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2018
Jan
8
THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS: TWEED ROOSEVELT’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE By Alex Strachan
 
 
In 1914, former President of the United States, avid outdoorsman, and lifelong adventurer Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon undertook an epic expedition into the heart of the Amazon jungle...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
BREAKING BAD MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
AMC continues to work through its Breaking Bad sequential run, showing multiple episodes each Saturday and Sunday. Today we rejoin the action at 6 p.m. ET, at the midpoint of Season 3. Episode 7 is called “One Minute,” and features several significant decisions and confrontations – including the very violent one between Jesse (Aaron Paul), Walter White’s once and future drug-dealing partner, and Walter’s brother-in-law DEA agent, Hank (Dean Norris).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
THE 75TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS By David Bianculli
 
 
For this 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes, the host rolling out the carpet is Seth Meyers – and this year, he did that literally.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli
 
 
MIDSEASON PREMIERE: This newest incarnation of the Star Trek franchise resumes tonight on CBS Access – the network’s subscription streaming site, and for now still the only way to see these episodes. After a lengthy hiatus, Star Trek: Discovery returns, on a weekly basis, with tonight’s new episode directed by Jonathan Frakes, one of the stars of a previous series in the TV canon, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
THE GOONIES By David Bianculli
 
 
Stranger Things and its Season 2 sequel, Stranger Things 2, were and are major hits on Netflix, especially with the younger generation. That’s because, in part, that younger generation grew up entertained by 1985’s The Goonies, a movie that served as an obvious inspiration for the misfit Stranger Things kids and their adventures. To compare and contrast, watch Syfy’s showing tonight, and check out young Sean Astin, James Brolin, Corey Feldman and buddies as they search for, rea
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
THE CHI By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Lena Waithe, who co-wrote the Emmy-winning “Thanksgiving” episode of Master of None with Aziz Ansari, created this new Showtime series, which looks at modern-day South Side Chicago through the eyes of a handful of its everyday citizens – children, teens and adults. The opening hour starts with a bike ride through the neighborhood, and by the end of the hour, you’ll have a hard time forgetting the biker. And other characters make their marks, too, just str
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
THE HEARTACHE AND HOPE OF THE CITY IN 'THE CHI' By David Hinckley
 
 
Showtime’s hard-edged new drama The Chi achieves its clear goal of defying easy categorization...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
GREATNESS IS IN THE CARDS FOR SHOWTIME'S 'THE CHI' By Ed Bark
 
 
That didn't take long. The first potentially great new TV series of 2018 is already upon us...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
6
TCA'S WINTER PRESS TOUR – DAY 2: FX NETWORK By Roger Catlin
 
 
PASADENA, Calif. — Amid the hype and hubbub of the TV Critics Association winter press tour, there is one reliable moment of hushed reflection — during the anticipated biannual address of FX CEO John Landgraf...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
6
BREAKING BAD MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
 Breaking Bad turns 10 years old this month, and AMC is noting the occasion by replaying the entire series, in sequence, doling out episodes sparingly but lovingly on weekends all this month. The celebration started last year – technically, last weekend, and already has presented the show’s first two seasons – including the stellar Season 2 which began with images of a pink stuffed animal floating in a pool, and ended up with a pair of tragedies, including the final, memor
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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