This Week on TV – 12/29/13-1/4/13

Posted on December 28, 2013 by

Welcome to a new week of TV! The first half of the week is still very slow, but Thursday especially is VERY busy with returning shows, so check it out! 🙂 Have a happy and safe New Year!

Don’t forget to comment or Tweet @tvismypacifier to let us know what YOU are planning to watch!

Jump with me to view this week’s schedule.

Sunday

Sunday features 1 series finale & 2 season finales, so check out tonight’s schedule!

Also on tonight:

  • *Series Finale* – Treme (#36/405) – HBO @ 9/8c (75-Minute Series Finale)
  • *Season Finale* – Getting On (#06/106) – HBO @ 10:15/9:15c
  • *Season Finale* – Ja’mie: Private School Girl (#06/106) – HBO @ 10:45/9:45c
  • *Special* – Call the Midwife – PBS @ 7:30/6:30c (90-Minute Special)
  • *Sports* – Football Night in America – NBC @ 7/6c
  • *Sports* – Sunday Night Football – NBC @ 8:20/7:20c (Philadelphia Eagles @ Dallas Cowboys)
  • *Special* – The 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors – CBS @ 9/8c (2-Hour Special)
  • *New* – Alaska: The Last Frontier (#312) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New* – American Jungle (#107) – History Channel @ 11/10c
  • *New* – Ax Men (#707) – History Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Breaking the Faith (#106) – TLC @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! (#109/110) – Comedy Central @ 12AM/11PMc & 12:30AM/11:30PMc (2 New Episodes)
  • *New* – Cutthroat Kitchen – Food Network @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Dude, You’re Screwed (#104) – Discovery Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Sister Wives (#412) – TLC @ 9/8c
  • *New* – The Real Housewives of Atlanta (#609) – Bravo @ 8/7c
  • *New* – Thicker Than Water (#107) – Bravo @ 9/8c

Monday

Monday features 1 season premiere & 1 season finale, so check out tonight’s schedule!

Also on tonight:

  • *Season Finale* – Diners, Drive-ins & Dives – Food Network @ 10/9c
  • *Season Premiere* – Cake Boss (#701/702) – TLC @ 9/8c & 9:30/8:30c (2 New Episodes Including Season Finale)
  • *New* – Bakery Boss (#103) – TLC @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Bizarre Foods America (#509) – Travel Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Full Throttle Saloon – TruTV @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Lizard Lick Towing (#403) – TruTV @ 9:30/8:30c
  • *New* – Love & Hip Hop (#408-60) – VH1 @ 8/7c
  • *New* – Major Crimes (#217) – TNT @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Street Outlaws (#205) – Discovery Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (#409) – Bravo @ 8/7c
  • *New* – Vanderpump Rules (#209) – Bravo @ 9/8c

Tuesday

Tuesday features 1 season finale, so check out tonight’s schedule!

Also on tonight:

  • *Season Finale* – The Drama Queen (#108) – E! @ 9/8c
  • *Special* – Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2014 – ABC @ 10/9c (1-Hour Special)
  • *Special* – Girl Code (#209-75) – MTV @ 10/9c (80-Minute “New Year’s Code” Special)
  • *Special* – NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly 2013 – NBC @ 10/9c (1-Hour Special)
  • *Special* – New Year’s Eve Special – FOX @ 11/10c (90-Minute Special)
  • *Special* – New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Presents the 30 Greatest Women in Music – ABC @ 8/7c (2-Hour Special)
  • *New* – Backyard Oil (#203-60) – Discovery Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Hardcore Pawn – TruTV @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Moonshiners (#309) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c

Wednesday

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

Click here for series premiere information

Tonight is the series premiere of Kim of Queens on Lifetime at 10/9c. Sassy star Kim Gravel, one of the country’s most successful and outspoken pageant coaches, is on a mission to find diamonds in the rough and transform them into confident young women. Along with the help of her mother Jo and sister Allisyn, Kim lives to polish local girls into future leaders, able to take the crown and rule the world.
 
Tonight is also the series premiere of Tattoos After Dark on Oxygen at 11/10c, with a 2nd new episode at 11:30/10:30c. From the producers of Jersey Shore, the half-hour series will uncover the wild and over-the-top antics that take place after hours at two popular Los Angeles tattoo shops: House of Ink, in the heart of the Venice boardwalk, and Ink Kandy, steps away from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The show holds nothing back as cameras capture the late-night chaos that goes down when incredibly talented artists converge with outrageous clients. From the guy who comes in asking for a bat tattoo on his face, to a couple who wants matching tattoos to express their undying love even though they just met that night…you never know who will stumble in, or what they will look like walking out.
 

Also on tonight:

  • *Series Premiere* – Kim of Queens (#101) – Lifetime @ 10/9c
  • *Series Premiere* – Tattoos After Dark (#101/102) – Oxygen @ 11/10c & 11:30/10:30c (2 New Episodes Including Series Premiere)
  • *Season Premiere* – Dance Moms (#401) – Lifetime @ 8/7c & 9/8c (1-Hour “Guess Who’s Coming to the Dance” Special & 1-Hour Season Premiere)
  • *Season Premiere* – Survivorman (#501) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Best Ink (#304) – Oxygen @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Girl Code (#210/211) – MTV @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New* – Inside the NFL – Showtime @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Kirstie (#105) – TV Land @ 10:30/9:30c
  • *New* – Restaurant: Impossible – Food Network @ 10/9c
  • *New* – South Beach Tow (#310) – TruTV @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The Exes (#313) – TV Land @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The Soup – E! @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Top Chef (#1112) – Bravo @ 10/9c

Thursday

Thursday features 2 series premieres & 6 season premieres. To read more about the new series, click the link below. Otherwise, check out tonight’s schedule!

