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Contributors Archive
 
 
2008
Jun
8
WEIRD & WILD: TIMMY! ON 'SOUTH PARK' By Diane Werts
 
 
Timm-EHH! The orange-haired wheelchair kid of South Park takes center stage in this week's 9:30 p.m. ET Comedy Central repeats. Must-see: the infamous Cripple Fight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
7
WEIRD & WILD: BABY WEEK ON DHC By Diane Werts
 
 
Oh, baby. And baby. And baby. That's all you'll see on Discovery Health the next six days as Baby Week 2008 takes over the channel with such premiere treats as the surprise-labor report I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
6
FLICK PICKS: LAUREL & HARDY ON TCM By Diane Werts
 
 
Here's a great way to wake up to your weekend. Turner Classic Movies is running Laurel & Hardy comedy features Saturday mornings through June...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
6
NEW CBS DRAMA TAKES "SYBIL" LIBERTIES By David Bianculli
 
 
In 1976, Sally Field -- who, at the time, was all but dismissed as the cutie from TV's "Gidget" -- grabbed the brass ring by playing a series of distinctly different characters in the psychological miniseries "Sybil," based on an actual case of what then was called multiple personality disorder. This weekend, 32 years later, CBS presents a new version... very, very quietly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
5
"SWINGTOWN" LANGUISHES ON CBS, "FEAR ITSELF" SURPRISES ON NBC By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight marks the arrival of two new series on the broadcast networks, and they couldn't be more different. One is "Swingtown," a CBS drama that tries to mine the free-love 1970s for nostalgia and shock value; the other is "Fear Itself," an NBC attempt to revive the near-dead anthology drama series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
2
FLICK PICKS: ASIA MAJOR IN MOVIES By Diane Werts
 
 
Did you know Asian actors were once ahead of the game in Hollywood, way back in silent film days? That's where Turner Classic Movies starts with its monthlong study of Race and Hollywood: Asian Images in Film...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
May
30
SEASON FINALE WAS SO GOOD, I'M LOST WITHOUT "LOST" By David Bianculli
 
 
All I can say is, "Wow." The fourth-season finale of ABC's "Lost" not only was every bit as dramatic, revealing and surprising as I'd hoped -- it was the year's Exhibit A for Reasons Not to Give Up on Network Television. I only hope network executives across the board were watching, and learning their lesson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
May
28
TV WORTH WATCHING'S FIRST READER QUIZ: HOW MUCH IS "SEX" WORTH? By David Bianculli
 
 
My next column for "Broadcasting & Cable" magazine, to be published Monday, is all about what I call "made-from-TV movies," pegged to this weekend's release of the big-screen "Sex and the City" film and, three weeks later, the "Get Smart" remake...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
May
27
"SOPRANOS" EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE SPARKS UNEXPECTED C*NTROVERSY By David Bianculli
 
 
Over Memorial Day weekend, New York's Fordham University and West London's Brunel University banded together in New York to present a memorial to "The Sopranos." The invigorating international conference, called "The Sopranos: A Wake," gathered academics from as far away as Australia to dissect and debate the groundbreaking HBO series. The participants presented papers, offered observations, and, in at least one case, generated controversy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
May
23
HBO'S "RECOUNT": ENJOY IT, BUT DON'T MISTAKE IT FOR A DOCUMENTARY By David Bianculli
 
 
Since HBO is repeating yesterday's "Recount" telemovie tonight at 9 p.m. ET, I decided to give myself a holiday and repeat yesterday's blog as well -- and run my review of "Recount" all over again. Which makes it, I guess, a re-Recount...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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