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next week 8/31

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • CMA Music Festival (ABC, 8pm) – Do Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift make you want to tune in?
  • Greek (ABCFam, 9pm) Season Premiere – So glad to be heading back to school and not just for another chance for Casey and Cappie, you know his rejection won’t last for long.
  • Ultimate Cake Off (TLC, 10pm) – Arg, let the pastry chef’s bake off in the cake off with a pirate theme.

Tuesday

  • Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – How bizarre will first stop Cuba be?
  • Rehab (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – I don’t know if this party at the Hard Rock hotel has anything to do with actual rehab.
  • Surviving Disaster (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Will watching this show make me feel more or less fearful?

Wednesday

  • CBS Fall Preview (CBS, 8:30pm) – The cast of How I Met Your Mother hosts the display of what’s to come.
  • Glee (Fox, 9pm) – In case you missed the pilot at the end of last season tune in tonight (or tomorrow) to prepare for the season to come.

Thursday

  • Football (Fox, 7pm) – Tonight is repeatapalooza unless you want to watch some exhibition football.

Friday

  • Eureka (Syfy, 11pm) – In case you missed the start of this amusing show, you can tune in for the pilot and some marathon action to catch up.

Saturday

  • At the Movies (ABC, 6:30pm*) Season Premiere – The balcony is open again but this season former guest hosts NY Times AO Scott joins Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips as new regulars.

Sunday

  • Tennis (Sat/Sun, CBS, 8am) – The US Open kicks off on Monday but moves from ESPN2 to network for the Labor Day weekend, will it be favorites Federer and Serena?

*Check your local listings.

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next week 8/24

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Make it or Break it (ABCFam, 11am) – If you missed this new series, and not by choice, they’re doing a marathon leading up to the finale.
  • The Rachel Zoe Project (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Have to admit that I like fashion but I’d rather look at the outfits she puts together than hear her speak.

Tuesday

  • Frankie & Neffe (BET, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Mother and sister of Keyshia Cole try to make it on their own, sort of.
  • Saving Grace (TNT, 11pm) – For those of you who accidently had your tivos set to only save five episodes the first of season 3 starts in again.

Wednesday

  • Crash Course (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Dan Cortese and Orlando Jones host this latest reality competition, this one has pair driving.

Thursday

  • Marked (Hist, 9pm) Series Premiere – Exploring the history of the tattoo.
  • Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory/Bully Beatdown/Nitro Circus/Pranked (MTV, 9/9:30/10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Skate dudes, pros fight bullies, motor cross dudes, and pranks from the web.

Friday

  • CMT Comedy Stage Presents Terry Fator (CMT, 10pm) – Desperate for something to note, there is a comedian I’ve never heard of on a channel I’ve never watched, live from Las Vegas.

Saturday

  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, Sat/Sun, 11:30am) – The men bring it from Chicago on Saturday and the women return on Sunday.
  • The 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania (NBC, 9pm) – Mickey Rourke makes a guest appearance as they look back on lots of wrestly goodness.
  • 24/7 (HBO, 10:15pm) Season Premiere – Marquez and Mayweather work it out.

Sunday

  • Fox Fall Preview (Fox, 4pm) – What will be the faves next season?
  • CW Fall 2009 Preview Special (CW, 6:30pm) – Laura Leighton and Thomas Callabro talk about all things fall including of course Melrose Place.
  • Daytime Emmy Awards (CW, 7/8pm) – First the stars arrive and then Vanessa Williams hosts the show with Sesame Street getting a lifetime achievement award.
  • NBC Primetime Preview (NBC, 8:30pm) – Can you say Leno at 10, I bet they can.
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next week 8/17

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Glen Martin DDS (Nick, 8pm) Series Premiere – Animated Kevin Nealon takes his family cross country technology free style.
  • Top Gear (BBCA, 8pm) Season Premiere – Something about cars…
  • Hoarders (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – The latest in the issues examination.

Tuesday

  • Shaq vs (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Can Shaq compete in sports outside of basketball, we’ll see as he first takes to the football field.
  • The Universe (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – More looking into the, well the universe.
  • Flipping Out (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Remodeling, flipping, whatever.
  • The Jon Dore Television Show (IFC, 10pm) Series Premiere – It’s a talk show or something.
  • Masters of Reception (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Putting on a wedding reception with cats and murals and who knows what else.
  • The Secret Lives of Women (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – The season stars with women who have children who have murdered.
  • House of Jazmin (MTV, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Wedding planners get busy in front of the cameras.

