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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Apr
21
GUEST BLOG #87: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, IT'S A WONDERFUL TOWN... AND YOU CAN EXPLORE IT ON WNET'S WEB SERIES By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: One of contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller's specialties is finding intriguing TV in out-of-the-way places. This time he's found some worthwhile stuff in a place so far out of the way, it's not even ON television... but emanates from public TV anyway...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
20
DVD UPDATE: SERIOUS SOAP, CIRCA '80S By Diane Werts
 
 
At least Dallas had a sense of humor. Larry Hagman's adulterous oil man J.R. Ewing? C'mon. He had his tongue firmly in-cheek through all his dastardly deeds...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
20
"GLEE" AND "LOST": TWO OF TV'S MOST INVENTIVE, ORIGINAL SERIES ARE MUST-SEE TONIGHT By David Bianculli
 
 
Two of television's most exciting, inventive and original broadcast network series right now, Fox's "Glee' and ABC's "Lost", present can't-miss episodes tonight. Unfortunately, they're on at the same time, so a little time-shifting is required. But see them both, by all means...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
17
SPEAKING AND WATCHING AT THE BEA: MY WEEKEND IN VEGAS By David Bianculli
 
 
This weekend capped the latest frenzied round of what passes for my life, with a presentation about my book at the Broadcast Education Association convention in Las Vegas. But what I was most excited about at the convention was the King Foundation Awards show, which selected and honored the best student and faculty productions in various media categories...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
14
SEE HERE: SUE SYLVESTER STRIKES A POSE By Diane Werts
 
 
C'mon, vogue! You can do it already, even though Sue Sylvester's Glee music video doesn't hit Fox air till April 20. Jane Lynch makes a pretty good Madonna. This isn't a Vogue parody, folks. It's tribute...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
13
DVD UPDATE: 'PARTY DOWN' By Diane Werts
 
 
Party Down came out of nowhere to become one of my favorite shows, and I'm not the only one. There's a sizable cult for this little Starz comedy gem about a team of Hollywood cater-waiters who'd rather be (pick one) actors, screenwriters, comedians or other credits-worthy creatives...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
13
SINGING THE PRAISES OF FOX'S "GLEE": IT'S BACK, AND EVEN MORE DELIGHTFUL By David Bianculli
 
 
When last we saw the musical misfits of Fox's "Glee", they had won the Sectionals, the first step in becoming state champs for their singing glee club. Well, after a few months off, they return tonight, basking in their newfound glory -- for about 10 seconds. Then, once again, the reality and cruelty of high school sets in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
12
GUEST BLOG #85: GERALD B. JORDAN ON THE 2010 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT By Gerald Jordan
 
 
The planets were aligned properly, the perfect cast was assembled, the weather was astonishingly beautiful and Augusta National, which yesterday could have been taped for a demonstration of high definition TV, was equal to the task. Script writers could not have penned a more perfect Masters yesterday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
9
HBO'S "TREME": TASTY, MUSICAL, DEFIANTLY DIFFERENT, JUST LIKE NEW ORLEANS By David Bianculli
 
 
The newest HBO drama from David Simon and company, "Treme", is a quality cousin to his previous classic examination of a specific urban landscape and populace, "The Wire". But where The Wire was set in Baltimore and exuded an air of grim hopelessness, Treme, set in a post-Katrina New Orleans, exudes something else entirely...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
8
STUDENT BLOG #4: THE SUN SHOULD SET ON FOX'S "SONS OF TUCSON" By David Bianculli
 
 
I asked Rich Greenhalgh, who last wrote on the subject of anime, to take a look at one of the new shows aimed at young viewers, and write about whether it did or didn't work for him, a college student at Rowan University. Here is his not-so-glowing report on Fox's newest sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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