Khloé and Lamar: American reality-based TV Series on E! Entertainment TV

Khloé and Lamar Season 1 Episode 5 (Unbreakable) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on E! Entertainment Television channel.
Khloé & Lamar is an American reality-based television series that will debut on E! on April 10, 2011 as a spin-off to Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Khloé & Lamar follows Khloé Kardashian and husband Lamar Odom as newlyweds.
Khloe and Lamar Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4 airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on E! Entertainment Television.

Law and Order: Criminal Intent: police Procedural TV Drama Series on USA Network

Law and Order: Criminal Intent Season 10 Episode 7 (Icarus) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on USA Network. Synopsis of the episode: An actor is killed while performing a controversial stunt.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama Law & Order. Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York City's One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often "ripped from the headlines" or loosely based on a real crime that received media attention.
The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons but was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the seventh season to share costs and due to declining ratings. Episodes continue to rerun on NBC. The tenth and final season will premiere on Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 9 EDT. Original cast members Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe will return to the series as Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames, respectively. Joining them is Jay O. Sanders as Captain Joseph Hannah.

River Monsters: TV Series on Animal Planet

River Monsters Season 3 Episode 4: Chainsaw Predator airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Animal Planet
River Monsters is a television series on Animal Planet hosted by Jeremy Wade and produced by Icon Films of Bristol, UK. The first season aired from 5 April to 17 May 2009. A second season began airing on 25 April 2010. The third season began on 10 April 2011
River Monsters travels worldwide with host, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade to explore freshwater mysteries and local folklore, possibly debunk these myths and track down these harrowing tales. The show has taken viewers to Germany, Australia, India, Brazil, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, The Republic of Congo, Alaska, Florida and Texas.
In the first season, Wade's weekly quest had him in search of Piranha, Goonch catfish (during his investigation of the Kali River goonch attacks) , Alligator gar, Wels catfish, Bull shark, Piraiba/Candiru, and Arapaima, all supposedly deadly creatures shrouded with mystery. The show also focuses on explaining the creature's feeding habits.
Rebroadcasts of the episodes with captions showing behind the scenes commentary from the host about the particular episode can also be seen on both Animal Planet and Discovery Channel, these episodes going by the title "River Monsters: Unhooked".

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: American travel and food show on The Travel Channel

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Season 7 Episode 8: Japan: Hokkaido airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00am EDT on The Travel Channel
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations is an ongoing American travel and food show on the Travel Channel; it also airs on the Discovery Travel & Living channel around the world. Host Anthony Bourdain visits overseas countries, cities worldwide, and places within the U.S., where hosts treat him to local culture and cuisine. The series premiered in 2005 on the Travel Channel. The format and content of the show is similar to Bourdain's 2001–2002 Food Network series, A Cook's Tour.
The special episode Anthony Bourdain in Beirut that aired between Seasons 2 and 3 was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming in 2007. In 2009 the series won the Emmy for "Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming".

Army Wives: American Drama Series on Lifetime

Army Wives Season 5 Episode 12 (Firefight) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on Lifetime.
Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007. The show had the largest series premiere in Lifetime's 23-year history, and the largest viewership in the 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm time slot since December for Lifetime.
The second season premiered on Lifetime in the United States on Sunday, June 8, 2008, and had 19 episodes. Season three began airing in June 2009.
In February 2009, Lifetime announced that it ordered a fourth season of the series. Army Wives kicked off its 18-episode fourth season on Sunday, April 11, 2010. On September 23, 2010, it was announced the show would return for a thirteen episode fifth season in 2011. Season 5 premiered March 6, 2011.

CSI: Miami: American Police Procedural TV Series on WCBS (CBS)

CSI: Miami Season 9 Episode 22 (May Day) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on WCBS (CBS) TV channel.
CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of the veteran series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The pilot episode was first broadcast in United States on May 9, 2002 as an episode of CSI and nine seasons have been aired in the United States. The series is produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis and CBS Television Studios.
On May 19, 2010, CBS renewed the show for a ninth season; it now airs on Sundays at 10:00 PM ET/PT. Also, the ninth season aired the 200th episode of this series.
CSI: Miami Season 9 Episode 21: G.O. airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on WCBS (CBS).

