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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2009
Aug
7
GUEST BLOG #40: TOM BRINKMOELLER ON "JULIE & JULIA" -- AND THE REAL JULIA CHILD By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Contributing TV critic Tom Brinkmoeller is a long-time Julia Child fan, so he approached the new Julie & Julia movie with a grain of salt (and pepper). Turns out he enjoyed it a lot -- but savors the real Julia Child, and her TV legacy, even more...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jul
9
GUEST BLOG #31: TOM BRINKMOELLER ON 'SUNDAY MORNING' DELIGHTS By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: One of the best things about TV WORTH WATCHING, if I do say so myself (and I do), is that its writers are encouraged to follow their passions. Today, contributing columnist Tom Brinkmoeller's passion takes him to an old TV friend: a show that's been around since the Carter administration, but remains one of broadcast TV's most watchable, least hyper nonfiction newsmagazines...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jun
26
GUEST BLOG #28: TOM BRINKMOELLER POKES 'JON & KATE' IN THE EYE By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Celebrity culture has never been more obvious or inescapable than right now, as TV covers -- blankets, smothers -- the death of Michael Jackson, with Farrah Fawcett's death in second place...So what does the celebrity of Jon and Kate have to do with all this? According to contributing columnist Tom Brinkmoeller, a lot...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jun
23
GUEST BLOG #26: TOM BRINKMOELLER HAS MUSIC ON THE BRAIN By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: I'm still working under manic deadlines for another week or so (don't ask), so contributing columnist Tom Brinkmoeller bails me out by reviewing a new PBS music and science special, Wednesday's "The Music Instinct: Science and Song." It answers lots of your musical questions -- not necessarily "Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?," but plenty of others. Here's Tom's review...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jun
17
GUEST BLOG #24: TOM BRINKMOELLER REVEALS 'ANTIQUES ROADSHOW' SECRETS By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: TV critics are like treasure hunters, sifting through mounds of worthless junk in search of the occasional sparkling treasure. No wonder contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller finds lots to like about the long-running PBS series Antiques Roadshow...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Jun
3
GUEST BLOG #21: TOM BRINKMOELLER FALLS HARD FOR APPLE TV By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Guest contributor Tom Brinkmoeller proudly considers himself and his values old-fashioned, but today he takes on something decidedly NEW-fashioned: an Apple TV. Read on, to get to the core of his analysis...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
26
GUEST BLOG #19: TOM BRINKMOELLER ENDS TVWW CONTEST, TAKES A POWDER By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Memorial Day weekend is over, and so is Tom Brinkmoeller's TV WORTH WATCHING contest. He'll take over from here, to explain and award the winner...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
22
GUEST BLOG #18: TOM BRINKMOELLER LAUNCHES A TV WORTH WATCHING CONTEST OF HIS OWN By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller does two things in his latest column. One, he starts out by referring to my Extras, the in-jokes I collect that are hidden in TV shows -- which I mention only because, next week, I'm devoting a column to my favorite Extra in years (one which, so far, seems to have gone unnoticed).]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
5
GUEST BLOG #15: TOM BRINKMOELLER ON A FIRST-CLASS TV TRAVEL SERIES By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Today's guest column, the latest from Tom Brinkmoeller, finds its inspiration from a travel series -- one that inspired Tom to interview the producer about why public television's "Rick Steves' Europe" seemed so different from most other TV travel shows.]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
29
GUEST BLOG #12: TOM BRINKMOELLER LOVES PUBLIC TV'S NO-EVOO DIET By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Tom Brinkmoeller, for his latest column, reverted to his old print reporter instincts, and conducted interviews as well as delivered his own opinion. The topic: TV's food shows. And while I'll agree to disagree with him about Gordon Ramsay, whose shows I find immensely entertaining, he's really onto something about the respective informative values of certain shows.]
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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