New Premieres This Week in TV: April 10th – 16th

Sunday, April 10^th

The Judds, series premiere at 9pm on OWN

– This unique docu-series captures the complex and sometimes comical relationship between Naomi and Wynonna Judd – one of the most successful mother-daughter country music duos in the history of entertainment. Set against the rich backdrop of their much-anticipated 18-city reunion tour, The Judds follows Naomi and Wynonna’s emotional journey, as they work to heal old wounds, reconnect with their fans, and share the spotlight once again.

Upstairs Downstairs, miniseries premiere at 9pm on PBS

– After 36 years, the hit period drama Upstairs Downstairs about an elite British family and their loyal servants returns with new characters. It’s 1936, and 165 Eaton Place sees its first stirrings of life after years of neglect when the house’s new master, Sir Hallam Holland, and his wife, Lady Agnes, cross the threshold. Neglect has strewn cobwebs everywhere and furred the surfaces with dust. But with a sumptuous renovation and the help of the indomitable housekeeper Rose Buck (Jean Marsh), the iconic address so beloved in the original series Upstairs Downstairs is soon restored to its former glory. It’s 1936, a tumultuous time in Britain, and within the walls of 165 Eaton Place, characters from an orphanage, a damp Welsh castle, the heart of the British Raj and elsewhere together will face a changing world, not just upstairs and downstairs, but side by side. Series co-creator Eileen Atkins stars as Hallam’s mother Lady Maud Holland.

Monday, April 11^th

Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza, series premiere at 8pm on GSN

– Stand-up comic turned actor-producer, Drew Carey hosts a lively, unpredictable and hilarious half-hour of improvised sketch comedy, complete with audience participation. Carey has brought his golden comic touch to numerous hit television shows, including The Drew Carey Show, The Price Is Right and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, on which he served as host and producer. He has also attracted enthusiastic live audiences across the country with his Drew Carey’s Improv All-Stars. The show features a lineup of performers who appeared on all of Drew’s shows as well as in his Improv All-Stars live shows. The show is based on a series of live improv performances and are taped live in front of audiences at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Law & Order: Los Angeles, midseason premiere at 10pm on NBC

NewNowNext Awards 2011, awards show at 10pm on Logo

– The NewNowNext Awards are about celebrating today what will be trending next year. While some award events honor those who’ve already made it, the Nexties set their sights on brink-of-fame up-and-comers who are sparking the next big buzz in film, TV, music, and new media. With award categories like “TV You Betta Watch,” “#zOMG Internet Award,” and “Brink of Fame: Music Artists” these prizes are about celebrating talent and pop culture that’s on the verge. The coveted “Always Next, Forever Now Award” is given every year to a pop icon who has paved the way for today’s talent. Previous winners have included Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and Paula Abdul and this year none other than the Queen of Dance Lady Gaga will be the honored recipient.

Tuesday, April 12^th

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, season premiere at 8pm on ABC

– Jamie Oliver, impassioned British chef, TV personality and best-selling author is back and he’s headed for La-La-land. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is the inspiring TV docu-series that attacks the problems of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in America. This generation of children is the first that’s not expected to live as long as their parents. Jamie’s show invites viewers to take a stand and change the way America feeds itself at home, in schools and on Main Street. The series has been named as a recipient of the Television Academy Honors, exemplifying “television with a conscience.” In Season Two, Jamie is raising the stakes for his Food Revolution by bringing it to one of America’s biggest cities, Los Angeles. He immediately has to rethink his approach when the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) slams the door in his face.

Deadliest Catch, season premiere at 9pm on Discovery

– New blood, old wounds, and rivalries that never die. For some it’s a season of change; for others, a chance to make a name for themselves, but some things remain constant: the perilous, icy waters of the Bering Sea and most dangerous job in the world. After a record breaking, heartbreaking season last year with the shocking death of Captain Phil Harris from a stroke, all the captains are back to do what they do best: fish for crab, with a one hundred million dollar reward on the line. This season the dark clouds and long shadow of their father’s death still hang heavy on sons Josh and Jake Harris but now they need to show the rest of the fleet that they can come back and step it up as co-owners of the Cornelia Marie. After briefly auditioning successors in the wheelhouse of the Time Bandit last season, Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand are center stage again with no intention of stepping down but they soon find their lucky streak in crabbing could be coming to an end.

Braxton Family Values, series premiere at 9pm on WE tv

– Join the rambunctious, tight-knit Braxton sisters — Grammy-winning artist Toni Braxton, Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar — and their headstrong mother for an inside look at their lives and the drama of family chaos. They’ll battle it out for the spotlight with sibling rivalry, man drama, bankruptcy, a DUI and much more!  Will their super-close sisterly bond and unconditional love get them through the trials and tribulations of life in the fab lane?

Royally Mad, two-part special premiere at 10pm on BBC America

– America’s five most royal-obsessed fans have been selected for the regal trip of a lifetime. SYTYCD’s fabulous host Cat Deeley will lead them on London’s royal wedding path as they live the royal dream and compete to be crowned number-one fan.

Sinbad: It’s Just Family, season premiere at 10pm on WE tv

– Comedian Sinbad stars in his own new reality series: Cameras will follow the actor/comedian and his family as they work and live in Los Angeles, with Sinbad trying to re-launch his comedy career. After The Sinbad Show and his movie roles (remember Jingle All the Way?) dried up, Sinbad re-married his college sweetheart, kicked his 30-person entourage off the payroll, and got back into his original passion of performing stand-up comedy. Now living back in his original home where his career started, he’s working to rebuild his fanbase while his grown-up kids, Paige and Royce, are working on their own careers.

Sports Show with Norm MacDonald, series premiere at 10:30pm on Comedy Central

– As the anchor for Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, Norm Macdonald brought a unique, sardonic wit to the long-running sketch show’s parody of a news broadcast. On this new show, Norm will once again use his dry humor and pitch-perfect delivery to parody the news, but this time the focus will be solely on sports. This blog will seek to extend the show’s coverage of the sports world, posting highlights and extended clips from the show, pointing readers to stories, posting web-exclusive videos of Norm and more.

Wednesday, April 13^th

Happy Endings, series premiere at 9:30pm on ABC

– In this modern comedy, a couple’s break-up will complicate all of their friends’ lives and make everyone question their choices. When life throws you for a curve, hold on tight to the people you love. Every circle of friends has someone who’s the gravitational center. For years, perfect couple Dave and Alex drew their friends in and held them together. Now that they’ve split, does this group have the stuff to stay together? Or do Max, Brad, Jane and Penny have to choose sides? Suddenly every event is a negotiation… like, who gets to go on the annual ski trip? There are a lot of big questions to be answered, but this group has been together so long, somehow, little by little, they’ll figure out how to hold on, even though their center is split up. It helps that Dave and Alex have agreed to stay friends but there will definitely be other complications down the road.

Thursday, April 14^th

The Paul Reiser Show, series premiere at 8:30pm on NBC

– Paul Reiser’s back on television and he’s playing… Paul Reiser in a show about his real-life experiences. Paul plays himself, an ex-TV star who’s searching for his next big gig. As Paul waits for that day to come, he spends time with his family and a group of guys who still think they’re 25. It’s all fine, as long as he doesn’t get caught doing something embarrassing that ends up on TMZ. Paul Reiser’s been named one of the greatest stand-ups of all time. And as funny as he is on stage, he’s even funnier at home.

Friday, April 15^th

Friday Night Lights, season premiere at 8pm on NBC

– This award-winning series centers on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together — and the drama of small town life threatens to tear it apart. Coach Taylor came to East Dillon to bring home one thing: a state championship title. Complicating his mission wasn’t just the opposing teams, but his own players, coaches and pressures from the community. At the end of Season 4, Coach Taylor led East Dillon High School to a thrilling Thanksgiving Day win over their cross-town rivals. How it will it all end? Can Coach Taylor bring the East Dillon Lions all the way to the state championship? Will Tami revive a school system that most have given up on? How will Julie and the other young people of Dillon, Texas move on from their home town? Now get ready for the fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed series.

