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2011

Sep

DVD: CAN THE PACKAGING GET WORSE? By Diane Werts

Just got Star Wars on Blu-ray when it came out Friday, and couldn't wait to open it. Then I opened it. NOT again. Yes, again. The packaging for this super-duper much-hyped better-than-ever souped-up high-def edition is indeed worse for disc-keeping than previous editions...

2011

Sep

AND THE WINNER IS: 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' TOPS PRE-EMMY EMMYS By Diane Werts

Boardwalk Empire has 7 Emmys already, a week before this year's Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out on Fox Sept. 18. How so? Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmys ceremony -- the annual precursor honoring behind-the-camera work in "crafts" categories like casting, costuming and sound...

2011

Sep

TAKE NOTE: THE FINAL FRONTIER REACHES MIDDLE AGE By Diane Werts

Do you know what happened on Sept. 8, 1966? Well, neither do the TV networks. Or cable channels. Because there's a big anniversary Thursday. And no one on the tube seems to be taking note of it. Gene Roddenberry's culture-shifting space series Star Trek debuted 45 years ago -- Sept. 8, 1966 -- on NBC. Before that, there was no Mr. Spock. No warp drive. No beam-me-up-Scotty...

2011

Sep

FALL TV: NETWORK PREVIEW SPECIALS By Diane Werts

So what's new on the networks this fall? We're preparing our own TVWW fall preview, but in the meantime, you can find out from the networks themselves. They've all produced half-hour fall preview specials that are unreeling on local stations and related cable channels -- not to mention online in various formats...

2011

Aug

FALL CASTING: CHAZ BONO, NANCY GRACE AMONG 'DWTS' CONTENDERS By Diane Werts

There's Cher's daughter turned son, a Queer Eye guy, a Kardashian, a brawling basketballer, Ricki Lake and Nancy Grace. Just for starters. So who's not watching Dancing With the Stars this time?...

2011

Aug

GOOD SPORTS: 'LITTLE' WORLD SERIES, BIG HEART By Diane Werts

Whoa! Man! Have you been watching this Little League World Series on ESPN? These 11-to-13-year-olds from all over the world are amazing. Tuesday night's Georgia-Pennsylvania game was 6-3 after the first inning -- and we'd already seen incredible slides and tags and almost-home-runs and down-the-line triples and overturned replay calls and just about anything else you could want in a baseball game...

2011

Aug

DVD PICK: TV HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH BENNY, BETTY AND CARSON By Diane Werts

The best thing about watching 1950s TV episodes is when they're still hysterically funny. The second best thing is seeing superstars before they were super, still working their way up to icon status. And the three DVD releases in our New This Week spotlight all qualify on one count or the other, as they salute Jack Benny, Betty White and Johnny Carson...

2011

Aug

FLICK PICKS: LON CHANEY'S GONNA GET YOU IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT By Diane Werts

It's a song from MGM's blockbuster "talkie" musical The Hollywood Revue of 1929, designed to showcase all their silent-era stars as they made the scary transition to sound. The studio's chameleon "Man of a Thousand Faces" wasn't actually in that movie, though. Instead, a chorus sang about Lon Chaney surprising them in the form of a spider or a monster because, really, who knew what this master of makeup and body manipulation might look like next?...

2011

Aug

PRESS TOUR: TOP 10 LITTLE-KNOWN SONGS ABOUT TELEVISION! By Diane Werts

tca-top-ten-josh-groban.jpg Press tour is winding down, but some of our TVWW contributors are still wound up about everything the networks have said and done at their 2011 fall-season presenations. So we'd like to point you to links where you can find coverage from our ace Eds -- Ed Bark and Ed Martin. All of our TVWW contributors will have more to say as the broadcast and cable networks move forward with their just-touted plans...

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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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