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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Nov
21
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
Matthew McConaughey is the guest host, returning to SNL for the first time in a dozen years, for this last show of the month – and the musical guest, whose first album in years has gotten tons of press attention, is Adele.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
TWO NEW SERIES STREAM FRIDAY, AND BOTH ARE WELL WORTH WATCHING - 'MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE' ESPECIALLY By David Bianculli
 
 

The best new series of the year is about to drop on Amazon Friday, with every episode of Season 1 available at once: The Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Unless you count Season 2 of FX’s Fargo as a brand-new series (which you shouldn’t, because it’s a rebooted anthology show), The Man in the High Castle deserves credit as the best new show of the season. That’s on broadcast, cable or streaming TV – and even that’s not high enough praise, because the fall 2015 season has been a relatively crummy one. But this new series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick (whose sci-fi stories have inspired s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
MARVEL'S JESSICA JONES By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Another streaming service drops the entirety of Season 1 of a new series today. On Netflix, it’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones, its second TV series effort from the Marvel universe, following on, and set in the same world, time and neighborhood as its predecessor, Marvel’s Daredevil. I liked Daredevil, but like this new series even more. Krysten Ritter, who was so good in Breaking Bad as Jesse’s junkie girlfriend, has another dark role here. She stars as a forme
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
SHINING A LIGHT: A CONCERT FOR PROGRESS ON RACE IN AMERICA By David Bianculli
 
 
This two-hour TV version of Wednesday’s concert, from Los Angeles, is spread across several cable networks in a simulcast: A&E, History, History 2 and Lifetime all are among the six networks presenting it tonight. Headliners include Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Tom Morello performing “American Skin (41 Shots),” Jill Scott singing “Strange Fruit,” and Big Sean and Common closing the show with “One Man Can Change the World.” Other performers incl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
FIRST YOU DREAM – THE MUSIC OF KANDER & EBB By David Bianculli
 
 
This TV version of the Broadway salute to songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb features songs from such hit shows of theirs as Cabaret and Chicago. The cast of singers includes James Clow, Kate Baldwin, Matthew Scott and others. Come to the cabaret, old chum… and enjoy. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This is the final installment of Bill Maher’s live political talk show for the year, and for what, for him, is Season 13 of this always-interesting gabfest. Among tonight’s scheduled guests: Gavin  Newsom and Andy Cohen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
WHY ‘THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER’ FAILED AND WHY WE EVEN NOTICE By David Hinckley
 
 
In a move that caused virtually no ripple at all in the TV biz, FX cancelled The Bastard Executioner this week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
NETFLIX GOES TO THE DARK SIDE WITH MARVEL'S 'JESSICA JONES' By David Hinckley
 
 
Melissa Rosenberg, who created Netflix’s intense new Jessica Jones series, doesn’t see why white guys should be the only ones who get to enjoy a world of constant danger, unrelenting darkness and haunted self-doubt...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
AMAZON'S 'THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE' MORE OF A MID-RISE By Ed Bark
 
 
It’s been 28 TV seasons since the United States last knuckled under to an occupying foreign power...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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