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new and noteworthy tv: 8/19-8/25

August 18, 2013 2 Comments

Another week to go and then more tennis…

Monday

Basketball Wives (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – More reality…
Delete (Reelz, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – Fighting artificial intelligence with artificial intelligence, plus actors
Bubba-Q (Food, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Building custom grills.

Tuesday

I guess I could start watching So You Think You Can Dance?

Wednesday

Modern Dads (A&E, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The reality of four stay-at-home dads…

Thursday

Ghost Shark (Syfy, 9pm) – It’s no Sharknado but it does follow a reairing of it.

Friday

Venus and Serena (Show, 9pm) – A look into the tennis sisters focusing on the injury-plagued 2011 season.

Saturday

Too Cute! (AnPl, 8pm) – Top 20 puppies!

Sunday

US Open Preview/Arthur Ashe Kids Day (CBS, 10:30/3pm) – A look at the last slam of the year and then watch the pros goof around and listen to teenybopper bands.
Family Dance Off (ABC, 8pm) – Five families compete.
Silk (PBS, 9 pm) Series Premiere – A barrister takes on a new case and a new trainee.
Video Music Awards (MTV, 9pm) – So seriously where do people see music videos?

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: 8/12-8/18

August 11, 2013 No Comments

Nothing much to add so perhaps time to check back into Friday Night Lights season 2 on Netflix…

Monday

CMA Music Festival (ABC, 8pm) – Little Big Town hosts highlights of the fest.
The Real Housewives of Miami (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Can the group get together?
Hotel Impossible (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Anthony has his work cut out for him.

Tuesday

The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 8pm) Season Premiere – What are the chances the girls will irritate each other in Miami?
Amish Mafia/Tickle/Porter Ridge (Disc, 9/10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – More reality with the Amish continuing, a Moonshiners spinoff and colorful characters in Indiana.
Face Off/Heroes of Cosplay (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Rookies meet returning competitors and then a look at some fans who convention in costume.

Wednesday

Duck Dynasty (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Surprise wedding.

Thursday

Owner’s Manual/The Pitch (AMC, 10/11pm) Series/Season Premieres – Two guys build things and one uses the manual and then the ad competition returns.
Polyamory (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Married and dating.

Friday

Ghost Adventures (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Looking for ghosts.
Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kristen Chenoweth’s assistant needs a gown.

Saturday

Gymnastics (NBC, 8pm) – U.S. championships.

Sunday

The Great Food Truck Race (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Competing from one spot to another, I’d rather not know the behind the scenes of my food trucks.
Oprah’s Next Chapter (OWN, 9pm) – LiLo.

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: 8/5-8/11

August 4, 2013 1 Comment

Monday

T.I. & Tiny/Marrying the Game (VH1, 9/9:30pm) Season Premieres – Personal lives go on.

Tuesday

Holmes Makes it Right (DIY, 8pm) Series Premieres – Contractor fixes people’s problems.
Hot Listings Miami (Sty, 9pm) Series Premiere – Miami properties.
Barter Kings (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Getting another item.
Hard Knocks (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – The Cincinnati Bengals.
The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Ax Men spin-off.

Wednesday

L&O: UK/Broadchurch (BBCA, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – More law and order from across the pond and then local police investigate a crime in what is a highly touted miniseries.
Million Dollar Listing (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Closing another deal.

Thursday

Panic 9-1-1 (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Calling for emergencies.

Friday

Strike Back (Cin, 10pm) Season Premiere – Soldier drama.
What Not to Wear (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Three friends need some styling help.
The White Queen (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Based on best-selling books let the politics and romance begin.

Saturday

Hell on Wheels (AMC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Railroading onward.

Sunday

Teen Choice (Fox, 8pm) – Lucy Hale and Darren Criss host.
Eat, Drink, Love (Brav, 9pm) Series Premiere – Personal lives of a few folks involved in cheffing and whatnot.
Bad Ink (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Bad body art gets corrected.
Cutthroat Kitchen (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cooking?
Low Winter Sun/Talking Bad (AMC, 10/11pm) Series Premieres – Reprising the role of this UK miniseries, cop drama, then much like Talking Dead folks chat about each ep of Breaking Bad.

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: 7/29-8/4

July 27, 2013 No Comments

Monday

The Writer’s Room (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – The first ep starts with talk of Breaking Bad.

Tuesday

Capture (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Contestants hunt each other, as this is a reality show I’m not sure they kill their prey.

Wednesday

Do Something Awards (VH1, 8pm) – Go community service.

Thursday

X Games (ESPN/BC, various) – The games come to LA.
Young Hollywood Awards (CW, 8pm) – What would young Hollywood do without their own awards?
Hatfields & McCoys (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – Moonshine baby.

Friday

America’s Next Top Model (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – This season they’ve added wannabe fierce dudes.

