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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?

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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.

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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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new and noteworthy tv: 2/4-2/10

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Monday

  • Rules of Engagement (CBS, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – What, this show’s still on?
  • Monday Mornings (TNT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Medical melodrama with a dash of ridiculous, I’ll check at least one.

Tuesday

  • Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday Special (NBC, 8pm) – Blow those candles.
  • Smash (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Taking it to Broadway.
  • Tosh.0 (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – Shouldn’t this be like Tosh.4 by now?

Wednesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) The Hollywood rounds start, might I take a peek?

Thursday

  • Community (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Will the new showrunner keep that special something?
  • Brand X With Russell Brand (FX, 11:30pm) Season Premiere – More Russell.

Friday

  • The Job (CBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – Compete for a job.
  • Touch (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Kiefer keeps following his son.
  • Something Borrowed, Something New (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Wedding it up.
  • The Jenny McCarthy Show (VH1, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Why did I think she was going to OWN?

Saturday

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – St. Valentine’s festivities.
  • Oddities/Odd Folks Home (Sci, 9/9:30) Season/Series Premieres – A shop of oddities and then a trip to some of the folk’s houses. 

Sunday

  • The Grammy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Sing it. 
  • SNL in the ’80s (NBC, 9pm) – Lost and found.
  • Battlestar Gallactica: Blood & Chrome (Syfy, 9pm) – What happened when Adama was a youth? for those of you who missed this online.
  • Gypsy Sisters (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Life with a gypsy family in West Virginia.
  • Snapped (Oxy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sometimes I think I might snap.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/21-1/27

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Monday

  • The Following (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Ready to check out more degrees of Kevin Bacon as he plays a former FBI guy pulled back in by the pursuit of a killer he once captured.
  • Lizard Lick Towing/Swamp Hunters (Tru, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Was selling a bad idea, and the a family searches the swamps for relics.

Tuesday

  • The Taste (ABC, 8/10pm) Series Premiere – Another food competition, this one has Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson.
  • The Ultimate Fighter (Fx, 8pm) Season Premiere – Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen.
  • Edge of America (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – Geoff Edgers travels the US for unusual fun.
  • Ramsay Behind Bars (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – Ramsay teaches inmates how to cook in a London prison.

Wednesday

  • Big Rich Atlanta/Kimora (Style, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – Atlanta relationship reality and then watching Kimora Lee Simmons talke the helm of JustFab fashion co.

Thursday

  • Winter X Games (ESPN, various) – The winter variety of the games kicks off in Aspen.
  • Project Runway (Life, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – After a road to the runway, they’re back, though apparently without Kors this time, and this season being a ‘team’ format doesn’t promise for everyone getting along.

Friday

  • Spartacus (Starz, 9pm) Season Premiere – Looks like this is the final season.

Saturday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 12am, various) – If you haven’t figured out what the time difference with Australia is you can give up by now, both men’s and women’s finals seem to be on at 12am, on the only grand slam not on network television.
  • My Big Redneck Vacation/Swamp Pawn (CMT, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Hitting Florida beaches and then selling stuff from the swamp.

Sunday

  • Screen Actors Guild Award (TNT, 7pm) – Honoring performances.
  • The Vanilla Ice Project (DIY, 10pm) Season Premiere – Ice, ice, baby.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/7-1/13

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Post holidays, we’re getting back in business…

Monday

  • The Bachelor (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Sean meets the women.
  • Antiques Roadshow (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – A million dollar discovery is made.
  • Love & Hip Hop/Black Ink Crew (VH1, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – Relationships and a new tattoo crew.
  • Switched at Birth (ABCF, 8pm) Season Premiere – The daughters of these not related families continue their drama.
  • Deception (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Police officer investigates the death of a childhood friend, looks Revenge-ish and will probably be dumb but worth a shot.
  • The Staircase (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – Found dead at the bottom of the staircase, did the husband do it?
  • Trouble Next Door (Own, 10pm) Season Premiere – Series documenting families in crisis.

