new and noteworthy tv: 5/30-6/5

It looks like summer is here, if not in weather then in the start of summer series…

Monday

  • Basketball Wives/Single Ladies (VH1, 8pm) Season/Series Premieres – Real life wives and then a fictional take with a Sex & the City-esque hang with some gal pals.
  • Cake Boss (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the NASA cake fly?
  • Platinum Hit (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kara DioGuardi and Jewel bring us the latest singing slant on folks who write their own.
  • Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition (ABC 10pm) Series Premiere – Spending a year with one person instead of a couple weeks with a couple dozen contestants.

Tuesday

  • NBA Finals (ABC, 6pm) – Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks kick it off.
  • America’s Got Talent (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Another season of random talent.
  • Deception with Keith Barry (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – A ‘mentalist’ looks at the world of deception.
  • The Little Couple (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Fertility issues continue.
  • Love Handles (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – How could a mix of reality, couples, and weight issues be wrong?
  • Million Dollar Decorators (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Hmm, how far does a million dollars go?

Wednesday

  • Franklin & Bash/Men of a Certain Age (TNT, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premiere – Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer offer up another take on unconventional lawyering then more conventional guys.
  • Haunted Collector/Hollywood Treasure (Syfy, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Not just places but things can be haunted and this guy takes a look, then a look at items more cinematic.
  • Man v. Food Nation/Sand Masters (Trav, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Food challenges hit the road and then sand castles get serious.
  • Sweat Equity (DIY, 9pm) Season Premiere – More home repair.
  • Love in the Wild (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Think Survivor as a dating show.
  • The World According to Paris (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere – I am not even interested in Hilton in a trashy sort of way.

Thursday

  • The First 48: Missing Persons (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Spinoff of The First 48 follows missing persons.
  • Love Bites (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – I believe this is a summer burn off of a romance anthology that never quite made it into the schedule.
  • NY Ink (TLC, 10) Series Premiere – A Miami Ink guys starts up in NY.
  • Children’s Hospital (AdSw, 11:59pm) Season Premiere – This is one of those comedies that is so random I kept wanting to like it.

Friday

  • French Open (NBC, 11am) – The week on ESPN2 leads up to the men’s semis, with women’s final Saturday at 6am/pst and men’s final Sunday 6am finals.
  • Whale Wars (AnPl, 9pm) Season Premiere – More anti-whaling action.

Saturday

  • NHL Stanley Cup Finals (NBC, 5pm) – Go hockey, Game 1 is Wed at 5pm/pst, games 3 & 4 head to Vs. and returns to NBC for 5 and on if needed.

Sunday

  • Food Network Challenge/The Next Food Network Star (Food, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – 80s cakes and then 15 new chef’s arrive to compete.
  • MTV Movie Awards (MTV, 9pm) – Jason Sudeikis hosts the one where they vote for things like ‘The Best Kiss.’
  • Ice Road Truckers (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – More ice, more trucking, more truckers.
  • Locked Up Abroad (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Crimes in foreign countries strikes me as a bad idea.
  • Finding Bigfoot (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – Do you think they find him?
  • Freaky Eaters (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m glad these people are getting help even if it is through exploitation tv.
  • The Glades (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – I found this fluffy detective out of his element in Florida series not necessarily great but enjoyable.
  • Mancations (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Man friendly getaways.
  • The Real L Word (Show, 10pm) Season Premiere – Reality show lesbian-style.
  • Teen Wolf (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – I can’t stop picturing Michael J Fox and Justin Bateman but this is a much more modern take on a high school werewolf.

new and noteworthy tv: 6/6 – 6/12

June 5th, 2011

Monday

  • Masterchef (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – A few kitchen dudes look for the next amateur ready to make it big time.
  • My Yard Goes to Disney/House Hunters on Vacation/HGTV’d (HGTV, 8/8:30/9pm) Series Premieres – Outdoor spaces Disneyfied, travelers visit homes before selecting one as a vacation stay, and surprise makeovers.
  • Switched at Birth (ABCFam, 9pm) Series Premiere – It reads like a Lifetime movie but this latest fictional look at the rare familial entanglements will keep going week after week, this family channel is often too trite but sometimes worth a look.
  • Unfaithful/The Dr Laura Berman Show (OWN, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – A look at infidelities and then a camera joins the dr’s radio show.
  • Behind Mansion Walls (ID, 10pm) Series Premiere – Why just look at murders when you can look at murders involving rich people.

