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Showtime Renews Weeds for Eighth Season

Earlier today Showtime released a press statement announcing the renewal of Jenji Kohan's off-beat pot-themed suburban dramedy Weeds. Given season seven's dramatic cliffhanger ending, we're not surprised.  read more

New Season of Weeds to Take Place in the Future

The last season of Showtime’s Weeds left viewers hanging as Nancy Botwin (spoiler alert) opted for “Plan C,” turning herself in to the police in order to keep her family out of trouble....  read more

20 Great TV Shows To Watch on Netflix Instant

In this fall's TV landscape, there were only two new shows this fall that kept my attention. But there's plenty of great television that I missed the first time around, and lately I've caught up on several of those shows via Netflix's Instant.  read more

High Definition: Out of the Weeds

It’s hard to recommend Weeds, though I’ll likely subscribe to Showtime before it returns Aug. 16, just so I can once again watch. My wife and I ran through the first five seasons on Netflix and DVD like a pair of addicts; it was difficult not to say “just one more” at the end of every 25-minute episode, no matter how late the hour. And the withdrawal has been hell. Even when we stopped liking most of the characters, we couldn’t stop watching a half-decade-long story arc that was more like a downward spiral as every bad decision from Nancy...  read more

10 TV Shows with Great Music

MTV might have dropped the word "music" from its name after all but giving up on videos, but you can still find great music in prime time. Here are the 10 TV shows with the best music.  read more

Weeds Moves to Basic Cable

Used to be, in order to watch Weeds, you had to shell out some bucks and subscribe to Showtime...  read more

Weeds: Season 5 DVD Review

DVD Release Date: Jan. 19 Creator: Jenji Kohan Starring: Mary-Louis Parker, Kevin Nealon, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Perkins Studio/Length: Lions Gate Television. 286 minutes Dynamic fixture of TV comedy continues to grow The sly creative energy that crackles through every season of Weeds gives the series a light, easygoing veneer, the sense that it’s in no particular rush to get anywhere. But as a matter of craft and sheer endurance, it has proven itself one of the canniest shows on the air. Early this season, the characters seemed to be tangled in the past—Nancy uses a pregnancy to ward off...  read more

The Five Best Drug Dealers On TV

Some of the best shows on television are about the dirty drug world. Whether they’re selling pot, meth, heroin or vampire blood, drug dealers make for fascinating characters. Enjoy this list, but first, a public-service announcement from Paste: Don’t deal drugs. You’ll either end up dead, in jail, pregnant, in Mexico, or pregnant in Mexico....  read more

The 10 Best TV Guest Appearances of the Decade (2000-2009)

Some shows are built around celebrity appearances, while others just sprinkle episodes with guest stars for added humor or drama. Either way, we love a good TV cameo. Here, we look back on our favorites of the past decade.  read more

The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009)

This list of 20 phenomenal TV shows from 2000-2009 reinforces our belief that the young millennium has launched a new Golden Age of Television.  read more