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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jul
15
‘FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE’ IS A SECOND-RATE REUNION By David Hinckley
 
 
The new Netflix ensemble comedy Friends From College takes a familiar premise and doesn’t quite know what to do with it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
13
‘HOOTEN & THE LADY’ BRING THEIR RISKY ESCAPADES TO THE CW By David Hinckley
 
 
Imagine a lite version of Indiana Jones condensed into an hour each week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
12
CBS BRINGS US THE END OF THE WORLD – AGAIN – WITH AN INTRIGUING ‘SALVATION’ By David Hinckley
 
 
If it’s summertime, CBS must be breaking out a new drama about how we’re all going to die...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
12
‘SUITS’ RETURNS WITH A NEW START FOR THE FIRM By David Hinckley
 
 
USA’s Suits starts Season 7 with a game of musical chairs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
11
‘THE BOLD TYPE’ MIGHT RING A BELL By David Hinckley
 
 
Freeform’s new drama The Bold Type tells a lively girl-bonding story that could stand to be just a little bolder itself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
11
‘MUM’ MAY BE A WIDOW, BUT SHE’S CERTAINLY NOT ALONE By David Hinckley
 
 
They say that after the death of a spouse, it’s good to be surrounded with people. They never met the people who surround Cathy Walker...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
A MILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE IN TNT’S ‘WILL’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Imagine William Shakespeare not as a dignified and revered master playwright, but as a scrappy young dreamer who looks like he could have stepped out of a Twilight movie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
9
THE STORY OF ‘THE DEFIANT ONES,’ DR. DRE AND JIMMY IOVINE, DEBUTS ON HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
The collaboration between entrepreneur Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine may not be the most unlikely in the recent history of popular music, but it’s certainly been the most lucrative...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
8
BRINGING BÉLA FLECK TO DISNEY JUNIOR WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR By David Hinckley
 
 
Few shows on kids’ television have a soundtrack by banjo maestro Béla Fleck, who collects Grammys the way Disney collects Oscars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
5
WITH ‘SONGS OF SUMMER,’ PBS OFFERS A DELIGHTFUL MIX OF MUSIC – ONLINE ONLY By David Hinckley
 
 
PBS’s Songs of the Summer is a weirdly fascinating trip that you might call musical alt-history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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