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TVWW ARCHIVE

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2020
Dec
2
2007: CABLE'S SCI FI (NOW SYFY) REIMAGINES 'THE WIZARD OF OZ' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 2007, cable's Sci Fi channel (before it became SyFy) introduced a reimagined version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
CITIZEN KANE By David Bianculli
 
 
The American Film Institute ranked this 1941 Orson Welles movie as the best film ever made. That’s one of dozens of reasons to watch this movie again, or especially anew, but this week brings a new one. On Friday, Netflix premieres a new movie called Mank, telling the story of the making of Citizen Kane by focusing on the man credited as the co-author of the film’s screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
88TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER By David Bianculli
 
 
The celebration will be very different, and much less populated, this year – but the tree has been delivered and put in place, and there was a surprise creature within that already has been discovered and celebrated. O come, owl ye faithful!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
WHY 'THE MANDALORIAN' IS PURE 'STAR WARS' By TVWW Guest Contributor
 
 

[Editor’s note: The producer and director of our daily Best TV Tomorrow videos for TVWW, Larry Siegel, has some very specific opinions – for example, about science fiction movies and TV. He insists, for example, that while George Lucas released the first taste of his ongoing Star Wars saga in the mid-70s, it is only now, in Lucas’ own mid-70s, that he’s found new purity of storytelling in his Disney+ series, The Mandalorian. So I asked him to tell us more… -DB]

 

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER By David Bianculli
 
 
My default mode, in the days after Thanksgiving, is to moan about the appearance of Christmas TV specials so soon after one holiday, and so far in advance of another. But when it comes to a rebroadcast of one of the first Christmas specials ever made – back in 1964, with Burl Ives as the voice of Sam the Snowman.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
MY COUSIN VINNY By David Bianculli
 
 
This 1992 movie is one of Rudy Giuliani’s favorite films, apparently – and he quoted it at length to make a point, or at least try to make one, when arguing election fraud in the Pennsylvania state court. So this is the first time this classic comedy has been televised since then, so tune in and watch to see how many fingers Vinny holds up …
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: This 14-part documentary series has been marvelous to watch, and extremely instructive. And tonight it ends, with a final documentary installment followed by one last night of international films directed by woman worldwide. And this Women Make Film TCM multi-month celebration may have saved the weirdest for last: At 6 a.m. ET Wednesday, it’s the 2015 film The Lure, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska, in which a local Polish cabaret hires a pair of ench
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
BIG SKY By David Bianculli
 
 
In last week’s Episode 2 of Big Spy, the trucker who was abducting young women for his sexual slavery ring was surprised when one of his three abductees revealed herself to be something different than what the trucker had presumed. Yet managed to live through, and past, the revelatory experience.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
2004: TV'S HIT FASHION REALITY SHOW 'PROJECT RUNWAY' LAUNCHES By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 2004, the fashion-themed reality competition show Project Runway made its debut on Bravo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
30
1971: ABC AIRS 'BRIAN'S SONG' By Linda Donovan
 
 
On this day in 1971, the made-for-TV movie, "Brian’s Song," aired on ABC under its Movie of the Week umbrella...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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