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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
May
15
NBC AGAIN SLIMS AND TRIMS WITH JUST THREE NEW FALL SERIES (AND THINLY VEILED MIDSEASON REINCARNATIONS OF PAST PRIME-TIME HITS) By Ed Bark
 
 
NBC, which dominated this season in the ratings battle for advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, is going lean again in 2018-19 with just three new fall series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
FOX GOES TRADITIONAL (WHETHER ADMITTING IT OR NOT) WITH LATEST PRIME-TIME MENU By Ed Bark
 
 
Adding Thursday Night Football, Last Man Standing, and another laugh track-juiced sitcom set in a retirement home seems like something CBS might do...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
The Top 8 surviving contestants face elimination tonight – well, a few of them will, after the national voting results are revealed. And then the three singers with the lowest vote totals will perform again, for survival, with the winner instantly moving on, and the others hoping for some sort of instant, and rare, reprieve from the judges.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
ROSEANNE By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, Dan and Roseanne celebrate their 45th anniversary – but the celebration is muted as Dan realizes many of his prescribed pain pills are missing, and finds a stash of them hidden in the house. He sets out to find the culprit, and the motive. And, in this penultimate Roseanne of the season, he does…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
RISE By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: This episode was intended as the season finale, with the high schoolers finally presenting their controversial but inspirational student production of Spring Awakening. But NBC, which just announced its fall 2018 schedule, has cancelled Rise, so this serves as the show’s very last episode. Consider it the Rise and fall of this latest series from Jason Katims – or, instead of a Spring Awakening, consider it a Summer Closing… For a full story about NBC's coming fa
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
LEGION By David Bianculli
 
 
I really look forward to new episodes of this series, because I have no idea what’s going to happen. And when it’s over, I savor it all, wondering and trying to figure out what it all means. Tonight, angered by what the evil and extremely powerful Farouk has done to his sister, David sets out for a vengeful confrontation. At least I think that’s what happening. I love that this series now prefaces its clips of images from previous episodes by announcing the simple, yet mind-twi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli
 
 
Young Picasso sees carved African masks in a museum. Elder Picasso explains how that vision inspired a vision of his own: his famous Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. For Picasso, it’s just another day at the office, or the studio – but for this series, it’s another episode exploring, and explaining, the inspiration of Genius.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
ABC ADDS/SUBTRACTS IN ABUNDANCE FOR NEW FALL SCHEDULE By Ed Bark
 
 
Depending on one’s definition, ABC will either have four or six new prime-time series entering this fall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
14
MAYA HAWKE ON HER DEBUT ROLE IN 'LITTLE WOMEN' By Roger Catlin
 
 
The BBC shifts to American literature (and a largely American cast) for its version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women on PBS' Masterpiece...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
14
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight on The Voice: the live semis. The competition among the Final 8 will be fierce, the song selections and performances critical – and, from this point on, the shows will have enough room for both the singers and judges to make their mark without feeling rushed.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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