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.