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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Feb
27
BILL PAXTON -- AN APPRECIATION By David Hinckley
 
 
You can walk down the street of almost any American town and see a thousand people who look like Bill Paxton...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
27
‘THE OBAMA YEARS: THE POWER OF WORDS’ WOULD BE STRONGER IF IT INCLUDED MORE OF HIM ACTUALLY SPEAKING By David Hinckley
 
 
A new Smithsonian Channel special makes such a strong case for former President Barack Obama’s speechmaking skills that it’s frustrating the special doesn’t include more of them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
27
ACORN DEBUTS ‘CODE OF A KILLER,’ A SHOW ABOUT CRIME AND DNA WITHOUT THE BELLS AND WHISTLES By David Hinckley
 
 
Acorn TV’s latest import, Code of a Killer, defies most rules of contemporary TV crime drama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
26
‘TAKEN’ COMES TO THE TV SCREEN By David Hinckley
 
 
Just because you loved the movie franchise Taken doesn’t mean you can take it easy when you watch NBC’s new quasi-prequel...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
25
THERE WERE QUITE A NUMBER OF MUSICALS THAT CAME BEFORE ‘LA LA LAND’ – AND MAYBE IT’S TIME YOU CHECKED OUT A FEW By David Hinckley
 
 
Before we learn whether La La Land sweeps the Oscars Sunday night (ABC, 8:30 p.m. ET), let’s put it in a little context...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
24
NBC’S ‘THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION’ COULD DELIVER GOOD KARMA By David Hinckley
 
 
The Blacklist: Redemption starts with the premise that a bunch of bad people are trying to save themselves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
24
‘PATRIOT’ IS A SATIRIC SPY THRILLER – WAIT. WHAT? By David Hinckley
 
 
In an early scene from Amazon’s new series Patriot, our hero John Tavner catches up with another guy who has interviewed for a job Tavner wants. Tavner exchanges a few pleasantries with him and then calmly pushes him in front of a moving truck...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
23
CMT’S ‘SUN RECORDS’ RECALLS A PRIME TIME IN AMERICAN CULTURE By David Hinckley
 
 
The independent record business of the early 1950s was as crazy as the music was wonderful, and CMT’s new series Sun Records captures that spirit...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
20
JIMMY SMITS ON HIS ROLE OF JOHN DONOVAN ON ’24: LEGACY’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Jimmy Smits doesn’t see his presidential candidate character on Fox’s 24: Legacy reflecting any real-life political figures. He seems a little relieved by that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
19
‘THE GOOD FIGHT’ DEBUTS ON CBS BEFORE MOVING TO CBS ALL ACCESS – AND YOU MAY WANT TO FOLLOW IT By David Hinckley
 
 
If the last thing you need is one more place where you have to buy a TV show, then you’d probably be delighted if the first original drama on CBS All Access, The Good Fight, were a piece of junk. Sorry. It’s not...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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