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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
May
21
'SANDO' IS A LITTLE LOOPY – IN A GOOD WAY By David Hinckley
 
 
Once upon a time in the New York area, there was a man who called himself Crazy Eddie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
SMITHSONIAN KICKS OFF MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATIONS WITH 'CARRIERS AT WAR' By David Hinckley
 
 
Television seems to have an unusually full slate of military-related programming for Memorial Day this year, and the Smithsonian Channel helps kick it off Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with Carriers at War...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
'BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY' SPELLS OUT HER EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT FAR FROM THE MOVIE SCREEN By David Hinckley
 
 
In an age when most news flashes turn out to be hollow grabs for attention, the one about Hedy Lamarr a couple of years ago was genuinely stunning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
13
THE LATEST ADAPTATION OF 'LITTLE WOMEN' DOESN'T DISAPPOINT By David Hinckley
 
 
There’s a scene in Downton Abbey where Lady Grantham laments the fractious relationship among her three children by sighing, “No one ever tells you about raising daughters. You think it’s going to be like Little Women...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
WITH 'PATRICK MELROSE,' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH SHINES By David Hinckley
 
 
A show starring Benedict Cumberbatch may not constitute a rarity these days, but Patrick Melrose provides an industrial-strength dose of the video world’s most wanted man...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
JOHN HUGHES LIVES ON WITH HULU'S 'ALL NIGHT' FROM JASON UBALDI By David Hinckley
 
 
If you’ve ever wistfully wondered whether anyone will make a John Hughes movie again, this should cheer you up: Someone has...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
FINDING YOUR WAY IN NEW YORK WITH 'SWEETBITTER' By David Hinckley
 
 
Sweetbitter may have found a way to make the wild side of twentysomething New York life bingeable for viewers who aren’t twentysomething themselves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
10
A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE CAN CONNECT WITH THE SINGLE PARENTHOOD PROBLEMS OF 'MOTHERLAND' By David Hinckley
 
 

Most of us, when we plow into one of the thousand awkward moments that comprise daily life, take a deep breath, suck it up, and stumble on...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
7
'KEEPING THE FAITH' IS WORTH INVESTIGATING By David Hinckley
 
 
Eve Myles sells the new Brit mystery drama Keeping Faith...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
7
'SMITHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: 1968' IS THE LITE VERSION OF THE YEAR BUT STILL WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley
 
 
While one would not ordinarily argue with the Smithsonian Institute about American history, the Smithsonian Channel’s new documentary on 1968 requires a few asterisks...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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