Family Guy: American Animated TV Series on WNYW (FOX)

Family Guy Season 9 Episode 17 (The Big Bang Theory) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on WNYW (FOX) TV channel.
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and bases much of its humor on parodying American pop culture.
The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve. MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist Larry and his dog Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a 15 minute pilot to Fox which aired on December 20, 1998. After the pilot aired the show was given the green light and started production. Shortly after the third season of Family Guy aired in 2001, Fox canceled the series. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns convinced the network to renew the show in 2004.
Family Guy has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. It has garnered three Golden Reel Award nominations, winning once. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. Family Guy has also received criticism, including unfavorable comparisons for its similarities to The Simpsons.
Many tie-in media have been released, including Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a straight-to-DVD special released in 2005; Family Guy: Live in Vegas, a soundtrack-DVD combo released in 2005, featuring music from the show as well as original music created by MacFarlane and Walter Murphy; a video game and pinball machine, released in 2006 and 2007, respectively; since 2005, six books published by Harper Adult based on the Family Guy universe; and Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy, a series of parodies of the original Star Wars trilogy released in 2010. In 2008, MacFarlane confirmed that the cast was interested in producing a feature film and that he was working on a story for film adaptation. A spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, premiered on September 27, 2009, as a part of the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox. The eighth season of Family Guy premiered on the same night.
Family Guy Season 9 Episode 16: Seahorse Seashell Party airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on WNYW (FOX).

Good Luck Charlie: Disney Channel TV Sitcom

Good Luck Charlie Season 2 Episode 15 (Bye Bye Video Diary) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on Disney Channel. Synopsis of the episode: Teddy's laptop gets ruined, losing the first 50 video diaries for Charlie; P.J. enrolls in management training; Gabe loses sleep over a scary movie.
Good Luck Charlie is an original Disney Channel television sitcom, which premiered April 4, 2010. The series was created by Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, who wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, as opposed to children only. It revolves around a Denver family, the Duncans, as they try to adjust to the birth of their fourth child, Charlotte "Charlie" Duncan (Mia Talerico). In each episode, Teddy Duncan (Bridgit Mendler) creates a video diary containing advice for Charlie about their family and life as a teenager. Teddy tries to show Charlie what she might go through in the video diary so she can always know how to figure things out when she gets older.
Among other decisions, executives included adult-centric scenes and changed the series title from Oops to Love, Teddy and finally to Good Luck Charlie in order to ensure the series would appeal to all family members. Good Luck Charlie premiered on Disney Channel in the United States on April 4, 2010. It premiered in Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland on May 14, 2010, and in Australia and New Zealand on July 23, 2010.
Good Luck Charlie was renewed for a second season, with production beginning in August 2010 with a season premiere on February 20, 2011. A feature-length Christmas Disney Channel Original Movie based on the series began production in March 2011 for a winter 2011 premiere.

In Plain Sight: American Dramatic TV Series on USA Network

In Plain Sight Season 4 Episode 7 (I'm a Liver Not a Fighter) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on USA Network. Synopsis of the episode: A terminally ill father wants to heal his relationships with his children.
In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC), more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Shannon must find ways to balance her professional life of protecting witnesses, her professional relationship with her partner, Marshall Mann, and her problematic personal life. The show is filmed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On July 28, 2010, In Plain Sight was renewed for its fourth and fifth seasons, to run in 2011 and 2012.

Shake It Up: American TV Sitcom on Disney Channel

Shake It Up Season 1 Episode 18 (Model It Up) airs: Friday, June 17, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on Disney Channel. Synopsis of the episode: When Rocky gets a modeling offer in New York, she is reluctant to go, but her friends put their own feelings aside to encourage her.
Shake It Up is an American television sitcom airing on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on November 7, 2010. Created by Chris Thompson and starring Bella Thorne and Zendaya, the show follows the adventures of CeCe Jones (Thorne) and Rocky Blue (Zendaya) as they star as background dancers on a local show, "Shake It Up Chicago." It also chronicles their misadventures on- and off-set, and their troubles and rising social status at school. Davis Cleveland, Roshon Fegan, Adam Irigoyen and Kenton Duty also co-star in the series. The show's original concept was for Disney to create a female buddy comedy, only with a dance aspect. The dance concept is Disney's third original series, after The Famous Jett Jackson and Sonny with a Chance, to use a show-within-a-show format.
On March 16, 2011, it was announced that series has been renewed for a second season.