Tuesday

  • Cougar Town (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – It’s back, don’t forget to change your season pass to TBS to catch this gang, their wining, and their whining.
  • Justified (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – Season pass already set.
  • Africa (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – It’s about Africa?
  • Frontline (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting with Michelle Rhee as chancellor of DC public schools.
  • The Joe Schmo Show (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – More fake reality show.
  • America’s Supernanny (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – Getting control of the kids.
  • Snookie & JWoww (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Can’t wait for parenthood.
  • The Burn with Jeff Ross (Com, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – More guests.
  • Scoring the Deal (HGTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Real estate wheelings and dealings.

Wednesday

  • Stars in Danger: The High Dive (Fox, 8pm) – Celebrities learn how to flip it, you know, without the splash.
  • People’s Choice Awards (CBS, 9pm) – What do the people know anyhow?
  • Property Brothers (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Twin real estaters help folks fix ’em up.
  • Washington Heights (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – In case there are more ‘real’ people you want to get to know.
  • Barter Kings (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bartering snakes.

Thursday

  • Critic’s Choice Movie Awards (CW, 8pm) – I am mildly curious as to what the critics might say.
  • The Millionaire Matchmaker (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – More love to be found for the wealthy.
  • Kathy (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Guests Liza and Jane Lynch.
  • Rehab Addict (DIY, 10pm) Season Premiere – Home rehab that is.

Friday

  • Banshee (Cin, 10pm) Series Premiere – Ex-con and master thief assumes the identity of a sheriff, curious if I got Cinemax.
  • Out There (IFC, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Animated 15-year old’s misadventures.

Saturday

  • Miss America (ABC, 9pm) – Women walk the walk and talk the talk.
  • Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual (We, 9pm) Series Premiere – Unusual, uninteresting.
  • Staten Island Law (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – The reality of mediation.

Sunday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 3:30pm, and various) – First round!
  • Golden Globe Awards (NBC, 7/8pm) – Arrivals and then Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host.
  • Girls/Enlightened (HBO, 9/9:30pm) Season Premieres – Laura Dern and Lena Dunham return.
  • Shameless/House of Lies/Californication (Show, 9/10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – As do the people in these shows.
  • Pete Rose (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Pete’s getting married.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/10-12/16

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Two more weeks of holiday filler…

Monday

  • American Country Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Trace Adkins and Kristin Chenoweth host.
  • Take It All/Michael Bublé Christmas Special (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another game show and then Bublé it up.
  • Diners, Drive-ins & Dives (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Guy makes some more stops.
  • Made in Chelsea (Style, 11pm) Season Premiere – Things in Chelsea.

Tuesday

  • Santa Claus in Comin’ to Town (ABC, 8pm) – The voice of Astaire tells it all.
  • A Muppets Christmas (CW, 9pm) – That reminds me I never did catch the latest Muppet movie.
  • Amish Mafia (Disc, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The Amish enforce their own brand of justice.

Wednesday

  • Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Whatever.
  • Barbara Walters (ABC, 9:30pm) – Ten ‘most fascinating.’
  • Shipping Wars (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – And they say people forget we’re at war.

Thursday

  • Impractical Jokers (Tru, 10pm) Series Premiere – I’m sure they all think it’s hilarious.

Friday

  • Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas (NBC, 8pm) – In case you missed Blake in all his cheer.
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Yes, Virginia / The Elf on the Shelf (CBS, 8/9/9:30pm) – Ho, ho, cheer.
  • Winter in Portlandia (IFC, 10:30pm) – The holidays wouldn’t be complete without.

Saturday

  • Winter Dew Tour (NBC, 11am, Sun 10am) – From Breckenridge, Colorado.
  • Cops (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Season twenty five.
  • Six Little McGhees (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because we need more reality shows about multiple kids.

Sunday

  • The Bachelorette (ABC, 9pm) – Ashley and J.P.’s wedding.
  • VH1 Divas (VH1, 9pm) – Songstresses let loose.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/3-12/9

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My internet is working again so at least I get OnDemand and Netflix Streaming again…

Monday

  • Blake’s Not So Family Christmas (NBC, 10pm) – Singing and foolin’.
  • Hotel Impossible (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Beach resort.

