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next week 12/1

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New and notable in the week ahead, procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Shrek the Halls/How the Grinch Stole Christmas (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – It’s after thanksgiving so I’m ready to embrace the new season, ho ho ho! 
  • Privileged (CW, 9pm) – This Monday night slot with reruns in the usual Tuesday at 9 gives folks more opportunity to dig this simple but delightful premise of girl trying to do right by spoiled kids, business mogul grandmother, her own imperfect family, and some hot dudes.
  • Samantha Who? (ABC, 9/9:30pm) – Dancing with the Stars is done and Samantha rocks a whole hour this week, who wants to bet her good intentions turn humorous?

Tuesday

  • Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town  (ABC, 8pm) – Yes he is.
  • 2008 World Music Awards (MNT, 9pm) – I don’t know, yet another music awards show where Beyonce performs.
  • According to Jim (ABC, 9/9:30pm) Season Premiere – Really this show is still on?
  • Paris Hilton’s My New BFF (MTV, 9/10pm) – The finale and the reunion special, I wonder if Nichole Ritchie paid her to find someone else?
  • Bad Girls Club (Oxy, 11pm) Season Premiere – More ‘bad girls’ move in to make a ruckus.
  • Shatner’s Raw Nerve (Bio, 11/11:30pm) Series Premiere – William Shatner kicks off the first two eps of his interview show with Valerie Bertinelli and Tim Allen.

Wednesday

  • Christmas in Rockefeller Center (NBC, 8pm) – Al Roker and Jane Krakowski host the annual tree lighting with lots of celebrity guests.
  • Secret Millionaire (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – It sounds like rich folks work alongside less rich folks before giving them some cash in this latest reality offering.
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Grammy Nominations Concert/Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (CBS, 8/910pm) – A little something for everyone.
  • The Contender (Vs, 10pm) Season Premiere – Another round of contenders.
  • Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – A couple of reruns lead up to the season premiere.

Thursday

  • Barbara Walters (ABC, 10pm) – This year’s ten most fascinating people.

Friday

  • Greatest Holiday Moments (NBC, 8pm) – I think there should be some claymation on the list.
  • Lipstick Jungle (NBC, 9pm) – Is this new timeslot where this show has been sent to die?

Saturday

  • Crusoe (NBC, 8pm) – Crusoe and Friday are still on the island but now they’re there on Saturday.

Sunday

  • The Amazing Race (CBS, 8pm) Season Finale – The remaining teams head to Portland and a couple folks get the dough.
  • House of Saddam (HBO, 9/10pm) – The first parts of a four part miniseries.
  • Leverage (TNT, 10pm) Series Premiere -Timothy Hutton heads a crew of thieves who steal from the rich, I love a good heist show, I have no idea if this is a good heist show.
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next week 11/24

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New and notable for the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Andy Warhol’s Party People (Ovation, 8pm) – This miniseries kicks off with interviews about the gang.

Tuesday

  • Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (ABC, 8pm – and Thursday) – Snoopy and the gang give thanks.
  • Dancing With the Stars (ABC, 9pm) Season Finale -Looks like it’s down to Brooke Burke, Warren Sapp, and Lance Bass.
  • Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo, 10pm) Season Premiere -This original housewives show returns for another season of the ladies.
  • The Shield (FX, 10pm) Series Finale – This series is supposed to be good but I’ll have to catch it on dvd.

Wednesday

  • Rosie’s Variety Show (NBC, 8pm) – There’s variety…
  • Sons of Anarchy (Fx, 10pm) Season Finale -The guys are always on the verge of trouble, ok so they’re always actually in trouble, but I’d love to watch them make it through another season.

Thursday

  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC, 9am) – Matt, Meredith and Al host the floats and whatnot.
  • Purina National Dog Show (NBC, noon) – Love to watch the doggies circle the center ring, though I’m always disappointed if a big fuzzy breed doesn’t win best in show.

Friday

  • Maybe go out to a movie as you recover from your Thanksgiving food hangover.

Saturday

  • Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show (TBS, 9pm) – Ellen hosts a Vegas show.

