The tube speeds toward Halloween with ever more movie terror, plus series scares (and silliness). There's everything from Lon Chaney's silent chillers to the trashy trick-or-treat of Roseanne. Fright films are running nonstop through Sunday's holiday on AMC...

2010

Oct

SPOOKY STUFF: 'NOSFERATU,' 'ROCKY HORROR' By Diane Werts

Halloween hauntings just keep happening. And for both classic eminence and downright perversity, it's hard to beat Nosferatu (late Sunday at midnight ET, Turner Classic Movies), the original vampire movie that influenced all others...

2010

Oct

TVWW: WE'RE ENTERPRISING! By Diane Werts

Now that TV is everywhere, so is this website. While Bianculli clues you in on what to watch, other TVWW writers go behind the scenes to explore how it got made, or gets promoted, or lives on beyond its airing...

2010

Oct

SPOOKY STUFF: HALLOWEEN EPISODES, FRIGHT FLICKS AND MORE By Diane Werts

Halloween already? Yup, it's time. Two of the tube's biggest celebrations kick off early this week -- AMC's yearly FearFest collection of terror titles (Oct. 18-31 for serious scare freaks) and ABC Family's annual 13 Nights of Halloween (Oct. 19-31 for family fun)...

2010

Oct

DVD DEAL: BORIS KARLOFF'S 'THRILLER' By Diane Werts

Spoooooky good DVD on sale at Amazon this Sunday -- Boris Karloff's Thriller: The Complete Series, -- That's for 67 remastered black-and-white episodes on 14 discs, where horror king Karloff hosts circa '60 guest stars like John Carradine, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Vaughn, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman, Rip Torn, (the inevitable) William Shatner, and Karloff himself...

2010

Oct

'30 ROCK' LIVE SPOILERS By Diane Werts

UPDATE: Compare and contrast! NBC has posted both versions of Thursday night's live episode at Hulu -- the east coast original performed Thursday at 8:30 ET and the west coast version restaged at 11:30 ET/8:30 PT. -- Ready for some live 30 Rock?

2010

Oct

CRIME TIME: CONAN STOLE OUR COLOR! By Diane Werts

You see it? He's using our orange!! We here at TVWW Central have decided to simply consider this his tiny tribute to our trusty tribe of tubeheads...

2010

Oct

TRIBUTE: STEPHEN J. CANNELL By Diane Werts

At least we'll still see the pages flying out of his typewriter for years to come. Producer Stephen J. Cannell, who died at age 69 Thursday night of complications from melanoma, leaves behind a body of TV shows that's right up there with prolific tube titans like Aaron Spelling...

2010

Sep

TRIBUTES: TONY CURTIS, ARTHUR PENN By Diane Werts

Hollywood mourns, and Turner Classic Movies shuffles its schedule. Tributes to both movie/TV director Arthur Penn, who died Tuesday at 88, and golden-age star Tony Curtis, who died Wednesday at 85, have been inserted into TCM's October lineup...

2010

Sep

CANCELED: FOX'S 'LONE STAR' By Diane Werts

Wow. That didn't take long. Lone Star is dead. Not after a lone episode, but after just two. Fox plugged the plug Tuesday by scheduling Lie to Me for an early return next week in the Texas saga's Monday 9 p.m. ET time slot. Critics like me extolled Lone Star, but apparently we're the only ones who watched it...

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