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Crusading reporters. Justice for an unsolved murder. A bus carrying a civil-rights message across the South.

Well, that's the kind of story we journalists just eat up.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - For fans of PBS's "Masterpiece" production "Downton Abbey," this will be a bittersweet weekend: the end of the show's second season.

"BLUES FUNERAL," Mark Lanegan Band (4AD)

Mark Lanegan comes to his "Blues Funeral" by natural causes, but not because his career is dead. Far from it: Lanegan wears his age (late 40s) and history so well that this "Funeral" seems like a new beginning.

"Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" -- Homer Simpson

As Homer himself might say, "D'oh!"

While working together on the comedy series "Extras," Warwick Davis shared with Ricky Gervais the trials of life when you're only 3-foot-6.

Davis uses a mop handle to reach high shelves at the grocery store. Strangers will touch him for luck as if he were a leprechaun. When he opens the door to his vehicle, he tends to fall out.

Locked doors. Secret discussions. Shredded notes.

The cloak-and-dagger life of a spy? No, this is the life of a librarian elected to one of the children's-book-award committees sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association.

If you have a young reader who loves nonfiction, check out the 2012 winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal, and the four 2012 Sibert Honor books.

PASADENA, Calif. - "American Experience" executive producer Mark Samels pondered the question: When does history begin? At what point does it make sense for the respected PBS documentary program to profile a past U.S. president?

Fans of uncomfortable comedy ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") and the Ricky Gervais brand of uncomfortable comedy in particular ("The Office," "Extras") may be drawn to HBO's "Life's Too Short" (10:30 p.m. EST Sunday), but it's a little too familiar.

Lenny Kravitz has too much going on.