News & Notes
Over on cable, BBC America has the second season premiere of The Inbetweeners, Planet Green has the first season finale of Conviction Kitchen, Science has the first season finale of Meteorite Men, and Spike has the second season finale of 1000 Ways to Die.
In late night, VH1 has the first season finale of Peak Season.
Note: Sorry if you get the daily update email yesterday, as it didn’t go out. Things were set to post automatically on the blog, which they did, but the RSS feed apparently didn’t get updated at Feedburner before the scheduled time to send the email, so when the system set out to send yesterday morning’s email, it didn’t see there was anything new posted to send out.
Prime Picks
Life Unexpected (The CW): Repeat. Monday’s episode, “Truth Unrevealed,” replays, where station management invites Baze onto Cate and Ryan’s show. I continue to really enjoy this show.
Modern Family (ABC): Repeat. The “Not in My House” episode from earlier in the season replays, where Claire finds a picture of a naked woman on her computer and thinks that her son was as fault and Phil doesn’t correct the mistake.
The Inbetweeners (BBC America): Season Premiere. The second season kicks off with Will thinking the gang should become cool with a night out in London. Last week’s first season finale episode replays right before. Both play again later.
Psych (USA): New. Shawn and Gus are recruited by a think tank to help stop the murder of a wealthy businessman from taking place. Plays again later. The previous two episodes replay earlier this morning.
Solid Selections
Modern Family (ABC): Repeat. The “Great Expectations” episode from earlier in the season replays, where Claire tries to surprise Phil with a gift. Edward Norton and Elizabeth Banks guest star.
Gary Unmarried (CBS): Repeat. The “Gary’s Demo” episode from earlier this season replays, where Gary tries to get the station manager to listen to his sportscaster demo.
Criminal Minds (CBS): Repeat. The “Cradle to Grave” episode from earlier this season replays, where the team is trying to stop a man that impregnates young women and then kills them after they give birth.
Being Erica (SOAPnet): New. Secrets can be trouble and Erica learns just how much. Plays again tomorrow afternoon.
Other Option
- nip/tuck (FX): New. Sean and Christian get a visit from Julia. Runs 61 minutes. Plays twice.
Sports Notes
- ESPN has college basketball action with Florida State at North Carolina followed NBA action with the Los Angeles Lakers at the Dallas Mavericks.
- ESPN2 has tripleheader college basketball action.
Late Night
- Burn Notice (USA): Repeat. Last Thursday’s episode, “Partners in Crime,” replays.
- Damages (FX): Repeat. This past Monday night’s, “It’s Not My Birthday,” replays.
- White Collar (USA): Repeat. Last night’s episode, “Bottlenecked,” replays.
TV Marathons
Bravo has five episodes of Millionaire Matchmaker.
Discovery Channel has six episodes of A Haunting.
Oxygen has 16 episodes of Living Single.
Syfy has eight episodes of Moonlight early.
USA has nine episodes of NCIS.
WE has five episodes of Little Miss Perfect early and later five episodes of 20/20 on WE tonight.
Have you been watching Being Erica? If so, how has the second season been? I enjoyed the first season, but haven’t seen any of the second season yet.
Looking forward to the second season of Inbetweeners–I had bought the DVD of series 1 from Amazon UK way back and really enjoyed it. Held off buying the UK series 2 DVD after I saw a US DVD release of series 1 and that it was coming to BBCA.
Kyle, I have been watching the second season of Being Erica and I am enjoying it about as much as I did season one, which was quite a lot.
The Inbetweeners has been surprisingly good and also shows how different British TV can be from TV here in the U.S. I working on adding “brilliant” and “fit” into my vocabulary, but it just doesn’t sound right with out the accent.
Brilliant–I know what you mean–“She’s fit” sounds classier than “She’s hot”–especially if you have the British accent :)
Will need to add Being Erica to the pile of things to catch up on. Was making good progress (finished Buffy S6, Angel S3 two weeks ago) but then a cold for the past two weeks has found me primarily watching mindless marathons of Bravo reality shows. Need to get back to some thinking TV :)
Is the The Inbetweeners worth the time on a busy dvr?
Kyle, Still have seven episodes of both Buffy S.6 and Angel S.3 before I finish them.
sprspndx, Yes, The Inbetweeners is worth checking out, as it won’t take up much space on the DVR. I’ve been watching them via Comcast On Demand, as many BBC America shows are available the day after they air.
Would I have to watch season 1 first, or am I good to go to start now?
sprspndx, I would say that you don’t need to, but it would be better if you did. Since it’s a comedy, it’ll still be funny, but might be better if you’ve seen how these four became friends.