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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.

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: 3/11-3/17

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Nothing to see here, keep it moving…

Monday

  • Catfishin’ Kings (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – Competition in Texas.

Tuesday

  • Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Restaurateurs compete.
  • Preacher’s Daughters (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – More reality fare.
  • World’s Worst Tenants (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – More random housing endeavors.

Wednesday

  • Jim Rome on Showtime (Show, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sports talk.
  • Restaurant Stakeout (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Covert food surveillance.

Thursday

  • Braxton Family Values (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – Toni, Trina, Traci, Towanda, Tamar…
  • Funeral Boss (Health, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, funeral home style.

Friday

  • Flea Market Flip (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Competing on the best find and sell.

Sunday

  • Trip Flip (Trav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ready to travel.
  • Playing with Fire (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, culinary scene style.
  • Wicked Single (VH1, 11pm) Series Premiere – Reality fare, Boston bar scene style.

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: 3/4-3/10

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Monday

  • Are You Tougher Than a Boyscout (NGC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Challenges based on the handbook.
  • LA Shrinks (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – A psychologist, a therapist, and a life consultant walk into a reality show…
  • The World of Jenks (MTV, 11pm) Season Premiere – Documentarian takes a look at stuff.

Tuesday

  • Treasure Detectives/The Car Chasers (CNBC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Is the treasure genuine, and will the car be a treasure?

Wednesday

  • Haunted Collector (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Stalkers and spirits.
  • Rachel Zoe Project/It’s a Brad, Brad World/Dukes of Melrose (Brav, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Style, style, and boutique owners.

Thursday

  • Battleground (AnPl, 9pm) Minseries Premiere – Rhino wars start.

Friday

  • Fashion Star (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Aspiring designers return to woo Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos.
  • Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Wedding white.

Sunday

  • You Live in What? (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’ve always wanted to live in a firehouse or a lighthouse.
  • Army Wives/The Client List (Life, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – This show is apparently still on and this show was apparently renewed.

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: 2/25-3/3

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Monday

  • Burning Love/After Lately (E!, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premiere – If you haven’t caught this Bachelor spoof online it garners a laugh and then more Chelsea.

Tuesday

  • Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Child services may need to be called when Kate Gosselin and Kendra Wilkinson swap places.
  • Parade’s End (HBO, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Five part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novels set in early 20th century.
  • Golden Boy (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following past and future story lines as our fresh detective makes his way to police commissioner, worth a look.
  • Robot Combat League (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think there was a movie like this with Wolverine where people fight using giant robots.

Wednesday

  • Boston’s Finest (TNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Reality cop show.
  • Rescue My Renovation (DIY, 9pm) Series Premiere – Unqualified contractor?
  • Duck Dynasty (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – More reality duck-style.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – More fake psychic detecting.
  • Stranded (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Real peeps left in haunted locations.

Thursday

  • The Ben Show/Nathan for You (Com, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – Sketches and then comedic marketing advice.

Friday/Saturday

  • Catch up or leave the house?

Sunday

  • The Bible/Vikings (Hist, 8/10pm) Series Premieres – In the beginning and viking action.
  • The Celebrity Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Returning ‘celebrities.’
  • Red Widow (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Death of a husband causes a woman to dive back into the gangster underworld, this looks dumb but I’ll give it a look.
  • Oprah’s Master Class (OWN, 10pm) Season Premiere – Alicia Keys.
  • Welcome to Myrtle Manor (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality trailer park style.

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: 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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As the shows keep rolling in here’s what has come in and will be coming. So far I’m mostly glad there’s not much to add to my queue.

