Summer Premieres! "Army Wives," "Design Star," "Nashville Star" and More TiVoWorthy TV for the Week of June 8

amp160SATURDAY JUNE 7amp160Sybil CBS 8 pm ETPremiere One of the seminal television events of the Seventies the original 1976 miniseries Sybil galvanized viewers with its frank subject matter and shocking depiction of child abuse Her portrayal of the title role amp8211 a suicidal young woman struggling to live with 16 strikingly different personalities the result of a childhood filled with endless physical sexual and emotional abuse by her mentally disturbed mother amp8211 brought Sally Field Brothers ampamp Sisters her first Emmy Award and propelled her from working in lightweight television comedies Gidget The Flying Nun The Girl with Something Extra to serious movie dramas including two for which Field won Oscars Norma Rae and Places in the Heart Tammy Blanchard Life with Judy Garland Me and My Shadows has the challenging task of reinterpreting the title role in this 2008 remake also based on the bestselling book by Flora Rheta Schreiber Twotime Academy Award winner Jessica Lange costars as the psychiatrist who treats Sybil and JoBeth Williams plays her mother With all this tremendous talent on screen what the heck is this movie doing on a Saturday night amp8211 and in Juneamp160Groomer Has It Animal Planet 9 pm ETIn what will likely be the most emotional episode of the season the groomers are challenged to bathe and beautify dogs from the Lange Foundation a nokill shelter in Los Angeles Many of them are so moved by the plight of these unwanted animals that they work to recruit people for the shelteramp8217s adoption fair and find them homes Jai Rodriguez is the hostUltimate Keith Urban Fans GAC 9 pm ETPremiere A 15yearold girl a mother of two and a 20yearold male college sophomore each a huge and some might say obsessive fan of country superstar Keith Urban allow cameras into their homes to express their admiration for him and explain why each is Urbanamp8217s greatest fan And then in a series of surprise moves straight out of The Oprah Winfrey Show they are each shocked to receive an unexpected visit from their idolamp160Robin Hood BBC America 9 pm ETRobin faces certain death amp8211 again amp8211 when he sends his outlaws off on a diversionary mission and attends a feast at the castle disguised as one of the murderous Black Knights only to be doublecrossed by the man with whom he had intended to join forces the Sheriff of Winchester Jonas Armstrong starsamp160amp160amp160SUNDAY JUNE 8amp160Million Dollar Password CBS 8 pm ETRosie Oamp8217Donnell and skateboarding superstar Tony Hawk are the celebrity players Regis Philbin is the hostamp160The Circuit ABC Family 8 pm ETPremiere Michelle Trachtenberg who recently electrified Gossip Girl with her portrayal of monster bitch Georgina Sparks and will forever be remembered as Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer stars in this drama about an estranged father and daughter who both compete on the stock car race circuit amp160Her career is on a meteoric rise despite the mounting distractionamp8217s of her fatheramp8217s own career challenges and her growing attraction to her professional rival the circuitamp8217s hunky top racer Billy Campbell The 4400 Once and Again and Drew Fuller Army Wives costaramp160Your Place or Mine TLC 8 pm ETSeries Premiere Overexposed daytime hunk Cameron Mathison All My Children Dancing with the Stars hosts TLCamp8217s first game show a hybrid of trivia and home decoration Two families engage in trivia challenges for a chance to win brand new furnished rooms for their existing homes or the opportunity to steal rooms from their competitorsamp160Design Star HGTV 9 pm ETSeason Premiere HGTVamp8217s redhot reality competition series in which interior designers compete in a series of creative challenges to win their own series on HGTV is set in Nashville for its third season It kicks off with nine finalists amp8211 one of them selected online by visitors to hgtvcom If you enjoy Color Splash hosted by Design Star Season 1 winner David Bromstad and Myles of Style starring Season 2 champ Kim Myles you wonamp8217t want to miss it Clive Pearse returns as host Interior designer Vern Yip designer and author Cynthia Rowley and In Style executive editor Martha McCully are the judgesamp160Ice Road Truckers History 9 pm ETSeason Premiere One of televisionamp8217s most mesmerizing observational reality series returns for a second season of intense thrills and deep chills Familiar truckers Hugh Rowland Alex Debogorski Rick Yemm and Drew Sherwood are joined by newcomers Eric Dufresne and Jerry Dusdal as they haul essential goods and supplies during the coldest part of winter over the ice road