American Restoration, series premiere at 10pm on History

– This new reality series features Rick Dale and his crew of loose screws at Rick’s Restorations in Las Vegas, Nevada, as they take rusty, beat-up items and restore them to their original glory. Whether it’s a giant gas pump from the 1940s or a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle from the 1950s, every restoration is a high-stakes business project where worthless rust is transformed into a valuable collectible. However, these restorations aren’t easy. Every project presents unique challenges for Rick and his team, who develop inventive processes to finish each job flawlessly and on time. From old gas carts to timeless slot machines, the items Rick restores are part of the fabric that makes up American culture. Things just aren’t made like they used to be, but at Rick’s Restorations, old becomes new again.

The Whitest Kids U’ Know, season premiere at 10:30pm on IFC

– The award-winning debauched comedy troupe, The Whitest Kids U’ Know, returns for its fifth and final season of their sketch comedy show. The series pushes sketch comedy to a whole new level of depraved genius and this farewell season ups the ante like never before. This season, Trevor, Zach, Sam, Darren and Timmy are providing sardonic cracks on politics, gender, suburbia, and sex while featuring some of their most creative, hilarious, and often shocking material to date. Fans can expect to meet a whole new cast of characters including sex phone worker “Baked Beans”; world class Didgeradoo player “Sal Rosenberg”; child do-gooder “Little Hitler” and many more. The Kids will also feature commercials for some of their latest absurd inventions like the children’s fashion accessory “the Finger Ring”; the next level in nerf combat, the “Nerf Nuke”; and nicotine replacement device “Nic-O-Dick.” Additionally, each episode of this farewell season will end with a segment of an extended re-imagining of the Civil War as a war on drugs (as only the Kids could do).

New Premieres This Week in TV: April 3rd – 9th

Sunday, April 3^rd

The Kennedys, miniseries premiere at 8pm on ReelzChannel

– The infamous miniseries axed by the History Channel (after they commissioned it in the first place) got an 11^th hour pickup from the relatively unknown Reelz Channel. The 8-part miniseries from the Emmy-Award winning team behind 24 boasts an all-star lineup led by Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy (JFK), Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson OBE as Joseph Kennedy, Sr. The Kennedys relives the public and private joys and tragedies of the most influential family in the world including fraternal rivalries, mob associations, the drugs and the women. The movie event recreates the political crises that John F. Kennedy dealt with in the early days of his presidency including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and the Civil Rights Movement. Viewers will see every twist and turn of this family’s extraordinary story up to and including the assassinations of JFK and RFK.

46^th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, awards show at 8pm on CBS

– Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton host this country music fest broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Miranda Lambert leads the nominations with seven nods, followed by Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown Band with five each, and Taylor Swift with four nods. Alabama, Dierks Bentley, Ronnie Dunn, Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Reba, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Zac Brown Band with James Taylor and Entertainer of the Year nominees Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban are all slated to perform. Non-country music icon Celine Dion will grace the stage to present an award.

The Borgias, 2-hour series premiere at 9pm on Showtime

– Over a decade in the making, The Borgias is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Outsiders from Spain, the Borgias went up against the most powerful and established families in Renaissance Italy and came out on top. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Academy Award^® winner Jeremy Irons) to the papacy through the masterful use of bribery, extortion, blackmail, and shocking forms of torture and murder. Once there he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. Aiding him in his endeavors are his sons Cesare, a ruthless operator who yearns fruitlessly to be released from the priesthood, and Juan, a feckless dilettante whom Rodrigo appoints to head the papal armies. Daughter Lucrezia and son Joffre are married off in early adolescence to members of powerful rival families – pawns in their family’s fortunes. Waging their own heated contest for Rodrigo’s affections are Vanozza, his long-time mistress and mother of his children, and the younger Giulia Farnese, whose cunning is matched only by her astonishing beauty. The unbounded audacity of this original crime family went on to inspire Machiavelli’s The Prince and Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.

The Killing, 2-hour series premiere at 9pm on AMC

– The 13-part drama series is based on the wildly successful Danish television series Forbrydelsen and tells the story of the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation. The Killing ties together three distinct stories around a single murder including the detectives assigned to the case, the victim’s grieving family, and the suspects. The series stars Big Love’s Mireille Enos as Sarah Linden, a homicide detective who’s about to leave to get married but gets drawn into the case and works alongside the cop assigned to replace her, Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman). Set in Seattle, the story also explores local politics as it follows politicians connected to the case. As the series unfolds, it becomes clear that there are no accidents, everyone has a secret, and while the characters think they’ve moved on, their past isn’t done with them.

Monday, April 4^th

Relapse, series premiere at 9pm on A&E

– From the Emmy-Award winning producers of A&E’s critically acclaimed Intervention, comes the new original real-life series Relapse: The Sober Coach Chronicles. This new docu-reality series follows sober coaches, former addicts who have found their way back to clean living, as they work to save the lives of addicts who have relapsed on drugs and alcohol. The five episode series follows Gwen Casella, Doug Caine, Patty Powers and Seth Jaffe, four of the country’s leading sober coaches who dedicate their lives to giving individualized attention to those who can’t break their destructive habits. “Sober coaching” is a last resort for addicts who are at rock bottom and have tried other methods to get sober but have failed.

Wednesday, April 6^th

Breaking In, series premiere at 9:30pm on FOX

– This new workplace comedy series centers on a team of uniquely skilled oddball geniuses hand-picked to work for a manipulative mastermind played by Christian Slater in a role that perfectly takes advantage of his charms and skills. This is an offbeat comedy about a high-tech security firm that takes extreme – and often questionable – measures to sell their protection services. Contra Security, corporate America’s answer to “The A-Team,” gives clients a sense of security by first ripping it away aka Breaking In. The firm is led by Oz (Slater), a larger-than-life head honcho who is a man of mystery and master of manipulation. The members of the odd squad include alluring bad girl Melanie (Odette Annable), who is in charge of lock-picking, safe-cracking and heart-breaking; and Cash (Alphonso McAuley), a fanboy who specializes in strategy, logistics and office pranks. Oz’s newest recruit, plucked right out of college, is lovable and charming computer hacker Cameron Price (Bret Harrison). Unfortunately for Cameron, cracking into state-of-the-art security systems is a lot easier than dealing with his co-workers. Between Melanie’s sex appeal and Cash’s hazing, Cameron has more than a few obstacles to overcome if he wants to cement his status as part of the team and become Oz’s go-to guy.

Extreme Couponing, series premiere at 9pm on TLC

– The special by the same name earned big ratings when it aired in December, thus earning it a series pickup. Enter the world of bargain shoppers who have mastered the art of saving! In Extreme Couponing, meet the everyday people who save hundreds of dollars in a single trip to the store. From seeing their shocking stockpiles of merchandise they rack up, to demonstrating their dramatic shopping skills, to witnessing how some use their amazing couponing ways to benefit local communities, this series shares the world of everyday people in pursuit of extraordinary deals.

Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings, series premiere at 10pm on Oxygen

– Combining Tori Spelling’s party planning flair with her husband Dean McDermott’s bring-it-on attitude, Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings takes one lucky couple’s wedding from ordinary to extraordinary. In the lead-up to the big day, Tori will turn the bride-to-be’s dreams for a beautiful event into a reality while Dean will help the groom-to-be navigate all the twists and turns. Together, Tori and Dean will also help to overcome the potential issues with family, friends, and the couples themselves that wedding stress may cause. The celebrity power couple understands the enormity of the day, having planned several weddings that aired on Oxygen, including their hit series Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

Workaholics, series premiere at 10:30pm on Comedy Central

– A new scripted comedy series from the internet sketch group Mail Order Comedy based on their hit web series 5^th Year starring Mail Order Comedy’s Blake Anderson, Anders Holm and Adam DeVine. Graduating from college and entering the real world isn’t easy, especially for three unmotivated roommates. This series follows three friends fresh out of college who live and work together as telemarketers. Dress codes, deadlines and waking up before noon isn’t something these guys are used to. The crew spends their days scheming together to avoid doing any real work and their nights looking for good times.

