[Ed. note: TVWW Guest Contributor Candace Kelley has numerous areas of expertise to draw from in order to write for a website such as TVWW. In this particular case, she's putting on her TV producer hat and has something to say about the reality of reality television. - DB]

2015

May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. This is the night when the remaining four contestants – one for each judging chair – sing for the right to appear again tomorrow night and the chance to walk away a winner. Whatever happens to one of these Final 4, one of them, Sawyer Fredericks, already has attracted the attention of Belle from Beauty and the Beast – well, Paige O’Hara, anyway, who starred as Belle in the classic animated Disney film. She’s asked TVWW to pass on a person

2015

May

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME By David Bianculli

So many great movies were made in 1939 – and here’s one of them, for sure. Charles Laughton stars as a deformed bell-ringer at the grand Paris cathedral, with Maureen O’Hara as the beautiful gypsy woman who catches his bulging eye.

2015

May

THE FOLLOWING By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: It’s over. Unless, like some of the characters on this somewhat sadistic, logic-defying series, apparent death is only a temporary impediment to a return appearance. But let’s hope The Following has, as announced by Fox, breathed its last – because clearly, this is a warning, not a recommendation, for tonight’s expanded two-hour finale. Kevin Bacon stars.

2015

May

SOUTHERN RITES By David Bianculli

In 2009, photojournalist Gillian Laub took pictures in Georgia of an event that sounds more common to an era more than 50 years earlier: segregated high-school proms. Her photographs prompted an end to that shockingly existent policy in Montgomery County – but when she returned the following year to document the area’s first integrated prom, she encountered angry and physical resistance from local police. She also stumbled upon an even bigger story in a nearby Georgia county: a shoot

2015

May

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN By David Bianculli

Tonight, with three shows to go, Letterman’s special guest tonight is Tom Hanks, who, according to CBS, is making visit No. 60 to one of Letterman’s talk shows. Another guest tonight is Eddie Vedder, who plans to perform, backed by Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

2015

May

AMC'S 'MAD MEN' ENDS BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED By David Bianculli

Was Sunday’s finale of AMC’s Mad Men a fitting end to a fabulous TV series? Absolutely. And not only was it satisfying, it was wickedly clever, and even a little twisted. I loved it…

2015

May

MUCH TO ADMIRE IN 'PENNY DREADFUL' By Alex Strachan

When I first learned of a Stanford University project to draw a literary “map of emotions” of 1890s Victorian London, at first I wanted to learn more. And then I thought of Penny Dreadful, and how it has affected and moved me...

2015

May

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S GREEN PORNO LIVE! By David Bianculli

I’ve been writing for years about Isabella Rossellini’s bizarrely entertaining, delightfully informative short films about animal behavior, which she presents under the provocative but somewhat misleading title of Green Porno. Yes, she talks mostly about sexual matters, with a combination of straight talk and scientific accuracy and nomenclature that makes her a kind of nature-world Dr. Ruth. But only if you imagine Dr. Ruth dressing up in costumes -- as spiders, ducks, giant sea lio

2015

May

CABARET By David Bianculli

Here’s a decadent double feature: Two movies about enticing cabaret singers in Germany, in different eras but with similarly destructive tendencies. First up, at 8 p.m. ET, is Bob Fosse’s superb 1972 movie musical starring Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, about a Berlin nightclub and the slow but steady and unnerving encroachment of the Nazi Party. Then, at 10:15 p.m. ET, it’s The Blue Angel, from 1930, starring Marlene Dietrich – in her star-making role – as a singer w

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