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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jun
8
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
After today’s Comey testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing, there will be lots of places to turn for analysis and commentary. Allow me to select two, one from each end of the political spectrum. First up, a 9 p.m. ET, is MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, which just won the monthly cable-news battle as the most popular program, among viewers 25-54, for the first time.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
8
HANNITY By David Bianculli
 
 
…And later tonight, when The Rachel Maddow Show has concluded on MSNBC, you can switch channels, to Fox News, and watch Sean Hannity offer his own interpretation. Watch them both. Compare and contrast.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
8
FROM ‘ONE LOVE MANCHESTER’ TO ‘AMERICA’S GOT TALENT,’ BRINGING A MUCH-NEEDED RAY OF JOY AND HOPE TO PRIMETIME TV By Alex Strachan
 
 
Watching the One Love Manchester benefit concert this past weekend for the victims of the May 22 bombing outside Manchester Arena in the UK, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the healing balm of music in troubled times...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
TV GUIDE AND I: BORN THE SAME YEAR, AND FINALLY TOGETHER By David Bianculli
 
 

Even in this digital age, on most newsstands you still can buy a printed magazine copy of TV Guide – and if you buy the issue on stands beginning today (June 7), covering June 12-25, you can read the inaugural entry by the magazine’s newest columnist. That would be me…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
ARNETT BIKES BACK TO VENICE AS ‘FLAKED’ RETURNS By Bill Brioux
 
 
Many years ago, when I lived in LA while working for TV Guide Canada, I was always heading down to Venice Beach. It was its own little circus, a great place to people watch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY By Eric Gould
 
 
Well make that May 30th, but in their ongoing business of reexamining and repackaging their catalog, The Beatles have remastered and rereleased their landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
TCM GUEST PROGRAMMER: BILLY BOB THORNTON By David Bianculli
 
 
Billy Bob Thornton slides into the TCM Guest Programmer seat tonight, chatting with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and presenting his personal takes on three personally selected movies. Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, from 1955 and starring Frank Sinatra, leads off the lineup at 8 p.m. ET, followed by 1956’s Giant, directed by George Stevens, at 10:15 p.m. ET. And later, there’s one more…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
2017 NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS By David Bianculli
 
 
The Golden State Warriors have won Games 1 and 2 of this series handily, and authoritatively, putting the Cleveland Cavaliers in quite a hole. But the Warriors had the same 2-0 lead in this championship series a year ago, and the Cavaliers somehow found a way to win it all. So tonight’s game, which shifts the setting to Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, will be especially intense – with the Cavs hoping to find a way to repeat that history, and with the Warriors just as determine
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
THE F WORD WITH GORDON RAMSAY By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s guests on this live cooking competition include James Corden, who’s sliding over from CBS and The Late Late Show for the occasion. What can we expect from this live show? My vote: a quick ride around the Fox lot, with Ramsay at the wheel, in a fast round of Carpool Teriyaki…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
7
FARGO By David Bianculli
 
 
“So, it’s a conspiracy now?” asks the incoming police chief, incredulously. Yes, it is – and the person who suspects that conspiracy, intrepid small-town outgoing police chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon, pictured), is the chief person (literally) following both the trail of bodies and the stolen money. Along with recently detained police prisoner Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), last seen unconscious in an overturned police transport bus and about to be grabbed or
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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