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new and noteworthy tv: 6/20-6/26

June 19, 2011 No Comments

A decent amount of summer fluff to add to the queue…

Monday

Wimbledon (ESPN2, 4am and ongoing; NBC starting Sat) – Early round coverage kicks off, top four men look good and the Williams sisters are back!
Hoarders/Intervention (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Problem behaviors in various states.
Rupaul’s Drag U (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Who will they take to fabulous this season?
United States of Tara (Show, 10:30pm) Series Finale – Will any of the versions of Tara be end well?

Tuesday

Wipeout/101 Ways to Leave a Game Show/Combat Hospital (ABC, 8/9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Bad obstacles, physically crazy exits to what may be a quiz show, and the latest Canadian import hospital in a war zone.
History Detectives/POV (PBS, 8/10pm) Season Premieres – A look into some random historical events and artifacts and then kicking off with a look at pastry competition.
Hardcore Pawn/Storage Hunters (Tru, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – People’s stuff and personalities.
Staten Island Cakes/The Cupcake Girls (WE, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – People’s baked goods and personalities.
Nail Files (TVG, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following some celebrity manicurist.

Wednesday

I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I guess there are enough people for another season.
Life on a Wire (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Death defying stunts.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Folks are teamed up with rivals.

Thursday

Burn Notice/Suits (USA, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Michael and his campy spyness return and then non lawyer lawyer with some sort of crazy memory tries to hang with the upscale legal doers.
Expedition Impossible/Rookie Blue (ABC, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premiere – It’s like amazing race but with teams of three and then the rookies return and one can only hope they are more impressive.
Wilfred/Louie (Fx, 10/10:30) Series/Season Premiere – So is he a dog like everyone else sees or a man in a dog suit like Elijah Wood sees but more importantly is it funny enough to be a good fit with off kilter Louie?
Futurama (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – More animated space adventures.

Friday

Rhett & Link/Young, Broke & Beautiful (IFC, 10/11pm) Series Premiere – Traveling to film commercials and traveling to uncover underground subcultures.

Saturday

Carson Nation (Own, 10pm) Series Premiere – Queer Eye’s Carson travels doing makeovers.

Sunday

Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Can’t… look… away…
Leverage (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another season of the light but fun steal from the corrupt to make things right capers.
L&O: CI (USA, 9pm) Series Finale – Goodbye to the major case squad.
True Blood (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – Someday I will give this a go on Netflix.
The Marriage Ref (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I didn’t think anyone watched this Seinfeld show of folks commenting on couples problems.
Extreme Chef (Food, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Extreme food or extreme cooking conditions?

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: 4/25-5/1

April 25, 2011 No Comments

Looks like we’re gearing up for the royal wedding, and if you’re particularly interested there are many a special on cable to keep you informed…

Monday

American Chopper (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Senior and junior return.

Tuesday

The Voice (NBC, 9pm and Wed) Series Premiere – Kicking off the first of two nights of blind auditions, not sure what happens after the gimmick of just listening is over, I’ll probably check out one.
Repo Games (Spike, 8pm) Series Premiere – Repossession or answering trivia?

Wednesday

Inside the Royal Wedding (NBC, 8pm) – Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera go there.
South Park (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – More cartoon goodness.

Thursday

20/20 (ABC, 8pm) – The Royal Wedding.
The Office/Parks & Recreation (NBC, 9/9:52pm) – Michael Scott’s departure takes more than a half hour but less than an hour, so make sure your dvrs are set.
Break it Down (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Taking apart Yankee stadium.
Son of a Gun (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – More reality, this time following a young rapper.

Friday

The Royal Wedding (CBS, 8pm) – The wedding coverage continues.
20/20 (ABC, 9pm) – Apparently it is A Modern Fairy Tale.
Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Will the wedding dress fit?

Saturday

Fight Camp 360 (CBS, 8pm) – Pacquiao vs. Mosley.

Sunday

L&O: Criminal Intent/In Plain Sight (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – I have to admit I will miss Jeff Goldblum, never a fan of D’Onofrio in this role, I’ll still tune in for the evening to see his return and the return of Mary and more importantly Marshall Marshall.

