Nobody can say NBC's Beijing Olympics coverage doesn't root for the home folks. The network is hyping how it'll lead Friday night's 8 p.m. ET network coverage with a 20-minute recap of the women's gymnastics triumphs of American gold medalist Nastia Liukin and silver medalist Shawn Johnson...

2008

Aug

OLYMPICS: ONLINE LIVE QUADRUPLE-SCREEN STREAMS! By Diane Werts

I'm becoming a quick fan of NBC's online Olympics video. Like a kid set loose in a candy store, you get to taste whatever you want...

2008

Aug

GONE TOO SOON: A TOAST TO 'BERNIE MAC' By Diane Werts

Bernie Mac, gone? At 50? Even more surprising than the comedian's early death from pneumonia is the fact that his fine Fox sitcom The Bernie Mac Show doesn't seem to be repeating nationally anywhere...

2008

Aug

OLYMPICS: WATCH 2,200 HOURS ONLINE By Diane Werts

Since you never know when you're gonna wanna see North Korea play Nigeria in a pre-Olympic women's soccer match, you should go now -- NOW -- to NBCOlympics.com and download the Silverlight plug-in...

2008

Aug

OLYMPICS: WOW, TWO WHOLE NEW CHANNELS! (MAYBE. MAYBE NOT.) By Diane Werts

And cable wonders why customers are exasperated. Even when this industry does something good for viewers, they don't manage to tell you about it...

2008

Aug

HOT SPOT(S): STEVE IS LIVE ON ESPN By Diane Werts

He loves breakfast and the safety dance, "but not necessarily in that order." He's Steve, the 25-year-old ESPN intern you've seen wearing a 15-pound countdown clock/billboard around his neck. He's our Play of the Day...

2008

Aug

FLICK PICKS: CHAPLIN CLASSICS ON TCM By Diane Werts

Get ready to gorge on classic Hollywood movies -- Friday marks the start of Turner Classic Movies' annual Summer Under the Stars month of 24-hour mini-festivals dedicated to one legendary performer per day...

2008

Jul

YULE TUBE: CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST! By Diane Werts

Call me crazy, because in this respect I am. Can't ever get enough Christmas TV -- even in August. And it just so happens a bunch of cool yule episodes are airing over the next few days...

2008

Jul

FLICK PICKS: '70S WESTERNS By Diane Werts

"A picture of the west that is at once romanticized and surprisingly decrepit." Could we be speaking of Deadwood? Actually, look back 35 years...

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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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