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Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Dec
6
EVA LONGORIA'S IN FINE FORM IN A FUNNY FORUM ON NBC'S 'TELENOVELA' By Ed Bark
 
 
In 70 years as a television network, NBC has never had a prime-time series with an all-Hispanic cast. That changes on Monday, Dec. 7th, with the “sneak preview” of Eva Longoria’s Telenovela.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
JAMES AND ROMO HAVE A SLEEPOVER By Eric Gould
 
 
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has had a tough season, first getting sidelined with a fractured collarbone in September and the same injury last month ended his 2015 season. But it’s not all bad. James Corden who comes over for a sleepover to see if they can become best friends, the way Corden used to do it as a kid...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
THE TWELVE CHAIRS By David Bianculli
 
 
Mel Brooks, a favorite here at TVWW, used his clout from the success of his original movie comedy The Producers, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, to direct his pet project, this 1970 comedy based on a story by his favorite comic Russian writers, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. And the fact that Brooks, at that early stage of his career, had favorite comic Russian writers, says a lot about Brooks. Ron Moody and Frank Langella star in this story of a fortune in jewels supposedly sewn into the cu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
SINATRA 100: AN ALL-STAR GRAMMY CONCERT By David Bianculli
 
 
Celebrating what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday (a few days early, but why quibble?), this CBS concert, taped in Las Vegas, has a mixture of veteran and current performers working their way through the Sinatra songbook. Usher sings “That’s Life.” Harry Connick Jr. glides through “Luck Be a Lady.” Sam Smith nails the high notes on “My Funny Valentine.” Celine Dion sings “All the Way,” Tony Bennett sings “I’ve
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
THE LEFTOVERS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: There are plans afoot for the fourth anniversary of the Sudden Departure, in and around the town now referred to as Miracle. One miracle already has occurred, though: This series, by venturing past the original source novel into uncharted directions and plot lines, has gotten much more interesting.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
HOMELAND By David Bianculli
 
 
Rupert Friend’s Peter Quinn may or may not have breathed his last at the end of last week’s episode – this season, there’s a lot of that going around. But with only a few episodes to go before the season finale, surprises may indeed be due.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
THE AFFAIR By David Bianculli
 
 
This series, too, is only a few episodes away from its season finale – and the stories told by the various characters here are beginning to unravel. And deepen, as at least one of them admits tonight to not having told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
5
PBS PLEDGE DRIVES WORSE THAN A BAD HABIT By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
As a former smoker, I can tell you that what once was acceptable, then shown to be a tar-and-nicotine-paved path to no good, is a tough and awful habit to break...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
5
EVA LONGORIA BUBBLES OVER IN NBC'S 'TELENOVELA' By David Hinckley
 
 
Eva Longoria seems to be having lots of fun in her return to prime-time TV as the star of NBC’s new comedy Telenovela...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
5
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE By David Bianculli
 
 
This movie came out in 1946 – next year will be its 70th anniversary. But it still resonates, and adds cheer to the holiday season, and reminds us what a wonderful actor James Stewart was. Imagining a world without Stewart’s George Bailey in it is tough enough. A world without It’s a Wonderful Life? Impossible.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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