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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Feb
1
A.P. BIO By David Bianculli
 
 
SNEAK PREVIEW: This series will launch in full after NBC’s Olympics coverage, but the network is offering a sneak peek tonight of this new series from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video company, and in particular from produer Seth Meyers. Glenn Howerton plays a Harvard philosophy professor who fails to get tenure, loses his job, and ends up moving back into his late mother’s home in Ohio, where he’s assigned to teach an Advanced Placement high school biology course. Instead,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
1
PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s the final season for this show, which makes every episode both a little poignant and, somehow, even more funny. Enjoy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
1
SOME JUVENILE HIGHS IN NBC'S 'A.P. BIO' By Ed Bark
 
 
NBC is hot for this teacher, even if the title doesn’t readily suggest it’s a schoolhouse sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
TAKING A PEAK WITH 'ANIMALS WITH CAMERAS' By David Hinckley
 
 
Next time you go out for a pizza with a waddle of penguins, you should know they will probably order anchovies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
THE X-FILES By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new episode, “Ghouli,” is not the final installment of this Season 11 of The X-Files. Nor is it the final episode co-starring Gillian Anderson, who revealed in January that this would be her last year with the series, which began on Fox back in the 1990s. (She is slated for future appearances this year, however, so don’t be too spooked by the dire-looking photo from tonight’s episode.) But it is the last of the 2018 episodes sent by Fox for critics to prev
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
NOVA: "IMPOSSIBLE FLIGHT" By David Bianculli
 
 
It took 13 years of planning – but in 2015, the designers behind Solar Impulse II reached for the skies, and their dreams, by sending aloft their test vehicle in hopes of it becoming the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. Did they succeed? And whether they did or didn’t, did you ever hear of it until now? Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s episode three, Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) commits two more murders as he continues his increasingly impulsive killing spree. His victims are his third and fourth kills – setting the stage for his fifth, who, very soon on this American Crime Story series, will be the man whose death we've seen already in the opening episode: Gianni Versace.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
WACO By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week’s inaugural episode of Waco, the inaugural scripted miniseries presented by the inaugural Paramount Network – a lot of firsts here – managed to draw just over 1 million viewers in the targeted 18-49 demo. Tonight is Episode 2, with Taylor Kitsch from Friday Night Lights as Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh, and Michael Shannon from Boardwalk Empire portraying an FBI hostage negotiator.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
31
FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli
 
 
So, Samantha Bee, what was your response to last night’s State of the Union Address by President Trump? Don’t be shy…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
30
KING KONG By David Bianculli
 
 
In 1933, special effects pioneer Willis O’Brien mixed live-action footage and stop-motion monsters to create the king of the apes. King Kong’s proportions may have kept changing throughout the film, but there’s no denying how exciting it must have been, and somehow still is, to see Kong take his iconic place atop the Empire State Building. And Fay Wray is almost as much fun to watch, though for different reasons.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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