TV Worth Blogging About

ABC FAMILY’S SUMMER CRUSH JULY 29 TH 2013 – AUGUST 7 TH 2013 Summer Crush is ABC Family’s fifth annual 10-day long summer programming event filled with all-day marathons, movies and all-new episodes of its original series “Switched At Birth,” “The Fosters,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “Twisted,” “The Vineyard,” “Melissa & Joey,” “Baby Daddy” and “Spell-Mageddon.” All of their original series will feature brand new episodes at their regularly scheduled times. This year’s movie line-up includes: Thursday August 1 st 2013 6:30 P.M. – Prom (staring Kylie Bunbury (Lacey on ABC Family’s “Twisted”) The film        follows the tangled love lives of a group of teens as they get ready for their        high school prom 8:30 P.M. – The Princess Diaries (starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews Right before her 16th birthday, Mia Thermopolis discovers she’s the heir to the throne of ...

Food Network has an ambition slate of new and returning original content. The Food Network channel has become somewhat of a Cinderella story. It started off with critics thinking how could a channel devoted solely to cooking survive and thrive, and now it is one of the top rated cable channels, and has even garnered a spin off. There are more than a dozen new shows headed to the Food Network this season and they will feature everything from celebrities to fast-food and everything in between. There are so many new shows on the Food Network that I have trouble keeping count and I wrote the blog, if I missed a premiere date, or a new show just let me know in the comments section.  NEW SERIES/ PRIME TIME Giving You the Business (Premiered April 25th 2013) CEOs of well-known food chains are looking to expand and reward one of their loyal, hard-working employees with the opportunity to own their own franchise. The twist? The employees don’t know. The bosses s...

Amazon Studios has done its final selection process in an innovating way, letting the viewer’s decide which shows would make it to series. Out of amazon’s inaugural fourteen pilots, 5 series will air exclusively on amazon prime instant videos. I personally watched and voted for a few of the pilots myself, and I must say that I enjoyed the interactive process that Amazon Studios provided. So far there are only children’s shows and comedies, but they say they will eventually expanded into dramas, and I am anxiously awaiting for their next development slate. ORIGINAL COMEDIES Alpha House, is a comedy about four misfit senators-turned-unlikely roommates (Goodman, Clark Johnson, Matt Malloy and Mark Consuelos) who rent a house together in Washington DC. “We’re thrilled to have emerged safely from this harrowing exercise in online democracy,” said Trudeau. “All of us at Alpha House thank both Amazon and its wise and wonderful customer base for such a happy outcome. As the fut...

The National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild are quickly building themselves into a network that encompasses everything that has to do with the people who live in the United States, and the environment in which they live. From polygamy to wild predators, the national geographic is not afraid to shine a light in places most people have never heard of, or to explore places people have never been. At its upfront presentation in May, the national geographic channel introduced four new and seven returning series. The brass at the National Geographic Channel was so impressed with two of its freshman shows; they granted them a second season before the first even debuted. If you have not checked out any of the shows/miniseries currently airing on Nat Geo I strongly urge you to give it a try. NGC FRESHMAN LINEUP: CROSSING THE ICE (PREMIERED JUNE 14 TH ) follows two Australians as they attempt to become the first to journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole an...

TNT is home to some of the best, most talked about, most watched television dramas on cable. At their 2013 Upfronts TNT announced their ambitious plan to move into year round original programming. With the plethora of scripted and unscripted shows in development, combined with new shows already given a series order, it will not take long until TNT will be able to accomplish this exciting goal. TNT pushed full steam ahead this summer launching four brand new series along with five returning favorites. There are old fan favorites, and new shows to capture your attention so…..Sit back, relax, and let TNT entertain you. SCRIPTED SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT Portal House This project is the story of a group of young scientists who, while investigating what they believe to be a haunted house, stumble upon a portal into the time-space continuum. Things then take a turn for the worse when one of their own vanishes into the portal. Peter Gunn This re-imagining of the classic post-...