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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2009
May
10
"STAR TREK" TVWW CONTEST IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED -- WINNER ANNOUNCED TUESDAY By David Bianculli
 
 
As of 9 a.m. ET Sunday, May 10, the TV WORTH WATCHING "Star Trek" guess-the-grosses contest is closed. Thanks for playing -- and I hope, at least, you walk away with a copy of the home game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
8
TV WORTH WATCHING CONTEST: ON OPENING WEEKEND, HOW HIGH WILL "STAR TREK" BOLDLY GO? By David Bianculli
 
 
Okay, gang. We've done this before here at TV WORTH WATCHING -- predicted the opening-weekend box-office gross of a movie based on a TV show, and asked readers to do the same. This weekend's subject: the new Star Trek film. Read on to get the rules, and register your prediction...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
7
STUDENT BLOG #2: A YOUNGER PERSPECTIVE ON FOX'S ENDANGERED "DOLLHOUSE" By David Bianculli
 
 
Bianculli here: In addition to presenting the viewpoints of veteran TV reporter-critic professionals analyzing television on this site, I want, on occasion, to present the other end of the spectrum, and hear what young, opinionated "amateurs" have to say. So today, I asked one of my TV History students to present his thoughts on a show we both like: Fox's "Dollhouse"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
5
GUEST BLOG #15: TOM BRINKMOELLER ON A FIRST-CLASS TV TRAVEL SERIES By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Today's guest column, the latest from Tom Brinkmoeller, finds its inspiration from a travel series -- one that inspired Tom to interview the producer about why public television's "Rick Steves' Europe" seemed so different from most other TV travel shows.]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
4
NBC UNVEILS CLIPS OF SEVERAL NEW 2009-10 FALL SERIES -- "PARENTHOOD" MAKES BEST FIRST IMPRESSION By David Bianculli
 
 
Again revealing some of its cards before its rival networks present new fare at the upcoming upfront presentations, NBC has leaked some of its new fall series clips -- The upshot: A few of the new scripted shows, at first glance, appear decent, especially the new remake of the 1989 movie "Parenthood," already made once as a TV series in 1990. For NBC, this is an improvement...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
May
1
CLOSING IN ON SMOTHERS BOOK, OPENING UP ON TWITTER By David Bianculli
 
 
Wish me luck. This is supposed to be, and had better be, an amazingly productive weekend as I close in on the final chapters of my Smothers Brothers book. I'll still be providing BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS, so keep checking in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
29
GUEST BLOG #12: TOM BRINKMOELLER LOVES PUBLIC TV'S NO-EVOO DIET By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Tom Brinkmoeller, for his latest column, reverted to his old print reporter instincts, and conducted interviews as well as delivered his own opinion. The topic: TV's food shows. And while I'll agree to disagree with him about Gordon Ramsay, whose shows I find immensely entertaining, he's really onto something about the respective informative values of certain shows.]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
29
DVD WATCH: 'THIRTYSOMETHING' DUE AUG. 25 By Diane Werts
 
 
Fans of ABC's '80s emo-fest thirtysomething will finally see the pre-midlife crisis drama hit DVD this Aug. 25, thanks to those fine retroheads at Shout! Factory...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
27
WATCH ONLINE: PBS VIDEO PLAYER LAUNCHES By Diane Werts
 
 
Ahead of the curve, behind the curve -- now PBS is ahead again. Public TV was the first network to really "get" the internet, providing loads of value-added text content when the World Wide Web was still in its infant stage. But when online video exploded, PBS was a laggard...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
27
TRIBUTE: BEA ARTHUR BOUNTY By Diane Werts
 
 
After Beatrice Arthur died over the weekend, TV channels went into overdrive scheduling episodes of her classic '80s sitcom The Golden Girls...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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