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new and noteworthy tv: 11/7-11/13

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Nothing to add here for me…

Monday

  • Love/Lust (Sund, 8pm) Season Premiere – Starting with the history of comfort food.
  • Top Gear (BBCA, 8pm) Season Premiere – The best of…

Tuesday

  • Vietnam in HD (Hist, 9pm) Series Premiere – Part one of three…
  • Quints by Surprise (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Season three means a third birthday.

Wednesday

  • CMA Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host.
  • Prophets of Science Fiction (Sci, 10pm) – Miniseries start with a look at Mary Shelley.

Thursday

  • Thespians (Show, 7:30pm) – A docu-style look at high school drama students competing.
  • Braxton Family Values (WE, 9pm) Season Premiere – Tension in the family.

Friday

  • Behind the Music/That Metal Show (VH1 Class, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Musical stylings.
  • Fatal Attractions (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – A man shares space with hundreds of snakes.

Saturday

  • Primeval (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – The end of the world or the end of these characters?
  • Pit Bulls & Parolees (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – I assume this title is self explanatory.

Sunday

  • My Fair Wedding with David Tutera/I Do Over (WE, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Time for a dream wedding?
  • All American Muslim (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at five Muslim-american families.

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new and noteworthy tv: 10/31-11/6

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Everything is basically out, I’m still overbooked in a couple slots, and have a bit of a TiVo backlog so it might be time for a few more cuts…

Monday

  • Rock Center with Brian Williams (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new news magazine and Brian Williams actually can be pretty funny.

Tuesday

  • Covert Affairs (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – What case will the rookie agent get next and will she run in heels?

Wednesday

  • Top Chef (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cook it up.

Thursday

  • Bones (Fox, 9pm) Season Premiere – What shows get eliminated from my schedule to fit in the expecting Bones?
  • Tim Gunn/Project Accessory (Life, 9/10pm) – Behind the seams with Tim Gunn on regular runway, and then somehow I missed the premiere of the accessory version.
  • Burn Notice (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Can Michael balance working with the CIA and his extracurriculars?
  • Cellblock 6 (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Return to prison.

Friday

  • Fish Hooks (Dis, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – Animated fish dealing with tween life, this must be Disney.

Saturday

  • Color Splash (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Do we really need a Twilight themed home makeover?

Sunday

  • The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – They’re back.
  • Swamp Wars/Call of the Wildman (AnPl, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Animal Venom unit and then animal rescue, like you’ve never seen before?
  • John Sanford’s Certain Prey (USA, 9pm) – Might or might not be intrigued to see Mark Harmon as Lucas Davenport.
  • Chef Hunter (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Out of work chefs compete.
  • Hell on Wheels (AMC, 10pm) Series Premiere – This is one of those titles that says nothing, it’s apparently a post civil war drama where among other things a confederate soldier seeking revenge.
  • Police POV (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – We hit the streets with them again.

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new and noteworthy tv: 10/24-10/30

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My schedule is almost solidified…

Monday

  • Hoarders/Monster In-Laws (A&E, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Too much stuff, too difficult family?
  • Disappeared (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at people no longer around.

Tuesday

  • Auction Hunters/Flip Men (Spike, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – Auctions and houses updated.
  • Homicide Hunter (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – A retired police detective looks at murder cases.

Wednesday

  • Whitechapel (BBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Something tells me this new detective’s case might not be open and shut.

Thursday

  • It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Happy Halloween!
  • Beavis and Butt-head/Good Vibes (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – They’re back and joined by new animated surfers.

Friday

  • Chuck/Grimm (NBC, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premiere – What will Carmichael Industries bring and then what if fairy tale characters committed crime.
  • Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (TBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – The Browns are back.
  • Gold Rush/Flying Wild Alaska (Disc, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Whatever.
  • Brides of Beverly Hills (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another twist on the bridal salon.

Saturday

  • The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – More chatting.

Sunday

  • Allen Gregory (Fox, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Jonah hill voices a kid mature beyond his seven years.
  • The Next Iron Chef (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – All star edition.
  • On the Case with Paula Zahn (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – The search for a killer.

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new and noteworthy tv: 10/17-10/23

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They’re almost all out…

Monday

  • Clean House New York (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – I do get annoyed by my clutter.
  • Lottery Changed My Life (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – If I won the lottery…
  • Bachelorette Party (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere – One should not have to watch bachelorette parties.

Tuesday

  • Man Up! (ABC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – The latest of the dudes who are dumb and/or manly trying to be funny shows.
  • Flashpoint (Ion, 10pm) Season Premiere – This Canadian cop show moves to this network.

