What to Watch (Week of 9/19)

Before I get into this week's TV schedule, I want to talk a little bit about last night's award show.

So, of course I watched the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night. And though there were some odd moments (umm...who came up with the Emmytones idea?), overall I thought the night went okay. Jane Lynch did a great job in my opinion (though her opening segment was lacking), but her one-liners were hilarious. I'm just going to do a quick run-though of only those I was happy to see win. For a complete list you can check out Emmys 2011: And the Winner Are... - TV.com
-Modern Family really cleaned up with five awards including Best Supporting Actress Comedy - Julie Bowen; Best Supporting Actor Comedy - Ty Burrell; Outstanding Directing for Comedy Series; Outstanding Writing for Comedy Series; Best Comedy Series
-Jim Parsons won Best Actor Comedy for The Big Bang Theory, which I was so happy about. BBT has become one of my favorite sitcoms (along with Modern Family of course).
-Though I don't watch Mike & Molly, I was happy to see Melissa McCarthy take home Best Actress Comedy (and the pageant-like ceremony Amy Poehler kicked-off was hilarious).
-And Kate Winslet seems to be going for the EGOT¹ with her win as Best Actress Miniseries/Movie for Mildrid Pierce. All she needs now is the Tony (calling Broadway!).
-Couple other quick notes include: Margo Martindale (Justified) - Best Supporting Actress Drama; Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) - Best Actor Drama; Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce) - Best Supporting Actor Miniseries/Movie.

In other news, here are my choice for TV I'll be watching this week. I'm so incredibly happy that my weeks a head will be filling up even more!!

Monday, September 19th
Two and a Half Men (CBS) 9pm | Season premiere. I don't usually watch this show, but I want to see how Ashton Kutcher does.
Bring It On (movie) (ABCFam) 9pm | Hands down best movie of the franchise. Hilarious. Also, I know all the cheers :)
2 Broke Girls (CBS) 9:30pm | Special time for premiere. Will be regularly scheduled at 8:30pm.

Tuesday, September 20th
Glee (Fox) 8pm | Season 3 premiere.
New Girl (Fox) 9pm | Series premiere. If you haven't yet, and want to watch the pilot a day early click here.
Ringer (The CW) 9pm

Wednesday, September 21st
The Italian Job (movie) (AMC) 8pm | According to Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job is not happening :(
Modern Family (ABC) 9pm | One hour season premiere.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS) 10pm | Season premiere on it's new night and time.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) 10pm | Season 13 premiere.

Thursday, September 22nd
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 8pm & 8:30pm | Special two episode hour for the premiere on a new night and time.
The Vampire Diaries (The CW) 8pm | If you haven't seen the season premiere for last week, or none of the episodes for that matter, you better get on that now!
The Office (NBC) 9pm | Season premiere...without Michael Scott.
The Secret Circle (The CW) 9pm
Grey's Anatomy (ABC) 9pm | Two hour season premiere
The Mentalist (CBS) 10pm | I'm excited for this season premiere after the SHOCKER that was the season finale!
*Note still have to wait for November for Bones. Ugh.

Friday, September 23rd
Supernatural (The CW) 9pm | My boys are back! Seventh season begins! If you have yet to watch this show, you should just live in a cave.
CSI:NY (CBS) 9pm | Eighth season opener where Mac and the team recall moments from 9/11 on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.

Saturday, September 24th
Michigan State University vs. Central Michigan University Football (ESPNU) 12pm | Go Green!
Finding Nemo (movie) (ABCFam) 8pm | Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.

Sunday, September 25th
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie) (TNT) 8pm | Orlando Bloom is the shit ;) Teehee
Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos (ComCen) 9pm

1. Winners of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. And yes, Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000.

After It Airs (TVD 9/15)

The Vampire Diaries
Season 3 Episode 1 - The Birthday

Summary (courtesy of The CW Network):
On the morning of Elena's 18th birthday, Caroline is busy planning a party, but Elena is focused on searching for any clues that might help her discover where Stefan is. Damon is also searching for Stefan, while trying to protect Elena and keep her from doing anything that would draw Klaus' attention. Meanwhile, Klaus and Stefan are busy trailing a werewolf named Ray Sutton (guest star David Gallagher, "Super 8"). Now working at the Mystic Grill along with Matt , Jeremy is struggling to understand why he keeps seeing the ghosts of Vicki (guest star Kayla Ewell) and Anna (guest star Malese Jow) since he was brought back to life by Bonnie's magic. Meanwhile, Alaric does his best to watch over Elena and Jeremy, while dealing with his grief over Jenna's death. Finally, Caroline and Tyler face a new and unexpected challenge. John Behring directed the episode written by Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec.

