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2011
May
2
FLICK PICKS: IN THE SWIM! By Diane Werts
 
 
Michael Phelps hasn't done it. Mark Spitz didn't do it. But Esther Williams turned swimming talent into movie superstardom at the height of the Hollywood studio system. This month, Turner Classic Movies revisits that singular achievement...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
May
2
NEWS FLASH: BIN LADEN WRAPUP SPECIALS By Diane Werts
 
 
UPDATE: Our good friend Jaime Weinman notes that both "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are in originals and doubtless writing about this topic as I type...TV networks are playing catchup Monday on the big news that broke late Sunday night, extending nightly newscasts to further report on the killing of Osama bin Laden...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
May
2
TV DELIVERS THE NEWS: BIN LADEN KILLED IN NAVY SEALS RAID ON PAKISTAN COMPOUND By David Bianculli
 
 
The news came suddenly Sunday night, and still dominated newscasts and news channels Monday morning: The FBI's #1 Most Wanted fugitive, Osama bin Laden, had been found and killed in a U.S. Navy SEALs raid on a secret compound in urban Pakistan. The mood of most reports was unabashedly, sometimes even uncomfortably, jubilant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
29
ROYAL WEDDING PHOTO ALBUM REVIEW: MAJESTIC INDEED By David Bianculli
 
 
Okay, so I ate my scones, drank my tea and watched the Royal Wedding, transmitted live on BBC America. So here's my personal instant wedding album, of quick screen grabs of some of my favorite moments...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
29
SWITCHEROO: FOX BOWS TO GOOD TASTE By Diane Werts
 
 
Hope you weren't looking forward to Sunday's Fox Animation Domination three-way crossover stunt. It is no more. It has ceased to be. At least until next season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
28
ROYAL WEDDING: TOO, TOO, TOO MUCH! By Diane Werts
 
 
How much TV coverage of a royal wedding can one country stand? Americans are finding out -- with Friday's marriage of the UK's WIlliam Who Would Be King and his betrothed Commoner Catherine -- the answer to that question is "saturation." OK, I get live as-it-happens satellite coverage on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. Or news channels like CNN and MSNBC. Even PBS, with its raging Anglophilia. And obviously, BBC America. Obviously, Wedding Central. But do we need live nuptials on TLC, home of Extreme
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
28
'RAYMOND' IN MOSCOW: A COLD WAR CHILL, SITCOM-STYLE By Theresa Corigliano
 
 
The thing I remember most from my years at CBS working on Everybody Loves Raymond is the sound of Phil Rosenthal's laugh. I always welcomed hearing that laugh. Who wouldn't? In Russia, not so much...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
28
WATCH ME PULL A RABBIT OUT OF MY HAT! AW, THAT TRICK NEVER WORKS... By David Bianculli
 
 
Last-second warning -- and, I hope, a treat, at least to some. On Thursday's edition of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I review a boxed set I've been meaning to get to for a while. It's Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: The Complete Series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
28
C'MON, 'GH' WRITERS - ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL SOAPS, TOO? By Ed Martin
 
 
Anyone who is still wondering why broadcast soap operas are disappearing before our eyes need only review recent episodes of ABC's General Hospital...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Apr
27
ABC SOAPS: KILLED BY LOW RATINGS, OR CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY? By Ed Martin
 
 
I don't know what bothers me more about ABC's announcement that it has canceled All My Children and One Life to Live, two of its three long-running soap operas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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