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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2014
Nov
24
DANCING WITH THE STARS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: I haven’t steered readers towards this show all season, but the finale usually is worth a look, because it’s down to the best of that season’s best. And here we are, with final competitions tonight, and a winner decided tomorrow.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
24
GOTHAM By David Bianculli
 
 
MIDSEASON FINALE: The last episode of the year – but not the season – for Gotham is a very confrontational one, but also a step forward: One of the many people crossing the path of young Bruce Wayne in tonight’s episode is a young woman named Ivy. But he should steer clear of her, because eventually, she’s Poison.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
24
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night, Taylor Swift opened the American Music Awards, performing her newest single – and tonight, in addition to her temporary role as mentor, she performs on The Voice. When it comes to selling and releasing and staging her own music, she makes Lady Gaga look like a slacker.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
24
JANE THE VIRGIN By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week, Jane (Gina Rodriguez) ended the episode by kissing Rafael – and tonight, Rogelio has a confrontation with Rafael, and he’s not at all happy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN PRIZE: JAY LENO By David Bianculli
 
 
The latest honoree of this prize, named after the greatest humorist and political satirist in American history, is Jay Leno. Guests assembled for the night’s festivities include Leno’s Tonight Show successor, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jerry Seinfeld and Betty White. Not to rain on Leno’s parade, but every year at this time, I wonder: Why in the hell hasn’t this award been bestowed upon the Smothers Brothers, whose sense of humor, and outrage, matched Mark Twain’s i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli
 
 
This is one of the video snippets in my current Personal Theory of TV Evolution exhibit at the apexart gallery in New York’s TriBeCa – in a display about the earliest TV programming I can remember. Except, back then, the entire 1939 movie was in black and white, at least to me, because, as a young kid, I was watching on my family’s black-and-white TV set. Back then, you had  to wait a year for Oz to show up on television. Now you can watch it any time, on your own DVD &nda
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli
 
 
After a series of harrowing episodes showing one or two of our hardy survivors at a time, tonight’s adventure reunites many of them in a “gang’s all here” kind of reunion. Well, many of them, anyway. And they’re reuniting for yet another grim and risky battle – this time to mount a surprise invasion of the medical facility where two of their own are being held against their will.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
HOMELAND By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week, Saul (Mandy Patinkin) escaped from captivity, and was led by Carrie (Claire Danes) to safety – until he wasn’t. What a dramatic episode. And what’s to happen this week, now that Saul is back in enemy hands, and the identity of the CIA double agent has been exposed?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli
 
 
MIDSEASON FINALE: Last week, I asked, “Could things get any worse for poor Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry)?” The answer was yes – he now has a bodyguard, and even though he had a clear-the-air face-to-face conversation with Bishop, the danger remains palpable. And tonight, in an episode titled “The Trial,” Cary faces a judge, and a jury, in the trial that may send him away for 15 years.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Nov
23
1963: THE BBC INTRODUCES 'DR. WHO' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1963, the BBC introduced the the first incarnation of Doctor Who...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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