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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Oct
1
WHO YOU GONNA CALL? (NOT ‘GHOSTED’) By Ed Bark
 
 
There have been two re-castings in Fox’s Ghosted -- of a supporting player and of Ally Walker’s entire wardrobe...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 29 premiere for The Simpsons, which has been on TV, as a stand-alone spinoff from the even older The Tracey Ullman Show, since its 1989 Christmas special. Tonight, to start its new year, The Simpsons takes a look back. Way, way, back, to medieval times, in a Game of Thrones-inspired spoof special called “The Serfsons.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
DRACULA TRIBUTE By David Bianculli
 
 
Every Sunday in October, TCM is paying tribute to Dracula the character – as written originally by Bram Stoker in 1897, and brought to the screen in various incarnations ever since. Tonight’s kickoff evening begins with 1931’s Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, the most famous Dracula of them all (pictured). But it also includes, tonight, that movie’s, and that character’s, official Universal offspring: 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter (9:30 p.m. ET), starring Glor
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
GHOSTED By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new half-hour Fox comedy is a sort of X-Files played for laughs, with NBC sitcom vets Craig Robinson and Adam Scott teaming up for an odd-couple buddy comedy. Ally Walker, making a welcome if unexpectedly different return to TV, plays the boss at a secret government facility who enlists the two – one a former professor, the other a former cop – to investigate a mysterious case involving a paranormal phenomenon. Like The Orville, this series almost works better a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli
 
 
Episode 3. Just a reminder: Last week, this newest Star Trek spinoff premiered on CBS, then immediately shifted gears by making the second episode available exclusively on its new streaming subscription service, CBS All Access. All other new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery will appear exclusively on CBS All Access, premiering Sundays at 8:30 p.m. ET – as with tonight’s scheduled unveiling of episode three. Sonequa Martin-Green stars as First Officer Michael Burnham – and long-
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
THE DEUCE By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week, Vinnie and Frankie opened their bar, the Hi-Hat, and Vinnie hired Abby as a waitress just in time for opening night. Tonight, Vinnie’s quest to get closer to Abby enjoys a little success. But the bar was a success from the start – a neighborhood feat that doesn’t go unnoticed by the mob-connected boss running the area known as “The Deuce.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli
 
 
This season, Ray Donovan has spent a lot of time shuffling among various time frames – and tonight, it continues that tradition, and focuses on a character entirely missing from last week’s episode: Paula Malcomson’s Abby.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES RETURN: In a word: Hooray. Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is back with new episodes, returning after a seven-year self-imposed hiatus. The premiere wasn’t made available for preview, but that didn’t stop me from filing a radio piece about the show’s return anyway for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
EPISODES By David Bianculli
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of Episodes, which is calling it quits with next week’s Season 6 finale. In tonight’s show, Matt LeBlanc and his writer buddies and agent all have a pitch meeting with the network for the new series proposal they hope to launch with LeBlanc as the star. With time running out, though, the future doesn’t look too bright.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
1
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host reached down below his desk, pulled out a brand-new Emmy award, and showed off for just a second. And with good reason.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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