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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2018

Jan

'BLUE PLANET II': FAMILY PROGRAMMING IN A WAY YOU DIDN’T EXPECT By Alex Strachan

Finally. The curtain rises Saturday (Jan. 20) on Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, on BBC America and four of its AMC Networks sibling channels...

2018

Jan

THE STUNNING WORLD OF 'BLUE PLANET II' By David Hinckley

BBC America balances a growing cautionary tale with sheer majestic wonder when its long-awaited Planet Earth: Blue Planet II premieres Saturday...

2018

Jan

BREAKING BAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

We’re getting to the end of AMC’s Breaking Bad celebratory marathon, and today there are two specific reasons to celebrate. One is that today – January 20 – is the exact 10th anniversary of the premiere of Breaking Bad, TV’s all-time best dramatic series. The day’s festivities, a continuation of AMC’s month-long weekend sequential presentation of the series, begin at 9:18 a.m. ET, with Season 4, Episode 9. And the other specific reason to celebrate is th

2018

Jan

SNATCHED By David Bianculli

This 2017 comedy wasn’t written by Amy Schumer (Katie Dippold, from Parks & Recreation, wrote the script), but Schumer stars, along with Goldie Hawn. Schumer plays a woman whose boyfriend dumps her on the eve of an expensively booked exotic location, and Hawn plays her mother, invited to accompany her as a last-minute substitute. After which they, and things, quickly go south...

2018

Jan

COCAINE GODMOTHER: THE GRISELDA BLANCO STORY By David Bianculli

I’m not in the habit of pointing out Lifetime telemovies, but this one sounds truly unusual. It’s a biographical film about drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, a rare female power figure in a shady underworld of macho thugs. Griselda Blanca Restrepo was a Colombian drug lord for the Medellin cartel, a major player in the Miami cocaine scene of the 1970s. This Lifetime movie could just as easily been titled one of her other formidable nicknames: The Black Widow, for example, or the clunkier

2018

Jan

ABBA: WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE By David Bianculli

For those who care about such things, and were pulled in decades ago by the music from this particular imported quartet: Tonight Reelz offers a new documentary, promising the inside story of ABBA. I’m not sure I even know the outside story of ABBA, other than the musical and movie it spawned, but here it is nonetheless…

2018

Jan

THE BAND WAGON By David Bianculli

Plenty of wonderfully entertaining movies have been made from an insider’s viewpoint, making fun of especially pretentious or inept filmmakers who try to tackle, and accidentally destroy, a new play, film or TV show. Writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the co-conspirators who wrote two of the very best of these. One was 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, a perfect comedy about the transition from silent to sound movies – and the other, made the very next year, was this ot

2018

Jan

PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: You can tell when something really, truly special shows up on TV, because this site’s TVWW contributors, coming at it from various angles, are all over it. And that’s the case with this newest Planet Earth nature documentary series, Blue Planet II, narrated by the peerless David Attenborough. So read, please, the full and enthusiastic reports by David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. But trust me, to

2018

Jan

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

As this day began, at midnight Saturday, the American government stopped operating – but Saturday Night Live is still at it, and will present a new episode tonight, opening, no doubt, with the government shutdown and other news. Jessica Chastain is the week’s guest host, with Troye Sivan as the musical guest.

2018

Jan

GRACE AND FRANKIE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 begins with Grace and Frankie (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin) separated by distance, and trying to maintain their friendship long-distance. Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen, as their exes, are still around, even though Waterston just co-starred in another Netflix series, last year’s great new Western, Godless. And this year, as Frankie pursues the artists’ life in Santa Fe, Grace eventually gets a new roommate, played by Lisa Kudrow, who joins Grace and Frankie this

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