New Year, new shows! We hope your TiVo DVR is ready for this week’s edition of TiVo’s Best Bet Recordings! Alexa Chung hosts 24 Hour Catwalk, each episode gives four designers the chance to compete to create their own fashion line – in just one day. Potential playoff contenders The Dallas Mavericks and the Boston Celtics face off on NBA Basketball. Don’t forget to watch and record The 17th Annual Critic’s Choice Movie Awards. Friday marks the 200th and last episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Are you ready for some NFL Football!? Saturday the march toward Super Bowl XLVI continues with the divisional playoffs. Don’t see a suggestion you like? Well there are plenty more, check them out…
Parenthood – A local newspaper’s story on the Luncheonette puts Adam (Peter Krause) in the spotlight, upsetting Crosby (Dax Shepard). Amber (Mae Whitman) tries to adjust to her new job. Sarah (Lauren Graham) finds the thought of having another baby overwhelming. Julia and Joel (Erika Christensen, Sam Jaeger) receive an important adoption-related document in the new episode “Just Smile.” Max Burkholder also stars.
People’s Choice Awards 2012 – Kaley Cuoco (“The Big Bang Theory“) is the host, and Faith Hill and Demi Lovato are among the scheduled performers at this year’s awards. Leading contenders include the movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” with nine nominations, singer Katy Perry with seven and television’s “Glee” with six. There’s a new category, favorite movie icon, with George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in contention.
The Big Bang Theory – Sheldon (Jim Parsons) lands in the doghouse with Amy (Mayim Bialik) when he fails to show sufficient enthusiasm about an accomplishment she’s proud of. He turns to Penny (Kaley Cuoco) for advice on being a better boyfriend. Howard (Simon Helberg) is rattled to discover how Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) feels about children in the new episode “The Shiny Trinket Maneuver.”
A Gifted Man – Michael and E-Mo (Patrick Wilson, Eriq La Salle) disagree over the best course of treatment for a patient with a brain tumor. At the clinic, a teenage girl flees after giving birth, leaving the child behind, in the new episode “In Case of (Re)Birth.” Margo Martindale and Jennifer Ehle also star.
The 2012 Miss America Pageant – Brooke Burke-Charvet (“Dancing With the Stars”) and Chris Harrison (“The Bachelor”) are the hosts for this year’s edition of one of television’s oldest competitive reality shows — which was around long before television. After the finalists are chosen and take part in one last round of fitness (swimsuit), poise (evening gown), talent and interview competition, Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, crowns one lucky young woman her successor.
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