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Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Aug
25
"HOT IN CLEVELAND" IS FIRST STOP ON TOUR OF TV LAND'S NEW NEIGHBORHOOD By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Anyone else see the growing irony in this? TV Land is a cable network that replays series that once were huge hits on the broadcast networks -- when those networks knew how to regularly schedule the kinds of shows people just never skipped...But since the June premiere of "Hot in Cleveland," TV Land has escalated the contest several notches...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
24
MORE RELAUNCH NEWS, RADIO AND NEWSPAPER STUFF, AND THOUGHTS ON EARLY EMMY WINNERS By David Bianculli
 
 
Lots to cover, so let's dive right in, beginning with more relaunch news. Your reaction to our Extreme Makeover (TV WORTH WATCHING as The Swan?) has been warm, thoughtful and encouraging. I expected nothing less, but thanks just the same. And in that same welcoming spirit, please get in the habit of visiting, and commenting on, our new Contributors blog...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
24
GROWING UP WITH BLACK & WHITE, AND "COLORED," TV By Gerald Jordan
 
 
The memories seem funny now. My brothers, my sister and I can't help but laugh every time we relive the days when Uncle Shag would call on us to verify his suspicions about what he saw on TV. That was during the late 1950s and early 1960s in Malvern, Ark. It was an era of visions in black & white from the standpoint of both the picture on TV and the even sharper contrast of the segregated life we lived. It was a time when African Americans were rendered invisible on TV, except in some spars
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
23
DVD UPDATE: GETTING LOST IN THE 'LOST' BOX By Diane Werts
 
 
Enough with the wacky packages! Building a TV DVD library is starting to require building special shelving to hold all the strangely shaped boxes, heavy Lucite containers, enormous hardcover "book" sleeves, and "collectible" packaging of jumbo 3D plastic Bender heads and Cylon helmets...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
22
NBC OVERTURNS LAWS OF REALITY IN UPCOMING "OUTLAW" LEGAL DRAMA By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
If you were watching a TV drama about baseball where the batter got a single and ran to third base -- not to first -- and the story made that seem normal, would you wonder if the show's producers knew very much about the sport? Hope not. So don't look for too many factual insights into the country's top court when Outlaw premieres this fall on NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
22
AS A SEQUEL TO SPIKE LEE'S "WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE," HBO'S "CREEK DON'T RISE" BOTH SWIMS AND SINKS By Ed Bark
 
 
Plainly speaking, New Orleans has never been in very good shape. Poverty, greed, corruption and an overall laissez-faire "Big Easy" malaise have characterized the city since its sale to the U.S. in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Then came Hurricane Katrina five summers ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
22
T.O., OCHOCINCO COMPETE FOR ATTENTION, ON AND OFF THE FOOTBALL FIELD By Alan Pergament
 
 
Tony Siragusa, TV critic. The Fox analyst turned into one Friday night during a sideline interview with Cincinnati Bengal receivers and new best friends Terrell Owens (shown here) and Chad Ochocinco during the Bengals' 22-9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
22
THE RELAUNCH IS HERE! THE RELAUNCH IS HERE! By David Bianculli
 
 
If you've been here before, you should already be able to tell, just from first glance, how different things look around here, and how hard we've worked to make "TV WORTH WATCHING: The Next Generation" an even more compelling place to visit for all things related to quality television. And if you're a new visitor, welcome. This is a place where writers and readers who care about, and seek out, excellent TV, come to congregate, debate, and find new things to watch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
20
ONE IF BY LAN, TWO IF BY PC: "THE RELAUNCH IS COMING! THE RELAUNCH IS COMING!" By David Bianculli
 
 
Well, I can't begin to tell you how much work is behind us, and how much looms ahead this weekend. But we're close enough for me to announce to you, and dare us here at TV WORTH WATCHING, that we hope to have the long-promised website relaunch up and running by Monday morning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Aug
19
GOOD SPORTS: LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES THIS WEEKEND By Diane Werts
 
 

It's that most wonderful time of the year. Okay, maybe second most wonderful time, behind Christmas. (You know how I am about Christmas.) It's time for the Little League World Series, which has become such a viewing favorite at our house that we forego weekend activities during the final two weeks of the annual youth baseball extravaganza from Williamsport, Pa...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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