Top Chef Masters, season premiere at 11pm on Bravo

– Bravo’s Top Chef Masters returns with a brand new format and new host Curtis Stone as 12 new award-winning chefs compete for the title of “Top Chef Master” and win $100,000 for their charity. This season, the masters will no longer be judged on a scale, but in elimination style challenges just as the tried and true format of the original Top Chef. Top Chef Masters pits 12 world-renowned chefs against each other to see how well they fare in fierce culinary competition. In each episode, money will be at stake, with the winners of every quickfire challenge winning $5,000 and elimination challenges winning $10,000 for their designated charities. Celebrity chef Curtis Stone will serve as the newly appointed host of the series along with returning judge and culinary expert, James Oseland, and new series judge, the legendary food critic and author, Ruth Reichl.

Thursday, April 7^th

America’s Best Dance Crew, season premiere at 10pm on MTV

– After a one year hiatus that had me painfully awaiting for an excessive amount of time, Randy Jackson’s kick ass dance competition to find the country’s best hip hop dance crew returns for its sixth season, which is being called the “Season of Superstars” because of new celebrity theme-weeks. Each week, the best crews from across the country will face off to the music of Kesha, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, and Rihanna. We may have to credit the success of season 5’s Lady Gaga theme week with this new format change. We not only have some sick dancing to look forward to but also an exciting addition to the judges’ panel. ABDC Season 3 champion Quest Crew’s former member Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval (also a So You Think You Can Dance season 3 finalist and season 7 all-star) joins the judges’ table in Omarion’s place alongside permanent judges JC Chasez and Lil’ Mama. One of the new crews battling on the dance floor consists of female contemporary pole dancers seeking to create a new image for their art by replacing erotic connotations with jaw-dropping acrobatic ability. Fun stuff, huh?

Gigolos, series premiere at 11pm on Showtime

– Showtime presents an extremely rare and uncensored look into the personal and professional lives of five hot guys who like to hang out, have fun and get girls… but in their case they get paid for it. Gigolos follows five real guys earning their living as high-end male escorts in Las Vegas. Adrenaline junkie Jimmy, single dad Steven, gym rat Nick, veteran Brace and newcomer Vin find themselves in some unexpected positions as they balance relationships, friendships and family with the demands of their all-female clientele. It’s a wild ride for these real-life escorts who never miss a trick. A reality series like no other, Gigolos is not only provocative but also surprisingly truthful and heartfelt.

Friday, April 8^th

CMT’s Next Superstar, series premiere at 11pm on CMT

– CMT searches to find America’s next great country star and opens the door for undiscovered singers/songwriters who think they have what it takes to make it in the rough-and-tumble world of the music industry. The show allows the world to see every triumph and every setback unfold weekly. The contestants will share a house in Nashville — providing a rare and revealing inside look at the all-ensuing drama that can take place when musical adversaries live and compete together. The contestants are also judged on their songwriting, radio interviews and music videos to reveal a complete package of performer, personality and writer. Contestants will try to impress celebrity guests each week through a series of music business related challenges and grueling performance rounds. Each week, one finalist will be eliminated, and America will have the final vote to determine who will win the title of CMT’s Next Superstar.

Saturday, April 9^th

Colin Quinn Long Story Short, special at 10pm on HBO

– HBO brings viewers this special taped before a live audience of Colin Quinn’s Broadway show of the same name directed by Jerry Seinfeld. The SNL alum showcases his keen observations in an uproarious history of the world, juxtaposing modern-day human behavior with the rise and fall of empires. From his impersonation of Caesar as the original Italian mobster to his complaints about ancient Greece and Antigone giving way to Costco and Snooki, Quinn is at his satirical best, taking on the attitudes, appetites, and bad habits that have toppled the world’s most powerful nations.

New Premieres This Week in TV: March 27th – April 2nd

Monday, March 28^th

Silent Library, season premiere at 7pm on MTV

– Rarely does the word library become part of the title of a new MTV show that has been described as “Jackass… set in an enclosed environment.” Modeled after a Japanese game show, Silent Library will represent a new breed of competition format that will feature six friends, all vying for a cash prize, forced to impose unimaginable, beyond hysterical stunts on one another. With stunts ranging from brushing one’s teeth with wasabi to having your face held in the path of “the slapper” (a gloved hand that rotates on an automated machine) it will be obvious to viewers that remaining silent is much easier said than done.

Home Takeover with Simon & Tomas, series premiere at 8pm on OWN

– After tackling hundreds of “home takeovers” throughout Sweden and the world, lauded interior designers Simon Davies and Tomas Cederlund are embarking on their first design rescue journey across the United States. The high-energy design duo, armed with their distinctive Swedish style and razor-sharp wit, is on a mission to help American homeowners redecorate and redesign their unstylish rooms.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager, midseason premiere at 8pm on ABC Family

Make It or Break It, midseason premiere at 9pm on ABC Family

Nurse Jackie, season premiere at 10pm on Showtime

– Showtime’s dark comedy about a pill-popping nurse with quick wit, interesting bedside manner, and questionable moral ethics is back for season 3. As an ER nurse, Jackie Peyton skillfully navigates the rough waters of a crumbling healthcare system, doing everything she can to provide her patients with the best possible care. She’s a devoted wife, mother and friend, always going the extra mile to help her peeps in every way possible. But this nurse is not what she seems. She’s hiding a nasty addiction to pain pills, an illicit affair with the hospital pharmacist, and the fact that she’s married with kids from her co-workers. Last season ended with the ugly truth closing in on super-nurse Jackie. Her lover Eddie threatened to come clean about their affair to his good friend Kevin, who also happens to be Jackie’s husband. And O’Hara and Kevin put the pieces together about Jackie’s pill-popping ways and confronted her about her addiction. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don’t know Jackie.

United States of Tara, season premiere at 10:30pm on Showtime

– Suburban wife and mother Tara Gregson (Emmy Award winner Toni Collette) juggles her family and career while suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder — a condition formerly known as multiple personality disorder. It’s never a dull moment in the Gregson household, as Tara’s supportive husband Max and their two teenaged children, Kate and Marshall, try to lead as much of a “normal” life as possible. In Season 2, when Tara decided to move on from her past, a sudden neighborhood incident opens the door to her family’s shocking secrets. Her alters — some old and some new — helped her unravel the mysteries while simultaneously infusing their own chaos into the mix. Meanwhile, the rest of Tara’s family explored their own identities as Max hit a boiling point, Marshall questioned his sexuality, Kate took on an online fantasy persona, and Charmaine found herself in a complicated love triangle. Tune into the season three premiere to see how far Tara and her alters will go this season.

Tuesday, March 29^th

Addicted to Food, series premiere at 10pm on OWN

– In this riveting new docu-series, eight people battle their addiction to the one thing they literally can’t live without: food. At Shades of Hope, a rural Texas treatment center, these desperate clients struggle through an intense 42-day treatment plan led by maverick therapist Tennie McCarty. Using unorthodox methods and a tough-love approach, Tennie asks her clients to confront the painful issues in their lives that have led them to use food as an escape. Full of drama, emotion and triumph, Addicted to Food shows us that recovery is possible even for people who fear their lives are hopeless. It’s like Oprah’s positive version of the A&E docu-series Heavy or like The Biggest Loser without the grueling competition element, on this show every person is a winner.

All on the Line, series premiere at 10pm on Sundance Channel

– Joe Zee – fashion powerhouse, celebrity stylist, and Creative Director of ELLE – helps struggling designers save their lines from ruin. Each designer was once heating up the runways but has since lost their way. Now, they have a second chance in his fashion bootcamp. With his market savvy, positive spirit, and a little tough love, Joe attempts to transform these talented but failing businesses into rack ready lines. It’s All on the Line for these designers as they rework everything to show a buyer who can make – or break – their dreams.

Body of Proof, series premiere at 10pm on ABC

– Remember when Dana Delaney’s storyline on Desperate Housewives was getting ridiculously crazy and out of control, literally? Well thank goodness the pilot for this show came along and she was written out of Housewives to star in this new crime drama series, even if her character in this show does have the rather unpleasant job of spending most of her work day examining corpses. Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. Her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims. Megan’s instincts are sharp, but she’s developed a reputation for graying the lines of where her job ends and where the police department’s begins. It turns out her career isn’t the only thing that will need to be rebuilt; Megan’s family has taken a backseat to her ambition, and now she’ll discover there’s a lot of work to do when it comes to dissecting her relationships with the living.

Wednesday, March 30^th

The Ultimate Fighter, season premiere at 9pm on Spike

– This reality series and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition comes to us thanks to the collaboration between the man channel Spike TV and The Ultimate Fighting Competition (UFC) in their quest to find the country’s next Ultimate Fighter. The show features unknown, professional MMA fighters living together in Las Vegas and follows them as they train and compete against each other for a prized contract with the UFC.

Coal, series premiere at 10pm on Spike

– Leave it up to the macho men’s favorite channel to make a new reality show about coal miners, although it may be quite timely given the worldwide attention the trapped Chilean miners garnered last year, and reminded us all of just how dangerous this profession is. Mike Crowder and Tom Roberts of West Virginia struck up a partnership while watching their sons practice football and created Cobalt Coal Corporation. They lead their more than 40 machine operators, foremen, electricians, and drivers into one of the most dangerous workplaces on the planet. Every aspect of the job will be covered, from the dangers behind the super-charged explosions needed to open surface mines, to the well-publicized daily dangers of working in the dark recesses of the earth’s crust in a traditional shaft mine. As they face the daily pressure to keep the mine up and running and their workers safe, family men Crowder and Roberts will rely on the support of their loved ones to tackle the mine’s daily demands.

Thursday, March 31^st

Mobbed, special at 9pm on FOX

– Are you ready to get flash mobbed? Host Howie Mandel puts a hidden-camera spin on the popular “flash mob” concept. Mandel and hundreds of strangers will help special guests plan extraordinary surprises for friends, family members, loved ones or co-workers. These unknowing participants will be shocked and stunned by surprise performances that lead up to fantastic reveals that include a husband learning that his wife is pregnant, an applicant finding out that she got the job and a marriage proposal, among others. Throughout the hour, the guests will be shown prepping for the event – rehearsing their routines and refining their speeches – all while receiving guidance from host Mandel. Then, on the day of the big event – with the hidden cameras rolling – the detailed plan comes to fruition.

Swamp People, season premiere at 9pm on History Channel

– Deep in the heart of Louisiana lies America’s largest swamp–a million miles of inhospitable bayous, marshes and wetlands where nature rules and humans struggle to tame it. Resilient, self-reliant and fiercely independent, the Cajuns of the Atchafalaya Swamp still carry on many of their ancestors’ trades and traditions. Cameras follow these swampers through a time of year that is crucial to their survival: the 30-day alligator-hunting season. At its core, this is a uniquely American story of a proud and skillful people fighting to maintain an ancient way of life in a rapidly modernizing world, despite the many perils and trials that stand in their way.

Friday, April 1^st

Chaos, series premiere at 8pm on CBS

– This new comedic drama is about a group of rogue CIA spies in the Clandestine Administration and Oversight Services (CHAOS), who combat threats to national security amidst bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting. The team tackles high risk foreign intelligence missions using manipulation, deception and wit to succeed. Rick Martinez was dismayed when his dream job as a spy was eliminated on his first day. However, CIA Deputy Director H.J. Higgins, a calculating mastermind and the head of CHAOS, recognizes Rick’s unique skill set and places him as an unwitting mole inside the department. Martinez joins the team under Michael Dorset, a psychologist turned CIA operative and a tactical genius motivated by pure paranoia. Working with Martinez is Scottish-born Billy Collins, de-commissioned from the British Secret Service and deported from the United Kingdom; Casey Malick, a 12 year veteran of the agency with an understated demeanor and the ability to transform into a “human weapon.” Attacking each assignment with unparalleled confidence and gusto, these operatives perform covert operations, exert political influence and eradicate all manner of evil – and that’s just to survive the morning staff meeting.

Camelot, series premiere at 10pm on Starz

– Starz presents its new historical-fantasy-drama series based on Arthurian legend. In the wake of King Uther’s sudden death, chaos threatens to engulf Britain. When the sorcerer Merlin (Joseph Fiennes) has visions of a dark future, he installs the young and impetuous Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower), Uther’s unknown son and heir, who has been raised from birth as a commoner. But Arthur’s cold and ambitious half sister Morgan will fight him to the bitter end, summoning unnatural forces to claim the crown in this epic battle for control. These are dark times indeed for the new king, with Guinevere being the only shining light in Arthur’s harsh world. Faced with profound moral decisions, and the challenge of uniting a kingdom broken by war and steeped in deception, Arthur will be tested beyond imagination.

Say Yes to the Dress: Randy Knows Best, series premiere at 10pm on TLC

– TLC adds another installment of the hit Say Yes to the Dress franchise with this new spin-off featuring Kleinfeld Bridal’s fashion director and star of Say Yes to the Dress – Randy Fenoli – as he dishes out his top ten tips on a variety of bridal related categories.  Whether it’s picking out the perfect dress for your body, choosing a dress to complement your venue or theme, or deciding who and what to bring to your bridal appointment, Randy takes on a number of topics as he shares his bridal expertise with viewers.

New Premieres This Week in TV: March 20th – March 26th

Monday, March 21^st

Dancing With The Stars, season premiere at 8pm on ABC

Tuesday, March 22^nd

Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, 2-hour special at 9pm on ABC

Big Brian: The Fortune Seller, series premiere at 10pm on truTV

Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen, series premiere at 10pm on Syfy

The Fabulous Beekman Boys, season premiere at 10pm on Planet Green

Wednesday, March 23^rd

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, season premiere at 10pm on Syfy

Thursday, March 24^th

The Hard Times of RJ Berger, season premiere at 11pm on MTV

John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, special at midnight on Comedy Central

Friday, March 25^th

Shark Tank, season premiere at 8pm on ABC

New Premieres This Week in TV: March 13th – 19th

Sunday, March 13^th

Sister Wives, season premiere at 9pm on TLC

– The controversial series about a real life polygamist family returns for a second season after a serious scare of facing criminal prosecution almost put a halt to the production and the family’s way of life. Cameras follow Kody Brown, his four wives Meri, Janelle, Christine and newcomer Robyn, and their combined 16 children living in Lehi, Utah as modern-day polygamists. The show highlights how they attempt to navigate life as a “normal” family in a society that shuns their lifestyle. From their unconventional family structure and living arrangements to financial challenges, each episode exposes the inner workings of a polygamist household, revealing the unexpectedly tight-knit and loving relationships between Kody’s wives. Season 1 chronicled the growing pains as Robyn and her kids assimilated into the family and the Sister Wives worked through the insecurities and uncertainties that are inevitable in their chosen way of life. In season 2, we follow the Browns as they experience the ups and downs of living a plural lifestyle, from their bold decision to “come out” as polygamists on national television to the changes brought on by their recently extended family. After the series premiere last fall, the Lehi police announced they were investigating the Browns for possible charges of polygamy but then the Utah Attorney General’s office announced it doesn’t have the resources to prosecute polygamists who have not committed serious crimes at this time, though they may still seek criminal charges against the Browns at a later date. Therefore, the Browns can keep bankrolling from this reality series that exposed their way of life and made them vulnerable to criminal prosecution.

Monday, March 14^th

Wedding Wars, series premiere at 9pm on VH1

– 12 engaged couples will battle each other for the destination wedding of a lifetime while facing challenges on a remote island that will put their relationship to the ultimate test. Hosted by Michele Merkin, this new reality competition show pits teams of soon-to-be brides and grooms against each other, fighting tooth and nail for a shot at their dream wedding and incredible prizes. But, these couples are in for a huge shock when they learn they won’t be competing at a five star resort or getting any special treatment. Instead, the couples are being exiled to a remote island with little food or water and in order to win the wedding of their dreams, they must brave the elements and survive in the wilderness as they compete in trying challenges.

Meat & Potatoes, season premiere at 10pm on Food Network

– This food travel series, also known as Where’s The Beef?, follows meat-loving chef Rahm Fama as his carnivorous curiosity takes him across the country, searching out the choicest cuts of mouth-watering meat. A chef and meat nerd originally from New Mexico, Rahm is tracking down the country’s best spots for the choicest cuts of beef, pork and everything in between. He obsesses over meat with fellow chefs, local foodies, and passionate chowhounds across the United States, making several stops in each episode to sample their meaty fare. From mounds of meatballs in New York and chicken-fried steak in Texas to loaded gourmet hotdogs in Chicago and monster beef patties in Oregon, Rahm’s carnivorous curiosities uncover the most mouth-watering meats and the side dishes that so perfectly complete them.