Tuesday

  • White Collar/Covert Affairs (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Campy spy business back to back, I’m more enamored with the likable hustler than the newest addition to the CIA.
  • 19 Kids & Counting (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Please tell me these people aren’t still counting on more kids.
  • Love/Lust (Sund, 10pm) Season Premiere – The season starts out with a look at street foods.

Wednesday

  • CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8pm) – Country goodness.
  • Operation Repo (Tru, 9pm) Season Premiere – More repossessions.

Thursday

  • Nightmare Next Door (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – Crimes in your own neighborhood, depending on where you live.

Friday

  • My Babysitter’s a Vampire (Dis, 7pm) Series Premiere – Disney’s take on vampires in our midst.
  • FBI: Criminal Pursuit (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cops FBI-style.

Saturday

  • Color Splash (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – A tranquil bedroom update.

Sunday

  • The Tony Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Host Neil Patrick Harris has been teasing me with glorious reviews of broadway’s best, via twitter of course.
  • Bridezillas/Amsale Girls (WE, 9/10pm) Season Premiere – Difficult brides from bride and bridal store perspective.
  • Finding Sarah (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Folks like Dr Phil and Suzy Ormand help out Sarah Ferguson.
  • The Glee Project (Oxy, 9pm) Series Premiere – Real life Gleeks compete for a role on Glee, I’m mildly intrigued though don’t think I get this channel.
  • Swamp Wars (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – Beheaded pythons and gator killings.
  • Keeping Up With the Kardashians/Ice Loves Coco (E!, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – Blah, blah, reality, blah, blah.
  • The Protector (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – This series introduces us to a divorced homicide detective’s work and home.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/23-5/29

Just a few more things wrapping…

Monday

  • Bachelorette (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Ashley (some girl who has done this before) returns to find her own dude.
  • Clash of the Commercials (CBS, 10pm) – Favorite international commercials.

Tuesday

  • American Idol (Fox, 8pm) – The two night finale kicks off on a special night with our two least offensive contestants.

Wednesday

  • The Oprah Winfrey Show (ABC, 4pm*) Series Finale – The queen of daytime television officially hangs up her hat, too bad I don’t get her new network.

Thursday

  • So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – More dancers and Mary Murphy is amongst the judges (she’s the loud one).
  • Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Show, 10:30pm) Series Finale – I guess one can’t be a call girl forever.

Friday

  • River Monsters (AnPl, 9/10pm) – This special installation of the monsters of the deep could be combined with the killer carp show scheduled on National Geographic tonight, happy summer swimming.

Saturday

  • Revolver Golden Gods Awards (VH1 Cl, 10pm) – Metal!

Sunday

  • My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – This UK series follows the secretive community of gypsies.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/16-5/22

The season is wrapping up enough that I might be able to catch up on some movies…

Monday

  • Off Limits (Trav, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at another side of Los Angeles.
  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Brav, 9pm) Season Premiere – More of the women who are potentially wives with houses.
  • The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Favorite food pairings.

Tuesday

  • Tosh.0 (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – Daniel Tosh returns to his internet shenanigans.

Wednesday

  • ANTM (CW, 9pm) Season Finale – Who will be America’s Next… woman who gets some prizes?

Thursday

  • The Mentalist (CBS, 9pm) Season Finale – The two hour finale gets to the bottom of the Red John case, ok at least who the red John mole is.

Friday

  • VH1 Storytellers (VH1, 11pm) – How sad is it that I am remotely interested in Cee Lo Green now that he’s a coach on a reality show?

Saturday

  • Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30pm) Season Finale – With Justin Timberlake hosting we’re sure to get a new music video.

Sunday

  • Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (CBS, 9pm) – The next in the series of Parker books come to TV, Tom Selleck is so good at being a bummer of a dude, while crime solving and all that.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/9-5/15

Another week, another batch of new and returning shows…

Monday

  • Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Guy Fieri visits more spots.
  • Stargate Universe (Syfy, 9pm) Series Finale – I think there may be a gate still running somewhere.
  • Quints by Surprise (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Can one parent deal with all five kids on their own?
  • Vanished with Beth Holloway (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – Beth had a daughter disappear so she’s searching and will search with others for their loved ones.

Tuesday

  • Swamp Brothers (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Follow the brothers as they run their reptile sanctuary and exotic reptile dealership.

Wednesday

  • Nothing new is happening but I’m still triple booked on Idol, Modern Family, and ANTM.

