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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2008
Aug
7
CHECK YOUR TV TEMPERATURE: DO YOU HAVE OLYMPIC FEVER? By David Bianculli
 
 
I'm really glad Diane Werts wrote all about the Olympics coverage and where to find it, even on the Internet, so I didn't have to. Her comprehensive rundown, and instruction manual, was written for TV WORTH WATCHING, and can be found here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
6
BOB WOODRUFF SERVES UP TASTEFUL TV SPECIAL, ON CHINA By David Bianculli
 
 
With two days to go until China hosts the Summer Olympics, ABC devotes tonight's edition of Primetime (10 ET) to a thoughtful, valuable special, hosted by Bob Woodruff, called "China: Inside Out"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
5
"P.O.V." JOHNNY CASH DOCUMENTARY IS NEARLY 40 YEARS OLD, BUT IS TONIGHT'S FRESHEST TV OFFERING ANYWAY By David Bianculli
 
 
"P.O.V." documentary on Johnny Cash is nothing new. In fact, it's something pretty old -- filmed in 1968 and 1969, the time in which he married June Carter, released his famous concert album recorded at Folsom Prison, and was honored as Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
3
TV WORTH WATCHING SUGGESTS: A ROUNDABOUT WAY FOR "DR. HORRIBLE" TO REACH BROADWAY By David Bianculli
 
 
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon's Internet musical miniseries, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," has been received so enthusiastically -- justifiably so -- there have been whispers about it finding new life, as a regular TV show or even as a stage musical...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
1
FORGET "AMERICAN IDOL" -- BRITISH IDOL IS "DOCTOR WHO" By David Bianculli
 
 
The fourth season of the current incarnation of "Doctor Who" ends tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET on Sci Fi Channel -- but whatever audience it attracts will be the merest fraction of what it drew when shown recently in the United Kingdom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
31
TV'S DIGITAL CONVERSION: WHAT WILL BUGS BUNNY LOOK LIKE WITHOUT RABBIT EARS? By David Bianculli
 
 
Yesterday I checked out, for the first time, the office I'll be using when I become a full-time college professor, teaching TV and film at Rowan University in New Jersey. It had enough room that I requested a media roller cart, so I could house my dad's first TV set there and do something I've wanted to do for 10 years as an adjunct professor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
30
I COME TO BURY "ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS," NOT TO PRAISE IT By David Bianculli
 
 
I try, I really do, to take a positive approach to TV criticism -- to get more joy from finding and celebrating the good than from gang-tackling and mutilating the bad. But sometimes, a show is so bad that its failure is, as Martha Stewart would say, is a good thing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
29
NO, YOU'RE NOT DELUSIONAL -- THE TV IN TV WORTH WATCHING IS FLICKERING ON! By David Bianculli
 
 
Part of me wanted to say nothing, so you'd all think you'd gone mad... especially since, until and unless a few more bugs are worked out, it may be a one-time thing. But today, TV WORTH WATCHING finally implemented something my website designer worked up a few months ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
28
FOR "X-FILES" MOVIE BOX-OFFICE RETURNS, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE - AND IT'S BRUTAL By David Bianculli
 
 
Just as in Vegas: you bet too often, you get too cocky, you lose big. Buoyed by my relatively accurate predictions for the opening-weekend box-office totals for the "Sex and the City" and "Get Smart" movies, I returned to the table to bet again, on the summer's third and final TV-to-film offering, "X-Files: I Want to Believe"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
25
AMC'S "MAD MEN" RETURNS -- AND ONCE AGAIN, IT'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST By David Bianculli
 
 
I hope Matthew Weiner, the passionate and innovative creator of AMC's Mad Men, won't take this the wrong way, but I've found errors in his fabulous period drama about Madison Avenue ad-agency employees in the early 1960s. Of course, to find them, I had to visit the set, poke around, and look closely. Very, VERY closely...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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