What to Watch: August 18 - August 24
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19

Making of ‘True Blood’ -- 8:15/7:15c on HBO
HBO serves up an inside glimpse of its hush-hush but shrewdly promoted new series True Blood, which marks writer-director Alan Ball’s (American Beauty) return to the network following the burial of Six Feet Under in 2005. It’s only 15 minutes long, but every second of insight counts when it comes to this sure-to-be-weird vampire drama.
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Making the Band (Season Premiere) -- 9/8c on MTV (Re-Airs at 11/10c)
Season 3 of Making the Band 4 opens with the Diddy-mentored groups Danity Kane and Day26 going out on tour--a theme that MTV seems to be touting as rather groundbreaking.