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* HBO signs up for a second season of True Blood. It’s not so much a sign of overwhelming ratings success (though the numbers for the second episode went up, to 1.8 million), as it is an example of HBO’s willingness to commit early to shows it believes in. (Also, very likely, it’s a sign that it’s ever harder to quantify a pay-cable “hit” in the era of On Demand, multiple HBO channels, DVD and so on.)
* Oprah is doing 30 Rock; Bill Clinton is doing The View; Sarah Palin is doing Katie Couric.
KInsey returns, Don and Joan take a drive, and Lane screws up royally. This week’s episode had us forging checks in the dark.
A setting-things-up episode involved a lot of storylines about children and parents, the complicated ways in which characters hurt the ones they love and how the ones you love can be used to hurt you.
Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as moonshining brothers in a movie too studied to do full justice to a bloody-compelling true story
With Rihanna starring in Battleship, TIME looks back at a few recording artists who shined on the big screen
The Bee Gees founding member died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.
An all-star cast, sentimental rom-com antics and multiple sub-plots can’t save Kirk Jones’ latest from still birth
The season 14 “Dancing with the Stars” finalists are revealed
