
  • Ultimate Cake Off (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – This isn’t just any cake off, it’s the ultimate.

Tuesday

  • Nomination Announcement of the 82nd Academy Awards (ABC, 8:30am) – This year they’re nominating 10 for best pic, so get ready to hit the theaters.
  • Lost (ABC, 8/9pm) Special/Season Premiere – First they try to catch you up, that’s really only for the people who have been watching, if you haven’t been watching there is no catching up for the final season, then we see whether they answer any questions, smoke monster anyone?
  • 19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – The Duggars continue to show off their brood.
  • The Michael Vick Project (BET, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hmm, this is the guy who got arrested for dog fighting?

Wednesday

  • Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS, 8pm) – A little history on the real reason people watch the Super Bowl.
  • Shear Genius (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – This would be the reality competition show where they… cut hair!

Thursday

  • Important Things with Demetri Martin/The Sarah Silverman Program (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – I’m sure they both have important things to entertain with.

Friday

  • Smallville (CW, 8pm) – With no more Dollhouse to catch I suppose one could turn to back-to-back episodes, I’m sure Clark will save someone or something.

Saturday

  • Action Sports (NBC, 9am) – The Alli Winter Dew Tour brings the Toyota Championship from Mt. Snow, Vt.
  • AKC/Eukanuba National Championship (AnPl, 8pm) – Can’t wait ’til Westminster?

Sunday

  • Super Bowl (CBS, 3pm pst) – Saints vs. Colts and an ice cold beer.
  • Undercover Boss (CBS, 10pm) – Will the bosses learn a valuable lesson doing the jobs of their employees?
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new and noteworthy tv: 1/25-1/31

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Monday

  • Top Gear/Inbetweeners (BBCA, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Real life hosts race from London to Edinburgh then fictional teens entertain with school hijinks.
  • Damages (FX, 10pm) Season Premiere – Lawyerly drama.
  • Greek (ABCFam, 10pm) Season Premiere – What will the gang get up to this season?
  • State of the Union/La La Land (Show, 10/10:30/11pm) Season/Series Premiere – Tracy Ullman and Marc Wootten get their characters on.

Tuesday

  • 24/7 (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and his team prepare for the Daytona 500.

Wednesday

  • State of the Union (Various, 6pm pst) – Obama may offer hope, or change.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Shawn tackles soldierly intrigue.

Thursday

  • Live for the Moment (CBS, 8pm) – Jeff Probst hosts something inspiring.
  • America’s Best Dance Crew/Taking the Stage (MTV, 10/11pm) Season Premiere – Crews and skillz dawg.

Friday

  • Dollhouse/Kitchen Nightmares (Fox, 8/9pm) Series Finale/Season Premiere – End of the world? End of a kitchen?

Saturday

  • Miss America/Four Weddings (TLC, 8/10pm) Special Presentation/Series Premiere – What more could there be to learn on the learning channel?

Sunday

  • Grammys (CBS, 8pm) – Music and awards and whatnot.
  • SNL Sports Extra (NBC, 9pm) – Sports for the rest of us.
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new and noteworthy tv: 1/18-1/24

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Midseason is rolling right out… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Life Unexpected (CW, 9pm, repeats Wed 8pm) Series Premiere – Given up for adoption Lux returns to find her birth parents and witty and adorable interactions are reported to ensue.
  • American Pickers (Hist, 9pm) Series Premiere – Two friends travel cross country in search of collectibles, garage sales, yard sales, barns…
  • The Buried Life/My Life As Liz (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – The latest reality installments follow a group trying to make their dreams, and maybe those of others, come true and then a teenager from Texas trying to ‘find herself.’
  • Be Good Johnny Weir (Sund, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Is Weir as sparkly when he’s not performing as a figure skater, we shall soon see.

Tuesday

  • Millionaire Matchmaker (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – She tells you what she thinks but do any of the couples really work it out, maybe that’s not really the point.
  • White Collar (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cute criminal helping out the good guys is back.
  • Paranormal Cops (A&E, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – I’m not sure if anything paranormal actually gets cuffed.
  • Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Football concussions, a golfer who lost a let, and more.

Wednesday

  • Being Erica (Soap, 10pm) Season Premiere – So her therapist lets her time travel to change things?
  • Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I don’t think this requires much explanation.