that forms on the frozen Arctic Ocean and winds along the Mackenzie River in the farthest reaches of the Northwest Territories When we say coldest weamp8217re not kidding Temperatures in the region dip as low as minus60 degrees Incidentally Season 1 of Historyamp8217s other gritty observational reality show Ax Men concludes immediately after this programamp160Law ampamp Order Criminal Intent USA Network 9 pm ETSeason Premiere Determined to prove he is worthy of being reinstated on the force Det Robert Goren Vincent Damp8217Onofrio goes undercover to catch a major drug dealer as Season 7 begins Kathryn Erbe costars amp160When We Left Earth The NASA Missions Discovery Channel 9 pm ETMiniSeries Premiere Gary Sinise CSI Miami is the narrator of this sixpart history of NASA which begins tonight with two episodes In the first Mercury Ordinary Supermen questions abound as seven test pilots are chosen to become the countryamp8217s first astronauts Will their rockets explode on the launching pad Will they survive the stress of traveling more than 17000 miles per hour Will their blood boil Will their eyes be ripped from their sockets Seriously these were real questions at the time Ultimately six of the seven traveled into space including Alan Shepard who made the programamp8217s first manned flight onboard a Mercury Redstone Rocket and John Glenn the first man to orbit the Earth In the second episode Gemini Friends and Rivals nine new astronauts arrive at NASA and are tasked with taking the first steps toward landing a man on the moon They include Ed White the first man to float freely in space and Buzz Aldrin who completed one of the most successful space walks ever When We Left Earth will continue on June 15 and 22amp160Master of Space TLC 9 pm ETSeries Premiere Two Episodes Joey Lawrence hosts this sixepisode dancing competition series that tests its competitorsamp8217 moves by changing the songs they are dancing to in midperformance Five dancers will compete in each of the first five episodes and the winner from each will move on to the Tournament of Champions Grand FinaleArmy Wives Lifetime 10 pm ETSeason Premiere Somewhat lost last summer amid all the acclaim directed toward TNTamp8217s Saving Grace FXamp8217s Damages AMCamp8217s Mad Men and USA Networkamp8217s Burn Notice Lifetimeamp8217s serial drama about a group of women and one man living with their spouses and families on an active army post and the challenges they face when their loved ones are sent into combat debuted as the highest rated series in the networkamp8217s 24year history and the No 1 new original drama series on basic cable among women 1834 1849 and 2554 Maybe this season it will get more respect If youamp8217re already a fan youamp8217ve been breathlessly waiting to see what happens after the bombing at the Hump Bar in last summeramp8217s shocking season finale If youamp8217re new to the show this is as good a time as ever to get hooked Kim Delaney Sally Pressman Wendy Davis Drew Fuller and Catherine Bell staramp160amp160amp160MONDAY JUNE 9amp160Rosie Oamp8217Donnell on Howard Sternamp8217s Sirius Satellite Radio Show YouTubeThere isnamp8217t much to look at amp8211 this is just an audio recording with static images as visuals amp8211 but how can you resist an uncensored exchange between trashtalking tantrumtossers Rosie Oamp8217Donnell and Howard Sternamp160Nashville Star NBC 9 pm ETSeason Premiere Two Hours After five years on USA Network televisionamp8217s other great singing competition series moves to NBC as a centerpiece of its All American Summer programming This twohour season premiere includes highlights from the auditions the first round of competition between the Top 12 finalists and a performance by Taylor Swift Two finalists will be eliminated by the end of the telecast which was taped at the Acuff Theater in Nashville Star will be live and viewers will begin voting for their favorites as of next week There are a few changes in store for fans of this franchise which counts Miranda Lambert and Chris Young among its alumni Billy Ray Cyrus is the host and prior host Jewel is now a judge Anastasia Brown the Simon Cowell of the show since its debut has departed Country superstar John Rich of Big ampamp Rich and most recently seen on television as the host of CMTamp8217s Gone Country and producer Jeffrey Steele will join Jewel at the judgesamp8217 standamp160Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired HBO 9 pm ETPremiere Acclaimed director Roman Polanski Rosemaryamp8217s Baby Chinatown fled to Europe in 1977 after his conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in 1977 He had sex with a 13 year old girl at the home of Jack Nicholson He continued to work and was honored with