Saturday, June 11, 2011

Friday, June 10, 2011

New Era-- Trash Talking & One Hitter

Two commercials for the price of one:

Monday, June 06, 2011

Sunday, June 05, 2011

Premieres and Notables: June 6-19, 2011

Monday, 6/6

Baggage; GSN. 6:30 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Masterchef; Fox. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

My Yard Goes Disney; HGTV. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Switched At Birth; ABC Family. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Two teens find out they were switched at birth in this new drama.

HGTV'd; HGTV. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The ballsy network has now verbed it's own name...

Behind Mansion Walls; ID. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Tuesday, 6/7

White Collar; USA. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Covert Affairs; USA. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Hook, Line & Dinner; Cooking Channel.  9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Ben Sargent travels the country, looking for the best seafood.

Sports Show With Norm MacDonald (Comedy Central; 9:30 pm CST). Season Finale.

Wednesday, 6/8

Operation Repo; TruTV. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

South Park (Comedy Central; 9 pm CST).  Season Finale.

Locked Up Abroad; National Geographic. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Through the Wormhole; Science Channel. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Workaholics (Comedy Central; 9:30 pm CST). Season Finale.

Friday, 6/10

CMT's Next Superstar (CMT; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Saturday, 6/11

Oddities (Science Channel; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Sunday, 6/12

The Glee Project; Oxygen. 8 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
Twelve singers compete for a seven-episode stint on Glee next season.

The Protector; Lifetime. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Ally Walker stars as a homicide detective.

Why Not? With Shania Twain (OWN; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Disneyland Star Wars Academy

This youngling is facing Darth Vader.




Awesome.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Premieres and Notables: May 30-June 5, 2011

Monday, 5/30

American Chopper (Discovery; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Gettysburg; History. 8 pm CST. Special.
Ridley and Tony Scott team-up to bring us the story the turning-point of the Civil War for the beginning of History's version of Shark Week.  Civil War programming abounds on the network this week.

Breakout Kings (A&E; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.
I know I said the finale was last week. I don't know what changed, but it's listed this week too.

Platinum Hit; Bravo. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The search for the next American songwriter begins here.
I'm sure the home of The Real Housewives of... will make it a classy affair.

Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition; ABC. 9:01 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Camera crews followed people for a year on their weight loss journeys, and we get to see the ups and downs-- and the results.


Tuesday, 5/31

America's Got Talent; NBC. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Traffic Light (Fox; 8:31 pm CST). Series Finale.
Too bad, too, as this show was finding its groove the back-half of the season...

Million Dollar Decorators; Bravo. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Because what the world needs now is a reality show that follows high-end interior decorators.

Love Handles: Couples in Crisis; Lifetime. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Overweight couples bicker for our amusement.
Really? We have to have a TV show about couples with issues-- but they've got to be fat...?


Wednesday, 6/4

Destroy Build Destroy; Cartoon Network. 7:30 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Franklin & Bash; TNT. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer star as attorneys who take some liberties with the law to help their clients.

Man v. Food Nation; Travel Channel. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
This time, host Adam Richman lets locals do the crazy food pig-outs.

Love in the Wild; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Twenty singles are stranded in a Costa Rican jungle... and expected to find love while "surviving"?  I don't know...

The World According to Paris; Oxygen. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Viewers will see a different side to Paris Hilton (no duh!-- she's an exec producer; bet she gets some editing control) as she tries to figure out how to leave partying behind and grow up.

Men of a Certain Age; TNT. 9:01 pm CST.  Mid-season return.
If you haven't been watching, this show turned a nice corner in the first part of the second season.  Less whining and more living.


Thursday, 6/2

Love Bites; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
I'm not entirely clear on what this is, but I think it's an anthology-type show starring Becki Newton, Greg Grunberg, and Constance Zimmer among a constantly rotating guest-star list in this comedy about love.

The First 48: Missing Persons; A&E. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A reality show that features the Chicago Police Dept.'s efforts to find missing persons.

NY Ink; TLC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Miami Ink's Ami James moves to NYC to ply his craft.

Children's Hospital; [adult swim]/(Cartoon Network). 11 pm CST. Season Premiere.
Great show (that, admittedly, isn't for everyone). Check it out.


Friday, 6/3

Whale Wars; Animal Planet.  8 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.


Sunday, 6/5

Finding Big Foot; Animal Planet. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
This six-part series tries to uncover the reality of big foot.

Food Network Star; Food Network. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

The Glades; A&E. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

The Real L Word; Showtime. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.
An almost entirely new cast lets us peek into their lives as "L Words".
Psst-- that's "lesbian".

Teen Wolf; MTV. 10 pm CST. Series Premiere.
It shares the name of the '80s movie, but the sensibilities of this season are closer to modern takes on the supernatural.  Sexier and scarier, with the "needed" mythology for these genre shows may be worth checking it out.
Moves to its normal timeslot of Mondays at 9 pm CST on June 6.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Combat Coffee

Some Candadian soldiers tell us how they make coffee in Afghanistan.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Someone's got better things to do than look at babies



Did you catch it?
If not, watch it again and pay attention to the dog in the background.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Conan Shows Thor Trailer



By the way: I saw the real deal a few weekends ago.
It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was a lot of fun. Check it out.
Hemsworth was fantastic.

Here's another parody:

Failed backflip

Finales and Notables: May 23-29, 2011

Monday, 5/23

House (Fox; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

The Bachelorette; ABC. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

The Chicago Code (Fox; 8 pm CST). Series Finale.

The Event (NBC; 8 pm CST). Series Finale.

American Experience; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). 21st Season Premiere.

Make It or Break It (ABC Family; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.



Tuesday, 5/24

Dancing With the Stars (ABC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

The Biggest Loser (NBC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Glee (Fox; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Hardcore Pawn (truTV; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Pregnant in Heels (Bravo; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Wednesday, 5/25

The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated; check local listings).  Series Finale.
I've heard that under each seat will be a vial of kool-ade that audience members can use to participate in a mass suicide to make sure the show goes out with a bang.

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

American Idol (Fox; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Modern Family (ABC; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Cougar Town (ABC; 8:31 pm CST). Season Finale.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (CBS; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Happy Endings (ABC; 9:30 pm CST). Season Finale.
And it got picked up for next year, so the rare freshman season finale...


Thursday, 5/26

So You Think You Can Dance; Fox. 7 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.

If you were afraid Nikita (The CW; 8 pm CST) wouldn't be back (or were just too crammed with other shows to watch), it's repeating Thursday nights throughout the summer, so you can catch up before the second season this Fall.

4th and Forever; Current TV. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A reality show about Long Beach Polytechnic, the high school that saw Snoop Dogg, Cameron Diaz and some NFL players attending classes back in the day.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime; 9:30 pm CST). Series Finale.


Saturday, 5/28

My Favorite Place; HGTV. 5 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Here's what we have to look forward to this summer: shows like this, where "famous designers and celebrity trendsetters" show off their homes.  People like Kathy Griffin...

Revolver Golden Gods Awards; VH1 Classic. 9 pm CST. Special.
Fozzy frontman (and former WWE headliner) Chris Jericho hosts this metal awards special.  Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, and Duff McKagen's Loaded perform tunes.


Sunday, 5/29

Best in Smoke (Food Network; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

From Spain With Love; Cooking. 8:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Host Annie Sibonney travels through Spain, checking out the local cuisine.

Breakout Kings (A&E; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.