Upcoming Premieres

Malibu Country

Network: ABC

Premiere: Friday, November 2^nd, 8:30 pm ET/7:30 pm CT

Genre: Sitcom

A new comedy starring Reba McEntire (Reba) and Lily Tomlin. An aging former country music sensation moves from Nashville to Malibu after leaving her cheating husband. In Malibu she tries to stage a comeback as a singer while putting her life back together.

Her family settles in nicely to life in southern California—her mom discovers medical marijuana, and her daughter finds friends like she never did in Tennessee—but Reba feels like an outsider, and struggles to reignite her career as she must compete with the young, the sexy, and the young and sexy. She is tempted to leave Malibu Country to go back to Nashville and her cheatin’ man.

Catfish

Network: MTV

Premiere: November 12^th, 11 pm ET/10 pm CT

Genre: Reality

A reality show based on the film of the same name that set Sundance abuzz in 2010. In the original film, NYC photographer Nev Schulman forms a friendship online with a precocious eight-year-old artist and becomes romantically involved with her older sister.

In the new TV incarnation of Catfish, Schulman explores the stories of other people who have become deeply involved in online relationships, and follows them as they meet their internet crushes for the first time.

Each show is very different, because each online relationship is very different. There’s love, adventure, excitement, disappointment, and discovery, as these couples begin a new chapter in their relationship… which is sometimes the last chapter, or a weird one.

Breaking Magic

Network: Discovery Channel

Premiere: Sunday, November 11^th, 10 pm ET/9 pm CT

Genre: Reality/Science

Magicians’ livelihoods typically depend on them fervently guarding the secrets behind their illusions. Breaking Magic turns the magician’s code on its head by offering viewers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of magic and the real science behind it.

Featuring  renowned magicians from across the globe, Breaking Magic explains the physics and chemistry behind magnificently mind-bending tricks, stunts and illusions. Each half-hour episode features street magicians performing to amazed onlookers and surprising them even more when they reveal, in detail,the scientific principles that make their tricks possible.

Dangerous Grounds

Network: Travel Channel

Premiere: Monday, November 5th, 10 pm ET/9 pm CT

Genre: Reality/Travel

Who knew coffee could be so exciting? There are many people throughout the world who can’t start their day without a warm cup of Joe, but few consider just what goes into making their morning pick-me-up a reality.

In Dangerous Grounds,Todd Carmichael, CEO and co-founder of Philadelphia based coffee chain La Colombe Torrefaction, leads viewers on journeys that demonstrate  just what goes into discovering the perfect bean. Carmichael encounters rugged wilderness, machine gun toting middlemen and perilous roads among other potential hazards throughout his travels. Each of the nine episodes in the series  features a different coffee-producing region in the world-from the rain forests of Borneo to the mountains of Bolivia. Drinking coffee may be part of your daily ritual, but getting the grounds  to your coffee maker is anything but routine.