Sunday

  • Party Monsters (E, 6pm) Series Premiere – This competition show has 9 party planners try to throw the ultimate party in Cabo. 
  • Britz (BBC, 7:30pm) – This miniseries follows British born Pakistani brother and sister have different reactions to London’s 7/7.
  • Cheech and Chong Roasted (TBS, 10pm) – Let the pot jokes commence.
  • Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood (E, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – I can’t believe there’s already been a season of this.
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next week 11/10

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New and notable in the week ahead… the procrastinator is probably going to stick to the regular shows this week.

Monday

  • Trivial Pursuit (Synd) Series Premiere – America has another opportunity to answer questions for cash.

Tuesday

  • Brothers to Brutha (BET, 8pm) – This special previews the reality show following five brothers in the R&B group Brutha.
  • The Universe (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – To start, deep space disasters are examined looking at the dangers of space travel launch and reentry.
  • Chase (Scifi, 10pm) Series Premiere – This reality competition will have competitors evading chase or something.
  • Extreme Loggers/Extreme Trains (Disc/Hist, 10pm) Series Premieres – How extreme can you get?
  • Deliver Me (Disc Health, 10pm) Season Premiere – Follow real women having babies.
  • Blush (Life, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – The search for the nest great makeup artist…

Wednesday

  • CMA Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host this year’s country awards.
  • Top Chef (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere -The latest crop of cookers head to NY to start with cooking ethnic foods.
  • Estate of Panic (SciFi, 10pm) Series Premiere – Contestants go for cash by trying to make it through or out of a mansion filled with obstacles.

Thursday

  • Kitchen Nightmares (Fox, 8/9pm) – A special back to back showing of Chef Ramsay’s attack on kitchens.

Friday

  • The Price is Right Salutes the Troops (CBS, 9pm) – What better way to salute the troops.

Saturday

  • Ricy Gervais (HBO, 9pm) – Extras and The Office star performs his Out of England routine. 

Sunday

  • TRL Finale (MTV, 8pm) – Performances, interviews, and clips of the show throughout the years.
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next week 11/3

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Inside the Actor’s Studio (Bravo, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’ve never actually watched this show but I assume they just spend some quality time with actors, this week it’s Goldie Hawn.
  • First Class All the Way (Bravo, 9pm) Series Premiere – Get an inside peek at schmancy travel with a ‘concierge’ who takes us along on trips we can never afford.
  • SNL Presidential Bash (NBC, 9pm) – This special two hour presentation revisits political sketches new and old.
  • Raising the Bar (TNT, 10pm) Season Finale – This is the legal show where the Saved by the Bell guy has the really bad hair.

Tuesday

  • Election Coverage – No matter where you go you’re gonna find them talking election.
  • Daily Show and Colbert Report (Com, 10pm) – For those who prefer a little sass with their information.

Wednesday

  • Life (NBC, 9pm) – This falsely accused back on the force slightly odd detective show tries out a new time slot.
  • Law & Order (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – The kids are back bringing a little more cops and lawyers to the case of the week ripped from the headlines.  

Thursday

  • 50 cent: The Money and the Power (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Our latest celeb reality show has ‘entrepreneurs’ competing for 50’s dough.

Friday

  • Survivorman (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – The Sierra Nevadas are this week’s place to survive, but it looks like this week Les might get lost.
  • Henry Rollins: Uncut (IFC, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Rollins visits New Orleans.
  • Whale Wars (An Pl, 9pm) Series Premiere – It’s a war with the whalers not with the whales.

Saturday

  • Yeti (Scifi, 9pm) – If you’re desperate enough you can check out this made for tv movie about a college football team that crashes in the mountains and faces a snow creature.

Sunday

  • Ruby (Style, 8pm) Series Premiere – Ruby apparently weighs 477 pounds at the start of her a weight loss journey.
  • Summer Heights High (HBO, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – This eight part high school mockumentary is an Australian import.
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next week 10/27

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Chuck/Samantha Who? (NBC/ABC, 8/9:30pm) – Arrested Development’s Tony Hale performs a guest star rock block on two of tonight’s fun shows.
  • Gary Unmarried (CBS, 9:30pm) – A special night presentation of the pilot, does this mean Worst Week is out, the network says no.
  • South Park (Com, 9:30pm) – Can pink eye ruin Halloween?

