Television Premieres and Notables: March 24-30, 2014

Monday, 3/24

The Fosters (ABC Family; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.


Tuesday, 3/25

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox; 8:30 pm CST). Season Finale.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge; Syfy. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Wednesday, 3/26

Psych (USA; 8 pm CST). Series Finale.


Thursday, 3/27

Surviving Jack; Fox. 8:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.



Sunday, 3/30

Call the Midwife; PBS. 7 pm CST (check local listings). 3rd Season Premiere

The Walking Dead (A&E; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.
It's been an especially slow (but worthwhile) season, so I'm pretty apprehensive about what the season finale will be like (and, you know, after last week's episode, I'm wondering if they will write an even more gut-wrenching ending).

Masterpiece Classic: Mr. Selfridge; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). 2nd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: March 16-23, 2014

Monday, 3/17

Adventure Time (Cartoon Network; 6 pm CST). Season Finale.

Dancing With the Stars; ABC. 7 pm CST. 18th Cycle Premiere.


Tuesday, 3/18

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe; ABC. 7 pm CST. Special.
In lieu of an Agents of SHIELD episode this week, we get a peek into the MCU.
Hopefully it'll be more than fluff because this is an amazing story about a studio that took a big chance with some (at the time) B-level characters and tied them together to make something astounding.

Storage Wars; A&E. 8 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.

Rizzoli & Isles (TNT; 8 pm CST).

Chopped; Food Network. 8 pm CST. 20th Cycle Premiere.


Wednesday, 3/19

The 100; The CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
After they nearly destroy the Earth, humanity has moved to space stations surrounding the planet. Now, after nearly a century, they're wondering if the planet is inhabitable again, and to find out, they send 100 juvenile delinquents down to check it out.
I'm guessing things won't go well as it's a series and not a movie/mini-series...

Doll & Em; HBO. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer star in this comedy about a movie star who hires a friend to be her assistant.


Saturday, 3/22

DaVinci's Demons; Starz. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Sunday, 3/23

Drop Dead Diva; Lifetime. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Girls (HBO; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Happy 3/14

Television Premieres and Notables: March 10-16, 2014

Monday, 3/10

The Bachelor (ABC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Believe; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
J.J. Abrams brings us another TV show (does that dude ever sleep?); this time, he's got the help of co-producer-- and pilot director-- Alfonso Cuaron (you know: the guy who just won the 2014 Best Director Oscar).
This series follows a ten year-old girl who has mysterious-- and uncontrollable-- powers.


Tuesday, 3/11

Lady Sif (again played by the awesome Jaimie Alexander as she did in the Thor films) joins up with Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (ABC; 7 pm) to stop a rogue Asgardian.
I just listened to the Nerdist podcast she was on last week, and she's great fun. I love that she's a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Chrisley Knows Best; USA. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Wednesday, 3/12

Men at Work (TBS; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Thursday, 3/13

Breaking Boston; A&E. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Friday, 3/14

Tanked; Animal Planet. 8 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.

Vice; HBO. 10 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
One of the things I miss most after giving up HBO is this show.


Saturday, 3/15

Doc of the Dead; Epix. 7 pm CST. Special.
This documentary looks into the zombie craze, where it came from, and why it's so popular now.


Sunday, 3/16

Naked and Afraid; Discovery. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Crisis; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Dermot Mulroney and Gillian Anderson star in this series about teens of rich and powerful people being abducted and the agents who are tasked with finding them.

Television Premieres and Notables: March 3-9, 2014

Monday, 3/3

Bates Motel; A&E. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
Season 1 had some moments where it dragged (the whole town-wide drug trade yawner, for one), but stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga were absolutely great. Totally worth some eye-rolling to watch their work.

Those Who Kill; A&E. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Chloe Sevigny stars as a detective with some serious baggage.


Tuesday, 3/4

Bill Paxton appears for a few episodes of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (ABC; 7 pm CST).

The Goldbergs (ABC; 8:01 pm CST) pays homage to that classic '80s film: The Goonies.


Wednesday, 3/5

Flipping Out; Bravo. 9 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

Restaurant Impossible; Food Network. 8th Season Premiere.

The Face; Oxygen. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman; Science. 9 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.


Thursday, 3/6

Saint George; FX. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Sirens; USA. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Co-creator Denis Leary brings us this humorous series about Chicago EMTs.


Friday, 3/7

Sofia the First; Disney. 8:30 am CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Cesar 911; National Geographic Wild. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Cesar Milan has another show.


Saturday, 3/8

The Graham Norton Show (BBC America; 9:15 pm CST). Season Finale.


