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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Dec
4
WHAT TV SHOWS ON DVD WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO GIVE, OR GET, FOR THE HOLIDAYS -- BUT CAN'T? By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Were there a logical answer to the following, finding lasting world peace wouldn't be far behind: Why are there three seasons of Keeping up with the Kardashians available for sale on DVD, but none for Brooklyn Bridge, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Wonder Years and Ed -- and only partial video releases of Newhart, St. Elsewhere and The Paper Chase? Now is the season of, among other things, give and get. Great news for people who want to drink endlessly from the well of Kardashian w
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
30
LATEST CBS OVERHAUL SUGGESTS MORNING TV IS NOT FOR SISYPHUSES By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Successive American presidents in the '60s and '70s ordered all-out bombings in Vietnam as an arguably oxymoronic weapon of peace. Peace, of course, lost. In a smaller scale of carpet bombing, CBS News presidents, stretching back to the '60s, have ordered repeated obliterations of the network's morning-news troops. The latest happened Tuesday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Oct
28
THE GHOST IN THESE MACHINES IS DIGITAL By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
It's pretty safe to assume that wherever a voter in the upcoming election falls on the Red-to-Blue political spectrum, that person may be a little wary of the efficacy of America's voting system. A story on Friday's "Need to Know" on PBS might give that suspicion bug additional shelf life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Oct
22
TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT: COMMERCIALS DEFINITELY WORTH WATCHING By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
If more television commercials had been made by the people profiled on Tuesday's "Independent Lens," there would have been no need to invent the mute button. "Art & Copy" premieres Tuesday, Oct. 26 on PBS, and it offers a satisfying look at what could be called advertising's hall-of-famers -- the people who create commercials we don't want to ignore...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Oct
16
JUNE CLEAVER THE ENEMY OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS? WRONG! By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
It's neither cool nor civilized to criticize someone who has recently died, and that's not the purpose of this effort. But the death Saturday of Barbara Billingsley, at age 94, brought to mind all the criticism and parody the moms of the Golden Age of Television attracted as the world slowly enlightened to the role of women as people versus patterns...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Oct
15
AS PBS PLEDGE MODEL FALTERS, WHAT'S NEXT? A "RE-IMAGINING"... By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
By Tom Brinkmoeller PBS's lead affiliate station in Los Angeles, KCET, is dropping its network membership because of the amount of dues it was being asked to pay. Several public TV stations have decided to furlough employees to prop up weak budgets. One public-TV station in Texas and another in Michigan, each formerly owned by educational institutions, have been jettisoned, reportedly for reasons that include money. For public television near the end of 2010, that's only the top of the prob
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Oct
12
SINGING OFF THE SAME PAGE: 'GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK' WEBSITE By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Last week in this space, Ed Bark convinced me and a lot of others, I hope, to watch "Michael Feinstein's Great American Songbook," a first-rate, three-part PBS series which premieres its second segment Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. ET. Feinstein has been collecting, preserving and archiving 20th century American popular music for almost 50 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
29
'30 ROCK' ROASTS TV CHEF By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
It was easy to wonder whether something of a gastronomic nor'easter was brewing last week in the exclusive East Hampton community in which Ina Garten lives, after "30 Rock" trained its parody rifle on The Barefoot Contessa herself and her husband...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
28
HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
I can't figure this one out. A recent CBS news release announced the network was planning to broadcast a weekend daytime religious program called "Faith in Action: Young People Making a Difference." I didn't know such things still were being made...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
22
'GALLOPING GOURMET,' REDIRECTED, HANDLES LIFE WITH CARE By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Pace, as in the miles-per-hour context, always seems to have had a large role in the life of Graham Kerr. When he was in his 30s, in the late 1960s, he won over a very large number of viewers and pretty much invented a TV cooking form when he was known as "The Galloping Gourmet" and hosted a daily syndicated show of the same name...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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