Tuesday, March 15^th

Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump, special from 10:30pm to midnight

– Commercials for this roast may have confused you into thinking it was actually a roast of Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino but the special event is actually a roast of a much bigger fish with questionable hair and ill-placed presidential aspirations, the one and only Donald Trump. It’s easy to see why the likes of Larry King, Snoop Dogg, The Situation, comedian Jeffrey Ross, and roastmaster Seth MacFarlane would think its fun to roast Donald Trump and his hair. As for why Trump would subject himself to be roasted, well come on, he would never pass up any opportunity to shamelessly promote the Trump brand, duh.

Four of a Kind, series premiere at 11pm on Lifetime

– This new family reality series follows a set of identical quadruplet sisters — one of only 63 sets of identical quads in the world — as they juggle their last year of high school in Minnesota. 18-year-old vivacious sisters Calli, Kendra, Megan and Sarah Durst endure the everyday trials, tribulations and emotions of being middle-American teenagers during one of the most pivotal times in their lives — senior year. As the sisters decide on colleges, they must deal with the possibility of splitting up, and with older brother Travis heading off to school as well, their single mother Naomi faces an empty nest for the first time in 19 years.

Wednesday, March 16^th

2011 mtvU Woodie Awards, special awards show from midnight to 1am on MTV

– Community star Donald Glover has already taken the community college world by storm, and now he is looking to conquer the mtvU Woodie Awards as the show’s first-ever host. MTV’s 24-hour college network mtvU is hosting one night of music where college students make their voices heard to recognize their favorite emerging artists in this indie grammy’s-type awards show. Glover seems the perfect man for the job as the Woodies are the only awards show where the winners are determined by college students. The Black Keys lead the nominees this year with nods in the “Best Video Woodie” and “Woodie of the Year” categories. The show will also feature performances by Foo Fighters, Sleigh Bells, and Wiz Khalifa among others.

Saturday, March 19^th

The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, special at 10pm on HBO

– HBO presents the Broadway production of Paul Reuben’s Pee-Wee Herman Show, which brings the playhouse to life for kids of all ages. Reuben’s recent Broadway revival was based on the original stage production and his hit TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Unfortunately, the laughs of the delightful stage production don’t translate well in the taped-for-TV version.

New Premieres This Week in TV: March 6th – 12th

Sunday, March 6^th

Secret Millionaire, series premiere at 8pm on ABC

– Based on the hit UK series of the same name, cameras take us along as some of America’s most successful self-made millionaires embark on a truly incredible journey. Each episode of this reality series follows one of America’s most successful business people for a week as they leave the comforts of home behind. They’ll keep their true identities hidden while living in some of the country’s most impoverished neighborhoods. Residing in local housing on welfare-level wages, these “secret millionaires” will try to find the most deserving people within the community. At the end of the journey, they’ll reveal their true identity and donate hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money to these local heroes.

Firefly, syndication premiere at 8pm on Science Channel

Army Wives, season premiere at 9pm on Lifetime

– The original Lifetime drama series returns for its fifth season. The show follows the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women — and one man — living with their spouses and families on an active Army post. The series is set at the fictional Fort Marshall, at the old Charleston Naval Base, in North Charleston, South Carolina and shoots on location in Charleston, South Carolina. In the season four finale, Denise went into labor while on the phone with Jeremy and Claudia Joy received disturbing news as Emmalin prepared for graduation. In the season five premiere, Pamela reconsiders her future and must decide whether she’s going to say with Chase or take the job with Atlanta PD. Also, Joan must make a life-altering decision as she evaluates the next step in her relationship with Roland.

Celebrity Apprentice, 2 hour season premiere at 9pm on NBC

– Donald Trump returns with the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice and an all-new celebrity lineup of candidates: Gary Busey, Jose Canseco, David Cassidy, Hope Dworacyk, Richard Hatch, LaToya Jackson, Star Jones, NeNe Leakes, Lil Jon, Marlee Matlin, Mark McGrath, Meat Loaf, John Rich, Lisa Rinna, Niki Taylor, and Dionne Warwick. The celebrity themed version of Trump’s reality competition series has surpassed the original The Apprentice in popularity and ratings. Contestants will not be vying for a job with Donald Trump; instead the business-savvy celebrity contestants will be working towards a greater goal — as they raise money for their various charities throughout the season. All of the celebrities will be competing in business-driven tasks around New York City, using their fame along with their proven business acumen to win challenges, while ultimately raising money and awareness for their respective causes. Not only will the final winner be crowned the Celebrity Apprentice, but he or she will also have the honor of delivering a $250,000 bonus check to their designated charity.

Chopped All Stars, series premiere at 9pm on Food Network

– A Chopped event like no other, Chopped All-Stars features unbeatable drama, a $50,000 charitable cash prize and 16 celebrated chefs familiar to Food Network fans. In a fierce five-part battle, 16 chefs you know and love go head-to-head to win $50,000 for their favorite charity (and bragging rights, of course). The champion from each of the first four rounds advances to the grand finale for a chance at taking home the prize and coveted title. With mystery basket ingredients like teething biscuits, rabbit kidneys and dried hibiscus flowers, these chefs must crank up the heat and get creative to avoid the chopping block.

Coming Home, series premiere at 10pm on Lifetime

– This new reality series pays tribute to American armed forces personnel and their families. Coming Home will follow the unforgettable and inspiring surprise reunions of soldiers from all five branches of the military with their spouses, children, parents and other loved ones as they return home from active duty throughout the world. Hosted by former “American Idol” finalist Matt Rogers, each episode will highlight five reunions featuring soldiers and their emotional stories.

Breakout Kings, series premiere at 10pm on A&E

– This highly anticipated new action drama series from the producers of the FOX series Prison Break is a fusion of Prison Break, Chase, and White Collar. Driven by the fact that there are few things more dangerous than a prisoner who has just escaped, and tired of following protocol and resorting to outdated methods of law enforcement, veteran U.S. Marshals are taking an unorthodox approach to their work: using former fugitives to catch fugitives. Breakout Kings follows U.S. Marshals Charlie Duchamp (Laz Alonso) and Ray Zancanelli (Domenick Lombardozzi) as they form a special task force composed of the three most elusive convicts Ray ever captured: Lloyd Lowery (Jimmi Simpson), a former child prodigy and behaviorist/psychiatric expert whoexcels in psychoanalysis; Shea Daniels (Malcolm Goodwin), an ex-gangbanger who knows how to work the system, both in prison and on the street; and Erica Reed (Serinda Swan), a sexy expert tracker who learned her trade from her bounty hunter father. Charlie and Ray also employ the services of Julianne Simms (Brooke Nevin), a civilian who acts as the “funnel” for the group – all information, tips and data go through her.

The Real Housewives of Orange County, season premiere at 10pm on Bravo

– In the sixth season of the original series that started the hit franchise, Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Barney, Gretchen Rossi, and Alexis Bellino welcome new beautiful blonde, Peggy Tanous, a 41-year old former model and now stay-at-home mom with poster girl good looks. After a tough financial year, the O.C. ladies are bouncing back and living lavishly once more, as the series goes behind the gates for a voyeuristic look at the scandalous truths, mending friendships, rocky marriages, sizzling romances, and ever-changing loyalties inside the wealthy Southern California suburb. Tamra also introduces the group to new gal-pal Fernanda Rocha, a 34-year old, hot Brazilian lesbian fitness instructor.

After Lately, series premiere at 11pm on E!

– When Chelsea Lately signs off each night, her gaggle of lunatic staffers is just getting started. This new reality sitcom goes behind-the-scenes of Chelsea Hander’s late night talk show Chelsea Lately when the cameras are off. Follow the real-life laughs of Chuy, Brad, Sarah, Chris, Heather and the rest of the gang. Because hey, Handler’s not the only funny one around here.

