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2020
Aug
5
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR THEIR CHANNELS By Mike Hughes
 
 
Storm chasing, it seems, just isn't fair. The storm never obeys borders; the chasers have to...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
THE DICK CAVETT SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
I've been writing Best Bets, in one form or another, since 1977. And only twice, in all that time, did anyone else provide Bets for me. The first was during a lengthy hospitalization. TVWW's late editor, Christy Slewinski, with an assist from editor Eric Gould, culled together the daily picks for me. The second occurred, well, during a lengthy hospitalization. You, our wonderful readers, jumped in with your recommendations in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter until Eric (what would TVWW d
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
'THE SWAMP' EXPLAINS THE REALITIES AND DYSFUNCTION OF CONGRESS By David Hinckley
 
 
No matter where you stand ideologically, it's hard not to get frustrated over the seemingly glacial pace at which things get done – or don't get done – in Washington...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
THE FUGITIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. Remember Quibi? The streaming world’s equivalent of New Coke? (For that matter: Remember New Coke?) Well, today it launches, in regular bite-sized bits, an extremely loose remake of the classic Sixties TV series starring David Janssen as unjustly accused murderer Richard Kimble, with Barry Morse as the dogged lawman on his trail. This Quibi Fugitive is completely modernized and overhauled: Boyd Holbrook of Narcos 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
TELL ME A STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Recycled from CBS All Access, Tell Me a Story – a “mature” interweaving of several fairy tales, told in modern day settings and with very dark variations – began showing on the CW last week. It offered very, very loose variations on The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel – and in two of those three storylines, there were dead bodies in the first installment alone. Tonight, Episode 2….
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
THE SWAMP (2020) By David Bianculli
 
 
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is one of three lawmakers followed in this new documentary (fellow congressional members Thomas Massie and Ken Buck are the others), which looks at what it’s like to run for office before and during a pandemic – and what these Republicans are saying, and claiming, about their party’s concerns and promises regarding the draining of the so-called Washington “swamp.” For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
1996: VIEWERS SEE STARS AT THE ATLANTA OLYMPICS' CLOSING CEREMONY By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1996, Olympians and spectators gathered in the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the close of the "Centennial Olympics" in Atlanta, Georgia — a celebration filled with a range of popular American music...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
1993: FEMALE SPORTSCASTER GAYLE GARDNER PRESENTS MLB PLAY-BY-PLAY By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1993, female sportscaster Gayle Gardner became the first woman to present televised play-by-play for a Major League baseball game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
HOW NETFLIX'S 'ATHLETE A' LED TO ATHLETE B, C, AND D, AND USHERED IN A NEW WAVE OF PROACTIVE DOCUMENTARIES By Alex Strachan
 
 
There are those documentaries that enlighten and inform, but only for a moment...Then there are those documentaries that have a lasting effect, programs that not only enlighten and inform but galvanize people to action...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
STORIES OF AFRICAN WOMEN: FROM CBS TO PBS By Mike Hughes
 
 
Stories of African immigrants are getting a rare spurt of TV attention...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 

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'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