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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2021
Feb
16
1995: CARL REINER'S ALAN BRADY APPEARS ON 'MAD ABOUT YOU' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1995, NBC's Mad About You featured a unique crossover episode, with actor Carl Reiner appearing on the sitcom as his The Dick Van Dyke Show character, Alan Brady...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
1988: TRUDEAU, ALTMAN INTRODUCE 'TANNER '88' By TV WW
 
 
Today in 1988, HBO debuted the political mocumentary Tanner '88, a collaboration between Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
PBS' 'AMERICAN EXPERIENCE' PRESENTS THE 'VOICE OF FREEDOM' OF MARIAN ANDERSON By Mike Hughes
 
 
The world seemed to agree that Marian Anderson was a great singer. Audiences cheered; critics raved. Conductor Arturo Toscanini said this was a voice "one is privileged to hear only once in 100 years."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
'INSIDE THE MIND OF A DICTATOR' CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND REIGN – SO FAR – OF KIM JONG-UN By David Hinckley
 
 
A new documentary on Kim Jong-un suggests the North Korean supreme commander faces a dilemma, not unlike that faced by Al Pacino's Michael Corleone in Godfather II...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
THE CRITICAL POLITICAL ROLE AND ASTOUNDING TALENT OF 'MARIAN ANDERSON: VOICE OF FREEDOM' By David Hinckley
 
 
Marian Anderson did not want to become a political symbol. She just wanted to be a singer. She ended up being both, and, frankly, it was partly kind of her own fault...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
CNN DOCUSERIES, 'LINCOLN: DIVIDED WE STAND,' OFFERS A NEW LOOK AT THE PRESIDENT By Mike Hughes
 
 
We've heard plenty about evil stepmothers, so let's hear the flip side – the good stepmother who helped shape the man who preserved the Union...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
'THE LUMINARIES,' IS LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY A DARK STORY By David Hinckley
 
 
The filming is often as dark as the story in the new miniseries The Luminaries...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
1993: CBS PRESENTS 'ALEX HALEY'S QUEEN' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1993, CBS aired part one of the three-part miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
13
2009: JOSS WHEDON'S 'DOLLHOUSE' DEBUTS By TV WW
 
 
This day in 2009 marked the debut of writer/director Joss Whedon's science fiction drama, Dollhouse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
13
CICELY TYSON, CLORIS LEACHMAN, HAL HOLBROOK AND THE HEYDAY OF THE TV MOVIE By Ed Martin
 
 
The passing of Larry King three weeks ago had me thinking about the end of the television interview as it had once been known...Three more recent losses have me longing for the made-for-television movies of yesteryear...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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