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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2009
Nov
12
WEIRD & WILD: MARTHA AND RACHAEL, TOGETHER! By Diane Werts
 
 
The name of the site is TV Worth Watching, so I guess I have to explain why I think Friday's episode of The Martha Stewart Show is worth watching, and you're about to see me (read me?) work real hard at that - Martha's Friday guest is Rachael Ray...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Nov
6
TV TRICKS: CABLE BAIT AND SWITCH By Diane Werts
 
 
What's wrong with The Weather Channel giving the weather? Probably the same thing as MTV Music Television playing music. We don't learn much from The Learning Channel now that it's TLC, and American Movie Classics turned to original drama series when it became AMC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Nov
5
RATINGS: SCORE ONE FOR 'DEXTER' By Diane Werts
 
 
Bianculli may be a Mad Men fan, but I'm one of the few critics who just can't get into its detached '60s chill. My Sunday night passion is Dexter, and I'm not alone...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Nov
4
FLICK PICKS: JOHNNY MERCER MUSIC AND MORE By Diane Werts
 
 
Clint Eastwood isn't the first name that springs to mind when you think of movie music. But there was a time he wouldn't have seemed to fit the mold of Oscar-winning director either.Eastwood is indeed a music maven, as he demonstrates again this week by producing and hosting Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
29
GOOD SPORTS: BEHIND THE MASK By Diane Werts
 
 
The hockey fanatic in me can't let this one pass without promotion. Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of hall-of-famer Jacques Plante donning the first true goalie mask in an NHL game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
29
FLICK PICKS: HALLOWEEN HORRORS! By Diane Werts
 
 
Fright flicks are all over the place Friday and Saturday, in places you'd expect (TCM, AMC) and places you wouldn't (like PBS stations). Choices run the gamut from classic Boris Karloff to blaxploitation's Blacula to Troma's Toxic Avenger...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
26
COMING UP: GERVAIS HOSTS THE GLOBES By Diane Werts
 
 
Are you having a laugh? You certainly should when Ricky Gervais hosts January's freewheeling Golden Globe Awards ceremony on NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
23
IN MEMORIAM: VIC MIZZY, SOUPY SALES By Diane Werts
 
 
They're sucking all the fun out of TV. "They" would be the grim reapers of time and evolution. While the latter agent of change seems intent on making TV as grim and/or convoluted as possible...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
16
SCARY STUFF: HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVALS By Diane Werts
 
 
It isn't just Monty Python hitting the air on IFC this Sunday. That's also the night the channel starts its Indie Screams festival as we head toward Halloween...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Oct
14
THE LATEST: FOX REALITY BECOMES NATGEO WILD By Diane Werts
 
 
Turns out those crazy folks at Fox already had plans for their Fox Reality channel position before declaring the end of FRC this week. They quickly announced that NatGeo Wild will soon be airing animals in place of . . . well, that one is just too tempting, isn't it?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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