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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

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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 Premieres – Who’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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new and noteworthy tv: 5/13-5/19

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Not quite done with this year but not quite ready for summer series…

Monday

  • 90210 (CW, 8pm) Series Finale – And the people who aren’t Brenda and Brandon and Dylan and Kelly and… are done. 

Tuesday

  • So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Dance it up. 
  • Crowd Rules (CNBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Elizabeth Chambers discusses specialty foods.

Wednesday

  • South Beach Tow (Tru, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – Take it away. 

Thursday

  • The Office (NBC, 9pm) Series Finale – It should have ended with Michael but whatevs…

Friday

  • Summer blockbuster?

Saturday

  • X Games (NBC, 1pm and ESPN/2 starting Thurs) – Making it happen in Barcelona.
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (HBO, 9pm) – Donna Summer in action. 

Sunday

  • Billboard Music Awards (ABC, 8pm) – What are you singing this summer?
  • Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night (CBS, 9pm) – Oops I mean what are you singing this summer?

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/6-5/12

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Monday

  • Rihanna 777 (Fox, 8pm) – Seven countries, seven continents, seven days, seventh album.
  • Newlyweds (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Four different couples in the first year.

Tuesday

  • Polygamy, USA (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Introducing the latest family.
  • Reel Rivals (Weath, 9pm) Series Premiere – Competitive charter boat captains.
  • Roadtrip with G. Garvin (Cook, 9pm) Season Premiere – Food scene in Austin.
  • Chasing Classic Cars (Vel, 10pm) Season Premiere – How much for a Mercedes 190SL?

Wednesday

  • Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Arizona ostrich ranch.
  • Million Dollar Listing (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Real estate.
  • Model Employee (VH1, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Models made to do undesireable tasks.

Thursday

  • Mountain Movers (NGC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Creating winter sports courses. 
  • Monumental Mysteries (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – The history behind monuments.
  • Small Town Security (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – How does the community feel about their tv show?

Friday

  • Australia’s Deadliest/Ultimate Animal Countdown (NGW, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Sharks, crocs and kangaroos, and then it gets worse. 

Saturday 

  • SNL (NBC, 11:29pm) – Kristen Wiig and Vampire Weekend might make for a decent Saturday.

Sunday

  • XOX Betsey Johnson/Resale Royalty (Styl, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – Designer and then designer retail.
  • Ultimate Survival Alaska (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Contestants fight to survive.
  • Family Tree (HBO, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – A mockumentary of a man on a journey of self discovery.

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/29-5/5

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Monday

  • The Big C (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s next for our protagonist?
  • Red, White & New (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – American ingenuity.

Tuesday

  • Weird or What? (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Hindu mythological creature or spacecraft?
  • Inside Amy Schumer (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Comedian brings more sketches, interviews, and jokes.

Wednesday

  • Family Tools (ABC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Leah Remini returns to sitcom in what promises to have sitcom elements. 
  • The Big Brain Theory (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – The next great innovator.

Thursday

  • The Show with Vinny/Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – A Jersey Shore guy does a talker out of his mom’s house and a comedy about a guy making a reality show out of his life.

Friday

  • Maron (IFC, 10pm) Series Premiere – The life of a comedian and podcaster. 

Saturday

  • America’s Cutest Cat (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – Meow.
  • My Haunted House (Bio, 10pm) Series Premiere – Boo.

Sunday

  • Day of rest.

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/22-4/28

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Another week, maybe it’s time to catch up on Walking Dead…

Monday

  • Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – New beginnings.
  • Rectify (Sund, 9pm) Series Premiere – Their first scripted production shows a man released from Death Row to a changed world.
  • Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Square pizza.

Tuesday

  • Backyard Oil (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A gospel singer’s ranch.
  • Girl Code/Ke$ha (MTV, 10:30/11pm) Series Premieres – Women’s topics and a look at that girl.

Wednesday

  • I Was Murdered (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Told from the victim’s point of view.

Thursday

  • Giving You the Business (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Unwittingly auditioning for a franchise.

Friday

  • NFL Draft (ESPN, 5pm) – Don’t miss the drafts.

Saturday

  • X Games (ABC, 1pm) – Foz do Igaucu from Brazil.

Sunday

  • Good Luck Charlie (Dis, 10pm) Season Premiere – Charlie turns four?

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/15-4/21

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I’ve still got a good amount of backlog, good thing I don’t need to make room for much more…

Monday

  • Oh Sit! (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – Sitting competition?
  • Defiance (Syfy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Futuristic society on earth following war, will the fragile peace remain?
  • James May’s Man Lab (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let’s get some skills.
  • Scam City (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Scams in Rio.

