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Must See HDTV (July 23rd - 29th)

richard lawler
Senior News Editor
Updated ·4 min read

2012 London Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympics kick off this week in London, and you'll want to have your TV, computer and mobile devices at the ready. This time around NBC has made the laudable step of promising every sport will be available for streaming live on the internet, however the Opening Ceremony TV broadcast on Friday will be tape delayed until the evening. Hit the NBCOlympics.com site to sign in with your pay-TV account for streaming access and grab the necessary apps, as well as see full listings for every sport, the action will actually get started on Wednesday with a slew of soccer matches, so make sure you don't miss anything.
(All Week, NBC & Online)

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One
The full remastered first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation debuts on Blu-ray this week, and as we've seen from the clips and teaser release earlier this year, the quality is top notch. Whether or not the first season of adventures with Picard, Riker, Worf, LaForge and company is worth buying is your decision, although the current Amazon price of $60 for the six-disc set doesn't seem terribly prohibitive.
($59.99 on Amazon)

Alphas
Last week we said goodbye to one excellent sci fi series in Eureka, and this week one of our new favorites Alphas comes back on the air. An X-Men-style drama focusing on people granted with super abilities of various types teaming up to take on evil doers the plot is familiar but managed to mix things up a little during the first season, we'll see if season two can keep the excitement going.
(July 23rd, Syfy, 10PM)

Blu-ray & Games

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One

  • The Island of Dr. Moreau

  • Boss

Monday

  • Warehouse 13 (season premiere), Syfy, 9PM

  • Alphas (season premiere), Syfy, 10PM

  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager, ABC Family, 8PM

  • Bachelor Pad (season premiere), ABC, 8PM

  • WWE Raw, USA, 8PM

  • The Closer, TNT, 9PM

  • Unsung, TV One, 9PM

  • Bunheads, ABC Family, 9PM

  • American Ninja Warrior (season finale), NBC, 9PM

  • Single Ladies, VH1, 9PM

  • Vito (special presentation), HBO, 9PM

  • Perception, TNT, 10PM

  • The Glass House, ABC, 10PM

  • American Ninja Warrior, NBC, 9PM

  • Teen Wolf, MTV, 10PM

  • Web Therapy, Showtime, 11PM

Tuesday

  • USA Basketball Men's National team vs. Spain, ESPN2, 4:30PM

  • America's Got Talent, NBC, 8PM

  • Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family, 8PM

  • Trust Us With Your Life, ABC, 9PM

  • Deadliest Catch (season finale), Discovery, 8PM

  • Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM

  • Jane By Design, ABC Family, 9PM

  • Less Than Kind, DirecTV, 9PM

  • White Collar, USA, 9PM

  • The LA Complex, CW, 9PM

  • Covert Affairs, USA 10PM

  • Franklin & Bash, TNT, 10PM

  • Love in the Wild (season finale), NBC, 10PM

  • Tosh.0, Comedy Central, 10PM

  • NY Med, ABC, 10PM

  • Workaholics, Comedy Central, 10:30PM

Wednesday

  • Going for Gold - The '48 Games, BBC America, 8PM

  • Absolutely Fabulous: Olympics, BBC America, 10PM

  • The Clios: World's Best Commercials, NBC, 8PM

  • So You Think You Can Dance, Fox, 8PM

  • Melissa & Joey, ABC Family, 8PM

  • Baby Daddy, ABC Family, 8:30PM

  • America's Got Talent, NBC, 9PM

  • Dallas, TNT, 9PM

  • Royal Pains, USA, 9PM

  • Damages, DirecTV, 9PM

  • Hit and Miss, DirecTV, 10PM

  • The Franchise, Showtime, 10PM

  • Futurama, Comedy Central, 10PM

  • Final Witness, ABC, 10PM

  • Necessary Roughness, USA, 10PM

  • The Real World, MTV, 10PM

Thursday

  • 3 (series premiere), CBS, 10PM

  • Wipeout: Blind Date 2012, ABC, 8PM

  • Take Me Out (season finale), Fox, 8PM

  • Impact Wrestling, Spike TV, 8PM

  • Tron: Uprising, Disney XD, 8PM

  • Burn Notice, USA, 9PM

  • Saving Hope, NBC, 9PM

  • Wipeout, ABC, 9PM

  • Anger Management, FX, 9:30PM

  • Suits, USA, 10PM

  • Wilfred, FX, 10PM

  • Rookie Blue, ABC, 10PM

  • Awkward, MTV, 10:30PM

  • Louie, FX, 10:30PM

  • Brand X with Russell Brand, FX, 11PM

Friday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games, NBC, 7:30PM

  • WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM

  • XIII, ReelzChannel, 9PM`

  • Common Law, USA, 10PM

  • Lost Girl, Syfy, 10PM

  • Comedy Bang! Bang!, IFC, 10PM

  • Bunk, IFC, 10:30PM

  • John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, Comedy Central 11PM

Saturday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games Night 2, NBC, 8PM

  • The Philadelphia Experiment, Syfy, 9PM

  • Fred 3, Nickelodeon, 8PM

  • Mobbed, Fox, 8PM

  • Man vs. Wolf, Discovery, 8PM

  • NYC 22, CBS, 8PM

Sunday

  • 2012 Olympic Summer Games Night 3, NBC, 8PM

  • Grand Prix of Hungary, Speed, 8AM

  • NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ Indianapolis, ESPN, 1PM

  • Red Sox/Yankees Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN, 8PM

  • Leverage, TNT, 8PM

  • 3, CBS, 9PM

  • Falling Skies, TNT, 9PM

  • True Blood, HBO, 9PM

  • The Glades, A&E, 9PM

  • The Great Escape, TNT, 10PM

  • The Newsroom, HBO, 10PM

  • Breaking Bad, AMC, 10PM

  • Political Animals, USA, 10PM

  • Longmire, A&E, 10PM

  • Weeds, Showtime, 10PM

  • Episodes, Showtime, 10:30PM

  • Small Town Security, AMC, 11PM