an Academy Award as Best Director for The Pianist in 2002 This documentary examines the scandal its immediate aftermath and longterm impact and other tragic events in Polanskiamp8217s life including the murders of his mother by Nazis during the Holocaust and his wife actress Sharon Tate by followers of Charles Manson during their infamous 1969 killing spree Tate was eight months pregnant when they tortured and killed her Included is an interview with Samantha Gailey Geimer Polanskiamp8217s victim that fateful night at Nicholsonamp8217s house Geimer is now 45 years old and publicly forgave Polanski in 1997amp160Alter Eco Planet Green 9 pm ETSeries Premiere Entourage star Adrian Grenier is the executive producer and host of this new series that seeks to educate viewers and make clear how easy it is to reduce their carbon footprintamp160GAC Nights GAC 10 pm ETEach episode of GACamp8217s nightly music video and interview series GAC Nights this week was taped last week at the Riverfront Concert stages during the CMA Music Fest in Nashville Suzanne Alexander is the hostamp160Commuter Confidential TBS 11 pm ETTBSamp8217 new microseries presented by Matchcom and Revlon continues this week during nightly telecasts of Sex and the City Each minisode premieres during a branded commercial pod and is then available on a microsite within tbscom Confidential focuses on four women who travel to and from work together each day and discuss the intimate details of their lives while doing so including their experiences with men they meet on Matchcom and their love of Revlon products It will run every weeknight during Sex through June 27amp160amp160amp160TUESDAY JUNE 10amp160The Alaska Experiment Back from the Wild Discovery Channel 10 pm ETPremiere Les Stroud Survivorman is the host of this look back at the experiences of people featured in the recent Discovery Channel series The Alaska Experiment They volunteered to live for three months with minimal supplies in the Alaskan wilderness and be constantly monitored physically and psychologically to see how well they were handling the demands of day to day survivalamp16030 Days FX 10 pm ETFormer NFL player and Super Bowl champion Ray Crockett lives in a wheelchair for one month during which he joins a wheelchair rugby team and attends a weekly support group for paraplegicsamp160Explorer Science of Cats National Geographic Channel 10 pm ETHow did humans and felines come to be so compatible This edition of Explorer looks all the way back to the mummification of cats in ancient Egypt in search of answers amp160amp160amp160WEDNESDAY JUNE 11amp160So You Think You Can Dance Fox 8 pm ETTwo Hours The Top 20 dancers do their thingamp160Celebrity Circus NBC 930 pm ETSeries Premiere Ninety Minutes Celebrities compete in circusact challenges in this new reality series which might remind viewers of Circus of the Stars a longrunning series of specials that started on CBS way back in 1977 Look for reality show regulars Antonio Sabato Jr Christopher Knight Jason amp8220Wee Manamp8221 Acuna from Jackass and supermodel Rachel Hunter among the participants Home viewers determine who gets kicked out of the tent each week Joey Fatone is the hostamp160amp160amp160THURSDAY JUNE 12amp160Million Dollar Password CBS 8 pm ETNostalgia alert Betty White who made multiple appearances on the original Password in the Sixties and Seventies and married original host Allen Ludden is one of the celebrity contestants on tonightamp8217s special episode Sheamp8217ll be competing against Susie Essman Curb Your Enthusiasmamp160The AList Awards PreShow Bravo 830 pm ETPremiere Tim Gunn Project Runway hosts redcarpet arrival coverage for The AList Awards taped last week at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and telecast later tonight on Bravo see belowamp160The Road Hammers GAC 830 pm ETSeries Premiere Jason Priestly 90210 is the director of this eightepisode observational reality series that focuses on the challenges faced by members of the awardwinning Canadian country music band The Road Hammers as they relocate with their families to Nashville to take on the American marketamp160The Bill Engvall Show TBS 9 pm ETSeason Premiere Comedian Bill Engvall and Nancy Travis Becker return for a second season of this very traditional sitcom about a Denver couple with three children striving to cope with the exasperating demands of modern parenthood Tim Meadows Saturday Night Live costarsamp160Kathy Griffin My Life on the DList Bravo 9 pm ETSeason Premiere Kathy Griffin her assistants her dogs and her gays return for a fourth season of her Emmy Awardwinning observational reality series Tonightamp8217s episode shows her preparing to host CNNamp8217s live coverage of the New Yearamp8217s