  • 1600 Penn (NBC) – I almost like this crazy family in the White House, and although some funny notes, not quite enough.
  • The Americans (Fx) – So far so good for this 80’s Russian Spy drama, though admittedly I’ve only watched the first and curious where it will go.
  • Banshee (Cin) – Alas no Cinemax for me but probably campy, sexy fun.
  • Bates Motel* (A&E) – Prequel to Psycho, could go either way.
  • The Carrie Diaries (CW) – Carrie lite in the 80s, as long as you think of it as a CW show and not a Sex prequel you might be happy, I can’t decide if I am.
  • Continuum (Syfy) – Very Terminator time travelesque as rebels and a cop end up farther back in time than intended to in order to change the future, too syfy for me.
  • Cult* (CW) – TV cults and crimes in a CW drama could be the terribly bad but possible good bad.
  • Deception (ABC) – An alt take on the Revenge-ish feel with undercover cop and a very drama filled family is a little too dopey for me.
  • Defiance* (Syfy) – Aliens settling on earth, hmm?
  • Do No Harm (NBC) – Split personality doc cancelled after two episodes, I deleted without a watch.
  • The Family Tools* (ABC) – Getting into the family handyman business.
  • The Following (Fox) – The creepy drama about a killer psycho and his ‘cult’ of followers and the personal relationship to ex-FBI Kevin Bacon, I am so about to stop watching.
  • Golden Boy* (CBS) – New cop, old cop.
  • House of Cards (Netflix) – Kevin Spacey leads this Netflix only release, I really need to check it out.
  • How To Live Without Your Parents* (ABC) – Sarah Chalke returns to tv as a single mom returning to her parents’.
  • Legit (Fx) – An offbeat comedy about a terrible guy trying to be a not terrible guy, it’s a little too Larry David-ish for me.
  • Monday Mornings (TNT) – I feel like this premiered and I missed it.
  • Newsreaders (AdSw) – A spin-off of Children’s Hospital, for whatever that means to you.
  • Out There* (IFC) – Animated monsteresque kids in action.
  • Red Widow* (ABC) – Russian mafia for a newly single mom.
  • Ripper Street (BBCA) – Set following the murders of Jack the Ripper the cops try to deal with the latest crimes, I tried the first of this but just wasn’t that into it.
  • Vikings* (Hist) – The first scripted series from the historians, and it’s about vikings.
  • Washington Heights (MTV) – Twenty-somethings, blah blah.
  • Zero Hour (ABC) – Chasing conspiracies keep our protagonists busy.

* Still to come, stay tuned to ‘next week’s for premiere dates.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/11-2/17

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Monday

  • Bizarre Foods America (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blackened snakehead sammie, yum.
  • Bang Goes the Theory (BBCA, 10:20pm) Series Premiere – Sciency stunts and innovations.
  • Inside Comedy (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Louis CK kicks off the season.

Tuesday

  • The Face (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – For those who just can’t smize anymore, follow Nigel Barker to another model/panel program, I can’t take ANTM, why do I feel compelled to check this out? 

Wednesday

  • Survivor (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Fans vs. favorites.
  • Hoarding/My Strangest Addiction (TLC, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More looking at the people who make me feel super clean and normal.
  • Southland (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – More cop drama, this one’s a good one.

Thursday

  • Zero Hour (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – I think this is kind of like National Treasure Da Vinci Code kind of series, worth a watch. 
  • Swamp People/Big Rig Bounty Hunters (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – People in the swamp and then tacking down missing trucks.
  • Freakshow/Immortalized (AMC, 9:30/10pm) Series Premieres – A look at Venice Beach Freakshow and then taxidermi-rastic.
  • Ridiculousness/Failosophy (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Pauly D breaks down viral videos and then comedians mock web fails.

Friday

  • Spontaneous Construction (HGTV, 8pm) Series Premiere – Flash mobs and renovation go hand in hand. 

Saturday

  • Wendell & Vinnie (Nick, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Adapting to a new guardian sitcom-style. 

Sunday

  • The Amazing Race (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – The race is on!

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: 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.

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: 1/28-2/3

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Mostly just resting up for the Super Bowl…

Monday

  • Jerseylicious/Built (Sty, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – More Jersey hijinks and then if you need a handyman who is also a male model these guys are for you, first a closet makeover.
  • Dallas (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – The second season returns with more Ewing battles, and the curiosity as to how they’ll deal with Hagman’s death.

Tuesday

  • Income Property (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – I find purchasing houses depressing.
  • Starter Wives Confidential (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – The latest reality brings ex wives and girlfriends of ‘celebrities’ into the mix.
  • Top Gear (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Road trip!
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Underwater photo shoot.
  • Southie Rules (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – More reality, something about money making schemes with a family in Boston.
  • Nikki & Sara Live (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Comedy series with sketches and celebrities and whatever.

Wednesday

  • Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS, 8pm) – Viewers have voted.
  • Auction Hunters/Savage Family Diggers (Spike, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Selling stuff, finding stuff.
  • The Americans (Fx, 10pm) Series Premiere – Felicity meets Alias, ok not really but sort of, when Keri Russell returns to tv as a Russian spy.

Thursday

  • 30 Rock/Do No Harm (NBC, 8/10pm) Series Finale/Premiere – Say goodbye to Liz and friends and hello to renowned neurosurgeon with a problematic alternate personality.
  • Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Looking for an executive chef, who will cut it?

Friday

  • NAACP Awards (NBC, 8pm) – Recognize.

Saturday

  • 49ers Super Bowl Preview (NBC, 9pm) – Go niners.

Sunday

  • Super Bowl/A Super Night on the New Bay Bridge (CBS, 3:25/8pm) – Go niners then highlights and a look at the bridge.

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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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