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Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jun
15
GOLIATH By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Last season, Billy Bob Thornton won his big case, besting the Goliath of an opponent in this new courtroom series from David E. Kelley. For Season 2, Thornton returns as William McBride, who hasn’t exactly been spoiled, or improved a lot, by his in-court victory. The best news: Still at his side for this new season is his feisty assistant, played so winningly by Nina Arianda (pictured, with Thornton). For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
15
2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli
 
 
In today’s three televised contests in the World Cup, we get to watch the bottom half of Group A and all of Group B. From Group A, Fox Sports 1 presents Egypt vs. Uruguay at 8 a.m. ET. After that, on the regular Fox network, are the teams from Group B. The bottom half, Morocco vs. Iran, plays at 11 a.m. ET, and the top half of Group B, Portugal vs. Spain, plays on Fox at 2 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
15
12 MONKEYS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Three episodes of this show’s fourth and final season are shown tonight, as 12 Monkeys returns to finish up its time-traveling story line. Many series, when they’re starting a new season, jump ahead in time. This series, by contrast, jumps backward, as do its characters: to the 1960s, to WWII, and all the way back to medieval times (pictured).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
15
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Among Maher’s guests this week are two people with very different styles, and styles of talking: George Will and Billy Eichner.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
15
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
Among tonight’s guest is Usain Bolt, widely celebrated as the fastest man alive. For maximum irony, record this episode, then watch it on fast forward.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
15
'GOLIATH,' WITH BILLY BOB THORNTON, RETURNS By David Hinckley
 
 
With full respect to Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill, my favorite totally screwed-up lawyer on TV these days is Billy Bob Thornton’s Billy McBride...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
14
'STRANGE ANGEL' BRINGS ROCKET SCIENCE WITH AN EDGE TO CBS ALL ACCESS By David Hinckley
 
 
Okay, I’m convinced. Jack Parsons was one of the weirdest people, like, ever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
14
STRANGE ANGEL By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new drama series premieres today on CBS All Access, providing a fact-based look at the very weird life of Jack Parsons (played by Jack Reynor), who in the years before WWII pursued both experiments in rocketry and an enthusiasm for a very out-of-the-mainstream religious cult. Bella Heathcote co-stars as Jack’s wealthy, sometimes too supportive spouse. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
14
2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli
 
 
Russia is the host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which begins this morning, with matches in this hugely popular international men’s tournament (hugely popular internationally, anyway) televised by either Fox or Fox Sports. The USA men’s team will not be taking part in the competition – not because our country is protesting Russia’s meddling in our election process, but because the USA team failed to make the cut of the world’s best 32 teams. The Korea Republic did, th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
14
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY By David Bianculli
 
 
TCM’s Mad About Musicals celebration continues today and tonight, with musicals shown all day and throughout prime time. Best of the bunch: At 8 p.m. ET, James Cagney playing a patriotic show-business firecracker, portraying showman and songwriter George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The ultra-patriotic movie was released in 1942, the year after the USA entered WWII.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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