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

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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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/13-1/19

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Ok this is more like it, my TiVo finally has a backlog that I will find daunting…

Monday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, various) – The first week gets into full swing.
  • Lost Girl/Being Human/Bitten (Syfy, 8/9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – The campy but fun folks like a succubus who are more than human, vampire, werewolf and a ghost trying to find their human, and then a series with a closer look at a lady werewolf worth a shot.
  • Switched at Birth (ABCF, 8pm) Season Premiere – The girls start their senior year.
  • Archer/ChozenĀ  (Fx, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Animated spy returns and then a wrapper returns.
  • Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Illusionist pranks, pass.

Tuesday

  • Face Off (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Fifteen new contestants test their creature creating chops.
  • Kroll Show (Com, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Something comedic returns.

Wednesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – JLo, Keith and Connick are in their chairs, and I am choosing again to value each hour I spend not watching this show.
  • Suburgatory (ABC, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Ready to see what’s up on the return of our Tessa and George to their suburban existence.
  • Duck Dynasty/Crazy Hearts (A&E, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – The quacking cash cow returns followed by the ‘reality’ of trying to make it in Nashville.
  • Men at Work (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – This buddy comedy returns to try to make you laugh.

Thursday

  • Critic’s Choice Movie Awards (CW, 8pm) – Broadcast Critics put their picks out there.
  • Here Comes Honey Boo Boo/Welcome to Myrtle Manor (TLC, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More reality of the, what’s the politically correct term for ‘white trash’, nature.
  • Under the Gunn (Life, 9pm) Series Premiere – Latest twist of mentor/designing competition, I like Gunn and still enjoy a runway so worth a look.
  • Party Down South (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Watching friends party.
  • SWV Reunited (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following their comeback.
  • Jerks with Cameras/Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (MTV, 10:30/11pm) Series/Season Premieres – Yet another prank show and they more Rob’s antics.
  • Brian Boitano Project (HGTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – When you think Boitano you think home renovation.

Friday

  • Cold Justice/APB with Troy Dunn (TNT, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – More real crime and then looking for lost loved ones.
  • The Diamond Collar (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at mafia turned dog groomer.
  • Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bill’s back.

Saturday

  • Flowers in the Attic (Life, 8pm) – Apparently not quite captures the quality of the cheese of the book but how could one not be curious.
  • Mom’s Got Game (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Former WNBA mom manages NBA son.
  • My Big Redneck Family (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who doesn’t need another redneck spinoff?

Sunday

  • The Following (Fox, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – I can’t believe this show is back.
  • Keeping Up With the Kardashians/Richkids of Beverly Hills (E!, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Blurg.
  • Sherlock (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – We’ve been waiting and now it’s time to find out what happened to Holmes.
  • Looking (HBO, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The male gay version of (insert slightly incorrect comparison to chick show here), give in to the promise of the characters.

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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/14-1/20

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Of course my daytimes book up right when the Australian Open gets going…

Monday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, various) – Happy tennis down under.
  • The Carrie Diaries (CW, 8pm) Series Premiere – If I ignore the Sex and the City and Carrie Bradshaw references I am inclined to have hope for an 80s girl origin story.
  • Continuum/Being Human/Lost Girl (Syfy, 8/9pm) Series/Season Premieres – I’m less inclined to be interested in terrorists that escape their execution in 2077 by traveling back in time, but find both the return of the ghost, the vampire, the werewolf, and then the succubus to be good if not somewhat campy fun.
  • Extreme Smuggling/Shipwreck Men (Disc, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – Smuggling techniques and maritime salvage.

Tuesday

  • The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 8pm) Season Premiere – New bad girls invade Atlanta.
  • Pioneers of Television (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ryan Seacrest hosts starting with a look at funny women.
  • Face Off (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Competing makeup artists.
  • Real Husbands of Hollywood/Second Generation Wayans (BET, 10:30pm) Series Premieres – Semi scripted ‘reality’ husbands and then Damien Dante and Craig Wayans give their take on funny.

Wednesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – I won’t do it, I won’t watch, I’m out.
  • Ghost Mine (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Really, a ghost show focusing on mines?
  • Workaholics/Kroll Show (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – The guys try to be funy and then Nick Kroll from The League takes on all kinds of characters in this new sketch show.

Thursday

  • Anger Management/Archer (Fx, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Charlie’s back and then a comedic animated spy business is back.
  • Bellator MMA Live (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Pat Curran and Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire fight.
  • King of the Nerds (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who’s going to be top nerd?
  • Legit/Totally Biased w. Kamau Bell (Fx, 10:30/11pm) Series/Season Premieres – Series following a crass comedian and then comedian and then comedic insights.

Friday

  • Best Week Ever (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – What’s going on this week?
  • Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – More Bill.

Saturday

  • A Idiot Abroad/Stuff You Should Know (Sci, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – More travel mocking and then a new mockumentary series.
  • Ripper Street/Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan (BBCA, 9/10:15pm) Series Premiere – Old London murders and new dangerous creatures.

Sunday

  • Kourtney & Kim Take Miami/Chasing the Saturdays (E!, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Girls I don’t care about followed by a girl band I don’t care about.

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.

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