The Amazing Race: American Reality Game Show on WCBS (CBS)

The Amazing Race Season 18 Episode 11: This Is Where It Ends (Brazil and Florida) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WCBS (CBS) TV channel.
The Amazing Race is an American reality game show in which teams of two or four race around the world against other teams, with the first-place team winning $1,000,000. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been running since 2001 and is currently in its eighteenth season, which is the first season broadcast in high-definition. CBS has confirmed a renewal of The Amazing Race during the 2011–2012 television season.
The show was created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, who, along with Jonathan Littman, serve as executive producers. The show is produced by Earthview Inc. (headed by Doganieri and van Munster), Bruckheimer Television for CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company). For all seasons, the series is hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality, Phil Keoghan.
The series won the first seven Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program after the category was created in 2003. Although it has moved around several prime time time slots since its inception, the program has averaged about 10 million viewers per season.
The Amazing Race Season 18 Episode 10: Too Many Cook in the Kitchen (Switzerland) airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WCBS (CBS).

The Cleveland Show: American Animated TV Series on WNYW (FOX)

The Cleveland Show Season 2 Episode 22 (Your Show of Shows) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 9:30pm EDT on WNYW (FOX) TV channel.
The Cleveland Show is an American animated television series that premiered on September 27, 2009, as a part of the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox in the United States. The series was created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel as a spin-off from Family Guy, which was also created by MacFarlane.
The show's family centers around father Cleveland Brown, who was a featured character on Family Guy. His son Cleveland Jr. was also on Family Guy (although for this show he was given a redesign to become older, softly-spoken and obese). Three new characters were added to fill out the Brown/Tubbs family.
Since its debut, The Cleveland Show has received mixed to negative reviews from media critics. Reviewers have criticised its similarities to MacFarlane's other shows, Family Guy and American Dad!, and the crass and crude content of its humour. The Parents Television Council named six of the programme's first season episodes as the worst TV shows of the week. The show's first season received a viewership of appromixately six million, and it was nominated for an award at the 36th People's Choice Awards.
The Cleveland Show Season 2 Episode 21: The Hurricane! airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:30pm EDT on WNYW (FOX).

The Simpsons: American Animated Sitcom on WNYW (FOX)

The Simpsons Season 22 Episode 20 (Homer Scissorhands) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WNYW (FOX) TV channel.
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a working-class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.
The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with the producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and was an early hit for Fox, becoming the first Fox series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–1990).
Since its debut on December 17, 1989 the show has broadcast 482 episodes and the twenty second season started airing on September 26, 2010. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and July 27, 2007, and grossed US$527 million worldwide.
The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 27 Primetime Emmy Awards, 27 Annie Awards and a Peabody Award. Time magazine's December 31, 1999 issue named it the 20th century's best television series, and on January 14, 2000 the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running American primetime entertainment series. Homer's exclamatory catchphrase "D'oh!" has been adopted into the English lexicon, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms.
The Simpsons Season 22 Episode 19: The Real Housewives of Fat Tony airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WNYW (FOX).

America’s Next Great Restaurant: NBC Reality TV Show on WNBC (NBC)

America’s Next Great Restaurant Season 1 Episode 9: Opening Night airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WNBC (NBC)


America's Next Great Restaurant is a current NBC reality television show that features contestants pitching restaurant ideas to a panel of judges, where the winner will receive financial backing for their restaurant concept to open three locations nationwide — Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and New York — in May 2011. The judges include chefs Curtis Stone, Bobby Flay, Lorena Garcia, and Chipotle Mexican Grill founder Steve Ells, who will also be investors in the winning concept. The production company behind the show is Magical Elves, the same company who produces Top Chef. The premiere was on March 6, 2011 at 8pm. The show has been described as a cross between The Apprentice and Top Chef.
ANGR Holdings will be the company that will be running the winning concept's restaurants. It also hold register trademarks on several of the restaurant concepts' names.