Tuesday

  • Deadliest Catch (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Who’s up for some fishing?
  • Don’t Be Tardy… (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Real housewives woman…
  • Storage Wars/American Hoggers (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – For some reason a ventriloquist is making a guest appearance and then hoggers.
  • Awkward (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Jenna’s predictable humiliation and family, friend, and romantic drama with wit are back.
  • Who Gets the Last Laugh (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Donald Faison hosts comedians in prank challenges.

Wednesday

  • Hoarding (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I am always trying to winnow my stuff. 
  • Locked Up Abroad (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Telling POW tales.
  • Off Pitch (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Show choir.

Thursday

  • Gigolos (Show, 11pm) Season Premiere – There’s a new guy in town.

Friday

  • Sons of Guns (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sometimes you gotta go to Vegas to demo a gun. 
  • I Found the Gown (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – More dresses.

Saturday

  • Four Houses (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Scoring each other’s homes.
  • Spoiled Rotten Pets (NatGeoW, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – These make our pampered pets look tortured.
  • Raising Whitley (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Comedian and friends raise a baby, and yes this is another reality show.

Sunday

  • Dog and Beth/Guntuckly (CMT, 8/9:30pm) Series Premieres – Bounty hunting and family gun range.
  • The Bletchley Circle (PBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – A three part murder mystery series of female code breakers.
  • I’m Married to A… (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Unconventional partnerships.
  • What Would Ryan Lochte Do?/Married to Jonas (E!, 10/10:30pm) Series/Season Premieres – Unwatchable or so bad it’s good and then are they ready to move to New York?

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/8-4/14

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Monday

  • T.I. and Tiny (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Winter adventure.

Tuesday

  • Counting Cars (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Buy that car. 
  • Ready for Love (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Another slant on dating shows, getting dudes a gal.
  • Find Me My Man (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Matchmaker helps single ladies in Miami.
  • The Kandi Factory (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because Real Housewives needs another spinoff.

Wednesday

  • Toy Hunter (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Gene Simmons and KISS memorabilia.
  • World’s Weirdest (NatGeo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Strange animals.
  • Deep South Paranormal (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because there wasn’t enough paranormal being covered.
  • I Want That (DIY, 11pm) Season Premiere – Stylish home solutions.

Thursday

  • The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Guests and whatnot. 
  • The Killer Speaks (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Examining cases from the killer’s perspective.

Friday

  • Eve of Destruction (Reelz, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – Unlimited energy or the end of the planet. 
  • Swamp’d (AnPl, 8pm) Series Premiere – Swamp store owner, for all your swamp area needs.
  • Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Dramatic Leonardo d Vinci.

Saturday

  • Bet On Your Baby (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Parents pit babies against one another, seriously?
  • Iyanla, Fix My Life/Life With La Toya (OWN, 9/10:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Iyanla does her thing, then we now get to watch LaToya do hers, whatever that is.

Sunday

  • 2013 Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Rebel Wilson hosts.
  • Nurse Jackie/The Borgias (Show, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Happy birthday to Jackie and unseating the Borgias?
  • Restaurant Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Purchasing fish is different than cooking fish.
  • Veep (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Midterm elections.

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/1-4/7

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Monday

  • The Real Housewives of Orange County (Brav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Whatevs.
  • The Gossip Game/Master of the Mix (VH1, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Challenging DJs and aspiring superstars.

Tuesday

  •  19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – They’re back from Asia. 

Wednesday

  • Rogue (Dir, 9pm) Series Premiere – Thandie Newton leads the undercover detective first original series from DirecTV.
  • Spies of Warsaw (BBCA, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – Spies before WWII.
  • How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (ABC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Sarah Chalke and some extended family might not be fresh but perhaps a bit of funny.
  • Forever Young (TVL, 10pm) Series Premiere – The under 30s and the over 70s are forced to hang out.
  • Best Ink (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Skin art competition.
  • My Crazy Obsession (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Crazy is right.

Thursday

  • Casino Confidential/America’s Worst Tattoos/NY Ink (TLC, 8/9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Casinos and tattoos and tattoo artists.
  • Hannibal (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Just another serial killer, or a fresh look at a bit of an origin story, I’m game to see.
  • Tabitha Takes Over (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – More hair salon help.
  • Men at Work (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – This dudes sitcom is getting another season.

Friday

  • Vice (HBO, 11pm) Series Premiere – Docuseries newsmag.

Saturday

  • My Cat From Hell (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – Too allergic to watch.

Sunday

  • WTA Tennis (ESPN2, 10am) – Family Circle Cup final.
  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 8pm) Season Premiere – Let them eat…
  • Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton host.
  • Mad Men (AMC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I might be ready to start diving into this show.
  • River Monsters (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – The fish did it?

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