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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
May
16
THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last year, our geek gang’s precious status quo was threatened when one of them was given the opportunity to take an extended voyage into space. This year, the season ends with another of them being offered a chance to take a long, remote trip: on a research vessel. And this time, it’s Leonard (Johnny Galecki), who’s just, at long last, getting into a comfortable relationship with Penny (Kaley Cuoco).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Part 2 of 2. By the time this bloated two-hour Season 12 finale is over, viewers will know whether Candice Glover or Kree Harrison will take home this year’s Idol crown. We won’t know for a few months, though, which, if any, of the judges from tonight’s show will return. Randy Jackson is stepping down, producers are talking about returning it to a three-judge format, and there’s no way the toxic teaming of Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey will be repeated next
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
THE OFFICE RETROSPECTIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
Before tonight’s final episode of The Office, NBC presents this retrospective one-hour salute. I’ll be watching, but I can’t help but think: At one hour in length, this special represents more than 10 percent of the total content of the original British Office. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
THE OFFICE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: And here’s the last episode – the one that takes place after public TV airs the documentary about paper company Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch. What’s going to happen next? And last? Last week, even Dwight (Rainn Wilson) was handed a big dose of happiness – so anything’s possible.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
ELEMENTARY By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: In this two-hour season finale, Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) confronts his shocking new discovery – that the love of his life, Irene Adler, has not been dead for the past 18 months, but held prisoner. And while he pursues her in the present, we get to meet her through flashbacks, with Irene played by actress Natalie Dormer. If her face seems familiar, this may be why: she plays Margaery Tyrell on HBO’s Game of Thrones.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
THE CW SCRAMBLES ITS SCHEDULE AND GOES SCI-FI By Ed Bark
 
 
The little CW network might as well go ahead and rename itself Syfy Junior. Four of its five new scripted series for next season are otherworldly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
CBS'S NEW FALL 2013 SHOWS: FIRST CLIPS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli
 
 

CBS is making its fall 2013 moves from a comfortably tall perch. It’s No. 1 in both overall and demographically desirable viewers, and is reacting accordingly…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
A SNEAK PEEK AT 'THE GOODWIN GAMES' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Hulu is offering a full-episode sneak peek at Fox's midseason replacement series, The Goodwin Games...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
THE MIDDLE By David Bianculli
 
 
The season finale of this series won't be until next week - but this underrated ABC sitcom got its good news early. Yesterday, ABC revealed its new fall schedule, and The Middle remains a reliable part of it. Watch tonight, if you haven't seen the show, and see why.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. Candice Glover and Kree Harrison are the two singers left standing for this final night of competition – a night in which they sing three songs each. The drama isn’t necessarily from the competition, for Candice has been a powerhouse all season, but at the judges’ table. Tonight and tomorrow, the feud between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey is coming to an end, because there’s no way they both will return next season. So who will get in the last s
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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