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new and noteworthy tv: 10/29-11/4

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Finally clearing enough new shows to get back to Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy…

Monday

  • Pranked (MTV, 7:30pm) Season Premiere – Pranks.
  • Scare Tactics (Syfy, 7:30pm) Season Premiere – Pranks in a creepy way.
  • Love It or List It (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – What happens when the house you love isn’t spacious enough?

Tuesday

  • Total Blackout/Viral Video Showdown (Syfy, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – Challenges in the dark and competing videos.

Wednesday

  • It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Linus awaits.
  • The Real Exorcist (Life, 11pm) Series Premiere – Facing their demons.

Thursday

  • CMA Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Country it up.
  • GT Academy (Spike, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Apparently GT stands for Gran Turismo, drivers compete.
  • Reality Show (Show, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Comedic stylings bring a show about a failed producer taking a stab with reality.

Friday

  • Last Man Standing/Malibu Country (ABC, 8/8:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – It’s almost like the return of Tool Time and Reba.
  • Brides of Beverly Hills (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting with Hulk Hogan’s ex shopping for a wedding gown.

Saturday

  • Horse Racing (NBC, 5pm) – The Breeders’ Cup from Santa Anita.

Sunday

  • The Next Iron Chef (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Iron alums return.
  • The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Old and new wives.

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Another year, another round of emmys… I’ve stopped pretending I’m going to watch but here’s the pertinent info:

  • Series: Drama – Homeland
  • Series: Comedy – Modern Family
  • Lead Actor: Drama – Damian Lewis, Homeland
  • Lead Actress: Drama – Claire Danes, Homeland
  • Lead Actor: Comedy – Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men
  • Lead Actress: Comedy – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
  • Supporting Actor: Drama – Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
  • Supporting Actress: Drama – Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
  • Supporting Actor: Comedy – Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
  • Supporting Actress: Comedy –  Julie Bowen, Modern Family

For a full list of nominations and recipients check out: http://www.emmys.com/nominations

I am tending to think that Modern Family is a bit on the overrated side these days but clearly I need to check out Homeland, you know as soon as it’s available on Netflix streaming. What do you need to watch? What do you think should have won?

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

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Labor Day signals the end of summer, and typically the start of nice weather in SF, perhaps a bit more tennis before we get serious about new tv…

Monday

  • US Open Tennis (CBS, 8am, T-Th ESPN2, F-Su CBS) – Enjoy Labor Day with a little tennis and then if you have to work perhaps skip the cable coverage during the week and tune back in starting with the men’s and women’s semis on Friday.
  • Switched at Birth (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Premiere – The gals go through another year of drama with their extended family.
  • American Chopper/Fast n’ Loud (Disc, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Senior and Junior collaborate and then let the car restoration continue.
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Trav, 9pm) Season premiere – Sometimes the places that don’t take reservation are just plain weird.
  • Coma (A&E, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – A remake of the ’78 thriller.
  • T.I & Tiny (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Camping?
  • Girlfriend Confidential (Oxy, 11pm) Series Premiere – Eva from ANTM and some other gal pals hang in the big city.

Tuesday

  • Flipping Out (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Designer flips out while trying to flip a house.
  • Democratic National Convention (NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, 7pm T/W/Th) – It’s the Democrat’s turn.

Wednesday

  • Ghost Hunters (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – A serial killer’s revenge.
  • Sweat Equity (DIY, 10pm) Season Premiere – Converting a basement.

Thursday

  • 2012 MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, 8pm) – Kevin Hart hosts.
  • Raising House (DIY, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting with a rebuild.
  • Texas Car Wars (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Let the rivalries begin.
  • Living Abroad (HGTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Three American families living in Shanghai.

Friday

  • Stand Up to Cancer (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, 8pm) – Celebs perform, chat about, and take money for cancer.
  • Making the Team/Cheer (CMT, 9/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – Cowboy’s prelims and if you’re a diehard cheer fan…

Saturday

  • My Fair Wedding (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – Medieval-themed wedding.
  • I Was Impaled (Health, 10pm) Series Premiere – Seriously a whole show on impalements?

Sunday

  • Long Island Medium/Breaking Amish (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Family and the hereafter and then I think there might need to be special protections about filming the Amish, I mean how can they know how terrible reality tv is and how much privacy they’re giving up?
  • Wallander (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – How long until his peace is interrupted by a mystery?

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/4-6/10

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Tomorrow will be a week without TiVo, and thusly cable, but with the expected arrival tomorrow I can figure out what I’ve been missing, fortunately I think with the start of summer not much…

Monday

  • Hell’s Kitchen/Masterchef (Fox, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – It’s the Gordon Ramsay channel.
  • Real Housewives of NYC (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Housewives.
  • Push Girls (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality hits the wheelchair set.
  • Cajun Pawn Stars (Hist, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Cajun pawning.

