If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/9/19

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice

“Here’s a story…of a lovely lady…” Anyone who grew up in the early 70s probably watched (or at least knew about) The Brady Bunch, and for those of us born in the mid to late 70s, we got to watch the reruns, which were still airing all the time. I lived out in the country and didn’t have cable, but I got to watch it. I can still sing the theme song with all the right lyrics. So when I saw that HGTV was coming out with A Very Brady Renovation, featuring all six of the Brady “kids” along with a slew of HGTV renovation stars (like twins Drew & Jonathan from Property Brothers), I couldn’t wait. And it’s finally here. In addition to the Scott brothers, Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby), and Susan Olsen (Cindy) are joined by Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E Laine from Good Bones, siblings Leanne and Steve Ford from Restored by the Fords, Jasmine Roth from Hidden Potential, and Lara Spencer from Flea Market Flip to demo, reno, and replicate the Brady Bunch house!

There were over 9,000 hours of work filmed, all of which has been edited and condensed down to a single short season, starting with tonight’s 90-minute extended premiere. One cool thing is we’ll see/meet Florence Henderson’s (mom Carol, who passed away in 2016) son and daughter, as well as the children of the show’s creator and the granddaughter of the actual owner of the house itself, all of whom will show up for the reveal.

On tonight’s 90-minute premiere, “Honey, We’re Home!” the Brady Bunch kids have an emotional reunion at the famous Studio City, CA, home before beginning demolition.

Don’t miss it tonight on HGTV at 9/8c.

I’ll also be watching So You Think You Can Dance, Kids Baking Championship, & Whose Line Is It Anyway.

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Sunday on TV – 9/8/19

Season Finale

  • A Year in Music (#110) – AXS TV @ 9/8c
  • If We Built It Today (#109-120) – Science Channel @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • Serengeti (#106) – Animal Planet @ 10:01/9:01c (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • Serengeti (#106) – DIscovery Channel @ 8/7c (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • The Real Housewives of Potomac (#418) – Bravo @ 8/7c
  • Trunkfest (#210) – AXS TV @ 9:30/8:30c

Series Premiere

Season Premiere

  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians (#1701) – E! @ 9/8c
  • Married to Medicine (#701) – Bravo @ 9/8c

Specials/Sports

  • Black Girls Rock! 2019 – BET @ 8/7c (150-Minute Special)
  • Football Night in America – NBC @ 7/6c
  • Sunday Night Football – NBC @ 8:15/7:15c (Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots)

New

  • 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days (#306) – TLC @ 8/7c (2-Hour New Episode)
  • A Lie to Die For (#112) – Oxygen @ 8/7c
  • Alaskan Bush People (#1006) – Discovery Channel @ 9:17/8:17c
  • Ballers (#42/503) – HBO @ 10:40/9:40c
  • Bar Rescue (#644) – Paramount @ 10/9c
  • Big Brother (#2133) – CBS @ 8/7c
  • Chesapeake Shores (#403) – Hallmark @ 8/7c
  • Curse of Akakor – Facebook Watch @ 4/3c
  • Fear the Walking Dead (#513) – AMC @ 9/8c (65-Minute New Episode)
  • Flip It Like Disick (#105) – E! @ 10/9c
  • Good Eats (#1505/1511) – Food Network @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • Killer Motive (#103) – Oxygen @ 7/6c
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (#171/622) – HBO @ 11:10/10:10c
  • Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out – MTV @ 7/6c & 7:30/6:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • On Becoming a God in Central Florida (#104) – Showtime @ 10/9c
  • Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (#406) – Netflix @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc
  • Pennyworth (#107) – Epix @ 9/8c
  • Power (#603) – Starz @ 8/7c
  • Power Confidential (#103) – Starz @ 9/8c
  • Preacher (#407) – AMC @ 10:05/9:05c
  • Raising Wild (#107) – Discovery Channel @ 10:19/9:19c
  • Ridiculousness – MTV @ 8/7c
  • Snapped (#2602) – Oxygen @ 6/5c
  • Squidbillies – Cartoon Network @ 12AM/11PMc & 12:15AM/11:15PMc (2 New Episodes)
  • Succession (#15/205) – HBO @ 9/8c
  • The $100,000 Pyramid (#411) – ABC @ 9/8c
  • The Affair (#503) – Showtime @ 9/8c
  • The Righteous Gemstones (#04/104) – HBO @ 10/9c
  • The Weekly (#113) – FX @ 10/9c
  • To Tell the Truth (#409) – ABC @ 10/9c
  • Unexpected (#306) – TLC @ 10/9c
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#16136) – Bravo @ 10/9c
  • Worst Cooks in America (#1706) – Food Network @ 9/8c

