Television Premieres and Notables: January 9-15, 2017

Monday, 1/9

Big Fan; 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Fans are quizzed about their knowledge of celebrities.


Tuesday, 1/10

Being Mary Jane; BET. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Taboo; FX. 9 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Tom Hardy stars in this mini I know nothing about.


Wednesday, 1/11

Jeff & Some Aliens; Comedy Central. 9:30 pm CST.

Thursday, 1/12

Colony; USA. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Caraoke Showdown; Spike. 9:30 pm CST.
Craig Robinson drives people around in a van and has them sing for money.


Friday, 1/13

The Wheel; Discovery. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
About people surviving tough environments.

A Series of Unfortunate Events; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Neil Patrick Harris stars as the titular character in this series based on the books.

Sneaky Pete; Amazon; Streaming. Series Premiere.
Giovanni Ribisi plays a just-released con and finds himself in trouble again.


Sunday, 1/15

Vistoria; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). Series Premiere.
In 1837, teenage Victoria becomes Queen of England.

The Young Pope; HBO. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere
Jude Law stars a young pope.

Television Premieres and Notables: January 2-8, 2017

Monday, 1/2

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

The New Celebrity Apprentice; NBC. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.
Now with 100% more Schwarzenegger...

The Wall; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Then moves to Tuesdays at 7 pm.


Wednesday, 1/4

Wahlburgers (A&E. 9 pm CST.) Season Finale.


Thursday, 1/5

Nashville; CMT. 8 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.
Now at its new home network.

Portlandia; IFC. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Friday, 1/6

Grimm; NBC. 7 pm CST. Final Season Premiere.

Sleepy Hollow; Fox. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Emerald City; NBC. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A new take on The Wizard if Oz.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 26, 2016-January 11, 2017

Tuesday, 12/27

Chasing Cameron; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Social media star Cameron Dallas travels and the world and meets his fans.


Wednesday, 12/28

My Crazy Sex; LMN. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
People tell their sex stories.


Thursday, 12/29

The Pizza Show; Viceland. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A Brooklyn pizzeria owner travels the world to see how others do it.


Sunday, 1/1

The Mick; Fox. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Ransom; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Sherlock; PBS. 8 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 12-18, 2016

Wednesday, 12/14

Star; Fox. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Younger; TV Land. 9 pm CST. Season Finale.


Friday, 12/16

Man in the High Castle; Amazon. Streaming. 2nd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 5-11, 2016

Tuesday, 12/6

Reggie Watts: Spatial; Netflix. Streaming. Special.


Wednesday, 12/7

Shut Eye; Hulu. Streaming, Series Premiere.
Jeffrey Donovan stars as a con artist.


Friday, 12/9

Fuller House; Netflix. Streaming, 2nd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 12/11

The 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards; A&E. 7 pm CST. Special.
Hosted by T.J. Miller, so who knows what might happen?

Last Man on Earth (Fox; 8 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 28-December 4, 2016

Whoops-- missed this one last week (yes, I know I didn't do one; Thanksgiving Week is typically dead). Luckily it's streaming. And if you were a fan, you'd have already known about it.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life; Netflix. Streaming. Four specials.


Monday, 11/28

Alright: this is the shiznit we've been waiting for.
The CW has four DC Comics Super Hero shows airing now, and what do the big companies love doing more than anything? Crossovers.
Taking inspiration from the short 1989 DC Universe crossover Invasion, this storyline shows us how the Arrowverse heroes react when the Dominators invade the Earth.
It begins (sort-of; heard it's the tag at the end) with Supergirl (Monday, 7 pm), then moves to The Flash (Tuesday, 7 pm), Arrow (Wednesday, 7 pm), and (presumably) ends with DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Thursday, 7 pm).
Previous crossovers (between two shows) have been a lot of fun, and I expect this one to follow that pattern.


Tuesday, 11/29

Fixer Upper; HGTV. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 12/1

Top Chef; Bravo. 9 pm CST. 14th Season Premiere.


Friday, 12/2

Mr. Neighbor's House; adult swim.  11 pm CST. Special.


Saturday, 12/3

Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds; HBO. 9 pm CST. Special.


Sunday, 12/4

Once Upon a Time (ABC; 7 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Westworld (HBO; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 14-20, 2016

Monday, 11/14

Mars; Nat Geo. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer bring us this mini about the first manned trip to Mars in 2033.


Tuesday, 11/15

Religion of Sports; AT&T Audience. 7 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Tom Brady and Michael Strahan bring us this six-part look at the cultural impact of sports.

Good Behavior; TNT. 8 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
A series based on Blake Crouch's books starring Michelle Dockery as a con artist.

Teen Wolf; MTV. 8pm CST. 6th--and final-- season.

Sweet/Vicious; MTV. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Two college women beat up sex offenders at night.


Wednesday 11/16

Undercover; BBC America. 7 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.

American Horror Story: Roanoke ( FX. 9 pm) Season Finale.


Thursday, 11/17

How to Get Away With Murder (ABC; 9 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Lovesick; Netflix. Streaming. Season Premiere.


Saturday, 11/19

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks; BBC America. 7:25 pm CST.
BBC America put up the coin to animate some of the legendary "lost episodes" (episodes that aired, but were never saved) using existing audio recordings (usually from fans who wired an audio recorder to their 1960's televisions) and stills from the time.
Power of the Daleks is notable for having the first "renewal" (later known as regeneration) when Second Doctor came from the First.
I'm a minor Whovian, and even I know this is a big deal.  Part of the cool factor of this show is just seeing how hard people are working to make the missing past a little less missing.

Versailles (Ovation; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Sunday, 11/20

The Affair; Showtime. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 7-13, 2016

Monday, 11/7

People Magazine Investigates; ID. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The hard-hitting journalists from People Magazine investigate ten true-crimes.


Tuesday, 11/8

Vanderpump Rules; Bravo. 8 pm CST. Season Premieres.

And I am hoping our National Shit Show is finally done today (but I can see the loser not conceding, so it's bound to take a while).
Just about everyone will be doing election specials tonight. The big ones being:
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (Comedy Central; 10 pm) and
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Special (Showtime; 10 pm CST)
^^^Note: Colbert's on Showtime.


Thursday, 11/10

The Blacklist (NBC; 9 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.