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TVWW ARCHIVE

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2020
Aug
31
RARE FILM IS ONE OF MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF 'BEING THE QUEEN,' THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH By David Hinckley
 
 
We may have discarded the British monarchy 237 years ago, but we continue to send valentines, sometimes without even any particular occasion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
31
THE BEAUTY OF OUR HOME ON 'PLANET EARTH: A CELEBRATION' By David Hinckley
 
 
BBC America has just put together the kind of show that gives reruns and mashups a good name...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
26
NOT YOUR CLASSIC ANIMAL STORY: 'THE HUNT FOR ESCOBAR'S HIPPOS' By David Hinckley
 
 
It's a show about a band of rogue hippopotamuses who escaped from the lake of a deceased drug cartel kingpin and have gone feral in the rivers of Colombia. Is there anything here that is less than fascinating?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
26
CELEBRATING PARALYMPIANS WITH 'RISING PHOENIX' By David Hinckley
 
 
The difference between the Olympics and the Paralympics, Australian swimmer Ellie Cole explains, is that "in the Olympics, all the bodies look the same. In the Paralympics, everyone looks different."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
18
'THE SUSPECT' EXAMINES THE MURDER OF A MOOSEHEAD BREWERY HEIR By David Hinckley
 
 
The import series The Suspect proves real life can give us a murder mystery as complex as the scripted kind...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
16
HBO'S 'LOVECRAFT COUNTRY' IS A DRAMA FILLED WITH HORROR OF THE HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN VARIETIES By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO's new drama Lovecraft Country ambitiously attempts to blend two popular genres: a sobering Green Book-style tale of 1950s American social justice and a full-out 1950s-style monster horror movie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
14
'APOCALYPSE '45' REVISITS THE LAST MONTHS OF WORLD WAR II – FIRST IN THEATERS, THEN OUR HOMES By David Hinckley
 
 
Amid the focus on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a new documentary pivots slightly to recount the Pacific war that set the stage for that stark moment...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
12
PLENTY OF ROOM FOR LAUGHS AND DRAMA ON 'FIVE BEDROOMS' By David Hinckley
 
 
The Australian dramedy Five Bedrooms starts with a premise that seems so lazy you want to wave your hand and change the channel. But then it pulls the insidious trick of creating internal drama intriguing enough that you want to keep watching it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
11
'THE OTHER ONE' WILL FIND YOU ROLLING YOUR EYES AND GIGGLING AT THE SAME TIME By David Hinckley
 
 
Sometimes, or maybe more than sometimes, you want to scream at every character in a sitcom, "Stop! Just stop!"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
9
A NEW SEASON OF 'ENDEAVOUR' HAS ARRIVED ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
Inspector Morse just won’t quit being on television, long after the TV odds say he should have eased into retirement...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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