TV TimeZ

April 5, 2011


Bravo: Pregnant in Heels at 10p
OWN: Addicted to Food at 10p
Spike TV: Auction Hunters at 10p
DIY Network: Extra Yardage at 1030pInvestigation Discovery: Cuff Me If You Can at 10p
BET: Let's Stay Together at 1030p
ABC:  No Ordinary Family, Dancing with the Stars, Body of Proof
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: LA, The Good Wife
NBC: The Biggest Loser: Couples, Parenthood


After less than five years sitting in the anchor seat for CBS' CBS Evening News, Katie Couric is expected to leave her current position and launch a syndicated talk show in 2012, according to the AP.  Couric's proposed new talk show is being courted by several distribution companies.  With her CBS contract expiring June 4, Couric has not officially said she is leaving CBS and therefore has not set a departure date.  
Late night talk show Watch What Happens: Live helmed by Andy Cohen notches its 100th episode on Bravo this Thursday directly following the season four premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City at 11p.  In addition, Bravo approved a fifth season of Watch What Happens Live produced by Embassy Row with new episodes scheduled to launch this September. 
On April 21, Food Network opens a second season of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle at 10p.  The one-hour series follows two teams that have 24 hours to conceive, plan and open their own dream restaurants for one night.  Chef Scott Conant hosts the series and challenges the participants while he along with a rotating panel of judges, tally each team's efforts.  Judges for the sophomore season include Geoffrey Zakarian, Marcus Samuelsson, Ben Leventhal, Gabriella Gershenson, Alison Brod, David Sax, Drew Nieporent and Tim Gannon.  The winning team will receive $10,000 in seed money toward their dream restaurant business. 
National Geographic Channel's (NGC) new series Ice Pilots premieres April 22 at 10p.  The 13-episode series follows Arctic aviators employed at Buffalo Airways who fly classic WWII-era planes to deliver food and fuel to remote locations in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  Omni Film Productions is behind the series produced for NGC. 
The Style Network debuts a third season of Jerseylicious on May 15 at 8p.  The new season of the one-hour docu-soap consists of 20 episodes following the personalities working at the Gatsby Salon.  The Style Network also airs a two-part reunion special hosted by Vivica A. Fox titled Jerseylicious: Wild and Untamed on May 8 at 9p with part two on May 15 at 7p just prior to the new season launch. Jerseylicious is produced by Endemol USA for The Style Network. 
As of yesterday, CBS College Sports Network rebranded as CBS Sports Network and the new network abbreviation is CBSSN.  Later this summer, Investigation Discovery introduces viewers to Paranormal Home Inspectors, a new original series from Big Coat Productions.  The series follows a trio consisting of a psychic, a certified home inspector and a paranormal researcher as they inspect homes for abnormalities which the home inspector claims are structural defects while the psychic and paranormal researcher think are supernatural. Production on the series begins in Ontario this Friday through July 7 and the series premieres on Investigation Discovery on August 16 at 11p and 1130p.