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new and noteworthy tv: 4/2-4/8

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A few more midseason options to come…

Monday

  • Undercover Boss: Abroad (TLC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Because all the US bosses are getting recognized?
  • Yard Crashers (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Yard transformations.

Tuesday

  • Foodography Cook, 6pm) Season Premiere – More about food.
  • Edge of War (Mil, 7pm) Series Premiere – A look at Hitler’s justifications.
  • No Kitchen Required (BBCA, 7pm) Series Premiere – Chef’s dropped into exotic locations.
  • Giuliana & Bill (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – We’ve hear about the breast cancer, if you want to see them go through it…
  • Dance Moms: Miami (Life, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Because we need another one of these.
  • Savage U (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Dan Savage travels to colleges across the country to talk about sex.

Wednesday

  • One Tree Hill (CW, 8pm) Series Finale – Is this show still on?
  • Best Friends Forever (NBC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – What’s a newly divorced gal to do but move in with her bestie and her bf, let the laughs begin (hopefully).

Thursday

  • Truck Stop USA/Sand Masters (Trav, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – Racecourses and sand sculptors.
  • Cold Blood (ID, 6pm) Season Premiere – Murder investigations.
  • Scandal (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Crisis management Shondra Rhimes style which means we can assume some soapy drama, worth a look.

Friday

  • Motives & Murders (ID, 7pm) Series Premiere – Murder investigations.
  • Python Hunters (NatGeo, 10pm) Season Premiere – Python hunting?

Saturday

  • Shark Men (NGC, 8pm) Season Premiere – A new science team.
  • Dear Genevieve (HGTV, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Redesign.

Sunday

  • Sunday Night Football (ESPN, 8pm) Season Premiere – Are you ready for some Football.
  • Nurse Jackie/The Big C/The Borgias (Show, 9/9:30/10pm) Season Premiere – These are back.
  • Wilson Phillips: Still Holding On (TVG, 9pm) Series Premiere – Weight loss and touring.
  • The Client List (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – Jennifer Love Hewitt gets a job at a day spa with happy endings, I have to watch just one.
  • The Pitch (AMC, 11pm) Series Premiere – A reality series about ad agencies competing.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/26-4/1

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So if I add Idol back into the mix I have fewer slot avails…

Monday

  • Oprah’s Lifeclass (OWN, 8pm) Season Premiere – Iyanla joins Oprah for some chats.
  • Secret Life of the American Teenager/Make it or Break it (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – More teen drama.
  • Brooklyn 11223 (Oxy, 11pm) Series Debut – Join some 20 somethings for a little Brooklyn reality.

Tuesday

  • Caught in the Act (Nat Geo, 8pm) Series Premiere – Animal voyeurism.
  • Best Ink (Oxy, 10pm) Series Debut – Tattoo competitions, but who are the volunteer recipients?
  • 16 and Pregnant (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Pregnant cheerleader.

Wednesday

  • Auction Hunters (Spike, 9pm) Season Premiere – Getting stuff.
  • Whitechapel (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Murder in the workshop, BBC has been making me want to check out their series.

Thursday

  • The Decrypters (NGC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Forensic scientists investigate.
  • Mary Mary (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following real life gospel duo.
  • Punk’d/Pauly D Project (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – Can’t make me watch prank shows or Jersey Shore’s Pauly D.
  • My Mom is Obsessed (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Plastic surgery much?

Friday

  • True Justice (Reelz, 9pm) Series Premiere – Steven Seagal goes undercover in Seattle, his character of course.
  • Magic City (Starz, 11pm) Series Premiere – Drama in a Miami Beach luxury hotel in the 50s.

Saturday

  • Sony Ericsson Open (CBS, 9:30am/Sun 10am) – Men’s and women’s final, tennis.
  • Beverly’s Full House (OWN, 7pm) Series Premiere – Beverly Sims opens her house to family.
  • Escape Routes (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Another road trip challenge show.
  • Kid’s Choice Awards (Nick, 8pm) – Will Smith hosts.
  • Wild Scene Investigation (Nat Geo, 10pm) Series Premiere – Aren’t there animal culprits?
  • Southern Nights (CMT, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Cast members from “Sweet Home Alabama” (which was maybe a dating series?) live together in a house.

