Welcome to another edition of TV or Not TV where I can’t believe it is August already.
August is always the month that I care about television the least. I don’t mean to turn my back on my old friend like this, but it’s the busiest time of year for me. I’ve almost always got some kind of vacation planned, my daughter’s birthday is near the end of the month, and it’s the last month of summer. There’s too much going on and TV, especially when you factor in the DVR, is one of the things I can most often and easily turn my back on.
August is also a very bittersweet month for me since it is the gateway to September, which is when the majority of shows start to return to the airwaves. I won’t even bother to list all of the shows that I’m looking forward to this year, but I will say that I’m almost considering adding a second DVR to the house. Wow, that’s even sadder to type than it was to think.
What I’m trying to say is that I’m not really watching a whole hell of a lot right now and as such I really don’t have much of anything this week to write about in the section I think of as “above the listings.” I fear that next week may be a little light as well as I’ll be preparing for my trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. Hopefully, however, I will find something to talk about.
I do have to say that I’m kind of shocked that people weren’t interested in watching The Listener on NBC. The peacock has pulled the show and started airing Law & Order repeats Thursday nights at 10 after the last The Listener posted a 0.7 rating and a two share in the adults 18 to 49 category. Admittedly the show was more in line with the SyFy audience than the prime-time network slot that it was in, but the show was light enough for easy watching while being interesting enough to make you want to tune in again. Considering it was a new show that had a lead in of nothing but repeats maybe it never stood a chance anyway. Here’s hoping CTV at least airs the remaining five shows in Canada so someone can see how the season plays out. You can also take in all of the episodes of The Listener on Hulu.com.
With all of that out of the way here’s the things that I may or may not be watching this week.
MONDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Country once again goes prime time when Sugarland: Live on the Inside features the duo playing their biggest hits while also unveiling previously unseen performance footage.
TLC – 9:00 PM: Jon & Kate Plus 8 comes back from their month hiatus to show us the awkward way to raise 8 kids and dealing with the dissolution of a marriage. It’s odd to see entertainment transition into sadness.
FOX – 9:00 PM: Did anyone else catch More to Love last week? If you didn’t now is your chance to watch the encore of last week’s premiere episode. I just think it’s too bad that a show where a regular guy tries to find his match among 20 regular women intentionally plays up the fact that this isn’t cast with super models.
TUESDAY
DISCOVERY HEALTH – 8:00 PM: Imagine the joy of finding out you are pregnant and then later you find out you are carrying identical quadruplets. You don’t just have to imagine if you catch Identical Quads: Perilous Pregnancy.
TLC – 9:00 PM: 18 Kids and Counting must think that Jon & Kate are pikers. I’m just sayin’.
MTV – 9:00 PM: As long as we’re on this kid theme why not take in 16 and Pregnant: Unseen Moments?
WEDNESDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Former fan favorites come back to compete for $50,000 in this all-star installment of Wipeout.
HIST – 8:00 PM: Tonight on MonsterQuest investigators try to compile enough real evidence to prove that Bigfoot actually exists. I love this show but come on guys, what’s next… compiling critical evidence to show the tooth fairy is real?
DISC – 8:00 PM: Nothing says Shark Week more than them rolling out the MythBusters Jaws Special.
THURSDAY
CBS – 8:00 PM: Will the nerd Ronnie be evicted tonight after playing too hard too fast on Big Brother 11? I don’t know but you can make a drinking game out of how many times Julie Chen tries not to look pregnant.
ABC – 8:00 PM: Finally! A full three hours of Grey’s Anatomy for me to curl up on the couch and not watch.
USA – 9:00 PM: It’s the summer finale for Burn Notice. I think this means we will have to wait until January 2010 for more Michael Weston.
DISNEY – 10:00 PM: In case you missed the mega-cross over of the Disney Channel originals you can see all three episodes of Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana, The Suite Life on Deck: Double-Crossed and Hannah Montana: Super(stitious) Girl. Their originally airing made them the second highest-rated program of the night, so figured it might be worth mentioning (or I’m just trying to fill).
FRIDAY
BRAVO – 9:00 PM: For some reason Bruce Willis’ performance makes me hold a special place in my viewing heart for The Whole Nine Yards.
IFC – 8:30 PM: If you haven’t seen Super Troopers than I highly suggest you watch it right meow.
USA – 9:00 PM: I’m almost bitter about the return of Monk knowing that this will be its last season. Still, best to enjoy it while we still can.
AMC – 10:00 PM: American Movie Classics really stretches it’s premise with tonight’s airing of Starsky & Hutch.
USA – 10:00 PM: You can tell that USA is trying really hard to make Psych he heir apparent to Monk. Luckily I was already sold on the show a while ago.
SATURDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: One of my PIXAR favorites is Finding Nemo. It’s the first kid’s movie I watched with my daughter. She was only five days old at the time but it still counts, right?
MSNBC – 8:00 PM: Wonder what life is like inside of notorious San Quentin? You can spend three hours finding out while watching Lockup: San Quentin. I think this is the way I’d prefer to learn about it.
SPIKE – 8:00 PM: One of the finest movies to come out of 1986 was the unexpected adrenalin rush that was James Cameron’s ALIENS.
BRAVO – 9:00 PM: Bravo is apparently daring you to not watch Spike by rolling out the completely expected adrenalin rush that was Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
SUNDAY
A&E – 5:00 PM: Are you strong enough for five hours of Gene Simmons Family Jewels? I may not be strong enough but it’s probably what I’ll be watching.
ABC – 8:00 PM: I guess ABC thinks that we’ve had enough of a break from the overkill that was the prime time version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire because it’s back with Regis in all it’s glory tonight.
CBS – 9:00 PM: Eight families get their neighborhood walled off from civilization and compete for a quarter of a million dollars in There Goes the Neighborhood. It’s like Big Brother, only bigger and family friendly.
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