Tuesday

  • Greek (ABC fam, 9pm) Season Finale – They have managed to stretch one school year over multiple seasons but it’s time for things to come to an end, but just for this year thankfully, next year Rusty moves into the house, but what will become of non president Casey?
  • Coolio’s Rules (Oxy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Rap dude starts a catering business and raises his kids in this latest reality addition.
  • It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Will Linus ever see the Great Pumpkin?

Wednesday

  • Barack (Fox, CBS, NBC, 8pm) – He’s paying for some time, as I understand it his fundraising can afford it.
  • Shaken Not Stirred (MyNet, 10pm) Series Debut – DL Hughley, Anthony Anderson, and Paul Rodriguez start their interviews with Al Sharpton.

Thursday

  • 30 Rock (NBC, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – They’re back and starting a string of guest stars with Megan Mullally.

Friday

  • Ghost Hunters (SciFi, 7pm) – Seven hour special presentation.
  • Halloween H2O (Fx, 7pm) – Check out the 20th anniversary edition of this holiday classic.

Saturday

  • Gladiators (BBCA, 4/5pm) Series Premiere – I think this might be American Gladiators but British, would just saying British Gladiators be too much to ask?

Sunday

  • Brotherhood (Show, 8pm) Season Premiere – I’m already hooked on Dexter, I can’t watch another show on a cable channel I don’t get.
  • The Simpsons (Fox, 8pm) – Treehouse of Horror strikes again.
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privileged.jpgWell the majority of the new shows have hit the air and although I’m not sure there are any real stand outs this year there are a few that so far have been added to my repertoire.

  • Easy Money (CW, Sun 9pm) – Nothing is easy as we follow a family that runs one of those high interest loan shops and learn that the favorite son who is keeping the business on track questions the business and whether he is in fact their son.
  • The Ex List (CBS, Fri 9pm) – I don’t know that I won’t get tired of this gal looking up and hooking up with her exes from days gone by but so far the perspective and supporting cast just feel fresh and funny.
  • Life on Mars (ABC, Thurs 10pm) – I’ve never seen the original UK series so I’m not sure how they compare but I am enjoying Jason O’Mara as a present day cop mysteriously finding himself having to solve crimes in the 70s with tough guys Harvey Keitel and Michael Imperioli.
  • The Mentalist (CBS, Tues 9pm) – I do like Simon Baker, and he strikes a good balance with the smug and injured lead character using his peculiar skills in observation and personal interactions to help solve crimes.
  • Privileged (CW, Tues 9pm) – Joanna Garcia is just darned likable as she tries to help two troublesome girls get their grades up while keeping them out of trouble and figuring out how to deal with her own family and live her own life.
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next week 10/20

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Rita Rocks (Life, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Single mother starts up a little garage band with some neighbors, and ‘rocks.’
  • Real Chance of Love (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – I Love New York rejected some dudes and now they’re back for some love picking of their own.
  • Scream Queens (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – The ladies compete for slasher film fame.

Tuesday

  • Living with the Wolfman (AnPlan, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – A couple on a wolf preserve.
  • The Rookies (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Field training officers take a new crop of police academy grads out on the street of Tampa.

Wednesday

  • World Series (Fox, 5pm) – The Phillies vs the Red Sox or the Rays kick off the series tonight.
  • Stylists (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Lackeys compete to become lackeys at Elle magazine.

Thursday

  • Hip Hop Awards (BET, 5pm) – Katt Williams hosts this gala with top noms to Lil Wayne.
  • American Gangster (BET, 7pm) Season Premiere – The life and times of some of the most notorious black crime figures.
  • Celebrity Rehab (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Dr Drew is back with another crew of ‘actual celebrites’ trying to get clean, and rumor has it Jeff Conaway is back.

Friday

  • Catch up on the tivo backlog or pop in a netflix, I’ve been catching ANTM repeats.

Saturday

  • World’s Ugliest Dog Competition (AnPlan, 10pm) – I think we all get the idea on this.