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: 3/29-4/4

March 27, 2010 No Comments

Monday

10 Things I Hate About You (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Premiere – Maybe they cover a thing a season.
Pawn Star$ (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s for sale?
Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – We edge into the final season as Grace continues her drama and her chat with her angel.

Tuesday

My First Home/Little Chocolatiers (TLC, 8/10pm) Season Premieres – Homes and chocolate, who could ask for more?
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Goran, Eames, and their lieutenant are counting down to their departures.
V (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – The aliens are back.

Wednesday

In Plain Sight (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Mary and Marshall together again.
The Ultimate Fighter (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let the competition begin.

Thursday

Bones/Fringe (Fox, 8/9pm) – They’ve taken a break but now they’re back.
Mentalist (CBS, 9pm) – Will his powers of perception and persuasion work at an earlier timeslot?
Fugitive Chronicles (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Real life infamous manhunts brought to life, I love a good reenactment.

Friday

Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Tv sanctioned family torture is back.
Stargate Universe/Merlin (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Alien and magical worlds return.
Miami Medical (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another take on the medical drama, the trauma unit finds expert surgeons and an adrenaline rush.

Saturday

Maybe I should review my Netflix queue.

Sunday

Sunday Best (BET, 5pm) Season Premiere – The gospel competition kicks off in Nigeria.
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom (AnPl, 7pm) – Bears like food!

summer lovin’

September 1, 2009 No Comments

leverage So we’re not quite ready for Fall season, I think we’re calling anything through August as ‘Summer’. We have had a few summer shows that have started, and now that we’ve had a chance to take a gander, what did we like (excluding reality for the sake of brevity)?

Burn Notice (USA, Returning) – The cheesy start won me over as I grew to enjoy the weekly capers, the MacGyver-esque tech, and the growing characters.
The Closer (TNT, Returning) – I like Kyra as this driven head of a special detective squad questioning suspects into submission.
Drop Dead Diva (Life, Premiere) – This ridiculous plot of a tiny model woman dropped into the body of a not tiny lawyer woman is somehow sweet in that Legally Blonde sort of way.
Eureka (SyFy, Returning) – This town of science geniuses turn out problems that apparently the only nongenius member of the town can solve as the town sheriff holds them all together.
Greek (ABCFam, Returning) – The light and silly tone paired with surprisingly complex characters and situations almost makes me miss college.
InPlain Sight (USA, Returning) – Appealing enough as the lead is as abrasive as she is caring as she tries to help her witness protection participants and her nutso family.
L&O: Criminal Intent (USA, Returning) – Goldblum adds a nice mix to the remaining partners as we see the criminals and the detectives.
Leverage (TNT, Returning) – I just love a good caper show, and although this isn’t the best, it’s pretty entertaining with the mix of experts taking down the bad guys.
Monk (USA, Returning) – The cases aren’t masterful but the quirky detective and his posse are amusing as the show reaches its final season.
Saving Grace (TNT, Returning) – Grace still has a great mix of thoughtful and just plain crazy drama and detective work.

Show that I’ve tried but just didn’t have that thing that pushed them onto the Tivo queue:

The Cleaner (A&E, Returning), Dark Blue (TNT, Premiere), Defying Gravity (ABC, Premiere), The Goode Family (ABC, Premiere), HawthoRNe (TNT, Premiere), Hung (HBO, Series Premiere), The Listener (NBC, Premiere), Make it or Break It (ABCFam, Premiere), Mental (Fox, Premiere), Mental (Fox, Premiere), Merlin (NBC, Premiere), Michael & Michael Have Issues (Com, Premiere), The Philanthropist (NBC, Premiere), Raising the Bar (TNT, Returning), Royal Pains (USA, Premiere), Ruby & the Rockits (ABCFam, Premiere), Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABCFam, Returning), 10 Things I Hate About You (ABCFam, Premiere), Warehouse 13 (Syfy, Premiere)

And maybe I’ll catch these cable shows on Netflix:

Being Human (BBC, Premiere), Entourage (HBO, Returning), Mad Men (AMC, Returning), Nurse Jackie (Show, Premiere), Psych (USA, Returning), Rescue Me (Fx, Returning), Skins (BBC, Returning), Torchwood (BBC, Returning), True Blood (HBO, Returning), Weeds (Show, Returning)

next week 6/2

May 30, 2008 No Comments

Monday

Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – I assume this is like where they looked for the new leads in Grease.
The Mole (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – It’s reality, it’s a competition, does anyone care?

