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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Jul
31
BEST BETS By David Bianculli
 
 
Dearest, most ardent, TVWW readers: We see you’ve noticed the program content keeps coming, but the Best Bets column continues to be conspicuously blank...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
31
SARAH JESSICA PARKER SAYS HER HBO 'DIVORCE' CHARACTER IS THE ANTI-CARRIE By David Hinckley
 
 
In the first episode of HBO’s new comedy Divorce, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Frances tells her best girlfriend how good the sex has been with her illicit boyfriend...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
30
HBO'S NEW PRES OF PROGRAMMING TALKS THE NEAR AND FAR TERM By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO has a message for fans of Game of Thrones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Detective and Deadwood. Be patient...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
30
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS By Eric Gould
 
 
Key & Peele are just releasing their Complete Series collection this week and their comedy series, while notable for its hairpiece excellence, is perhaps more so as an early adopter of social media...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
30
NO EXTRA SEXUAL VIOLENCE INTENDED, SAYS HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO shows do not rely disproportionately on graphic sexual violence against women, the channel’s new head of programming told television critics Saturday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
29
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT PBS, 2016-17 By David Hinckley
 
 
Here are five things to know from the first day of PBS sessions at the Television Critics Association press tour...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
29
'VICTORIA' WILL REIGN IN FORMER PBS 'DOWNTON' SLOT IN 2017 By David Hinckley
 
 
Everything you thought about Queen Victoria is probably wrong.  And that’s really good news for television viewers, because the PBS’s upcoming drama Victoria is far more interesting than the humorless caricature her reputation would suggest...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
28
PBS PRESENTS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SEE THE LIFE OF HAMILTON By David Hinckley
 
 
Alex Horwitz figured out how to get tickets to Hamilton, the hottest show on Broadway. He wrote a documentary called Hamilton’s America...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
28
GRANDMASTER FLASH ON 'THE GET DOWN,' FINDING THE BEAT, AND THE ROOTS OF HIP-HOP By David Hinckley
 
 
It wasn’t guys with rhymes who started hip-hop. It was guys with turntables, extracting five seconds of the beat from five minutes of a song...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jul
27
NETFLIX UNWRAPS AMBITIOUS NEW SCHEDULE, STILL HIDES NUMBERS By David Hinckley
 
 
Netflix is on track to rule the world, says Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos. At least the television world... but still won't share viewer numbers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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