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2018
May
26
HBO STAYS IN A FUN-FREE ZONE WITH ITS LATEST ORIGINAL FILM, 'THE TALE' By Ed Bark
 
 
Last month’s Paterno starred Al Pacino as the legendary Penn State coach...Now comes The Tale which recounts director/writer Jennifer Fox’s real-life recovered memories of her sexual abuse as a 13-year-old...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
19
HBO'S REMAKE OF 'FAHRENHEIT 451' GENERATES LITTLE HEAT By Ed Bark
 
 
The books go up in flames a bit faster than the movie itself in HBO’s adaptation of sci-fi author Ray Bradbury’s famed Fahrenheit 451...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
LED BY CBS (AND SAVE FOR ABC), THE NEW FALL SEASON IS ALL IN WITH MINORITIES AND WOMEN AS LEADS By Ed Bark
 
 
The face and faces of network prime-time television underwent a major makeover this week with the announcements of next fall’s new series on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, and The CW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
17
THE CW GOES SUPER AND SUPERNATURAL IN NEW SUNDAY ADDITION TO 2018-19 LINEUP By Ed Bark
 
 
The little network that could is adding Sunday nights next season while announcing the final seasons of three veterans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
CBS ACCENTS A MONDAY REBUILDING PROJECT IN NEW FALL LINEUP MARKED BY 'MAGNUM P.I.,' 'MURPHY BROWN' REBOOTS AND HEAVY-DUTY DIVERSITY By Ed Bark
 
 
A completely rebuilt Monday, including a Magnum P.I. reboot, highlights CBS’ new fall schedule while another second coming, Murphy Brown, will be joining the network’s Thursday prime-time lineup...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
NBC AGAIN SLIMS AND TRIMS WITH JUST THREE NEW FALL SERIES (AND THINLY VEILED MIDSEASON REINCARNATIONS OF PAST PRIME-TIME HITS) By Ed Bark
 
 
NBC, which dominated this season in the ratings battle for advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, is going lean again in 2018-19 with just three new fall series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
FOX GOES TRADITIONAL (WHETHER ADMITTING IT OR NOT) WITH LATEST PRIME-TIME MENU By Ed Bark
 
 
Adding Thursday Night Football, Last Man Standing, and another laugh track-juiced sitcom set in a retirement home seems like something CBS might do...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
ABC ADDS/SUBTRACTS IN ABUNDANCE FOR NEW FALL SCHEDULE By Ed Bark
 
 
Depending on one’s definition, ABC will either have four or six new prime-time series entering this fall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
A TALE OF A CHILDHOOD LOST AND AN ADULTHOOD ON THE BRINK IN SHOWTIME'S 'PATRICK MELROSE' By Ed Bark
 
 
Reeling, raging, slurring and hallucinating, the title character in Showtime’s Patrick Melrose begins by riding high while sinking ever lower from non-stop addictions to booze, pills, and injections...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
10
#METOO ERA FORMS OF SEXISM – ON THE PART OF WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER By Ed Bark
 
 
Your friendly content provider isn’t overly fond of juggling with hand grenades...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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