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new and noteworthy tv: 7/30-8/5

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A little tardy with my posting but it’s really all Olympics anyhow… As it has been, tune into the myriad of channels NBC, NBC Sports, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Telemundo. Check out http://www.nbcolympics.com/ for specific listings, though of course be prepared for a spoiler or two if you click it, highlighted below are prime time spots.

Monday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Men’s team gymnastics, Swimming, Diving, Beach Volleyball.
  • Off the Hook (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Extreme catches.

Tuesday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Women’s team gymnastics, swimming, women’s syncro platform diving.
  • All the Right Moves (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Follow dance dudes from So You Think You Can With the Stars as they dance it up reality style.
  • HGTV Design Star All Stars (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – Six former designers.
  • Rat Bastards (Spike, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Hunting giant swamp rats?

Wednesday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Swimming, diving, men’s gymnastics, and beach volleyball.

Thursday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Swimming, women’s gymnastics, and beach volleyball.

Friday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Swimming, Diving, women’s Volleyball, men’s Trampoline (really?), and the start of Track and Field.
  • Super Saver Showdown (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Doing more on less.

Saturday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Swimming conclusion, Track and Field, Diving, and Beach Volleyball.
  • Home By Novogratz/Dina’s Party (HGTV, 7pm) Season/Series Premieres – Homes and parties.
  • The uneXplained (Bio, 10pm) Series Premiere – Metaphysical helpers.

Sunday

  • Olympics (NBC, 8pm) – Track and Field, Gymnastics apparatus, Diving, and Beach Volleyball.
  • Flip Men (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – The guys flip it.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/23-7/29

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Scheduling conflicts are giving us a head start on next week, good thing there’s lots of Olympics to get ready for…

Monday

  • Bachelor Pad (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – The super fans join a new crop.
  • Warehouse 13/Alphas (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – More freaky stuff for the team to stick in the warehouse and more freaky abilities and the struggle to keep them on the straight and narrow.
  • In the Big House (Logo, 10pm) Series Premiere – More reality families.
  • I’m Having Their Baby (Oxy, 11pm) Series Premiere – A look at people having other people’s babies?

Tuesday

  • 15 Awesomest Boy Bands (E!, 9pm) – What else are you going to do on a Tuesday.

Wednesday

  • Clios (NBC, 8pm) – Best commercials.
  • Top Chef Masters (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Vegas baby!
  • WakeBrothers (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – What do professional wakeboarding brothers do when they hang out?

Thursday

  • Code 9 (Dis, 8pm) Series Premiere – Hidden camera hijinks.
  • 3 (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A few, let’s say three, ladies meet some eligible dudes.

Friday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games (NBC, 7:30pm) – The opening ceremonies officially kick things off, though women’s soccer starts on Wednesday, check out MSNBC, NBCSN, CNBC, and when all else fails: http://www.nbcolympics.com/ for additional listings throughout the run.

Saturday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games (NBC) – Cycling starts at 5am with Tour familiar Mark Cavendish and then we get some early rounds of swimming, women’s basketball, rowing, women’s and beach volleyball before leading into primetime coverage including swimming finals, men’s gymnastic qualifying and early-round Beach Volleyball; followed by late night weight lifting and table tennis.

Sunday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games (NBC) – More cycling, swimming, men’s and beach volleyball, gymnastics, water polo, rowing leading into primetime coverage for women’s gymnastics qualifying, swimming finals, and diving; followed by late night canoe and kayak.
  • Hillbilly Handfishin’ (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – Fishin’.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/16-7/22

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The final week of the tour should be getting folks in shape for Olympic coverage coming next week…

Monday

  • The Batmobile (CW, 8pm) – Sadly I don’t know if we’ll see any Christian Bale in the evolution of the Batmobile.
  • Eureka (Syfy, 8/9pm) Series Finale – What will go wrong in Eureka next and will they live happily ever after, I’m kinda over this show but always kinda sad to say goodbye.
  • Market Warriors (PBS, 9pm) Series Premiere – Flea market fun.
  • Degrassi (Teen, 10pm) Season Premiere – More teen Canadian drama.

Tuesday

  • American Gypsies (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Let’s follow along with some Manhattan psychic gypsies.
  • The LA Complex (CW, 9pm) Season Premiere – When Canadian teens want to make it big they go to LA, this was so bad it was good and then it just got bad, do I tune back in?

Wednesday

  • Mama Drama (VH1, 11pm) Series Premiere – Mothers and daughters together again.

Thursday

  • Project Runway (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – We’re back from the All Stars!
  • Great Lake Warriors (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Sailors operating tugboats on Great Lakes.
  • Sullivan & Son (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A son returns to buy back his dad’s bar, and the actor is a comedian, so I think it’s supposed to be funny.

