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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (6/17)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, Showtime, TNT-HD, Renewals,

Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:

• Breaking Bad (AMC) - Season 4
• The Closer (TNT) - Season 6 **premieres July 12**
• Ghost Hunters (Syfy) - Season 7
• Jerseylicious (Style) - Season 2
• Little People, Big World (TLC) - Season 6
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime) - Season 4 **this will also be the final season**

Showtime’s Free Preview Weekend Starts Tomorrow

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Showtime, News,

Dying to know why your friends keep talking about Dexter? Haven’t had a chance to catch up on your Weeds? Hoping to see The Tudors before the series comes to an end? Then it’s time to clear your schedule.

Beginning tomorrow, Showtime will be hosting an ALL ACCESS Free Preview Weekend. During the four-day event, non-subscribers will get the chance to view programs normally stacked up in their Netflix queue. In addition to a host of movies on the cable network’s regular channels, viewers will be able to tap into On Demand programming through Sunday, March 28.

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TV on DVD: June 30, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Entourage, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Blue Murder (Set 4)
• Eastbound & Down (Season 1)
• Entourage (Season 5)
• Eureka (Season 3)
• Extreme Trains (Season 1)
• Hi-5 (Season 2)
• The IT Crowd (Season 2)
• Jockeys
• MonsterQuest (Season 3, Set 1)
• Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (Season 1)
• Princess Protection Program

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This Week on TV (1/12-1/18)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, HBO, MTV, NBC, Showtime, The CW, 24, American Idol, Everybody Hates Chris, The Office,

(You can view TV Envy’s Midseason Programming Schedule here.)

• 24 (FOX, 8pm):  “Jack is released from his Senate subcommittee hearing to help with the domestic threat and the investigation into former colleague Tony Almeida.” I can’t imagine what he would do to just to get out of jury duty.
• Kyle XY (ABC Family, 9pm):  Season 3 premiere. “Lori, Declan, Josh and Andy deal with the choices they made at the prom.” Whatever happens at prom, stays at prom.
• Man vs. Wild (Discovery, 10pm):  “An adventure in the jungles of Belize has the host reckoning with a 9-foot boa constrictor and a dangerous white-water river.” The longer the snake, the more skin to pee in.

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Watch Showtime Premieres Without a Subscription

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime, Internet, News,

Still deciding whether to renew your Showtime subscription? Maybe some free previews will help.

On Thursday, January 8th, Netflix will offer advanced access to United States of Tara. The series - which won’t officially debut until January 18 - lists Steven Spielberg and Diablo Cody as two of the program’s executive producers. Cody (Juno) also penned the show’s pilot.

Tara tells the story of a woman (Toni Collette) with dissociative identity disorder (a.k.a. multiple personalities). John Corbett (Sex and the City), Brie Larson and Keir Gilchrist play the family members who must deal with the appearances of the “provocative teenager,” the “gun-toting Vietnam vet” and the “Betty Crocker homemaker.”

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TV on DVD: January 6, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Cable, CBS, NBC, Showtime,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Collection 3)
• Battlestar Galactica (Season 4)
• Duckman (Seasons 3 & 4)
• Eon Kid (Season 1, Vol. 2)
• Frisky Dingo (Season 2)
• Hell Girl (Season 1)
• Laredo (Season 2, Part 2)
• Mannix (Season 2)
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Season 1)
• Transformers Animated (Season 2)
• Tripping the Rift (Season 3)
• The Tudors (Season 2)
• The Waltons (Season 8)

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This Week on TV (6/16-6/22)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Daytime, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Specials, Talk Shows, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, Showtime, The CW, Top Chef,

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

• The Bachelorette: DeAnna Tells All (ABC, 8pm):  “With six bachelors remaining, DeAnna Pappas assesses the competition to win her heart so far, as do her six beaus.” Apparently revealing their boxers just hasn’t told her enough.
• Weeds (Showtime, 10pm):  Season premiere. “Nancy, Andy and the boys, on the run after she set fire to their house, head to the beach and a ‘heartwarming family reunion’ with Judah’s grandmother.” Had I known this show was only 30-minutes long, I could have caught up a long time ago!
• The Mole (ABC, 10pm):  “The contestants, clad in nothing but their underwear, hit the streets of Santiago, Chile and solicit clothing.” At this point, the show could probably use a little skin to ramp interest up a bit.
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime, 10:30pm):  Series premiere. “A high-priced London escort entertains a middle-aged client who enjoys role-playing and has a penchant for being down on the farm.” I think that summary says it all.

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