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Week of June 27

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. E.T. on ABC Family
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This series is teen soap as parental sex-horror show: an innocent band geek (Shailene Woodley) gets pregnant after (of course) her first time. Campily depicting high school as a den of sluts and predators, Secret achieves the noble goal of making sex thoroughly unsexy.

Grade: D+

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The new Elvis Costello television series, Stephen Colbert's Christmas Special and Chungking Express on DVD

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The Monty Python Holy Grail on DVD, Gears of War 2 for the gamers, Bolt in movie theaters, and more

October 10

The good cheer of Happy-Go-Lucky, reliving the amazing life of John Lennon, cathing up with The Starter Wife on TV, and more

October 3

Greg Kinnear, in Flash of Genius, Richard Jenkins in The Visitor, Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, and more

September 26

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