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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jun
21
'TAKE TWO' GIVES ABC ANOTHER 'CASTLE' -- IN PREMISE IF NOT EXECUTION By Ed Bark
 
 
From the creator of Castle, here’s another Castle -- only in reverse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
20
COSTNER GETS HIS EASTWOOD ON IN PARAMOUNT'S 'YELLOWSTONE' By Ed Bark
 
 
Still wearing well at age 63, Kevin Costner is comfortably taking on the kinds of roles that Clint Eastwood used to fall into...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
19
OWN'S 'LOVE IS_' SERVES UP ROMANCE FROM A DISTANCE AND WITH SPICE By Ed Bark
 
 
Spanning 30 years and drawn from the real-life romance of the principal executive producers, Love Is __ gives Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network what looks to be a durable drama with a sweet/spicy sauce...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
3
FX'S 'POSE' CHARTS NEW TERRITORY BUT SOMETIMES GROANINGLY SO By Ed Bark
 
 
FX offers a case study in counter-programming with Sunday’s premiere of Pose (9 p.m. ET) opposite Game 2 of the NBA Finals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
1
CINEMAX MAKES SOLID CONTACT WITH J.K. ROWLINGS' 'C.B. STRIKE' By Ed Bark
 
 
How sweet it is to see a straight-ahead crime solving series starring a detective with no built-in superpowers, physical or otherwise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
31
FAREWELL TO 'THE AMERICANS' By Ed Bark
 
 
It was a somber farewell to The Americans... Here are some explanations as to why it played out the way it did -- and whether there might be more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
NBC'S REVERIE CAN'T MUSTER MUCH OF A GRIP By Ed Bark
 
 
Sci-fi traveling used to be -- and sometimes still is -- a lot more basic and easily grasped...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
ROSEANNE BARR'S RACIST TWEET TRIGGERS ABC'S ABRUPT CANCELLATION OF HER HIT REBOOT By Ed Bark
 
 
In a jarring development, ABC has canceled Roseanne after the star of the show, Roseanne Barr, authored a since deleted tweet disparaging Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to President Barack Obama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
ABC PLAYED WITH FIRE UNTIL ROSEANNE BARR FINALLY BURNED HER LAST BRIDGE By Ed Bark
 
 
Hindsight is always 20/20, which happens to be the name of another ABC show... perhaps the network should have abided by that vintage Rolling Stones song: “Don’t play with me, ‘cause you’re playin’ with fire"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
28
HBO TIMES ITS SALUTE TO JOHN MCCAIN FOR MEMORIAL DAY By Ed Bark
 
 
Fittingly premiering on Memorial Day, HBO’s John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls affords him an opportunity to, in a sad sense, see his own obituary...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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