Monday, March 2^nd

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium, concert special at *8pm on PBS

*check your local listings

The Event, midseason premiere at 8pm on NBC

All About Aubrey, series premiere at 10pm on Oxygen

Stargate Universe, season premiere at 10pm on SyFy

Wednesday, March 4^th

The Real World: Las Vegas, season premiere at 10pm on MTV

New Premieres This Week in TV: February 27th – March 5th

Monday, February 28^th

Bethenny Ever After, season premiere at 10pm on Bravo

– Renamed Bethenny Ever After for the second season of The Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel’s own reality spin-off, the series chronicles Bethenny’s life as she becomes a wife and a mother and learns to balance that with her successful career. In the first season of Bethenny Getting Married she had the wedding and the baby, but now is it happily ever after? Between motherhood, marriage, Skinnygirl and competing as a finalist on Skating With The Stars, this quick-witted New Yorker has a lot on her plate. Now watch as she continues to grow her business and venture into new areas, all while juggling motherhood and marriage. When things get stressful, Bethenny manages to handle it all with her entertaining wit and biting humor.

No Reservations, season premiere at 9pm on Travel Channel

– Besides the chef’s hat, Anthony Bourdain wears many others: TV personality, best-selling author, public speaker, weary world traveler, gourmand, punk-rock aficionado, proud New Yorker and, most recently, doting father.  He’s even kicked his lifelong smoking habit. However, the fans that know him best can rest assured that the infamously grumpy, sharp-tongued host of No Reservations has become anything but pedestrian. As he continues to explore every corner of the globe on his Emmy winning series, Anthony Bourdain encounters the weird, wild and downright outrageous personalities and places that help define the international cultural landscape. In the world of a cook, an understanding and appreciation of how others eat is akin to discovering secret societies and cryptic subcultures. The food is only the first glimpse of a wider view of how people live their lives in faraway lands and unfamiliar territories. In the season premiere Bourdain live tweets his visit to Haiti, which is still recovering from the devastating earthquake last year and is also dealing with a cholera epidemic and an impending hurricane.

Thursday, March 3^rd

The Moto: Inside the Outdoors, season premiere at 10pm on Fuel TV

– Every summer, the world’s top motocross racers come together for the grueling 12-race AMA Outdoor Motocross Championship Series to battle the heat, the tracks, and each other. This reality series takes viewers inside this mysterious underworld to unravel the hidden lives of Racers.

Saturday, March 5^th

Fast and Fabulous: A Nascar Wedding, special at 8pm on Style

– This one-hour special follows the events leading up to and including the nuptials between race-car drive Kyle “Rowdy” Busch and model Samantha Sarcinella, who met while on the job. Cameras roll as the two lovebirds plan their luxurious wedding. The highlights include Samantha taking “pole-dancing lessons with her girlfriends at her sexy bachelorette party” while “Kyle heads out with his buddies for a bachelor’s day of paintball.” The cameras then roll at their New Year’s Eve wedding and reception in Chicago attended by NASCAR elite.

I Love Jenni, series premiere at 2pm on MUN2

– Top-selling Mexican music star Jenni Rivera is now also starring in her own reality show that showcases how she balances the demands of her highly successful career with those of her large family. This is a uniquely American reality series that welcomes viewers to the world of the Rivera family, with Jenni Rivera as our guide. Being Jenni Rivera is no easy feat. The series will give viewers an inside look at the life of Jenni the superstar, the proud mother of five, the grandmother, the entrepreneur, the media-maven, and now the newlywed, having recently married MLB LA Dodger pitcher and two-time All-Star player Esteban Loaiza. Rivera said, “Fans will get a behind the scenes look at mi vida loca, and all the different personalities in the Rivera family.  This is going to be one fun ride.” With her eldest daughter Chiquis as her right-hand, Jenni’s empire is unstoppable.

The Essentials, season premiere at 8pm on TCM

– Alec Baldwin and Robert Osborne host TCM’s weekly film showcase spotlighting a classic movie and featuring a special introduction and post-movie discussion. The 10th season kicks offs with Elia Kazan’s 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The season will feature four Best Picture Oscar winners, including The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gigi (1958), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and The Sting (1973), as well as Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Black Orpheus (1959). For the first time, The Essentials will include special late-night installments, with the seminal 1970s films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Serpico (1973)

New Premieres This Week in TV: February 20th – 26th

Sunday, February 20^th

The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, season premiere at 8pm on CBS

– The 18^th season of the reality giant is a special all-star edition (the series’ second) featuring 11 teams that suffered silly missteps in their first go-round the globe. Returning favorites include: last season’s father/daughter team Gary and Mallory Ervin; season 15’s Harlem Globetrotters Nathaniel “The Big Easy” Lofton and Herbert “Flight Time” Lang; season 14’s former NFL cheerleaders Cara Rosenthal and Jaime Edmondson; and engaged couple Amanda Blackledge and Kris Klicka among others.

Saturday Night Live Backstage, 2 hour special at 9pm on NBC

– NBC presents a new installment of the behind-the-scenes documentary series chronicling the highs and lows of the iconic comedy show. Cameras will give viewers a behind-the-scenes tour throughout the show’s long history highlighting previously untold stories of auditions, censorship, Weekend Update, and more. The special is both a fast-paced journey through the years and an insider’s view of how and why it continues to be the trendsetting show that it is. Backstage will also include musical guest performances and never before seen interviews with many of the show’s brightest stars, writers, and guest hosts, as well as some of the most memorable characters and sketches. The special will feature stories and interviews with creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, and many of the stars of the show including: Alec Baldwin, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, and more.

Tuesday, February 22^nd

The Real Housewives of Miami, series premiere at 10pm on Bravo

– The newest series of the Housewives franchise adds a Cuban unique flavor as the reality series goes inside this cultural hot spot. The Real Housewives of Miami follows six of the most connected and influential women of Miami as they live their lives to the fullest in this sunny city where the party never stops. The cast includes Larsa Pippen, wife of NBA superstar Scottie Pippen, who shares the unofficial title of “Hottest NBA Wife” with her friend and fellow castmate Cristy Rice, recent ex-wife of NBA player Glen Rice. Joining them are the “Cuban Barbie” Alexia Echevarria, executive editor of Venue Magazine; Brazilian bombshell and art curator Adriana de Moura; PR maven Marysol Patton; Texas native, community leader, and fundraising pro Lea Black, the wife of top criminal defense attorney Roy Black.

Wednesday, February 23^rd

America’s Next Top Model, season premiere at 8pm on the CW

– The CW’s hit series returns to the world of high fashion with its 16^th season. Fourteen anorexic model hopefuls will compete for the ultimate career-launching prize package: a contract with IMG Models, one of the top international modeling management companies in the world; a fashion spread in Vogue Italia and an additional spread and cover of Beauty in Vogue; and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics. Tyra Banks leads the panel of judges, comprised of influential fashion editor André Leon Talley and photographer Nigel Barker. Jay Manuel serves as the photo shoot creative director while Miss J Alexander returns as the runway trainer. Lending their expertise as guest judges during this high fashion cycle are international fashion designer Lana Marks, model/stylist Erin Wasson, stylist Rachel Zoe, Sudanese model and actress Alek Wek, fashion model Sonia Dara, IMG Models executive Ivan Bart, Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani, and Brazilian designer Daniella Issa Helayel among others.

Shedding for the Wedding, series premiere at 9pm on the CW

– They say two of the most stressful things in life are losing weight and getting married. Imagine having to go through both at the same time. In this new reality competition that is the challenge that nine overweight couples must face as they compete to see who can lose the most weight and win the wedding of their dreams. In the series hosted by actress Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect), the engaged couples from all walks of life come to Los Angeles, where they will live together and compete over a three-month period. The couples will undergo dramatic physical and emotional transformations as they change their lifestyles and eating habits under the supervision of celebrity nutritionist Ashley Koff (RD). They will also endure hours of grueling workouts with world-class trainers Nicky Holender and Jennifer Cohen. During this time, the couples will also be planning their fantasy weddings with the help of A-list wedding planner Brian Worley.

Ghost Hunters, season premiere at 9pm on SyFy

– The paranormal reality series that inspired three spinoffs returns for its seventh season. Contact between humans and spirits from the afterlife is not as far fetched as is it seems. As plumbers by day and ghost hunters by night, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson and their team have worked to track down the presence of paranormals across the country. As leaders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), both Jason and Grant have made it their life’s mission to help anyone with questions pertaining to paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people— office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus— moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.

