New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.
Monday
- DJ & the Fro (MTV, 5pm) Series Premiere – Are animated slackers watching viral videos more amusing than real life people doing the same?
- Greek (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Finale – Cappie or Max? There’s really no question…
- Run’s House (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – The family takes a Hawaiian vacation.
Tuesday
- CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8pm) – Bill Engvall hosts this year’s awards show, tune in for Taylor Swift, and some other country artists.
- Wedding Day (TNT, 8pm) Series Premiere – Real life weddings with no apparent twists.
- The First 48 (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere
- HawthoRNe (TNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan make this medical drama worth tuning into at least once.
- The Lazy Environmentalist (Sund, 9pm) Series Premiere – They show us it’s easy being green.
- Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – More answers this season or just more questions as Grace goes to the purple door.
- The Singing Bee (CMT, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Expectations may be a little higher as this follows the CMT Awards.
Wednesday
- The Othersiders/Survive This (Cart, 8/8:30pm) Series Premiere – Paranormal investigations and survival skills.
- Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Gordon Ramsay is back.
- I Survived a Japanese Game Show (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Really, this is back?
- The Unusuals (ABC, 10pm) Series Finale – This quirky ensemble cop show deserved another season.
Thursday
- NBA Basketball (ABC, 6pm) – Could it go to Game 7 with the Magic and the Lakers?
Friday
- Jeffrey and Cole Casserole (Logo, 11pm) Series Premiere – Another sketch and look at viral videos, and this time with a gay old slant.
Saturday
- Brainrush/Destroy Build Destroy (Cart, 8/8:30pm) Series Premieres – Trivia in rollercoaster conditions and then making something from the debris of what’s been destroyed.
- Can You Duet (CMT, 8pm) Season Premiere – The open auditions begin.
- Eli Stone (ABC, 10pm) – I don’t actually remember where we left off with Eli, his visions, and his law firm.
Sunday
- Just for Laughs (ABC, 7pm) Season Premiere – More awkward setups for some chuckles.
- Merlin (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – A look back when Merlin and the Prince were young and hot and magic was outlawed, Giles from Buffy is in this so I’ll give it a look.
- Guys Choice (Spike, 10pm) – One thinks that guys make some sort of choice.