What's worth watching this summer? Let TVWW help you decide with our handy new summer series round-up, featuring sneak-peeks at the season's most promising shows...

2012

May

'DARK SHADOWS' FANS WILL HUNGER FOR THE ULTIMATE DVD COLLECTION By Diane Werts

Whether you're a long-time Dark Shadows fan or merely curious about the inspiration behind the new Tim Burton/Johnny Depp comedy, the ultimate Dark Shadows collector set is sure to impress...

2012

Apr

FOX IS 25, AND BART SIMPSON IS STILL IN GRADE SCHOOL By Diane Werts

Crazy like a Fox! It's impossible to overstate the influence this outrageous "fourth network" has had on TV since it stormed into prime time in April 1987 -- yes, 25 years ago, which accounts for Sunday night's clips-and-reunions salute, Fox's 25th Anniversary Special...

2012

Apr

TRUE CRIME: THE 9/11 DECEPTION By Diane Werts

Real life these days seems to provide the best mystery tales of all. And there's a doozy told Friday night in The Woman Who Wasn't There, the 8-9:30 p.m. ET.

2012

Apr

EVENT: TITANIC IS ALL OVER TV By Diane Werts

TV has scheduled a titanic number of shows about the RMS Titanic leading up to April 15's 100th anniversary of the legendary ship's sinking. Documentaries, miniseries dramas, new investigations -- anything Titanic-related is finding its way to the tube over the next week...

2012

Apr

FLICK PICKS: MORE 'MOCKINGBIRD' By Diane Werts

This week, PBS's "American Masters" is profiling novelist Harper Lee, and cable's USA is airing her "To Kill a Mockingbird" in honor of both the 50th anniversary of the film...Now President Barack Obama is part of the salute...

2012

Apr

FLICK PICKS: 5 NIGHTS OF DORIS DAY By Diane Werts

She's more of an actress, and an icon, than you think. The perennially underrated Doris Day gets a different kind of Turner Classic Movies salute -- it's a week-long festival in all of which mid-century America's favorite blonde (sorry, Marilyn) proves herself adept...

2012

Mar

TV CALENDAR: MIDSEASON ADDITIONS By Diane Werts

More shows have just been added to our calendar of midseason TV, including a firm date for Eddie Izzard's Treasure Island movie. And we've stretched our coverage into June, July and August...

2012

Mar

WATCH THIS: CAST PANELS FROM PALEYFEST By Diane Werts

Got Hulu Plus? Then you've got access to this month's PaleyFest panels featuring the casts and creators of some of TV's hottest shows. Spend 80 minutes hearing how they put together "Modern Family." See David Boreanaz called on carpet for not knowing the ins-and-outs of "Bones." Get an hour of inside scoop on "Once Upon a Time."

2012

Mar

CANCELED: NO MORE 'LUCK' By Diane Werts

Wow. HBO's Luck has truly run out. Dustin Hoffman's Sunday night show from producers David Milch and Michael Mann has shut down production -- permanently -- after Tuesday's death of a third horse involved in series location filming at Santa Anita Park near Pasadena, Calif...

Posts 11-20 of 441

1 2 3 4 5

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.

New From TVWW

Diane Werts

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'