Ax Men: American Documentary Reality TV Seriesn History

Ax Men is an American documentary reality television series that premiered on March 9, 2008 on History. The program follows the work of several logging crews in the second-growth forests of Northwestern Oregon, Washington and Montana. The show highlights the dangers encountered by the loggers. Following in the footsteps of other shows from Original Productions, like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers, the series is considered part of a recent "real-men-in-danger" television programming trend.

Bleach: Japanese Manga Series on Cartoon Network

Bleach is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper — a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife.
Bleach has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 2001, and has been collected into 48 tankōbon volumes as of December 2010. Since its publication, Bleach has spawned a media franchise that includes an ongoing animated television series that is produced by Studio Pierrot in Japan, two original video animations, four animated feature films, seven rock musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise.
Viz Media obtained foreign television and home video distribution rights to the Bleach anime on March 15, 2006. Cartoon Network began airing Bleach in the United States as part of its Adult Swim block on September 9, 2006. Viz Media has licensed the manga for English-language publication in the United States and Canada, and has released 34 bound volumes as of March 2011 as well as published chapters of Bleach in its Shonen Jump magazine since November 2007. Viz Media released the first Bleach film, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, on DVD in North America on October 14, 2008. The second film, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, was released on September 15, 2009.
Volumes of the manga have sold more than 50 million copies in Japan, and have reached the top of manga sales in the United States. The anime adaptation has been similarly received; it was rated as the fourth most popular anime television series in Japan in 2006 and held a position amongst the top ten anime in the United States from 2006 to 2008. The series received the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen demographic in 2005, and is among the best-selling manga properties in both Japan and the United States.
Bleach Season 11 Episode 2 (12th Division's New Captain, Urahara Kisuke) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 12:00am EDT on Cartoon Network.
Bleach Season 11 Episode 4 (Muguruma 9th Division, moves out) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 12:00am EDT on Cartoon Network. Synopsis of the episode: Bizarre deaths occur in the Rukon District.
Bleach Season 11 Episode 6: Betrayal! Aizen's Secret Maneuvers) airs: Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 12:00am EDT on Cartoon Network.

Breakout Kings: American Drama TV Series on A & E Network

Breakout Kings Season 1 Episode 9: One for the Money airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on A & E Network


Breakout Kings is an American drama television series created by Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead, which airs on the A&E network. The one-hour pilot episode premiered on March 6, 2011 at 10 p.m.
In order to catch escaped convicts, a squad of U.S. Marshals makes a special deal with several current prisoners . If they agree to help, their sentences will be reduced by one month for each fugitive they bring in and they will be transferred to a minimum-security facility. However, if any of them should try to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled.

Brothers and Sisters: American TV Drama Series on WABC (ABC)

Brothers and Sisters Season 5 Episode 22 (Walker Down the Aisle) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 10:01pm EDT on WABC (ABC) TV channel.
Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California.
The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006 and it continues to air in a regular Sunday night timeslot after Desperate Housewives. The cast has included a collection of award-winning actors, including Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Calista Flockhart, Rob Lowe, and Patricia Wettig. Sally Field has received both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance throughout the series. Rachel Griffiths has also been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her work on the show.
The show is currently in its fifth season on ABC.
Brothers and Sisters Season 5 Episode 21: For Better or for Worse airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:01pm EDT on WABC (ABC).

