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Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Oct
9
HBO'S ‘DIVORCE’ IS A NEAR-PERFECT UNION OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER/THOMAS HADEN CHURCH By Ed Bark
 
 
Shorthand for HBO’s Divorce could be War of the Roses in weekly doses. But there’s no need to wilt at the thought...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
8
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH ON THE PAIN AND HUMOR OF ‘DIVORCE’ By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO’s Divorce isn’t the kind of television comedy for which Thomas Haden Church remains best-known, and he couldn’t be happier about that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
7
INSECURE AT LAST COLORIZES HBO By Ed Bark
 
 
While Wonder Bread CBS keeps trotting out its tired “We need to do better” mantra, FX and now HBO in fact have done notably better this season by African-American creators and performers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
7
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DIME MAKES -- THE MINIMUM WAGE QUESTION By David Hinckley
 
 

In at least one sense, the debate over raising the minimum wage is as simple as political questions can get...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
7
BEST BETS UPDATE By David Bianculli
 
 
TVWW UPDATE 10/01/16 -- Well, TVWW readers, if you’re like us, you’re probably staggering after last week’s debate and your political hangover is pretty bad even though the election is still about 6 weeks off. No such maladies for David, though...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
6
BITING THE HANDS THAT YOU FEED By Eric Gould
 
 
The upcoming American Masters: Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You will be airing on PBS Tuesday, October 25 at 9 p.m. ET (check local listings)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
5
ANOTHER MOVIE REBOOT ARRIVES WITH 'FREQUENCY' By David Hinckley
 
 
When Raimy Sullivan fiddles with her father’s dusty old ham radio and hears his voice, she’s surprised. Probably because he died in 1996, which was 20 years ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
5
LESS THAN HI-TECH: THE CW’S TIME TRAVELING ‘FREQUENCY’ HAS A HAM RADIO VIBE By Ed Bark
 
 
Absent a comic book superhero, a vivaciously unfulfilled semi-comic heroine or anything close to a high-gloss veneer, Frequency is uncommonly gritty for a latter day CW series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
4
‘NO TOMORROW’ IS IN KEEPING WITH THE CW’S CURRENT-DAY ACCENT ON APPEALING LEAD WOMEN By Ed Bark
 
 
The CW hasn’t yet cornered the market on appealing young women leading the way through comedy-dusted drama series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
4
THE BOTTOM LINE ON TV VIOLENCE: IT’S UP TO YOU, THE VIEWER, TO DECIDE WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE By Alex Strachan
 
 
The argument against violence on TV is as old as The Three Stooges — and, at times, about as silly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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