Sorry, folks, it’s been a while since we brought you the leatest from our favourite US TV blogs at The TV Blog Coalition. Normal service, we promise, is now resumed, with your weekly round-up of the best American TV news and views from around the web…

• With network TV ratings on the decline, Buzz wondered if you — yes, you! — are watching less TV this Summer than usual. (BuzzSugar)

• Sandie interviewed Rutina Wesley, who plays Tara on HBO’s True Blood. (Daemon’s TV)

• Scooter pays tribute to Michael Jackson. (Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green)

• Other than So You Think You Can Dance, Vance didn’t have much time to watch TV last week because he was out in the park watching Twelfth Night starring Anne Hathaway, Raul Esparza (Pushing Daisies), Audra McDonald (Private Practice), Hamish Linklater (New/Old Christine) and more. (Tapeworthy)

• Jace offered an elegy for ABC’s canceled The Unusuals and offered advance reviews of Fox’s Virtuality and the first four episodes of HBO’s Hung. (Televisionary)

• After this week’s episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Sara has the irresistible urge to become BFFs with Kathy and Paula Deen. (TiFaux)

• Eric is so glad that Lafayette is back for season two of True Blood and even happier to find out how he gets out of imprisonment this week. (TV Fanatic)

• The TV Addict took a closer at the CW’s unexpected midseason treat, Life Unexpected. (The TV Addict)

Each week the TV Blog Coalition – of which TV Spy is proud to be a member of – highlights some of the best American TV news and views from around the web…

• Buzz got to wondering about the TV shows that are sort of the opposite of guilty pleasures, the ones you don’t even like very much but can’t seem to quit watching. (BuzzSugar)

• Not willing to let go of the show without a fight, Give Me My Remote dedicated the week to Chuck. We had special features, polls, soundtrack listings and viewer testimony. Did you lend your voice? Here’s to hoping NBC orders a third season soon. (Give Me My Remote)

• Rescue Me was back in fine form with its fifth season premiere. And as an added bonus: an Alex P. Keaton sighting. (Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green)

• In case you didn’t know, Vance goes to the theatre a lot, and then blogs about it. He also likes to stalk celebrities like James McAvoy after the show. (Tapeworthy)

• After thinking about a particularly shocking character death this week, Jace talked to former BSG and Buffy writer and current Caprica showrunner Jane Espenson and some other television industry insiders about the role of death on television today. (Televisionary)

• Sara was all aflutter over the BBC reality show Any Dream Will Do, which is possibly the campiest thing she’s ever seen. Hear that Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber? (TiFaux)

• Kate was oh-so-pleasantly surprised by Southland. (TV Filter)

• Matt didn’t love the premiere of Parks and Recreation. But he won’t give up on it yet! [TV Fanatic]

• The TV Addict wondered if casting Leonard Nimoy in Fringe is, well, highly illogical (The TV Addict)

• Ben did his best to support Chuck from the other side of the Atlantic, and Heather got her mitts on some bobble-head Dexters to give away in a great competition. (TV Spy)