Thursday

  • Naked Science (NGC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Following a single oxygen molecule.
  • Swords (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Reality following a boat on the hunt for swordfish, not actual swords.

Friday

  • Smallville (CW, 8pm) Series Finale – Clark becomes superman, or however they’re wrapping this up.

Saturday

  • Running Wilde (FX, 11pm) – They’re apparently running the rest of these.

Sunday

  • Jerseylicious (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – Some people do some stuff.

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/2-5/8

TiVo is still only at 15% but I’ve got enough ongoing shows to keep me entertained…

Monday

  • Taboo (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Obsessed with fantasy lives is weird, ok weird is relative but a grown man dressing as a baby?
  • James May’s Road Trip (BBCA, 10:20pm) Season Premiere – California Wineries make a great road trip.

Tuesday

  • Rescue Renovation (DIY, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Those silly load bearing walls.
  • Chopped (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – It’s a cooking show.
  • How the States Got Their Shapes (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess if you are already on this channel and can’t find your remote…

Wednesday

  • Spouse vs House (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Would you take a $25k renovation if your dude got to make all the decisions?
  • The Electric Barbarellas (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – This time we’re following an all girl group.

Thursday

  • DIY Dominator (DIY, 8pm) Season Premiere – Who can build the best fireplace?
  • Known Universe (NGC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Surviving outer space.
  • Pawn Queens (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – So does this make four pawn shows, or five?

Friday

  • Flashpoint (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – It’s sad when this decent procedural Canadian import actually looks like the best thing coming up.

Saturday

  • Sarah’s Summer House (HGTV, 8pm) Series Premiere – Why does this bitch have more than one house that she gets to decorate?
  • My Cat from Hell (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – I think this is like that me or the dog show, but I wasn’t under the impression cats could be trained.
  • The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – He does more talk show type stuff.

Sunday

  • Wild Animal Repo (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – I think these animals are more repossessed due to bad care than unpaid payments.
  • Best in Smoke (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who is the best barbecuer (that spelling can’t be right).
  • Why Not? With Shania Twain (OWN, 11pm) Series Premiere – I think this is a feel good follow this lady kind of show.

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/25-5/1

Looks like we’re gearing up for the royal wedding, and if you’re particularly interested there are many a special on cable to keep you informed…

Monday

  • American Chopper (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Senior and junior return.

Tuesday

  • The Voice (NBC, 9pm and Wed) Series Premiere – Kicking off the first of two nights of blind auditions, not sure what happens after the gimmick of just listening is over, I’ll probably check out one.
  • Repo Games (Spike, 8pm) Series Premiere – Repossession or answering trivia?

Wednesday

  • Inside the Royal Wedding (NBC, 8pm) – Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera go there.
  • South Park (Com, 10pm) Season Premiere – More cartoon goodness.

Thursday

  • 20/20 (ABC, 8pm) – The Royal Wedding.
  • The Office/Parks & Recreation (NBC, 9/9:52pm) – Michael Scott’s departure takes more than a half hour but less than an hour, so make sure your dvrs are set.
  • Break it Down (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Taking apart Yankee stadium.
  • Son of a Gun (MTV, 11pm) Series Premiere – More reality, this time following a young rapper.

Friday

  • The Royal Wedding (CBS, 8pm) – The wedding coverage continues.
  • 20/20 (ABC, 9pm) – Apparently it is A Modern Fairy Tale.
  • Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Will the wedding dress fit?

Saturday

  • Fight Camp 360 (CBS, 8pm) – Pacquiao vs. Mosley.

Sunday

  • L&O: Criminal Intent/In Plain Sight (USA, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – I have to admit I will miss Jeff Goldblum, never a fan of D’Onofrio in this role, I’ll still tune in for the evening to see his return and the return of Mary and more importantly Marshall Marshall.

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/18-4/24

Is it summer yet?

Monday

  • Cougar Town (ABC, 9:30pm) – This has been off for a few so maybe they’re making up for that with a Mon/Wed double dose.
  • Love Games (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – A couple of bad girls try to find good guys.

Tuesday

  • 16 & Pregnant (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – More pregnant teens.
  • Explorer (NGC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Forensic explorers look at bones and stuff.
  • Dresscue Me (PlGr, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – It’s on Planet Green so this fashion show is all about recycling vintage-style.

Wednesday

  • ANTM (CW, 9pm) – Kicking off a new time with the clips episode, I’m about four episodes behind and thinking about packing it in for the season.

