Your Television Premiere Dates for the Week of April 4 - 10, 2016

All times are EST. It's a light week of premieres...

PREMIERE DATES

Monday, April 4
- ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ are back after 10 years of dormancy. Find it on Cartoon Network at 6pm.


Thursday, April 7
- ‘The Odd Couple’ returns for a second season on CBS at 8:30pm.


Friday, April 8
- ‘Catastrophe’ is back for a second season on Amazon.


Saturday, April 9
- Season two of ‘Outlander’ drops on Starz at 9pm.


Sunday, April 10
- ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ debuts on Starz at 8pm. It’s a series about expensive call-girls and their clients.
- ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ is back at 9pm on AMC. This series was picked as one of my Top 5 Best New Shows of 2015. The slow-burn of the series managed to drop the viewership numbers, but hopefully those numbers will raise now as the dead are walking more.
- ‘Dice’ is a new semi-autobiographical sitcom with Andrew “Dice” Clay. As someone that found his standup as funny as hearing children cry, I may avoid this series because of my low expectations. Interested parties may catch the series on Showtime at 9:30pm.



FINALES

Thursday, April 7
- We say goodbye to one of the, in my opinion, biggest waster of time in television history… ‘American Idol’. Why anyone wasted their time watching glorified Karaoke singers on national television was beyond my comprehension. I say good riddance.

Revisiting Past Faves

When was the last time you went back and watched a television series that you love?

There are plenty of great new television shows out there these days. I’m not disputing that at all. But have you even thought about revisiting the ones that you either loved or just kind of liked?

During the holidays, I got into a bit of a “show hole”. I had finally cleaned the DVR of current shows that I needed to get caught up on and had nothing left. I had finally finished the current seasons of ‘Narcos’ and ‘House Of Cards’ on Netflix. I devoured ‘Catastrophe’ (meh), the new season of ‘Transparent’, and the new series ‘The Man In The High Castle’.

So I loaded up some old favorites like ‘Futurama’, ‘3rd Rock From The Sun’, ‘Malcolm In The Middle’, and ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ on Netflix. I also have ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Supernatural’ going because Chigger needs to see them. It seems like I’ve been trying to get her caught up on the latter for 2 years now. She doesn’t have as much “down time” as I do with two kids. And now since there’s a new house in the mix she’s busier than a one-armed man in a glory hole factory.

I had ‘Futurama’ already running because I would watch it whenever Chigger got a phone call or she was getting ready for bed. Her phone calls and nightly regimen usually takes around 20 minutes. The show is perfect for squeezing in an episode. Sometimes the calls would take longer so I’d be able to watch two episodes.

And over on Amazon Prime TV, I’m currently revisiting ‘Star Trek’ (TOS), ‘The Wire’, ‘Justified’ and ‘The Sopranos’. I’m finding things in them that I had forgotten. As much as I loved ‘Justified’ and ‘ The Sopranos’, things are coming back to me.

From here on out, I plan on keeping an old favorite in my rotation. Not just the stuff like ‘Earthworm Jim’ and ‘Newhart’ that I’ve been buying up on DVD. I want to keep at least one oldie running on Netflix and Amazon Prime TV.

So I urge you, the lover of television that you are… Go back and revisit your old friends on your favorite streaming sites. Get to know them again. You may even find that you have outgrown them (I discovered that ‘Invaders’ wasn’t the great sci-fi series that I thought it was when I was growing up).

Feel free to tell us about the favorites that you’ve been revisiting along with the streaming sites that you’re using.