Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance (Oxygen 8 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. It's TV's full-figured reality beauty competition. The show teaches plus-size women to feel good about their bodies. Ten finalists were flown to Los Angeles to a Beauty Boot Camp led by
award winning comedian, Mo'Nique. The camp consists of mind and body exercises that will elevate the women's confidence. Once they complete it, they'll be off to compete for the title of Miss F.A.T. 2006. The contestants live in a house mentored by last season's runner-up, Sharon Quinn. Judges of the pageant include Entertainment Tonight correspondent Kevin Frasier, Judge Greg Mathis of Judge Mathis, E! Fashion Emergency host Brenda Cooper, Essence beauty editor Mikki Taylor, and LA Management runway director Christa Klayman.
Cedric the Entertainer: Taking You Higher (HBO, 10 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Cedric the Entertainer, who is known for movies like Johnson Family Vacation and The Original Kings of Comedy, is starring in his first solo stand-up comedy special on HBO. Not
only will he perform comedy, but song and dance routines will be intermixed with the performance. Cedric the Entertainer will cover topics including celebrity, plastic surgery, gay marriage, George Bush, Osama bin Laden, gas prices, among many others.
Global Warming: What You Need to Know (Discovery, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. This two-hour special hosted by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw takes viewers to the global warming tipping points around the world. Brokaw and Discovery Channel speak with experts on
global warming and examine the facts about the topic. Discovery will explain, in plain terms, about the greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide emissions, and effects on weather and rising sea levels. The special will also use CGI and computer generated models to help viewers understand what global warming does to our earth. Will New York City end up in 80 feet of water with the subway system submerged? Brokaw and Discovery will help find out the answer to that question, along with many others, which will help to predict the effects of global warming.
The 2006 ESPYS (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Lance Armstrong will be the first athlete to host the show. Presenters include: Will Ferrell, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Mariah Carey, Ben Stiller, Ashley Judd, Carmen Electra, Reggie Bush, Greg
Kinnear, Venus Williams, Jimmy Kimmel, Kiefer Sutherland, Shaun White, Rosario Dawson, Terrell Owens and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others.
Jake Gyllenhaal presents the 2006 ESPY for Best Moment to Jason "J-Mac" McElwain, an autistic high school student from upstate New York who scored an amazing 20 points in just over four minutes.
Secrets of Revelation (National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Is the Book of Revelation a prophecy for what our future holds? Or is it a coded political manifesto against the Roman Empire? The Book of Revelations encompasses the four
horsemen of the Apocalypse, the beast numbered with 666, the pit of fire, the war at Armageddon, and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Some people use the book in a Nostradamus-like sense to interpret wars, natural disasters and devastation. National Geographic tries to find answers to the riddles of the book, with help from the experts.
Angela's Eyes (Lifetime, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. Angela (Abigail Spencer) is an FBI Agent who can always tell when someone is lying. She acquired the skill when she was younger, with the help of her parents who were CIA operatives. Angela
later discovered they were actually spies, giving information to the Eastern Block. They're now serving time in prison, so Angela tries to right their wrongs through her job. Angela also has to deal with trying to keep relationships alive with her father and her pathologically lying younger brother, as well as romantic relationships - something that isn't easy when you can always tell if someone is lying.
$100,000 Chicken Challenge (Food Network, 10 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Fifty-one competitors, one from each state, are joining in the cook-off to determine who should win the $100,000
grand prize. Each competitor previously won a recipe contest, which placed them in this Food Network Challenge. The chefs will have three hours to cook up their prize-winning chicken.
MONDAY, JULY 17
Final Fu (MTV2, 7:30 p.m. ET and MTV, 11 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. This new reality show features martial artists from all disciplines competing against each other in
challenges and tournament fighting, to find out who will win the title of "Final Fu" and $25,000. For four weeks, the 30 martial artists will be ranked by a point system in order to see who will come out on top. Hosted by martial arts-star Ernie Reyes Jr.
Inside the Actors Studio (BRAVO, 8 p.m. ET)
Michael J. Fox guests. This is a rerun, but it's worth watching if you didn't catch it the first time around. Fox has won Emmys for his work in Family Ties and Spin City. The Back to the
Future star shares stories about how his life and career, especially about his life has changed due to living with Parkinson's Disease. There's one extremely emotional moment in the show, when Fox asks for a commercial break because he needs to take more medicine to help with his shaking.
Driving Force (A&E, 9 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. John Force is the Michael Jordan of drag racing. And he's not the only Force to be reckoned with. John Force is
the father of four daughters: 36-year-old Adria, 23-year-old Ashley, 19-year-old Brittany, and 17-year-old Courtney. Adria has managed John Force's corporate headquarters' finances for 16 years. But Ashley, Brittany and Courtney have followed in their father's footsteps, joining the world of drag
racing. Ashley has already been named Rookie of the Year and has her own Barbie Doll and Hot Wheels car. The girls have to find ways to balance their new careers and their teenage preoccupations.
TUESDAY, JULY 18
Dead Like Me (Sci-Fi, 7 p.m. ET)
George and her friends are back! Sci-Fi will begin airing reruns of the series Dead Like Me tonight. For those who have not yet caught on to the Dead Like Me craze: The show centers on 18-year-old
George, a girl who died when a toilet from the MIR space station fell from the sky and landed on her. George enters the afterlife as a reaper, a person who catches people's souls before they die. There George befriends other reapers, and even gets a job at an office called Happy Days.
