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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jan
15
SHERLOCK ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: If it seems as though this new season of Sherlock just started, that’s because it did. Two weeks ago, Season 4 premiered. Tonight, with the episode The Final Problem, the series Sherlock on Masterpiece presents its season finale, with an episode focusing, fittingly, on the long and potentially deadly rivalry between Holmes and Moriarty. Benedict Cumberbatch stars. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
60 MINUTES By David Bianculli
 
 
60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft has interviewed Barack Obama one-on-one more than any other TV journalist. Tonight, the two of them engage in a recently recorded final, 11th-hour debriefing.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli
 
 
The Simpsons has been presenting TV episodes since 1989, and even mounted a full-length movie a decade ago – but tonight’s installment, “The Great Phatsby,” is the first one-hour episode in its amazingly long and impressive history. It’s about a long-time rival of Mr. Burns, a successful rapper named “Jay-G.” And the Great Gatsby references go on from there – as do the references to Empire, a fellow Fox TV hit. Taraji P. Henson, who plays the outra
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Jenna Coleman, who impressed me very much when she played the companion on Doctor Who from 2012 to 2015, gets a role here that befits the talent she displayed on that long-running cult series. Here, she plays Queen Victoria, starting from the day the teenager became queen of England in 1837. This first season follows her first three years as Queen – and even if you don’t think of this as an unofficial companion series to Netflix’s The Crown, about Queen Elizabe
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
HOMELAND By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: For this new season, Carrie (Claire Danes) comes to New York, as does the series – for a prescient new season in which there’s an incoming U.S. president with a strong distrust of the intelligence community. The only thing the writers of this show got wrong: The new POTUS is a woman. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town. The Bronx is up, and Carrie is down… For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and information on what to expect from t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE WORLD OF ‘SNEAKY PETE’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Right up front, Amazon’s new crime drama Sneaky Pete follows a small-time con man who’s trying to avoid getting himself and his brother killed by a much more hard-core bad guy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
NFL FOOTBALL NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s the Seattle Seahawks (11-5-1) at the Atlanta Falcons (11-5) for today’s first postseason game of the weekend. It’ll be a game where the quarterbacks drive the action more than usual this time of year, with Falcons QB Matt Ryan and Seahawks QB Russell Wilson both riding hot streaks into the playoffs.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
NFL FOOTBALL AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
In this game, it’s the Houston Texans (10-7) facing the dominant New England Patriots (14-2). The key to the game? Patriots QB Tom Brady. If the Texans can’t stop and hurry him, this game’s over before it starts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 By David Bianculli
 
 
Not a recommendation: It’s more sleight of hand, and slight plot and characterization, in this sequel to the movie about a band of sneaky magicians. If you saw the first Now You See Me, maybe, for the sequel, now you don’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
MONEY MONSTERS By David Bianculli
 
 
This is the cable premiere of the 2016 movie in which George Clooney stars as an on-air TV personality targeted in a live hostage situation on television. Julia Roberts plays a quick-thinking, quicker-talking producer hoping to contain the volatile situation.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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