Wednesday

  • Bobb’e Says/Dude, What Would Happen (Cart, 8pm) Series Premiere – I don’t think I need to bother describing things on the Cartoon Network.
  • Ghost Hunters (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Not sure what happens when they catch them.
  • Top Chef (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – More chefs grab knives in Vegas.
  • Black Gold (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere

Thursday

  • Project Runway (Life, 8/10pm) Season Premiere – We’ll see how much the new network shakes things up as some of the past designers return for al all star challenge followed by the season premiere.
  • Models of the Runway (Life, 11pm) Series Premiere – A look at the ladies who work it in the lastest fashion challenges.

Friday

  • Jockeys (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – There’s no job reality can’t follow.
  • Making Over America with Trinny and Susannah (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – The original Brits of What Not to Wear kick it American style.

Saturday

  • Country Fried Home Videos/All Jacked Up (CMT, 8/8:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – Videos and then extreme sports.
  • Extreme Bodies (Disc, 9/10pm) Series Premiere – First tall, then short.

Sunday

  • Miss Universe Pageant (NBC, 9pm) – The ladies from all over the Universe challenge each other to a walking the runway competition.
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next week 8/10

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Teen Choice Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, High School Musical… I am too old to enjoy this.
  • Lords of the Revolution (VH1, 8pm) Series Premiere – The 60s and 70s had a new series worth of icons to profile starting with Muhammad Ali.

Tuesday

  • Swords (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Another take on reality shows following jobs, this time swordfish fishermen.
  • Daddy’s Girls (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – More family reality.
  • Primetime (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at the dude who you’ll see on Into the Pride starting Thursday.

Wednesday

  • Man vs. Wild (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Arctic Circle anyone?
  • Criss Angel: Mindfreak (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m still not sure I’d want the word freak in the title of my show.
  • Dinner Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – This one’s called ‘Roller Derby Debacle.’
  • Hard Knocks Training Camp (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Checking in on training camp with the Cincinnati Bengals

Thursday

  • Into the Pride (AnPl, 8/9pm) Series Premiere – The dude with lions in Namibia that you could learn about Tuesday on Primetime.
  • American Loggers (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Freezing temperatures can throw a wrench into the system.

Friday

  • Neil Diamond (CBS, 8pm) – Hot August night…

Saturday

  • Alli Dew Tour (NBC, Sat/Sun, 1pm) – The action sports hit Portland for the Wendy’s Invitational.
  • Househusbands of Hollywood (FRC, 9pm) Series Premiere – So a couple of  ‘celebrities’ have husbands who are now making money for not making money I think.

Sunday

  • Kourtney & Khloe/Reality Hell (E!, 10/10:45pm) Series Premieres – More reality…
  • Mad Men (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I may just start watching this series, time to dust of the netflix.
  • My Antonio (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Antonio Sabato Jr is the latest to attempt to pretend to find true love with a gaggle of girls.
  • P. Diddy’s Starmaker (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Fourteen aspiring competitors try to survive to be made into a star.
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next week 8/3

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Sugarland (ABC, 8pm) – Concerts on tv, it’s like a video but longer.
  • Real Chance of Love (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – More dating fun.
  • Sex in the Ancient World/Clash of the Gods (Hist, 9pm) Series Premiere – Very risqué for the history channel, and then a look at the myths.
  • Diners, Drive-ins & Dives (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – More food to be had.
  • Ultimate Cake Off (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – First its cakes for Shark Summer.

Tuesday

  • Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Sund, 8pm) Season Premiere – This season starts with music.

Wednesday

  • Giuliana & Bill (Style, 9pm) Series Premiere – Reality star and entertainment reporter, a match made in tv heaven.
  • How’d You Get So Rich/Make My Day (TVL, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – First we look at rich folks, then they make good things happen to unsuspecting folks.
  • Man v Food (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – A dude faces some tough food, big, spicy, other.

Thursday

  • Police Women of Broward County (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Real life lady cops do cop business.
  • Skins (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – These Brit teens are still pushing it to the edge.

Friday

  • Monk/Psych (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Will Monk get uncrazy in his final season, maybe not, so we’ll tune in for his crime solving and may stick around for a fake psychic chaser.
  • Chefs vs City (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another cooking show.

Saturday

  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, Sat/Sun, 1:30pm) – The AVP Crocs tour hits Hermosa Beach and non network television.
  • Split Ends (Style, 9pm) Season Premiere – Hair cutting salon swap style.

Sunday

  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Reege is back in primetime.
  • America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – More crews with more dancin’.
  • Shark Tank (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – More idea pitching.
  • There Goes the Neighborhood (CBS, 9pm) Series Premiere – I think this is like big brother but with more than one house and hopefully less annoying.
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next week 7/27

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Bachelorette (ABC, 8pm) Season Finale – Is this the one that sticks? After the Final Rose is Tues at 10.
  • Making His Band (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Diddy is tired of sitting on the sidelines.

