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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Sep
21
FILTHY RICH By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: When I highlighted this new Fox sitcom in yesterday’s Best TV Tomorrow video on our TV Worth Watching channel on YouTube, I pointed out that its stars included Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City and Gerald McRaney, whom I said was so great in Westwood. Well, he wasn’t. He wasn’t even in it. Or even Westworld. I was thinking of another HBO series, Deadwood, and misspoke. These days, I do more than my share of misspeaking. An
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
21
'FILTHY RICH' IS THE SILLINESS WE NEED THIS YEAR By David Hinckley
 
 
After all we've been through this year, the least we deserve is a few tasty empty calories...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
21
MUCH-LOVED UNDERDOG 'SCHITT'S CREEK' CARRIES THE NIGHT AT 72ND EMMYS, WHILE 'SUCCESSION,' 'WATCHMEN' SHINE BRIGHT FOR HBO By Alex Strachan
 
 
History was made. The show went on, albeit in a different guise, and all went surprisingly well, despite uncertain times and a global pandemic that threatened to upend everything...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE CRAZIEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli
 
 
Whatever had happened the first five days of this past week – and a lot had happened – it all was dwarfed by the sudden announcement Friday night that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. In an instant, the 2020 political campaign, and landscape, was forever altered. How did the correspondents for The Circus hear the news, and react to it? And whose opinions did they get to first? Witness the first rough draft of history, as it happens.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
THE 72ND PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS By David Bianculli
 
 
Because of the pandemic, this year’s Emmy Awards will be unlike any other. And it ought to be quite subdued: To pat yourself on the back too loudly when 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, and only days after Ruth Bader Ginsberg also died, just doesn’t seem proper. At least not in terms of proper perspective. Jimmy Kimmel hosts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY By David Bianculli
 
 
This is Episode 6 of Lovecraft Country, and HBO only provided the first five episodes for preview. So you know what happens in tonight’s installment? Neither do I. But I promise, I’ll be watching. I like this series so much, I’ll probably be watching this “live,” and recording the Emmys for later. What I do know about this episode of Lovecraft Country, based on the promos, is that it flashes back to Korea.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
A NEW SEASON OF 'LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX' DEBUTS – FINALLY! By David Hinckley
 
 
Last Tango in Halifax dances on. One of television's most daring dramas launches its brief four-episode new season Sunday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S LIFE AS PLAYED OUT ON THE BIG AND SMALL SCREENS By Mike Hughes
 
 
Two movies captured opposite ends of Ruth Ginsburg's wonderful life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
20
1977: FONZIE JUMPED THE SHARK; 'HAPPY DAYS' DIDN'T By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1977, ABC aired the third episode in a three-part story arc that took the Happy Days gang to Hollywood, and subjected The Fonz to a nail-biting water-skiing contest...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
19
1970: 'THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW' DEBUTS ON CBS By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1970, CBS introduced one of television's most memorable sitcoms, The Mary Tyler Moore 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