Desperate Housewives: American TV Comedy-Drama Series on WABC (ABC)

Desperate Housewives Season 7 Episode 21 (Then I Really Got Scared) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on WABC (ABC) TV channel.
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee and Joey Murphy, David Grossman, Larry Shaw and Sabrina Wind.
The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview in the Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor. They work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
The show features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the show as the deceased Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dreams.
Since its premiere on ABC on October 3, 2004, the show has been well received by viewers and critics alike. The show is a multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner. The series premiere drew 21.6 million viewers and the show's first season finale attracted over 30 million viewers. In 2007 it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 120 million and was also reported that the series is the third most watched TV show in a study of ratings in 20 countries. In 2010, it was the most-watched comedy series internationally, with an average viewership of 51.6 million viewers across 68 territories. It has held this position since 2006. Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning show for 2010, with US$2.74 million per half hour.
Desperate Housewives Season 7 Episode 20: I'll Swallow Poison on Sunday airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on WABC (ABC).

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Reality TV Series on WABC (ABC)

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 8 Episode 21 (Prewitt Brewer Family) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WABC (ABC) TV channel.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EM:HE), often incorrectly referred to as Extreme Home Makeover, is a reality television series providing home renovations for less fortunate families. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington.
Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship – such as a natural disaster or a family member with a life-threatening illness. The show's producers coordinate with a local construction contractor, which then coordinates with various companies in the building trades for a makeover of the family's home. This includes interior, exterior and landscaping, which is performed in seven days while the family is on vacation (paid for by the show's producers), which is documented in the episode. If the house is beyond repair, they replace it entirely. The show's producers and crew film set and perform the makeover but do not pay for it. The materials and labor are donated. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house.
EM:HE is considered a spinoff of Extreme Makeover, an earlier series providing personal makeovers (often including plastic surgery) to selected individuals, which the Home Edition has now outlasted. This show displays extreme changes to help recreate someone's space. However, the format differs considerably; in the original Extreme Makeover, for instance, participants were not necessarily chosen based on any recent hardship, whereas the family's backstory is an important component of Home Edition. EM:HE also has similarities to other home renovation series such as Trading Spaces, on which Pennington was previously a key personality.
The series is produced by Endemol USA (the people behind Big Brother, Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal, and other reality shows) in association with Disney-ABC Television Group's Greengrass Television. The current Executive Producers are Brady Connell and George Verschoor.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 8 Episode 20: Dickinson Family airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WABC (ABC).

Food Network Challenge: Competitive Cooking TV Series

Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that currently airs on the Food Network. Each episode, professional chefs compete in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal.
The competitions are judged by various chefs that specialize in the task being focused on. Contestants have eight hours of time to complete a task, usually with qualifiers. For example, cake competitions often have minimum height requirement, must match a certain theme, and require the competitor and assistant be able to move the cake to a judging table without it falling over. When the time runs out the host says the show's catchphrase: "Competitors, Stop Your Work".
Episodes are shot in front of a live audience, usually at tourist attractions such as the Mall of America or Disney World. Depending on the discipline and scope of the competition, the number of competitors range from three to hundreds. Occasionally, regional competitions are held to determine the competitors each week. Some of the events are also held as world championships or as invitationals.
The winner usually receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal. In competitions featuring five or more competitors, silver and bronze medals are also sometimes awarded, though they have no cash prize. In 2009, the show debuted its first elimination-style competition called "Last Cake Standing". In this format, 6 cake designers are competing for a prize of $50,000. Each week, one competitor is eliminated.
In April 2010, original host Keegan Gerhard was promoted to judge alongside Kerry Vincent, and was replaced as host by Claire Robinson. The way in which the results are read was also changed for most but not all shows. Where previously only the winner was called out, now the third- and fourth-place finishers are announced and asked to leave the stage before the winner is announced.
Food Network Challenge Season 13 Episode 1 (Awesome 80's Cakes) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on Food Network.
Food Network Challenge Season 13 Episode 9 (Star Wars Cakes) airs: Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on Food Network. Synopsis of the episode: Four cake artists recreate Star Wars cakes to celebrate the re-opening of Disney Resorts Star Tours ride.

