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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Feb
10
SEASON 9 OF 'THE WALKING DEAD' RETURNS By David Hinckley
 
 
The Walking Dead hints at a potentially game-changing turn in life after Rick when it returns Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on AMC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
8
'WHITE DRAGON' IS A GRITTY THRILLER THAT SHOWCASES THE BEAUTY OF HONG KONG By David Hinckley
 
 
Professor Jonah Mulray’s story in White Dragon begins with your basic unspeakable tragedy. He’s pulled out of his classroom in London to hear that his wife has been killed in a car crash in Hong Kong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
8
'TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME BY NOW' PREMIERES ON SHOWTIME By David Hinckley
 
 
The tragic turn in the life of the late Teddy Pendergrass has, for some reason, rarely had the resonance of tragedies that befell other popular singers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
8
'PEN15' TAKES A CANDID AND VERY ADULT COMEDIC LOOK AT ADOLESCENCE By David Hinckley
 
 
Hulu’s new series Pen15 calls to mind the old line about how comedy is when someone else slips on a banana peel and tragedy is when you slip on a banana peel...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
6
FINDING HOPE AFTER TRAGEDY IN 'SONG OF PARKLAND' ON HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
Among the far too many American schools that have been scarred by gun violence over the last few years, the loudest cry arose from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
5
THE STORY OF 'SOUL TRAIN' FINALLY ARRIVES WITH 'AMERICAN SOUL' ON BET By David Hinckley
 
 
Viewers of the ‘70s music show Soul Train never ran out of things at which to poke fun – starting with Don Cornelius’s lapels, which were about a city block wide. But viewers kept viewing because Soul Train also delivered something more important...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
4
ON PBS, THOSE WHO BUY, SELL, AND REPRODUCE 'BLACK MEMORABILIA' By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s no reflection on Chico Colvard that he’s better at raising the issue of racist memorabilia than at resolving it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
AMAZON PRIME OFFERS ANOTHER BINGE-WORTHY SHOW WITH 'THE ABC MURDERS' By David Hinckley
 
 
There’s nothing fancy about The ABC Murders, which arrives Friday on Amazon Prime. It’s just a bloody good murder mystery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
'RUSSIAN DOLL' WITH NATASHA LYONNE DEBUTS ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
Natasha Lyonne is fun to watch. She looks fetching in Lucille Ball’s hair...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
PBS’S 'INDEPENDENT LENS' GOES ON THE ROAD IN SEARCH OF THE KING By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s going to take more than one road trip to sort out the legacy of Elvis Presley. Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The King, which premieres Monday proves that point almost inadvertently...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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