Friday

  • King of Dirt (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Landscape away.
  • John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show (Com, 11pm) Season Premiere – More stand-up.

Saturday

  • 30 Greatest NBC Olympic Moments (NBC, 8pm) – USA, USA, USA!
  • Rove LA (TVG, 10pm) Series Premiere – Australian comedian interviews US stars.

Sunday

  • Tour de France (NBC, 10am) – The final week’s coverage on NBCSN rides into Paris for the glory lap and a final sprint stage, will the jerseys change hands before then?
  • Teen Choice Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Because our teen icons need to be honored.
  • Bar Rescue (Spike, 9pm) Season Premiere – Transformation of failing bars.
  • The Bachelorette (ABC, 8/10pm) Season Finale – I have at least one friend who still watches these, she picks and then they all talk…
  • Flip Men (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – Turning foreclosures around.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/9-7/15

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Relieve to have the Tour as my only sports obligation, I mean it’s a fun obligation but it’s a lot of tv…

Monday

  • Tour de France (NBCSN, 5am) – Another week kicks off with the time trials, will Wiggins prevail?
  • Bizarre Foods in America (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – $750 cupcake?
  • The Closer/Perception (TNT, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Goodbye to Brenda and hello to Eric McCormack and his psychotically induced imaginary friends as he joins Rachel Leigh Cook to solve FBI cases.
  • The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – More bad.
  • Opening Act (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – Picking a band from the online competition sounds like a recipe for success.

Tuesday

  • Destination Truth (Syfy, 8pm) Season Premiere – Bigfoots and Goblins oh my!
  • Hardcore Pawn (Tru, 9pm) Season Premiere – I’m sure there is a difference amongst the pawn shows but…
  • Trust Us With Your Life/NY Med (ABC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Celebrity improv and another visit to another hospital to see how the real healers heal.
  • White Collar/Covert Affair (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – How Neal gets back into the FBI fold from his island escape is I’m sure one plot twist away and more CIA thrills.

Wednesday

  • Beverly Hills Nannies (ABCFam, 9pm) Series Premiere – Writing that title makes me physically ill.
  • Damages /Hit & Miss (DirTV, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Those crazy legal ladies are back, and then Chloe Sevigny as a contract killer who happens to be a transsexual, you bet.
  • Toddlers and Tiaras (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – More of this.
  • The Franchise (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – A season with the Miami Marlins.
  • Picked Off (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Throw team competition into a pawn show.
  • Restaurant: Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Steak and Seafood done wrong?

Thursday

  • Big Brother (CBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Is this show still on?
  • Natural Born Sellers (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – Too lazy to look up what they’re selling.
  • The Real L Word/Polyamory (Show, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – NYC lesbians join and relationships multi partner style.
  • Property Wars (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Battle on.
  • Top Spot (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Your pick of the best of three.

Friday

  • Tyler Perry’s for Better or for Worse (TBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – I guess worse is more dramatic…

Saturday

  • Dark Matters (Sci, 10pm) Season Premiere – Looking into the dark?

Sunday

  • Leverage (TNT, 8pm) Season Premiere – I just can’t resist this fluffy con/heist show.
  • Breaking Bad/Small Town Security (AMC, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premiere – Walt and Jesse appear to have survived another season and the reality of private security.
  • Political Animals (USA, 10pm) Series Premiere – Word is good on this Sigourney Weaver as fictional not Hillary Clinton.
  • Strange Sex (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – More sexual irregularities.
  • 3 Days to Open with Bobby Flay (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can he help in time?
  • Combat Pawn (Tru, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – How much pawn can we take?

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/2-7/8

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Still wrapping some sports, but taking it a little bit light for the American holiday week…

Monday

  • Four Houses (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Decorating times four.
  • Web Therapy (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Lisa Kudrow returns as the therapist most in need of therapy.

Tuesday

  • Michael Wood’s Story of England (PBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – History.
  • Haunted Highway (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Paranormal roads.

Wednesday

  • A Capitol Fourth (PBS, 8pm) – Host Tom Bergeron brings music and fireworks.
  • Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (NBC, 9pm) – Regis hosts with performers and fireworks.
  • America’s Lost Treasures (NatGeo, 9pm) Series Premiere – Treasure, historical style.
  • Boston Pops Spectacular (CBS, 10pm) – Orchestra and fireworks.

Thursday

  • Breakfast at Wimbledon (ESPN, 4am) – Recover from the fourth with a little preshow the the Wimbledon action.

Friday

  • And recover from the fifth maybe by going out.

