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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Feb
19
THE BIO OF A CAPTIVATING ENTERTAINER COMES TO PBS WITH 'SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I'VE GOTTA BE ME' By David Hinckley
 
 
There’s a compelling case that no entertainer of the 20th century could multitask better than Sammy Davis Jr...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
18
FROM THE NETHERLANDS, 'THE OLDENHEIM TWELVE' ARRIVES ON ACORN By David Hinckley
 
 
In the early days of television, mysterious disappearances were a problem pretty much limited to The Twilight Zone. These days, characters can mysteriously disappear anywhere, from The Disappeared to True Detective...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
16
EXAMINING MILITARY SERVICE WITH 'PRESIDENTS AT WAR' By David Hinckley
 
 
Presidents At War, a History channel special, provides something rare and welcome: eight presidential stories of which 95% of all Americans can feel proud...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
15
KELSEY GRAMMER IS BACK ON TELEVISION WITH 'PROVEN INNOCENT' By David Hinckley
 
 
Proven Innocent plays like a hybrid between a conventional legal procedural and the short-form crime series that has become such a big part of contemporary TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
15
A NEW SET OF SUPERHEROES COMES TO NETFLIX WITH 'UMBRELLA ACADEMY' By David Hinckley
 
 
Weirdness that’s cutting-edge cool on the pages of a graphic novel or comic book can get flattened out on a TV screen, as the frustrating TV adaption of Preacher has proven...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
14
THE PACIFIC: IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN COOK WITH SAM NEILL By David Hinckley
 
 
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook With Sam Neill, a six-part series revisiting James Cook’s historic exploratory voyage to the South Seas in the late 18th century, doesn’t play out exactly as the Cook expedition used to be taught in school...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
13
'WEIRD CITY' BRINGS BIG NAMES TO YOUTUBE PREMIUM By David Hinckley
 
 
Weird City lives up to its name. It’s set in a city and it’s weird. The half-hour anthology series, premiering Wednesday on the streaming service YouTube Premium, sets a series of stories in the future city of Weird...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
12
'BOOMERANG' IS WORTH CATCHING By David Hinckley
 
 
Boomerang has come back. Twenty-seven years after the Eddie Murphy/Halle Berry rom-com Boomerang cleaned up in theaters, it has returned, more or less, as a TV show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
12
THANKS TO 'MIRACLE WORKERS,' ANOTHER HEAVENLY SITCOM HAS ARRIVED By David Hinckley
 
 
The afterlife, it turns out, is a place where they make cool sitcoms. Who knew?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
10
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ROYAL REBEL – 'MARGARET: THE REBEL PRINCESS' ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
Britain’s late Princess Margaret, a tabloid regular for much of her life, has resurfaced the last two years as the free-spirited and often suppressed Royal sister in the Netflix series The Crown...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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