DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
On this day in 1950, the popular radio quiz show You Bet Your Life made its television debut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
Part of the storyline to today’s sudden-death wild card game, no matter which team emerges as the victor, will be a salute to Braves legend Chipper Jones, because it could be his last game. But the game itself will have drama enough – under rules newly instituted this year, each league opens the post-season proceedings to a wild-card playoff, and these two National League teams have qualified. Barely.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
This new TCM documentary is written directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau, who does a masterful job assembling pertinent film clips and dividing them into various sub-genres, from satiric and historic to romantic and paranoid. He also assembles various artists for personal perspective – an odd and incomplete lot, but the best of them include Rob Reiner and a surprisingly vulnerable Oliver Stone. Hollywood Goes to Washington will make you want to seek out about a dozen great old politi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
This is the American League wild-card sudden-death playoff game, a do-or-die affair that has the Rangers, after being swept by the improbably resurgent Oakland Athletics, battling to earn a spot in postseason play by facing the Baltimore Orioles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
The Season 5 reboot of this series, launching it decades into a dystopian future, has worked wonders so far, making it even more sinister and foreboding and fascinating than before. The most exciting change is the addition of Etta (Georgina Haig), the grown daughter of Peter and Olivia, who in 2036 has helped her revived-from-suspended-animation parents find one another and rescue their key cohort Walter. But his memories and plans, crucial to saving the future, seem to be destroyed. But are the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
 
 
The Friday after the first 2012 presidential debate, Bill Maher holds court with, among others, influential pollster and political advisor Frank Luntz, author Bill McKibben, and Mark Foley.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
4
 
 
This documentary recounts the jaw-dropping mockery of justice that began with the brutal murders of two young women and spiraled beyond belief when seven young men went on trial...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
4
 
 
On this day in 1957, one of television's most iconic family sitcoms, Leave It to Beaver, made its debut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
4
 
 
Last week’s series premiere set up the unusual, high-concept premise of this new action drama series: a U.S. submarine, commanded by Andre Braugher, goes against a direct order to fire missiles upon Pakistan, and ends up being counter-attacked by its own American military. That was last week. So what happens this week, and how does this mutinous standoff translate to a weekly series? Stay tuned – and, as our critics agree in this year’s TVWW Fall TV Preview, it’s one of t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
4
 
 
This sitcom has managed to stay fresh over the years, due more than a little by giving more screen time, and story weight, to the female cast members and focusing on the geeks’ significant others. This week, Penny is considering severing ties with Leonard – again – and Sheldon learns about it before his roommate does.