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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2009
Jan
30
TACKY TRICKS OF THE TV TRADE: NBC'S "OFFICE" AFTER SUPER BOWL, "CHUCK" IN 3-D By David Bianculli
 
 
Hoping to cash in on Sunday's Super Bowl audience and momentum, NBC is employing one trick after another. One trick is presenting a special one-hour edition of "The Office" after the Super Bowl post-game show, and the other is promoting and presenting a special 3-D episode of "Chuck" on Monday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
29
KATIE COURIC AS READY-FOR-PRIME-TIME PLAYER By David Bianculli
 
 
Wednesday's prime-time edition of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" was the first volley in a three-part prime-time salvo aimed at heightening her profile in the next 10 days. Next Wednesday, she hosts a special prime-time interview special keyed to the Grammys. Then, a week from Sunday on "60 Minutes"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
28
"CBS EVENING NEWS" MAKES IT A LATER EVENING -- WHY NOT? By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight at 8 ET, in what's called a one-night experiment, "The CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric is presenting a special prime-time edition. What's wrong with that? Not much... but there is something...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
26
TNT'S "TRUST ME" IS NO MODERN "MAD MEN" -- OR UPDATED "THIRTYSOMETHING," EITHER By David Bianculli
 
 
TNT's newest series, "Trust Me," premieres tonight at 10 ET. It's set in the world of advertising, and thus, in theory, aspires to be a modern "Mad Men" or an updated "thirtysomething." In practice, though, it's more like another "Knight Rider"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
23
ONE TV QUESTION POSED, ONE TV PRESS TOUR SECRET REVEALED By David Bianculli
 
 
Today I have a question to ask, as well as one to answer. The one to ask concerns Fox's House -- and the one I've been dared to answer involves something that happened to me on press tour some, sigh, 30 years ago. And I've decided, in this instance, it's high time to come clean...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
22
IF BROADCAST TV IS TO SURVIVE, ALL IS "LOST" By David Bianculli
 
 
Tuning in to the two-hour season premiere of ABC's "Lost," I did something I haven't done with a commercial broadcast TV drama all year. I stopped everything else I was doing, leaned forward excitedly, and watched. If broadcast television has a future, the future is "Lost." And shows like it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
20
I WATCHED PRESIDENT OBAMA IN MY TV HISTORY CLASS -- WHERE WERE YOU? By David Bianculli
 
 
Purely by coincidence, the opening-day class of my Tuesday "TV History & Appreciation 2" class at Rowan University began at 10:50 a.m. -- the perfect time of day to make Barack Obama's inauguration part of the curriculum. How cool...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
19
WATCH HISTORY ON TV TODAY, ALMOST WHEREVER YOU TURN By David Bianculli
 
 
Today, Jan. 20, 2009, President-Elect Barack Obama becomes President Obama, the 44th President of the United States. It's THE show to watch today, wherever you decide to watch it. Let me know where you watched, and what you thought and felt, and I'll do the same...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
16
SUNDAY SERVES UP TWO POWERHOUSE BATTLES FOR VIEWER ATTENTION -- BOTH INVOLVING HBO By David Bianculli
 
 
What a Sunday. In the afternoon, and again in the evening, different factions of TV are vying for our attention, serving up powerhouse lineups that exemplify TV Worth Watching. It's a day made for VCRs, DVRs, picture-in-picture TVs, and rapid-fire channel-flipping...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jan
15
APPRECIATING PATRICK MCGOOHAN: TO ME, HIS "PRISONER" WAS NUMBER 1 By David Bianculli
 
 
Patrick McGoohan's death at age 80 this week, announced Tuesday, was a sad event -- made sadder by the realization that, in the media world of 2009, few editors and opinion-makers seemed to know or care who he was and what he contributed to TV alone...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley