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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
May
20
ABC'S 'MOTIVE': A CRIME DRAMA WITH A TWIST By Ed Bark
 
 
As a whodunit with the who already answered, Motive seems to have a clue about what it takes to carry on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
20
'THE GOODWIN GAMES' HAS NO CHANCE OF WINNING By Ed Bark
 
 
The Goodwin Games — from the creative team behind How I Met Your Mother — isn’t an Olympian comedy but it’s by no means an out-and-out clunker either...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
THE CW SCRAMBLES ITS SCHEDULE AND GOES SCI-FI By Ed Bark
 
 
The little CW network might as well go ahead and rename itself Syfy Junior. Four of its five new scripted series for next season are otherworldly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
CBS ADDS FOUR NEW COMEDIES FOR FALL By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS is amping up its comedy content, highlighted by a new Thursday night pairing of Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
14
ABC CROWDS ITS FALL SCHEDULE WITH EIGHT NEW SHOWS By Ed Bark
 
 
Struggling ABC will go into battle this fall with more freshman series than any other rival — including an all-new Tuesday night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
13
FOX'S LINEUP NEWS OVERSHADOWED BY JACK BAUER'S RETURN By Ed Bark
 
 
Knocked off its perch as No. 1 with 18-to-49-year-olds, Fox will re-load in the fall with three new comedies, two new dramas and another Gordon Ramsay spinoff...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
13
NBC REBUILDS THURSDAYS, ACCENTUATES STAR POWER THIS FALL By Ed Bark
 
 
Returning to the network where he emerged as a major star more than 30 years ago, Michael J. Fox is the big ticket item on a new NBC prime-time lineup laden with familiar TV faces...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
10
LAME DUCK LENO KEEPS WINNING, NBC BOASTS By Ed Bark
 
 
Could there be a second pullback from a premature evacuation of Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show? Just wondering, in light of NBC's latest press release...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
5
LIFETIME'S 'DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER' HAS GEORGIA ON ITS MIND By Ed Bark
 
 
Many viewers might be left wanting more after this very watchable film breezes by. That’s the Old Hollywood way, and Dear Mom, Love Cher makes a virtue of it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
THE ADDRESS IS CBS FOR PRIME-TIME'S MOST-COURTED VIEWERS By Ed Bark
 
 
Whatever its scheduling decisions, CBS will march into next season as the No. 1 network among 18-to-49-year-olds for the first time in 21 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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