This Week on TV – 11/17/13-11/23/13

Welcome to a new week of TV! There’s a lot on this week, including the series premiere of one of my favorite pilots from the summer, All Human. So check out the schedule to see what’s going to fill up your DVRs. 🙂

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Sunday

Sunday features 3 series premieres, 1 series finale, & 2 season finales. To read more about the new series, click the link below. Otherwise, check out tonight’s schedule!

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Tonight is the series premiere of Almost Human on FOX at 8/7c. Starring Karl Urban (Star Trek) and Michael Ealy (Sleeper Cell, Common Law), the new series is an action-packed police drama set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. The year is 2048. Meet John Kennex, a cop who survived one of the most catastrophic attacks ever made against the police department. After waking up from a 17-month coma, he can’t remember much – except that his partner was killed; his girlfriend left him after the attack; and he lost one of his legs and is now outfitted with a highly sophisticated synthetic appendage. Suffering from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD, and the “psychological rejection of his synthetic body part,” John returns to work at the behest of longtime ally Captain Sandra Maldonado (Emmy Award nominee Lili Taylor, Six Feet Under, Ransom). By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. And despite his passionate aversion to androids, John is paired up with a battle-ready MX-43. But he abruptly terminates his partnership after the robot discovers incriminating information about him. So technician Rudy Lom (Mackenzie Crook, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) introduces John to Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses. Although such responses were deemed flaws, it is in these “flaws” that John relates to Dorian most. After all, John is part-machine now, and Dorian is part-human. John and Dorian’s understanding of each other not only complements them, it connects them. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues, including the eager and somewhat starstruck Detective Valerie Stahl (Minka Kelly, Friday Night Lights, (500) Days of Summer) and the distrustful Detective Richard Paul (Michael Irby, The Unit), who does not welcome John back with open arms. The show will follow the week-to-week missions of John and Dorian, as they fight crime across this futuristic landscape, while the mysteries surrounding his attack and the larger mythology of this new world unfold.

Tonight is also the series premiere of On the Rocks on Food Network at 10/9c. Failing nightlife establishments across America get a complete overhaul in a last ditch effort to make a profit in Food Network’s new series. Top consultant and bartender extraordinaire, John Green, assesses establishments that have taken a ‘dive’ in hopes of filling the bar stools and pint glasses once again. Whether he is shaking hands or martinis, John knows the business behind the bar and never settles for mediocrity, but can he make these bars the toast of the town? Over the course of eight episodes, John visits the worst of the worst in nightlife joints. From a dive bar in San Diego to a struggling English pub in Royal Oak, Mich., John uses his business savvy and bartending expertise to save these businesses from total collapse. Updates to weathered dÃ©cor and flawed menus, tackling staff problems through intense bar training, and coaching establishments with inadequate management; John’s on a mission to help shabby watering holes and dysfunctional nightclubs reinvent themselves.

Finally, tonight is the series premiere of The Drama Queen on E! at 11/10c. In a world where all you need is a video to go viral for instant notoriety, those that seek sustainability past 15 minutes call on one person: Marki Costello. Costello, the granddaughter of Hollywood royalty, famed comedian Lou Costello, has been a talent manager and hosting coach for over 20 years working with the likes of CeeLo Green, Kelly Osbourne and countless others. Whether it’s coaching the famous or discovering untapped talent, Costello is a pro at spotting and turning an unknown into a household name. Costello’s day consist of not only being the boss at her Creative Management Entertainment Group, one of the busiest and most successful management firms in Los Angeles, to co-parenting two sons with longtime partner Tommy. In the end, what Marki wants, Marki gets.

Also on tonight:

*Series Finale* – Eastbound & Down (#29/408) – HBO @ 10/9c
*Series Finale* – Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (#2048B) – FXX @ 11/10c
*Season Finale* – The Paradise – PBS @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)
*Series Premiere* – Almost Human (#HU-101) – FOX @ 8/7c
*Series Premiere* – On the Rocks – Food Network @ 10/9c
*Series Premiere* – The Drama Queen (#101) – E! @ 11/10c
*Sports* – Football Night in America – NBC @ 7/6c
*Sports* – Sunday Night Football – NBC @ 8:20/7:20c (Kansas City Chiefs at Denver Broncos)
*New* – Alaska: The Last Frontier (#307) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c
*New* – America Declassified (#103) – Travel Channel @ 10/9c
*New* – American Jungle (#102) – History Channel @ 10/9c
*New* – America’s Funniest Home Videos (#2406) – ABC @ 7/6c
*New* – Ax Men (#702) – History Channel @ 9/8c
*New* – Bar Rescue – Spike TV @ 10/9c
*New* – Betrayal (#108) – ABC @ 10:01/9:01c
*New* – Boardwalk Empire (#47/411) – HBO @ 9/8c
*New* – Comic Book Men (#306) – AMC @ 11:59/10:59c
*New* – Cousins Undercover – HGTV @ 8/7c
*New* – Family Guy (#FG-1104) – FOX @ 9:30/8:30c
*New* – Fashion Queens (#203) – Bravo @ 11:30/10:30c
*New* – Guy’s Grocery Games – Food Network @ 8/7c
*New* – Hello Ladies (#08/108) – HBO @ 10:30/9:30c
*New* – Homeland (#308) – Showtime @ 9/8c
*New* – Long Island Medium (#425) – TLC @ 8/7c
*New* – Masters of Sex (#108) – Showtime @ 10/9c
*New* – Once Upon a Time (#308) – ABC @ 8/7c
*New* – Restaurant Express – Food Network @ 9/8c
*New* – Revenge (#308) – ABC @ 9/8c
*New* – Talking Dead (#306-60) – AMC @ 10:01/9:01c
*New* – The Amazing Race (#2308) – CBS @ 8/7c
*New* – The Good Wife (#508) – CBS @ 9/8c
*New* – The Mentalist (#607) – CBS @ 10/9c
*New* – The Real Housewives of Atlanta (#603) – Bravo @ 8/7c
*New* – The Simpsons (#SI-2419) – FOX @ 9/8c
*New* – The Walking Dead (#406) – AMC @ 9/8c
*New* – Thicker Than Water (#102) – Bravo @ 9/8c
*New* – Total Divas (#110) – E! @ 10/9c
*New* – Watch What Happens: Live (#1091) – Bravo @ 11/10c
*New* – Witches of East End (#106) – Lifetime @ 10/9c
*New* – Yukon Men (#213) – Discovery Channel @ 10/9c