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

May 3, 2014 No Comments

Who can’t love Louie, and if you haven’t sampled this series I not only recommend it, but should note that different episodes are often quite different in tone and structure, but all show our hapless protagonist in funny form; the other show of note is the return of In the Flesh, that is less zombie than a look at a society with the dead and the undead. I am tempted but not that interested in checking out Rosemary’s Baby, and since I don’t get Showtime I’m not that concerned that I have little idea what’s up with the new creepy Victorian Penny Dreadful.

Monday – 24, Season Premiere (Fox, 8pm), Live & Hip Hop Atlanta, Season Premiere (VH1, 8pm), Louie, Season Premiere (Fx, 10pm)
Tuesday – Alaskan Bush People, Series Premiere (Disc, 10pm), Freakshow/Small Town Security, Season Premieres (AMC, 10/11pm), Totally Tracked Down, Series Premiere (Reelz, 11pm)
Wednesday – Hollywood Exes/La La’s Full Court Life/Marrying the Game, Season Premieres (VH1, 9/10/10:30pm), Catfish, Season Premiere (MTV, 10pm)
Thursday – American Comedy Awards (NBC, 9pm), Maron/Comedy Bang Bang, Season Premieres (IFC, 10/10:30pm)
Saturday – Iyanla, Season Premiere (OWN, 9pm), In the Flesh, Season Premiere (BBCA, 10pm)
Sunday – Rosemary’s Baby, Mini-series Premiere (NBC, 9pm), Master Class, Season Premiere (OWN, 10pm), Penny Dreadful, Series Premiere (Show, 10pm)

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 4/28-5/4

April 27, 2014 No Comments

The tv seasons are in transition so still catching up and keeping an eye out, this week perhaps I’ll check out this new comedy but otherwise still have a backlog to deal with, Orphan Black is waiting.

Monday – Fish Tank Kings, Season Premiere (NatGeo, 9pm).
Tuesday – Playing House, Series Premiere (USA, 10pm).
Wednesday – Who Wore it Best (E!, 8pm).
Thursday – iHeartRadio Music Awards (NBC, 8pm), The Killer Speaks, Season Premiere (A&E, 10pm).
Friday – Shark Tank: Swimming with the Sharks (ABC, 8pm).
Saturday – 24: Live Another Day (Fox, 8:30pm), OMG! EMT!, Series Premiere (TLC, 10pm).
Sunday – Hungry Investors, Series Premiere (Spike, 10pm).

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 4/21-4/27

April 20, 2014 No Comments

This week’s new and noteworthy is going to get an abbreviated treatment, stay tuned for a few new series, seasons, whatnot… I’ll probably catch an ep of Bad Teacher and of Black Box but don’t have high hopes for either:

Monday – Time’s Up (MTV, 6:30pm), Rewrapped (Food, 8pm), Boondocks (AdSw, 10:30pm), House Hunters off the Grid (HGTV, 10:30pm).
Tuesday – Chow Masters (Trav, 9pm), Deadliest Catch (Disc, 9pm), True Tori (Life, 10pm), Faking It (MTV, 10:30pm).
Wednesday – Dual Survival (Disc, 9pm), Trip Flip (Trav, 9pm), Baggage Battles (Trav, 10pm).
Thursday – SNL Digital Shorts (NBC, 9pm), Bad Teacher (CBS, 9:30pm), Black Box (ABC, 10pm).
Friday – I Found the Gown (TLC, 10pm), Relative Insanity (Life, 10pm).
Saturday – The Royals (Ova, 5pm), My Cat From Hell (AnPl, 8pm).
Sunday – Sugar Stars (Bio, 2pm), Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, 11pm).

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 4/14-4/20

April 13, 2014 No Comments

Can’t wait to start getting behind on Orphan Black too….

Monday

Metal Hurlant Chronicles/Warehouse 13 (Syfy, 8/9pm) Series/Season Premieres – Based on the French graphic novels and then a final season of oddities.
The Real Housewives of OC (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah blah.
16 & Pregnant (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Pregnant from a one-night stand, that’s crazy.
Bam’s Bad Ass Game Show (TBS, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – I don’t even want to know.

Tuesday

Pioneers of Television (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Starting with a look at stand-up goes sitcom.
Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I find this show horrifying in that it seems like child cruelty, except when it truly does show another side of things in already child cruelty type homes.
Fargo (Fx, 10pm) Series Premiere – We all know it won’t be the Coen brothers original but hope for it to find its own stride, worth a watch.
Awkward (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – I lost interest as our protagonist just sort of seemed annoying.

Wednesday

Unusually Thicke (TVGN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who is wondering what Alan Thicke is up to?

Friday

The Writers’ Room (Sund, 9pm) Season Premiere – Who puts the scandal in Scandal?

Saturday

Orphan Black/The Real History of Science Fiction (BBCA, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – If you haven’t caught up, do, and then more sci fi.
Tobacco Wars (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kentucky’s tobacco.

Sunday

In My Dreams (ABC, 9pm) – Made for TV anyone?
Devious Maids (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – Another round of the campy Latinas that with love and perhaps betrayal.
Salem (WGN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another take on an old tale, who’s the real witch?