ABC

  • *New*The $100,000 Pyramid (#411) @ 9/8c
  • *New*To Tell the Truth (#409) @ 10/9c

CBS

  • *New*Big Brother (#2133) @ 8/7c

NBC

  • *Sports*Football Night in America @ 7/6c
  • *Sports*Sunday Night Football @ 8:15/7:15c (Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots)

A&E

  • *Series Premiere*The Day I Picked My Parents (#101-105) @ 10AM/9AMc-2/1c (5 New Episodes Including Series Premiere & Series Finale)

AMC

  • *New*Fear the Walking Dead (#513) @ 9/8c (65-Minute New Episode)
  • *New*Preacher (#407) @ 10:05/9:05c

Animal Planet

  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) @ 10:01/9:01c (77-Minute Season Finale)

AXS TV

  • *Season Finale*A Year in Music (#110) @ 9/8c
  • *Season Finale*Trunkfest (#210) @ 9:30/8:30c

BET

  • *Special*Black Girls Rock! 2019 @ 8/7c (150-Minute Special)

Bravo

  • *Season Finale*The Real Housewives of Potomac (#418) @ 8/7c
  • *Season Premiere*Married to Medicine (#701) @ 9/8c
  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#16136) @ 10/9c

Cartoon Network

  • *New*Squidbillies @ 12AM/11PMc & 12:15AM/11:15PMc (2 New Episodes)

Discovery Channel

  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) @ 8/7c (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • *New*Alaskan Bush People (#1006) @ 9:17/8:17c
  • *New*Raising Wild (#107) @ 10:19/9:19c

E!

  • *Season Premiere*Keeping Up with the Kardashians (#1701) @ 9/8c
  • *New*Flip It Like Disick (#105) @ 10/9c

Epix

  • *New*Pennyworth (#107) @ 9/8c

Facebook Watch

  • *New*Curse of Akakor @ 4/3c

Food Network

  • *New*Worst Cooks in America (#1706) @ 9/8c
  • *New*Good Eats (#1505/1511) @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes)

FX

  • *New*The Weekly (#113) @ 10/9c

Hallmark

  • *New*Chesapeake Shores (#403) @ 8/7c

HBO

  • *New*Succession (#15/205) @ 9/8c
  • *New*The Righteous Gemstones (#04/104) @ 10/9c
  • *New*Ballers (#42/503) @ 10:40/9:40c
  • *New*Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (#171/622) @ 11:10/10:10c

MTV

  • *New*Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out @ 7/6c & 7:30/6:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*Ridiculousness @ 8/7c

Nat Geo WILD

Netflix

  • *New*Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (#406) @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc

Oxygen

  • *New*Snapped (#2602) @ 6/5c
  • *New*Killer Motive (#103) @ 7/6c
  • *New*A Lie to Die For (#112) @ 8/7c

Paramount

  • *New*Bar Rescue (#644) @ 10/9c

Science Channel

  • *Season Finale*If We Built It Today (#109-120) @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)

Showtime

  • *New*The Affair (#503) @ 9/8c
  • *New*On Becoming a God in Central Florida (#104) @ 10/9c

Starz

  • *New*Power (#603) @ 8/7c
  • *New*Power Confidential (#103) @ 9/8c

TLC

  • *New*90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days (#306) @ 8/7c (2-Hour New Episodes)
  • *New*Unexpected (#306) @ 10/9c