Friday, February 25^th

Hall of Game Awards, awards show at 7pm on Cartoon Network

– Cartoon Network’s first ever sports award show will honor athletes from across the world of sports. Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk will host the event, which features an all-star line-up of icons from the worlds of sports, television, film and music. From the red carpet, to the never-before-seen stunts and surprises on stage, the special will be an evening of humor and fun at the most raucous and biggest sports awards show ever presented on television.

Camelot, series premiere at 11:05pm on Starz

– Starz offers us this special sneak peek of its new historical-fantasy-drama series based on Arthurian legend premiering in April. In the wake of King Uther’s sudden death, chaos threatens to engulf Britain. When the sorcerer Merlin (Joseph Fiennes) has visions of a dark future, he installs the young and impetuous Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower), Uther’s unknown son and heir, who has been raised from birth as a commoner. But Arthur’s cold and ambitious half sister Morgan will fight him to the bitter end, summoning unnatural forces to claim the crown in this epic battle for control. These are dark times indeed for the new king, with Guinevere being the only shining light in Arthur’s harsh world. Faced with profound moral decisions, and the challenge of uniting a kingdom broken by war and steeped in deception, Arthur will be tested beyond imagination.

Saturday, February 26^th

Secrets From a Stylist, series premiere at 9pm on HGTV

– Emily Henderson owns a prop, lifestyle and tabletop design business and her design philosophy is that home design should reflect personal fashion. HGTV Design Star winner Emily Henderson uses a “style diagnostic” to help folks transform their homes. The show takes a tailor-made approach to styling a room as professional prop stylist Emily Henderson customizes a room layer by style layer to ultimately help the homeowners discover their individualized personal taste. Henderson is an in-demand photo-shoot stylist for top lifestyle and design publications and national retailers.

2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, special awards show from 10pm to 12:15am on IFC

– Community star, The Soup host, and premiere hottie Joel McHale hosts this year’s indie movies awards show. The abtastic host admits “I have zero indie credentials” but he does have one redeeming quality “I grew up in Seattle, where independent film is very popular, so I got a contact high.” It’s a celebration of the spirited pioneers who bring a unique vision to filmmaking. Leading the indie pack are Winter’s Bone with seven nominations and The Kids Are All Right with five nods.

New Premieres This Week in TV: February 13th – 19th

Sunday, February 13^th

The 53^rd Annual Grammy Awards, special awards show from 8 to 11:30pm on CBS

– Can Eminem, the night’s most nominated artist, take it all? Will Lady Gaga outdo herself yet again by donning an outfit more outrageous than her red meat costume? I am still livid that Gaga’s “Bad Romance” was snubbed of a nomination for Record of the Year. My queen of pop will perform music from her upcoming album tonight and Bob Dylan and Dr. Dre will join Eminem for a special performance. Also belting out hit songs are fellow nominees Katy Perry, the Biebs, Arcade Fire, and there are also conflicting rumors whether Britney Spears will be taking the stage. Country legend Dolly Parton and her ginormous twins will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

British Academy Film Awards, special awards show from 8 to 11pm on BBC America

– It’s the Oscars of Britain, the prestigious BAFTA. In case you aren’t into the Grammy’s and prefer to watch one of the 50 bagillion movie award shows, unfortunately for me I want to watch both… It’s looking to be a good night for Tom Hooper’s acclaimed drama The King’s Speech, which leads the pack with a staggering fourteen nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and Best Original Screenplay. Psychological thriller Black Swan will also be hoping for glory with nominations in twelve categories including Best Film, Best Director (Darren Aronofsky), Best Actress (Natalie Portman), Best Supporting Actress (Barbara Hershey instead of Mila Kunis, I’m confused…) and Best Original Screenplay. These two frontrunners are joined by Inception, True Grit and The Social Network for the prestigious Best Film Award.

Monday, February 14^th

Mad Love, series premiere at 8:30pm on CBS

– This new sitcom is about a quartet of New Yorkers – two who are falling in love and two who despise each other… at least for now. Ben (Jason Biggs, American Pie franchise), a lawyer, is a hopeless romantic trying to build a relationship with Kate (Sarah Chalke, Scrubs), a beautiful, smart girl whom Ben thinks is the woman of his dreams. They are perfect for each other but their best friends couldn’t hate each other more. The husky Larry (Tyler Labine, Sons of Tucson), Ben’s unrefined best friend and co-worker, is a guy who doesn’t believe in love and has a long track record as the third wheel. The sassy Connie (the hilarious Judy Greer, Arrested Development), Kate’s roommate, works as a nanny and finds Larry aggravating… or does she? Larry and Connie have a lot in common, but refuse to let their guard down long enough to see it. Although not an original concept, the star cast makes me believe this could end up being a pleasant and endearing show.

Tuesday, February 15^th

Our America with Lisa Ling, series premiere at 10pm on OWN

– Oprah’s field correspondent Lisa Ling viewers takes viewers along for an in-depth look at some of the most controversial and thought-provoking issues in the United States today, including religious movements, sex offenders, drug addiction and online brides in her long-awaited new series. In each episode, Lisa immerses herself into the lives of the people she meets, offering compelling accounts of varied experiences and providing insight into some of our nation’s most contentious issues. In sharing these stories, Lisa challenges viewers to understand different perspectives and even question what they themselves have always known to be true.

Wednesday, February 16^th

Survivor: Redemption Island, season premiere at 8pm on CBS

– Clearly Survivor is trying to get creative with new themes for each season that involve bringing back some of our favorites from seasons past as well as changing up the format and strategy of the long-running (21 going on 22) reality competition series. Eighteen castaways will try to outwit, outplay and outlast for a chance at the top prize. Of those 18, two are former castaways vying for redemption: villains Russell Hantz and “Boston” Rob Mariano. During the game, eliminated contestants will still have a chance to redeem themselves and go for the $1 million prize. After a contestant is sent out of the main game during Tribal Council, they will be transported to ‘Redemption Island,’ where they will live in exile. After the next elimination, the exiled contestant and the newest ousted player must duel. The winner of the ‘Redemption Island’ duel stays to face the next, with the last exiled player returning to the main game to go for the title of Sole Survivor.

Jamie’s Food Escapes, series premiere at 8pm on Cooking Channel

– Jamie Oliver aka The Naked Chef hits the road for a culinary expedition through the world’s cultures and cuisines. Travelling across Europe and North Africa, Jamie discovers as much about the people as the food. Heading off the tourist track, he finds authentic ingredients and extraordinary characters, preparing delicious recipes en route. From truffle and boar hunting in the French Pyrenees to spear fishing off an island near Athens, Jamie attempts to uncover the freshest, most authentic dishes; including the street food of Marrakesh, herring in Sweden and sweet prawns in Venice. He immerses himself in the diverse cultures, learning traditional cooking practices from the locals and taking part in their cultural ceremonies.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, series premiere at 10pm on CBS

– This is the first long-awaited spinoff of the hit CBS crime procedural Criminal Minds (now in season 6). Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo star in this new crime drama about an elite team of agents within the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) who use unconventional methods of investigation and aggressive tactics to capture the nation’s most nefarious criminals. Whitaker’s character and his team were introduced in Criminal Minds Season 5 to test the waters before the spin-off was green-lit. Unit chief Special Agent Sam Cooper (Whitaker) is a mentally and physically fierce natural leader who is not afraid to put his career on the line in order to stand by his convictions. Cooper strives to avoid political bureaucracy and has handpicked an eclectic group of profilers to work outside the confines of Quantico. They include Beth Griffith (Garafalo), strong-willed and outspoken, the newest member of the team who joins them from the FBI Threat Assessment Task Force; Former British Special Forces soldier Mick Rawson, confident and handsome, works as a highly-skilled marksman with an undiluted eye for rooting out evil; John “Prophet” Sims a former convict with a street-smart edge and a calm, Zen-like presence, who is determined to make amends for past sins; Gina LaSalle an attractive, tough agent armed with a cunning sense of perception; and Penelope Garcia, a computer wizard who has spent years aiding Agent Hotchner and his BAU team on its toughest cases.