Thursday

  • Call Me Fitz (Dir, 9pm) Series Premiere – Jason Priestly returns in front of the camera to play a car salesman with some craziness on the side.
  • 24 Hour Restaurant Battle (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Two former couples kick this off with their differing food stuffs.

Friday

  • Girls Night Out (CBS, 9pm) – Superstar women of country perform.
  • Dual Survival (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Survivor shows just make me think about all the ways I could die.
  • Ice Pilots (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another show that makes me think about the ways I could die.

Saturday

  • Doctor Who (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Doctor time traveler returns…

Sunday

  • Treme (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Things might not be recovered from Hurricane Katrina quite yet.
  • Have Cake Will Travel (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – Cake and travel!

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new and noteworthy tv: 4/11-4/17

Monday

  • L&O: LA (NBC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I don’t know why they decided Skeet was the problem, but they’re trying to rework this one, I’m always mildly interested in this franchise.
  • Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – More hauntings.

Tuesday

  • Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Trying to do good things with food while traversing the red tape of the school systems, this is one of the feel good reality shows that I somehow enjoyed.
  • Braxton Family Values/Sinbad (WE, 9/10pm) Series Premiere – More reality following more ‘celebrities.’
  • Deadliest Catch (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – King crab season begins and the business must go on after the loss of the captain.
  • Toya (BET, 10pm) Series Premiere – I’m not even sure if this reality star is supposed to be a ‘celebrity.’
  • Sports Show with Norm Macdonald (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – I believe Norm talks sports

Wednesday

  • Happy Endings (ABC, 9:30/10pm) Series Premiere – Another half hour comedy about couple/friends, this one doesn’t look particularly funnier than the rest of the rest but worth a shot.

Thursday

  • The Paul Reiser Show (NBC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – This is one of those real life person plays a version of themselves in a comedy series, not sure the Mad About You jokes will be all that funny but we’ll see what he’s got.

Friday

  • Friday Night Lights (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’m still on season 2…
  • Hooked (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – A fishing show.
  • Killer Outbreaks (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at doctors and scientists looking at pathogens.
  • The Whitest Kids u’Know (IFC, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – More sketch comedy.

Saturday

  • Parking Wars (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – People really aren’t happy about tickets, towing and getting the boot.

Sunday

  • Mob Wives/Audrina/Saddle Ranch (VH1, 8/9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – Connected, reality professionals, and more wannabes.
  • Burn Notice (USA, 9pm) – A prequel to the series gives a look at the fall of Sam Axe, I like Sam on this series so hope it’s entertaining.
  • Game of Thrones (HBO, 9pm) Series Premiere – Adaptation of some fantasy books the series is supposed to be good, though I don’t get HBO.
  • Inspector America (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Infrastructure safety inspector inspects across America.
  • TV Land Awards (TVL, 10:30pm) – Casts reuniting include Family Ties, Cosby Show, and The Facts of Life.
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new and noteworthy tv: 4/4-4/10

I’ve been letting my shows get a little backed up, though I have been making time for reruns of Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix…

Monday

  • NCAA Men’s Championship (CBS, 9pm) – I think this might be the end.
  • Kidnapped by the Kids (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Workaholics spend some quality time with their kids.
  • Relapse (A&E, 9pm) Series Premiere – Like Addiction except they’re in relapse after detoxing.
  • Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (MTV, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – The Beiber stops by.
  • WWE Tough Enough (USA, 11:05pm) Season Premiere – Steve Austin hosts a new crop of competitors.

Tuesday

  • Addicted to Food (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Following folks trying to overcome food addiction for 42 days in a treatment facility.
  • Auction Hunters (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – More auctiony items.
  • Pregnant in Heels (Brav, 10pm) Series Premiere – So maternity concierge is a title, and you get to see what they do.

Wednesday

  • Extreme Couponing (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – I love a good coupon, I just don’t want to spend more time trying to save money than it would take me to actually earn it at a job.
  • Mythbusters (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Firearms, misdirection… what myths will they debunk or prove?
  • Breaking In (Fox, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – I always like high-tech security premise let’s see if Christian Slater and the kid from Reaper entertain.
  • Glamour Belles (Life, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at a pageant dress shop, I didn’t realize there was such a thing, clearly I’m not watching the right reality.
  • Tori & Dean (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere – I don’t know that it really counts as a new series when reality stars do yet another slant on their lives.
  • Workaholics (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Apparently the title is supposed to be funny because it’s about pot head slackers.
  • Top Chef Masters (Brav, 11pm) Season Premiere – Curtis Stone is a new host and Ruth Reichl is a new judge.