10:00AM/9:00AMc

11:00AM/10:00AMc

12:00PM/11:00AMc

1:00/12:00c

2:00/1:00c

4:00/3:00c

  • *New*Curse of Akakor – Facebook Watch

6:00/5:00c

  • *New*Snapped (#2602) – Oxygen

7:00/6:00c

  • *Sports*Football Night in America – NBC
  • *New*Killer Motive (#103) – Oxygen
  • *New*Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out – MTV (2 New Episodes)

7:30/6:30c

  • *New*Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out – MTV (2 New Episodes)

8:00/7:00c

  • *New*90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days (#306) – TLC (2-Hour New Episodes)
  • *New*A Lie to Die For (#112) – Oxygen
  • *New*Big Brother (#2133) – CBS
  • *Special*Black Girls Rock! 2019 – BET (150-Minute Special)
  • *New*Chesapeake Shores (#403) – Hallmark
  • *New*Power (#603) – Starz
  • *New*Ridiculousness – MTV
  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) – DIscovery Channel (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • *Sports*Sunday Night Football – NBC (8:15/7:15c – Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots)
  • *Season Finale*The Real Housewives of Potomac (#418) – Bravo

9:00/8:00c

  • *Season Finale*A Year in Music (#110) – AXS TV
  • *New*Alaskan Bush People (#1006) – Discovery Channel (9:17/8:17c)
  • *New*Fear the Walking Dead (#513) – AMC (65-Minute New Episode)
  • *Season Finale*If We Built It Today (#109-120) – Science Channel (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • *Season Premiere*Keeping Up with the Kardashians (#1701) – E!
  • *Season Premiere*Married to Medicine (#701) – Bravo
  • *New*Pennyworth (#107) – Epix
  • *New*Power Confidential (#103) – Starz
  • *New*Succession (#15/205) – HBO
  • *New*The $100,000 Pyramid (#411) – ABC
  • *New*The Affair (#503) – Showtime
  • *New*Worst Cooks in America (#1706) – Food Network

9:30/8:30c

  • *Season Finale*Trunkfest (#210) – AXS TV

10:00/9:00c

  • *New*Bar Rescue (#644) – Paramount
  • *Series Premiere*Dog: Impossible (#101) – Nat Geo WILD
  • *New*Flip It Like Disick (#105) – E!
  • *New*Good Eats (#1505/1511) – Food Network (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*On Becoming a God in Central Florida (#104) – Showtime
  • *New*Preacher (#407) – AMC (10:05/9:05c)
  • *New*Raising Wild (#107) – Discovery Channel (10:19/9:19c)
  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) – Animal Planet (10:01/9:01c – 77-Minute Season Finale)
  • *New*The Righteous Gemstones (#04/104) – HBO
  • *New*The Weekly (#113) – FX
  • *New*To Tell the Truth (#409) – ABC
  • *New*Unexpected (#306) – TLC
  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#16136) – Bravo

10:30/9:30c

  • *New*Ballers (#42/503) – HBO (10:40/9:40c)
  • *New*Good Eats (#1505/1511) – Food Network (2 New Episodes)

11:00/10:00c

  • *New*Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (#171/622) – HBO (11:10/10:10c)

12:00AM/11:00PMc

  • *New*Squidbillies – Cartoon Network (12AM/11PMc & 12:15AM/11:15PMc – 2 New Episodes)

3:00AM/2:00AMc

  • *New*Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (#406) – Netflix (3:01AM/2:01AMc)

