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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2008
Aug
8
OLYMPICS: WOW, TWO WHOLE NEW CHANNELS! (MAYBE. MAYBE NOT.) By Diane Werts
 
 
And cable wonders why customers are exasperated. Even when this industry does something good for viewers, they don't manage to tell you about it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
5
HOT SPOT(S): STEVE IS LIVE ON ESPN By Diane Werts
 
 
He loves breakfast and the safety dance, "but not necessarily in that order." He's Steve, the 25-year-old ESPN intern you've seen wearing a 15-pound countdown clock/billboard around his neck. He's our Play of the Day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
1
FLICK PICKS: CHAPLIN CLASSICS ON TCM By Diane Werts
 
 
Get ready to gorge on classic Hollywood movies -- Friday marks the start of Turner Classic Movies' annual Summer Under the Stars month of 24-hour mini-festivals dedicated to one legendary performer per day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
31
YULE TUBE: CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST! By Diane Werts
 
 
Call me crazy, because in this respect I am. Can't ever get enough Christmas TV -- even in August. And it just so happens a bunch of cool yule episodes are airing over the next few days...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
29
FLICK PICKS: '70S WESTERNS By Diane Werts
 
 
"A picture of the west that is at once romanticized and surprisingly decrepit." Could we be speaking of Deadwood? Actually, look back 35 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
28
HOT SPOT: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCRIPTWRITER! By Diane Werts
 
 
Whew. I'm just back from two weeks at the L.A. press tour, where TV critics heard all about the networks' fall plans for scripted shows. Which makes it all the more depressing to look through tonight's network listings and find . . . reality crap...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
15
TCA PRESS TOUR: 'THE SHIELD' FINALE ROCKS THE HOUSE; 'SONS OF ANARCHY' PLAYS THE ENCORE By Diane Werts
 
 
FX' newest drama is called Sons of Anarchy, but it might as well be called Son of The Shield. And if you look at the entirety of TV today, you're seeing Sons of The Shield...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
12
TCA: DENNIS HOPPER GOES 'CRASH' By Diane Werts
 
 
Here's how to make people pay attention to your ho-hum cable channel: Give them quality programming. FX did it with The Shield. TNT did it with The Closer. Now Starz has a series inspired by 2005's Oscar-winning best picture Crash...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
11
TCA PRESS TOUR: HBO'S 'TRUE BLOOD' By Diane Werts
 
 
So now we've had our first true network presentation here at this summer's Television Critics Association press tour. Oh, wait -- the presenter was HBO..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jul
9
TCA PRESS TOUR: ALL TV, ALL THE TIME By Diane Werts
 
 
One minute, you're hearing from the sublime cast and creator of AMC's deliciously smart drama Mad Men. The next -- literally -- it's Dave Attell talking about his remake of the hallucinatory '70s fave The Gong Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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