Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Summer TV Line Up

There's alot of buzz surrounding this summers TV shows. This summer I have started to watch a few new shows and continued to stick to some old favorites.
Mondays this summer are jam packed with good shows. On ABC viewers are giving the Bachelorette a rose of its own. Ali, who left last season's bachelor, Jake Pavelka, for her job, has returned this season to be the Bachelorette. At this point she is down to 2 men, hot and sexy Roberto and the sweet family oriented Chris. There has been a lot of drama on this season, one man was called out to have a girlfriend (or two) back home while another, my initial favorite, Frank left Ali heartbroken in Tahiti to return home to an old flame. There is sure to make for an interesting and emotional finale in two weeks.
ABC Family has a new show in its Monday night line up, called Huge. This show is about a weight loss camp starring Hairspray’s Nikki Blonsky and one of David Hasselhoff’s daughters. I personally have not watched this show yet as it interferes with the Bachelorette, but have heard good praise for it. The Secret Life of the American Teenager returns with new episodes on Monday nights as well on the same channel with more of the same teen baby mama drama.
ABC Family has another new show to its lineups. Pretty Little Liars can be seen Tuesday nights at eight. Pretty Little Liars was originally a book series but has been adapted for the small screen. The show has been getting alot of buzz and is frequently a top trending topic on Twitter. This show is about a group of friends with many secrets. Their friend Alison goes missing and the girls start getting mysterious text messages, emails, and letters. The letters have messages about the girls secrets, secrets they thought only Alison knew. The messages are all signed “-A.” Alison’s body is found and the girls are worried with the thought that someone else knows their dirty little secrets and that they are being watched.
Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are Big Brother nights. This is the first season of Big Brother that I have watched in its 12 seasons, and sometimes I have a hard time committing to three nights a week, but once you start its hard to turn your back.
Also on Thursdays I watch a new show to ABC at 9, Rookie Blue. This is a Canadian cop drama about rookies who are new to being police officers. They are followed through their mistakes and troubles as well as their victories and triumphs.
Reality shows are a weakness for a lot of people. I find myself watching the table flipping drama of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, the trials of teenage motherhood on MTV’s Teen Mom, and skateboard pro Rob Dyrdek’s crazy antics on Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory.