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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Mar
31
CBS REFITS 'RUSH HOUR' INTO AN AMUSING SITCOM By David Hinckley
 
 
The television incarnation of Rush Hour, like the hit film, gives us just as much cop story as it needs to tie the laughs together...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
30
'EMPIRE' THINKING BIG, INCLUDING A DEATH OR TWO -- MAYBE By David Hinckley
 
 
Fox’s lavish music biz soap Empire isn’t thinking small when it returns at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday for the second half of its second season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
29
'SECRETS' ON PBS EXPLORES THE POSSIBILITY THERE WAS TRULY AN ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ By David Hinckley
 
 
Given that romanticizing outlaws has always been one of America’s favorite guilty pleasures, a lot of folks would love to think that three inmates really did escape from Alcatraz prison in June 1962...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
27
'GRANTCHESTER' WISTFULLY MIXES LOVE AND MURDER MYSTERY By David Hinckley
 
 
Grantchester, which returns Sunday for its second season, reminds us how PBS’s Masterpiece Theater earned its reputation. Just because every show doesn’t have the intangible magic of the late lamented Downton Abbey doesn’t mean a Grantchester, charmingly set in the 1950s, isn’t well worth the time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
26
JAMES NORTON WEIGHS IN ON THE TORTURED LOVE OF THE VICAR AND THE HEIRESS OF 'GRANTCHESTER' By David Hinckley
 
 
James Norton agrees that PBS’s Grantchester tantalizes viewers with that most enduring of TV questions, "Will they or won’t they?"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
23
FLOUTING REALITY, 'SCANDAL' TRUMPS UP SOME UNLIKELY CHARACTERS By David Hinckley
 
 
Donald Trump is even sucking up all the oxygen in a fake election...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
23
LONGING TO GET HOOKED ON ABC'S 'THE CATCH' WITH MIREILLE ENOS By David Hinckley
 
 
As a child of the Shonda Rhimes family, ABC’s new The Catch doubtless is counting on manic energy to pull viewers into a whirlwind of tense drama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
21
AUDIENCE NETWORK’S 'YOU ME HER' MIXES BLUNT SEX WITH WIT By David Hinckley
 
 
The Audience Network’s latest offbeat romantic adventure series, You Me Her, creates a number of profound life choices for its characters. It also creates some choices for the viewer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
20
'FAKING IT' PRODUCER FEEDS ON FRIENDSHIPS WITH WEAK SPOTS By David Hinckley
 
 
Perhaps the most interesting argument on TV this spring unfolds between Amy and Karma, two high school best friends on MTV’s Faking It. Producer Carter Covington explains...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
19
ATO ESSANDOH ON 'VINYL' AND THE SLOW FADE OUT OF RACIAL INEQUALITY By David Hinckley
 
 
Of course racial tension is going to complicate the new HBO series Vinyl, says Ato Essandoh. If we can’t figure out the racial thing in real life, how could we possibly avoid it in a high-octane drama about the chaotic music business of the 1970s?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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