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...Less shrieky and more geeky was the crowd at the panel for True Blood, Alan Ball's adaptation of Harris's series about a telepathic barmaid in Louisiana named Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) who solves mysteries about vampires and werewolves. Ball showed a long teaser reel from the show, which struck fans of the series as "sexier than the books," "more violent than the books," "more sensationalistic." In other words, more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight and True Blood at Comic Con | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...problems can be seen on EastEnders: only 9 million viewers tuned in to the finale of the hostage plotline--far shy of EastEnders' record episode in 1986, when more than 30 million watched nothing more dramatic than the marital breakdown of a pub owner and his barmaid wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BBC's Blues | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...vulnerable? One source of the Corporation's problems can be found back in Walford: 9 million saw Jane tackle Ian's crazed captor - far shy of EastEnders' record episode in 1986, when over 30 million watched nothing more dramatic than the marital breakdown of a pub owner and his barmaid wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News at the BBC | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...women of that time were strong individuals - resilient, but also really warm," says Nable from his northern Sydney home. "The actresses who came on board added another element to what we had on paper." Toughness comes in many forms. It's the type shown by Emma and the wise barmaid Kate (Kate Mulvany) that eventually gives Grub a glimpse of a meaningful life beyond warriordom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footy for Thought | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

Saturday night in Baghdad, and Heidi, the barmaid at the Baghdad Country Club, is worried about the beer. On a busy night, she might serve 800 cold ones to the diplomats, security guards and construction workers who frequent the Country Club, a white cinder-block house with blue trim on a residential street in the Green Zone. The BCC, as it's known, gets its alcohol from suppliers outside the walls, but insurgents are targeting the crossings on either side of the Tigris River. On this Saturday, a truck bomb on a bridge has locked up traffic on the west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Green Zone | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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