"MVP" Series Premiere on SOAPnet and More TiVoWorthy TV for June 19

THURSDAY, JUNE 19

MVP (SOAPnet, 11 p.m. ET) (Pictured)
U.S. Series Premiere. This Canadian clone of the super sexy British serial Footballers Wives is all about the hunks on a professional hockey team and the women who love them, and it wastes no time getting its narrative in gear: Five minutes into tonight’s premiere episode, the team captain accidentally falls to his death, leaving his widow and daughter surprisingly penniless. Their troubles quickly intensify when the team owner briskly diverts the captain’s insurance policy into funding needed to pay for the season’s No. 1 draft pick. Lucas Bryant, Kristin Booth, Deborah O’Dell and Peter Miller star. This episode will be repeated tomorrow night on ABC immediately following the Daytime Emmy Awards.

Swingtown (CBS, 10 p.m. ET)
Trina shakes up Susan’s house-warming party. Two words: fondue dipping. Molly Parker, Jack Davenport, Grant Show, Josh Hopkins, Lana Parrilla and Miriam Shor star.

Fear Itself (NBC, 10 p.m. ET)
Here’s a storyline that will fray your nerves: Following a near-death experience, a nice family man finds that he has switched bodies with a serial killer and winds up behind bars, worried that the killer (who is now in the family man’s body) will prey on his wife, son and daughter. Colin Ferguson (Eureka), Clifton Collins Jr. and Josie Davis star.

Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. Mario Lopez returns as host, with JC Chasez, Lil Mama and choreographer Shane Sparks as judges for Season 2 of this dance competition series in which the contestants are existing crews. Viewers vote for their favorite crews after each episode.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. Las Vegas headliners Penn Jillette and his professional partner Teller return for a sixth season of exposing what they consider to be the bogus science behind widely accepted notions. Tonight’s topic: Pornography! Subjects clobbered in the coming weeks include green living, Eastern medicine, world peace and sensitivity training courses.

Camp Rock (Disney Channel, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Disney’s deluxe Camp Rock Weekend begins tonight with the television premiere of the movie on Disney Channel and a simulcast on Radio Disney. (We’re guessing that ratings for this tween dream starring Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers will far exceed those sister network ABC will enjoy tonight from the Daytime Emmy telecast.) Camp Rock will also be seen on ABC Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET and on ABC Family Sunday at 8 p.m. Monday will bring the online premiere on Disney.com, while Radio Disney will debut the movie’s soundtrack Saturday at 7 p.m. ET during Planet Premiere. Rock isn’t as polished as the High School Musical movies, but it’s grand fun for the young ones just the same, and we can safely assume it will be the television event of the summer for kids, in particular tween and younger teen girls. In those demo groups, nothing else is going to come close. The storyline, by the way, centers on Mitchie Torres (Lovato), a girl who attends a prestigious music camp where her mother works as the head cook and tries to pretend that she is the daughter of a wealthy family so that she can fit in with the “cool” girls. Further complicating her already complicated camp life is her growing attraction to rock star Shane Gray (Joe Jonas), a former camper forced by his label and his band-mates (Nick and Kevin Jonas) to return to camp to bring his raging ego under control. Maria Canals-Barrera, Alyson Stoner, Jasmine Richards and Julie Brown co-star. It won’t be long until the Jonas Brothers fans in your home know the words to This is Me, Gotta Find You and Play My Music, if they don’t already.

The 35^th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (ABC, 8 p.m. ET)
Live. Cameron Mathison (All My Children) and Sherri Shepherd (The View) host this year’s Daytime Emmy Award extravaganza, telecast live from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. It can be argued that the big winner tonight, regardless of category outcomes, is NBC’s Days of Our Lives, which picked up four acting nominations after being virtually ignored by Emmy nominators for several years. Our picks: Outstanding Drama Series: One Life to Live. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Christian LeBlanc, The Young & the Restless. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Maura West, As the World Turns. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Brian Kerwin, One Life to Live. Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gina Tognoni, Guiding Light. Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series: Van Hansis, As the World Turns. Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series: Jennifer Landon, As the World Turns. Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment: The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment Host: Ellen DeGeneres.