There’s been a lot of talk in the political press about how the townhall format makes it difficult to launch negative and personal attacks. Therefore, I am expecting negative and personal attacks. Your predictions? Update: Remember to visit the debate liveblog tonight. I’m not doing this for my health!

BRAVO Tonight, Bravo expands its people-who-are-richer-than-you empire with The Real Housewives of Atlanta (9 p.m. E.T.). From my casual viewing of the first episode, you will probably have roughly the same use for it that you do for the Orange County and New York City versions, the differences being (1) you can play a drinking [...]

I just watched a screener DVD for one of Nick News’ Linda Ellerbee specials, Kids Pick the President, which airs this Sunday. As a lead-up to an online kids’ vote, which will go live after the special airs, John McCain and Barack Obama took questions from interested kids on issues including immigration, health care and [...]

Karen Tumulty, Michael Grunwald and I will be liveblogging tonight’s debate again at the usual address. Learn it, bookmark it, live it. As you know, tonight’s debate will be a townhall, a format that allows for back-and-forth with voters, intermingling among candidates and questioners, and freewheeling exchanges. Oh, actually: it will allow for none of [...]

Brief spoilers for Heroes coming up after the jump.

I’m coming a couple days late to this, but: while I’d had hope that Entourage was back with its Vince-hits-bottom storyline this season, my faith was shaken with the very-special shrooms-in-the-desert episode Sunday. Like so many episodes in the middle of the last season, it seemed inserted to pad out the season, and really, if [...]