Game of Thrones: American Medieval Fantasy TV Show on HBO

Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 10 (Fire and Blood) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on HBO. Synopsis of the episode: Robb's prowess in battle seems set to change his destiny. Catelyn confronts Jaime Lannister about Bran's near-fatal fall, Arya tries to flee the capital, and Tywin sends Tyrion on a surprising assignment. Jon Snow struggles to decide where his loyalties lie, and Daenerys tries to rebuild her life after a tragic event. Fantasy drama, starring Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley.
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The series is based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of seven fantasy novels; HBO's overall series' title is derived from the first novel. The series debuted in the U. S. on Sunday evening, April 17, 2011 and was picked up for a second season forty-eight hours after its premiere.
The premium cable television series closely follows the multiple story lines of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and author Martin has stated that the show's pilot script was very faithful to his work. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where "summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime," Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's seven noble families for control of the Iron Throne; as the series opens, additional threats from the snow and ice covered region north of Westeros and from the eastern continent across a narrow sea are simultaneously beginning to rise.
Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 8 (The Pointy End) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on HBO.

Ruby: Reality TV Show on Style Network on Style

Ruby Season 4 Episode 10 (Ruby Faces Rosie) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 6:00am EDT on Style TV channel.
Ruby is a documentary style reality television series on the Style Network that debuted in 2008 in the United States. It follows the life of Ruby Gettinger who lives in Savannah, Georgia as she attempts to lose weight. Ruby starts the show weighing more than 477 lbs (she originally weighed over 700 lbs.) Ruby works with nutritionists, doctors, and trainers to lose weight, all the while commenting honestly and often humorously about the experience. The show also deals with the everyday life issues a morbidly obese person can face, such as the difficulty in using airplane bathrooms.
The first season featured one one-hour episode and eight half-hour episodes. The second season featured the same amount of episodes as the first season, with mostly half-hour episodes, and a few one hour episodes. The third season was the first season to feature all one-hour episodes. As of May 2, 2010, the third season featured all hour long episodes, minus the season finale, which was two hours, plus one special, Ruby: My Australian Adventure. Currently, Ruby weighs 347.6 lbs, having gained 44.6 pounds.
Ruby Season 4 Episode 9: Ghosts of Childhood airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on Style.

The Apprentice USA: American Reality TV Show

The Apprentice USA Season 11 Episode 10 (Laugh On) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8:00pm EDT on WNBC (NBC) TV channel.
The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC. Billed as "The Ultimate Job Interview", the show stars sixteen to eighteen business people competing in an elimination-style competition for a one-year, $250,000 starting contract of running one of business magnate Trump's companies. The show typically ends with Trump eliminating one of the contestants with the words, "You're Fired".
The show first aired in January 2004 and has run for eleven seasons, with the seventh, eighth, ninth, and eleventh seasons featuring celebrities competing for charity.
The Apprentice USA Season 11 Episode 9: Farouk Hair Show airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 9:00pm EDT on WNBC (NBC).

The Real Housewives of Orange County: Reality TV Show on Bravo

The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 6 Episode 13 (Girl Fight) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Bravo.
The Real Housewives of Orange County is a reality television program on the Bravo network. It is the first installation in the The Real Housewives of... series. Created by Orange County producer and Coto de Caza ("Coto") resident Scott Dunlop, with music by Chuck Hammer, the show was initially set primarily in the gated community of Coto and followed the lavish livestyles of five "housewives" and their families who resided within Coto McMansions, with the exception of one housewife (Lauri Waring), who lives in an executive estate in Corona, California townhouse. This housewife exception-to-the-rule was used in Season 1 as a foil to the (then) extravagant lifestyle of the other four housewives, who lived "behind the Coto gates". The show is a voyeuristic look into the wealthy lives of these housewives, as they shop, get plastic surgery, gossip, fight and live lavishly. The construction-real estate crash, the beginning of which coincided almost exactly with the first season's broadcast, has since trimmed the housewives' lifestyles with job losses, evictions, mortgage defaults, foreclosures, and marital stress—all recorded in progressive seasons of the show. Some have seen the show as a parable of the economic bubble and crisis as it portrayed a lavish consumerism, with American families living beyond their means, only to find themselves in serious debt when the economy soured.

