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Kyra Sedgwick makes The Closer’s cop part Helen Mirren, part Blanche DuBois; also, Saved’s slacker savior.

Hot teens, sweaty beaches, sudden riches, and lots of paranormal high jinks. That’s right�it’s summertime on TV.

A film that revisits �Russia’s 9/11� is so harrowing you can’t, and shouldn’t, look away.

During sweeps, everyone serves up death and plague. But only Stephen King really crawls under your skin.

Simone Bitton, a Morocco-born Arab Jew, looks at all sides of the multi-million-dollar security fence Israel is building along its border with the West Bank.

Jericho is the latest British import in public television’s Mystery! series that asks us to identify with a less-than-dashing not-quite-dude and accept as our hero a middle-aged mug.

Sure, she whupped Bobby Riggs. But as a new film reminds us, Billie Jean King was also a proletariat pioneer.

Robson Green stars as an unemployed steelworks engineer and recently widowed father of two who has decided to build, in his garden, the very first Welsh rocket, in order to send his wife’s ashes up into space.

This show wants us to know that fortysomething single moms are smart and sexy, too. Of course, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been here before.

God save Helen Mirren, who delivers one of the great�though not the greatest�Elizabeths ever.