US Summer TV Schedule

Mr E

Nicked from Kristin on E!Online... your Summer reality TV Schedule
(A few good shows here, honest!)

Thursday, May 22
So You Think You Can Dance, 8 p.m., Fox
Last Comic Standing, 9:30 p.m., NBC

Monday, May 26
The Andromeda Strain, 9 p.m., A&E
Denise Richards: It's Complicated, 10 p.m., E!
Living Lohan, 10:30 p.m., E!

Tuesday, May 27
The Moment of Truth, 8 p.m., Fox

Wednesday, May 28
Men in Trees, 10 p.m., ABC (final three episodes premiere)

Sunday, June 1
Million Dollar Password, 8 p.m., CBS
In Plain Sight, 10 p.m., USA

Monday, June 2
Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods, 10 p.m., MTV
The Mole, 10 p.m., ABC

Tuesday, June 3
30 Days, 10 p.m., FX

Wednesday, June 4
Tyler Perry's House of Payne, 9 p.m., TBS
She's Got the Look, 10 p.m., TV Land

Thursday, June 5
Fear Itself, 10 p.m., NBC
Swingtown, 10 p.m., CBS

Friday, June 6
Meerkat Manor, 9 p.m., Animal Planet

Saturday, June 7
America's Best Dance Crew, 10 p.m., MTV

Sunday, June 8
Design Star, 9 p.m., HGTV
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 9 p.m., USA
Army Wives, 10 p.m., Lifetime

Monday, June 9
Nashville Star, 9:30 p.m., NBC

Wednesday, June 11
Celebrity Circus, 9:30 p.m., NBC

Thursday, June 12
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, 8 p.m., Fox
The Bill Engvall Show, 9 p.m., TBS
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, 9 p.m., Bravo
My Boys, 9:30 p.m., TBS

Monday, June 16
The Middleman, 8 p.m., ABC Family
Weeds, 10 p.m., Showtime
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, 10:30 p.m., Showtime

Tuesday, June 17
America's Got Talent, 9 p.m., NBC - CK CK
Flipping Out, 10 p.m., Bravo
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, 10 p.m., Oxygen

Wednesday, June 18
Black Gold, 10 p.m., TruTV

Thursday, June 19
Penn & Teller: Bulls--t!, 9 p.m., Showtime

Tuesday, June 24
Wipeout, 8 p.m., ABC
America's Got Talent, 9 p.m., NBC

Wednesday, June 25
The Baby Borrowers, 8 p.m., NBC
Shear Genius, 10 p.m., Bravo

Friday, June 27
Dance Machine, 8 p.m., ABC

Sunday, June 29
The Factory, 10 p.m., Spike

Tuesday, July 1
Celebrity Family Feud, 8 p.m., NBC
Secret Life of the American Teenager, 8 p.m., ABC Family
I Survived a Japanese Game Show, 9 p.m., ABC

Thursday, July 10
Greatest American Dog, 8 p.m., CBS
Burn Notice, 10 p.m., USE

Friday, July 11
Flashpoint, 10 p.m., CBS
Stargate: Atlantis, 10 p.m., Sci Fi

Sunday, July 13
Big Brother, 8 p.m., CBS
Generation Kill, 9 p.m., HBO
I Love Money: Challenge Show, 9 p.m., VH1

Monday, July 14
The Closer, 9 p.m., TNT
Saving Grace, 10 p.m., TNT

Thursday, July 17
Reality Bites Back, 10 p.m., Comedy Central
The Gong Show With Dave Attell, 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central

Friday, July 18
Monk, 9 p.m., USA
Psych, 10 p.m., USA

Sunday, July 20
High School Musical: Get in the Picture, 8 p.m., ABC
The Next Food Network Star, 10 p.m., Food Network

Monday, July 21
Wanna Bet?, 9 p.m., ABC

Sunday, July 27
Jingles, 9 p.m., CBS

Tuesday, July 29
Eureka, 9 p.m., Sci Fi
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central

Toto Wolfcastle

Monday, May 26
Denise Richards: It's Complicated, 10 p.m., E!
Living Lohan, 10:30 p.m., E!

Monday, June 2
Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods, 10 p.m., MTV

Monday, June 9
Nashville Star, 9:30 p.m., NBC

Wednesday, June 11
Celebrity Circus, 9:30 p.m., NBC

Tuesday, June 17
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, 10 p.m., Oxygen

Thursday, July 10
Greatest American Dog, 8 p.m., CBS

Sunday, July 13
Big Brother, 8 p.m., CBS

Sunday, July 20
High School Musical: Get in the Picture, 8 p.m., ABC
The Next Food Network Star, 10 p.m., Food Network

Some quality shows there alright!

