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All Along the Watchtower

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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Jul
7
LUNAR TV: CELEBRATING THE MOON LANDING By Mike Hughes
 
 
As moon-landing films fill our screens, something becomes clear – the world has changed profoundly in the past 50 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
7
CNN LOOKS AT DECADES AGAIN – THIS TIME THROUGH 'THE MOVIES' By Mike Hughes
 
 
As the 1980s began, movie moguls were still in their '60s/'70s haze. Perplexed by the new generation, they'd written big checks to "auteurs" – directors who looked and sounded hip and artful. Then Heaven's Gate happened...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
4
THE CAREER OF COLBIE CAILLAT AND HER JOURNEY TO 'A CAPITOL FOURTH' By Mike Hughes
 
 
Singer/Songwriter Colbie Caillat seems to have this pop star thing backward...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
30
RUSSELL CROWE CHANNELS ROGER AILES IN 'THE LOUDEST VOICE' By Mike Hughes
 
 
He had the loudest voice, the bulkiest body, the most relentless mind. It shouldn't surprise us, then, that Roger Ailes dominated television, then dominated American life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
POP TV SAVES 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' FROM THE CANCELLED PILE By Mike Hughes
 
 
For the TV world, this was one of the year's biggest news flashes: Pop TV is rescuing One Day at a Time. It will have 13 new episodes next year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
COWBOYS STILL REIGN ON TV By Mike Hughes
 
 
You might remember cowboys. They used to be big in the movies. And on TV. And, perhaps, in our daydreams...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
25
THE HITS KEEP COMING – LITERALLY – ON 'GRAND HOTEL' By Mike Hughes
 
 

Stop and think about the weddings you've attended. Now do a calculation: In what percentage did the bride and groom say "I do" and become married? My own figure is 100 percent, but I might run with a dull crowd...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
20
'IN THE DARK' FINALLY FINDS ITSELF AT THE END OF THE SEASON By Mike Hughes
 
 
Born with good intentions, fine actors, and poor pacing, In the Dark has wandered a bit. It seemed to be drifting, but not anymore...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
18
'THE LAVENDER SCARE' HIGHLIGHTS EARLY LGBTQ PERSECUTION – IN THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT By Mike Hughes
 
 
Frank Kameny was 6 when he chose a career in astronomy. He got a master's degree and a doctorate from Harvard, then a federal job...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
15
'THE GOOD FIGHT' COMES TO CBS FROM CBS ALL ACCESS – TEMPORARILY By Mike Hughes
 
 
Strolling through the summer TV line-up can feel like a trip to a perverse flea market...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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