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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
Apr
8
FLASHBACK: 'TWIN PEAKS,' 20 YEARS LATER By Diane Werts
 
 
Hard to believe it's been two decades since TV's weirdest show hit the screen. Hard. Twin Peaks still looks mondo bizarro, so you can only imagine (or maybe remember) how truly warped this serial surreality seemed in the network midst of Matlock and Murder, She Wrote...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
7
THE BEATLES ON "IDOL," "AMAZING RACE," "GLEE": YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, OR NO, NO, NO? By David Bianculli
 
 
I hate it when any Beatles music shows up in a TV commercial, as when "Hello Goodbye" is covered during a Target ad. But when music associated with the group or its former members is showcased on prime-time network TV, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Depends...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
6
DVD UPDATE: ABBOTT & COSTELLO GO INSANE! By Diane Werts
 
 
"How dare you remind me of somebody I hate?!" With that woman passerby's out-of-the-blue stoopside smack attack, umbrella whack and furious stomp-away, I was hooked...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
5
FLICK PICKS: APRIL SALUTES TO GEORGE STEVENS, ROBERT TAYLOR By Diane Werts
 
 
Monday night's George Stevens roundup kicks off April's director of the month tribute from Turner Classic Movies, screening three of Stevens' biggest titles and his own son's acclaimed clip-filled salute. The Texas-sized 1956 epic Giant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
5
TONIGHT ON "LATE LATE SHOW": ATTACK OF THE ROBOT By David Bianculli
 
 
Late shows and robots have been co-exisiting peacefully since the 1950s -- thanks to B movies -- but tonight marks a new, Terminator-type evolutionary moment. Tonight at 12:35 a.m., on CBS's "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", we're introduced to the host's brand-new robot sidekick...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
3
AN INCIDENTAL EASTER WEEKEND ANNIVERSARY: 41 YEARS AGO, CBS FIRED THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS By David Bianculli
 
 
On Easter Weekend in 1969, CBS refused to air the program Tom and Dick Smothers had supplied for telecast on Easter Sunday -- the one containing David Steinberg's second comic sermonette -- and fired off a memo which also fired the Smothers Brothers. So unhappy anniversary, guys, but thanks for letting me tell your story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Apr
1
CONFESSION: THE GUY I WANT TO BE By Diane Werts
 
 
Not that I want to be a guy, but I do want to be as smart as my favorite TV blogger, Jaime Weinman. Or should I say, as observant -- Jaime elucidates things in shows, in trends, in tropes, even in shot styles and set design, that I just kick myself for not being able to address as clearly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
31
69TH ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS ANNOUNCED: AS USUAL, GREAT TASTE -- HONORING GREAT SHOWS By David Bianculli
 
 
The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication just revealed the winners of its Peabody Awards for the best electronic media efforts in 2009 -- and, as usual, the Peabody panel has demonstrated a jaw-dropping combination of taste, breadth and depth. Glee made the cut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
30
DVD UPDATE: 'LAW & ORDER UK' By Diane Werts
 
 
America's been adapting British series for decades. All in the Family came from Til Death Do Us Part. Three's Company was originally Man About the House. NBC's The Office owes its existence to Ricky Gervais' BBC The Office. Dramas like Life on Mars, Cracker, Eleventh Hour and Queer as Folk started in England, too. Now it's going the other way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
25
'JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION': TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT By David Bianculli
 
 
There's something about Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, the new ABC reality series launching Friday night at 8 ET, that comes as a total surprise. For a program about the dangers and proliferation of disgusting processed foods, it's shockingly easy to swallow. In fact, this has the makings of one tasty reality show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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