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 4/7-4/13

April 6, 2014 No Comments

Still needing a little catch up time…

Monday

Capital One Championship Central/NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship (CBS, 6:30/6pm) – I think the bracket conversations will be over soon.
Being Human (Syfy, 9pm) Series Finale – What will happen to our vampire, werewolf, and ghost.
Kitchen Casino/Mystery Diners (Food, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Chance with cooking followed by more diners.

Tuesday

Flip or Flop (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Long distance bidding.

Wednesday

Women of Homicide (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at real lady homicide investigators.
Big Bold Builds (Bio, 10pm) Series Premiere – Starting with a fire station.

Thursday

FNA USA (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Viral video countdown.
The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Is it embarrassing to say I remember the first Real World?

Friday

Kitchen Nightmares (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Chef Ramsay returns.
Boss Hog (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A son joins the hog business.

Saturday

Love in the City (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Oprah’s look at four friends married and single and apparently fierce.
The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 11pm) Season Premiere – Russell Crowe and Cameron Dias among others.

Sunday

America’s Best Cook (Food, 9pm) Series Premiere – Sixteen home cooks arrive to compete.
MTV Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Conan hosts.
Nurse Jackie/Californication/Years of Living Dangerously (Show, 9/9:30/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – The return of these series is followed by a combo of celebrities and science as they look at climate change.
The Bletchley Circle (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Getting the circle back together.
Mad Men (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Getting ready to say goodbye.

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 3/31-4/6

March 30, 2014 No Comments

Still not caught up in general, though goal is to actually watch the final ep of mother so I don’t have to listen to everyone complain about how it ended without context.

Monday

HIMYM/Friends with Better Lives (CBS, 8, 9pm) Series Finale/Premiere – Glad that this thing is finally wrapping up, though I have to remember when it was actually great whether I’m glad about how it resolves or not, and then another option they’re hoping will grab the void.
T.I. and Tiny/This is Hot 97 (VH1, 9/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – More reality with those peeps and then behind the scenes of hip-hop radio station.
House of Food (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another cooking competition, MTV-style.

Tuesday

19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Dating?
Inside Amy Schumer (Com 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Sketch comedy and whatnot.

Wednesday

Million Dollar Listing New York (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Dream Listing.
Down East Dickering (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Bargain hunters in Maine.
Treasure King (Reelz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Antiques expert looks for goods around the globe.
Triptank (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Edgy animated shorts.

Thursday

How It’s Made (Sci, 9pm) Season Premiere – There are always more things to look at.
My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Feuding family love.

Friday

Continuum (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – One of those shows that I don’t watch.

Saturday

Guntucky (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – A family gun range, what could go wrong?

Sunday

Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan host.
Game of Thrones/Silicon Valley/Veep (HBO, 9/10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – I might get around to this show some day, a new drama about the company that could be the next tech thang, and then more action near the oval office.
Married to Medicine (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – In case you need a show following female doctor wives.
River Monsters (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Amazon riverboat sinking.
Turn (AMC, 9pm) Series Premiere – American Revolution-era spy drama.
Hotel Secrets and Legends (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – It happened there.

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 3/24-3/30

March 23, 2014 No Comments

My no new reality shows plan is sometimes tested…

Monday

Bizarre Foods America (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Starting the season in Alaska.
The Safecrackers (Tru, 10pm) Series Premiere – I normally ignore shows on this network but I’ve always been intrigued

Tuesday

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Puppetry challenges where puppetry is done, I’m interested in a look behind the curtain.
Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Kenya and cobras.

Wednesday

Prince Harry’s South Pole Heroes (NBC, 8pm) – I don’t know why they’re going but if you want to check it out you can.
Hot In Cleveland/The Soul Man (TVL, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Cleveland continues to be a cute take on the old school sitcoms while Soul has never caught my attention.

Thursday

Surviving Jack (Fox, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Christopher Meloni stretches his sitcom muscles playing hard ass newly full time parent, worth a shot.
America’s Worst Tattoos (TLC, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – I like a touch of a bad tattoo on my shows but find the promise of all bad tattoos just depressing.

Friday

If you’re watching tv on a Friday don’t forget about Hannibal.

Saturday

Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – All the jokes about Joan making a sex tape…

Sunday

Call the Midwife/Mr Selfridge (PBS, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – I’m never sure if I should be watching more PBS dramas but they mostly haven’t caught my attention.
Caribbean Life (HGTV, 8pm) Series Premiere – Could be pretty or just jealous making.
Eric & Jessie (E!, 10pm) Season Premiere – Following another ‘famous’ couple.

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 3/17-3/23

March 16, 2014 2 Comments

Was just saying I need to start cutting shows out of my TiVo backlog, I def don’t need to add…

Monday

Dancing With the Stars (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who will dance the worst first?
The Fabulist (E!, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Hosts and panelists tell you what’s what, you know as far as trends.
Lords of the Car Hoards (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Clearly a Corvair is not a Corvette, at least to these guys looking for cars.