Sunday

  • Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Blake and Reba host.
  • Great Expectations (PBS, 8pm) Miniseries Premiere – A look at Pip.
  • The Killing (AMC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who killed Rosie Larsen, and will I regret another season?
  • Game of Thrones (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – I don’t actually know what this show is about but people like it.
  • Snapped (Oxy, 9pm) Season Premiere – A look at some crimes.
  • I Survived… Beyond and Back (Bio, 10pm) Season Premiere – These people actually flat lined.
  • Wicked Tuna (NatGeo, 10pm) Series Debut – Tuna crews.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/19-3/25

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Perhaps some good movies will start opening to keep me entertained…

Monday

  • Dancing with the Stars (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who goes home first the old person or the awkward athlete?
  • La La’s Full Court Life/Styled by June (VH1, 9/9:30pm) Season /Series Premieres – Family drama and celebrity stylists.
  • Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Kick flip it.

Tuesday

  • Hardcore Pawn (Tru, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – Trade it.
  • The Little Couple (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Adoption?

Wednesday

  • Bent (NBC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Will Amanda Peet’s type A gal fall for her crazy contractor in this latest sitcom?
  • Duck Dynasty (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at a family and their duck hunting gear business.
  • House of Consignment (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – How to pick new staff.
  • Real Vice (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reenactments of Miami crimes.

Thursday

  • Project Runway All Stars (Life, 9pm) Season Finale – I’m about six behind and am sure I will hear or read who wins.

Friday

  • My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Beauty pageants and wedding gowns.

Saturday

  • Ball Boys (ABC, 3pm) Series Premiere – Think sports memorabilia.

Sunday

  • Long Island Medium/Leave it to Niecy (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – What happens when your medium mom meets your boyfriend and getting your kids to know your new hubbie.
  • Luck (HBO, 9pm) Series Finale – One horse too many went down.
  • Mad Men (AMC, 9pm) Season Premiere – It’s back, though I have yet to begin this series.
  • Mythbusters (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Duct tape survival gets put to the test.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/12-3/18

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I’m finally making a dent in my backlog…

Monday

  • The Bachelor (ABC, 10pm) – After the final rose.
  • Navajo Cops (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cops Indian reserve style.

Tuesday

  • Fashion Star (NBC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Jessica Simpson, John Varvatos, and Nicole Richie mentor the latest fashion designers, the new feature is you can buy the winning clothes.

Wednesday

  • South Park/Ugly Americans (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Animation amusement.
  • Monster Man (Syfy, 11pm) Series Premiere – Creating monsters is the family business.

Thursday

  • Community (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Ok so it’s sort of a midseason return but I am happy to have it back.
  • Missing (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Ashley Judd isn’t a CIA agent, she’s just a mom looking for her son! I’ve seen this preview a bunch and will tune in but have low hopes.
  • Behind the Music (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – But wait there are more stories to tell.
  • The First 48: Missing Persons (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – People are missing.
  • Sweet Genius (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Chocolaty treats.

Friday

  • Fairly Legal/In Plain Sight  (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – A couple of feisty gals return.
  • Four Weddings (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And a hookah lounge.

Saturday

  • Tennis (ABC, Sat/Sun, 11am, ESPN2 earlier in the week) – ATP tennis from Indian Wells, Ca.

Sunday

  • Frozen Planet/Unchained Reaction (Disc, 8/10pm) Series Premieres – Artics and creating chain reaction contraptions.

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/5-3/11

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Is it time to tune into Idol again?

Monday

  • Bachelor (ABC, 8pm) – Women tell all…
  • Love Broker (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another matchmaker reality show.

Tuesday

  • Breaking In (Fox, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – What happens when they sell the biz to Megan Mullally?
  • Decision 2012 (NBC, 8pm) – Returns and analysis of Super Tuesday.
  • American Digger (Spike, 11pm) Series Premiere – Excavation team.

Wednesday

  • Doomsday Bunkers (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Company that builds underground bunkers.
  • Million Dollar Listing New York (Brav 10pm) Series Premiere – A few real estaters sell some property.
  • My Crazy Obsession (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – More obsessions, too many cabbage patch kids?
  • Happily Divorced (TVL, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – The return of Fran.

Thursday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) – Another one bites the dust.

Friday

  • Ghost Adventures (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Shanghai tunnels of Portland.
  • Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Experimental?

Saturday

  • Game Change (HBO, 9pm) – Does Julianne Moore do a better Palin than Tina Fey.

