Watchlist: Monday, January 8, 2007

I’m back on the East Coast after a few days in sunny California. Of course, when I go away it’s warmer in Boston than San Francisco, just my luck. The trip was great and I was lucky to have really smooth flights both ways. Although it pains me NOT to travel Jet Blue. How I missed those glorious 36 channels of TV during the flight. I was subjected to one good movie (“The Queen”) and two snoozers (“The Guardian” and “Gridiron Gang”). However, we did get a little TV on the plane. I caught my first ever episode of New Adventures of Old Christine (which I thought was funny enough). And they also showed the pilot episode for Heroes (nice) and “The Initiation” episode of The Office which was great but they shut it down just as Jim and Pam were debating “28 Days” vs “28 Days Later”…Blasphemy!!!

It is nice to be home and back to my regularly scheduled TV viewing. My DVR is at the crucial 99% full mark, so there is a lot of TV to get through today and tomorrow. We aren’t 100% back into the Winter programming yet, so until then we have a night of truly BAD TV tonight. Well, most of it anyway.

How I Met Your Mother – First Time in New York
Robin wants to tell Ted she loves him, but she can’t make the leap. Meanwhile, her sister (Lucy Hale) visits and brings her boyfriend (Ryan Pinkston), and Robin doesn’t react well when her sister says she’s ready to lose her virginity.

Check out a clip from tonight’s episode of HIMYM…but remember NOBODY puts Baby in a corner!

Wife Swap – Allemon/Johnson
Kicking off a night of guilty pleasures for reality TV lovers, this new episode of Wife Swap features a professional bodybuilder with high expectations for her fam who swaps lives with the mother of an easygoing family of little people.

Gay, Straight or Taken? – Jenner, Mike, Luciano and Chris
Women do it every day on their lunch hour and now a new reality show is capitalizing on it. Is he gay, straight or taken? In this dating game, one single woman goes on dates with three men and has to decide which one is gay, straight or taken. And can I just add that if this was a real job, and I could make a living from this, I might just be a millionaire.
I Love New York – Debut
Can’t get enough of narcissistic New York? Neither can VH1. The twice-jilted Flavor of Love contestant looks for love among 20 hopefuls in what promises to be the guiltiest of dating game pleasures dating game.

ego trip’s The (White) Rapper Show – Debut
If Vanilla Ice could do it all over again, this is where he’d start. Would-be white rappers and wannabes compete for a $100,000 grand prize while living together in the South Bronx.