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Vulture answers why all those Late Show with David Letterman videos disappeared from CBS' website. Basically, the rights have already reverted to Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants.

Former White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer frequently gets asked if The West Wing or House of Cards captures Washington better but he thinks Veep is the most accurate show about politics. Pfeiffrer says Veep captures the pace of Washington and how things never come to a clean conclusion while also depicting the ridiculous concerns of the modern media. At least no one is suggesting it's anything like Scandal. That would be terrifying.

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Washington: A city full of Jonahs.

The death at the end of last night's Game of Thrones finale has been the subject of debate of fans of George R.R. Martin's books ever since the last volume came out a few years ago. Many readers argue that this particular death is set up for the character to return from the dead. While the actor says that was definitely their last scene, some of the fan theories don't require that the actor return.

On a happier Game of Thrones note, you can listen to a song  about Faceless Man Jaqen H'ghar to the tune of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Peeno Noir".

With Phineas and Ferb having wrapped a 126-episode run, co creator Jeff Marsh tells the New York Observer he hopes his show can be an example for future kids' shows. "What I want people who are making shows to get out of this is that you can never go wrong overestimating the intelligence of kids. You can make a show without being mean, filled with jerks and idiots and that you can put big words in and it’s ok. You can do classical music, and folk and rock ‘n’ roll and rap and kids will get it. Stop dumbing down the subject matter."

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It's still common to see a show put out a 22 episode season, but it's getting to be more common to see shorter seasons with 13 to 15 episodes and that's getting even shorter with 10-episode seasons becoming common. For premium channels, that means there are more shows on the schedule and more ways to promote the benefits of subscribing. There is also a creative benefit, as it gives creators a chance to spend more time on an episode (and on a show like Empire have time to create the music) and attracting actors who want to have time for other projects. Still, they won't get much shorter, at some point it becomes too difficult for a show to build word of mouth.

Buzzfeed continues to dig into the A&E reality show 8 Minutes and how it was, at best, a very misguided hope to help victims of human trafficking without understanding what it takes to actually help victims of human trafficking.

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Years before Hawaii citizens amended their constitution for the sake of discrimination, before Bill Clinton signed DOMA and California voters approved Proposition 8, six couples were given marriage licensees in Boulder Colorado. Limited Partnership tells the story on one of those couples, Richard Adams and Tony Sullivan. Sullivan was an Australian citizen who applied for a green card as the spouse of an American citizen and the couple ended up in a legal battle with a blatantly homophobic INS, who didn't believe two men (the INS document used a more hateful word there) could have a "bona fide marital relationship". Here's the trailer:

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) 8:00 PM ET

The auditions head to Los Angeles this week.

The Fosters (ABC Family) 8:00 PM ET

The Fosters clan celebrate fathers day, which quickly becomes a complicated matter. The easy part comes when Stef and Lena invite Mike for brunch. Things get a little more difficult when Callie spends the days with the Quinns. The real challenge comes up when Jude decides to invite his biological father to be a part of the celebrations.

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Devious Maids (Lifetime) 9:00 PM ET

In what could be the greatest or the worst employer/employee combination, Marisol finds Carmen a job thanks to the Powell's sudden need for a maid. How will Carmen's lazy and belligerent nature mix with the Powell's elitist sense of entitlement? At the least, it should be fun to watch the combination, like whenever a sitcom character uses the wrong soap and suddenly the apartment looks like foam night at Babylon.

Major Crimes (TNT) 9:00 PM ET

Now that he's discovered a case he can turn into an article, Rusty digs into the death of a mostly-forgotten murder victim. Unfortunately, he's about to learn that it may be easier than he would have expected to mess up the investigation. Meanwhile, the Major Crimes team finds themselves dealing with one of those only-in-Los-Angeles cases that starts with a dead body in a trunk, but ends up drawing in a celebrity chef, a pediatric psychiatrist and a bankruptcy lawyer.

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Becoming Us (ABC Family) 9:00 PM ET

Ben continues to be distant from his family, so Danielle hopes dinner with her family will break through the walls he's been building since Carly came out. At least Carly's other child, Sutton, wants help picking out items for her wedding registry.

The Island (NBC) 10:00 PM ET

As things get tougher, the men who left families behind start to really feel the gravity of their situation. However, before they give up, they take on one more attempt to find food.

Behind the Story with the Paley Center (Sundance) 11:00 PM ET

The people who make Masters of Sex discuss the challenges of making a period drama about human sexuality, like getting the underwear of the era right.

@Midnight (Comedy Central) Midnight ET

Margaret Cho trades quips for points tonight. (At one point, Matt Lucas was listed as one of tonight's panelists but that may not still be the case.)

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