Patrick McGoohan may have died, but The Prisoner isn't going anywhere, except into every home on the planet. AMC has started streaming all 17 episodes of McGoohan's surreal '60s classic as a lead-up to the cabler's modern re-think debuting later this year...

2009

Jan

WEIRD & WILD: MIDGETS & FREAKS By Diane Werts

If you've never seen an all-midget western musical, here's your chance. And if you've already been, um, lucky enough to catch The Terror of Tiny Town, you can savor it again late Friday night on Turner Classic Movies...

2009

Jan

FLICK PICKS: JACK LEMMON ON TCM By Diane Werts

Let other people be Movie Stars. Jack Lemmon was America's Everyman. A manic modern husband. A mousy Navy ensign. An eager-beaver young executive used by his wily old boss...

2009

Jan

FLICK PICKS: JEAN HARLOW, NO DUMB BLONDE By Diane Werts

January 6, 2009 10:09 AM She even reads books! That's the punchline of the first of five fun films starring Jean Harlow, Dinner at Eight (Saturday at 8 p.m., Turner Classic Movies). The night's TCM mini-festival spotlights the brassy blonde's sex appeal and comedic spark as well as her dramatic chops (or lack thereof), in early films from 1931-33. Dinner at Eightis a sleek MGM all-star affair, where a 1933 high society dinner party attracts not only Harlow (in a gown so tight, the actress lite

2009

Jan

WEIRD & WILD: SPOCK/KIRK & ELVIS & CES -- OH, MY! By Diane Werts

Let Bianculli cover the network biggies. I prefer sifting through the more obscure sands of cable/satellite to find peculiar jewels among the junk. Like a new Shatner's Raw Nerve where the BIO host pokes away at old Trek second Leonard Nimoy...

2008

Dec

YULE TUBE: LIZA MINNELLI AND TAMMY FAYE! By Diane Werts

Yes, Christmas kiddies -- we've hit the jackpot. Our friends at TV4U.com have posted full-length streaming video of 1965's original TV musical The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood -- starring 19-year-old Liza Minnelli...

2008

Dec

HAPPY NEW YEAR TV: COUNTDOWNS AND MARATHONS By Diane Werts

Celebrate Wednesday night's arrival of 2009 the new/old-fashioned way with the broadcast networks' countdowns. Or check out cable's alternatives, most of which have nothing to do with New Year's Eve. And then there's the let-it-all-hang-out festivity of Univision's time-zone-hopping Feliz 2009! Can't go wrong with Don Francisco...

2008

Dec

YULE TUBE: WATCH CHRISTMAS TV SHOWS ONLINE By Diane Werts

So you've searched our hundreds of holiday TV listings, and you haven't found the Christmas episode/special you're looking for. Maybe you missed it when it aired. Or you'd rather watch it on your iPod. Try online TV. You can watch streaming shows on your computer, or download 'em to show-and-tell -- anything from South Park to It's a Wonderful Life, plus obscure old holidays from Amos 'n' Andy, Liberace and Ozzie & Harriet. Even Chrismukkah on The O.C...

2008

Dec

YULE TUBE ALASTAIR SIM'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOUND By Diane Werts

...Not on TV, unfortunately. Like It's a Wonderful Life -- another classic that used to run constantly -- Sim's 1951 British-produced A Christmas Carol has become a rare find on the tube....

2008

Dec

GREAT TV GIFTS: 'I, CLAUDIUS' ON DVD By Diane Werts

Thirty years later, the legend lives on. I, Claudius was an early hit for PBS' Masterpiece Theatre in the public broadcaster's first decade, topping critics' 1976 best-of lists...

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Diane Werts

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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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