Thursday

  • The Deep End (ABC, 8pm, repeats Sat 9pm) Series Premiere – More soapy young lawyers, they’re pairing it and comparing it to Grey’s if that give you any idea of tone, worth a look.
  • Burn Notice (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Michael Weston, the MacGyver-y ex-spy is back in business.

Friday

  • Hope for Haiti (Various, 8pm) – A fundraiser for Haiti, please check local listings as many shows are rescheduled or postponed, Dollhouse series finale currently set for next Friday.
  • Caprica (Syfy, 9pm) Series Premiere – The Battlestar prequel may not require BSG watching but you can bet fans will be tuning in.
  • Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another nighttime talk show, who could ask for more.
  • Cribs (CMT, 10pm) Season Premiere – Stars pads.
  • Spartacus (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who gets Starz?

Saturday

  • SAG Awards (TNT/TBS, 8pm) – And the award goes to…

Sunday

  • Figure Skating Championships (NBC, Sat/Sun, 9pm) – Gearing up for Olympic hopes.
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new and noteworthy tv: 1/11-1/17

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The midseason shows are starting to come in, Idol alone would take up a chunk of time if I didn’t feel like I could skip most of the early auditions, how did I get sucked back in to that show again? Anyhow, procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Pizza, pork, and paprikash, need I say more?
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Tony heads to Panama.
  • Fantasia For Real (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – If you’ve been wondering, what is Fantasia up to these days this is the show for you.

Tuesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm, tues/wed) Season Premiere – We kick off the early rounds of night after night of auditions for those who just can’t get enough, and there will be some guest judges until Ellen takes her regular chair come Hollywood.
  • Southland (TNT, 10pm) – Remember that show that was canceled before they started airing the second season, well they’re starting it out from the beginning on cable, and will air at least all the produced episodes though no guarantees they’ll get anymore.
  • Blue Mountain State (Spike, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – It’s a new football comedy, maybe for those who get too upset watching Friday Night Lights.
  • Little Miss Perfect (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – Does the girl without an entourage stand a chance in this latest pageant?

Wednesday

  • Monsterquest (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Monster Sharks!
  • High School Reunion (TVL, 10pm) Season Premiere – This season the class of ’89 brings 11 folks from Las Vegas to Hawaii.
  • Leverage (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – The team hits the runway to right another wrong, with some sort of con of course.
  • Solving History (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Apparently the host of this show’s name is Olly Steeds but I keep reading it as Oily.
  • Tosh.0 (Com, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Daniel Tosh puts ‘his indelible stamp on everything crazy the Web has to offer’.

Thursday

  • First 48/Manhunters (A&E, 9/10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Real life murders and fugitives.
  • Ace of Cakes (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Apparently there is a DIY show that some guys are visiting from to make a ‘man cave’ out of Duff’s basement, and there will still be some cakes.
  • Archer (FX, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – Spy spoof animation.
  • Project Runway/Models of the Runway (Life, 10/11pm) Season Premieres – They’re back…
  • Watch What Happens (Brav, midnight) Season Premiere – I think if you tune in something will happen.

Friday

  • Critic’s Choice Movie Awards (VH1, 8:30/9pm) – First the arrivals and then Kristin Chenoweth hosts as the awards season moves along.
  • I Shouldn’t Be Alive (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Creepy stories where people could have died but didn’t.
  • The Singing Bee (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – More karaoke singing competition.
  • Swamp Loggers (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Swamps, logging…

Saturday

  • Alli Winter Dew Tour (NBC, 10am sat, 12pm sun) – Winter action sports hit Snowbasin, Utah.
  • Pit Boss (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – I feel like making a little person/pit bull rescue joke would be un-pc…

Sunday

  • Golden Globe Awards (NBC, 7/8pm) – Ricky Gervais hosts this one for television and filmmakers from the Hollywood Foreign Press.
  • Human Target (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – Mark Valley puts himself between his clients and their deaths, based on a comic book, it moves to its regular timeslot on Wednesday.
  • Food Network Challenge (Food, 8pm) Season Premiere – 4 barbecue teams need to master 4 kinds of meats.
  • 24 (Fox, 9pm) Season Premiere – That guy must be very good at his job to have survived all these days, or the show could be unbelievable, nah…
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