Let everybody else watch those Golden Girls marathons. We'll pay tribute to Rue McClanahan after her Thursday death by savoring the actress' most recent, and most raucous, series work. Sordid Lives runs in marathon form on LOGO Sunday night 8 p.m.-2 a.m. ET -- all 12 episodes of the trailer park trashcom in which McClanahan plays matriarch to a screwy crew of drunks, pill poppers, closet gays, amputees, and male Tammy Wynette wannabes...

2010

May

DVD UPDATE: 'LIFE' (US) VS. 'LIFE' (UK) By Diane Werts

Now's the perfect time for the return of our weekly TV DVD coverage because June 1 marks a major TV release smackdown: Oprah Winfrey vs. David Attenboroug! They're both narrating the epic nature series Life...

2010

May

FALL FLASH: DIANE HOLLOWAY ASSESSES THE 2010-11 LINEUP By Diane Werts

Diane Werts here . . . to let you know that the words below come from our Diane2 -- Diane Holloway, who's digested the news from last week's network upfronts to let you know what's new, what's back and what's gone for good.

2010

May

WATCH THIS: TONIGHT'S REPORT ON UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY BILL HELPS DEFINE CURRENT TV By Diane Werts

The Current TV channel has had a hard time getting traction since its 2005 launch, partly because of its original schedule of short-take video "pods," and partly because, well, what the heck IS Current?...

2010

May

CONFESSION: HOW 'LOST' LOST ME (AND SO MANY MILLIONS OF OTHER VIEWERS) By Diane Werts

I used to love Lost, but my attention steadily dwindled as the plot's conniptions progressively ramped up...don't complicate your drama into something so intricate and internecine that only a small subset of the audience will have the time, energy or interest to follow it...

2010

May

FALL FLASH: CBS SHAKES IT UP By Diane Werts

So now it's staid old CBS that's upending the primetime grid? Go figure. Long-established shows are moving all over the place this fall to make room for fresh arrivals. Biggest news out of Wednesday's Manhattan upfront presentation to advertisers...

2010

May

FALL FLASH: TNT AND TBS STEP UP By Diane Werts

The TV motherlode was waiting last week when I returned home after two weeks away -- a piled-up mountain of press kits that practically blocked the door. Amid the DVDs -- a half-dozen pilot episodes and season-return screeners from one of TV's most savvy and reliable hit-producing outlets...

2010

May

FALL FLASH: ABC UPFRONT By Diane Werts

Let ABC know what you think of its new fall shows. After presenting the 2010-11 slate to advertisers in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, the network's website posted "sneak peek" clips from most of the pilot episodes, and opened them up to viewer comments...

2010

May

FALL FLASH: NEW FOX SHOWS By Diane Werts

So Fox has posted its fall prime-time schedule at its website, as presented Monday afternoon in Manhattan to advertisers -- and, incidentally, to critics, who only get invited if there's extra room in the dedicated-to-money-making upfront venue. One who got in offers instant reaction here...

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Diane Werts

Associate Editor

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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