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HBO Announces New Drama for September!

…but it’s en Espanol. Capadocia, set in a fictional Mexican women’s prison, will run Wednesdays on HBO Latino starting Sept. 10. I don’t know if I’ll be seeing it before it airs—I personally no habla, but it will replay subtitled on-demand—but the network describes it thus: “Corruption runs rampant as prison rights attorney Teresa …

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Alumni Report

Former TIME colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates has started blogging at The Atlantic this week, replacing the departed Matt Yglesias. There’s no real TV connection here; I just like his writing and always appreciated him for being the one person at Time with a name (arguably) as hard to spell as mine. And now that he no longer works with me, I can …

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Last Candidate Standing

I’m aware, by the way, that it seems sometimes as if I blog about nothing but politics here nowadays. But it’s August, and it’s an election year and that means that by default the election is itself the watercooler show on TV, at least until the Olympics start.

But don’t take my word for it. Ask the producers of Last Comic Standing, for …

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China Countdown: Supersize My Restaurant

In my latest Olympic-walkup column about how pop culture has largely ignored modern China, I mentioned very briefly that some cable documentaries and news shows have been trying—albeit with relatively small audiences—to fill in the gaps. So it’s only fair that I mention some of them. Last month, Discovery viewers saw Ted Koppel …

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