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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Nov
17
DAVID E. KELLEY'S 'BIG SKY' REMINDS US BROADCAST TV IS STILL OFFERING GREAT PROGRAMMING By David Hinckley
 
 
Memo to TV viewers: The broadcast networks are still in business...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
15
APPARENTLY, THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY IS A RERUN OF SORTS: 'THE REAGANS' By David Hinckley
 
 
In a perfect world, America's president would not be a performer, and the presidency would not be a role...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
13
AN ORDINARY TEEN LIVES AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE: 'ALEX RIDER' By David Hinckley
 
 
British spying somehow looks more exotic than American spying, a peculiarity underscored by a new British adaptation of the Alex Rider spy series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
11
CHARLEY PRIDE TO RECEIVE THE WILLIE NELSON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD By David Hinckley
 
 
At some point during Wednesday's telecast of the 54th annual Country Music Association Awards, the association will do something it has never done in its previous 53 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
10
HOW GERMANY LOST ITS DEMOCRACY: 'RISE OF THE NAZIS' ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
However you feel about the apparent outcome of last Tuesday's American presidential election, you should be chilled by a new three-part PBS docu-series that illustrates how easily democracy can die...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
9
'INDUSTRY': THE RUTHLESS BATTLES IN FINANCE By David Hinckley
 
 
A new British drama titled Industry becomes the latest production to suggest that breaking into the world of high finance requires mortgaging your body and soul...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
9
INTRIGUE IN A SMALL TOWN ON 'THE SOUTH WESTERLIES' By David Hinckley
 
 
"Dramedy" is an appealing description for a TV show these days, and apparently you can earn it by simply not building your plot around a murder...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
A NEW SITCOM FROM CHUCK LORRE SAYS 'B POSITIVE' By David Hinckley
 
 
Let's put it this way. If you think The Walking Dead is a documentary, then you'll have no trouble buying into the premise of B Positive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
IS THERE JUST 'TWO WEEKS TO LIVE'? By David Hinckley
 
 
You can provoke a lively discussion by asking people what they would do if they learned that, for one reason or another, they had only two weeks to live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
1
THE POLITICIANS IN 'ROADKILL,' STARRING HUGH LAURIE, SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE By David Hinckley
 
 
Hugh Laurie further distances himself from his comic past with Roadkill, a tangled British political drama that's been picked up here by PBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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