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2008
Jun
19
ON VOD: 'CAMP ROCK' PREVIEW By Diane Werts
 
 
Parental warning -- Camp Rock overkill about to commence! Remember how many times your tweens just had to watch High School Musical? And High School Musical 2?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
18
FLICK PICKS: 'POSSE' AT 15 By Diane Werts
 
 
Mario Van Peebles' western Posse was released 15 years ago as a black-cast oater featuring his director dad Melvin (Sweet Sweetback's), Isaac Hayes, Blair Underwood, "Tiny" Lister, rappers Big Daddy Kane and Tone Loc, and token white guys like Stephen Baldwin...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
17
WEB TO TUBE: 'RATE MY SPACE' By Diane Werts
 
 
Can 150 million page views be wrong? We'll find out Thursday, when the much-trafficked online site Rate My Space becomes the HGTV series Rate My Space (9 p.m. ET)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
15
HOT SPOT: 'QUANTUM LEAP,' 'DEAD ZONE' REPEATS By Diane Werts
 
 
The ION network makes its own leap back weeknights this summer by stacking some escapist hours of recent vintage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
12
TV DVD: FATHER'S DAY DADS By Diane Werts
 
 
From "Father Knows Best" to "Married . . . With Children," we've got some fun (and funky) DVD recommendations for Sunday's Father's Day yearly salute. Either of the wildly unrelated comedies above provides amusing viewing, along with a few other sets we've seen and recommend...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
11
TUBE TRIBUTE: SPORTS TV'S JIM MCKAY By Diane Werts
 
 
The sportscaster's sportscaster who died last week is now honored with an encore of HBO's acclaimed 2003 portrait Jim McKay: My World in My Words, an intimate look at not just a star reporter but a soulful human being...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
10
HD ALERT: '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY' By Diane Werts
 
 
Expatriate director Stanley Kubrick dazzled and mystified film freaks back in 1968 with his mind-blowing 2001: A Space Odyssey...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
10
VINTAGE TUBE: ROSE & MOREY MOVIE By Diane Werts
 
 
Set this DVR for this genuine curio, a 1966 feature film with Dick Van Dyke Showwriters' room sidekicks Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
8
WEIRD & WILD: TIMMY! ON 'SOUTH PARK' By Diane Werts
 
 
Timm-EHH! The orange-haired wheelchair kid of South Park takes center stage in this week's 9:30 p.m. ET Comedy Central repeats. Must-see: the infamous Cripple Fight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
7
WEIRD & WILD: BABY WEEK ON DHC By Diane Werts
 
 
Oh, baby. And baby. And baby. That's all you'll see on Discovery Health the next six days as Baby Week 2008 takes over the channel with such premiere treats as the surprise-labor report I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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