Tuesday

  • Dragon’s Den (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Folks pitch products, British style.
  • More to Love (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – The bachelor for plus sized folks, because clearly there’s no place for them on regular dating shows.

Wednesday

  • Holidate (Soap, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think it’s kind of like swapping houses with blind dates attached, meeting someone in another city apparently sounds like a good idea.
  • The Nine (DirTV, 10pm) – If you’ve been waiting to see what happened with the, what was it, a bank robbery?

Thursday

  • The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – The ladies are back and there’s a new gal this season.

Friday

  • X Games (ESPN/ESPN2, Thu – on, various times) – If it’s considered extreme you can probably find it one of these days.
  • Tennis (ESPN2, Thu-Sun, various times) – So this week I can watch Women’s from Stanford or Men’s from LA, so many sports so little time, thank goodness Tour de France is over.

Saturday

  • Face the Ace (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Professional, and not, poker players try to, you know, win.
  • It’s Me or the Dog (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – A bad dog, or maybe just too many pets, can be too much to handle.

Sunday

  • Ty’s Great British Adventure (ABC, 8pm) – Ty Pennington takes his makeover on the road, well probably a plane.
  • Defying Gravity (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Ron Livingston’s latest stab at television takes him to space in the future.
  • Megan Wants a Millionaire (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – More Rock of Love spin off dating shows is really what we need, this time shallow Megan maybe got this as a settlement for her on screen fight with Sharon Osborne.
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next week 7/20

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Waking Up With Al (Weath, 3/6am) Series Premiere – Al Roker gets the limelight, well the crack of dawn weather limelight.
  • Torchwood (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – I don’t really follow this but apparently there is a preview at 8 for part 1 of the Children of the Earth series.
  • Dating in the Dark (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Blind dates usually don’t entail literally not being able to see, until now, though infrared cameras make it all watchable (this clearly has the right target following the Bachelorette – The Men Tell All).
  • The Tor Show (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Talking with celebrity guests.

Tuesday

  • Restorer Guy/The Real Estate Pros/Moving Up (TLC, 7/7:30/8pm) Series/Season Premiere – The filx it up, sell it, fix it up.
  • Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Gordon Ramsay is back berating kitchen staff.
  • Ruby & the Rockits (ABCFam, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – David Cassidy is back and he’s playing an 80’s heatthrob whose long lost daughter returns, and apparently his brother is also a Cassidy.
  • The Colony (Disc, 7pm) Series Premiere – Can these latest volunteers survive the wake of a fake disaster.

Wednesday

  • Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Four-year-old, Texas pageant, why oh why.

Thursday

  • Wild Russia (AnPl, 8pm) Series Premiere – Simple enough, looking at the wild in Russia.
  • Samantha Who? (ABC, 8/8:30pm) Series Finale – It’s too bad this series won’t be back again but here’s a last chance for some laughs with Sam.

Friday

  • ATP Tennis (ESPN2, 1/10:30/12, Fri/Sat/Sun) – The US Open Series starts showing the quarters from Indianapolis.

Saturday

  • Action Sports (NBC, 1pm, Sat/Sun) – The Alli Dew Tour has the Skate Open coming from Boston.
  • Being Human (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – A ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire live together, why do I feel like there should be a punch line somewhere in that.

Sunday

  • Tour de France (Vs, 4:30am) – The tour wraps up again in Paris, but who will be in yellow?
  • Easy Money (CW, 7pm) – Burning off eps of yet another canceled series.
  • Extreme Cuisine (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Jeff Corwin starts off eating weird stuff in Mexico.
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next week 7/13

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Tour de France (Vs, 5:30am and various) – Stage 9 starts out our week in Saint-Gaudens, who will be in yellow?
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – The chef heads to Chile.

Tuesday

  • MLB All-Star Game (Fox, 8pm) – The stars, and I believe they mean baseball stars, play.
  • Miami Social (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Yet another reality show following folks.

Wednesday

  • Extreme Loggers (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ice bridges and subarctic forests.
  • Leverage (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will Nate get the team back together to continue their Robin Hood type cons?
  • Dark Blue (TNT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Dylan McDermott is back and this time he’s an undercover cop.
  • Verminators (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Rodents and rats and bees, oh my, though I guess a rat is a rodent.
  • Michael & Michael Have Issues (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The Michaels, Ian Black and Showalter, sets them as characters who host a sketch comedy show.

Thursday

  • Joan of Arcadia (Syfy, 8am) – It’s not new but it was a fun series if you missed it the first time catch the marathon today starting with Joan meeting God.
  • Stoked (Cart, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – The animated cast of surfers work at a surf resort.

