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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Apr
17
TALKING WITH RANDALL POSTER: THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC OF HBO'S 'VINYL' By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO’s Vinyl has had a few rough spins, but as we head toward the first season finale, the music has stayed loud and clear.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
15
ANNUAL ‘BARKFEST’ WILL TELL US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR DOGS By David Hinckley
 
 
In the Facebook age, some of us might want to be a little more careful about how we friend our dogs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
'BONES' GETS COMPLICATED BY A LIFE-CHANGING INJURY By David Hinckley
 
 

Jack Hodgins is no Matthew Crawley. Dr. Hodgins, played by T.J. Thyne on the Fox drama Bones, starts the second half of the show’s eleventh season in a wheelchair...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
13
'THE LAST PANTHERS': A SERIOUS 6-HOUR FOREIGN CRIME DRAMA By David Hinckley
 
 
The Last Panthers is what Americans used to call a foreign film, only now it should probably be called foreign TV. It’s a six-hour closed-end series about a French jewel robbery whose epicenter quickly shifts to the murky backstreets of Serbia...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
11
DON'T GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO WATCH TBS'S 'DETOUR' By David Hinckley
 
 
I will watch any show with Natalie Zea in it. Any time, any place, anywhere. TBS’s new sitcom The Detour, which premieres Monday at 9 p.m. ET, makes that resolve a little harder to maintain...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
11
KEN BURNS: WHY JACKIE ROBINSON WAS BASEBALL'S MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER By David Hinckley
 
 
Ken Burns agrees that we can’t remember Jackie Robinson enough. He just wants us to remember the real Jackie Robinson. So he’s taken the Robinson segment of his Emmy-winning 1994 “Baseball” series and expanded it into a four-hour documentary...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
10
KIM DICKENS SHARES FUN FACTS FROM 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' By David Hinckley
 
 
So here are two fun zombie facts from Kim Dickens as AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead returns for its second season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
10
IF IT’S 'THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE,' IT DOESN’T SEEM SO UNSEEMLY By David Hinckley
 
 
Starz’s steamy new series The Girlfriend Experience works hard to rebrand the ancient tradition of men paying women for sex. And why not? Finding a genteel name for that practice is almost as time-honored a tradition as the practice itself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
'OUTLANDER': A PERIOD ROMANCE THAT'S EASY TO LOVE By David Hinckley
 
 
Caitriona Balfe gets to slip into some spectacular embroidered gowns in the new season of Starz’s Outlander. More impressive, that’s not how she steals the show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
8
‘OUTLANDER’ TRANSPORTS BALFE BACK TO 18TH CENTURY SCOTLAND By David Hinckley
 
 
When Caitriona Balfe signed up to play Claire Randall in Outlander three years ago, she was asked if, by the way, she was prepared to have her life changed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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