Highlights of the Week
- This event is so epic it’s going to take all week to get through it. Straight from a smash run in the UK, the five-night Torchwood: Children of Earth event begins on Monday at 9pm and runs nightly through Friday. It will have you on the edge of your seats!
- If that’s not enough, the series that spawned Torchwood is back with a movie event. David Tennant is wrapping his run as The Doctor, so don’t miss Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, now on BBC America. (Sun. 8pm)
- On the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, Discovery takes a look back with the special When We Left Earth: Apollo 11. (Mon. 10pm)
- Gordon Ramsay is back to tell potential chefs what fucking wastes of time they are on a new season of Hell’s Kitchen. (Tue. 8pm, FOX)
- Say goodbye to Samantha Who? with the last two new episodes ever. (Thu. 8pm, ABC)
- The Wanted is NBC’s new reality offering, where an elite team of specialists track down an international terrorist. How about they go after Bin Laden? (Mon. 10pm)
- Discovery is launching The Colony, a 10-part experiment that looks at what it would take to rebuild a society if everything has been destroyed. (Tue. 10pm)
- ABC News is probably going to tell us lies in Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil, but you never know. (Wed. 10pm)
- So You Think You Can Dance celebrates 100 episodes with new performances of classic dances, past contestants and more! (Thu. 8pm, FOX)
- I don’t even need to read about this one to know how great it’s going to be. It’s a Syfy original movie on Saturday night. And it’s called Malibu Shark Attack. Bikinis. Blood. Gore. Bad effects. I’m there! (Sat. 9pm)
Beginnings
- What do you get when you have a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost living in the same house? Being Human, premiering this week on BBC America. (Sat. 9pm)
- NBC offers up the next two-part “disaster” mini-series of the summer with The Storm. (Sun. 9pm)
- It’s beyond me but enough people must still like Terrell Owens that VH1 is giving him his own show, The T.O. Show. (Mon. 10pm).
- David Cassidy returns to television in Ruby & The Rockitts about a couple of brothers who work together to raise Ruby, and keep it rocking. It’s got two Cassidys in the cast and another executive producing. What could go wrong? (Tue. 8:30pm, ABC Family)
- It’s TLC premiere week with Tuesday premieres for new series Restorer Guy (7pm), and returning series The Real Estate Pros (7:30pm) and Moving Up (8pm). Wednesday brings us the 2nd season of Toddlers & Tiaras (Wed. 10pm, TLC)
- The CW is a glutton for punishment as they’re scheduling the return of Easy Money with new episodes (Sun. 7pm, The CW),
Endings
- It’s the series wrap of The Chopping Block on NBC, a show so compelling that after eight weeks I still had to look it up to see what the hell it was. And it’s Kitchen Nightmares with a different host. Wow, NBC copying FOX? How the mighty have fallen! (Fri. 8pm).
- NBC also says goodbye to Kings, but it’s actually a good show. Seriously, you should probably watch it if you get bored one weekend. It was too smart for network television which means you should love it! (Sat. 8pm)
- Primeval wraps its third season as well. And with the show canceled in the UK, there’s no real hope of a fourth, though we can hold out for a potential spin-off or feature film. (Sat. 8pm, BBC America)
- Also wrapping this week are the 1st season of 4th & Long (Mon. 10pm, Spike), the 1st season of The Fashion Show (Thu. 10pm, Bravo), the 1st season of Southern Belles (Thu. 10pm, SoapNet), the 2nd season of Ghost Adventures (Fri. 9pm, Travel), the 21st season of Cops (Sat. 8:30pm, FOX), and the 1st season of Daisy of Love (Sun. 9pm, VH1).
Photo Credit: BBC America
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