Sunday

  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 8pm) Season Premiere – Happy anniversary Girl Scouts.
  • Bob’s Burger (Fox, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Taffy tour.
  • Coming Home (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – Raiders reunion.
  • Restaurant Stakeout (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hidden cameras try to uncover the root of the restaurant problems.
  • Shahs of Sunset (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Persian pals.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/27-3/4

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And the midseason shows keep trickling out…

Monday

  • The Haney Project (Golf, 8pm) Season Premiere – Adam Levine is apparently adding golf to his repertoire.

Tuesday

  • My Ride Rules (Speed, 10pm) Season Premiere – Car owners compete either with or for cars.

Wednesday

  • ANTM (CW, 9pm) Season Premiere – Brits vs. Yanks, will it entertain like allstars?
  • Sons of Guns (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Modify an armored car.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fake psychic is back on the case.

Thursday

  • When Vacations Attack (Trav, 8pm) Season Premiere – Attack a vacation or be attacked by a vacation?
  • Awake (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Falling asleep leads to two different versions of life, one where his wife survives a car crash and one where his son does, what’s real and does it matter?

Friday

  • The Cat in the Hat-A-Thon (PBS, 8am) – The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that!

Saturday

  • Deadly Sins (ID, 9pm) Series Premiere – Particularly sinful crimes?
  • Bizarre ER (Health, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bizarre.
  • Q’Viva! The Chosen (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – JLo and MarcA continue with their show together at least, a look at Latin musicians.
  • Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show (BBCA, 11:30pm) Series Premiere – Sketch comedy Brit style.

Sunday

  • Hollywood Girls Night Out (TVG, 8pm) Series Premiere – Celebrity ladies eat and chat.
  • Army Wives (Life, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the army base families disband?
  • Breakout Kings (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Criminals help catch criminals as only a cheesy show can show.
  • Las Vegas Jailhouse (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – What happens in vegas…
  • GCB (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – These good christian bitches starts with the return of one of their own to Dallas, this is talked about as Desperate Housewives-ish, worth a shot.
  • Stevie TV (VH1, 11pm) Series Premiere – Sketch comedy mash up.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/20-2/26

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Time to catch up on TiVo backlog, I’m at 25% full…

Monday

  • Basketball Wives (VH1, 8pm) Season Premiere – Blah.
  • Bethenny Ever After (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah.

Tuesday

  • It Gets Better (Logo/MTV, 11pm) – User videos and celebrity messaging targeted to support LGBT youth.

Wednesday

  • Ghost Hunters International (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ghosty Peru.
  • American Weed (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry.

Thursday

  • Lifeguard! (Weath, 9pm) Series Premiere – Baywatch reality style.
  • Project Runway: After the Runway (Life, 10pm) – All-stars kicks off the post show chit chat.
  • MMA Junkie Live (Spike, 11pm) Series Premiere – Well it doesn’t look like I get Spike but for those who do…

Friday

  • Car Warriors (Speed, 10pm) Season Premiere – And does anyone get this channel?

Saturday

  • Being Human (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – I am confused by both the British and US versions being on at the same time.
  • The Independent Spirit Awards (IFC, 10pm) – Seth Rogan hosts.

Sunday

  • Academy Awards (ABC, 4/5:30pm) – The red carpet gets rolled out early but the real question is who will win my Oscar pool.

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/6-2/12

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Intrigued but not overly optimistic about some new offerings…

Monday

  • Smash (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of a musical, some of the critics that I read love this but not all do, def worth a shot.

Tuesday

  • The River (ABC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Creepy drama follows a wife and son, and tv crew, into the jungle to find missing wildlife tv host.
  • Doomsday Preppers (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Profiles of peeps prepping for the end of the world.
  • The Real Housewives of Orange County (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, Orange County.
  • Jersey Couture (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Blah, blah, New Jersey dresses.

Wednesday

  • Person to Person (CBS, 8pm) – Charlie Rose and Lara Logan interview peeps.
  • Maneater Manhunt (NGW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Tiger at large.
  • Restaurant Impossible (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Prime Ribs & Spaghetti can apparently go awry.
  • Vegas Stripped (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Behind the scenes of sin city.

Thursday

  • Swamp People/Mudcats (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Gators and fishin’.