Wednesday

  • World Series (Fox, 7:30pm) – Go baseball.
  • Nature (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Starting with the wildlife around Chernobyl.
  • Too Fat for 15 (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – The weighing in begins.
  • The Will/Devil You Know (ID, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – What did you leave me, and what if your father was a serial killer?
  • Kitchen Cousins/Property Brothers (HGTV, 9:30/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Family upscaling.
  • American Hoggers (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Texan feral-hog hunters.
  • Fact or Faked (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Paranormal?

Thursday

  • Rules of Engagement (CBS, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Getting a new chance on Thursdays.
  • Sweet Home Alabama/Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (CMT, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – The bachelor picks city or country and then the girls cheer.

Friday

  • Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Another round of payne.
  • Boss (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kelsey Grammar returns to tv this time as a politician, will his brain disorder make him change his ways.
  • My Extreme Animal Phobia (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – So about my bird phobia…

Saturday

  • TiVo, social life?

Sunday

  • Once Upon a Time (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Can fairy-tale characters be released from their spell?
  • Glam Fair/Wicked Fit (Styl, 8/9pm) Series Premieres – Get more styly, get more fit.
  • I Survived ((Bio, 10pm) Season Premiere – Inspiring or creepy?

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new and noteworthy: 10/10-10/16

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Another week, another listing…

Monday

  • The Rosie Show/Oprah’s Lifeclass (OWN, 7/8pm) Series Premiere – The ladies are trying to fill Oprah’s shoes?
  • Bored to Death/Enlightened (HBO, 9/9:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – Just because Ted Danson is on CSI doesn’t mean this show is off the air, and then Laura Dern tries to reinvent herself after a public breakdown.
  • Scare Tactics (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Nothing would irritate me more than being on a hidden camera show, even with a sci-fi twist.
  • American Guns (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following the family owned firearms facility.

Tuesday

  • Last Man Standing (ABC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Tim Allen’s show gets an hour block of fatherly doltishness humor.
  • Frontline (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – This season kicks off with a look at the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • Cold Blood (ID, 9pm) Season Premiere – A look at some crimes, starting in sunny Hawaii.
  • I Used to Be Fat/Chelsea Settles (MTV, 10/11pm) Season/Series Premieres – Folks losing weight and then a plus size gal trying to get into the fashion industry.
  • Reed Between the Lines (BET, 10pm) Series Premiere – Tracee Ellis Ross and Malcolm-Jamal Warner do their take on the family sitcom.

Wednesday

  • Work of Art (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – More contrived art to be judged.
  • Psych (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Don’t you love it how people in crime shows occasionally just stumble upon a dead body.

Thursday

  • Bordertown (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following the Laredo Police Department narcotics unit.
  • Harvest (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – So harvesting crops now gets its own reality show too.
  • Secretly Pregnant (Health, 10pm) Series Premiere – So unlike I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, these ladies know they just aren’t telling.

Friday

  • Time to start in on the TiVo backlog.

Saturday

  • Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s/Don’t Tell the Bride (OWN, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Following a restaurant family and then the silly idea that a husband would plan the wedding.
  • Puppies vs. Babies (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – I can tell you which set of video clips will be cuter.

Sunday

  • Visionaries/Ask Oprah’s All Stars/Our America with Lisa Ling (OWN, 8/9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Tyler Perry, Living Your Best Life, and a little journalism starting with porn.
  • The Walking Dead/Talking Dead (AMC, 9/11:59pm) Season/Series Premiere  – What drama will hit our zombie survivors next followed by chatting about the show.
  • Why Am I Still Single (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – The latest matchmaker tries to turn these singles around.

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new and noteworthy tv: 10/3-10/9

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My TiVo storage is already up to 9% (did I mention I have awesome storage?)…

Monday

  • Top Gear (BBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More fast cars?
  • House (Fox, 9pm) Season Premiere – As discussed I am tired of him almost killing a person until they are cured but starting in prison is supposed to be a nice new twist.
  • Pop Up Video (VH1, 12am) Season Premiere – Stoked this is back and wondering what videos they have in store.

Tuesday

  • Mad Fashion/Fashion Hunters (Brav, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – Runway’s Chris March takes on the costumey fashion and then some time with a fashion consignment store.
  • Gene Simmons Family Jewels (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – She says yes.
  • Onion News Network (IFC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Don’t be fooled by faux news.

Wednesday

  • American Horror Story (FX, 10pm) Series Premiere – There’s been lots of buzz about this family picks up an old Victorian house cheap for good reason, the show pushes the styles but do they succeed?
  • South Park/Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time (Com, 10pm) Season Premieres – The kids are back and then some parodies.
  • Penn & Teller Tell a Lie (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can you tell which story is a lie?

