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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jan
17
PHIL ROSENTHAL SAYS 'SOMEBODY FEED PHIL' WILL MAKE TRAVEL AND FOOD A GOOD TIME By TVWW Guest Contributor
 
 
TVWW Guest Contributor Theresa Corigliano talks with host Phil Rosenthal about his eponymous travel series that’s devoted to finding the perfect bite…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
PLANET EARTH: LIFE By David Bianculli
 
 
Continuing its buildup to this Saturday’s premiere of Blue Planet II – which, by the way, I recommend as enthusiastically as I recommend anything – BBC America today presents a marathon repeat of yet another of its previous nature documentary triumphs, 2007’s Planet Earth: Life. All 10 episodes are shown, in order, then repeated again beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Sir David Attenborough, the best in the business, narrates.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
THE X-FILES By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new episode is called “Plus One,” and is about people who fear they are being followed, and maybe even stalked, by their own doppelgangers. And our intrepid investigators, Mulder and Scully, are not immune to this particular paranoia. Except it may not be paranoia, if the lookalikes they imagine aren’t really imaginary…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
CORPORATE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new 10-episode comedy series goes where one classic workplace sitcom, The Office, has gone before. But this one promises to be even darker. Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, two of the show’s creators (director Pat Bishop is the other), star as unhappy, overworked, underappreciated office drones. Just asking: Are there any other kind?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is FX’s, and Ryan Murphy’s, follow-up to the first American Crime Story outing, the excellent The People v. O.J. Simpson. The anthology nature of this umbrella series is pursued aggressively: This second presentation is a very different type of story, told very differently. And as such, it’s less effective and involving dramatically – the murder of fashion icon Gianni Versace hardly compares, in terms of impact, to the O.J. murder trial. And by focus
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli
 
 
Can the Bee make sense of this week’s headline-grabbing S-word? C D B. D B S A B Z B…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
FX'S 'THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE' HITS HARDER WITH THE KILLER'S LESSER-KNOWN VICTIMS By Ed Bark
 
 
FX’s second American Crime Story entry could be far more accurately titled The Dissection of Andrew Cunanan...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
A DC SUPERHERO OF COLOR IN THE CW'S BOLD, BOLT-DISPENSING 'BLACK LIGHTNING' By Ed Bark
 
 
The official network of DC Comics superheroes is adding a fifth...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
PLANET EARTH MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
Blue Planet II, premiering this Saturday on BBC America, is one of those astounding TV events to make special plans to watch, record, and treasure. I can’t quite wrap my head around the new technology, and infinite patience, that allowed the filmmakers to catch such glorious, jaw-dropping images and events. BBC America is doing its best to get viewers involved in advance, by repeating, in daily marathons, its best nature documentary series of this century to date. Yesterday, the network re
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
ELLEN'S GAME OF GAMES By David Bianculli
 
 
Everything about this prime-time game show screamed “hit” before it arrived, and nothing since then has slowed or deterred that momentum and prediction. With Ellen DeGeneres at its center, interacting with frighteningly animated contestants and relying on bigger-budget versions of some of her daytime show’s popular goofy games, Ellen’s Game of Games couldn’t miss. And it hasn’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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