Premieres and Notables: July 23-29, 2012

Monday, 7/23

Bachelor Pad; ABC. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.

WWE Monday Night Raw celebrates its 1000th episode tonight on USA at 7 pm CST.

Warehouse 13; Syfy. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Alphas; Syfy. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 7/25

Love in the Wild (NBC; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Top Chef Masters; Bravo. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 7/26

Take Me Out (Fox; 7 pm CST). Season Premiere.

3; CBS. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Friday, 7/27

Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympics; NBC. 6:30 pm CST. Special.
NBC/Universal is offering over 5000 hours of Olympics coverage across its networks and streaming online, and it all officially starts here (although some prelim stuff begins as early as Wednesday).  Danny Boyle directs the Opening Ceremonies, and, as usual, its the show to watch.

A VVS PSA

How to handle a bully

Glbert Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades of Grey

Inbetweeners Trailer

Okay, a U.S. network decides to launch an Americanized version of a BBC show. So many ways to go wrong-- especially when it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. But it looks like MTV may be doing this one right. I'm not sold on the cast yet (the original cast was perfect)-- but it looks like they're following the plotlines of the original closely (the drunk episode is one of my favorite episodes of all time, and I saw a few reminders of it here). Might be worth giving a shot later this summer.

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Premieres and Notables: July 16-22, 2012

Monday, 7/16

Market Warriors; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). Season Premiere.


Tuesday, 7/17

History Detectives; PBS. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 7/19

Duets (ABC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Project Runway; Lifetime. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Sullivan & Son; TBS. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Friday, 7/20

John Oliver's Stand-up Show; Comedy Central. 10 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Real Time New Rule TV Truth

From Bill Maher's (Episode 252) show:

"New Rule: TV can't make half its shows about patheitc hoarders who never throw anything away, and the other half about lucky hoarders who find out their shit is worth a fortune.  It doesn't make sense. It'b be like People magazine making half its stories about anorexia, and the other half about how to lose weight."

I never really "knew" why; but now that it's been verbalized so well, I know why I don't bother with those networks and those shows.

Now I wish I would have mentioned his thoughts about those millionaire/secret boss shows which are so insulting to the rest of us.  You know: the shows that show ultra-rich people hanging-out with the "common man" and then throw money at them to show what great people they are-- before they go back to their private planes and laying-off those moochers that suck their companies dry under the guise of employment...