Day: July 24, 2019

Best-bets for Friday, July 26: “SHIELD” tries to save the world

1) “Agents of SHIELD,” 8 p.m., ABC. A week from the season-finale (and a year from the series-finale), “SHIELD” has our attention. Tonight, ABC says, the team is in full crisis mode; that thrusts it toward next week’s two-hour finale, trying “to stop the end of everything,” a worthy goal. The series (shown here from its first year) had already been renewed for 13 episodes next summer, but ABC recently said that will be the end. Read more…

Sinking boat? Huge shark? All part of her day

LOS ANGELES — We’ve all been in this situation, sort of:
A shark has bitten a chunk out of our boat, which is slowly sinking. This happens to be the world’s largest great white shark – 20 feet and 2.5 tons; also, a couple 15-footers were nearby
.That moment in Hawaii is being shown – and re-shown – in cable’s “Sharkfest/Shark Week” marathon. What thoughts were racing through the mind of Kimberly Jeffries (shown here) at the time?
“I was thinking, ‘This is going to be really expensive to fix,’” she said. Read more…