Saturday

Too Cute! (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Adorable animals abound.
Psychic Tia (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – This is one of those self-explanatory titles.

Sunday

Secret Millionaire (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More supposed to be touching encounters.
Ride-iculous (Trav, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Top thrill rides.
Shark After Dark (Disc, 11pm) Series Premiere – One assumes shark and darkness.

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: 7/22-7/28

July 23, 2013 No Comments

A little delay this week, but now typing on a brand new laptop! Now just a couple dozen more laptop items to figure out…

Monday

Cat. 8 (Reelz, 8pm) Mini-series Premiere – Renegade scientist, fireball, yup.
Breaking Pointe (CW, 9pm) Season Premiere – Revisiting the ballerinas.
Supermarket Superstar (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – Competing to get product into the market.

Tuesday

Power Broker (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – First time buyers try to score.
Who Do You Think You Are (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – More celebrity ancestry.
The Vineyard (ABCF, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another reality show following youngsters.
Web Therapy (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – Kudrow returns for more healing therapy.

Wednesday

Spell-Mageddon (ABCF, 9pm) Series Premiere – Contestants spell under pressure.
Joe Rogan Questions Everything (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Trying to explain the unexplained, Bigfoot?
Top Chef Masters (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Thirteen chefs kick it off.

Thursday

My Life as a Gangster Girl (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Recalling their criminal pasts.
Sanya’s Glam & Gold (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – We follow Sanya an Olympic gold medalist.
Childrens Hospital (AdSw, 11:59) Season Premiere – This totally random show is apparently still on.

Friday

John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show (Com, 11pm) Season Premiere – Comedians join John.

Saturday

America’s Cutest Dog (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – No dog is cuter than my dog.
UFC (Fox, 8pm) – Johnson vs. Moraga.

Sunday

Unforgettable (CBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Higher profile cases for our rememberer.
Gator Boys (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – Florida and Miami.
Total Divas (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – These are WWE style divas.

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: 7/15-7/21

July 13, 2013 No Comments

Monday

The iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party (CW, 8pm) – Highlights of the music festival.

Tuesday

2013 MLB All-Star Game (Fox, 4:30pm) – Go fake regional team
Whose Line is it Anyway/Perfect Score (CW, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – Improv games and competing for dates.
Giuliana & Bill (Sty, 8pm) Season Premiere – More of them.
Weird or What? (Syfy, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’m guessing weird.
Covert Affairs/Suits (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Annie’s on the case and then more office deceit and whatnot, I’m still moderately engaged with the fake lawyer nonsense.
Catering Wars (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who can cater to the top.
Ink Master (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – Inking inmates.

Wednesday

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo/Wedding Island (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – No comment and then following a wedding planner.
Deal With It (TBS, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Another annoying prank show.

Thursday

Road to/Project Runway (Life, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – Season 12 designers, time to finish up season 11.
Money from Strangers (MTV, 11pm) Season Premiere – And another annoying prank show.

Friday

Teen Beach Movie (Dis, 8pm) – Who are the next teens stars who we will soon see go off the rails.

Saturday

Cedar Cove (Hall, 8pm) Series Premiere – I didn’t realize Hallmark did original series but Andie McDowell brings what seems to be a Hallmarky book about a small town judge to the small screen.

Sunday

City Girl Diaries (Sty, 9pm) Series Premiere – Following five working women.
Sister Wives/Breaking Amish (TLC, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – More of these peeps.
Axe Cop/High School USA! (Fox, 9:30/9:45pm) Series Premieres – Two new fifteen minute additions to the animation domination.
Brother vs Brother (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Renovation showdown.
Tattoo Rescue (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Tattoo parlor interventions.

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: 7/8-7/14

July 6, 2013 No Comments

Monday

Top Gear/Dangerman (BBCA, 8:30/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Car vs yacht then extreme stunts.
Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Ten teams of two compete, in one assumes difficult circumstances.
God, Guns, & Automobiles (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – A ‘throwback’ auto dealership
Hollywood Exes (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah.

Tuesday

Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will someone question Jeff”s design?
Storage Wars: New York (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – Stuff in lockers.
Drunk History/The Jeselnik Offensive (Com, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premieres – Boozers reenact and then comedic guests.

Wednesday

Wonders of Life (Sci, 9pm) Season Premiere – Exploring the origins.
The Bridge (FX, 10pm) Series Premiere – We’re hoping this US/Mexico detective show following a murder is engaging, Diane Kruger plays the latest somewhat asperger-esque expert detective.
Camp (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – For those wishing they were at summer camp right now, or wondering why there isn’t a scripted show about camp on ABCFam.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Yadda, yadda.

