[Bianculli here: Finding quality TV shows can be tough enough. Showing your support for them, even when they're on public television, can be even trickier, as contributing critic Tom Brinkmoeller reports today, using two current series to make his point...]

2009

Aug

REALITY CHECK: BYE-BYE, 'BIG BROTHER' By Diane Werts

Could it be that the lowest of the low has actually hit rock bottom? Britain's hit Big Brother "reality" franchise is being dropped by Channel 4 next year after a 10-year run. It's part of a "creative overhaul"...

2009

Aug

FLICK PICKS: THE MUSICAL MIND BEHIND THAT 'PSYCHO' SHRIEK By Diane Werts

Bernard Herrmann is the man to thank for those Psycho shower scene strings. And the spooky rumble under Citizen Kane. For Taxi Driver's moody Manhattan vibe. And Vertigo's dizzy delirium.Now Herrmann gets a suitable salute...

2009

Aug

FEELING NOSTALGIC ABOUT THE WILD, WILD WESTERN By David Bianculli

Like a lot of people -- more of them almost every week -- I'm loving my Sunday night dose of HBO's "True Blood," one of the most enjoyable thrill rides on TV right now. But unlike most people, I have another Sunday night thrill-ride TV treat...

2009

Aug

GUEST BLOG #45: JUST WHEN TOM BRINKMOELLER THOUGHT HE WAS OUT, WE PULLED HIM BACK IN... By Tom Brinkmoeller

[Bianculli here: We here at TV WORTH WATCHING are gearing up for the fall TV season, and wrestling with a site relaunch that may or may not be done in time. Meanwhile, asked to start perusing the new fall fare in advance, one of our contributing critics had an identity-crisis epiphany...]

2009

Aug

IN MEMORIAM: TED KENNEDY COVERAGE By Diane Werts

Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral ceremonies will be carried live on cable's C-SPAN this weekend, starting with Friday night's "Celebration of Life Memorial Service" 7-9 p.m. ET from Massachusetts' JFK presidential library...

2009

Aug

TV ON DVD: 'THIRTYSOMETHING' FINALLY ARRIVES By Diane Werts

Bet you thought it would never happen: That oh-so-'80s fave thirtysomething finally hits DVD this week. And it turns out to be oh-so-21st-century, too...

2009

Aug

TWENTYSOMETHING YEARS AGO, THERE WAS "THIRTYSOMETHING"... By David Bianculli

One of the most eagerly anticipated TV-shows-on-DVD releases hits stores today: the first season of thirtysomething, the ABC series that, beginning in 1987, examined yuppie angst. The tangled web of music rights is what has discouraged the series from being packaged until now... but now, as Diane Werts already has alerted us in her blog, Shout! Factory has made it a reality...

2009

Aug

WEIRD & WILD: QUENTIN TARANTINO ON WEATHER CHANNEL By Diane Werts

Who needs Good Morning America and The Tonight Show? Celebs can always hype their stuff on The Weather Channel. Seriously...

2009

Aug

FLICK PICKS: MOVIE LEGEND, SHE WROTE By Diane Werts

If you only know Angela Lansbury for TV's Murder, She Wrote, you don't know Angela. Not only was she a '60s Broadway musical star in Mame (and a '70s revelation baking those man-made meat pies in Sweeney Todd), but decades before that, Lansbury had launched her career in her teens as a busy Hollywood studio contract player...

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