Eve countdown with Anderson Cooper in Times Square and attending the 2008 Produceramp8217s Guild Awards at which My Life on the DList loses to Discovery Channelamp8217s Planet Earth Kathyamp8217s upset What did she think was going to happen In future episodes Griffin will perform at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC host Air New Zealandamp8217s Pink Flight from San Francisco to Sydney and officiate at a wedding in QueensMy Boys TBS 930 pm ETSeason Premiere Okay so who is the guy on the plane who stepped up and sent that message to PJ Jordana Spiro at the end of Season 1 All we know is that itamp8217s someone she wants to date Is it globetrotting reporter Thorn Packer Jeremy Sisto botanist Evan Michael Landes or Chicago Cubs player Mitt Dougan Travis Schuldt Or is it one of her close guy friends amp8211 maybe one she had a brief fling with in the past Youamp8217ll find out in tonightamp8217s episode and then PJ and her date and Stephanie Kellee Stewart and her boyfriend Lance Schuyler Yancey will jet to Rome for a romantic adventure Meantime PJamp8217s brother Andy Jim Gaffigan and his nowpregnant wife move back to the city meaning Andy will be around for those weekly poker games in PJamp8217s apartmentamp160Fear Itself NBC 10 pm ETWhile on a stake out in a haunted house a private investigator is made to confront demons from his past Eric Roberts Cynthia Watros and Jack Noseworthy staramp160Bravoamp8217s AList Awards Bravo 10 pm ETPremiere Kathy Griffin hosts Bravoamp8217s first awards show The AList Awards honoring outstanding achievements in food fashion design beauty and pop culture Tila Tequila Jack McBrayer 30 Rock Dina and Ali Lohan Tyson Beckford Caroline Rhea Candace Bushnell Niki Taylor Rachel Dratch Christian Siriano Tim Gunn Padma Lakshmi Jonathan Adler and the Housewives of both Orange County and New York City will appear Legendary supermodel Lauren Hutton will receive the John Frieda Beauty Icon Award and celebrities will model dresses designed by former Project Runway competitors during the showamp160amp160amp160FRIDAY JUNE 13amp160iCarly Saves TV Nickelodeon 8 pm ETPremiere In a storyline that will resonate throughout the television industry talented tweens Carly Sam and Freddie are asked by a big broadcast network to adapt their popular Internet show for TV Overjoyed at first the kids quickly find themselves clashing with network executives at every turn and struggling to save the iCarly they know and love Rachel Fox unforgettable this season as bad seed Kayla on Desperate Housewives plays Amber Tate the diva poised to unseat Sam as Carlyamp8217s sidekick Before this onehour special iCarly stars Miranda Cosgrove Jennette McCurdy Nathan Kress and Jerry Trainor will each host an hour of programming featuring their favorite iCarly episodes and carefully selected homemade videos of young viewers singing the iCarly theme song Your children have been uploading them to iCarlycom since May 24amp160Famp8217N MTV Premieres MTV 830 pm ETSeries Premiere Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is the host of this new weekly summer series featuring live performances special celebrity guest appearances and the debut of new music videos Panic at the Disco Snoop Dogg The Pussycat Dolls Boys Like Us and Vampire Weekend are among the artists scheduled to appear on Famp8217N MTV Premieres in the weeks aheadamp160Can You Duet CMT 8 pm ETSeason Finale Two Hours In the first part of tonightamp8217s twohour season finale the final four duos perform on stage at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville and one twosome is eliminated by houramp8217s end In the second the finalists will perform for the last time and host Rossi Morreale will reveal the winning duo Country superstar Naomi Judd vocal coach Brett Manning and songwriter Aimee Mayo are the judgesamp160Extraordinary Animals Animal Planet 930 pm ETSeries Premiere William Shatner is the narrator of this 17episode series that looks at animals with special abilities such as a pianoplaying cat a dolphin that can order her own lunch by communicating through sonar a schnauzer that has accurately predicted the deaths of nearly 60 residents of a nursing home by staying at their sides until they have passed away and in tonightamp8217s premiere episode an elephant named Hong with a talent for paintingamp160Battlestar Galactica Sci Fi Channel 10 pm ETMidSeason Finale Donamp8217t even ask for details Just expect the usual shocks this series always delivers when it reaches the end of a season or in this case a half season The real cliffhanger here is when Sci Fi Channel will schedule the remaining ten episodes of this landmark series

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