What to Watch Sunday: Newsroom Gets Buzzing, Great Escape Starts, Army Wives Re-Up and More

The Newsroom -- Season 1On TV this Sunday: Aaron Sorkin brings his walk-and-talk to The Newsroom, life as an Army Wife is no day at the beach and The Great Escape Rocks. Oh, and Good Luck, Charlie — you’re about to become a big sister! Here are 10 programs (including one linked below) worth checking out.

8 pm Good Luck Charlie (Disney Channel) | The baby’s finally here! In this hour-long episode, the Duncans prepare for their new arrival — whose name was chosen by more than 25 million online fan votes — and to celebrate Charlie’s birthday.

8 pm Fox 25th Anniversary Special (Fox) | In case you missed it the first time around: The network takes a look back at a quarter-century of programming, with appearances by Married With Children, The X-Files and Beverly Hills, 90210 alumni, among others.

PREVIEW | Falling Skies: Get the Scoop on ‘Red-Eye,’ the Most Mysterious Skitter of ‘Em All

9 pm True Blood (HBO) | Bill and Eric barter for their lives with the head of the Authority, while Sookie and Lafayette try to catch Tara. (Get scoop on what’s coming in July.)

9 pm Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime) | Jane and Kim take on a case suing the producer of a reality makeover show (Side note: Someone‘s got to); Brandy Norwood returns as Elisa. (Get DDD scoop!)

9 pm Food Network Star (Food Network) | The foodie finalists film their own promotional videos and then withstand questioning from a panel of journalists. If I were on that panel, my first question would be, “Uh, are you gonna finish that?”

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10 pm The Newsroom (HBO) | Series premiere: The latest project from The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin revolves around Will McAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels), a cable news anchor who has a meltdown and some time later returns to work to find most of his staff have left and his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer) is one of his ex-girlfriends. The cast also includes Alison Pill, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn and Sam Waterston. Much walking and talking, even some squawking.

10 pm The Great Escape (TNT) | Series premiere: Each week, teams compete to escape from a different, seemingly hopeless scenario. First up: no less than Alcatraz. (Better get John Mason and Stanley Goodspeed on the phone.)

10 pm Army Wives (Lifetime) | The wives are back! Hector and Gloria fight about her job at the Hump Bar, which leads to him making a really bad decision. Elsewhere, a trip to the shore turns terrifying for two of the ladies.

10 pm Longmire (A&E) | The sheriff turns to Henry Standing Bear for help when a fisherman reels in the body of a teen from the Cheyenne Reservation.

Which of the above is a must-see for you? Also, hit Comments to offer your own tune-in suggestions.



Comments (27)

  • Have heard mixed things about The Newsroom…but going to check it out, because Sorkin generally doesn’t make bad things, in my opinion.

    Comment by Alex – June 23, 2012 08:36 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Any word or even rumors if army wives will be back next year?

    Comment by laura – June 23, 2012 08:45 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • HBO is promoting this to be a certain type of show that I feel like its not going to be at all so I’m curious to tune in as well

    Comment by Nick – June 23, 2012 10:59 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • what about Falling Skies!?

    Comment by Ali Al-Ansari (@YupItsMe3li) – June 23, 2012 11:46 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
    • It’s there, there is a link to it. (Hopefully one of these days they’ll set up the links in the same format with the time so it’s not as easy to miss.)

      Comment by Tee – June 24, 2012 05:30 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Longmire is a wonderful show. I am truly enjoying it and hope it finds an audience so it can be renewed for a second season.

    Comment by tvdiva – June 24, 2012 12:47 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
    • I also enjoy this show. It went down a little in the ratings last week due to several sporting events, but I feel it has a good chance for a renewal for a second season.

      Comment by Juliab. – June 24, 2012 05:17 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
    • I’ve been enjoying this show too. I was not a huge fan after the first episode but they hooked me in.

      Comment by Ava – June 24, 2012 11:49 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Continuum, True Blood, Falling Skies, and I’ll check out the Newsroom.

    Comment by bella – June 24, 2012 03:37 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • yes! drop dead diva :)

    Comment by cher – June 24, 2012 04:10 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • True Blood, Longmire, and Newsroom. Will also DVR The Glades.

    Comment by Susan Jackson – June 24, 2012 04:52 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Good Luck Charlie & The Great Escape

    Comment by Nick – June 24, 2012 06:41 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Falling Skies is must see TV for me and I’ll be checking out The Newsroom.

    Comment by Linderella – June 24, 2012 07:20 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • I watch True Blood and Longmire live. Will tape Glades, Newsroom and Continuum. Not sure why for the summer all shows have to be on Sunday!

    Comment by Cleo – June 24, 2012 07:28 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
    • rizzoli and isles, franklin and bash, dallas, rookie blue, burn notice, suits, common law and the closer (when it starts soon) … none of these shows are on sunday ,

      Comment by justafan – June 24, 2012 11:40 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
      • Why do people always do this on here? Yes, I watch a lot of those shows, but that doesn’t mean everybody else does!

        Comment by liddad – June 24, 2012 01:20 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
        • never said they did liddad…i was just showing cleo that not “all shows have to be on sunday” in the summer

          Comment by justafan – June 24, 2012 02:53 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Drop Dead Diva

    Comment by Brandy – June 24, 2012 07:56 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • no love for ‘the glades’?

    Comment by justafan – June 24, 2012 11:29 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Only thing I’m interested in is The Newsroom, though I have high hopes Olivia Munn doesn’t ruin it for me. I’ve been waiting a very long time to watch this show! And I hope there are lots of scenes of people walking through hallways while being handed papers. I’m so excited, nobody can write dialogue like Sorkin. It’s a world I wished I lived in.

    Comment by Britta Unfiltered – June 24, 2012 01:12 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Watch Live:
    Falling Skies
    Longmire

    DVR: Glades

    Comment by kirads09 – June 24, 2012 03:12 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Live: Good Luck Charlie, The Glades, Longmire
    DVR: DDD, Army Wives

    Comment by Lorie – June 24, 2012 03:16 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • True Blood & Army Wives

    Comment by fernando rodriguez (@Fernanaberry) – June 24, 2012 04:21 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Watch True Blood and The Newroom. DVR Falling skies so I can FF through commercials.

    Comment by Brigitte – June 24, 2012 05:01 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Falling Skies is must-see TV this summer. I will check out The Newsroom even though the previews didn’t hook me the way other HBO series have. I’ve never seen any other Aaron Sorkin stuff so nothing to compare it to. Longmire is turning out to be a pretty good summer show. I probably wouldn’t watch it any other time of year, but it is a nice summer series.

    Comment by Sareeta – June 24, 2012 06:08 PM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Army Wives, are #1 in my watching Love them!

    Comment by phyllis – June 25, 2012 10:36 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
  • Loved, loved, loved Newsroom. Jeff Daniels really surprised me on how good he was in portraying this character.

    Comment by Adele – June 27, 2012 08:39 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

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