Tuesday

  • Pretty Little Liars/Jane by Design (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – More campy and fashiony drama.
  • Love in the Wild (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Singles in the jungle.
  • Dance Moms (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – Child torture?
  • Rizzoli & Isles/Franklin & Bash (TNT, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Not the best of the procedural shows but mindless drama with decent casts.
  • Kendra On Top (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Is it worth stating my irritation of reality stars getting more reality shows?
  • Storage Wars (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s in your unit?

Wednesday

  • CMT Music Awards /My Big Redneck Vacation (CMT, 8/10:30pm) Season Premiere – Country singers and odd vacations.
  • Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – I do like a good sandwich.
  • Haunted Collector (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Checking out the haunted.
  • Million Dollar Listing (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Isn’t everything in LA over a million?
  • Property Brothers (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Checking out a new pad.
  • Royal Pains /Necessary Roughness (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More fluffy formulas, Hamptons doc and sports shrink.
  • Fast n’ Loud (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Vintage auto restorations.
  • Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Sci, 10pm) Season Premiere – Sciency questions.

Thursday

  • Take Me Out/The Choice (Fox, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – Women pick men who pick women, followed by a dating use for the Voice chairs, pass.
  • Saving Hope (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Dr in a coma roams the halls?
  • Selling London (HGTV, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Property for you.
  • Cajun Justice (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Just put Cajun in front of any existing show.

Friday

  • Lives on Fire (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Following female firefighters.
  • Comedy Bang! Bang!/Bunk (IFC, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – Late night talking and gaming.

Saturday

  • Million Dollar Neighborhood/Real Life: The Musical (OWN, 9pm) Series Premieres – Learning how to save a million and saying things musical style.
  • Redneck Island (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – You can also do a redneck slant on anything, like Survivor.

Sunday

  • French Open (NBC, 6am) – Wrapping up the clay court action.
  • Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) – NPH hosts.
  • Mob Wives Chicago (VH1, 8pm) Series Premiere – They go where the mob is.
  • True Blood (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – No I don’t watch this because I don’t get HBO, I know.
  • Untamed Americas (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Wildlife.
  • Bridezillas (WE, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bride action.
  • Our America with Lisa Ling (OWN, 10pm) Season Premiere – Child beauty pageants, they can’t be good right?
  • Storage Hunters (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s in your unit (déjà vu)?

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/28-6/3

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And here I thought listings would start quieting down, a few summer series to check out…

Monday

  • French Open (ESPN2, Various) – Week one of play gets going, will Nadal crush another?
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO, 9pm) – Word is good for this dramatic look at Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman as these writers.
  • Cake Boss/Extreme Couponing (TLC, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Cakes and coupons.
  • Gene Simmons Family Jewels/Monster In-Laws (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Gene and his family and family in-law dynamics.
  • Hatfields & McCoys (Hist, 9pm) Mini-series Premiere – Family rivalries drama.
  • Single Ladies (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – A little cast swap but assume the ladies will still bring the same flavor of drama.

Tuesday

  • The Catalina (CW, 8pm) Series Premiere – A look at the goings on at a real South Beach hotel.
  • HGTV Design Star (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Twelve designers design.
  • Roadtrip with G. Garvin (Cook, 9pm) Series Premiere – Visiting eateries.
  • What Not to Wear/Big Brooklyn Style (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Stacy and Clinton return and then we visit a plus-size clothing store in Brooklyn.
  • Tosh.0/Workaholics (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – The boys are back.

Wednesday

  • Dogs in the City (CBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – Dog trainer Justin Silver visits some dogs.
  • Melissa & Joey (ABCF, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who’s the Boss-esque update is back.

Thursday

  • Breaking Pointe (CW, 8pm) Series Premiere – The world of ballet reality-style.
  • Final Offer (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A more selective bidding on big ticket items.
  • LA Hair (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Celebrity stylist.
  • Mountain Men (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Outdoorsmen live off the wilderness.

Friday

  • Whale Wars/Louisiana Lockdown (AnPl, 6/7pm) Season/Series Premiere – Whaling and prison.
  • Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia (Cook, 10pm) Series Premiere – On the hunt for tasty treats.
  • My Yard Goes Disney/House Hunters on Vacation (HGTV, 8/8:30pm) Season Premieres – Disney themed yards has a whole show? and you know vacation houses.

Saturday

  • The Glee Project (Oxy, 7pm) – The casting special heads into the show that I actually enjoyed for it’s focus on casting of a specific show and not just talent, I won’t hold lackluster performances by winners on last season’s Glee against them.
  • It’s Me or the Dog (AnPl, 7pm) Season Premiere – Dogs gone wild.
  • Easy Chinese (Cook, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Chinese food made easy.
  • Iyanla, Fix My Life (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Iyanla and Oprah patched it up now you can see her work again.