Thursday

  • The This Old House Hour (PBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Starting with a 300-year-old farmstead.
  • Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution (Com, 10pm) Series Premiere – Funny?
  • The League (Fx, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Seth Rogan joins the guys for another season of fantasy football funny.

Friday

  • Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kelly Ripa helps a bride pick a dress, for some reason.
  • Top Secret Recipe/Trick My What (CMT, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Can they recreate KFC and then trick out a tree skidder, whatever that is.
  • Sanctuary (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Some timeline type show.

Saturday

  • Rules of Engagement (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – This comedy series gets another season in no-mans-land Saturday night.
  • Free Agents (BBC, 11pm) Series Premiere – A look at the original Brits.

Sunday

  • Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!, 8pm) – Kim’s fairytale wedding.

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new and noteworthy tv: 9/12-9/18

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And so it begins… For new fall network series I’ll try to denote repeats of pilots, personally I’m a little overbooked until I rule stuff out so it’s nice to have some scheduling options.

Monday

  • Tennis (CBS, 1pm) – The rain delay is scheduled to kick men’s finals ’til Monday.
  • Monday Night Football (ESPN, 7pm) Season Premiere – Patriots at Dolphins.
  • Kate Plus 8 (TLC, 9pm) Series Finale – Please tell me I won’t have to hear anything else about her.
  • The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – All-American tastings.
  • Extreme Couponing (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – How much money can they save?
  • Showhouse Showdown (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Which of the identical rooms has the best design?

Tuesday

  • Rise Up (ESPN, 7pm) Series Premiere – Communities come together to rebuild community sports facilities.
  • 90210/Ringer (CW, 8/9pm – Ringer replays 9/16 8pm, 9/19 9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Never got on board with new 90210 but might get on board with the new Sarah Michelle Geller as twin playing a twin with perhaps some twists and drama.
  • Parenthood (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I need to remind myself what kind of trouble they were into last season.
  • I Hate My Bath (DIY, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – I assume this is like I Hate My Kitchen…

Wednesday

  • Survivor (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Welcome to Samoa.
  • H8R/ANTM (CW, 8/9pm) Series/Season Premiere – So passing on confronting folks who hate celebrities but can’t resist at least the first all stars models edition.
  • Operation Repo/Hulk Hogan’s MCW (Tru, 9/10:00pm) Season/Series Premieres – Repossessions and  then Micro Championship Wrestling
  • Up All Night/Free Agents (NBC, 10/10:30pm – replays 9/15 8:30/9:30pm, 9/17 9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – The first could be funny while the second is supposed to stink.

Thursday

  • The Vampire Diaries/The Secret Circle (CW, 9/10pm – SS replays 9/16 9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Vampires and then witches, which I will check out, might be dumb but it’s got that cute girl from Life Unexpected.
  • Angels Among Us (CMT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Real life divine intervention?
  • It’s Always Sunny/Archer (Fx, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – All kinds of wrong funny, and then perhaps I’ll check out at least one ep of the animated series.
  • LA Ink (TLC, 10pm) Series Finale – Another reality person I’d be ok with not hearing any more about.

Friday

  • NCLR Alma Awards (NBC, 8pm) – Eva Longoria and George Lopez host.
  • 20/20 (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Newsy.
  • Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – No HBO for me.

Saturday

  • Confronting (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – I’m sure it’s all emotional and stuff to confront people.

Sunday

  • Emmys (Fox, 8pm) – Jane Lynch hosts.
  • Shake it Up (Dis, 8pm) Season Premiere – Characters on a scripted show audition for a reality show?

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new and noteworthy tv: 9/5-9/11

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One more week ’til fall really starts rolling out so until then, tennis and the return of SAMCRO!

Monday

  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Honestly tragic this season as they deal with, and probably don’t deal with, the suicide an estranged husband.
  • Interiors, Inc. (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Nashville designers for some strange reason start with Idol contestant Danny Gokey’s breakfast nook.
  • Swamp Loggers (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Feuds and pig roastin’.

Tuesday

  • For Rent (HGTV, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Ready to move out of the dorm room?
  • Frontier Force (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cops, Montana deputy style.
  • The Rachel Zoe Project (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – More clothes, personalities, and catch phrases… this pick up mid pregnancy.
  • Sons of Anarchy (FX, 10pm) Season Premiere – Oh yeah, apparently this is a return to its roots season.

Wednesday

  • Animal Cops/Saved (AnPl, 8pm) Season/Series Premiere – Cops, SPCA style then pets offer comfort.
  • Inside the NFL (Show, 9pm) Season Premiere – Kick it off.
  • Rescue Me (FX, 10pm) Series Finale – Time to move on.
  • Paranormal Witness (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Personal encounters with the paranormal.