Tuesday

  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (CBS, 8/10pm) – Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight, and lingerie with tunes.
  • Storage Wars (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – Battle for stuff.
  • In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Laura helps couples connect.
  • NFL Road Tested (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Game prep.

Wednesday

  • The Grammy Nominations Concert Live (CBS, 10pm) – If you’re performing does that guarantee you a nomination?

Thursday

  • In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye (HBO, 9pm) – A look at the editorial team.
  • Mary Mary (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – Back to following this singing duo.
  • Unsupervised (Fx, 11:30pm) Season Premiere – More animated youngsters.

Friday

  • SNL Christmas (NBC, 8pm) – Ho ho ho, ha ha ha.
  • Restless (Sund, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Spy mom.
  • My Naked Secret (Health, 10pm) Season Premiere – Help for post preggers stomach muscles to start.

Saturday

  • American Giving Awards (NBC, 8pm) – Joel McHale hosts charity honors.
  • Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/The Flight Before Christmas (CBS, 8/8:30/9pm) – Holiday fun.

Sunday

  • Disney Prep & Landing/Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice/Christmas with Holly (ABC, 8/8:30/9pm) – Holiday inspiration.
  • Ax Men/Bamazon (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – A new team captain and then Alabamers in the Amazon.
  • Sin City Rules (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think this is like housewives of Las Vegas, you know but maybe not all housewives

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new and noteworthy tv: 11/12-11/18

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It’s so easy to get behind on Sons and Walking Dead…

Monday

  • Made In Chelsea (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – If you’ve tired of American socialites, these ones are English.
  • Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (Show, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – Ten part series on history in 20th century.
  • Teen Mom 2 (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – And then there’s this.

Tuesday

  • Little People, Big World/Extreme Couponing (TLC, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – A new little couple and may the discount be with you.
  • Mankind the Story of All of Us (Hist, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Another ten part history on more history.
  • Million Dollar Decorators (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – For the house I can’t afford…

Wednesday

  • Whitney (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Now that Animal Practice is out…

Thursday

  • Perhaps pick up my book.

Friday

  • ANTM (CW, 8/9pm) – The latest episode is followed by the always underwhelming behind the scenes.
  • We Will Always Love You (CBS, 10pm) – A tribute to Whitney.

Saturday

  • 24/7 (HBO, 11:15pm) Season Premiere – Pacquiao/Marquez.

Sunday

  • American Music Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Top forty after forty years.
  • Oprah’s Favorite Things (OWN, 8pm) – Military spouses get some bounty.

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

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I feel like daylight savings has thrown me all out of whack…

Monday

  • Witness (HBO, 7:30pm) Series Premiere – Miniseries showing photojournalists.
  • American Pickers (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – First pick, a 1935 motorcycle.
  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/Start-Ups (Brav, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Friendships take hits and entrepreneurs endeavor.
  • Dangerous Grounds (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Finding the perfect bean.
  • Jesse James (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cycles and cars.

Tuesday

  • Election (Various) – Tune in to see the results.

Wednesday

  • Deals from The Darkside (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Titanic chairs, antique cuffs, and more.
  • Moonshiners (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – New law puts the guys on edge.
  • Top Chef/Lolwork (Brav, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – Cooking and laugh publishers.

Thursday

  • Burn Notice (USA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the gang get out of Panama?
  • Dave’s Old Porn (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Like Mystery Science Theater for porn.

Friday

  • A night out.

Saturday

  • Redneck Island/Chainsaw Gang/Big Texas Heat (CMT, 9/10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Redneck competition, chainsaw art, and cops.
  • Wedding Band (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new comedy following guys who gig in their spare time.
  • Standup in Stilettos (TVG, 11pm) Season Premiere – Lady comics.

Sunday

  • The Britannia Awards (BBCA, 8pm) – Honoring entertainers.
  • Breaking Magic (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Revealing magic.
  • Finding Bigfoot (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – Follow the footprints.
  • Firefly (Sci, 10pm) – 10th anniversary.

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