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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Sep
13
FALL TV: WHY IT'S BAD, BUT ALSO WHAT'S GOOD By Theresa Corigliano
 
 
The hour drama pilot I just inserted into my DVD player is beyond terrible. It shouldn't be terrible. There are good actors in it, and the creative team is a TV A-team. But bad things happen to dramas and comedies... How does this happen?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
11
HBO'S "TRUE BLOOD": THANKS FOR A BLOODY GREAT SUMMER By David Bianculli
 
 
On the eve of its third-season finale, I come not to bury HBO's True Blood, but to praise it. Good thing, because burying the vamps and vengeful spirits in this wild supernatural series wouldn't have much effect anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
10
WATCH THIS: STAR TREK IS 44 YEARS OLD By Diane Werts
 
 
Wow. Watch the beginnings of Trekkie-dom. I'm posting this video in honor of the show's 44th anniversary. Yep, Star Trek premiered on NBC Sept. 8, 1966...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
9
KICKOFF CURSE CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM... AND LOOK WHO'S NEXT: CW'S "HELLCATS" By David Bianculli
 
 
The Kickoff Curse has done it again. Each fall, it targets the first new series to premiere each fall from a broadcast network, and predicts that the show in question will not live to see a sophomore season. Last year, the Curse -- which I invented, by the way, decades ago -- fingered CW's Melrose Place for extinction. And hey: Look what show isn't back for 2010...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
9
'ENTOURAGE' SURPRISES WITH ITS OWN HOLLYWOOD COMEBACK By Ed Martin
 
 
I pretty much wrote off HBO's Entourage two seasons ago, but this summer it has, without warning, become the television equivalent of a seductively trashy beach read. For the first time in the history of this series about a movie star of marginal talent and his opportunistic buddies, its characters are learning that there are actual consequences for bad behavior, and the results are unexpectedly entertaining...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
9
IS TIME-TRAVELLING "EUREKA" STILL AHEAD OF ITS TIME? OR, AT LEAST, AHEAD OF THE BROADCAST NETWORKS? By Gerald Jordan
 
 
Only those whose lives are caught up in the thick web of conspiracies would surmise that Eureka is on the SyFy channel because its casting is too avant garde for network TV. Count me among those spiders. Well, maybe I'm not committed to the true belief that a conspiracy exists, but the question does arise: Why can't network TV dramas be bolder in defying convention?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
8
CW'S "HELLCATS": AARON SPELLING, THE NEXT GENERATION? By Ed Bark
 
 
Bootys are shaken -- after first being stirred -- on The CW's new Hellcats. That may be reason enough for many to watch this first new fall series out of the chute. Trailing Wednesday's season premiere of America's Next Top Model at 9 p.m. ET, it's an abs 'n' ass answer to Fox's Glee...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
8
THE FIRST NEW FALL SHOWS ARE HERE -- AND SO IS TVWW'S ANNUAL FALL PREVIEW! By David Bianculli
 
 
The first new show of the 2010 fall TV season, CW's Hellcats, shows up tonight. On cable, so does FX's Terriers. And accompanying them both, for the third straight year, is TV WORTH WATCHING's annual Fall TV Preview...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
7
TV WORTH WATCHING 2010 FALL TV PREVIEW IS ON THE WAY... TOMORROW By David Bianculli
 
 
Even though the 2010 Fall TV season doesn't begin officially for two more weeks, the first new show from the broadcast networks surfaces tomorrow night. And, to mark the occasion, so will TV WORTH WATCHING's annual Fall Preview Guide...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
5
FEAST, NOT FAMINE: DO YOU BELIEVE IN (COLLEGE FOOTBALL) MIRACLES? By Gerald Jordan
 
 
Burp. Goodness! Pardon me. Did Thanksgiving come early? Even Canadian T-day? The feast has been on since Thursday night, and college football fans across the land have been stuffing themselves with a cable TV cornucopia of football from colleges large and small, prominent and obscure (how else can Elon be described?)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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