Sunday

  • Adele Live in London/Miss USA Pageant (NBC, 8/9pm) – Specials.
  • Secret Millionaire/Extreme Makeover Weightloss (ABC, 8pm) – Rich people pop by to visit poor people and focus on weightloss.
  • Drop Dead Diva (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ridiculous premise made cute, with the merging of lives of the model drops into a lawyer’s body.
  • Empire Girls (Style, 9pm) Series Premiere – More reality of reality stars.
  • The Glades/Longmire (A&E, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – The return of the detective that I almost find entertaining and a look at Wyoming lawman based on the book series with intriguing enough cast to tune in.
  • Ice Road Truckers (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – I think there’s ice, roads, and trucks.
  • MTV Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Its own brand of movie awards.
  • Are You Normal, America? (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Oprah’s look at what’s normal.
  • Call of the Wildman (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – He’s looking into nature.
  • Head Games (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Delving into the human brain.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/14-5/20

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Schedules and cancellations rolling out, time to prune my season pass list…

Monday

  • America’s Got Talent (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Howard Stern joins.
  • The Bachelorette (ABC, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – Dates, roses, whatever.
  • Outlaw Empires (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kurt Sutter supplements Sons of Anarchy with a look at real life criminal organizations.

Tuesday

  • Pregnant in Heels (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Maternity concierge is pregnant herself.

Wednesday

  • ANTM (CW, 8/9pm) – Maybe it’s time to check back in on the British invasion.

Thursday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) – Aren’t we done with this yet?

Friday

  • Tron: Uprising, Beck’s Beginning (Dis, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – There’s more story to tell about Tron.

Saturday

  • Hard Parts (Speed, 11pm) Series Premiere – Haven’t you always wanted to watch someone track down hard to find auto parts?

Sunday

  • AMGEN Tour of California (NBC, 10am) – The cable coverage wraps up on NBC as the guys head into Los Angeles.
  • Billboard Music Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Performances, awards.
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians (E!, 9pm) Season Premiere – Whatever.
  • Jessie Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (CBS, 9pm) – Tom Selleck returns to the role that is much better than that Blue Bloods thing he does.
  • Mrs Eastwood and Company (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – Managing a South African singing group.
  • Mystery Diners (Food, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Can a hidden camera catch a thief?

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/26-4/1

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So if I add Idol back into the mix I have fewer slot avails…

Monday

  • Oprah’s Lifeclass (OWN, 8pm) Season Premiere – Iyanla joins Oprah for some chats.
  • Secret Life of the American Teenager/Make it or Break it (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – More teen drama.
  • Brooklyn 11223 (Oxy, 11pm) Series Debut – Join some 20 somethings for a little Brooklyn reality.

Tuesday

  • Caught in the Act (Nat Geo, 8pm) Series Premiere – Animal voyeurism.
  • Best Ink (Oxy, 10pm) Series Debut – Tattoo competitions, but who are the volunteer recipients?
  • 16 and Pregnant (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Pregnant cheerleader.

Wednesday

  • Auction Hunters (Spike, 9pm) Season Premiere – Getting stuff.
  • Whitechapel (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Murder in the workshop, BBC has been making me want to check out their series.

Thursday

  • The Decrypters (NGC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Forensic scientists investigate.
  • Mary Mary (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following real life gospel duo.
  • Punk’d/Pauly D Project (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – Can’t make me watch prank shows or Jersey Shore’s Pauly D.
  • My Mom is Obsessed (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Plastic surgery much?

Friday

  • True Justice (Reelz, 9pm) Series Premiere – Steven Seagal goes undercover in Seattle, his character of course.
  • Magic City (Starz, 11pm) Series Premiere – Drama in a Miami Beach luxury hotel in the 50s.

Saturday

  • Sony Ericsson Open (CBS, 9:30am/Sun 10am) – Men’s and women’s final, tennis.
  • Beverly’s Full House (OWN, 7pm) Series Premiere – Beverly Sims opens her house to family.
  • Escape Routes (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Another road trip challenge show.
  • Kid’s Choice Awards (Nick, 8pm) – Will Smith hosts.
  • Wild Scene Investigation (Nat Geo, 10pm) Series Premiere – Aren’t there animal culprits?
  • Southern Nights (CMT, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Cast members from “Sweet Home Alabama” (which was maybe a dating series?) live together in a house.

Sunday

  • Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Blake and Reba host.
  • Great Expectations (PBS, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – A look at Pip.
  • The Killing (AMC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who killed Rosie Larsen, and will I regret another season?
  • Game of Thrones (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – I don’t actually know what this show is about but people like it.
  • Snapped (Oxy, 9pm) Season Premiere – A look at some crimes.
  • I Survived… Beyond and Back (Bio, 10pm) Season Premiere – These people actually flat lined.
  • Wicked Tuna (NatGeo, 10pm) Series Debut – Tuna crews.

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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: 2/6-2/12

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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: 1/9-1/15

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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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