Click here for series premiere information

Tonight is the series premiere of The Assets on ABC at 10/9c. The show is an eight-part limited series based on the real life events of CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes (Jodie Whittaker). The year 1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille (Harriet Walter) vowed to find the mole who would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys). Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth. The Assets will look inside the true, personal stories of the conclusion of the Cold War as told by the keepers of the nation’s secrets: the CIA. The Assets stars Paul Rhys (Borgia) as Aldrich Ames, Jodie Whittaker (Venus) as Sandy Grimes, Harriet Walter (Babel) as Jeanne Vertefeuile, Stuart Milligan (Jonathan Creek) as Paul Redmond, Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey) as Gary Grimes, Christina Cole (Casino Royale) as Louisa, and Ralph Brown (Withnail and I) as Lawrence Winston. The Assets is based on the book “Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed” by Sandy Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuile.
 
Tonight is also the series premiere of Toned Up on Bravo at 10:30/9:30c. Get a start on those new year’s resolutions with two new faces of fitness guaranteed to make you sweat. Katrina Dawn and Karena Hodgson have taken the web by storm with their website ToneItUp.com, which receives over 1.8 million unique visitors a month and over 600 twitter mentions per hour. Although the two are business partners, they are also best friends, roommates, and much more. Making no apologies for who they are, these women use their “yoga smarts” to push themselves and their brand to wild extremes. Whether they are speaking in their special language of “meows” or debating the merits of bug propellant, the dynamic duo have created an exercise revolution that has already inspired millions.
 

Also on tonight:

  • *Series Premiere* – The Assets (#101) – ABC @ 10/9c
  • *Series Premiere* – Toned Up (#101) – Bravo @ 10:30/9:30c
  • *Season Premiere* – Community (#501/502) – NBC @ 8/7c & 8:30/7:30c (2 New Episodes Including Season Premiere)
  • *Season Premiere* – Couples Therapy (#401-60) – VH1 @ 9/8c
  • *Season Premiere* – Impractical Jokers – TruTV @ 10/9c
  • *Season Premiere* – Mysteries at the Museum (#601) – Travel Channel @ 9/8c
  • *Season Premiere* – Ridiculousness (#401/402) – MTV @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes Including Season Premiere)
  • *Season Premiere* – The Taste (#201-120) – ABC @ 8/7c (2-Hour Season Premiere)
  • *New* – Courtney Loves Dallas (#105) – Bravo @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Elementary (#212) – CBS @ 10:01/9:01c
  • *New* – Ground Floor (#108) – TBS @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Gypsy Sisters (#206) – TLC @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Mob Wives (#405) – VH1 @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Panic Button (#106) – TruTV @ 10:30/9:30c
  • *New* – Parenthood (#511) – NBC @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Party On (#105) – E! @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Pawn Star$ (#V823/V824) – History Channel @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New* – Project Runway All Stars (#309) – Lifetime @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Rodeo Girls (#105) – A&E @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Sean Saves the World (#110) – NBC @ 9:01/8:01c
  • *New* – The Big Bang Theory – CBS @ 8/7c
  • *New* – The Crazy Ones – CBS @ 9:01/8:01c
  • *New* – The Michael J. Fox Show – NBC @ 9:30/8:30c
  • *New* – The Millers (#112) – CBS @ 8:31/7:31c
  • *New* – The Millionaire Matchmaker (#705) – Bravo @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Two and a Half Men – CBS @ 9:31/8:31/c

Friday

Friday features 1 season premiere, so check out tonight’s schedule!

Also on tonight:

  • *Season Premiere* – Something Borrowed, Something New (#201/202) – TLC @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes Including Season Premiere)
  • *New* – Bering Sea Gold (#409) – Discovery Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Dracula (#107) – NBC @ 10/9c
  • *New* – Gold Rush (#510) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c & 10/9c (1 New “Pre-Show” Special & 1 New Episode)
  • *New* – Grimm (#309) – NBC @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (#612/613) – TLC @ 9/8c & 9:30/8:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New* – Sweet Home Alabama (#408) – CMT @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The Carrie Diaries – The CW @ 8/7c
  • *New* – The Dead Files (#V409) – Travel Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The First 48 (#A1355) – A&E @ 10/9c (1 “After The First 48” Special)

Saturday

Saturday is the 75-minute season premiere of Mythbusters on Discovery Channel at 8/7c.

Tonight is also a new episode of The Graham Norton Show on BBC America at 10/9c. Tonight’s guests are Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Joan and Jackie Collins, Frank Skinner, & Michael Bublé.

Also on tonight:

  • *Season Premiere* – Mythbusters (#1401-75) – Discovery Channel @ 8/7c (75-Minute Season Premiere)
  • *Special* – The Following – FOX @ 11:30/10:30c (30-Minute “Season 1 Recap” Special)
  • *New* – Atlantis (#107) – BBC America @ 9/8c
  • *New* – On the Rocks – Food Network @ 11/10c
  • *New* – Orange County Choppers (#107) – CMT @ 9/8c
  • *New* – Swamp Pawn (#207) – CMT @ 10/9c
  • *New* – The Graham Norton Show (#1411) – BBC America @ 10/9c

That’s it! Hope you all have a great week!

— Jenny

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