Winter TV premiere dates
Here is a list of season premiere dates for your winter TV shows, followed by a list of when the shows that premiered in the fall will return from their winter hiatuses with new episodes. All information is swiped from E! Online’s handy schedule; omissions or errors should be addressed to the good people at E! Online, not me. An asterisk indicates a new series.
SEASON/SERIES PREMIERES:
Monday, Jan. 5
The Bachelor (ABC)
Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)
*True Beauty (ABC)
Tuesday, Jan. 6
The Biggest Loser: Couples (NBC)
Scrubs (ABC)
Nip/Tuck (FX)
Wednesday, Jan. 7
*13: The Fear Is Real (CW)
Damages (FX)
Friday, Jan. 9
*Flashpoint (CBS)
Sunday, Jan. 11
24 (Fox — 2-hour premiere; 2 more hours on Monday, the show’s regular night)
Monday, Jan. 12
Kyle XY (ABC Family)
Tuesday, Jan. 13
American Idol (Fox)
Wednesday, Jan. 14
*Wonderland (DirecTV 101)
Thursday, Jan. 15
*The Beast (A&E)
Friday, Jan. 16
Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi)
Friday Night Lights (NBC, re-airing episodes already shown on DirecTV 101)
Sunday, Jan. 18
Big Love (HBO)
Flight of the Conchords (HBO)
The L Word (Showtime)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime)
*United States of Tara (Showtime)
Wednesday, Jan. 21
*Lie to Me (Fox)
Lost (ABC — 2-hour premiere)
Monday, Jan. 26
*Trust Me (TNT)
Thursday, Feb. 12
Survivor (CBS)
Monday, Feb. 2
Medium (NBC)
Friday, Feb. 13
*Dollhouse (Fox)
Sunday, Feb. 15
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Sunday, March 1
Celebrity Apprentice (NBC)
Sunday, March 8
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Monday, March 9
*Castle (ABC)
Tuesday, March 17
Reaper (CW)
Thursday, March 19
*Kings (NBC)
Tuesday, March 24
*Cupid (ABC)
Wednesday, April 8
*The Unusuals (ABC)
Thursday, April 9
*Harper’s Island (CBS)
RETURNING FROM WINTER HIATUS:
Sunday, Jan. 4
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Desperate Housewives (ABC)
The Unit (CBS)
Monday, Jan. 5
Gossip Girl (CW)
One Tree Hill (CW)
Tuesday, Jan. 6
90210 (CW)
According to Jim (ABC)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
The Mentalist (CBS)
NCIS (CBS)
Privileged (CW)
Without a Trace (CBS)
Wednesday, Jan. 7
Knight Rider (NBC)
Law & Order (NBC)
Thursday, Jan. 8
30 Rock (NBC)
ER (NBC)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Kath & Kim (NBC)
My Name Is Earl (NBC)
The Office (NBC)
Private Practice (ABC)
Ugly Betty (ABC)
Friday, Jan. 9
Monk (USA)
Psych (USA)
Monday, Jan. 12
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
CSI: Miami (CBS)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Samantha Who? (ABC)
Two and a Half Men (CBS)
Worst Week (CBS)
Wednesday, Jan. 14
Criminal Minds (CBS)
CSI: NY (CBS)
Thursday, Jan. 15
Bones (Fox)
CSI (CBS)
Smallville (CW)
Supernatural (CW)
Sunday, Jan. 18
American Dad (Fox)
Family Guy (Fox)
King of the Hill (Fox)
The Simpsons (Fox)
Monday, Jan. 19
House (Fox)
Tuesday, Jan. 20
Fringe (Fox)
Thursday, Jan. 22
Burn Notice (USA)
Monday, Jan. 26
The Closer (TNT)
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Life on Mars (ABC)
Thursday, Jan. 29
Hell’s Kitchen (Fox)
Monday, Feb. 2
Chuck (NBC)
Heroes (NBC)
Wednesday, Feb. 4
Life (NBC)
Friday, Feb. 13
Terminator (Fox)
EXACT DATES TBD
Amy Poehler, Beyond Thunderdome (NBC) – April
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA) – March or April
My Boys (TBS) – Spring
Prison Break (Fox) – Spring
‘Til Death (Fox) – Spring
Rescue me (FX) – March or April
Rules of Engagement (CBS) – Spring
Saving Grace (TNT) – March
The Tudors (Showtime) – April
January 5th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Just because E! Online has some mistakes doesn’t mean that you have to as well. The Super Bowl (Feb 1) will be immediately followed in all time zones by the return of The Office. The Office episode on January 8 will be The Surplus which is a rerun.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Good point, Jason. I knew I should have taken that extra five hours to independently verify every single entry on the schedule to make sure E! Online hadn’t gotten anything wrong.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I’m not saying that you have to verify each date individually. That’s what we’re here for. That’s why I gave you some new information…I want you to be better and more accurate than E! online.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
And had you simply provided the new information, all would have been well. It was “Just because E! Online has some mistakes doesn’t mean that you have to as well,” which seemed to imply some scold-worthy error on my part, that was vexing. But maybe you didn’t mean it that way.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Yes! Flight of the Conchords is coming back! All is well in the world.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
My bad. I simply added that as you had said: “omissions or errors should be addressed to the good people at E! Online, not me” and I was too lazy to contact them directly.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
O_o
Carrie, words fail me.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I hear Pushing Daisies is not to return at all….so sad.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Wikipedia says there are new episodes of The Office on Jan. 15 and 22, with the post-Super Bowl episode on Feb. 1. The episode on Jan. 8 is indeed a rerun. Sorry, Jason Wright and Eric D. Snider, but I’m deferring to the Fount of All Knowledge on this one.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I’m excited. What?
January 7th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I see that NBC hasn’t scheduled the BBC’s “Merlin” after all. When it bought the show (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/03/bbc.television ) it said it was going to air it on Sunday nights in Winter 2009. I don’t have a way to watch US TV anymore (except maybe online?) so I hadn’t noticed that NBC had apparently commissioned a British production of Robinson Crusoe. Has anyone watched it. Is it any good?