Thursday

Orange is the New Black (Netflix, 12:01am) – Apparently these original Netflix series are keeping coming, this has some good early buzz.
Summer Camp (USA, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not to be confused with Camp, this one is adults in a reality show.
Hollywood Game Night (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can’t ever get anyone to do game night with you, apparently celebrities do it all the time so you can watch them.
Airplane Repo (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Some specialized repo.

Friday

Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Andy Samberg guests to kick off the new season.

Saturday

Being Human (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – A ghost, a werewolf and a vampire return, though with cast changes and the US version I can’t remember who they are, though will tune in.
Bounty Hunters (CMT, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess we need to watch more bounty hunters.

Sunday

Tia & Tamera (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – More of the sisters’ goings ons.
Hillbillies for Hire (CMT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Custom prank shop?
Adam Richman’s Fandemonium (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – The best tailgating
La La’s Full Court Life (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Mm hmm.
The Newsroom (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – A new season, I don’t get this channel and I can’t remember if we like this show, I think people do.

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: 7/1-7/7

June 29, 2013 No Comments

Monday

Bizarre Foods of America (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Pig head tamales in LA.
Siberia (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Sixteen contestants are dropped off but all may not be what it seems.
Below Deck (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following a private yacht and its crew.

Tuesday

Being Mary Jane (BET, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Watching a TV news anchor try to juggle it all, this one is fictional and stars Gabrielle Union.

Wednesday

Kelsey’s Essentials/Donut Showdown (Cook, 5/7pm) Season/Series Premieres – Hot sauce and donuts.
BBQ Crawl (Trav, 8pm) Series Premiere – Texas should have some good cookin’.

Thursday

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (NBC, 8pm) – Starbursts blaze.

Friday

Warlocks Rising/Philly Throttle (Disc, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – These warlocks are more motorcycle gang than magical and then some hot rides.
King (Reelz, 10pm) Series Premiere – The newest police procedural where Homicide Detective King has some sort of unorthodox approach, worth a look.

Saturday

Bizarre ER (Health, 7pm) Season Premiere – Near fatal?
Breakfast at/Wimbledon (ESPN, S/S 5/6am; ABC S/S 12pm) – Not sure if the dual coverage of the finals holds true but set your TiVo’s to be on the safe side.

Sunday

Volcom Pro (NBC, 1:30pm) – Surfing from Fiji, mm hmm.

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: 6/24-6/30

June 22, 2013 No Comments

Monday

Wimbledon (ESPN, 4am) – Coverage begins for this fortnight of tennis.
Under the Dome (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who can resist at least a look at this new Stephen King series?
POV (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting another season with funeral insights.

Tuesday

Rizzoli & Isles/Perception (TNT, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Fluffy but not necessarily great cable procedurals, though curious to see the level of crazy they bring Will/Eric McCormack back at.
Catfish (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Exposing fake online relationships.

Wednesday

Big Brother (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Back and longer than ever, tune in if you must.

Thursday

X Games (ESPN2, 5pm) – They’ll be showing the games from Munich, Germany through Tuesday.

Friday

Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Nobody seems to love their bridesmaids dresses.

Saturday

Tour de France (NBCSN, 4:30am) – Stage 1 begins, and I am at this point planning not to watch, trying to winnow down my sports watching.

Sunday

Dexter/Ray Donovan (Show, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – The final season of our favorite serial killer and the first of a new Liev Scriber as fixer with complicating father Jon Voight.

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: 6/17-6/23

June 16, 2013 No Comments

More summer fluff arises, to entertain until Wimbledon…

Monday

Love, Marilyn (HBO, 9pm) – Stars reading memorabilia for some reason is getting good reviews.

Tuesday

Blood and Oil (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Family oil competes with the big companies.

Wednesday

Franklin & Bash (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Heather Locklear reprises her Melrose Place role, or you know one of her other reinvigorating personas, dumb series but you know I kind of like the banter.
Hot in Cleveland/The Exes/The Soul Man (TVL, 10/10:30/11pm) Season Premieres – I still enjoy what’s basically a Golden Girls remake but pass on the others.
Fight Master (Spike, 10pm) Series Premiere – Elimination bouts.
The Soup Investigates (E!, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – What viewers want to know, if I knew what they were informing folks on I’d be tempted to watch.

Thursday

Wilfred (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – The search for Wilfred’s original owner, weird but good weird.

Friday

Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia (Cook, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Start with sampling Vegas.

Saturday

666 Park Avenue (ABC, 9pm) – Another show you may have forgotten about getting some air time.

Sunday

Whodunnit? (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – It’s like real life Clue, or at least reality show Clue.
Crossing Lines (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Donald Sutherland crosses national lines to solve crimes, doesn’t look revolutionary but worth a peak.
Drop Dead Diva/Devious Maids (Life, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – I guess I canceled my season pass after they canceled it before they renewed it and then a potentially cheesy potentially culturally and sociologically stereotypical mystery soap.
Copper (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – A new sergeant.

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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