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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Aug
8
JEFFREY TAMBOR TALKS ABOUT 'TRANSPARENT' RESPONSIBILITY By David Hinckley
 
 
After the Amazon series Transparent launched in February 2014, Jeffrey Tambor says he could hear the murmurs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
7
AMAZON ANNOUNCES NEW SLATE OF SHOWS FOR FALL By David Hinckley
 
 
The award-winning Transparent returns to Amazon Prime this fall, and the streaming service is giving it some new high-profile company...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
6
NETFLIX'S ‘THE LITTLE PRINCE’ NEVER STOPS SHORT OF WONDROUS By Ed Bark
 
 
Its ratings remain a closely guarded, unsolved mystery. And where all its money comes from is still anyone’s guess. In the end, though, it’s the product that shines through....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
6
HUGH LAURIE IS BACK IN THE TV MEDICAL PROFESSION By David Hinckley
 
 
Hugh Laurie is returning to the medical profession. But anyone who expects to see the last doctor he played on television is looking in the wrong house...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
6
BEST BETS By David Bianculli
 
 
TVWW readers: We can write that David is still riffing from Monty Python’s Spamalot, saying he’s incapacitated but "not dead yet!"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
5
IS 'BLACK-ISH' HELPING THE DIVERSITY CONVERSATION? THE CREATOR AND STARS WEIGH IN By David Hinckley
 
 
Kenya Barris, creator of ABC’s hit sitcom black-ish, says he’s sick of talking about “diversity.” “I would be so happy when ‘diversity’ is not a word,” Barris told the Television Critics Association...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
5
THE ABC REPORT: KYRA SEDGWICK, PROCEDURALS, MARVEL, AND MORE By David Hinckley
 
 
ABC’s new entertainment president says she’s thrilled to bring back Kyra Sedgwick, and wouldn’t mind if a little more Marvel and Star Wars came along, too...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
4
ABC'S NEW ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT TAKES OFFICE THIS FALL By David Hinckley
 
 
Oh, look, Kiefer Sutherland’s saving the world again in September...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
3
STARZ HAS FAITH IN 'AMERICAN GODS' By David Hinckley
 
 
Neil Gaiman’s cult classic American Gods has spent 15 years migrating from the printed page to a video screen, and its message doesn’t feel even a tiny bit old...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
3
NBC'S 'THE GOOD PLACE' CREATOR TALLIES THE SCORE By David Hinckley
 
 

The new NBC sitcom The Good Place just might be the most optimistic television show ever...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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