Tuesday

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (ABC, 8pm) – An inside look at the studios.
Storage Wars/Barry’d Treasure (A&E, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Storage and collectors search.
Chasing Maria Menounos/Celebrities Undercover (Oxy, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – More reality, following Maria and then celebrities try to pull a fast one over on peeps.

Wednesday

Save My Bakery (Food, 8pm) Series Premiere – This appears to be restaurant rescue-style.
The 100 (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Something tells me the future has pretty people, every once in a while one of these is a cheesy gem.
Doll & Em (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new series of actress and bff assistant.
Deal With It (TBS, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – More hidden camera hijinks.

Thursday

I don’t know, NCAA basketball?

Friday

Whose Line Is It Anyway (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – The gang continues their improvery.

Saturday

Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, 9pm) Season Premiere – A quest.
House Hunters Renovation (HGTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – A total overhaul.

Sunday

Super Soul Sunday/Oprah & Eckhart Tolle (OWN, 11am/12pm) Season/Series Premieres – Shirley MacLaine and of course Eckhart.
American Dream Builders (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – 12 designers compete remodeling, and cutie patootie Nate Berkus.
Drop Dead Diva (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – This show is surprisingly charming for a silly premise, mostly thanks to a great lead.
Living Alaska (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Family, fishing, and whatnot.

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.

new and noteworthy tv: 3/10-3/16

March 9, 2014 No Comments

I’m still behind on my backlog…

Monday

Believe (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A girl with ‘mysterious’ gifts, maybe.
The People’s Couch (Brav, 11:30pm) Season Premiere – It’s like if you didn’t have friends to talk tv with.

Tuesday

The Freshman Class (Cook, 8pm) Season Premiere – More culinary class.
The Real Housewives of NYC (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – More women I care very little about.
Chrisley Knows Best (USA, 10pm) Series Premiere – Some new southern reality thang with a dad who says lots of Southern stuff.

Wednesday

Property Brothers (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Time to upgrade your pad.

Thursday

Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Can anyone impress Gordon?
Breaking Boston (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – The reality of four young working-class women.

Friday

Colin & Brad (CW, 9pm) – Comedians perform.
Vice (HBO, 11pm) Season Premiere – Another season of this journalistic take.

Saturday

Summer Dreams (CBS, 8pm) – Behind the scenes at the NBA Summer League.
Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s (OWN, 9pm) Season Premiere – More family run food happenings.

Sunday

BNP Paribas Open (ESPN2, 12pm) – Men’s and Women’s tennis finals.
Naked & Afraid (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Not much to say about the return of this.
Total Divas (E!, 9pm) Season Premiere – More behind the scenes of the WWE gals.
Crisis (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Ambushing a bus full of kids, not just any kids, important people’s kids, maybe.

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.

movies

now available on dvd: the way, way back

March 4, 2014 No Comments

It’s been a while, but now that the Oscars are behind us let’s take a look at what’s available in your own home.

2 Guns (11/19) – Enjoyable though somewhat ridiculous buddy ‘cop’ flick, Denzel and Marky Mark fun enough shooters.
About Time (2/4) – Maybe a little too precious but nicely brings you along the designated sentimental and romantic path.
Captain Phillips (1/21) – Tense throughout… Hanks rocks another good performance.
Dallas Buyers Club (2/4) – Almost forgot it was McConaughey during his and other’s great portrayals, almost.
Drinking Buddies (12/3) – Small moments make and break it, but can’t hate on Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson.
Enough Said (1/14) – Bittersweet but lovely to see Gandolfini and JLD showing their onscreen relationship baggage together.
Fast & Furious 6 (12/10) – No complaints about Fast & Furious 6, fast, furious, and fun… though it is not more than expected.
Frances Ha (11/12) – A well done film about a woman who is sort of a mess does not make it enjoyable to watch a woman who is sort of a mess, meh.
Gravity (2/25) – As I was afraid would be the case, totally stressed out, though you know it was pretty well done though not believable at all.
The Lifeguard (10/8) – Kristen Bell was quite good but I might be a smidge too old to not become despondent over a 29 & 10 mos yr old breakdown.
Much Ado About Nothing (10/8) – Lovely job on the modern setting, even stopped thinking of them as Wesley and Fred, Joss does like his peeps.
Nebraska (2/25) – The slow journey outweighs the comic moments but this sorry old man’s touching and painful tale ends up somewhat poetic.
Pacific Rim (10/15) – Yeah, I don’t know, the robot fighting, I didn’t expect much but still couldn’t quite hold my attention.
The Spectacular Now (1/14) – Not exactly your typical teen flick it has some nice poignant moments.
The Way, Way Back (10/22) – A summer coming of age story the way it should be done.

And a few that might be added to my to do list for one reason or another: All Is Lost (2/11), Before Midnight (10/22), Blue is the Warmest Color (2/25), Blue Jasmine (1/21), Don Jon (12/31), Elysium (12/17), Fruitvale Station (1/14), The Heat (10/15), In A World (1/21), Kick-Ass 2 (12/17), The Lone Ranger (12/17), Man of Steel (11/12), Red 2 (11/26), Riddick (1/14), The World’s End (11/19).

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