Tuesday

30 Days (FX, 10pm) Season Premiere – Morgan Spurlock returns to 30 days in the lives of others starting with coal mining.

Wednesday

She’s Got the Look (TVLand, 10pm) Season Premiere – Ladies over 35 do their own version of ANTM.

Thursday

NBA Finals (ABC, 6pm/pst) – The series starts tonight.
Fear Itself (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A host of directors, actors, and writers create episodes for this series of suspense and horror shows.
Swingtown (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new couple moves to a Chicago suburb where the 70s are in full swing.

Friday

French Open (NBC, 10am/pst and s/su 6am/pst) – Wrapping up another fortnight of tennis following ESPN2 coverage throughout the week.
Charlie Jade (Scifi, 8pm) Series Premiere – A rogue PI deals with mysteries and parallel universes.
Meerkat Manor (Animal, 9pm) Season Premiere – Last season’s posters made the meerkats look like the sopranos, I haven’t seen any this season.

Saturday

America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 2/4:30pm) – The casting special is followed by some performances, the real competition starts on Thursday.
Sybil (CBS, 8pm) – Not sure that Sally Field’s multiple personalities need to be revisited in an update but here it is.

Sunday

When We Left the Earth: The Nasa Missions (Disc, 9pm) – This special presentation kicks off the multi part series.
L&O: Criminal Intent (USA, 9pm) – Returning from strike hiatus as Vincent D’Onofrio returns from a break, probably because Big is promoting Sex and the City.
Army Wives (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – I got the impression this was wives of people in the army, but maybe it’s women in the army who are wives… maybe it’s both.
This American Life (Show, 10pm) Season Finale – Ira’s talking to guys named John Smith.

next week 1/7

January 4, 2008 3 Comments

Monday

Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Drew Lachey joins two of the judges from Dancing With the Stars to create two singing and dancing teams to compete in this six week series, I didn’t get Dancing with the Stars either.
Medium (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Things were shook up employment-wise for Allison and her husband, with her out of the DA’s office how will she solve her creepy vision mysteries?

Tuesday

Bones/House (Fox, 8/9pm) – See where it all began with the pilots of these two fun shows.
One Tree Hill (CW, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – The fifth season moves forward four years to try to beat the high school turned college show crisis and get the cast to about their appropriate ages.
People’s Choice (CBS, 9pm) – The people, they pick their picks for tv and movies as Queen Latifah hosts, nobody really cares what the people think do they?

Wednesday

Law & Order: CI (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – The show banished to cable returns in reruns for its 7th season to the network where it started, this is the one L&O that bugs me, mostly D-Onofrio who I used to like.
Cashmere Mafia (ABC, 10pm) – The show stops off in its regular timeslot.

Thursday

My Name is Earl/30 Rock (NBC, 8/8:30pm) – Ok these are the last ones we get for who knows how long, enjoy.
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9pm) – Ditto on last in the queue.

Friday

Catch up on some repeats (Grey’s/Cashmere Mafia on ABC) or catch some new eps of shows (Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numb3rs on CBS or Friday Night Lights and Las Vegas on NBC) or maybe just go out and see a movie.

Saturday

If you didn’t get away from the television last night definitely get away tonight, unless you’ve got some netflix stacking up there’s nothing on.

Sunday

Golden Globes (NBC, 8pm) – Many thanks will be given out to the Hollywood Foreign Press for tv and movies this evening.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – I haven’t heard anything about this but am intrigued and glad that Summer Glau from Firefly is going to protect them.
Commanche Moon (CBS, 9pm, also Tues/Wed) Miniseries – Prequel to the Lonesome Dove miniseries though I hear this one doesn’t live up to the previous.
Rock of Love 2/Scott Baio 46… and Pregnant (VH1, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – I got hooked on these shows last season, not good but I was truly addicted to Rock of Love.
Masterpiece: Persuasion (PBS, Check Your Local Listings) – This starts off a little Jane Austen theme for the now Masterpiece/Masterpiece Theater I always mean to watch them and this is supposed to be good.