Heads Up, TV Fans: Great Shows Start This Week
13 years, 8 months ago

Heads Up, TV Fans: Great Shows Start This Week

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Heads Up, TV Fans: Great Shows Start This Week Enlarge this image toggle caption FX FX I know it's hot, and it's summer — but for me, it's been like Christmas. Sponsor Message The other great shows appearing this week are on cable — and, like Friday Night Lights, are likely to earn a spot on my end-of-year Top 10. Enlarge this image toggle caption David Russell/DirectTV David Russell/DirectTV Also on Wednesday, DirecTV — the same satellite service that sneak-previewed Friday Night Lights — becomes the only network, not just the first, to show a new season of Damages. With the same network's Mad Men not delivering any new shows until 2012, Breaking Bad pretty much holds undisputed title rights as the best TV show of the year, period.

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Breaking Bad turns 10: How this meth-fueled crime drama filled The Wire-sized void on TV
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Breaking Bad turns 10: How this meth-fueled crime drama filled The Wire-sized void on TV

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Editor’s note: When Breaking Bad premiered exactly 10 years ago on 20 January, 2008, its chemistry and drug business lessons filled a massive void left by The Wire and saved potential thousands from an acute case of binge-watching blues. Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad tells the story of Walt White, a high school chemistry teacher suffering from terminal …

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