Sunday, 3/9

Resurrection; ABC. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A young boy who was last seen 30 years ago is seen in a rice paddy in China.
He hasn't changed, physically.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; Fox. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Seth MacFarlane produces this "reboot" of Carl Sagan's classic series, and he brings Neil deGrasse Tyson to show us around.

True Detective (HBO; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Chopped Tournament of Stars; Food Network. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

OMG! Wall-E is coming true!

Television Premieres and Notables: February 24-March 2, 2014

Monday, 2/24

The Voice; NBC. 7 pm CST. 6th Cycle Premiere.

Dallas; TNT. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

RuPaul's Drag Race; Logo. 8 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

Late Night With Seth Meyers; NBC. 11:35 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Another Saturday Night Live alum gets a show.
Funny considering SNL has sucked for so many years...


Tuesday, 2/25

Game of Arms; AMC. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
This hard-hitting docu-reality series gives us a close look into the high-stakes world of arm wrestling.
I hope they use the Sammy Hagar/Edward Van Halen tune "Winner Takes It All" (as heard in the Stallone classic film Over The Top) as the theme song.

Amish Mafia; Discovery. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Mind Games; ABC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Christian Slater and Steve Zahn star as brothers who use observation to manipulate others into doing things.

Clash of the Ozarks; Discovery. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Ink Master; Spike. 9 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 2/26

Survivor: Cagayan; CBS. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Mixology; ABC. 8:31 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Legit; FXX. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Thursday, 2/27

The Red Road; Sundance. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A Jersey sheriff forms an alliance with a Native American tribe.

Ice Cold Gold; Animal Planet. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Vikings; History. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Friday, 2/28

Inside Job; TNT. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Four people apply for a job; one is a spy for the company.
I don't know what the point is...

Hannibal; NBC. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Betty White's Off Their Rockers; Lifetime. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Sunday, 3/2

NASA's Unexplained Files; Science. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: February 17-23, 2014

The Winter Olympics are wrapping up this week. If you haven't been watching, give something a chance.

The USA Men's Hockey team had a killer game against the Russians-- and if we're lucky, we'll see them face each other again.
The Women's team ran over their opponents until they came up against their arch-nemeses, the Canadians.
Unfortunately, the teams I have been watching most closely for the past couple Olympics, the U.S. curling teams, have been plagued with bad play at first, and then bad breaks later. The women didn't make it past the Round Robin and the men are not far behind. Not great for my "local" teams (the women are mostly from my current WI whereabouts and the men are from my birthplace of MN).
Oh well. Still gotta root for 'em.
But since the U.S. women are done, I'm hoping the Russians can make a run if they get past the prelims. They're my team now. Not only are they interesting in a less-seasoned (they're very young for the field) way, but they're strikingly beautiful.


Monday, 2/17

Lab Rats; Disney XD. 5:30 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Star Crossed; CW. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Sexy teen aliens integrate themselves on Earth through a high school and hang out with sexy humans.
Okay-- I'm sure there's more to it, but that's what I know.

Worst Cooks in America; Food Network. 8 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon; NBC. 11:00 pm CST. Premiere.
Fallon gets his shot in the big chair.


Tuesday, 2/18

Tosh.0; Comedy Central. 9 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 2/19

Super Fun Night (ABC; 8:30 pm CST). Season Finale.
It's ep #17, so that's weird-- but I read somewhere that this is the end of the season tonight.

Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond (BBC America; 9 pm CST). Mini-series Finale.


Thursday, 2/20

The Taste (ABC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.


Friday, 2/21

Hello Ross; E! 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Saturday, 2/22

Ripper Street; BBC America. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

About a Boy; NBC. 10:07 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A man (David Walton, who I've liked quite a bit in past NBC comedies) who was doing just fine on his own, has new neighbors in the form of a single mom and her son.


Sunday, 2/23

Downton Abbey (PBS; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Growing Up Fisher; NBC. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
J.K. Simmons stars as a blind lawyer, and Jenna Elfman plays his soon-to-be ex-wife.

Some of the wrongest lovemaking stories I've ever read

Television Premieres and Notables: February 10-16, 2014

Monday, 2/10

Top Gear; BBC America. 7:30 PM CST. 21st Season Premiere.


Tuesday, 2/11

The 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show; USA. 7 pm CST. Special


Friday, 2/14

Ghost Adventures; Travel. 8 pm CST. 9th Season Premiere.

Outrageous Acts of Science; Science. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Saturday, 2/15

Atlantis (BBC America; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.


Sunday, 2/16

Wicked Tuna; National Geographic. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.