Tonight at 7 ET, The USA women’s team faces Germany in the World Cup semifinal. It’s a tough draw, because Germany was heavily favored before the tournament began, and has done nothing to change that perception. The Germans have scored a total of 20 goals in this tournament’s games, and allowed only 3. The USA, by contrast, have survived and thrived not on offense, but on defense, with no goal allowed for the last 423 minutes – more than seven hours of play – and on

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FRONTLINE: "GROWING UP TRANS" By David Bianculli

Caitlyn Jenner’s ultra-visible media “coming-out” transition, on a prime-time ABC special with Diane Sawyer and on the cover of Vanity Fair, was accomplished in her mid-60s, after a lifetime of conflict and reevaluation. Tonight’s Frontline looks at the issue from the other end of the age scale: Growing Up Trans talks to teens, and even pre-teens, as well as their parents, to explore, and explain, what it’s like when a child born as one gender identifies with the ot

2015

Jun

INSIDE AMY SCHUMER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode has three sketches – including one, in which Amy Schumer goes out on a date and experiences time travel, that’s one of the most clever comic uses of the time-travel gimmick since Back to the Future. And this time, it’s future Amy trying to alter the course of events –and visiting present Amy to do so…

2015

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SCREAM: THE TV SERIES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Not a recommendation. This MTV attempt to reboot the Scream movie franchise into a weekly TV series has a prime-time precedent. Remember Harper’s Island, the 2008 CBS series in which a serial killer murdered characters on an average of one per episode? No? Well, that’s sort of my point. And this new Scream, while being just as meta as its pop-culture-aware forebears, likely will turn out as the wrong idea, at the wrong time, on the wrong medium. But if you’re c

2015

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THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART By David Bianculli

Tonight, two Jons who spell their first names without an H: Jon Stewart hosts Jon Hamm.

2015

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OBAMA'S LATEST CAREER TRIUMPH: TV-CRITIC-IN-CHIEF By David Bianculli

President Barack Obama, politically speaking, is coming off a great week – but he also triumphed in an unexpected arena, as a very impassioned TV-Critic-In-Chief…

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PRESIDENT OBAMA MEETS DAVID ATTENBOROUGH By David Bianculli

Television’s all-time greatest naturalist, Sir David Attenborough (no, I haven’t forgotten about Jacques Cousteau – he’s a respectable second place), was invited by President Barack Obama to visit the White House and discuss nature. The result, televised for the BBC, just was broadcast overseas, and, over the weekend, here in the States. BBC America repeats it tonight. For a full story, and for Obama’s unexpected role as TV-Critic-In-Chief, see Bianculli’s Blo

2015

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TVWW WANTS YOU! -- TO WELCOME OUR NEW WRITERS, AND MAYBE WRITE A LITTLE YOURSELF By David Bianculli

[NOTE: Just posted a new round of replies to your latest wave of responses. Thanks! And keep them coming! -- David] -- Here at TVWW, it’s time to share some news, officially introduce some new contributors, and ask for a bit of help – from you, if you’re so inclined. But it's not financial...

2015

Jun

PASS THE POPCORN: ‘ZOO’ IS EQUAL PARTS ENTERTAINMENT, CAUTIONARY ENVIRO-THRILLER. By Alex Strachan

“Only food runs!”...

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THE DAILY SHOW'S MONTH OF ZEN By David Bianculli

I sent out a Tweet about this before it started last Friday – every episode of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show since its 1999 premiere, streamed sequentially on the Daily Show website. What I didn’t count on is how addictive they would be from the start – or that Stephen Colbert would appear in the very first show, and Steve Carell in the opening week. The show, at the start, had a lot of maturing to do: the only media being examined from the start were religious and child

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