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Television Premieres and Notables: November 24-30, 2014

Monday, 11/24

Major Crimes; TNT. 8 pm CST. Midseason Premiere.

Booze Traveler; Travel. 9 p CST. Series Premiere.
A bartender seeks the world's best drinks.


Tuesday, 11/25

The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns; Lifetime. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Sunday, 11/30

The Walking Dead (AMC; 8 pm CST). Midseason Finale.
And you spoiler-free comment:
Take one part of that first crazy thing that happened and add the brutality of the second bloodbath and you get what I expect this episode to be like: pure, unadulterated mayhem.

The Mentalist; CBS. 8:30 pm CST (keep the football schedule in mind; won't hurt to add an hour to the stop time on the DVR). 7th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 17-23, 2014

Monday, 11/17

State of Affairs; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Katherine Heigl plays some type of government official in this new series.
(I'm gonna guess Secretary of State, but I have to admit it's late, and I don't care enough to look it up...)


Tuesday, 11/18

Shipping Wars; A&E. 9:01 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.


Saturday, 11/22

Hell on Wheels (AMC; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.
This season went off the rails from time to time (Elam losing his shit), but did so many things right (the prison train breakout, Cullen turning the tables on The Swede, the fire).  One of my favorite series right now.
...And it's all over after next season.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 10-16, 2014

Tuesday, 11/11

Supernatural (The CW; 8 pm CST) celebrates its 200th episode tonight.


^^^Not much this week (obviously), so how 'bout some of the announcements made for this season (and the summer)?

Dallas, The Bridge, and Unforgettable won't be coming back.

Under the Dome and Extant got renewals.

Royal Pains got a two-season pick-up.

How to Get Away With Murder got a season pick-up (15 episodes).

black-ish got a season pick-up (24 eps).

Forever got a full season pick-up.

Gotham got a full season pick-up (22 eps).

Kingdom (DirectTV) got a two-season pick-up (20 eps).

CSI's (final) season got cut to 18 episodes (partly to make room for CSI: Cyber).

Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, Stalker, and Madam Secretary all got full season pick-ups.

Bad Judge and A to Z will finish their 13 episode orders and then are done.

Selfie may or may not get to air all 13 episodes before it gets pulled-- but it is done filming.

Manhattan Love Story is already yanked from the schedule. Keep it on your DVR if you're a fan; you never know when ABC might burn the rest of the episodes off.

Anger Management will air its 100th and final episode on 12/22.

Hell on Wheels will get a fifth and final season next year.