Notable TV Thru June 22, 2008
A Summer High Makes Us Feel Fine
Monday | June 16
The Middleman: A new family-oriented sci-fi series premieres with a central hero who loves himself some milk. All is based on a clever graphic-novel series penned by Lost and Medium producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach. [8pm EST/ABC Family]
Intervention: The fifth season of television’s most disturbing and potentially uplifting reality series begins. [9pm EST/A&E]
Psychic Kids: Honestly, I don’t even want to know why a network — or parents — would bother to subject young people to this kind of exposure, but I’m guessing it’s the money, as usual. Psychic Tots probably isn’t too far away. [10pm EST/A&E]
Weeds: Get high on the hit comedy’s fourth season. [10pm EST/Showtime]
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: A new U.K. comedy import about a so-called high-class London “call girl,” played by former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper. I’m calling it all right — The Ho Show, not to be confused with The Cho Show coming to VH1 this August and starring comedienne Margaret Cho. [10:30pm EST/Showtime]
Tuesday | June 17
America’s Got Talent: Season Three begins with a two-hour premiere. [9pm EST/NBC]
Flipping Out: Season Two begins on basic cable’s Reality TV Channel, er, Bravo. [10pm EST/Bravo]
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood: As the third season begins, the updated title clearly shows this couple, new parents of a baby girl just last Monday, are no longer Inn Love. [10pm EST/Oxygen]
Wednesday | June 18
Ghost Hunters: The fourth season ends with a tale about an ax murderer. Now that’s the way to go out in style! [9pm EST/Sci Fi Channel]
Top Chef: A reunion special, in case you’ve already forgotten what happened during the fourth round of competition that ended exactly one week ago. [10pm EST/Bravo]
Thursday | June 19
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: The sixth season starts up with a focus on porn. Now that’s the way to begin in style! [10pm EST/Showtime]
Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew: Get ready for a second season of movers and shakers. [10pm EST/MTV]
Friday | June 20
35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards: The show that honors stuff that comes on during daylight hours … in other words, the stuff I rarely watch. [8pm EST/ABC]
Saturday | June 21
U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials: For the ladies primarily — two hours of power stretching and daring dynamics. [8pm EST/NBC]
The Ultimate Fighter: For the gentlemen primarily — three hours of combat during a seventh-season finale. [9pm EST/Spike TV]
Sunday | June 22
100 Million BC: Last week’s scheduled Saturday-night flick, NYC Tornado Terror, was quickly and wisely yanked from the schedule following the tragic, deadly tornado in western Iowa on Wednesday, June 11. I can’t imagine this week’s movie suffering a similar fate considering the title. [9pm EST/Sci Fi Channel]
Guys Choice 2008: I think it’s an awards show, but I’m not sure since I’m not a guy and I haven’t watched the network regularly since it canceled Blade: The Series (idgits!). [10pm EST/Spike TV]
The Two Coreys: Enough people actually watched this the first time around for it to return tonight for a second time around? Shocking! [10pm EST/A&E]
NOTE: All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Weeds photo courtesy of Sheryl Nields/Showtime
