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TVWW ARCHIVE

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2012
Mar
30
LITERATURE WORTH WATCHING: 'AMERICAN MASTERS' CREATOR SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT LITERARY DOUBLE BILL By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Those who love splendid American literature will receive a special treat April 2 when American Masters, a PBS series with a strong reputation for serving up consistently delightful programming, pairs profiles of two renowned American authors...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
14
CHATTING WITH MICHAEL RIEDEL, THE NY THEATER CRITIC AND TV HOST ATTACKED, AND EMBRACED, BY NBC'S 'SMASH' By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
After I had written mostly positive things for TV WORTH WATCHING last year about a public-television series called Theater Talk (read the column HERE), I didn't think I'd be writing about this Broadway-news series again soon. Then NBC premiered Smash, and before the first episode was finished, I knew I had guessed incorrectly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
1
A RISKY METHOD OF TIME TRAVEL: UNDATED, BUT NOT UPDATED, TV TRAVEL SERIES By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Would you suspect something was wrong if you turned on the PBS Newshour one evening and, instead of getting an intelligent dose of the day's news by the program's current on-air team, you saw Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer on the screen, talking about Iraq's recent invasion of Kuwait? Or if you opened your favorite travel magazine and saw a lead story about the imminent opening of Walt Disney World in Florida? We go to archives and libraries for that kind of history. We go to journalists for
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
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Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley