I've been meaning to write something about this week's "Saving Grace." I wasn't crazy about the episode as a whole — once again, the cops-and-crooks part of it felt a little weak. But Holly Hunter just knocked my socks off in the scene where she so seductively interrogated the guy who'd been spying on the motel. Leon Rippy — who plays Earl –was hitting it pretty hard, too. And I not only like Lorraine Toussaint, I like that what the show is doing with her character so far.

All of which is a roundabout way of getting to TNT's announcement today that it has ordered 15 more episodes of "Grace." More about that after the jump …

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"Saving Grace," "The Closer," "Damages" and tonight's "Rescue Me," after the jump …

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Yesterday I went to the wedding of the Black Keys' Pat Carney and Denise Grollmus. You can find a few notes, as well as photos, here.

The evening was devoted to TV viewing in what turned into a tough-women marathon: Monday's new episode of "The Closer," the premiere of the new series "Damages" (starting July 24 on FX) and two episodes of the new series "Saving Grace" (July 23 on TNT, in the post-"Closer" time slot). …

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