Friday

  • NFL Characters Unite (USA, 7pm) – For those who are having football withdrawals some NFL peeps do some stuff.

Saturday

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown/A Charlie Brown Valentine (ABC, 8pm) – Unrequited love at its finest.
  • Parking Wars/Billy the Exterminator (A&E, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Parking tickets and pythons.
  • The Bronson Pinchot Project (DIY, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Actor as houseflipper.

Sunday

  • The Grammy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – LL Cool J hosts.
  • The Walking Dead/Comic Book Men/Talking Dead (AMC, 9/10/11:59pm) Season/Series Premiere – What now, then behind the scenes of comics, then a chat about what happened.
  • Worst Cooks in America (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Bad cook boot camp begins.
  • Full Metal Jousting (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – The ultimate extreme sport?
  • My Strange Addiction (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And more people in need of therapy.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/30-2/5

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Hmm, maybe it’s a good week to get back to dvds, or streaming, or whatever its called these days…

Monday

  • The Amandas (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – Amanda and her minions organize.
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo, 9pm) Season Premiere – Elvira guest judges.

Tuesday

  • Sorority Girls/Undercover Princes (TLC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – If I understand these reality shows, US sorority girls and actual Princes go to England to find girls.
  • Tosh.0/Kay & Peele (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – More Tosh and more sketch comedy.

Wednesday

  • Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS, 8pm) – Because there won’t be enough talk about commercials on Sunday.
  • Beast Tracker (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Starting with gators.

Thursday

  • I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – A sitcom and since its MTV it focuses on a twentysomething slacker, who apparently slept with a chick who stole his pants.

Friday

  • Who Do You Think You Are? (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More celebrity genealogy.
  • Man Caves (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Makeovers dude style.
  • Killer Trials (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at more true crimes.

Saturday

  • Candice Tells All (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – More home transformations.
  • How to Rock (Nick, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Popular no more after braces and glasses, a new band and some heartwarming hijinks will solve that.
  • NFL Honors (NBC, 9pm) – Because being in the NFL has no glory.
  • Unfaithful (OWN, 9pm) Season Premiere – I’m not sure looking at people unfaithful in their marriages hits the tone I think of as Oprah.
  • Renovation Realities (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – Renovations are hard.

Sunday

  • Puppy Bowl (AnPl, noon) – I don’t know that the puppies understand the rules but they’re always cute.
  • Superbowl (NBC, 3pm) – Patriots vs. Giants.
  • The Voice (NBC, 7pm) Season Premiere – I kind of liked this last season but after not having watched any X Factor or the current early Idol rounds I may just be music saturated.
  • Jimmy Fallons’s Super Bowl Special (NBC, 10pm) – Apparently it’s a special.

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new and noteworthy tv: 1/23-1/29

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I still haven’t figured out the Australian Open coverage but I’m glad I have TiVo…

Monday

  • The Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m not totally clear on whether this premise entails trying to make the girls less bad or not.
  • Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Starting out with a trip to the Twin Cities.
  • Cake Boss (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cakes and the boss.

Tuesday

  • State of the Union (Various, 9pm) – What’s up USA?
  • All Star Dealers (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – Not just stuff, famous person’s stuff.
  • My First Place (HGTV, 8pm) Season Premiere – House hunting.
  • Joan & Melissa (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – More plastic surgery?

Wednesday

  • Dark Minds (ID, 7pm) Series Premiere – An author, a profiler, and a killer reexamine crimes.
  • Touch (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – Keifer is back, this time can his son predict the future?
  • The Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Real World and Road Rules peeps are back at it.

Thursday

  • Winter X Games (ESPN, 6pm, and ESPN2/ABC various times) – Wintertime in Aspen, Colorado.
  • Fat Chef (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at folks in the food industry trying to work on their weight.
  • Russell Simmons Presents (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – Standup and be funny.
  • Inside Comedy (Show, 11pm) Series Premiere – A chat with comedians.

Friday

  • Chuck (NBC, 8/9pm) Series Finale – Sad to see Chuck’s final mission.
  • Spartacus (Starz, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fighting harder than ever.

Saturday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 12am, Sun 12am) – The women’s and men’s finals cap off a week of coverage.
  • UFC (Fox, 8pm) – Evans vs. Davis.

Sunday

  • Luck (HBO, 9pm) Series Premiere – Horse racing and Dustin Hoffman, I’m intrigued.

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