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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Jan
10
THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli
 
 
In this show’s final season, plot twists and personal triumphs and tribulations keep coming. On tonight’s new episode, Penny’s ex-boyfriend Zach (Brian Thomas Smith) decides to tackle the infertility problem between him and his wife with a somewhat novel approach: he asks Leonard to be the father of their baby by donating some sperm. Big bang indeed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
THE TITAN GAMES By David Bianculli
 
 
The second episode of this super-sized athletic-competition reality series is called “Whatever It Takes” – an approach that tonight’s contestants firmly embrace. Dwayne Johnson hosts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES RETURN: The Season 6 premiere of this series finds it at a new network: The first five seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine were shown on Fox, but after that network dropped the show, NBC quickly picked it up. The story line picks up where it left off, too. At the end of Season. 5, Jake (Andy Samberg) and Amy (Melissa Fumero) got married on Fox. Tonight, on the Season 6 premiere on NBC, they make plans for a honeymoon, with suddenly available cash.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
THE GOOD PLACE By David Bianculli
 
 
I adore this show. The more times I watch an episode, or the more closely I examine its set design and final credits, the more hidden jokes I find. And the more I read about philosophy, the more I almost begin to approach a limited understanding of what this show is really doing. In tonight’s new episode, the gang arrives in the actual Good Place for the first time – but only at a distant outpost. Meanwhile, Michael tries to alert the actual Good Place authorities that the Bad Place
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
'THE GOOD PLACE' IS A GREAT SHOW By David Hinckley
 
 
Broadcast TV’s best sitcom, The Good Place, returns Thursday to finish out its third season. Just don’t blink. The rest of the season consists of three episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
A DYSFUNCTIONAL 'FAM' COMES TO CBS By David Hinckley
 
 

On Nina Dobrev’s last TV gig, she was dropped into a family of vampires. This time around, she’s got an annoying little sister. If you see her, be diplomatic and don’t ask which is worse...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
9
ABC'S 'SCHOOLED' COULD USE A LITTLE DETENTION By Ed Bark
 
 
The original version of Schooled flunked as a planned spinoff of ABC’s The Goldbergs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
9
'SCHOOLED' DOESN'T APPLY ITSELF By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s probably too late for Disney to un-buy the ABC television network. But if we had a time machine and that purchase could be undone, Schooled might have been a better sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
9
THE FINAL SEASON OF 'YOU'RE THE WORST' IS ONE OF THE BEST By David Hinckley
 
 
You’re The Worst has been a wonderful show, but it’s also been full of cautionary tales and if you’re planning to watch the first episode of its final season, here’s one more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
9
NATURE: "ATTENBOROUGH AND THE SEA DRAGON" By David Bianculli
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Any time Sir David Attenborough is attached to a nature documentary, whether as narrator or host, it’s Must-See TV because the man simply doesn’t make a bad television program – and he’s been making good and great ones for more than 60 years. This month, he has two new ones coming to our shores. Later in January on BBC America, he hosts Dynasties, a new nature series from the Planet Earth team. And tonight, the PBS Nature series imports the recent Britis
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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