TiVo’s Best Bet Recordings: January 23, 2012

The beginning of the week means it’s time for TiVo’s Best Bet Recordings! Don’t forget to get your TiVo® DVR ready for this week’s suggestions! House starts the week off with an Alzheimer’s patient participating in a drug trial who suffers from a violent temper. Find out who will be Chopped on Tuesday. Criminal Minds celebrates its 150^th episode this week! Tune in to the Winter X Games and catch all of the snowboarding, snowmobiling and skiing action! If you’re a fan of Thom Beers’ Deadliest Catch you might want to check out his new show, Bering Sea Gold. If these aren’t for you check out even more suggestions below…

Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern: He’s traveled the globe exploring some of its most exotic cultures and their unconventional local cuisines. Now Zimmern leaves his passport at home and takes off across America to show us that some of the strangest dishes and delicacies are right here in our own kitchens. From pulled guinea pig to deep-fried duck testicles, there’s nothing Zimmern won’t sample to show Americans that bizarre foods suddenly might not seem so bizarre.

Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?: The fabulous Rivers girls are back for more too-close-for-comfort drama as mama Joan and daughter Melissa continue sharing living quarters. “Smotherhood” opens a new season in which Melissa faces upheaval in her love life, Joan goes country, a new employee joins the staff, and — surprise! — Joan prepares for another plastic surgery procedure.

Touch: Kiefer Sutherland returns to television in this new drama about a widower and single father haunted by an inability to connect to his mute 11-year-old son (David Mazouz). But everything changes when he discovers that the boy possesses a gift of staggering genius: the ability to see things that no one else can, including patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.

NBA Basketball: A pair of teams who may find their championship windows closing this year go at it tonight in Orlando, where the Magic host the Boston Celtics. For the Magic, the expected departure of Dwight Howard by next season has fans doubting the team’s future. As for the Celts, age is the big issue, as starters Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are all in their mid-30s. In the second game of TNT’s doubleheader, the Memphis Grizzlies visit the Los Angeles Clippers.

Shark Tank: Nice kitty! Cats figure in two segments of this new episode, as the Sharks hear a pitch for a Chicago artist’s cat-drawing business and revisit a cat potty-training system from Season 2. A Connecticut man has a system for training salespeople, a magician from Ohio wants to bring his family-friendly entertainment to Las Vegas, and a North Carolina man wants the Sharks to invest in his cargo truck management system.

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