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2012
Oct
16
2012 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
The New York Yankees lost the first two games in its best-of-seven American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers, despite having home-field advantage, and lost team captain Derek Jeter to a brutal ankle injury along the way. Now it’s Game 3, in Detroit – and these tigers, like their feline namesakes, can smell blood.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE By David Bianculli
 
 
The conventional wisdom has it that Mitt Romney soundly beat President Barack Obama in their first debate. Now comes the rematch – and whatever happens, don’t expect Obama to be staring down at his podium so much. But do expect Romney to stare at Obama just as often. And here it begins – round two, in a town hall debate setting at Hofstra University. All the broadcast networks but the CW are covering it -- and the usual cable outlets are there as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
EMILY OWENS, M.D. By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Mamie Gummer, the daughter of Meryl Streep, stars in this new CW series, which has enough heart, twists and talent to lift it slightly above the rest of this season’s new broadcast TV series. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part documentary series looks at a handful of the most influential and wealthy entrepreneurs in American history – men with names like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week’s installment of this series dropped my jaw lower than any TV moment this season, thanks to an unbilled, unforgettable guest appearance by Walton Goggins, who’s done such fantastic work already on Justified and The Shield. Reteaming with Kurt Sutter, one of the former writer-producers of The Shield, Goggins showed up playing a transgender escort named Venus Van Damme, who figures in the motorcycle club’s blackmail efforts for a city councilman. Goggins, as Venus, was
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
PRESCRIBING MAMIE GUMMER IN 'EMILY OWENS, M.D.' By Ed Bark
 
 
Gummer's a gamer, investing her lead character with smarts, compassion and no small amount of discombobulation and making Emily Owens bearable when it's not fully embraceable...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
HISTORY CHANNEL PRESENTS NARROW VIEW OF YESTERDAY'S MOGULS By David Sicilia
 
 
Americans seem to never tire of the exploits of our "captains of industry" or "robber barons." The problem with The Men Who Built America is that it never poses or even hints at this very intriguing question: Which were they?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
15
1951: 'I LOVE LUCY' BEGINS ITS RUN ON CBS By Christy Slewinski
 
 
This day in 1951 marked the start of one of television's most popular and enduring television shows, I Love Lucy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
15
2012 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
This year’s postseason games, in both the National and American Leagues, have been anything but dull – and that went for last night’s Game 1 in this National League Championship Series, which was an explosive battle of both occasional firepower and ferocious pitching and defense., and was exciting down to the last pitch. The St. Louis Cardinals held off the San Francisco 49ers to emerge victoriously, but tonight is another day.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
15
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli
 
 
With Marshall and Lily’s parenthood approaching, the couple (Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel) decides to select which of their best friends will be deemed the godparent. The best way to decide? Apparently, a game-show-style competition.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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