Thursday

  • CBS Fall Preview (CBS, 8:30pm) – Big Bang Theory cast takes us through the new offerings.
  • Sunday Night Football (NBC, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Are you ready for some football?

Friday

  • US Open (Various) – The CBS coverage takes over from ESPN2 today with Women’s semis and moving into the weekend of finals.
  • Unleashed by Garo (Sund, 9pm) Series Premiere – This fashion designer does some styly makeovers.

Saturday

  • Dew Tour (NBC, 1/1:30, sat/sun) – First the countdown and then the Toyota Challenge Salt Lake City event starting at 1:30.
  • Cops (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – Can’t go wrong with the original.
  • Bad Dog (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – What will these dogs get into?
  • Dina’s Party (HGTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – New Jersey Housewife throws some extravagant parties.

Sunday

  • Entourage (HBO, 10:30pm) Series Finale – Did I hear someone already talking about an Entourage movie?

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new and noteworthy tv: 8/29-9/4

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Time to decide how much tennis to TiVo…

Monday

  • Basketball Wives LA (VH1, 8pm) Series Premiere – Because we need another show about wives.
  • Crave (Food, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Starting with a look for the ultimate slice.
  • American Chopper/Carfellas (Disc, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Bikes, cars…
  • Design on a Dime (HGTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – Consider a bold palette.
  • Ridiculousness/Death Valley/Cuff’d (MTV, 10/10:30/11pm) Series Premieres – Internet videos, LAPD’s Undead Task Force, and teen arrests.

Tuesday

  • Big Sexy (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A reality show about some gals who show how awesome it is to be plus sized.
  • Chopped (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Past winners return to compete.
  • Quirky (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think this is like one of those other shows where people invent things.

Wednesday

  • Dark Matters (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Unusual science research?

Thursday

  • I’m Pregnant and… (Health, 10pm) Season Premiere – The ‘…and’ refers to some irregular scenario like my husband wants to become a woman.

Friday

  • Man, Woman, Wild (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Lost at sea…

Saturday

  • US Open Tennis (Various) – The CBS coverage picks up today with 3rd round, and ESPN2 has the earlier and other ongoing coverage.
  • I Faked My Own Death (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess enough people have done it enough for a series.

Sunday

  • Masterpiece: Inspector Lewis (PBS, 9pm) – More inspecting…
  • All American Handyman (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – I can only assume this man is handy.
  • Border Wars (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – What do they confiscate…
  • Dinosaur Revolution (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Evolution or revolution in this new animated series.
  • The Good Wife (CBS, 9:30pm) – A look back at the first couple seasons to catch folks up to date, not sure how compelling the special is but the show definitely is.
  • Las Vegas Jailhouse (Tru, 10pm) Season Premiere – Jailhouse rock…

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new and noteworthy tv: 8/22-8/28

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My Tivo is down to 5%, ready for some fall tv to kick in…

Monday

  • La La’s Full Court Life/The TO Show (VH1, 9/9:30pm) Season Premieres – It’s a basketball wife story and a football star with ACL issues story.
  • Top Gear (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Apparently one doesn’t need to be a gearhead to appreciate this look at the fancies.
  • Lizard Lick Towing/Bear Swamp (Tru, 9:30/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Repoing of vehicles and other things aren’t always easy.

Tuesday

  •  Ludo Bites America (Sund, 9pm) Season Finale – These pop up chefs make their final stop in Redondo Beach, where will their culinary skills land.

Wednesday

  • Buried Treasure (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – It’s like taking Antiques Roadshow on the road.
  • Ghost Hunters (Syfy, 9pm) Season Premiere – Apparently there are either a lot of ghosts or these hunters aren’t that successful.
  • Happy Endings (ABC, 9:30pm) – An unaired episode of these
  • Confessions: Animal Hoarding (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – If you thought hoarding was depressing…
  • Top Chef Just Desserts (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Bake ’til you drop.

Thursday

  • Rising (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – A look at the rebuilding of ground zero.

Friday

  • Rat Busters NYC (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think ‘rat’ means rat.

Saturday

  • Doctor Who (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Back to the time travel for the doctor.
  • 24/7 (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Mayweather and Ortiz train for their bout.

Sunday

  • Tennis (CBS, 9/10:30) – Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day is followed by the official preview of the US Open starting on Monday.
  • Madden NFL (NBC, 7pm) – Celebrities and NFL greats take on a little flag football.
  • MTV Music Video Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Another year another…
  • I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – Post collegiate Brooklyn hipsters try to entertain in this latest series.

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