Saturday

  • Tour de France (NBC, 5am) – Stages 7 & 8 hit the network for a little weekend viewing, otherwise catch one of the many showings on NBCSN.
  • Wimbledon Highlights (ABC, 1pm, Sat & Sun) – Randomly the Wimbledon finals for both men and women are noted as “highlights” on ABC so keep the recording set for ESPN at 6am for what should be the full events.
  • Dog Whisperer (NatGeo, 8pm) Season Premiere – Cesar begins his final season of dog (or owner) interventions.
  • The Walking Dead (AMC, 8:30am) – Catch up from the beginning starting on Saturday or just the TiVo lost second half of season two starting Sunday at 11:30am.

Sunday

  • Big Ang (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – A mob wife gets her own show.

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summer series roundup

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There’s something about the tone of a summer series almost across the board, mindless and fluffy, and the somewhat year round cable offerings are more than happy to keep catering to that. So far only a couple are sticking around for another look from me, but I am making some progress on old Battlestar Gallactica.

  • Anger Management (Fx, 6/28) – We watched him crash but is this latest vehicle funny enough to get us watching Charlie Sheen again?
  • Baby Daddy (ABCFam) – Ah the hijinks of a young dude and his two buddies when left to care for a baby, I’ll pass.
  • Bunheads (ABCFam) – Gilmore Girls creator takes another stab at quirky chatterers in a small town, this time with a dumb title to convey the dance slant, I’m intrigued.
  • Common Law (USA) – What happens when the two best police detectives just can’t get along, couples counseling of course, not the best of the formulaic but watchable though I’ll pass.
  • Dallas (TNT) – Picking up characters old and new, I wasn’t ever quite on board the first time but I made it through the pilot with little interest, pass.
  • Hit and Miss (Dir, 7/11) – Chloe Sevingy is a pre-op transsexual contract killer, stay tuned.
  • Inside Men (BBCA) – Plotting of a scheme has me intrigued, it’s on the TiVo, stay tuned.
  • Longmire (A&E) – Can’t get enough of a quiet damaged small town sheriff, so far I’m on board.
  • Men at Work (TBS) – I sampled but couldn’t get on board with this four buddies hanging in and out of their magazine jobs, pass.
  • The Newsroom (HBO) – Alas no HBO for me but I was intrigued by the latest from Sorkin tackling a news show.
  • Perception (TNT, 7/9) – Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic neuroscientist who helps former student and FBI agent Rachel Leigh Cook solve crimes.
  • Political Animals (USA, 7/15) – Sigourney Weaver plays a similar to but not Hillary Clinton Secretary of State.
  • Saving Hope (NBC) – So if the main character, a brilliant and engaged doc of course, is in a coma and can’t talk to anyone… I barely made it through the pilot, pass.
  • Soul Man (TVL) – The latest old school feeling new sitcom of R&B singer turned Preacher, just not intrigued enough to check out, pass.
  • XIII (Reelz, 6/29) – A memory wiped secret agent tries to find out who he is, slightly intrigued but no Reelz for me.

As always the reality shows outweigh the scripted but I just can’t pay attention to every profession or kind of crime. There are also some early fall August releases like Come On (Matthew Perry’s return to NBC sitcom), Major Crimes (Mary McDonnell’s Closer character takes center stage), and Copper (AMC’s latest dated drama), stay tuned as we lump those into fall.

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/25-7/1

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Starting the sporting portion of our summer schedule…

Monday

  • Wimbledon (ESPN2, 3:30am) – The fortnight of tennis begins!
  • Tour de France Preview (NBCSN, 8am, and various) – Who’s who and who to watch at this year’s tour.
  • Olympic Trials (NBC, 8pm, ongoing + NBCSN) – Swimming! The trials are starting and the focus on the pool begins as we get a look at the times Lochte and Phelps will be throwing down, other trials are taking place on cable including Track & Field, Diving, and Gymnastics.
  • Mobster Confessions (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Mobster tales.
  • Hollywood Exes (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Stop the madness, if you stop watching these shows they will go away.

Tuesday

  • Craft Wars (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Tori Spelling hosts this competition of crafting.
  • Retired at 35 (TVL, 10pm) Season Premiere – Has this dude been unemployed for a year?

Wednesday

  • Final Witness (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think this is a combo of investigating and reenacting crimes.
  • The Real World (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Apparently they haven’t run out of people or places to be real.

Thursday

  • Wipeout (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Nerdy dudes vs. hot dudettes.
  • Anger Management/Louie/Brand X with Russell Brand (FX, 9/10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premieres – A new start for Charlie and Russell and another bad day for Louie.
  • Trip Flip (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – Excursions.
  • Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Anne finds someone to turn restaurants around.
  • Awkward (MTV, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Welcome back another season of romance and public humiliation as only high school can bring.

