new and noteworthy tv: 7/29-8/4

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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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/22-7/28

Unforgettable

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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/15-7/21

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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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 7/8-7/14

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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.

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

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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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/24-6/30

Under-the-Dome

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. 

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/17-6/23

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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.

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/10-6/16

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Monday

  • Fast n’ Loud/Street Outlaws (Disc, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Ferrari and Corvette and then the world of underground street racing. 
  • Major Crimes/King & Maxwell (TNT, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Not in love with but will tune back in to see what’s happening in this police unit and then former Secret Service turned PIs, count me in, unless I agree with folks that it’s dumb.
  • The Winner Is… (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – More songster competition.
  • Dean Cole’s Black Box (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – I like that the promo shown for this is ‘who are you?’
  • The Freshman Class (Cook, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The culinary institute welcomes a new class.
  • House Crashers (DIY, 11pm) Season Premiere – Mismatched makeover.

Tuesday

  • Pretty Little Liars/Twisted (ABCF, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – More campy drama and then an intro of the return of a kid who possibly killed his aunt five years ago, dark or campy?
  • My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Right…
  • Shipping Wars (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Monkeys and magicians!
  • Renovate to Rent (HGTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Starting with a duo remodeling a duplex.

Wednesday

  • Royal Pains/Necessary Roughness (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Hank returns to work and Dani has to deal with new management. 
  • Couples Therapy (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Because I want to watch people fight.
  • Dig Wars (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Relic hunters.
  • I’m Having Their Baby (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Lots of worries.

Thursday

  • Intervention (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – When coping doesn’t work. 
  • House of Curves (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Fashion frenzy.
  • Sullivan & Son (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Ken Jeong guest stars, I guess that’s all I have to say.

Friday

  • Magic City (Starz, 9pm) Season Premiere – Greater of two evils?

Saturday

  •  Zero Hour (ABC, 8pm) – Remember this show, probably not, there were some clocks, well they’re burning off more of these episodes. 

Sunday

  • Off the Hook (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – Fish hunting, aka fishing. 
  • Miss USA (NBC, 9pm) – The 62nd annual competition.
  • Inspector Lewis (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – The British saga returns.
  • True Blood (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – More drama in the blood zone.
  • Watch What Happens (Brv, 11pm) Season Premiere – What happens?

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new and noteworthy tv: 6/3-6/9

flesh

Monday

  • The Fosters (ABCF, 9pm) Season Premiere – Teri Polo play a cop, perhaps with a hear of gold, in this foster family drama that will probably be a little more moral than if it were on ABC. 
  • Push Girls (Sund, 10pm) Season Premiere – Love and betrayal.
  • Mistresses (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – This just looks sooo dumb.
  • Teen Wolf (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – More wolfishness.

Tuesday

  • America’s Got Talent (9pm, NBC) Season Premiere – Mel B and Heidi Klum join the panel of judges.
  • Bang Goes the Theory (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Science and power.
  • Exit (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Competing to get out of booby trapped spaces.
  • Pretty Wicked Moms (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – Follows Dance Moms so…
  • The Alectrix (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – The band gets a new manager.

Wednesday

  • CMT Music Awards/Redneck Island (CMT, 8/10:30pm) – Why does Kristen Bell host this, the awards not the island?
  • Beverly Hills Pawn (Reelz, 9pm) Series Premiere – Because they’ve got the good stuff in these hills.
  • Toddlers & Tiara/The Good Buy Girls (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Children and then adults acting like children behind the scenes of home shopping.
  • Chef Roble & Co (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Chef it up.
  • Paranormal Witness (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Discount on a house with devil worshipping?
  • Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Sci, 10pm) Season Premiere – More science.

Thursday

  • NBA Finals (ABC, 6pm) – Go basketball.
  • The Hero/72 Hours (TNT, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – The Rock gets people to compete in a more extreme way then folks have three days to find some cash.
  • Style Pop (Sty, 8pm) Series Premiere – Chatting about pop culture and style.
  • Burn Notice/Graceland (USA, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – The final season of our burned spy followed by a house of undercover agents at the beach, worth a watch.
  • Race to the Scene (Reelz, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look a movie scenes like Forrest Gump and Independence Day.
  • In the Flesh (BBCA, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can a zombie be rehabbed and returned home, I’m intrigued?

Friday

  • Continuum (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – The cop from the future is still in the present. 

Saturday

  • Sinbad/Primeval: The New World (Syfy, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – New series where Sinbad stands up to the prince and science guys investigate dinosaurs out of space and time. 

Sunday

  • Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Now NPH hosting this makes sense. 
  • HGTV Star (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ten designers compete starting with showing their own style.
  • Falling Skies (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Apparently this show is still on.
  • Mountain Men (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Into the wild.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/27-6/2

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Get ready for summer…

Monday

  • French Open (ESPN2/NABC, various) – Hello week day tennis!
  • The Bachelorette (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – The latest lady castoff gets her moment of choosing. 
  • Cake Boss (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Post hurricane Sandy.
  • The Glades/Longmire (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premiere – New dead body and botched prison transfer.
  • Hit the Floor (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – Following a professional basketball team’s dance squad.

Tuesday

  • Extreme Weight Loss (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Twins who weigh over 800 pounds. 
  • Family SOS with Jo Frost (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Supernanny extends her domain.
  • The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – I didn’t realize Oprah did dramas in this look at family of Savannah wealthy and their intertwined family staff.
  • Brooklyn DA (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Six part docuseries.
  • Tattoo Nightmares/Never Ever Do This At Home (Spike, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – Once you go pentagram… and then testing the outcome of things you shouldn’t do.

Wednesday

  • The American Baking Competition (CBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – More cooking competitions, this hosted by Jeff Foxworthy?
  • Melissa & Joey/Baby Daddy/Dancing Fools (ABCF, 8/8:30/9pm) Season/Series PremieresWho’s the Boss returns, the dudes taking care of the baby, and then for some reason there hasn’t been a ‘funny’ dance competition until now.
  • Love Thy Neighbor (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Oprah apparently does sitcoms too, this one set in a diner.
  • Healing in the Heartland (NBC, 9pm) – Musical benefit.
  • Top Shot (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – All-stars!

Thursday

  • Renovation Raiders (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – I’m not sure how much secret remodeling can be done while folks are out to dinner. 
  • Beyond Scared Straight (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – What is beyond?

Friday

  • Bridezillas/Marriage Boot Camp/Pregnant and Dating (WE, 8/9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Love of weddings makes you do crazy things and those who might get help and then, well for those who date during those designated 9 mos.
  • Randy to the Rescue (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Wedding planning.
  • Treehouse Masters (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – Not to be confused with Ultimate Treehouses.

Saturday

  • Celebrity Ghost Stories/The Haunting Of (BIO, 9/10pm) Season Premiere – Mocking comment here.
  • Fish Tank Kings (NatGeoW, 9pm) Season Premiere – VW fishtank.
  • Golden Sisters (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following the salon.

Sunday

  • The Killing (AMC, 8pm) Season Premiere – No comment.
  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey/Princesses (Brav, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – Bleh.
  • The Women’s Concert for Change (NBC, 9pm) – I don’t think they mean outfit change.
  • Call of the Wildman/Top Hooker (AnPl, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Uninvited critters and fishing not whoring
  • Food Network Star (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Get ready for your opportunity.
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians/The Wanted Life (E!, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – More of them and then British band Wanted.

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