Full Schedule

  • *Season Finale*A Year in Music (#110) – AXS TV @ 9/8c
  • *Season Finale*If We Built It Today (#109-120) – Science Channel @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) – Animal Planet @ 10:01/9:01c (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • *Season Finale*Serengeti (#106) – DIscovery Channel @ 8/7c (77-Minute Season Finale)
  • *Season Finale*The Real Housewives of Potomac (#418) – Bravo @ 8/7c
  • *Season Finale*Trunkfest (#210) – AXS TV @ 9:30/8:30c
  • *Series Premiere*Dog: Impossible (#101) – Nat Geo WILD @ 10/9c
  • *Series Premiere*The Day I Picked My Parents (#101-105) – A&E @ 10AM/9AMc-2/1c (5 New Episodes Including Series Premiere & Series Finale)
  • *Season Premiere*Keeping Up with the Kardashians (#1701) – E! @ 9/8c
  • *Season Premiere*Married to Medicine (#701) – Bravo @ 9/8c
  • *Special*Black Girls Rock! 2019 – BET @ 8/7c (150-Minute Special)
  • *Sports*Football Night in America – NBC @ 7/6c
  • *Sports*Sunday Night Football – NBC @ 8:15/7:15c (Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots)
  • *New*90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days (#306) – TLC @ 8/7c (2-Hour New Episodes)
  • *New*A Lie to Die For (#112) – Oxygen @ 8/7c
  • *New*Alaskan Bush People (#1006) – Discovery Channel @ 9:17/8:17c
  • *New*Ballers (#42/503) – HBO @ 10:40/9:40c
  • *New*Bar Rescue (#644) – Paramount @ 10/9c
  • *New*Big Brother (#2133) – CBS @ 8/7c
  • *New*Chesapeake Shores (#403) – Hallmark @ 8/7c
  • *New*Curse of Akakor – Facebook Watch @ 4/3c
  • *New*Fear the Walking Dead (#513) – AMC @ 9/8c (65-Minute New Episode)
  • *New*Flip It Like Disick (#105) – E! @ 10/9c
  • *New*Good Eats (#1505/1511) – Food Network @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*Killer Motive (#103) – Oxygen @ 7/6c
  • *New*Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (#171/622) – HBO @ 11:10/10:10c
  • *New*Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out – MTV @ 7/6c & 7:30/6:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*On Becoming a God in Central Florida (#104) – Showtime @ 10/9c
  • *New*Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (#406) – Netflix @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc
  • *New*Pennyworth (#107) – Epix @ 9/8c
  • *New*Power (#603) – Starz @ 8/7c
  • *New*Power Confidential (#103) – Starz @ 9/8c
  • *New*Preacher (#407) – AMC @ 10:05/9:05c
  • *New*Raising Wild (#107) – Discovery Channel @ 10:19/9:19c
  • *New*Ridiculousness – MTV @ 8/7c
  • *New*Snapped (#2602) – Oxygen @ 6/5c
  • *New*Squidbillies – Cartoon Network @ 12AM/11PMc & 12:15AM/11:15PMc (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*Succession (#15/205) – HBO @ 9/8c
  • *New*The $100,000 Pyramid (#411) – ABC @ 9/8c
  • *New*The Affair (#503) – Showtime @ 9/8c
  • *New*The Righteous Gemstones (#04/104) – HBO @ 10/9c
  • *New*The Weekly (#113) – FX @ 10/9c
  • *New*To Tell the Truth (#409) – ABC @ 10/9c
  • *New*Unexpected (#306) – TLC @ 10/9c
  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#16136) – Bravo @ 10/9c
  • *New*Worst Cooks in America (#1706) – Food Network @ 9/8c

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/8/19

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Phoebe’s Choice

My favorite new dark comedy is on tonight on Showtime: On Becoming a God in Central Florida. This Kirsten Dunst vehicle follows the struggles of a young widowed mother who works at a water park outside Orlando in the 1990s. Krystal Stubbs, (played by Dunst), is also burdened with crippling debt after her husband died while attempting to commit auto insurance fraud. Last week started with her back at the water park, where she took the water aerobics instructor job for the extra $64 a month because the house was under foreclosure till she could pay the fine on her alligator poaching tickets. Did I mention this show is awesome?

Krystal, along with her baby Destinee, lived in the supply room of the water park now. She kept the house shuttered and was lying to the neighbors, telling them it was under renovation. Because she was stuck with her husband’s FAM merchandise, she had to distribute the pile of boxes piling on her lawn. That is the other huge theme in this show… FAM. It is a pyramid scheme, get-rich-quick organization based on Amway. When she dropped off the new shipment to an older woman named Mimi, she found her husband’s secret. He’d bought tens of thousands of the FAM products himself, to look more successful, keeping them hidden at Mimi’s.

