Last week, Joan (Christina Hendricks) threw her husband out. This week, she returns to work, sliding back in to her old place at the executive conference table to run meetings with an efficiency as crisp as her wardrobe. “Any new business?” You bet. Welcome back, Joan.

2012

Apr

GIRLS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This may be the most heavily promoted series in years, and one of the best-reviewed as well – though some of the reactions are diametrically opposed. Here at TVWW, though, we appear to be in general agreement. We like Lena Dunham’s new series -- a lot. Poke around the site for interviews, reviews, and links to my Fresh Air with Terry Gross radio coverage. Then, by all means, watch Girls.

2012

Apr

A LOOK AT HBO'S 'GIRLS,' BY AND WITH THOSE WHO GET THE DEMO By TVWW Guest Contributor

As part of our coverage of HBO's "Girls," we dispatched Alison Mastrangelo, to interview with Jenni Konner, one of the show's producers...

2012

Apr

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS: NEW COMEDY SERIES COVERED -- THRICE By David Bianculli

HBO's new Girls series premieres Sunday, and we here at TVWW are welcoming it with open arms. Friday on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," I preview the show with a lengthy clip chosen precisely to capture the writing and performing rhythms of auteur Lena Dunham...

2012

Apr

MORE ON "GIRLS"... By Diane Werts

More on "Girls"? Yes, but this is straight from the big guns behind HBO's new Sunday comedy buzz-magnet -- writer/director/star Lena Dunham and executive producer Judd Apatow. - DW

2012

Apr

TITANIC By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new miniseries is televised by ABC this weekend in an unusual configuration: three hours tonight, and the concluding hour tomorrow night. It’s an unusual co-production arrangement as well, with ITV Studios in Great Britain partnering with ABC, as well as TV entities in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Portugal and other countries, to finance and present this project. The big draw, other than the impending 100th anniversary of the oceanic disaster itself, is that this v

2012

Apr

HORRIBLE BOSSES By David Bianculli

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day play three friends who hatch a plot to kill their respective horrendous employers – the standout of whom, by far, is Jennifer Aniston, as a boss who sadistically redefines sexual harassment in the workplace. As for the subject stated in the movie's title: Over my long career as a TV critic for daily newspapers, I had only two. But boy, were they doozies.

2012

Apr

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST By David Bianculli

What a coincidence. Thursday night in Las Vegas, I was at the Renaissance Galleries in the Venetian, checking out the oil paintings and reproductions of Beauty and the Beast as painted by my dear friend Paige O’Hara, the voice of Belle in that 1991 Disney animated classic. Paige visited the gallery that night – and so, quite unexpectedly, did Arnold Schwarzenegger and his all-male entourage. Go figure. And now here’s the original article – the movie, that is – prese

2012

Apr

MONEYBALL By David Bianculli

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill make a fine pairing in this fact-based story of Oakland As manager Billy Beane, who found new ways to win, and build a team based on attributes no one else was valuing, despite a limited payroll. Pitt and Hill give very smart performances – and smart, too, is the screenplay, co-written by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, based on the book by Michael Lewis. Play ball!

2012

Apr

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER By David Bianculli

Clearly, this is one Titanic night for television. Tonight TCM presents this 1958 movie version of the ill-fated voyage, starring Kenneth More and featuring such now-familiar faces as Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in Goldfinger) and David McCallum (who once played Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and now, on NCIS, is just Ducky).

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