It wasn't just Barack Obama marking a generational sea change on election night. As veteran anchors seasoned in the '60s and '70s held forth on most major channels, Shepard Smith was pointing the way toward the future on Fox network news...

2008

Nov

NEWS FLASH: 'WORLD NEWS' GOES ONE-HOUR TONIGHT By Diane Werts

Katie Couric says last week she wants a one-hour newscast, and Charlie Gibson goes and one-ups her by actually doing it. For one night, anyway...

2008

Nov

VOTE HERE: NOT THE SAME OLD ELECTION COVERAGE By Diane Werts

Everybody's into election coverage this year, not just the big broadcast networks and cable news channels. That means a broader range of perspectives and wider-ranging alternatives. Current goes Digg-ing. BET lets you Be Heard. Dan Rather recruits college reporters...

2008

Nov

WATCH ONLINE: 'GOLDEN AGE' ARCHIVE By Diane Werts

You've heard that Paul Newman started out in live TV back in the 1950s. But where could you possibly see old kinescopes of that work?...

2008

Oct

WATCH THIS: WATERGATE AND ARAB MUSIC By Diane Werts

Politics and entertainment meet in two must-see ways this weekend. Watergate becomes a Hollywood drama, and Arab musicians cross cultural boundaries to join forces with American rockers...

2008

Oct

HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: 'PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE,' 'YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN' By Diane Werts

Fright flicks and creepy comedy are all over the tube for Halloween... Young Frankenstein. Phantom of the Paradise...

2008

Oct

FLICK PICKS: 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE' By Diane Werts

The way politics is today, the way world conflicts are evolving, the way we take everything so seeeriously, there's something to be said for finding ways to make your salient point with humor...

2008

Oct

FLICK PICKS: CHANEY'S GONNA GET YOU By Diane Werts

The movies' original frightmeisters strut their stuff tonight on Turner Classic Movies. And 80 years later, it still holds up...

2008

Oct

WATCH THIS: 'FLINTSTONES' MARATHON By Diane Werts

So many channels, so little capacity. That's why many cable systems still aren't offering channels that have been around for awhile. Like 'Boomerang', the "classic" Cartoon Network spinoff that's been around since 2000, yet still reaches relatively few cable homes...

2008

Oct

OH, NO: WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TUNE INTO WORLD SERIES GAMES UNTIL AT LEAST 8:30 P.M. ET By Diane Werts

Is there nothing that cannot be somehow politicized in this wacky presidential election year? Could we please stop treating momentous current events like some handy celebreality/amusement/promotional platform?...

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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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