Friday

  • Catch It Keep It (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Using science to win a game show.
  • Martin Lawrence Presents (Starz, 11pm) Season Premiere – It’s some stand-up.

Saturday

  • The Bill Engvall Show (TBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another season of another series with an average and immature hubby with a hotter than he wife.
  • Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, 10pm) – I remember really enjoying the cheese factor of this show, at least early on.

Sunday

  • Action Sports (NBC, 11am) – The boarders and bikers hit Costa Mesa for the Maloof Money Cup.
  • Labor Pains (ABCF, 8pm) – It’s just nice to hear Lindsey Lohan’s name in conjunction with something related to acting.
  • ESPYs (ESPN, 9pm) – Samuel L Jackson hosts the sporting awards.
  • AFI Life Achievement Award (TVL, 9pm) – The honoring of Michael Douglas.
  • Ace of Cakes (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Duff and the gang are back to baking, they look good but I wonder how they taste.
  • HGTV Design Star (HGTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Design star wannabes hit LA.
  • Most Popular (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Graham Norton hosts this game show where being popular now equals money.
  • Pawn Star$ (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – What industry don’t we have a reality insight into?
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next week 7/6

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Cycling (Vs, 5:30am and various) – The Tour de Lance continues, you can catch stage 3 and keep watching all week at almost all hours of the day with Phil, Paul, Bob and Craig taking us along for the ride. 
  • The Great Debate (VH1, 10pm) – A week long look at things like J.Lo vs Beyonce.

Tuesday

  • 10 Things I Hate About You (ABCFam, 8pm) Series Premiere – Based on the ’99 movie, the wannabe popular sister and the wannabe serious sister deal with school and boys and dear old dad.
  • The Great American Road Trip (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Families in challenges across America.
  • Warehouse 13 (SciFi, 9pm) Series Premiere – The latest collection of weird brings a new male female partner team, this time Secret Service, to a warehouse…
  • That’s Impossible (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Invisibility, yes or no?

Wednesday

  • Ghost Hunters International (SciFi, 9pm) Season Premiere – It’s like Ghost Hunters but it’s International.

Thursday

  • Big Brother (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – It’s back, season 11 of people trapped in a house.
  • LA Ink (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Returning from a book tour to a busy shop…

Friday

  • Eureka (SciFi, 9pm) Season Premiere – Silly but fun, will the fired sheriff stay away from this isolated town of genius’s their inventions and their calamitous disasters.

Saturday

  • Eli Stone (ABC, 10pm) Series Finale – I’ve been tivo’ing the return of this series but have yet to tune back in, as I recall I enjoyed it.

Sunday

  • Drop Dead Diva (Life, 9pm) Series Premiere – A dead model gets dropped into a ‘plus-size’ lawyer’s body, and I’m sure she’ll grow as a person.
  • I Survived… (Bio, 9pm) Season Premiere – I believe these are reenactments.
  • Entourage (HBO, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – The boys are back, I think I watched season one through netflix and it was funny then, season six who knows.
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next week 6/29

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Dance Your Ass Off (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere– I think this is exactly what it sounds like.
  • Wimbledon Update (NBC, Mon-Fri, 11:35pm) – Stick around late night for a fun look from Mary Carillo and John MacEnroe.

Tuesday

  • Stager Invasion (TLC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Updating a country themed home…
  • Tiny & Toya (BET, 10pm) Series Premiere – A sneak peek at their first episode, whoever they are and whatever that is.
  • Nova ScienceNow (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sciency things like artificial diamonds and anthrax.
  • Primetime (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at caring for elderly parents.

Wednesday

  • Monsters Inside Me (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at organisms, inside people, I just don’t want to know.

Thursday

  • There’s really nothing new or notable on, so perhaps roll into the three day weekend with a movie, perhaps Transformers, hmm, or those Netflix that are covered with dust, or those 14 episodes of Lost, or maybe just more Wimbledon.

Friday

  • Margaret Cho (Show, 11pm) – Cho does what she does in this latest special.

Saturday

  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, Sat/Sun, 1:30pm) – Check out the Men’s final from Brooklyn NY followed by the Women’s final on Sunday.
  • Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks (NBC, 9pm) – Natalie Morales and Tiki Barber host with musical guests Jewel and Rob Thomas among others.
  • Boston Pops Fireworks (CBS, 10pm) – Craig Ferguson hosts Neil Diamond performs with the Boston Pops.

Sunday

  • Wimbledon (NBC, Mon-Sun, various times) – Wrap up the last week of tennis with breakfast on the weekend for Women’s and Men’s finals  if you feel like getting up at 6am, I do so love tivo.
  • Ruby (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – Apparently there is a character names Ruby who is on a diet and goes to see Rascal Flatts.
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