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TV Weekend: These Shows Bite*

Tory Belleci confronts a robo-shark for MythBusters. / Don Feria/Discovery Channel One more item of mine in the print TIME I forgot to mention. Discovery’s Shark Week begins Sunday, and I reviewed the first two installments: MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28 MythBusters uses its second Shark [...]

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TIME at Comic-Con: True Blood and Other Suckers

Rebecca Winters Keegan reports on the Comic-Con session for HBO’s upcoming True Blood, as well as vampire movie project Twilight. Vamp/human affairs became a hot topic of discussion at the True Blood panel. “Apparently sex with vampires is really kind of great,” said Ball, the creator of Six Feet Under and writer of American Beauty. [...]

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The Postapocalyptic Road to Comic-Con

As I mentioned earlier, TIME’s Rebecca Winters Keegan will be sending occasional updates from Comic-Con. (She promises a Lost dispatch over the weekend.) Because of her job, though—covering all of Hollywood as well as all of America west of the Mississippi—she’ll have to focus a lot on the movie sessions. For supplemental TV coverage, I [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Mad Men '62

FRANK OCKENFELS / AMC Mad Men‘s second season debuts Sunday, and my review is in the print TIME this week. It begins: “Nostalgia. It’s delicate. But potent.” It’s November 1960, and ad writer Don Draper (Jon Hamm), in the first-season finale of Mad Men, is pitching a room of Kodak executives on a campaign for [...]

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Anchors Away, pt. 3: Obama vs. Obama

Barack Obama’s interview with Brian Williams was bumped back into the last half of the NBC Nightly News last night… by Barack Obama. In a move the Obama campaign probably preferred—given that Williams again asked him the question of the week on whether he believed the surge in Iraq had worked—NBC gave the leadoff spot [...]

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TIME at Comic-Con: Fringe

TIME’s Rebecca Winters Keegan e-mails this dispatch from J.J. Abrams’ screening of the full pilot of Fringe (see my writeup of an earlier critics’ screening) at Comic-Con: The J.J. Abrams love is ardent at Comic-Con this year, where back-to-back screenings of his new fall show for FOX, Fringe, kicked off preview night in the San [...]