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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Jul
26
THREE WOMEN LOOK FOR LOVE ON CBS'S NEW REALITY OFFERING, '3' By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS's 3: Yet another "journey of the heart" reality offering with three women looking for made-for-TV love...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
24
REMEMBERING SHERMAN HEMSLEY By Ed Bark
 
 
Sherman Hemsley, the broadly comic actor whose inimitable rants made The Jeffersons one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid '70s to mid '80s, died Tuesday at age 74...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
ONCE AGAIN, NEWS OUTLETS' RUSH TO BE FIRST HAS CONSEQUENCES By Ed Bark
 
 
Major lapses in both taste and reporting inevitably follow the mass shootings that are becoming all too common in this country...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
EMMY NOMS GO TO TV FAVES AND SOME NOTABLE NEWCOMERS By Ed Bark
 
 
A batch of usual suspects — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, 30 Rock — again deservingly had their say while newcomers American Horror Story, Homeland, Girls and Hatfields & McCoys also broke through in a big way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
15
USA'S 'POLITICAL ANIMALS' RE-IMAGINES BILL AND HILL By Ed Bark
 
 
The Kennedys have been lionized and scandalized in virtually every way imaginable at this point. So why not take the Clintons for a small-screen spin?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
12
STEVEN TYLER, J. LO EXIT 'IDOL' By Ed Bark
 
 
In back-to-back announcements, American Idol judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez announce they are leaving the long-running competition show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
6
TNT'S LATEST CRIME-SOLVER? A PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR By Ed Bark
 
 
TNT's string of fair to fairly good drama series continues with Perception, Eric McCormack's latest effort to make viewers see him in a new light...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
29
CABLE NETWORKS BUNGLE REPORTS ON SUPREME COURT DECISION By Ed Bark
 
 
Oops. Both CNN and Fox News Channel initially managed to bungle Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's health reform law on a 5-4 vote...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
19
'LIFE'S A TRIPP' IS ANOTHER LIFETIME STUMBLE By Ed Bark
 
 
Life's A Tripp in reality is nothing more than another Lifetime stumble. Its subjects live off their media fame while at the same time blaming the media for often making them miserable...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
12
'DALLAS' RETURNS WITH THE OLD AND THE NEW By Ed Bark
 
 
Some said it couldn't be done. Others argued it shouldn't be done. But it's a done deal. The 21st century brand of Dallas has come to TNT...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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