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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jan
16
A DC SUPERHERO OF COLOR IN THE CW'S BOLD, BOLT-DISPENSING 'BLACK LIGHTNING' By Ed Bark
 
 
The official network of DC Comics superheroes is adding a fifth...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
PLANET EARTH MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
Blue Planet II, premiering this Saturday on BBC America, is one of those astounding TV events to make special plans to watch, record, and treasure. I can’t quite wrap my head around the new technology, and infinite patience, that allowed the filmmakers to catch such glorious, jaw-dropping images and events. BBC America is doing its best to get viewers involved in advance, by repeating, in daily marathons, its best nature documentary series of this century to date. Yesterday, the network re
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
ELLEN'S GAME OF GAMES By David Bianculli
 
 
Everything about this prime-time game show screamed “hit” before it arrived, and nothing since then has slowed or deterred that momentum and prediction. With Ellen DeGeneres at its center, interacting with frighteningly animated contestants and relying on bigger-budget versions of some of her daytime show’s popular goofy games, Ellen’s Game of Games couldn’t miss. And it hasn’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
BLACK LIGHTNING By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Black Lightning, based on a DC Comics superhero from the 1970s, is the fifth CW prime-time drama based on characters from the DC universe, after Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. (Shouldn’t The CW just give in at this point, and rename itself The DC?) Cress Williams stars, and Black Lightning is a superhero who’s markedly different. For one thing, he’s not a coming-of-age teen just learning to marshal his powers: In his civilian l
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
THIS IS US By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “Clooney,” and has Kate shopping for a wedding dress. Infer from that what you will...  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
THE MAN WHO KEPT 'THE SECRET OF TUXEDO PARK' By David Hinckley
 
 
If it takes a village to raise a child, it also took a village to win World War II, and it’s kind of cool how, seven decades later, more villagers keep surfacing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
THE ELECTRICITY OF 'BLACK LIGHTNING' ON THE CW By David Hinckley
 
 
The fiercest competition in the superhero game these days may be which one is the most reluctant to play, and Black Lightning’s return catapults him right to the head of that hand-wringing class...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
15
MORE FROM TCA'S WINTER PRESS TOUR By Roger Catlin
 
 
The E! Network occasionally stumbles on the zenith of the cultural zeitgeist with a new show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
15
JAMES BALDWIN AND THE STORY OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA WITH 'I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO' By David Hinckley
 
 
James Baldwin died before he could finish what he had to say to America. I Am Not Your Negro, starting with its title, picks up where he left off...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
15
THE STRENGTH OF OUR TROOPS WITH 'CHAIN OF COMMAND' By David Hinckley
 
 
National Geographic takes a dramatic gamble, and it pays off in Chain of Command, a new eight-part series based on America’s military and intelligence flow chart for combatting worldwide insurgency...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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