Friday

  • Chasing UFOs (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – A skeptic, a believer, and an undecided go chasing lights…
  • XIII (Reelz, 9pm) Series Premiere – A secret agent looks for his true identity, I’m thinking Bourne-esque, might be worth a look.

Saturday

  • Tour de France (NBCSN, 5am) – The boys are hitting the road for the first stage in the tour, get your dvrs cleared off!
  • X Games (ABC, 10am, various and ESPN/2) – The games kick it off on Thursday hitting network on the weekend for another crop of crazy runs and hopefully only minor injuries.
  • ER Nights (Health, 10pm) Series Premiere – Night time medical visits.

Sunday

  • Queen & Country (PBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – Starting with a look at the guards of the queen.
  • Weeds/Episodes (Show, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Kicking off the final season of Weeds, do I move on past season three? and another season of Joey.

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/18-6/24

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I have almost identified and recovered the shows I lost with the TiVo, what I’m missing is the second half of The Walking Dead season 2…

Monday

  • Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta (VH1, 8pm) Series Premiere – Atlanta’s version of the music slanted reality couples.
  • Danger by Design (Sci, 9pm) Series Premiere – Following daredevil Nik Wallenda.
  • Rupaul’s Drag U (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Getting the latest dragsters in style.
  • Miss Advised (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – EW basically describes it as: three shockingly irritating women try to find love.
  • The Glass House (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – If we’re to believe the lawsuits this either is or isn’t exactly like Big Brother.

Tuesday

  • Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp (Life 10pm) Series Premiere – I just can’t…

Wednesday

  • Baby Daddy (ABCFam, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Three men and a baby sitcom style.
  • Diamond Divers (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Sailos search for diamond treasure.
  • Inside Men (BBCA, 10pm) Series Premiere – I do like a good heist show, so I’ll take a look at the plotting of an armed robbery.
  • School Spirits (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at ghost stories school style.
  • Soul Man/The Exes (TVL, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premieres – Another addition to the new old school style sitcoms, R&B singer turns preacher, followed by the return of the singles.

Thursday

  • Justin Bieber (NBC, 8pm) – All around the world.
  • POV (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Kicking off the season with reincarnation.
  • Snookie & JWoww (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Did they envision this show before or after the baby?
  • Wilfred (FX, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – What happens to the buddies next?

Friday

  • UFC on FX (FX, 9pm) – A special presentation of fight night.

Saturday

  • Oddities: San Francisco (Sci, 9pm) Series Premiere – Science oddites in San Francisco.

Sunday

  • Army Wives (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – The wives return.
  • The Great Escape (TNT, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kind of an Alcatraz Amazing Race.
  • The Newsroom (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – Sorkin’s latest, think Sportsnight meets West Wing.

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/11-6/17

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Monday

  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager/Bunheads (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Not really that ordinary teenagers and then the latest from Gillmore Girls creator ASP, give it a chance even though the name is so dumb.
  • Tia & Tamera/Chicagolicious (Style, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – The twins continue their lives and then a Chicago hair salon.
  • Hurricane Hunters (Weath, 9pm) Series Premiere – Can we just say no one cares about new weather shows and be done with the weather channel?
  • Top Gear (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Testing at the track.
  • Lizard Lick Towing (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – Towing, towers, towees…

Tuesday

  • Barter Kings (A&E, 9pm) Series Premiere – Can’t pawn, perhaps a trade is in order.
  • Thorne (Enc, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Investigate thyself.
  • Teen Mom (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Do they follow the same moms or are there new teens each season?
  • World’s Worst Tenants (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – You thought your neighbors were bad…

Wednesday

  • Dallas (TNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – We’re all skeptical of the continuation of Ewing drama, even with some returning cast, but will folks tune in?

Thursday

  • Burn Notice/Suits (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Michael is back and up against it all and I think I am tiring of it, while our two “lawyers” continue their shenanigans in and outside the courtroom which was entertaining enough last season.

Friday

  • Countdown to Niagra/Megastunts (ABC, 8/9pm) – Tightrope walking across Niagara Falls.
  • Say Yes to the Dress/Randy to the Rescue (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – What dress is right for you, and he’s coming to you to find the right wedding dress.
  • Gravity Falls (Dis, 10pm) Series Premiere – Twins visit their uncle and find something amiss in a remote town.
  • Evil, I (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess we can also just assume ID is running one variation of looking into crimes stories after another.

Saturday

  • Standup in Stilettos (TVG, 10pm) Series Premiere – Lady comedians, who invariably are not all wearing stilettos.

Sunday

  • Falling Skies (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – A return of the battle against the alien invasion that I could never quite get into.
  • Gator Boys (ANPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Gator boys worry about their reputation?
  • Taboo (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at peeps outside the norm.

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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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