Thursday

  • Police Women/Unleashed (TLC, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – Police women and then a K-9 unit.
  • Bear Whisperer (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – A wild life specialist and of course bears.
  • Mounted in Alaska (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Taxidermy anyone?
  • America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – New crews compete.
  • The Real Housewives of NYC (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – I guess there’s a new one who is more normal, relatively speaking I assume.
  • Secret Diary of a Call Girl/Gigolos (Show, 10:30/11) Season/Series Premieres – The return of the series about a call girl and then real life paid male escorts.

Friday

  • The Singing Bee/CMT’s Next Superstar (CMT, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premieres – Competing with karaoke and then just country music.
  • Tiger Man of Africa (NGC, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at a tiger sanctuary.

Saturday

  • It’s Me or the Dog (AnPl, 8pm) Season Premiere – I wonder if the answer to that question is the dog.

Sunday

  • Human Planet (Disc, 8pm) Series Premiere – How people live in various regions.
  • Upstairs Downstairs (PBS, 9pm) Miniseries Premiere – A revamp of turn of the century London masters and servants.
  • The Judds (OWN, 9pm) Series Premiere – Naomi and Wynonna do some stuff and you can watch them.
  • Shark Men (NGC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Men who look for or look at sharks.
  • Khloe & Lamar/The Dance Scene (E!, 10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – The latest version of Kardashian reality and then dancers train with a choreographer for fancy dance jobs.
  • River Monsters (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – What river creature will they find in Papua New Guinea?

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new and noteworthy tv: 3/28-4/3

And I think this might be the final week of the final four…

Monday

  • All Together Now (NBC, 8pm) – A celebration of service with presidents and whatnot.
  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager/Make It or Break It (ABCFam, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – Not sure how secret it is and whether they’ve made it or broken it yet.
  • Nurse Jackie/United States of Tara (Show, 10/10:30pm) Season Premieres – As I’m Showtime free I’ll be tempted to check these both on dvr at some point.

Tuesday

  • Body of Proof (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Brilliant neurosurgeon forced to turn medical examiner, could be case of the week which always depends on personality and Dana Delany could theoretically make it worthwhile.
  • All on the Line (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can failing fashion lines be saved?
  • What the Sell (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another take on the pawn shop personalities and stuff.

Wednesday

  • The Ultimate Fighter/Coal (Spike, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – More fighting and then a look at coal miners.
  • South Beach Classics (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Car classics that is.
  • Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Tyler continues his reign on entertainment.

Thursday

  • Mobbed (Fox, 9pm) – This take on a new series showcases flash mobs, groups of folks breaking out into song/dance.
  • Swamp People (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – No it’s not a monster movie, unless you count the gators that the folks live among.
  • True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (ID, 10pm) Season Premiere – The season starts with another look at JonBenet Ramsey.

Friday

  • Chaos (CBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – Rogue funny CIA? I’m tempted by this but it admittedly looks dumb.
  • Say Yes to the Dress: Randy Knows Best (TLC, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – I believe there’s a Yes to the Dress out there so I guess this is Randy’s slant.
  • Camelot (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – Same story different take, ok maybe not so different.
  • The Haunted (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – Things with ghosts I suppose.

Saturday

  • Sony Ericsson Open (CBS, 9:30am) – The series starts its wraps up today with women’s finals with the men’s finals Sunday.
  • How Do I Look? (Style, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’m going to say starts looking bad and gets better…
  • Curb Appeal (HGTV, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Spruce up a house.
  • My Ghost Story (Bio, 10pm) Season Premiere – More hauntings of the personal nature?

Sunday

  • Wild Kingdom (AnPl, 7pm) Season Premiere – Kicking off with a look at otters.
  • Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Reba MacEntire and Blake Shelton host.
  • The Kennedys (Reelz, 8pm) Mini series Premiere – Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear finally found an air date.
  • The Borgias (Show, 9pm) Series Premiere – Jeremy Irons takes the title role in this kick off of soapy period drama.
  • The Killing (AMC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Adaptation of a Danish crime drama looking at a crime from multiple points of view.
  • Last Cake Standing (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let the caking begin.
  • Strange Sex (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at sexual things of the irregular.

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