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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2018

Sep

18

THE SMALL SCREEN HAS A LONG MEMORY: JUST LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S EMMY WINNERS IF YOU DOUBT THAT By Alex Strachan

Ain’t live television grand?...

2018

Sep

13

CHE AND JOST TAKE ON THE EMMYS By Alex Strachan

Well, this could be interesting. In any normal year, the Emmys would be hosted by one of the late-night talk show hosts from the network showing the telecast...

2018

Sep

10

FORGET THE PROSAIC TITLE: NETFLIX’S ‘DEADWIND’ IS COMPELLING, ADULT DRAMA AT ITS FINEST AND MOST ADDICTIVE By Alex Strachan

Misdirection and good directing can — and sometimes do — go hand-in-hand. Take Deadwind, for example...

2018

Sep

3

ON THE NEW ‘MURPHY BROWN’ AND OTHER TV REMAKES: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN By Alex Strachan

If it’s true that imitation is the sincerest form of television, as the late Fred Allen famously said, the new fall season looks like a most sincere season indeed...

2018

Aug

25

‘AMERICA’S GOT TALENT’: A TV TONIC FOR TROUBLED TIMES, FAMILY TV AT ITS BEST By Alex Strachan

It’s too late to expect Tyra Banks to stop asking America’s Got Talent contestants, “How do you feel?” or its variant, “What are your feelings?” every time a contestant is advanced or eliminated...

2018

Aug

16

AN 'OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN POPULAR TV' AWARD AT THE EMMYS? NOT SO FAST By Alex Strachan

And, breathe. When I first learned that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has planned a new Oscar category for “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film” I had two thoughts...

2018

Aug

13

TWO-NIGHT PBS 'FRONTLINE' FILM ‘OUR MAN IN TEHRAN’ IS AN AFFECTING, INTIMATE LOOK AT DAY-TO-DAY LIFE IN AN ISOLATED COUNTRY By Alex Strachan

Our Man in Tehran, the often illuminating, occasionally moving two-part, four-hour PBS Frontline documentary, was four years in the making...

2018

Jul

19

SO THIS IS 'WHO IS AMERICA?’ BUT IS IT FUNNY? By Alex Strachan

Golly! I’ve asked the odd stupid question in my time. Many times, in fact...

2018

Jul

12

2018 PRIMETIME EMMY NOMINATIONS: A TIME-BENDER, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE By Alex Strachan

You can be forgiven for wondering if Barack Obama was still President the last time you saw a new episode of Game of Thrones...

2018

Jun

29

ACHTUNG, BABY! IT’S THE WORLD CUP, WITHOUT THE GERMANS By Alex Strachan

It’s enough to make grown men cry. No, actually, it is — as in literally...

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PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

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Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

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Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

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'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

By Noel Holston

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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