Sunday

  • Calzaghe/Jones 24/7 (HBO, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – All about the boxers or something.
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next week 10/13

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Little People, Big World (TLC, 8pm) Season Premiere – I think we’re following a family.
  • Samantha Who? (ABC, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – This Applegate amnesiac show amused me last year.
  • My Own Worst Enemy (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Christian Slater is a spy with an average guy split personality as his alter ego.

Tuesday

  • The Cleaner (A&E, 10pm) Season Finale – I didn’t love this Benjamin Bratt gets druggies clean show.
  • Eli Stone (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – I’m assuming Eli survives his brain surgery and still has those wacky visions.
  • Iditarod (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – This reality show follows the ‘toughest race on earth’.
  • The Rachel Zoe Project (Bravo, 10pm) Season Finale – Annoying people at work and some pretty clothes.

Wednesday

  • Presidential Debate (Various, 6pm/pst 9pm/est) – They’re back.
  • Time Warp (Disc, 8/8:30pm) Series Premiere – Looking at things like movement too fast for the human eye and juggling.
  • Project Runway (Brav, 9pm) Season Finale – I am so behind on this I can expect to find out who won before I get caught up.
  • Parking Wars (A&E, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – I think this is like your worst parking moments caught on tape.
  • Prototype This (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Can a car be designed that eliminates road rage?
  • Chocolate News (Com, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – This sketch show has David Alan Grier giving his take on current events.

Thursday

  • International X-Games (ESPN2, 8pm) – Do the boards flip the same way in mexico?

Friday

  • Crusoe (NBC, 8pm) Series Premiere – Crusoe crashes on an island and faces danger… more Gilligan or Lost?
  • Real Simple, Real Life (TLC, 8pm) Series Premiere – A team of experts help simplify a person’s life.
  • Crash (Starz, 10pm) Series Premiere – The film comes to tv with Dennis Hopper as one of the ensemble.

Saturday

  • Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling (CMT, 8pm) Series Premiere – Ten ‘celebrities’ like Danny Bonaduce compete to be the top celebrity wrestler.

Sunday

  • Action Sports (NBC, Sat/Sun 1pm/pst, also on USA and Spike) The Playstation Pro in Orando will give you another chance to catch people doing the near impossible on boards, bikes, and more.
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next week 10/6

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined: 

Monday

  • Bingo America (GSN, 6:30pm) Season Premiere – I don’t actually get the Game Show Network but if I did I don’t know that I would have thought bingo was a gameshow, but why wouldn’t it be.

Tuesday

  • Presidential Debate (Various Channels, 6pm est/9pm est) – Tom Brokaw hosts the second.
  • Dirty Jobs (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – This season starts with taking on some of the tasks of a merchant boat.
  • Real Housewives of Atlanta (Brav, 9pm) Series Premiere – If you’re familiar with these shows, I think that’s all you need to know.

Wednesday

  • South Park/Sarah Silverman (Com, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – A couple groups of potty mouths.
  • TV Land Myths and Legends (TVL, 10pm) Season Premiere – The stories behind the stories.

Thursday

  • Kath & Kim (NBC, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Selma Blair and Molly Shannon play a dysfunctional mother and daughter.
  • CSI (CBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Looks like they’re recovering from Warrick getting shot, and I think Grissom only has a few episodes and then we turn it over to Laurence Fishburne.
  • SNL Weekend Update Thursday (NBC, 9:30pm) – I think this will make Saturday night less funny.
  • Eleventh Hour (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Science crimes may be no match for Rufus Sewell.
  • LA Ink (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Inking in LA.
  • Life on Mars (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Remake of British fan favorite where a cop ends up in the 70s solving crimes the old fashioned way.
  • Testees (FX, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – This new comedy has two guys who test products and wait for the side effects.

Friday

  • The Starter Wife (USA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Debra Messing returns as former Hollywood wife starting yet again.

Saturday

  • Macy’s Celebrity Catwalk Challenge (NBC, 8pm) – I don’t know that this will compare to ANTM.
  • The Graham Norton Show (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Graham hosts and talks I believe.

