Sunday, May 24, 2009

Premieres, Finales, and Notables; May 25-31, 2009

If you read this before 7 pm on Sunday, you may want to read it again as I added a few things...

Monday, 5/25

Jon & Kate Plus 8; TLC. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.
I'm already tired of them, and I don't even watch the show...

Cake Boss; TLC. 9 pm. Series Debut.
Yet another food reality show...

Obsessed; A&E. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
A reality series about extreme anxiety disorders.

In Treatment (HBO; 9 pm). Season Finale.

Here Come the Newlyweds; ABC. 9:02 pm. Series Premiere.
Nine couples live in a house, do challenges, and vote each other off.


Tuesday, 5/26

Reaper (CW; 7 pm). Series Finale.
Way to go, CW! Dump an original show and replace it with another '90s remake.

Hitched of Ditched; CW. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
Non-engaged couples have a week to execute their wedding, but no one can decide to go through with it-- or pull out of it-- until the ceremony.

Man Caves; DIY. 8 pm. Season Premiere.
Rainn Wilson gets his own cave.

Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood; Oxygen. 9 pm. Season Premiere.
Ugh...

My Boys (TBS; 9:30). Season Finale.

Beautiful People; Logo. 9:30. Series Premiere.
A show based on Barney's creative director Simon Noonan's memoirs.


Wednesday, 5/27

The Goode Family; ABC. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
Mike Judge's new animated series following an eco-friendly man named Gerald Goode.

Your Worst Animal Nightmares; Animal Planet. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
No idea...

Meet the Browns; TBS. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.
Creator Tyler Perry plans on shooting 70 episodes of this series this year. Seventy.

Tattoo Highway; A&E. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Inked's Thomas Pendleton turns a 1970s tour bus into a movable tatoo parlor.
Nah-- that doesn't sound dangerous...


Friday, 5/29

Nature's Most Amazing Events; Discovery. 7 pm. Series Premiere.
I guess the premiere looks at Arctic animals and how they plan for the summer.

What Not to Wear; TLC. 8 pm. Season Premiere.


Saturday, 5/30

Grill It! With Bobby Flay; Food Network. 10:30 am. Season Premiere.

Pushing Daisies; ABC. 9 pm. Return.
In one of the coolest moves by a network in the past few years, ABC is going to run all the unaired episodes of Daisies; followed by Eli Stone, and finally Dirty Sexy Money this summer. Yes, it's on Saturday and, yes, they could pull the plug at any time-- so take advantage of ABC's generosity of not making you buy the DVDs to see the remaining episodes.


Sunday, 5/31

Breaking Bad (AMC; 9 pm). Season Finale.

Oz; DirectTV. 9 pm. Rerun.
DirectTV continues to pick up series that no longer run-- and this time they're showing the series that really set HBO apart from the pack.

HGTV's $250,000 Challenge; HGTV (duh!). 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Five families compete in home-design challenges to make the big money.

Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone; History. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Four explorers recreate the African voyage by journalist Henry Morton Stanley.

Jesse James is a Dead Man; Spike. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Each episode, James drives some vehicle that is extreme.

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