TV best bets with Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series ‘Newsroom,’ VH1’s ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,’ TNT’s ‘The Great Escape’

Bristol Palin comes to Lifetime Tuesday with a new reality show. CREDIT: AP June soldiers on and a raft of new series try to find distracted viewers. “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is the most obvious fresh program with local ties, courtesy of VH1 Monday. Atlanta-based Bounce TV, a mere nine months old, introduces its two first original series Monday: a sitcom called “Family Time” and a stand-up comedy show “Uptown Comic.” ABC is recycling “Big Brother” with “Glass House” Monday as well. (CBS sued to try to stop “Glass House” but failed.) Like mother, like… >>
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