Thursday, February 17^th

Man vs. Wild, season premiere at 9pm on Discovery

– This exhilarating reality series brings seasoned adventurer Bear Grylls face to face with the grueling task of navigating remote locations, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way. Survival expert Grylls shows us how to survive step-by-step in life threatening situations and hostile environments. The premiere episode is 127 Hours-themed as Grylls shows us how to survive in the Arizona desert, which involves eating a live scorpion and straining water through a dirty sock, ewww.

Saturday, February 19^th

Being Human, season premiere at 9pm on BBC America

– The American remake of this hit British series premiered last month on SyFy to rave reviews but the internationally acclaimed original version premieres its 3^rd season this week on BBC America. This supernatural dramedy is a witty look into the lives of three twenty-somethings and their secret double-lives: George the werewolf, Mitchell the vampire, and Annie the ghost. The 3 housemates struggle to live normal lives, despite their strange and dark secrets. George’s on and off girlfriend Nina, whom he accidentally scratched and transformed into a werewolf in season 1, becomes a series regular this season. At the end of last season, Annie went through the wrong door and found herself trapped in Purgatory. Mitchell, George and Nina promised to find some way to free her. This season, George, Nina, and Mitchell leave the memories of their much-loved former house behind and settle into their new home – a kitschy B&B named Honolulu Heights in Wales that boasts many benefits for supernatural types, including a large basement providing safe haven on a full moon, for starters.

Craig Ferguson: Does This Need To Be Said?, comedy special at 8pm on EPIX

– Late, Late Show host Craig Ferguson, aka my favorite late night host ever, will deliver his one man stand-up show on the premium cable channel Epix. Known for his wry observational humor, the Emmy-nominated and Peabody award-winning Scotsman has broken rating records with his unconventional late night talk show that highlights his unique brand of humor. Ferguson will be cussing up a storm (censor free as it should be!) at Nashville’s Polk Theatre in this one-hour comedy special. Unfortunately, most of us will have to wait for the DVD release because we don’t get EPIX, for shame…

New Premieres This Week in TV: February 6th – 12th

Sunday, February 6^th

Glee, midseason premiere at 10:30pm (after the Super Bowl) on FOX

– The highly anticipated post-Super Bowl episode will feature the Glee club doing a mashup of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll.” Also, the Cheerios will do a routine to Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” donning blue wigs and fireworks coming out of their chests, priceless.

Monday, February 7^th

The Chicago Code, series premiere at 9pm on FOX

– The new police drama from critically acclaimed creator Shawn Ryan (The Shield) follows the Windy City’s most powerful and respected cops as they navigate the city’s underbelly to fight crime and expose corruption within Chicago’s notorious political machine. Set and shot on location in Chicago, this fast-paced series centers on Jarek Wysocki (Jason Clarke), a local legend and a larger-than-life veteran of the Chicago Police Department, who wields considerable power thanks to his relationship with Teresa Colvin (Jennifer Beals), his ex-partner and the city’s first female superintendent, now in charge of a 10,000-member police force. While Teresa diplomatically governs amidst the complicated landscape of Chicago politics, Jarek works the streets on a crusade to clean up corruption and crime.

Tuesday, February 8^th

Traffic Light, series premiere at 9:30pm on FOX

– This new comedy highlights how friendships and romances – though often difficult and sometimes messy but always worth the work – both enhance and complicate our lives. The series centers on three longtime friends and their attempts to navigate the demands of their relationships, which seems like an exact copy of the hit CBS series Rules of Engagement. Mike (David Denman), Adam (Nelson Franklin), and Ethan (Kris Marshall) have been friends since college, and the trio has seen each other through highs and lows. Now in their 30s, these men find themselves at very different stages in their lives. Mike is a married lawyer who wants nothing more than to be a good family man to his wife, Lisa (Liza Lapira), and his young son, but he’s also desperately trying to carve out a little space for himself. Adam recently moved in with his girlfriend, Callie (Aya Cash), and is learning how vastly different “she comes over a lot” and “she lives with me” really are, especially when his girlfriend is an adventurous, straight-talking firecracker. Ethan is the perpetual bachelor. He loves women, and when he’s in, he’s all in – at least for three weeks. Charming, genuine and hopelessly independent, Ethan is finding out that as he gets older, the pool of women who are willing to take things day by day is rapidly evaporating. Luckily, he has Carl, his beloved, long-suffering bulldog.

Wednesday, February 9^th

Mr. Sunshine, series premiere at 9:30pm on ABC

– So the ABC Programming team thought it would be a good idea to put the already successful show from another Friends star (ahem Cougar Town) on hiatus to make room for the new Matthew Perry comedy in the coveted post-Modern Family time slot. I’m sorry ABC, but you are basically setting up Cougar Town for failure since the beginning of this year with its irregular schedule. Nobody knows when to tune in for a new episode, if it wasn’t for my Tivo Season Pass, I would be missing it altogether because I can’t keep up with the bizzare scheduling changes. But on to the new ABC comedy from the other Friends star… Matthew Perry stars as Ben Donovan, the self-involved general manager of the Sunshine Center, a sports arena, who every night navigates a never-ending series of bizarre requests, curious mishaps and employee screw ups to put on a show for 18,000 screaming people. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner Crystal (Allison Janney, The West Wing), attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice (Andrea Anders, Better Off Ted) the cute, tomboyish marketing director and Ben’s friend with benefits; Alonzo, a former basketball player, handsome and unbelievably happy; Ben’s assistant, Heather, pretty, sweet, but terrifying because she once lit a boyfriend on fire; and Crystal’s son, Roman, sweet-faced, clueless and Ben’s newest employee.

Glamour Belles, series premiere at 10pm on Lifetime

– The new Lifetime reality show follows the customers and employees of Joann’s Gowns, a small town, yet nationally renowned, pageant gown shop in Union City, Tennessee. The series follows the humorous drama that surrounds Joann’s, where girls from throughout the country hope to purchase the perfect dress that will help lead them to the biggest pageant crown. Led by owner Paige Burcham Carlton, Joann’s experts help transform their stable of customers into modern day princesses with a healthy dose of Southern hospitality, hilarity and honesty that can only be found at the venerable store. Behind the rhinestones and ruffles, the unique cast of characters includes its flamboyant store manager Jared, brash assistant manager Nikki, naive salesgirl Brooke, melodramatic seamstress Stephanie and the store’s original owner Joann, Paige’s outspoken mother.

Justified, season premiere at 10pm on FX

– The critically acclaimed drama series follows U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a tough, sexy, southern-bred but soft-spoken federal lawman, as he enforces his own brand of at-times extralegal justice after his reassignment to Kentucky. Fresh off the epic gun battle that concluded season one, season two of Justified finds Bo Crowder dead, and the Crowder criminal grip on Harlan County broken. Deputy Raylan Givens must now face off against the criminal organizations that are moving to fill the void, and finds himself entangled once again with the mercurial Boyd Crowder (played by the brilliant Walton Goggins).

Friday, February 11^th

2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Selection Show, special at 8pm on DirecTV

– For the first time ever, Sports Illustrated will identify all of the models chosen for the 2011 SI Swimsuit issue prior to the issue’s release. Hosted by Sports Illustrated senior writer and DIRECTV sportscaster Dan Patrick and former SI Swimsuit model Mallory Snyder, the special will feature the unveiling of the seventeen models. Christine Teigen, Hilary Rhoda and Damaris Lewis, as well as a 2011 rookie will provide viewers with highlights and behind-the-scenes access from the photo shoots.

Auction Packed, series premiere at 9pm on NatGeo

– Nat Geo follows the eclectic Savo family as they run their auction business in the small town of Olyphant, PA. John Savo, Sr., along with his sons Carlo and J.Bear, auction items entrusted to them by consignors, and take a commission from the proceeds. But after a run of successful sales, the Savos hit a dry spell, and have nothing to sell. The Savos scramble to secure material for their next auction, a not-always successful adventure that takes them everywhere from a rodent-infested condemned home to a large Victorian cottage in the Poconos Mountains. But will one woman’s trash pull its weight in treasure at the next auction?