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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jan
16
VICELAND AND 'DESUS & MERO' CONTINUE TO CHANGE LATE NIGHT... AND MILLENNIAL TV By Bill Brioux
 
 
Launched less than a year ago, Viceland is still the new kid on the block. We aren’t quite sure what it is yet, other than the channel millennials watch when they do watch something as quaint as television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
16
NETFLIX 'SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' IS, FORTUNATELY, A DELIGHTFUL TV SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 

Season 1 of Netflix’s delightful new version of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was unveiled Friday. I spoke with one of the show’s executive producers and directors, Barry Sonnenfeld of Men in Black and Pushing Daisies fame, to discuss the new remake…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
16
LANGE AND SARANDON WILL TEAM UP IN FABULOUS 'FEUD' By Bill Brioux
 
 
Hard to top Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon for star power here at TCA17... The two no-nonsense Oscar-winners star in Feud: Bette & Joan...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
CARRIE-ING ON WITH SEASON 6 OF ‘HOMELAND’ By Ed Bark
 
 
At the close of Homeland’s Season 5, CIA heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) seemingly pulled the plug on the comatose Peter Quinn after reading his love letter to her. But the room brightened as she did so, signaling something or other...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
CARRIE CONTINUES TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IN THE NEW SEASON OF 'HOMELAND' By David Hinckley
 
 
Fifteen years after 9/11, it’s probably time for a report card on how we’ve done with our response – and Showtime’s Homeland is raising the possibility we’ve taken some serious missteps...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
PBS' 'VICTORIA' TAKES A MAJESTIC LOOK AT AN EXALTED MONARCH By David Hinckley
 
 
First Queen Victoria lost her spot as the longest-reigning British monarch to Queen Elizabeth II. Now the same Elizabeth may be crowding into Victoria’s television spotlight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
THE LETTERS OF 'VICTORIA' By David Hinckley
 
 
We may not have much meaningful film of Britain’s Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, but Daisy Goodwin says she left an equally revealing imprint: a lifetime of handwritten letters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
NFL FOOTBALL AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
Today, in the first of two Sunday divisional playoff games, it’s the AFC contest, with the Pittsburgh Steelers visiting the Kansas City Chiefs. When Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger faced the Chiefs earlier this season, the Steelers won by a brutal 43-14 spread.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
NFL FOOTBALL NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli
 
 
The weekend’s final divisional game pits the NFL’s Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys, who have home-field advantage. But the Packers have QB Aaron Rodgers, who basically is the league’s hottest player right now, peaking at the exact right time.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
SHERLOCK ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: If it seems as though this new season of Sherlock just started, that’s because it did. Two weeks ago, Season 4 premiered. Tonight, with the episode The Final Problem, the series Sherlock on Masterpiece presents its season finale, with an episode focusing, fittingly, on the long and potentially deadly rivalry between Holmes and Moriarty. Benedict Cumberbatch stars. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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