Fall TV Shows 2014: New lifestyle series premiere dates, times and previews

Fall TV shows 2014: A roundup of the dates, times, previews and more for new lifestyle TV series premiering in fall 2014. You’ll find there’s plenty to select from when it comes to new lifestyle series this fall. Here we’ve boiled it down to shows that caught our attention and have listed — in premiere date order (at least until a network makes a change) — what’s new and what the series is all about. So go ahead, start enriching your life and/or expanding your knowledge via the power of feel good television!

Girlfriend Intervention on LifetimeGirlfriend Intervention
Lifetime
Premieres: Aug. 27
Airs: Wednesdays at 10pm
What’s It All About? Serving as hosts are beauty pro Tracy Balan, home and sanctuary guru Nikki Chu, style and fashion maven Tiffiny Dixon and soul coach Tanisha Thomas. These four poised and stylish African-American women help a white sister restore her inner confidence through makeovers and life coaching, helping her embrace and celebrate her life, speak her mind, lighten up and just plain love herself again.
MORE: Channel Guide’s Girlfriend Intervention review

My Friends Call Me Johnny
Esquire
Premieres: Sept. 3
Airs: Wednesdays at 10pm
What’s It All About? This original series features candid and provocative conversations with some of the most creative minds on the planet, hosted by Jean “Johnny” Pigozzi, one of the world’s most connected men.

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OWN
Premieres: Sept. 7
Airs: Sundays at 12pm
What’s It All About? Spiritual teacher Gotham Chopra and today’s top thought leaders offer free advice at a “help desk” in a busy public place. Spiritual wisdom is brought to the streets, offering life-changing answers to hard-hitting questions about relationships, health, spirituality and personal transformation.
MORE: Our exclusive interview with Gotham Chopra!

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TLC
Premieres: Sept. 7
Airs: Sundays at 10pm
What’s It All About? A wife and mother from upstate New York, Rosie Cepero possesses a special gift that allows her to see, hear and converse with guardian angels. In this new 12-part series, cameras follow Rosie as she connects with angels and conveys critical — and often life-changing — messages to the people they protect on earth.

Ghost Asylum
Destination America
Premieres: Sept. 7
Airs: Sundays at 10pm
What’s It All About? The series follows one of the most passionate paranormal teams in America, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers (TWC), as they examine some of America’s most frightening asylums, sanitariums and mental hospitals. Their goal isn’t just to conjure spirits and collect evidence but they are on a mission to physically capture restless souls with their cutting-edge ghost traps and self-trained Tennessean wit.

Fix It & Finish It
Syndicated
Premieres: Sept. 8
Airs: Varies in syndication
What’s It All About? Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. and his team of designers and contractors travel around the country finding homes, cabins, RVs and treehouses that need makeovers inside and out. The team has the vision and skill — and only one day — to make amazing transformations.

Flip My Food
Syndicated
Premieres: Sept. 8
Airs: Varies in syndication
What’s It All About? Chef Jeff Henderson learned to cook while serving almost a decade in prison for drug charges. After his release, he rose quickly through the food industry to become executive chef at Café Bellagio and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In his new show, Chef Jeff travels around the country and gives the treasured recipes of everyday Americans a healthy update.

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Syndicated
Premieres: Sept. 8
Airs: Monday-Friday, varies in Syndication
What’s It All About? The veteran journalist and former Today Show host returns to daytime TV with her own talk show. Vieira tells us that “It’s all about connecting with the viewers. In daytime, folks see you as something other than a celebrity; you are a friend, an extension of their family. In that sense, it’s very personal and that defines success for me. If I can reach somebody, touch somebody and maybe change their world a bit, hopefully for the better, that’s the goal of the show, and the real accomplishment.”
MORE: Find out what channel Meredith is airing in your market.

MasterChef Canada
Cooking Channel
Premieres: Sept. 9
Airs: Tuesdays at 8pm
What’s It All About? Home cooks from all over Canada compete for the title of Canada’s first ever MasterChef, facing a series of dramatic challenges designed to test their palates, food knowledge, passion and culinary skill. Judges Michael Bonacini, Claudio Aprile and Alvin Leung join the amateurs on a journey from home cook to creator of haute cuisine.

Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
Cooking Channel
Premieres: Sept. 13
Airs: Saturdays at 11:30am
What’s It All About? Host Lorraine Pascale shares inventive recipes, culinary trade secrets and invaluable kitchen shortcuts that make serving fresh food for any occasion fast and easy.

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Syndicated (also rebroadcast in primetime on BET)
Premieres: Sept. 15
Airs: Weekdays
What’s It All About? If you like talkers like The View and The Chew, The Real is for you. Here, Tamar Braxton (singer and star of Braxton Family Values), Tamera Mowry-Housley (Sister, Sister and Tia & Tamera star), Loni Love (comedian and host of The Gossip Queens), Jeannie Mai (fashion correspondent and former host of How Do I Look?) and Adrienne Bailon (actress and recording artist, The Cheetah Girls, Empire Girls) share their unapologetic perspectives on the news of the day, beauty, fashion and relationships.

