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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jun
6
THE CURRENT CASUALTIES OF THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION BEG FOR WORTHY NEW ENTRIES By David Hinckley
 
 
The Platinum Age of Television is as fragile as it is delectable. My latest personal reminder of this truth came while perusing the mortality list from the 2016-2017 TV season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
5
‘THE HEART GUY’ DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE MUCH OF ONE, BUT THE SHOW DOES By David Hinckley
 
 
The Heart Guy, a new medical drama from Australia courtesy of Acorn TV, proves you can take the same premise for two shows and come out with almost diametrically opposed results...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
4
‘FEAR THE WALKING DEAD’ IS BACK, SO BEWARE OF ZOMBIES By David Hinckley
 
 
If any Walking Dead fans are wondering where all the zombies had disappeared lately, the third season of Fear the Walking Dead explains it in full...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
3
‘GAP YEAR’ FOLLOWS MILLENNIALS ON A TRIP THROUGH SOUTHEAST ASIA By David Hinckley
 
 
Gap Year, a Brit series that rolled out Friday on Hulu, suggests the real rule of overseas travel for millennials is this: Don’t forget to pack all the neuroses that drove you to travel in the first place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
1
POST-RAYNA LIFE AS ‘NASHVILLE’ RETURNS By David Hinckley
 
 
Every character on the CMT series Nashville desperately misses Connie Britton’s Rayna Jaymes. As viewers, we feel the same...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
31
MATT LAURIA ON HIS 'KINGDOM' CHARACTER, AND THE ONE ROLE HE HAS YET TO PLAY By David Hinckley
 
 
One of the intriguing things about Ryan Wheeler, says Matt Lauria, is that Ryan raises life’s big questions without thinking about them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
29
TREATING THE INVISIBLE INJURIES OF WAR, ON ‘FARMER/VETERAN’ By David Hinckley
 
 
The Memorial Day film feature on PBS Monday night started as an upbeat documentary on how some military veterans find farming can be valuable therapy for PTSD...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
26
ACORN'S 'DELICIOUS' IS A TREAT WORTH SAMPLING By David Hinckley
 
 
The toughest thing with the Brit drama Delicious may be figuring what to call it. For the moment, let’s go with psycho-soap...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
24
‘ARCHER’ CREATOR ADAM REED WRAPS UP SEASON 8 By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s been a relief but no surprise to fans of FXX’s Archer this season that our hero Sterling Archer has been as offensive and insensitive in 1947 as he always used to be in the 2010s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
23
ON ‘REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL,’ THE HORRIFYING STORY ABOUT THE SCANDAL OF BRITISH FOOTBALL By David Hinckley
 
 
The most powerful 20 minutes of television Tuesday night are also likely to be the most somber: a catch-up report for the American audience on the pedophilia scandal that began rattling British football last November...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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