2006 World Series of Poker (ESPN, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. For the second year, fans of poker can watch the biggest poker tournament, as ESPN airs the 2006 World Series of Poker presented by Milwaukee's Best Light. Starting tonight, ESPN will show two
hours of original poker programming from 8-10 p.m. ET until October 31. Commentary and analysis will be provided by Norman Chad and Lon McEachern. The winner will receive a $10 million prize.
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (BRAVO, 9 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. Kathy and her assistant Jessica travel to Las Vegas so that Kathy can wake up much earlier than she'd like to, in order to host a buffet event. (Now, thanks to Larry King, we know why Kathy's husband
didn't join the trip!) Later in the episode, Kathy spends time with Olympic ice skater Johnny Weir.
Eureka (Sci Fi, 9 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. This new series is based on the idea that America came too close to losing the race to build the atomic
bomb, and it could not take such a risk again. To remedy the situation, Albert Einstein and Harry S. Truman set up a top-secret residential area for all the geniuses working on scientific achievements to live.
The One: Making a Music Star (ABC, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. This new reality show follows the lives of 11 people as they attend a music academy in Los Angeles. They'll go through vocal coaching, choreography/dance lessons, image consulting, fitness
training, and more. Each week they'll participate in a live performance, with one person getting voted off. The winner will receive a recording contract with a major record company.
The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time (GSN, 10 p.m. ET)
Premiere. There's no denying that the classic game shows like Match Game and The Newlywed Game are some of the best. Then there's the shows that stand the test of time like Jeopardy. And lastly we have the new shows that are bringing game shows back to the forefront
like Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Deal or No Deal. The game show experts from GSN will count down the best 50 game shows of all time. The show will air every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night until August 31, when the countdown is completed.
The Contender (ESPN, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. This reality show follows 16 professional boxers as they compete to win the title of Contender Champion. Each episode ends with a five-round professional boxing match. Sugar Ray Leonard,
boxing legend and five-time world champion, hosts the show, as well as serving as a mentor to the boxing hopefuls.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life (PBS, check local listings)
Premiere. The American Masters documentary offers insight into Marilyn Monroe by turning to the still photographs that captured every aspect of her. The creator and executive producer of American
Masters, Susan Lacy, said, "We are telling her story through the iconography of the 20th century. Her relationship with the lens was, perhaps, her greatest and most successful love affair." The documentary claims that Monroe exposed herself more through photography than through movies.
Made (MTV, 8 p.m. ET)
A very feminine girl wants to prove she can be tough by being made into a rugby player. Of course, Made never comes
without risks, and by spending all her time with her coach, the girl may lose her friends and boyfriend.
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
Two Hours. The ten final contestants
face off with new partners to see who will make it to the next round.
Mythbusters (Discovery, 9 p.m. ET)
The Mythbusting team investigates some of Archimedes' inventions.
The Hills (MTV, 9 p.m. ET)
Viewers are still wondering why, why, why Lauren is still with Jason. He gets mad at her for absolutely nothing, and makes Lauren
feel like it's her fault. So what will happen this week when he finds out that Lauren is helping Teen Vogue find male models (AKA looking at tons of guys with their shirts off)? I have a feeling Jason won't be the happiest man in LA.
South Park (Comedy Central, 10 p.m. ET)
It's the famous Scientology episode. Trapped in the Closet first ran on November 16, 2005. Rumors began swirling when Chef (voiced by Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist) was absent from the episode. The episode was supposed to re-run on March 22, 2006, but was mysteriously cancelled. In Trapped in the Closet, Stan takes a Scientology personality test, and the results tell him that he is "one messed up kid" who is "completely miserable and totally depressed." Stan then goes to the Scientology center and is told he is the reincarnation of the Scientology founder. This leads to him being approached by John Travolta and Tom Cruise, and well, you can just imagine what happens from there. Read Ed Martin's commentary from November 29, 2005.
Cheyenne (MTV, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. 15-year-old Cheyenne Kimball has made a lot of progress in the time that her reality show covers. She went from living in Dallas to moving to Los Angeles, she's written new songs, picked a new
guitarist, had photo shoots, spent hours in the studio, gone to promotional gigs, shot a music video, and received her own tour bus to begin her first tour.
THURSDAY, JULY 20
Windfall (NBC, 10 p.m. ET)
Peter goes to Belgium with new investor Sonny in tow, in order to sign an endorsement deal with a biker. Will Peter continue to remain a loyal husband to Nina, or will Sonny use her sneaky ways to reel Peter in? Nina
is stuck at home with her daughter who had to be hospitalized, and the person that comes to her aid is, of course, Cameron. Remember that last week Cameron told his wife he had an affair. Also last week, Nina said she didn't want to leave her husband. Will that change?
FRIDAY, JULY 21
MTV News Presents: Iraq Uploaded (MTV, 8 p.m. ET)
Host Gideon Yago takes a look at
how the U.S. troops in Iraq are sharing their war experiences with the world by using the Internet.
Monk (USA, 9 p.m. ET)
Julie's basketball coach is murdered, and Monk has to act as a replacement in order to investigate the crime. Monk as a
basketball coach? That has got to be good.
Sexual Healing (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. This new reality documentary features three couples going through intensive, weeklong relationship therapy led by sex educator and therapist Dr. Laura Berman. The couples are facing issues like: "What if one day your husband no longer finds you sexually attractive? How
do you deal with your wife's past sexual abuse? What happens when your lack of interest in sex begins to negatively affect your relationship?" Dr. Berman hopes to help the couples improve their communication, work through their problems, and reach their full sexual potential.
Live at Gotham (Comedy Central, 11 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. This is a six-part series in which comedians are filmed doing stand-up about the day's news and pop culture at
New York's Gotham Comedy Club. Christopher Titus hosts.
