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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
May
8
UNITED STATS OF AMERICA By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Randy and Jason Sklar are identical twins, and stand-up comics, who host this irreverent look at the facts, and foibles, behind the figures – the strangeness behind the statistics. For example, the average male on Earth today is expected to live about 900 months, and is estimated to spend 198 of those months – or 22 percent, by my figuring – watching television. That’s an outrageous, unbelievable statistic! It seems so low…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
8
1988: ABC PRESENTS A TV VERSION OF 'BOURNE IDENTITY' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Today in 1988, ABC kicked off the four-hour miniseries The Bourne Identity. Like the movie franchise starring Matt Damon, the telefilm was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name - although the telemovie is considered by many to be more true to the novel than the big-budget theatrical version...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
8
SHOULD THE NFL BE UNDER FURTHER REVIEW? By Eric Gould
 
 
The death of Junior Seau, which comes on the heels of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, gives us one more reason to look at the sport that rules television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
1989: THE INCREDIBLE HULK GOES TO TRIAL By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1989, NBC presented The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, a telefilm featuring the key characters - and stars, Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno - from the CBS series, The Incredible Hulk. In the film, which was directed by Bill Bixby, mild-mannered David Banner is accused of a crime he didn't commit...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
BBC AMERICA'S "WHITE HEAT" PREMIERES By Eric Gould
 
 
The new BBC America miniseries White Heat kicks off on Wednesday, May 9 at 10/9c, as part of the Dramaville series. Taking up where The Big Chill left off, it's a retrospective story about seven diverse London flatmates who meet during the political heat of 1965, and return after word that one of them has passed away. Events of the late 20th century serve as the backdrops. --EG
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
ABC IS TAKING A BITE FROM THE APPLE: GOOD IDEA? By David Bianculli
 
 
To promote its new summer musical competition series, Duets, ABC is taking a bite from the Apple – and echoing the iconic, Orwellian ad used by Apple to launch the Macintosh computer in 1984. I invite you to compare and contrast, and ask whether it’s a good idea…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS By David Bianculli
 
 
Here’s a rarity: Nearly half of the music appreciation specials produced from 1958-72, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic and explaining classical music to a concert hall of crisply dressed kids and their parents, are preserved in this Kultur Video nine-disc DVD set,. Brilliant, inspirational, not at all condescending – and a show on the sonata form features a then-new composition by the Beatles. In 1964! – DB
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
BONES By David Bianculli
 
 
The movie adaptation of the new book by Brennan (Emily Deschanel) has made it all the way to the soundstages of Hollywood, where she and Booth (David Boreanaz) visit as consultants – and, before long, have to solve a real murder in the land of make-believe.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. Tonight the four finalists vie for the crown, in the final hours of competition before a winner is crowned on tomorrow’s show. Each of the four competitors, by this point, has his or her ardent admirers. My favorite, by now, is no secret.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
HOUSE By David Bianculli
 
 
We’re getting to the end of House – and tonight, House (Hugh Laurie) and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) take to the road with a three-day mission: to kill time until they learn whether House’s unorthodox cancer treatment has killed Wilson, or saved his life. Meanwhile, there’s a life-or-death issue back at the hospital, and no House in sight.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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