The Borgias: Canadian-Hungarian-Irish historical-fiction TV Miniseries on Showtime

The Borgias Season 1 Episode 8 (Death, on a Pale Horse) airs on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Showtime TV channel.
The Borgias is a 2011 Canadian-Hungarian-Irish historical-fiction television miniseries created by Neil Jordan.
The series is based on the Borgia family (Borja in Valencian), an Italian dynasty of Spanish origin, and stars Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI and David Oakes, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger and Aidan Alexander as Juan, Cesare, Lucrezia and Gioffre Borgia, respectively. Derek Jacobi also stars as Cardinal Orsini.
It premiered on April 3, 2011, at 9 p.m. Eastern (UTC−04:00) on Showtime in the United States and at 10 p.m. on Bravo! in Canada.
The Borgias Season 1 Episode 6: The French King airs on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Showtime.

Treme: American TV Drama Series on HBO

Treme is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. The series begins three months after Hurricane Katrina where the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ordinary New Orleanians try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane.
The series premiered on HBO April 11, 2010, with an 80-minute pilot episode, the first of a 10 episode season. On April 13, 2010, it was announced that HBO had renewed the show for a second season.
Simon and Overmyer first worked together as writers on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and became friends. They collaborated again on Simon's series The Wire when Overmyer joined the crew as a consulting producer and writer in 2006. Treme was put into development by HBO in 2008 shortly after the conclusion of The Wire. The show was envisioned to focus on the working class Tremé neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and will be smaller in scope than The Wire, which examined an entire city.
Overmyer lived part-time in New Orleans and Simon believed his experience would be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories. Simon has stated that the series would explore New Orleans culture including and beyond the music scene to encompass political corruption, the public housing controversy, the criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, and the struggle to regain the tourism industry after the storm. Simon also consulted with New Orleans musicians Donald Harrison Jr., Kermit Ruffins, and Davis Rogan, and local chef Susan Spicer while developing the series.
In 2008 HBO commissioned a pilot episode for the series but did not "green-light" a complete series at that time. The pilot was announced at the 2008 Television Critics Association summer press tour. Simon initially hoped to film the pilot episode of the series in 2008 and to continue filming in 2009 if the series was commissioned. The series was planned to film on location and was predicted to be a boost to the New Orleans economy.
The pilot did not actually begin filming in New Orleans until March 9, 2009. Award-winning Polish director Agnieszka Holland was hired to direct the pilot. Holland had worked with the creators previously on The Wire, directing three episodes of that series. After the pilot was written HBO commissioned another ten scripts.
Treme Season 2 Episode 6 (Feels Like Rain) airs: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on HBO.
Treme Season 2 Episode 7 (Carnival Time) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 10:05pm EDT on HBO.
Treme Season 2 Episode 9 (What Is New Orleans? ) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 10:15pm EDT on HBO. Synopsis of the episode: Davis is overshadowed by his protégé; Delmond is annoyed by Albert's quest for authenticity; Larry forces LaDonna to make a choice; Hidalgo finds an opportunity; Janette is transformed by her new job; Toni and King question a murder witness.
Treme Season 2 Episode 11 (Do Watcha Wanna) airs: Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on HBO. Synopsis of the episode: Treme residents get a welcome respite from a challenging year when Jazz Fest comes to New Orleans.

Unique Eats: TV Show on Cooking Channel

Unique Eats a television series looking at America's most exciting and revolutionary restaurants. Unique Eats seeks out the most amazing, innovative and extreme examples of modern dining across America. Unique Eats spotlights America's most exciting and revolutionary restaurants. It's the first look and the last word in everything extreme in food today. The locations range from high-end dining rooms.
Unique Eats Season 1 Episode 30 (Neighborhood Gems) airs: Sunday on June 19, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Cooking Channel. Synopsis of the episode: America's best fried chicken; seafood troughs and lobster poutines; the best low country classics; weekend brunch.
Unique Eats Season 1 Episode 32: Cheap Eats) airs: Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Cooking Channel. Synopsis of the episode: A honky-tonk whiskey bar serves amazing tacos; haute hot dogs and sausages with global flavors; students flock to a delicious Cambodian sandwich shop; a quirky Venezuelan restaurant offers seventeen different arepas.