Sunday

  • Rock of Love Charm School (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – This premise is hilarious, Sharon Osborne tries to turn RoL contestants into ladies.
  • The Pick-Up Artist (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Those less able to get the ladies learn tips that are one of the following a) helpful b) hilarious or c) offensive.
  • Skins (BBCA, 10pm) Season Premiere – These British teens supposedly make Gossip Girl look tame.
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next week 9/29

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New and notable in the week ahead, procrastinator picks are underlined…

Monday

  • Chuck (NBC, 8pm, repeats Sat) Season Premiere – A fun mix of action and humor as mild mannered tech repair guy starts another season of spy fun with his regular and spy companions.
  • Life (NBC, 10pm and Friday) Season Premiere – Eccentric cop returns to the force for another season after being framed and imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit.

Tuesday

  • The IT Crowd (IFC, 10pm) Series Premiere – This one is a UK import introduces a couple techies and their less techie boss.   
  • Paris Hilton’s New BFF (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – Without Nicole Richie I don’t really see what Paris’s draw is.
  • Scare Tactics (SciFi, 10pm) Season Premiere – Tracy Morgan hosts what seems to me like super cruel tricks on people.

Wednesday

  • Pushing Daisies (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – This was perhaps my favorite show of last season, it’s a visual delight as crimes are solved by our pie maker bringing folks back to life for a moment of hopeful insight.
  • Private Practice (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – I’ll give this imperfect Grey’s spinoff one more shot, but was so not feeling Addison’s new life with the medical group misfits.
  • America’s Got Talent (NBC, 9pm) Season Finale – Can they top last year’s ventriloquist?
  • Friday Night Lights (DirecTV Channel 101, 9pm) Season Premiere – I wasn’t really following this move but if you’re a fan I guess it’s good it’s still on.
  • Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – The Darling family is at it again, all except Samaire Armstrong who is rumored to return for guest visits, this is rich person drama done right.

Thursday

  • Vice Presidential Debate (Various, 6pst/9est pm) – I think folks are more interested in this debate than in the presidential ones.
  • Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (MNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Not sure I’ve yet to turn into a show on this odd non-network network and not sure this show will drive the change.
  • Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style (Bravo, 11pm) Season Premiere – Gretta Monahan joins Tim ‘make it work’ Gunn in giving individual makeovers.

Friday

  • Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Not a fan of this opposites exhibiting or doling out what seem like extremist behaviors to someone else’s family.
  • Ghost Whisperer (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Jennifer Love Hewitt whispers to ghosts, though I’m not sure she really whispers.
  • Everybody Hates Chris (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – Chris returns to start high school.
  • WWE Smackdown (MTN, 8pm) Season Premiere – I think this was on the CW last season.
  • The Game (CW, 8:30pm) Season Premiere – Not sure what’s going on with the ladies of the football league.
  • Supernanny (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere – The nanny’s deal with the brats some more.
  • The Ex List (CBS, 9pm) Series Premiere – Jane Doe from Grey’s tracks down all her exes after being told she’s already met the one.
  • Sanctuary (SciFi, 9pm) Series Premiere – I’m not sure what this show’s about but apparently it includes live action over virtual sets and originally began online.
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Cartoon, 9/9:30pm) Series Premiere – Animated Star Wars, what more do you need to know?
  • Numbers (CBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – Math wiz Charlie’s no longer got FBI clearance, whatever will FBI brother Don do?

Saturday

  • My Big Redneck Wedding (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Monster trucks and weddings go together like…
  • Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (CMT, 9:30) Season Premiere – Really there have already been two seasons of this show?

Sunday

  • 4real (CW, 5/5:30pm) Series Premiere – Cameron Diaz heads to Peru then folks named K’naan and Sol travel to Kibera in East Africa.
  • In Harm’s Way (CW, 6/7pm) Series Premiere – Real people in tough jobs like bull riding and the coast guard.
  • America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC, 7pm) Season Premiere – The videos, they are funny.
  • Valentine (CW, 8pm) Series Premiere -Greek gods bring a new (or old) technique to bringing folks together.
  • Easy Money (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Roseanne’s Laurie Metcalf runs a loan-shark business…
  • The Girl’s Next Door (E!, 10pm) Season Premiere – Did I hear a rumor that one of Hef’s gals is getting the boot, may not see that in this ep as Hef celebrates year 82 in Vegas.
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