Further proof that Americans will make a show about anything!

chalkitdown1

Weeds, Penn & Teller, and Mad Men are the only things I'll be watching. No start date for MM season 2 yet, but I'm sure it'll be in July sometime.

Still 4 eps of Battlestar Galactica left too, remember.

Damn FX for postponing the final season of The Shield!:mad:

Mr E

I'll be watching:

- Burn Notice (season 1 was excellent)
- The Mole (a truly good reality TV show - believe it or not)
- Stargate Atlantis
- Big Brother USA (the only good version of BB)
- Eureka (Season 2 was a definite improvement on Season 1)
- 30 Days (Morgan Spurlock, the Supersize Me guy, does other things for 30 days - very entertaining)

Ones I'll be looking out for:

Generation Kill (HBO) is a mini series made by the same guys that made The Wire (trailer)

Flashpoint (a canadian series co-produced by CBS, I've heard good things about it)

And don't forget that June/July is pilot season, so you'll start seeing pilot episodes for the new autumn shows appearing in the wild...

Toto Wolfcastle

Mr E wrote: »

Big Brother USA (the only good version of BB)

Actually, I agree. I never really watched the English version, although I saw the celebrity hijack and I enjoyed it, but I did watch the American version this year and I liked it. I like that they actually have to strategise to win and they put a lot of effort into the challenges.

ixoy

[QUOTE=chalkitdown1;56035441Damn FX for postponing the final season of The Shield!:mad:[/QUOTE]
They did what?! Until when?

User45701

Ye but they did that last year as wlel and remmeber that french channcel was showing them 2 episodes a week so by the time the US was on episode 4 that channel had finished series 6. Dont know the name but i know its channcel -12 (-12 is the symbol for the station)

so hopefully the same station will get it before the US again

chalkitdown1

ixoy wrote: »

They did what?! Until when?

After the Olympics. September-ish. It was supposed to start in March, originally.

tvnutz

Weeds is the only thing on that list I would watch.

And then of course there is Generation Kill which is worth a watch for the fact that is made by the creators of the Wire.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The Andromeda Strain should be good. One of those 2 part mini-series things. Couple of big names in it - Jin from Lost, Jordan from Scrubs, Mike from 24 and a couple of others I recognise, but wouldn't know who they are (probably big names from shows I don't watch).

Kur4mA

CaptainNegative wrote: »

The Andromeda Strain should be good.

I thought it would be too and it did start out quite well. It got quite stupid though and ended rather ridiculously. I wasn't very impressed tbh.

Basq

No 'Rescue Me' this Summer either!

In an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on Thursday, May 15th, 2008, Leary revealed season 5 had been delayed until March 2009 thanks to the writer's strike, but that all 22 episodes would air on consecutive weeks. Leary also said there would be a number of "mini-sodes" airing in June and July to bridge the fourth and fifth seasons.

Last season wasn't great but it's my regular Summer viewing thrown askew!

robo

Mr E wrote: »

- The Mole (a truly good reality TV show - believe it or not)

Caught this whilst on holidays in the US in June and it is excellent, one of the best reality TV shows I have seen in ages.

If anyone else is watching it, who do you think is the Mole?

Mr E

I think its

Mark

.

Reason?

The good acting when he lost his journal threw people off the scent. Plus some of the others are trying too hard to make people think that they are the mole.

robo

I think that it could be

Alex

Why?

Cos of his subtle approach to stand back and be passive, he is not being suspected.

I wish when the quiz is tied that they would tell us who tied.
I haven't seen it all and would be interested to know is it easy to work out who is the Mole if by listening to who each of them think it is each and cos when someone has a big hunch on who it is, they answer the questions around them, so you could possibly rule out the person they think when they are executed.

DId you watch the previous series? Were they any good if you did?

Mr E

One other reason I think its

Mark

is the way he overreacts when he passes the quiz.

Anyway, yeah I've seen the other 4 USA series, plus 2 or 3 Aussie Moles (what can I say, I'm a fan )

Its always very hard to pick out who it is (its never 100% obvious). In some series, they have clues built into some scenes. I remember one series where they had something like the numbers "1315125" flashing on the credit sequence at the start while they were showing the contestants (13=M, 15=O, 12=L, 5=E).

There are supposed to be clues (subtle, almost subliminal) pointing out who the mole is. I don't know if they went to that amount of effort in this series (I haven't spotted anything anyway).

TarfHead

Mad men
Season 2
July 31

lostexpectation

mad men ftw

Harpy

i watched to the fifth episode last night of the mole i really like it..
i think the mole is either

craig or alex

reasons:

firstly i was leaning really towards alex because he's just so in the background and the two apples thing was a bit suspect aswell, i didn't think craig at all until the exemption thing where the first person to say exemption got one and he managed to just randomly say i think i deserve an exemption.