Cory, her husband’s old friend and “upline” supplier of FAM goods, was throwing a rally soon, and Kristen wanted to do a speech during it. She wrote an angry monologue about how FAM destroyed her family and made her homeless. Meanwhile an older man on his houseboat took advantage of a live news report about to happen near him. He showed up to talk and fly a sign about how FAM was a predatory cult that would take everything from you. Krystal found her neighbor and co-worker Ernie moping around the water park alone at night, and she did him the “favor” of taking the half-off tickets that he was having trouble getting rid of.

When Cory tried to deny Krystal the chance to make her speech, she locked him in a closet and went up anyway. She changed her speech though and instead decided to stick with FAM and gave out all the half-off tickets. The news reporter from before showed up to investigate FAM and decided to try to interview Krystal. The next week, she had dozens of people signed up for her aerobics class, so she’d make a lot more money on that job now. Also, she used knowledge of her boss’s peeping hole that he used to look into the women’s locker room to blackmail him into buying ten thousand dollars’ worth of FAM product. The man who photobombed the news had his houseboat burned into the sea – he escaped but his parrot died. In the end, Ernie decided he wanted to join the FAM team and become part of Krystal’s “downline.”

This show reminds me a lot of Kidding, with the slow escalation of darker and darker drama tinged with absurd comedic moments. This fall looks good for dark comedy!

On tonight’s episode, “Manifest Destinee,” stricken with a bird disease; Krystal goes on an odyssey; a collection of vintage motivational tapes changes Cody’s destiny; Ernie tries recruiting.

Check out Krystal’s odyssey tonight on Showtime at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching Pennyworth, Preacher, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Ballers.

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This Week on TV – 9/8/19-9/14/19

Welcome to a new week of TV! We’re finishing up the summer season, so there are a lot of finales this week in addition to a lot of other new episodes, so be sure to check out the schedule below so you don’t miss anything!

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. Continue reading

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Saturday on TV – 9/7/19

Saturday is the series premiere of Pick, Flip & Drive on FYI at 10/9c, followed by a 2nd new episode at 10:30/9:30c. Jim Eli loves cars, and in his hometown of Great Falls, Montana, he and his family are always on the hunt for great cars that they can find, pick and restore to a pristine finish before flipping them for a profit. Jim’s family of auto experts help him find the right repairs, for the right price to restore these classic cars back to their original glory. In the Eli family business, profit is the name of the game but it’s helpful to have fun along the way.

Tonight is also the season premieres of Love & Marriage: Huntsville on OWN at 9/8c & WOW – Women of Wrestling on AXSTV at 8/7c. Finally, it’s the season finales of Fire Masters on Cooking Channel at 10/9c, Miagret on Ovation at 7/6c, and Restaurant: Impossible on Food Network at 9/8c.

Also on tonight:

  • *Season FInale*Fire Masters (#110) – Cooking Channel @ 10/9c
  • *Season Finale*Maigret (#102) – Ovation @ 7/6c
  • *Season Finale*Restaurant: Impossible (#1508) – Food Network @ 9/8c
  • *Series Premiere*Pick, Flip & Drive (#101) – FYI @ 10/9c & 10:30/9:30c (2 New Episodes including Series Premiere)
  • *Season Premiere*Love & Marriage: Huntsville (#201) – OWN @ 9/8c
  • *Season Premiere*WOW – Women of Wrestling (#201) – AXSTV @ 8/7c
  • *New*Addiction Unplugged (#107/108) – A&E @ 1/12c & 1:30/12:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*Black Women Own the Conversation (#103) – OWN @ 10/9c
  • *New*Cake Boss (#1421) – DFC @ 9/8c
  • *New*Family Restaurant Rivals – Food Network @ 1/12c
  • *New*Iron Chef America – Cooking Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New*Ridiculousness – MTV @ 8/7c
  • *New*Say Yes to the Dress (#1808) – TLC @ 9/8c (2-Hour New Episode)
  • *New*The Vanilla Ice Project (#907) – DIY @ 9/8c
  • *New*Tiny House Nation (#511) – A&E @ 9AM/8AMc
  • *New*Zombie House Flipping (#311) – A&E @ 10AM/9AMc
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