Judge Faith
Syndicated
Premieres: Sept. 22
Airs: Varies in syndication
What’s It All About? Faith Jenkins was Miss Louisiana 2001 and finished first runner-up in the Miss America competition. After graduating first in her law class, she worked in both litigation and criminal prosecution before becoming a legal analyst on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. Now, Judge Faith presides over her own small-claims courtroom.

Celebrity Name Game
Syndicated
Premieres: Sept. 22
Airs: Varies in syndication
What’s It All About? A hilarious new daily game show pairs celebrities and contestants together to figure out famous names — actors, singers, athletes, even cartoon characters — based on improvised clues. Funnyman Craig Ferguson hosts and celebrity guest stars include executive producers Courteney Cox and David Arquette, as well as Tom Arnold, Yvette Nicole Brown, Peter Facinelli, Billy Gardell, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin McHale, Karina Smirnoff, Nicole Sullivan, Scott Wolf and Constance Zimmer.

Simply Laura
Cooking Channel
Premieres: Sept. 27
Airs: Saturdays at 1:30pm
What’s It All About? Web sensation Laura Vitale, star of the online cooking show Laura in the Kitchen, brings her take on reinventing American mealtimes to television. With an emphasis on seasonal and simple, Laura’s blend of easy but enticing recipes and girl-next-door charm add up to memorable meals.

Live Free or Die
NGC
Premieres: Sept. 30
Airs: Tuesdays at 10pm
What’s It All About? Living a minimalistic existence never looked so unappealing as in this docuseries that follows a handful of beaver- and rat-eating extremists who are committed to living off the land. That means no electricity, no refrigeration and no stops at the local grocery store. These guys (and a few of their wives) live in remote parts of our country, growing food, foraging and grabbing roadkill to survive.

Death Valley
CMT
Premieres: October (not confirmed)
What’s It All About? This eight-episode follows five unique individuals as they live off the grid, creating their own rules for survival in their quests to find riches in the treacherous wasteland of Death Valley, where every sunrise unleashes intolerable heat, every stranger is a potential threat and every hilltop crawls with deadly creatures.

My Crazy Love
Oxygen
Premieres: October
What’s It All About? A comedy/anthology series that showcases real people’s personal stories (including faking one’s own death) about the wild, crazy, romantic, eccentric and hilarious things that women and men do in the name of love.

On the Menu
TNT
Premieres: Oct. 3
Airs: Fridays at 9pm
Who’s In It? Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), Emeril Lagasse
What’s It All About? Save room for this series because you’re going to be able to sample the winning dish. Amateur cooks work with professional chefs to create their dishes, and a panel of judges will determine which dish tastes the best and fits a restaurant’s current menu offerings. The winning dish will be served at a selected restaurant chain, stadium concession stand or other American food business for the public to try.

Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER
Nat Geo Wild
Premieres:
Oct. 4
Airs:
Tuesdays at 10pm
What’s It All About?
Dr. Susan Kelleher, better known as “Dr. K,” owns and operates one of the country’s busiest exotic animal care practices, where she treats rabbits, reptiles, rodents, birds of all shapes and sizes, foxes, ferrets, fish, marsupials, and even primates! The series follows her as she treats a variety of unusual animals from an egg-bound tortoise, to a Kinkajou with a breathing problem, to an ambiguous bush baby that needs neutering … or a spay.

Car Matchmaker
Esquire
Premieres: Oct. 14
Airs: Tuesdays at 9pm
What’s It All About? Former Seinfeld writer and talk show host, Spike Feresten, is the guy to go to when you need a new set of wheels. In this original 13-part series, Feresten finds a guy in need of a car, gets to know him, and then draws upon two decades of expertise and instinct to find three different cars perfectly suited to the buyer. At the end of each episode, a car is chosen.

Weekend Fix
Esquire
Premieres: Oct. 29
Airs: Wednesdays at 10pm
What’s It All About? This six-part series aims to prove that the best travel experiences doesn’t always come from following a schedule — they come from following advice. In every episode, actor Omar Miller (CSI Miami) and his friend, fashion designer Andres Izquieta (Five Four Clothing), travel to a different city completely on the fly. They use every social networking tool at their fingertips to seek out recommendations from friends, locals, and strangers alike to find the go-to hotels, off-the-radar restaurants and can¹t-miss local experiences the guidebooks just can’t tell you about.

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E!
Premieres: November
What’s It All About? Fashion megastar Diane von Furstenberg, who created gorgeous prints and wrap dresses worn by Kate Middleton, Michelle Obama and Madonna, gives a group of ambitious young women extraordinary entrée to her empire, where she showcases the unique skill set, intelligence and utter devotion it takes to become a DVF girl.

Fix My Choir
Oxygen
Premieres: TBA
What’s It All About? Struggling choirs will get a chance for much-needed mentoring with the help of gospel superstar Deitrick Haddon (Preachers of L.A.) and Grammy Award-winning recording artist Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child fame. The duo will surprise communities, schools and gospel choirs to help them find perfect harmony within their music and among their members.

Buying the Rockies
Destination America
Premieres: TBA
What’s It All About? Destination America adds another entry to the TV home-hunting craze. Here viewers will follow potential homeowners as they tour homes in the Rockies, from grand log mansions built for entertaining to cozy, efficient cabins just big enough for two. Seclusion, stunning views, adventure sports and life among the great outdoors are some of the interests that attract families to the Rockies, but facing life off the grid is a big decision.