Episode MVP: Paul Wesley = Mr. Fabulous. All his scenes as the Ripper were superb, but I definitely loved his last scene of the episode. As I'm sure you all did.

Favorite Episode Recaps: 
I loved the play-by-play and I like her added opinions (mostly because I agree with most of them)
'The Vampire Diaries' Season 3 premiere recap: Lessons in letting go - From Inside the Box - Zap2it

I absolutely love the picture recaps. They are hilarious!
'The Vampire Diaries' Track the Ripper (PHOTORECAP) - TV.com

Episode Music (songs listed in order of appearance):
Ingrid Michaelson - "Are We There Yet?"
Two Door Cinema Club - “What You Know”
The Civil Wars - “Barton Hollow”
Trent Dabbs - “Means To An End”
Andrew Belle - “Make It Without You”
Martin Solveig and Dragonette - “Hello”
Mona - “Shooting The Moon”
The Kicks - “Hawk Eyes”
Walk The Moon -“Anna Sun”
Location Location - “Starpusher”
Cobra Starship - “You Make Me Feel”
Ron Pope - “A Drop In The Ocean”  - my favorite song, and it plays during all the big happenings of the episode!! Perfection.

Episode Promo Trailer:

This Week on DVD (Week of 9/13)

There are a whole bunch of television series coming out on DVD this week. A ton.

*Movies in GREEN = I'm gonna buy that. Movies in BLUE = I need to rent that (with the potential to buy later). 

*Please note that this may not be a complete list.

Tuesday, September 13th
- 35 and Ticking
- The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Season
- Blue Bloods: The First Season
- Blue Mountain State: Season Two 
- Camelot: The Complete First Season
- Danny Phantom: Season One 
- Ghost Hunters: Season Six - Part 1 
- Glee: The Complete Second Season
- Glee: Season 2, Volume 2
- The Good Wife: The Second Season
- Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Seventh Season
- Hesher
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 6
- Love, Wedding, Marriage
- Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown
- Outsourced: The Complete Series
- Politics of Love
- Private Practice: The Complete Fourth Season
- Rescue Me: The Sixth Season and The Final Season
- Sanctuary: The Complete Third Season
- Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
- Supernatural: The Complete Sixth Season
- The Tempest
- Thor

*For more complete lists of releases visit VideoETA or Comingsoon.net

What to Watch (Week of 9/12)

It's finally here! It starts this week! My Fall TV-life kicks off this week! And just wait until all the shows come back! Omigosh!

I'm just too excited, so I'm not going to blab today. Without further ado, here is this week's TV I'm Watching:

Monday, September 12th
Gaga by Gaultier (The CW) 8pm | Lady Gaga is interviewed by fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier in Paris.
Emmy Preview 2011 (TVGuide) 9pm | A sneak peek at the 2011 Emmys.
CW Fall Preview (The CW) 9:15pm | I'll be watching 6 of their shows, including 3 new ones.

Tuesday, September 13th
Glee (rerun) (Fox) 8pm | Season 2 finale episode
Ringer (The CW) 9pm | Season Premiere episode. SMG is back!
Auction Hunters (Spike) 10pm

Wednesday, September 14th
The Mentalist (rerun) (TNT) 8pm | If I remember correctly, this was a pretty good episode.
Modern Family (rerun) (ABC) 9pm & 9:30pm
Up All Night (NBC) 10pm | I won't be tuning in regularly, but I thought I should watch the premiere episode since there isn't much on tonight.

Thursday, September 15th
Bones (rerun) (Fox) 8pm | Another two hour block which are the two "ultimate" penultimate episodes.
The Vampire Diaries (The CW) 8pm | IT'S BACK! This is definitely the number 2 show (after Supernatural and before Bones) I've been waiting impatiently for! 
The Secret Circle (The CW) 9pm | Series premiere.

Friday, September 16th
The Notebook (movie) (Oxy) 7pm | "If you're a bird, I'm a bird." Ryan Gosling, I love you.
Ringer and The Secret Circle (reruns) (The CW) 8pm & 9pm | ICYMI¹

Saturday, September 17th
Michigan State University at University of Notre Dame Football (NBC) 3:30pm | Go Green!
Defiance (movie) (AMC) 8pm

Sunday, September 18th
63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (Fox) 8pm | Hosted by Jane Lynch.

1. In case you missed it.

“NEW GIRL” Available For Free Download on iTunes

DEBUT EPISODE OF FOX’S NEW COMEDY “NEW GIRL” AVAILABLE NOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES


New Comedy is First Broadcast Network Series to be Made Available on iTunes In Advance of Primetime Premiere
NEW GIRL Premieres Tuesday, September 20, 9pm EST on FOX

In the debut episode, JESS DAY (Deschanel) discovers her long-term boyfriend is cheating on her and decides to move into a loft apartment with three male roommates – prickly bartender NICK (Jake Johnson), womanizer SCHMIDT (Max Greenfield) and intense personal trainer COACH (guest-star Damon Wayans, Jr.). The guys, alongside Jess’ childhood best friend CECE (Hannah Simone), try to help Jess get back on her feet and into the dating world.

My Two Cents — Absolutely hilarious! Zooey Deschanel is perfect in this role and its as if this show was made just for her. I cannot wait for the rest of the season, and will be tuning in to watch the pilot again when it premiers on September 20th.

This Week on DVD (Week of 9/6)

I thought of another way to get more movie and television information to you each week! I know how you feel, I'm pretty pumped about this too. Each Tuesday I am going to create a list of DVD releases (both movies and television) that will be coming out that week - most being released on Tuesdays. I didn't want to do this monthly since some movies don't get release dates until last minute. Movies in green will be those that I will personally be purchasing and those in blue are those that I will rent first (and maybe buy after that) ;)
*Please note that this may not be a complete list.

To kick it all off, here are the releases for the week of September 6th.

Tuesday, September 6th
- A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
- A Horrible Way to Die
- Assassination Games
- Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season
- Community: The Complete Second Season
- Criminal Minds: Season Six
- The Entitled
- Everything Must Go
- Fringe: The Complete Third Season
- Hanna
- No Ordinary Family: The Complete First Season
- The Office: Season Seven
- Parks and Recreation: Season Three
- Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth Season

Friday, September 9th
- X-Men: First Class

*For more complete lists of releases visit VideoETA or Comingsoon.net

What to Watch (Week of 9/5)

Happy Labor Day. I hope you all had a great long weekend.

One more week and my Fall shows will start and my posts will be a lot more full! I can't wait!! Until then, here is this week's TV picks:

Monday, September 5th
The Glades (A&E) 10pm | Second-season finale on special night!

Tuesday, September 6th
Glee (rerun) (Fox) 8pm | Jonathan Groff is back as Jesse St. James!

Wednesday, September 7th
Modern Family (rerun) (ABC) 9pm & 9:30pm | This show is just hilarious.
CSI (rerun) (CBS) 10pm | Pretty good episode, compared to the rest of the season. I'm glad Laurence Fishburne is leaving, and rumor has it William Petersen will coming back for a few epis!!

Thursday, September 8th
The Big Bang Theory (rerun) (CBS) 8pm | I just got started on the show and I'm already into a few episodes of season 3.
CBS Fall Preview (CBS) 8:30pm  | The Big Bang Theory cast hosts this special peak into what CBS has to offer this fall.
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) (The CW) 8pm | Second-season finale episode! Pick up your DVD copy at Target - it has an extra disc which features the Comic-Con panel, before the Third-season premiere next week!
Bones (rerun) (Fox) 8pm
Suits (USA) 10pm | First-season finale. Should be good.

Friday, September 9th
King Arthur (movie) (AMC) 8pm | Ioan Gruffudd + Clive Owen = Okay movie, Nice to look at. Oh, and Keira Knightley too; I like her. *Side note¹
Friends with Benefits (NBC) 8pm & 8:30pm | Well I've stuck with it this long, might as well watch the last two episodes of the season.
Supernatural (rerun) (The CW) 9pm

Saturday, September 10th
Meet Joe Black (movie) (TVGuide) 7pm
The Princess Diaries (movie) (ABCFam) 7pm
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (movie) (ABCFam) 9:30pm | Chris Pine is so fine.
TV's Most Unforgettable Finales (TVGuide) 10pm

Sunday, September 11th
Casablanca (movie) (TCM) 8pm | Here's looking at you kid.
True Blood (HBO) 9pm | Season-four finale! I have been so impressed by this season, I wish it was longer than 12 episodes. And guess what! Scott Foley is going to be in this episode!! Yay!

1. Can't wait to see Ioan in Ringer with Sarah Michelle Gellar on The CW! Series premiere is next week, Sept. 13th.