TV Premieres, Finales and Marathons airing Jan. 3-9, 2010
Friday is when The Oklahoman posts a list of all the premieres and finales (and all the guest stars, see separate blog) coming up on TV next week.
And here are the shows beginning and ending the week of Jan. 3 (as well as a few marathons airing).
If one was missed, the network did not issue a press release about it. But feel free to add it in the comments section to help make this list a complete and accurate source for TV watchers everywhere.
NOTE: Times are CST (for EST, add one hour)
BEGINNINGS
••“Frank the Entertainer,” 7 p.m. Sunday on VH1 (series premiere).
••“Durham County,” 8 p.m. Sunday on ION (second-season premiere).
••“Giuliana & Bill,” 8 p.m. Sunday on Style Network (second-season premiere).
••“Platinum Weddings,” 8 p.m. Sunday on WEtv (fourth-season premiere).
••“Secrets of Aspen,” 9 p.m. Sunday on VH1 (series premiere).
••“Worst Cooks in America,” 9 p.m. Sunday on Food Network (series premiere).
••“Antiques Roadshow,” 7 p.m. Monday on OETA-13 (14th-season premiere).
••“The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love,” 7 p.m. Monday on ABC (14th-season premiere).
••“The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” 7 p.m. Monday on ABC Family (second season resumes).
••“Make It or Break It,” 8 p.m. Monday on ABC Family (first season resumes).
••“Last Restaurant Standing,” 8 p.m. Tuesday on BBC America (third-season premiere).
••“Blood, Sweat & Takeaways,” 9 p.m. Monday on Planet Green (series premiere).
••“Wild Recon,” 8 p.m. Tuesday on Animal Planet (series premiere).
••“Maneaters,” 9 p.m. Tuesday on Animal Planet (series premiere).
••“Big Chef Takes on Little Chef,” 7 p.m. Wednesday on Planet Green (series premiere).
••“Ghost Hunters International,” 8 p.m. Wednesday on Syfy (third-season premiere).
••“Man Vs. Wild,” 8 p.m. Wednesday on Discovery (seventh-season premiere).
••“Conviction Kitchen” 9 p.m. Wednesday on Planet Green (series premiere).
••“Nip/Tuck,” 9 p.m. Wednesday on FX (seventh-season premiere).
••“Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,” 9 p.m. Thursday on VH1 (third-season premiere).
••“Shark Tank,” 8 p.m. Friday on ABC (second-season premiere).
••“Big, Bigger, Biggest,” 9 p.m. Friday on Science Channel (second-season premiere).
••“Operation Wild,” 9 p.m. Friday on Planet Green (series premiere).
••“John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show,” 10 p.m. Friday on Comedy Central (series premiere).
••“World’s Greenest Homes,” 5 p.m. Saturday on Planet Green (second-season premiere).
ENDINGS
••“Forensics: You Decide,” 9 p.m. Monday on Investigation Discovery (first-season finale).
MARATHONS
••“Gunsmoke,” 11 p.m. Sunday to 11 p.m. Monday on Encore Westerns (202 on Cox Digital Cable, 342 on Dish Network, 529 on DirecTV, 940 on U-verse).
••“House,” 8 a.m. Sunday to 3 a.m. Monday on USA Network.
••“Kitchen Nightmares,” 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday on BBC America.
••“Chuck,” 4 p.m. to midnight Thursday on Syfy.
Pictured above: ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” stars Francia Raisa as Adrian Lee, Greg Finley as Jack Pappers, Daren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood, Megan Park as Grace Bowman, Shailene Woodley as Amy Juergens and Ken Baumann as Ben Boykewich. (ABC FAMILY/BOB D’AMICO)
Maximum Exposure
Of course, there are more television channels out there than are listed in The Oklahoman’s TV Week. The print would be awfully small if room was made for all of them.
TV Week, however, does list programming schedules for 76 channels in the Metro book (distributed in the Oklahoma City area) and 78 channels in the Tulsa/State book (although 15 of them are local affiliates for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and PBS). That’s more channels than most TV books offer.
But still, some good ones are left out. Encore Westerns, WE, SoapNet, ESPNU, TV One, Science Channel, Lifetime Movie Network, Outdoor Life, Toon Disney, Gospel Music Channel, not to mention the digital channels such as OETA-Okla, KTBO’s Church Channel and KOPX’s QUBO Kids.
So in this space, special announcements from the networks not listed in TV Week will be made. We don’t want you to miss anything good.
– Penny Soldan, TV Editor
“Celebrity Says!” 9 p.m. Feb. 25 on TV Guide Network
(4 on Cox Cable, 117 on Dish Network, 237 on Direct TV)
Dave Holmes (MTV’s “Say What Karaoke”) hosts this new game show in which contestants try to finish celebrities’ sentences, guessing everything from stars’ favorite movies to their favorite kind of pie. The winner of the four rounds then competes for the grand prize of $5,000.
“Allure Backstage: Hottest Beauty Trends,” 8 p.m. March 3 on Style Network
(115 on Dish Network, 235 on Direct TV)
“Ultimate Style” host Daisy Fuentes and Allure Magazine’s Linda Wells take viewers backstage at top fashion shows around the world to reveal behind-the-scenes secrets of the newest hair and makeup trends.
“Download: The True Story of the Internet,” 8 p.m. March 3 on Science Channel
(101 on Cox Digital, 193 on Dish Network, 284 on Direct TV)
The founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and others go on camera and tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how they went from being geeky, computer-obsessed nerds to 21st century visionaries who launched information-sharing and e-commerce companies that took over the world. Four-part series concludes with back-to-back episodes at 8 p.m. March 4.
“High School Confidential,” 9 p.m. March 10 on WE
(128 on Dish Network, 260 on Direct TV)
This new eight-episode documentary series takes an unprecedented four-year look inside the lives of 12 teenage girls to capture the truths behind the real high school experience.
